Tag: poetry

Scribes on South // July 2025

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

This reading’s featured reader is Lauren Yates.

 

SUNDAY, JULY 27TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

Lauren Yates (she/her)is a Philadelphia-based poet and burlesque performer. Lauren earned her B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Philadelphia Burlesque Academy. Lauren’s poetry has been featured in APIARY, Bettering American Poetry, bedfellows, and more. She is known for critiquing pop culture with a wry sense of humor and Frankenstein-ing together concepts that should not work, but, somehow, do.

Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Sundays, All Day Long | if u didn’t get glitter in ur drink did you even craft sunday? Craft Sundays at TMoms every sunday, play both upstairs and downstairs. u heard me, both.

• Daily Happy Hour | $4 drafts every day from 4-6pm, everybody cheered!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Scribes on South: The 2nd Annual Scribes Gala

SCRIBES GALA IS COMING TO @tmoms ONE NIGHT ONLY. FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL SCRIBES GALA WE WILL DRESS OUR MOST EXTRA. OUR POEMS WILL BE BOMBASTIC & OUR EXPRESSION WILL BE FREE. DRESS CODE WILL BE ANNOUNCED SEPARATELY.

 

FRIDAY, JULY 11TH
6-10PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

FEATURING:

Z PAIGE
JULIA GWIAZDOWSKI
MICHAEL IVORY, JR.
ALICE CROWELL

 

TABLING:

THIRTY WEST
WOODEN SHOE
HOMIES HELPING HOMIES
GRO PROJECT RO
DOG BOWL ZINES
FERAL DOVE BOOKS

 

MORE SCRIBES GALA FEATURES:

-ALL OF U DRESSING EXTRA
-AN OPEN MIC FOR POETS
-LOCAL PRESSES TABLING
-A LONGER EVENT THAN THE USUAL SCRIBES

STANDARD SCRIBES GROUNDRULES APPLY

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Scribes on South // June 2025

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

This reading’s featured reader is Chloe Williams.

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Littérateur Libations & Risqué Readings // June 2025

Congregate for drinks and conversation with those who either create or enjoy reading
sensual, sexual, romantic, erotic writings. Come early at 6 p.m. to take advantage of the
affordably priced Hemingway Happy Hour for good drinks and good food, including the
famous Smash Burger Wednesday special! After a few libations, if you are an erotica
writer of short stories or novellas or novels or poems or any other form – whether
amateur or professional or somewhere in between – feel free to take the stage around
7ish p.m. to read and share with all attendees your titillating creativity. Or indulge as an
audience member by listening to the impassioned words of others. Expect to hear some
steamy stories and poems on a September evening. This is a 21+ event. Showing valid
ID will be required to enter and participate.

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH
6-9PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Scribes on South // May 2025

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

This reading’s featured reader is Chloe Williams.

 

SUNDAY, MAY 25TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Derek JG Williams Book Release

Williams book release

On May 13th at 8:00 an all-star group of Philadelphia poets joins Derek JG Williams to support the publication of his award-winning debut collection of poems, “Reading Water.” A $5 cover gets you all the poems you can handle (and then some).

 

TUESDAY, MAY 13TH
8PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $5
>> NOTAFLOF <<

 

Performers:

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Tuesdays, 4-10pm | The triumphant return of Taco Tuesday is finally here! Y’all better zoom down for $1.50 beef or bean tacos every Tuesday!! And wash it all down with $3 Tecate!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Scribes on South // April 2025

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, APRIL 27TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

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This reading’s featured reader is Nycir Keen.

Nycir Keen is a philly based poet and playwright with roots in competitive slam poetry who found his start competing in the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement. A member of the Collective Mic as well as House Poet and a performer for the Gullah Traveling Theater, Nycir has a passion for facilitating creative and safe spaces for writers and has hosted several writing circles in the Philadelphia area. This year Nycir wrote and directed his first short screenplay, “Renaissance///Addiction”. Today he is still active in the poetry scene, moving between Beaufort South Carolina and the Philadelphia area to cultivate his own work and find new writers to work with, share with and create with.

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Scribes on South // March 2025

SCRIBES ON SOUTH is a poetry reading and open mic. Open mic readers have 5 minutes.

SCRIBES ON SOUTH seeks to create community through poetry. Show out, share, and meet some new friends by sharing your work!

Read poems. Kick ass.

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 30TH
DOORS @ 6PM + SHOW @ 7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

Follow @scribesonsouth on Instagram.

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK? Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Barrelhouse Issue 25 Launch Party!

Event description: Come celebrate the release of Barrelhouse Magazine’s 25th print issue. The literary journal was founded 20 years ago, in a Washington, D.C. dive bar, with a mission to publish serious work while not taking itself too seriously. Since then, Barrelhouse has won awards, hosted conferences, published books, and become a worldwide leader in the ever-growing field of Patrick Swayze studies. The event will feature a selection of authors reading work from issue 25, plus plenty of socializing and general merriment.

 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19TH
7PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN

 

Host/MC: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
Readers: Danny Caine, J.M. Jones, Olivia Muenz, Yusuf Poladin

 

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Wednesday, 4-10pm | Burger Wednesday is BACK y’all! Come slam some Smash Burgers (classic or vegan) every Wednesday for just $6!! Plus $3 PBR! Recently named one of the top burgers in the city by The Philadelphia Inquirer!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

Collide Zine Issue 9 Release Party & Open Mic

Collide Zine (@collidezinephilly) takes over upstairs at TMOMS on Sunday, March 2nd, from 6-9PM for an unforgettable night of open mic performances and art vendors to celebrate the release of their newest Issue, No. 9!

🌱What’s Happening:

  • Zine Release: Grab your copy of Collide before it hits shelves anywhere else. Hot off the press!

  • Open Mic: Share your poetry, prose, or music—sign-ups open at 6, performances start 6:30. Prizes will be given out to our top performers!

  • Local Vendors: Between open mic sets, shop local art vendors in the front room and mingle with friends! Grab a drink at the bar and enjoy delicious vegan food and snacks!

VENDORS WANTED: To vend your art at this event, shoot Collide a message at [email protected]

Free entry 21+.  Show your love for Collide and experience what their community is truly all about!

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 2ND
DOORS @ 6PM
NO COVER // FREE FUN
RSVP: EVENTBRITE

 

Follow Collide Zine on Instagram @collidezinephilly

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What’s Up at TMoms:

• Sundays, All Day Long | Craft Sundays at TMoms? BACK. Googly eyes? BACK. Coloring pages? BACK. Your creative spirit? BACK. Come thru every Sunday for FREE arts & crafts upstairs and downstairs at Tattooed Mom!

• Daily Happy Hour | All drafts are just $4 every day from 4-6pm!

• Daily Menu | Tattooed Mom will also be serving tasty eats and ice cold drinks all evening.

• Upstairs dining, bar access, and event entry is 21+ w/ valid ID.

• Accessibility at TMoms | Due to the construction of our historical building, Tattooed Mom is only partially accessible. Our event space is on the second floor, which is only accessible via a flight of stairs (20 steps, 3 feet wide, railing on the left side only). For more information, please visit our Accessibility page.

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