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					1 Loss & Rebirth: A Community Poem and Workshop International Workers’ Day Virtual Poetry Reading	2 Medicine Poetry: John Fox, Sean Lynch, and Elizabeth Gordon McKim Tarot Salon: The Three Diamonds
3	4 Writing Tacos: Discovering Writing Tools Through Mexican Cuisine Joan He with Hafsah Faizal: “The Ones We’re Meant to Find” Book Launch Uncle Bobbie’s Presents: Xio Axelrod, author of “The Girl with Stars in her Eyes”, in conversation with Evisa Gallman	5 Teen Workshop: The Tradition: Immigrant Families and the Culture Clash Wednesdays on the Stoop: Co-Working on Writing Job, Residency, & Fellowship Applications The Poetic Tradition within Jericho Brown’s “The Tradition” Alison Bechdel \| The Secret to Superhuman Strength Bryn Mawr College Reading Series: Natalie Diaz and Kirstin Valdez Quade	6 The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood Regional Small Press Poetry Showcase! “A Dog, A Seal, and a Bird”: 3 stories by the Rittenhouse Writers Group Publishing in the Time of COVID: Local Writers During the Pandemic Citizen Book Club: Millennials Are Not the Problem Uncle Bobbie’s Presents: Amanda Seales “Small Doses: Potent Truths for Everyday Use” A Night of Poetry & Prose: Alessi, Huynh, & Mattison Brian Greene \| Until the End of Time	7 MANTRAS: Building Your Poetry Career Community Drafts Open Mic	8 Teen Workshop: The Dialogue: Coming of Age as a Warrior, Healer, and Poet Temple Poetry MFA Thesis Reading: Brendan Allen and Alexa Smith, with Devric Kiyota and Grace Stevens Phillips	9
10 #US: Unique and Shared Experiences – “For Keeps” 215 Festival: Celebrating 25 Years of TUMBLING: Diane McKinney-Whetstone & James Rahn Doron Taussig, “What We Mean By the American Dream” Annette Gordon-Reed \| On Juneteenth	11 215 Festival: Building Community and Collective Power Uncle Bobbie’s Presents: “Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces” 215 Festival: Debutiful Presents: You Never Forget Your First Lisa Alexander Baron, Eliza Callard, Hanoch Guy @ Livin’ on Luck A Novel Witch Book Club – Witchery Ian Manuel \| My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption	12 Wednesdays on the Stoop: noor ibn najam, One Book One Philadelphia Walt Whitman Invents America with author Mark Edmundson 215 Festival: bedfellows magazine presents: The Little Black Book! Generative Writing Workshop for Veterans and Active Duty Martha C. Nussbaum \| Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation Words Together Worlds Apart – Latinx Poets	13 Layers of Tenderness: Screen printing through Poetry 215 Festival: Writing Queer Lives An Evening with Gina Nutt and Melanie Finn Caleb Azumah Nelson \| Open Water We Breathe, We Live: Brotherly Love Protest Stories	14 215 Festival: Seeing and Being Seen: Asian Americans in American Letters First Person Arts Presents: Family Photo Album	15 Submission Deadline for 25th Annual Poetry Ink 215 Festival: World Building and Genre in Young Adult Literature 215 Festival: Telling Contemporary Teen Stories in Challenging Times 215 Festival: Old Legends, New Voices 215 Festival: The Republic of Letters 215 Festival: Bottomless Brunch with Lanternfish Press! Uncle Bobbie’s Presents: “Born Ready: the True Story of A Boy Named Penelope” New Voices Emerging Poets Reading Series: Siduri Beckman, Kelly Thompson, and DuPree Walker 215 Festival: Documenting an Unfinished Uprising 215 Festival: Inside and Out: a conversation with Nadia Owusu and Francisco Goldman Alumni Authors First Books Spotlight: Sanaë Lemoine, Ariel Resnikoff, and Courtney Zoffness Words to Action: Poetry and Social Justice Workshop 215 Festival: Decentralize Publishing! 215 Festival: In The Stars: Writers, Astrologers, and Tarotists on Mysticism/Tarot Today Words to Action: Poetry and Social Justice 215 Festival: Labor Writing in Philly GrandSlam: Over The Line 215 Festival: An Evening with The Claw 215 Festival: Footnotes: Literary Dance Party	16 Poets in Pajamas: Jasmine An Good Words with Kat Giordano & Inam Kang
17 #US: Five People. One Moment: Vaxed Out Drexel University Writing Festival: Exposing What They Want To Stay Hidden	18 #US: Five People. One Moment: Vaxed Out Athenaeum Book Club: Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa Drexel University Writing Festival: Reading & Workshops by Karen E. Bender & Robert Anthony Siegel Elissa Washuta’s White Magic w/ Raena Shirali	19 #US: Five People. One Moment: Vaxed Out Drexel University Writing Festival: Reading and Discussion by Artress Bethany White Teen Workshop: Welcome to My House: Queerness and the Culture Clash Wednesdays on the Stoop: The Authors of “They Carried Us” 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Reading: Kyle Laws, Faith Paulsen, and Paul Siegell Intro to Fiction with Jared Yates Sexton	20 #US: Five People. One Moment: Vaxed Out Drexel University Writing Festival: Appearances Can Be Deceiving, But So Can Disappearances Drexel University Writing Festival: Man of Mystery: A Magician’s Memoir Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White with Patricia Sullivan StoryGym with Alyssa Al-Dookhi	21 #US: Five People. One Moment: Vaxed Out Drexel University Writing Festival: The Food Voice and the Writer’s Voice: Culinary Deceptions? Drexel University Writing Festival: Poetry Reading with Kayleb Rae Candrilli Mission Story Slam 6: What’s Next? Presented by First Person Arts	22 Eclipse Lit Launch Party	23 Sonia Sanchez: Virtual Poetry Reading
24 Teen Workshop: Where I’m From Virtual Course \| Read the Blood of Dracula: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova The Poet’s Memoir: Elaine Terranova, Natasha Sajé, and Spencer Reece	25 Black Freedom on Native Land: A Story of Western Reconstruction with Alaina Roberts Writing Your Family Story with Amanda Parrish Morgan ICONIC night for an OPEN MIC	26 Low(er) Stress Submitting with Jennifer Wortman	27 Women of Science in the French Enlightenment–A Sextet with Nina Gelbart Building a Sustainable Life as a Writer w/ Andrew Simonet	28	29 Teen Workshop: The Hill We Climb	30
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