How big is an alligator heart, Slushies? Have seen the wingspan of a Sand Hill Crane (a bird once mistaken for the Jersey Devil)? And what happens when you put Mentos in your soda? Life and its peculiarities, its soaring losses and aching beauty, and its utter, utter absurdity come barreling at us in “a […]
Warren Longmire
Warren Longmire: Ready Player One
How many cried when the avatar floats red across the monotone skyline? The mastered physics fluttering your fabric made of math? You might. When thumbstick millimeter becomes a gait toward simulated sun. The moment tutorial is a muscle memory. When pausing could kill a world. When the orchestration echoes you and swells like a gland would. Congratulations! […]
Warren Longmire
Warren Longmire is a Philly native, teacher, computer programmer, poetry editor for Apiary Magazine and a 3 time member of the Philadelphia Fuze’s national slam. He’s been published in Certain Circuits, The New Purlieu Review, Eleven Eleven and two chapbooks: Ripped Winters and Do.Until.True. You can find him making abrupt pauses and wild hand gestures […]
Usher in a Long(mire) Hot Summer
With Perch Pub readings at an end until October, we are especially excited to welcome you all to our June 27 Slam. Warren Longmire will take the stage for a reading, followed by Andrew Keller as host of our interactive, one-of-a-kind, improv, bawdy, too-hard-to-explain writing experience! Enjoy our Slam free of charge. We’ll bring the […]