Philly Free School
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Description
The Philly Free School were a multi-media artists co-op active out of Philadelphia in the Aughts, founded by Adam Fieled, Mike Land, Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, and Nick Gruberg. Many of their multi-media performances were held at the Highwire Gallery, between Broad and 13th on Cherry Street in Center City Philadelphia. Poetry Incarnation '05 was held at the Khyber Pass in Olde City on July 5, 2005. By metonymic connection, many Aughts Philadelphia artists associated with Neo-Romanticism also fall under the aegis of the Philly Free School. The literary journal [P.F.S. Post](Philly Free School Post), established in October 2005, is an offshoot of the Philly Free School, and is still operative as of 2023. The poetry reading series P.F.S. Presents is a Philly Free School offshoot as well. :
Books
Portrait
This portrait of American artist Mary Harju was taken by Adam Fieled in a room overlooking Saint Catherine Street in Montreal, Quebec, in 2003. As of 2018-2019, the image was "treated" by Fieled.
Blackbirds
The Golden Notebook (Hannah Miller's website) on Poetry Incarnation '05
Hannah Miller, raised on the West Coast but by the mid-Aughts an East Coast novelist and politico, was a reader at the Poetry Incarnation '05 event thrown by the Philly Free School arts collective at the Khyber in Olde City Philadelphia on July 5, 2005. She recorded this blog entry on the event in her blog The Golden Notebook on July 27, 2005.
Announcement
This work of graphic art, by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, announces a P.F.S. (Philly Free School) Presents reading at Big Jar Books in Old City Philadelphia on November 11, 2006.
Kate the Great's Book Emporium, Andersonville, Chicago
This calendar announcement, on the website of Kate the Great's Book Emporium (Andersonville, Chicago), advertises the 1-3-08 P.F.S. Presents (Philly Free School Presents) reading held at Kate the Great's.
Feel
Feel, an extended, incantatory narrative poem by American poet Adam Fieled, was written in 2005-2006, appeared on Art Recess 2 in 2016, on X-Peri in 2018, and on PennSound. It is also included in the collection Race and Vine: Four Narratives Set In Philadelphia.
Critical Writing On Adam Fieled
Critical Writing On Adam Fieled collects critical pieces on the work of American poet Adam Fieled, composed and published between 2006 and 2012 in venues like moria poetry and Galatea Resurrects, by poet/critics Jeffrey Side, Laura Goldstein, Steve Halle, Stacy Blair, and more.
Switchback Books Blog
This advertisement, on the Switchback Books blog, announces a P.F.S. (Philly Free School) Presents reading at Kate the Great's Bookstore in Andersonville, Chicago, on January 3, 2008.
Over the Schuylkill
Over the Schuylkill: Aughts Philly Complete offers a comprehensive summary of the work of several groups of young American artists in Philadelphia in the Aughts. These artists constituted the hub of what here is called The Philadelphia Renaissance. Special emphasis is given to The Philly Free School, a nexus of painters, poets, and musicians who worked through the Aughts in Philadelphia.
Myopic Books
This advertisement, on the Myopic Books (Wicker Park, Chicago) website, announces the December 17, 2006 reading at Myopic (curator, Larry Sawyer) featuring poets Steve Halle and Adam Fieled.
Art Recess (pre P.F.S. Post)
This 2005 pdf documents the activities of the original Philly Free School arts collective in Philadelphia in the mid-Aughts, before Art Recess became the online literary journal P.F.S. Post (Philly Free School Post, ed. Adam Fieled).
Gauntlet
Gauntlet features representative work by three Philly Free School artists: Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum, Abby Heller-Burnham, and Adam Fieled. This work originally appeared, in various forms, between 2000 and 2010.
Project H.O.M.E. Benefit
This work of graphic art by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum announces Mike Land's multi-media benefit show for Project H.O.M.E. at the Highwire Gallery in Center City Philadelphia on July 29, 2006.
Equations
Equations, by American writer Adam Fieled, is a voyage in prose fiction into expressed sexuality and human relationships, in dialectic form. It was originally released in print by Blue & Yellow Dog Press in 2011; the second print edition, also from Blue & Yellow Dog Press, appeared in 2018. In 2021-23, nine Equations were added to the thesis portion of the book, and the 2023 edition placed in its entirety on PennSound.
Our Architecture Did This To Us
Our Architecture Did This To Us: Neo-Romanticism explores the art produced in Aughts Philadelphia in multiple disciplines (writing, painting, graphic art, public spectacles) and falling under the aegis of the Neo-Romantic moniker.
From Philadelphia City Paper
This July 2005 Deesha Dyer piece, "Poets, Verses, Khyber," from the Philadelphia City Paper, announces the Poetry Incarnation '05 reading at the Khyber Pass in Olde City Philadelphia, curated by The Philly Free School, which took place on July 5, 2005.
Highwire Gallery
These calendars record events taking place at the Highwire Gallery in Philadelphia in 2005. They include several Philly Free School performances.
Otoliths
These thirteen Adam Fieled pages, from Australian poetry journal Otoliths, span the years 2006-2023.
Set List
This is the tentative set list for the Poetry Incarnation '05 event, staged by the Philly Free School arts collective at the Khyber in Olde City Philadelphia on July 5, 2005. It was sent via e-mail by P.F.S. co-founder Adam Fieled.
Sharkforum
This advertisement announces, in Sharkforum (ed. Simone Muench), a reading curated by P.F.S. Presents (Philly Free School Presents), at Kate the Great's Bookstore in Andersonville, Chicago, on July 6, 2007.
