Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street

Wednesday May 9, 2018 – 7pm

Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid

Julia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry. She is a founding member of 6ix: a literary journal devoted to cutting edge work, edited by six Philadelphia area women. She was a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. She has read her work in various venues including the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, and Muse House in Philadelphia. In 2012, she collaborated with the visual artist, Wendy Osterweil, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest” in 2014. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review, “Philadelphia Stories,” and in “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets,” edited by Valerie Fox and translated into Romanian by Daniel Dragomirescu. She has published three chapbooks: Meeting Tessie and Artificial Memory and most recently, Blue Angel of a Day.

Therése Halscheid’s latest poetry collection Frozen Latitudes (Press 53) received an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Other collections include Uncommon Geography, Without Home, Powertalk, and a chapbook award by Pudding House Publications. Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in such magazines as Gettysburg Review, Tampa Review, Sou’wester, Natural Bridge. Recent contest awards include Welcome Table Press’s Essaying the Body contest. She is an itinerant writer by way of house-sitting. Her photography chronicles her nomadic lifestyle. She teaches for Atlantic Cape Community College and also in unusual locales, such as Eskimo village in northern Alaska, and the Ural Mountains of Russia. www.ThereseHalscheid.com

Dave Worrell , Host
An open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+.