2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM

Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discus poetry and read their poems

“From Across the Waters: Jewish Refugees from the Former Soviet Union.”

In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, three Jewish refugee poets from the former Soviet Union read and discuss their work. They spotlight the enduring lives of their community, as well as complexities of their identity.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry prize, and The Bear Who Ate the Stars. Her poems appear in POETRY, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, others.

Olga Livshin’s poetry, essays, and translations from Russian appear in Writers Resist, the Kenyon Review, Poetry International, Jacket, and others.

Natalie Lyalin is the author of Blood Makes Me Faint, but I Go for It, Pink & Hot Pink Habitat, and Try A Little Time Travel.

Host: Charles S. Carr

To be Broadcast Live: Comcast 66/966 & Verizon 29/30