Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street

New Voices:

Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

Sunday April 7, 2019 – 5pm

Veronica Nocella is a short poet with a big mouth hailing from Philadelphia, PA. They have been writing poetry since their freshman year of high school and was a member of Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) since they were 15. In 2015, they represented PYPM at Brave New Voices, taking the international championship, in2018, they were a member of Temple University’s CUPSI team. Their work can be found in Apiary’s 9th Issue, Sanctuary, and in Bryn Mawr’s Literary Magazine Nimbus. Veronica is an events coordinator for BABEL, Temple’s only spoken word poetry collective, and is the Youth Editor and Ambassador for Apiary’s Tenth Issue, Apiary X. Their work focuses primarily on queerness and mental health. In their free time they can be found starting trouble, telling their mom they love her, and forgetting to practice piano.

Katbug Stanshine is a trans woman studying creative writing at Temple University. Through poetry she explores the spaces where trauma and mental illness meet the body, and how to find agency within them. She is the co-event coordinator for Babel Poetry Collective and owns three swords. Her work has previously been featured on Punch Drunk Press, and she can be found posting too much on twitter: @mydadisold or instagram: @wheelyshoes

Join us each month for readings on the third Sunday

by emerging poets with a focus on poets between 18 and 25

We also host a program that focuses on poets under 18 on the fourth Tuesday at 4pm

A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect with Other Writers

Host: Krisann Janowitz, an open reading follows the featured poets

Moonstone Arts Center Office
110A S. 13^th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 735-9600;
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