Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub

Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

Wednesday May 8, 2019 – 7pm

Sojourner Ahebee,
Michele Belluomini
& Elizabeth Bodien

Sojourner Ahebee is the author of Reporting from the Belly of the Night, writes stories about African diaspora identities and the eternal question of home and belonging. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day), Muzzle Magazine, For Harriet, Winter Tangerine Review, Apiary Magazine and elsewhere.  In 2013 she served as a National Student Poet, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. Sojourner was invited to the White House by former First Lady, Michelle Obama, to garner her award. Sojourner believes not in the boat that floated her here but what she’ll do with the water.  

Michele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appearedin various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers, also published by Plan B Press. She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia

Elizabeth Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours as well as four chapbooks, all written since she retired from teaching at Northampton Community College. She is also the author of the spiritual memoir Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology, consciousness studies, religions, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan, an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon, a childbirth instructor in West Africa, and as a professor of anthropology. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals including: Cimarron Review, Crannóg, and Parabola  Bodien grew up in the “burned-over” district of western New York but now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania.

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