Moonstone Poetry @ 1199

The District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund

100 South Broad Street, 10^th floor (Land Title Building)

Wednesday May 22, 2019 – 7pm

Catherine Bancroft is the mother of three grown children and appreciates that a critical skill of motherhood is keeping your mouth shut.  Poetry and art are good outlets.

Shevaun Brannigan’s work is forthcoming in AGNI and has appeared in Best New Poets and Slice. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant and holds an MFA from Bennington College.

Vernyce Dannells is the author of Temporarily Abated and has been published in places you know and others you’ve never heard of.

Janet Fishman created and toured two adaptations, The Olive Lake A Chinese Fairy Tale, and Three Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Her first full length play, At Home in the World has had two readings at The University of the Arts, where she currently teaches.

Courtney Gambrell is a 27-year-old who enjoys writing and reciting poetry in the Greater Philadelphia region. As a poet, she is most concerned with self-healing, which is her catalyst for writing. 

Ona Gritz books include the poetry collections Geode, and Border Songs: A Conversation in poems, written with Daniel Simpson. Her poems and essays have appeared widely.

Lisa Grunberger, Temple University Professor, is author of three books and her play Almost Pregnant, about motherhood, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, is under development.

Donna Wolf-Palacio is author of What I Don’t Know, The Other Side, and Step Lightly. She taught a poetry workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was editor/consultant for the UARTS Poetry Review.

Sekai’afua Zankel defines herself as a “Performance Poet, combining her experience in theatre and her “visceral and active poetry”. Her underlying credo is a great revolution in the life of a single individual can change the world.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts