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Virtual Poetry Reading: International Workers’ Day Anthology

May 1^st is International Workers’ Day, a time of celebration and opposition throughout the world, except in the United States where it began. May Day commemorates the May 1^st, 1886 nationwide protest for the eight-hour day and the following “Haymarket Affair,” a pivotal event in the history of workers’ and anarchist movements in which four labor organizers were hanged by the State in Chicago. May Day is also the ancient celebration of Spring and rebirth – the traditional time for planting new seeds in old ground.

Poets have long reflected on work. What is it to you? Is it a burden, a salve, a joy?

Donald Hall wrote a wonderful memoir called Life Work, not what you do for money but what you do with your life. The Poetry Foundation has a terrific article, Work Poems – Poetry about looking for jobs and working for a living. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69799/work-poems.

Read What Work Is by Philip Levine; Brass Spittoons by Langston Hughes; Shirt by Robert Pinsky.

We asked poets to send us a poem on work for a Moonstone anthology.

Join us as we celebrate International Workers Day with poetry and bring a poem.

Contributors (Not all will be reading):

Michele Belluomini

Miriam Ben-Yoseph

Byron Beynon

Sarah Bowden

Matilda Bray

R. Bremner

Grace Cavalieri

Terence Culleton

Steven Davison

Terry Dugan

Christine Ferrari

Strickland

Maria Gillan

linda goss

Beejay Grob

Steven Halpern

Barbara Hobbie

Joan Huffman

jack israel

Irving Jones

Chris Kaiser

Michael Levin

Karen Mandell

Emily Rose Miller

Liz Minette

Dennis Moritz

Anthony Palma

John Polier

David Radavich

Esther Ramos

joe roarty

George Schaefer

Jennifer Schneider

Bob Small

Sarah Trembath

Kelley White

Samantha Wright