Moonstone Poetry Reading With Siduri Beckman, H.E. Fisher, Melanie McCabe, Ann E. Michael, and Halle Prenata

Thursday September 29 @ 7PM EDT — VIRTUAL

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Siduri Beckman is the author of Yearling and served as the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Her mentor was Poet Laureate Sonia Sanchez. Siduri is passionate about the intersection of poetry, public education, and civic engagement. Siduri graduated from Yale University.  

H.E. Fisher is the author of Jane Almost Always Smiles and Sterile Field. Her poems have appeared in Indianapolis Review, The Hopper, Miracle Monocle, Anti-Heroin Chic, Longleaf Review Barren Magazine, and Canary, among other publications. H.E. was awarded the 2019 Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson at City College of New York, was a finalist in the 2020-21 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. H.E. is the editor of (Re) An Ideas Journal. Her work can be found at: www.hefisher.com 

Melanie McCabe is the author of The Night Divers, History of the Body and What The Neighbors Know (Honorable Mention in the Library of Virginia’s Literary Awards). Her nonfiction book, His Other Life: Searching for My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. Her poems have appeared in  Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in Best New Poets 2010. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and taught high school English for twenty-two years. 

Ann E. Michael is author of Strange Ladies, Water-Rites, Barefoot Girls, Small Things Rise & Go, and three other collections. Her poems have been widely anthologized. She maintains a long-running blog, garden, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com 

Halle Preneta is a writer from Ohio who enjoys writing short romance, sci-fi, and horror stories along with poetry and gets her ideas from random life experiences and fanfiction. She’s had works published in various literary magazines such as Write Now Lit, Tealight Press, The Hearth Magazine, and more. When she’s not writing, she’s either playing video games or watching other people play video games on YouTube.