Moonstone Poetry Reading with Gina Myers, Alina Pleskova, and Warren Longmire

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday November 2 @ 7:30PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:

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Gina Myers’s latest book, Some of the Times, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013), as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry, she has published essays, reviews, and articles for a variety of publications. She lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she works in communications and co-edits the tiny with ebs and Cul-de-sac of Blood with Jeff T. Johnson. 

Alina Pleskova is fixing to become poet-in-residence of the astral realm. She is a Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet & editor, author of What Urge Will Save Us, Toska. Alina is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change and Window of Opportunity grants; has hosted workshops, events, & panels, is founder of the Cheburashka Collective (women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora), and co-edits bedfellows, a literary magazine topically focused on sex, desire, & intimacy.  

Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He’s been published in journals including Prolit, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication, Open Source, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press. His second, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop is set to release in the winter of 2022 through Fonograf Editions. 

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