Moonstone Arts Center

Category: Poetry

  • Jubilant Thicket Presents

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    Sunday, August 12, 7pm – Poetry Jubilant Thicket Presents Mytili Jagannathan, Chris Tonneli, Suzan Jivan Hosted by Anne-Adele Wight Mytili Jagannathan listens to the notion that “every letter is an alphabet,” making poems that investigate public and private space, power, gender, property, desire, collectivity, and the conditions of speech. She is the author of Acts,…

  • Steven Allen May and Plan B Present

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    Thursday, August 16, 7pm – Poetry Steven Allen May and Plan B Present Michele Belluomini, Ebony Malaika Collier, Daniel Collins, Arlo Druzba, Steven Allen May, Tree Riesner, Paul Siegell, Jim Warner Michele Belluomini’s work has appeared in journals such as American Writing, “NOW! (then)”: The Eternal Now Poetry Anthology, APR: Philly Edition 99, The Mad…

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    Sunday, July 8, 7pm – Poetry Jubilant Thicket Presents Jaime Fountaine lives and writes in Philadelphia, where she is often found politely discussing her age and valid state-issued identification with the clerks at the liquor store. Kari Larsen is the author of Say you’re a fiction (Dancing Girl), the Black Telephone (Unthinkable Creatures), and Come…

  • Open Reading with Elliott Levin and Friends

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    Thursday, July 19, 9pm – BYOB – $5 Cover – Jazz Poetry etc Open Reading with Elliott Levin and Friends A set by Elliott Levin and his band followed by an open reading. Elliott Levin has performed with groups including Cecil Taylor’s Ensemble, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Odeon Popes’ Sax Choir, Scram!, New…

  • P&P: Debrah Morkun

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    Tuesday, June 19, 7pm – Poetry Poets & Prophets Presents Debrah Morkun “I believe in near death experiences and pray to the old gods. I live in Philadelphia, where I curate The Jubilant Thicket Literary Series & co-curate (with Kim Gek Lin Short) The General Idea Series. I am the author of The Ida Pingala…

  • Jubilant Thicket: Andrew Hughes, Jonathan Lohr, Catherine Averill

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    Sunday, June 10, 7pm – Poetry Jubilant Thicket Presents Andrew Hughes, Jonathan Lohr & Catherine Averill Hosted by Debrah Morkun ANDREW HUGHES is the author of the chapbook, SWEETHEARTS OF THE GREAT MIGRATION (BookThug 2008) & the full-length collection, NOW LAYS THE SUNSHINE BY (BookThug 2010). He is co-editor (with the poet Whit Griffin) of…

  • MPS: Elaine Terranova & W.D. Ehrhart

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    Tuesday, June 5, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Elaine Terranova & W.D. Ehrhart Elaine Terranova’s latest book of poems is Dames Rocket.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Prairie Schooner, and other magazines.  Her first book, The Cult of the Right Hand, won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award.…

  • MPS: Aschak & Joe Roarty

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    Tuesday, June 12, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Aschak & Joe Roarty Aschak, poet and artist, was born in Trinidad but has long been a Philadelphia resident. Besides writing and performing his poetry, he has organized readings and brought poetry to the schools. His paintings can be seen on Astral Wilderness Joe Roarty…

  • MPS: Barbara Torode & Michele Belluomini

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    Tuesday, June 26, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Barbara Torode & Michele Belluomini Michele Belluomini’s work has appeared in journals such as American Writing, “NOW! (then)”: The Eternal Now Poetry Anthology, APR: Philly Edition, The Mad Poets Review, Sinister Wisdom, the Helen Review , and The Mulberry Poets&Writers Daybook; as well as in…

  • Who Am I? The Poetry of Identity

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    Monday, May 7 – 7pm Who Am I? The Poetry of Identity Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th A Poetry reading by Sonia Sanchez, Lamont Steptoe, Daniel Abdah-Hayy Moore, Hanock Guy and open reading How do we identify ourselves? Others?  By our ethnicity? Our gender? Our age? What makes us who we are?  This is…