Category: Poetry
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Philadelphia Poets 2011, Volume 17- Release Party
Saturday, May 21, 12noon – Poetry Philadelphia Poets 2011, Volume 17- Release Party
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Michael Loughran, Elaine Terranova & Sharon White
Tuesday, May 3, 7pm – Poetry Michael Loughran, Elaine Terranova & Sharon White Michael Loughran was born in New Hope, Pennsylvania and later received an MFA from the University of Florida. His poems have appeared in Tin House, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Harvard Review, jubilat, Lit, CAB/NET, and Subtropics. He teaches at the…
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MPS: Elizabeth Bodien & Le Hinton
Tuesday, May 24, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Elizabeth Bodien & Le Hinton Elizabeth Bodien lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania. She taught at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA until 2007. Her poetry has appeared in The Litchfield Review, The Fourth River, Watershed, red lights, Fledgling Rag, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets…
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Women’s Writing & Spoken Word: Jesse White and Lee ScottLorde
Wednesday, May 18, 7pm – $5 Cover – Multi-Genre The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series presents Jesse White and Lee ScottLorde Jesse White is an Expressionistic painter, writer and altered book artist. Conveying emotion through themes of love, loss and spirit, her writing is deeply personal, honest and often raw. She finds creating to…
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P&P: Carlos Soto Roman
Tuesday, May 17, 7pm – Poetry Poets & Prophets Presents Carlos Soto Roman Carlos Soto Roman was born in Valparaíso, Chile. He is the author of La Marcha de los Quiltros (The Mongrel’s march,1999), Haiku Minero (Miner Haiku, 2007) and Cambio y Fuera (Over and Out, 2009). He resides in Philadelphia and is a member…
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THE EXQUISITE READING with Jennifer L. Knox, Ada Limón, Shane Book, and Melissa Stein
Sunday, May 15, 3pm – Poetry THE EXQUISITE READING with Jennifer L. Knox, Ada Limón, Shane Book, Jeffrey McDaniel, and Melissa Stein You won’t know what’s coming next—because we don’t, either! Join five stellar poets for a lively, fast-paced, round-robin reading. Act I: Each poem must relate to the last one, or else. Act II: …
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A Splitleaves Affair organized by Benjamin Winkler
Saturday, May 14, 7pm – Poetry A Splitleaves Affair organized by Benjamin Winkler Ryan Eckes was born in Northeast Philadelphia and now he writes poems. You can find some of them on the internet: in the journals Scythe, Fanzine, 60 Watts, the ixnay reader, on his blog, ryaneckes [dot] blogspot [dot] com, and other places.…
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MPS: W.D. Ehrhart & Nathalie Anderson
Tuesday, May 10, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents W.D. Ehrhart & Nathalie Anderson Nathalie F. Anderson’s first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works. Her poems have been singled out for prizes and special recognition from the Joseph Campbell Society, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Inkwell…
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Elaine Terranova and Sharon White
Tuesday, May 3, 7pm – Poetry Elaine Terranova & Sharon White Elaine Terrranova’s most recent publications are Not To: New and Selected Poems, from Sheep Meadow Press, and a chapbook, Elegiac: Footnotes from Rilke’s Duino Elegies. Her awards include the Walt Whitman Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on…
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MPS: Ernest Hilbert, Timothy Donnelly & Matthew Zapruder
Tuesday April 12, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Ernest Hilbert, Timothy Donnelly & Matthew Zappruder Matthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Come On All You Ghosts, selected as one of the top 5 poetry books of 2010. Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation was published by Wave…