Category: Poetry
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Moonstone Poetry Series: Justin Vitiello
Tuesday, April 26, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Justin Vitiello Justin Vitiello has taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, focusing his creative, political and scholarly writings on America, Italy and Spain. His books include: Vanzetti’s Fish Cart, subway home, and Suicide of an Ethnic Poet. Open…
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The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series presents The Ignant Intellectual and Brooke Strauss
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm – $5 Cover – Multi-Genre The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series presents The Ignant Intellectual and Brooke Strauss The Ignant Intellectual is a New Orleans-reared poet and spoken word artist who has been making the performance venue rounds throughout Philadelphia and beyond in recent years. From the accent to that…
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Four Emerging Russian Poets: Igor Belov, Viktor Ivaniv, Fedor Svarovskiy, Ksenia Shcherbino
Monday, April 18, 7pm – Poetry The Program in Comparative Literature at UPenn presents Four Emerging Russian Poets: Igor Belov, Viktor Ivaniv, Fedor Svarovskiy, Ksenia Shcherbino Please join us for an evening of cutting-edge Russian poetry in connection with the University of Pennsylvania’s poetry symposium, “Your language – my ear: Russian and American poetry at…
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The Fifteenth Annual Poetry Ink
Sunday, April 3, 12 noon – Group Reading The Fifteenth Annual Poetry Ink Poetry Ink is a unique event in that it brings together poets (almost 140 of them this year!) from many different groups and gives us all a chance to hear each others’ voices – you can expect to hear a wide diversity of local talents…
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Moles Not Molar Presents release/launch celebration for the prose journal/project Encyclopedia Volume 2
Sunday, March 27, 7pm – Poetry Moles Not Molar Presents The release/launch celebration for the prose journal/project Encyclopedia Volume 2. Encyclopedia is a multi-volume hardcover book project that presents a wide variety of approaches to narrative. Part reference book, part literary journal, each volume appropriates the form of the encyclopedia—from general layout to cross-referencing—as a…
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CANCELLED – Raymond Tyler Presents The Sunday Mix Tape
Sunday, March 27, 3pm – $10 Admission *****************CANCELLED*********** Raymond Tyler Presents The Sunday Mix Tape The Mix Tape is a diverse experience that will include: poetry, a discussion on poetry and art in the class room and much more. The day starts with a writing workshop from 3pm to 4pm. For more information please reach out…
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MPS: Betti Kahn & Michelle Belluomini
Tuesday, March 22, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Betti Kahn & Michelle Belluomini B. E. Kahn is a recipient of Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and Pew Grants, along with other awards and prizes. Her poems have appeared in Harrisburg Review, Philadelphia Poets, Bridges A Jewish Feminist Journal, Mad Poets Review, Schuylkill…
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A Splitleaves Affair
Saturday, March 19, 7pm – Poetry A Splitleaves Affair organized by Benjamin Winkler and Splitleaves Press Rauan Klassnik’s Holy Land released from Black Ocean in 2008. Chapbooks from Kitchen Press and Mud Luscious followed. He is currently, among otherthings, wallowing in his 2nd full-length manuscript. It’s tentatively titled The Moon’s Jaw. Michelle Taransky is the…
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Poets and Prophets: Laura Spagnoli
Tuesday, March 15, 7pm – Poetry Poets & Prophets Presents Laura Spagnoli Laura Spagnoli is a poet and fiction writer inspired lately by the Broad Street subway line, direct mail advertising, constellations you can see from the city, and parrots. Her poems have recently appeared in paper and on-line lit mags such as onandonscreen.net, Sleetmagazine.com,…
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Women’s Writing & Spoken Word: Lynne Rabchuk & Maleka Fruean
Wednesday, March 9, 7pm – $5 Cover – Multi-Genre The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series presents Lynne Rabchuk & Maleka Fruean Lynne “Inner Light” Rabchuk Born and raised in the big-small-town that is Philly, Inner Light managed to adopt a worldview that enables her to identify as a human being living on earth. Now, in…