Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday March 20, 2019 – 7pm
Irish Poetry with
Fergus Carey, Sean Lynch & Mary Madec

Fergus Carey crawled into a bottle of whisky in the 1980s
And came out in the mid 90’s smelling like roses
Fergus is a person in your neighborhood
He plays the role of Fergie in the city of Philadelphia

Sean Lynch is a working class writer and editor who lives in South Philly and survives by working in a bar. Lynch’s poetry has appeared in Chrysanthemum, Poetry Quarterly, (parenthetical), and in many other obscure journals around the world. Find out more at swlynch.com

Mary Madec is the author of three books of poetry,  and editor of an award- winning anthology of poetry from people with intellectual disabilities.  She is widely published in Ireland and in 2008 won the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry. She has read at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and at the Festival International de Poésie, Marrakech (Spring, 2017). She read her poem Puppet On A String as part of an interview on autism on the Ryan Turbidy Morning Show (RTÉ 1).  Mary has a wide and varied experience teaching at University level having taught literature, linguistics and creative writing at NUI, Galway, Villanova, University of Pennsylvania and The Open University in Britain.  She was twice the recipient of an Irish Arts Council participation bursary which allowed her to develop a ground-breaking program with the renowned disability program

Larry Robin Host, Open Reading follows

Moonstone Arts Center Office

110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com

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