Wednesday September 18, 2019 – 7pm
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

Joel Dias-Porter (aka DJ Renegade) was a Haiku Slam Champion. His poems have been published in journals and anthologies including Time Magazine, The Washington Post, POETRY, Best American Poetism, Callalloo, Gathering Ground, Role Call, Def Poetry Jam, and Poetry Nation. He received the Furious Flower “Emerging Poet Award.” A Cave Canem fellow, he has a CD of jazz and poetry entitled ‘LibationSong’.

Sibelan Forrester is author of Second-Hand Fate and has published translations of poetry and prose from Croatian, Russian and Serbian. Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Small Craft Warnings, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and others. She is host of the Mad Poets Society’s First Wednesday Readings at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford, PA and she is a professor of Russian language and literature at Swarthmore College.

Dave Worrell, host – open reading follows