Moonstone Poetry

Wednesday October 23, 2 024 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom

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Doris Ferleger, poet laureate emeritus of Montgomery County PA, and winner of the New Millennium Poetry Prize, New Letters Poetry, Songs of Eretz Prize, and AROHO CNF Prize, among others, is the author of five full-length poetry books, including Big Silences in a Year of Rain, As the Moon Has Breath, Leavened, As for the Kiss, and To Claim Loneliness and a chapbook entitled When You Become Snow. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Cortland Review, Delmarva Review, and Poet Lore. Her sixth book, entitled when the night is near as a bird was a finalist for the four-way prize. Ferleger holds an MFA in Poetry and a Ph.D. in Psychology and maintains a private therapy practice. Aliki Barnestone writes: Ferleger’s memorable poems keep singing with their insistent beauty.

Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer, author of I am dirty and Born Knowing, lyrical reflections on life as a woman, a mother, and a daughter of Holocaust survivors. For the Future of Girls was nominated for an Eric Hoffer Independent Press Award, Almost Pregnant, is her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies.

Whether it is the aging woman’s body, the infertile body, the body ravaged by war and trauma, all her work addresses human embodiment in a philosophical, spiritual, tender and satirical voice.   Lisa’s poems have been translated into Slovenian, Russian, Spanish and Yiddish.   Lisa teaches Yoga and Writing workshops and lives with her family in Philadelphia.  Her website is www.Lisa-Grunberger.com.

Alina  Macneal  & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows