Moonstone Poetry Reading with David Acosta, Chris Bullard, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.

Wednesday November 23 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdOyhrD8vHdFWcWTkXfzrI94iaoui6QyV

David Acosta, author of Miscellany, is a well-known poet, writer, and activist whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He has served on a variety of committees and boards, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The AIDS Law Project. As a founding member of both the Art Emergency Coalition and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (which went on to successfully sue the National Endowment for the Arts during the 90s culture wars.)  As a Latinx, racially mixed, indigenous, gay man, he continues to blend art and activism as he collaborates on countless projects throughout the city while producing his own art and writing.

Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, is author of Continued, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.  

Colin Morgan (known as Marc Moore in some literary circles) is the CEO of Night City Publishing, a record label based in Philadelphia, PA. Additionally, they are the lead editor and founder of Parquet Poetry magazine, a small literary and art journal also based in Philadelphia. Colin plays bass in the band Queen Mob and has been published worldwide in many elite verse and art journals, but their most important work is the unseen text of whatever they are currently writing. Follow Night City Publishing on IG: @nightcitypublishing – Submit to Parquet Poetry on IG: @parquet.poetry

Molly Russakoff has been living and writing in Philadelphia since 1979.  She was a poetics student and teaching assistant in the early days of Naropa University in Boulder Co., studying with many of the Beat, Black Mountain and New York School poets.  She won a Pew Fellowship in 1993. Molly currently owns Molly’s Books & Records with her husband, Joe Ankenbrand.  She will be reading from her recently completed novel manuscript, Red Tape.