Moonstone Live Poetry

Wednesday October 9, 2024 – 7pm

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

Register for Zoom access: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpceivqTIpHNL2TDUW4c3-ZEqlzjU3eIE9

Mia Kang is the author of City Poems, Apparent Signs and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must. She lives in Philadelphia with two cats, is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project. She holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University, and she has taught at Hunter College, the Cooper Union, University of the Arts, and Yale College.

Allayna Nofs is the author of It’s not them, it’s me, a collection of poetry published in 2019. She is also the sorceress behind the poetry series, Blossoming, which runs (almost) monthly out of West Philadelphia. If she’s not at the park admiring the trees, she might be doing math homework by the river. A collection of her written words can be found on her Substack, at www.allaynanofs.substack.com.

Herman Beavers is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent poems have appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The American Arts Quarterly and been anthologized in The 2014 Anthology of Featured Poets and Obsession: Sestinas for the Twenty-First Century.   He serves as an advisory editor for The African American Review, The Black Scholar, and Modern Fiction Studies.