Moonstone Poetry Readings

Wednesday May 24, 2023 – 7:00pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

Registration Required for zoom – use this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscO6rrj8iHtb48QlmLMmqMWfM5uAm1lHv 

Kelly McQuain is a painter and poet, and the author of Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers (2023), a collection chosen by Texas Review Press for the Southern Breakthrough Award. He has also authored two chapbooks, and his prose, poetry and illustrations have appeared in Best American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Rattle and Superstition Review, as well as such anthologies as: Best New Poets 2020; LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia; and Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. A native of WV, he now lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Community College of Philadelphia.

Lucy Bell Sellers, a retired drama teacher, is a longtime resident of Germantown. Her book of poems. Don’t Drop Me God, came out last summer. 

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows