Live Poetry Reading: Alison Hicks and Cassie MacDonald with Hosts Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

On zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09

Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146

This reading will be hybrid, with both in-person performances and a Zoom livestream. As the COVID-19 situation develops, Moonstone will monitor recommendations of health officials.

Alison Hicks’s latest book of poems, Knowing Is a Branching Trail, winner of the 2021 Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Books, has just been released. Previous books include poetry collections You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss, a chapbook Falling Dreams, a novella Love: A Story of Images, and an anthology, Prompted. Her work has appeared in Eclipse, Gargoyle, Permafrost, and Poet Lore. She was named a finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose Prize from Smartish Pace, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills LiteraryLantern. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio, which offers community-based writing workshops.

Cassie MacDonald serves as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House in Camden, New Jersey where facilitates a twice-monthly writing circle, organizes readings, workshops and other writing arts events, and creates neighborhood murals as part of the Poetry Liberation Front (“Poetry to the People!”)  She has been a featured reader at Fergie’s, Big Blue Marble Bookstore and Eleven One Gallery in Camden and is always game for an open mic, even an unscheduled one on a moving train.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

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