Poetry Reading: New Releases from Moonstone Press

Featuring: F. X. Baird, RuNett Nia Ebo, Nina Gadson, g emil reutter, and Diane Sahms Guarnieri

Wednesday October 13, 2021 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street

And on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09

Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146

F.X Baird is author of Painting with My Father and Square Peg Round Hole, a Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, Philadelphia Stories, and more. He has conducted a poetry workshop with long term incarcerated men at Phoenix Prison which since the pandemic has been conducted via email and now includes poets from other state prisons and recently has expanded to include women incarcerated at Muncy State Correctional Institution.

RuNett Nia Ebo is a poet of purpose, author, ghost writer, blogger, editor, essayist, venue host, and event planner whose signature poem, Lord, Why Did You Make Me Black?  was performed by the Fresh Visions Youth Theatre Group and is available in a coloring book.  She is a contributing writer for Kwee, a Liberian magazine published in Monrovia., ghost writer, blogger, editor, essayist, venue host, and event planner. Her latest chapbook is Expressing Myself on Purpose with Moonstone Press.

Nina Gadson is the author of When I Was 16. She wrote and collected these poems when she was 16 and younger, a time capsule into that period of her life. Her inspiring and heartfelt poems always have an impact, she feels that trials and tribulations come with every new season in life. It’s about growth and a turning point. She is grateful that God has sustained that 16-year-old girl to become the young Women she is, and was born to be.

g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories, has worked in the factories, steel mills and with the railway police. His work has been widely published in the small and electronic press and fifteen volumes of his collections have been published. He is currently a contributing editor at North of Oxford and published The Fox Chase Review. His publications include Poems of the Pennypack and Violence in My City.

Diane Sahms Guarnieri is the Poetry Editor of North of Oxford; served as Poetry Editor at The Fox Chase Review, served on the Editorial Board of Philadelphia Stories Magazine, founded, and runs The Tenth Muse Poetry Workshop. Diane has performed her poetry at venues along the east coast of the United States from Boston, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia. Her newest chapbook with Moonstone Press, COVID-19, 2020: A Poetic Journal, is an astute reflection on the modern plague year.

All of their chapbooks are currently available on the Moonstone Online Store.