Live Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Eileen M. D’Angelo, and Aaren Yeatts Perry

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

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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.

Terence Culleton taught writing and literature for forty years, he is the author of A Communion of Saints, Eternal Life and A Tree and Gone. Mr. Culleton publishes in diverse magazines and reviews, and reads widely throughout the Philadelphia region, as well as in northeastern PA and New York. His work has been featured on radio and cable TV shows in Pennsylvania and New York. and on NPR, and he has won a number of prizes and awards both for his poetry and his teaching. His work has also been set to music and recorded by Vermont composer Don Jamison for his book and CD Far Heaven, as well as by Darryl Harper and Onus for their CD Stories in Real Time.

Eileen M. D’Angelo is Founder/Executive Director of the Mad Poets Society and Founder/Managing Editor of the lit mag, Mad Poets Review (1990-2010). Since 1987, she produced over 1,500 special events, including performances, slams, readings, conferences, workshops, bonfires and literary festivals in the Delaware Valley.  Twice nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts, D’Angelo also received two Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press nominations. Poetry, op-eds, essays and book reviews were published in numerous journals. She was awarded the Victim Rights Award by Domestic Abuse Project and District Attorney’s Office of Delaware County and named 2017 Paralegal of the Year by DCCC Paralegal Advisory Board.

Aaren Yeatts Perry is an independent editor and writing coach. Perry teaches nonviolence-and-writing workshops and mindful poetics to all ages at schools, colleges and festivals on the East Coast and in the Midwest. He has performed his poems at the Nuyorican Cafe, Bower Poetry Club, Kimmel Center, World Café, Fringe Festival, and Philadelphia Writers Conference and other stages and classrooms. His work appears in magazines on NPR and on regional television. He produced and directed Page2Stage, a long-running all-poetry TV show on Cable. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College, he received a PA Council on the Arts Grant. His collections include Open Fire (Whirlwind Press), Poetry Across the Curriculum: An Action Guide for Teachers (Allyn&Bacon), a spoken word recording, Mercury Calling (MelodyVision), and a 2021 chapbook called Shipping and Receiving (Moonstone Press).

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