Moonstone Poetry Readings

Wednesday October 12, 2022 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

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Eli C. Goldblatt is author of Wissahickon Creek: Walks & Dreams, and seven other books. He is Professor Emeritus at Temple University, former director of writing directed New City Writing, the community outreach arm of the writing program. Goldblatt also taught science, math and English for six years in an urban alternative high school in Philadelphia. He earned a master’s in education and certificate in biology from Temple.His master’s in literature and doctorate in composition studies came from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published work includes “Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum” and “Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography,” as well as three collections of poetry and two children’s books.

Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians, winner of the 2016 Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, The Common, River Styx, The Hopkins Review, and Arts & Letters. With fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Ucross, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College and serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories.

Peter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay, NY, the Heart of the Thousand Islands, where he learned to ice fish and shoot pool. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, New Madrid, The Café Review, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others. His chapbook, A Map of Three Continents, was published by Moonstone Press (2020). Underwater, his new book of poems, came out in 2021 from Human Error Publishing.