Moonstone Poetry Reading with Mac Chandler, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli

Wednesday October 5, 2022 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

Registration Required for zoom – use this link:

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Mac Chandler is a senior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review, HASH Magazine, and High Shelf Press. She currently edits for University Of The Arts’ Annual Zine ‘Underground Pool’. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can stay extra up to date with her work and publications on her instagram, @frillysox.

Mikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook, Terrestrial Sanctuaries (Moonstone 2022), was released in June & you can typically find him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area.

Jim Mancinelli is author of Primer, In Deep, The Bartimeus Poems for which he also did the drawings and is currently developing a collection around coming of age as a gay boy in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review, Vice-Versa, Philadelphia Poets, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and issues of Poetry Ink. He was a finalist in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, judged by Mark Doty.  He is the founder/moderator of the Moveable Beats Reading Series (MBRS) which now has a new format: UpClose with MBRS.

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