Bernard Block has read at all the major spoken-word venues in NYC, Philadelphia, South Carolina and South Wales. He has also hosted the “From Whitman to Ginsberg” series at Cornelia Street Café. Charles Carr has two published books of poetry: paradise, Pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub, and since 2016 he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator, writer, poet, translator, architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize. 
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