Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou

Live in Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-CrqDkvHtOlOphDch8WLjBafhP0Fgle

John Wall Barger is the author of four books of poetry: Pain-proof Men (2009); Hummingbird (2012), finalist for the Raymond Souster Award; The Book of Festus (2015), finalist for the J.M. Abraham Award; and The Mean Game (2019), finalist for The Phillip H. McMath Book Award. Resurrection Fail (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021) is his fifth book. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. (johnwallbarger.com)

Vasiliki Katsarou grew up Greek American in Jack Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Memento Tsunami, and a chapbook, Three Sea Stones. She is also co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems and Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems. Her poems have been published internationally, including in Japan, the U.K., Australia, Denmark, and in Greek translation. A Geraldine R. Dodge poet, independent curator, and sometime filmmaker, she is a teaching artist at New Jersey’s Hunterdon Art Museum. Her poetry is part of the upcoming art exhibition Invisible at ArtYard, the contemporary art center in Frenchtown, New Jersey.