Moonstone Poetry Reading: Nicole Greaves and Amy Small-McKinney

Wednesday February 23, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required

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

Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpduisqjkjGtR_CB38zTyfRrxnOYrXoiOt

Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146

Nicole Greaves’ poetry has appeared in numerous literary reviews and was awarded prizes by The Academy of American Poets and the Leeway Foundation. Nicole is a former poet laureate of Montgomery County. She teaches English and creative writing at the Crefeld School and her book, Having Witnessed the Illusion, is forthcoming with Glass Lyre Press.

Amy Small-McKinney’s third chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, written during Covid and her husband’s death, is forthcoming with Glass Lyre Press, 2022. For the 2020 virtual AWP, she co-moderated an interactive discussion, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief During Covid. Her second full-length collection, Walking Toward Cranes, won The Kithara Book Prize 2016 (Glass Lyre Press). Small-McKinney was the 2011 Montgomery County Poet Laureate. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, for example, Baltimore Review, Pedestal Magazine, Philadelphia Stories and SWWIM.  Her book reviews have appeared in journals, such as Prairie Schooner and Matter, and her poems have been translated into Korean and Romanian.  She resides in Philadelphia.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Follows