Moonstone Poetry Readings: Lake Angela and DJ

Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required for Zoom – use this link:

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Lake Angela is a poet, author of Organblooms and Words for the Dead, choreographer, and dancer from Lake Erie who constantly studies and develops her methods of dance as language. She works with psychiatric patients on discovering the transformative properties of dance as a therapeutic and accessible nonverbal language. Lake Angela studied choreography, modern dance, ballet and flamenco and rumba flamenca. In Barcelona, she continued her professional training in contemporary, release, improv, ballet, kung fu, and capoeira. Lake Angela’s special interests involve the poetry and dance of medieval women mystics, the possibilities in and kinds of darknesses and silences, and expressions of colors, waters, and suffering, which she often explores in her poems and choreography.

DJ is relatively new to Philadelphia and a lifelong writer. Their poetry is straight forward with a  confessional style and touches on a variety of topics ranging from Queer identity to spirituality. She started to dabble in performance poetry in 2016 and quickly fell in love with the sense community at open mic nights and poetry slams. DJ is currently working on their first chapbook and looks forward to becoming a published author. When not writing, you can find her hiking at Wissahickon, frequenting their favorite South Philly dive bars, or waxing philosophical about the state of the world.