Poetry in the Time of Pandemics: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

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This December 1st marks the 31st anniversary of Day Without Art. Launched by Visual AIDS on December 1, 1989, as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, Day Without Art, focused specifically on bringing attention to the impact that AIDS had on the arts community.

On December 1^st, 2020, Philly Loves Poetry features a conversation with poet and activist David Acosta who was one of the founders of Day Without Art in Philadelphia. David will read from poems he wrote during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic as well as new work, and will discuss artistic responses to both the AIDS and COVID pandemics specially as it relates to artistic creation by writers and poets responding to both.

David Acosta, is a poet, writer, and curator. His writings have appeared in many literary journals among them The Painted Bride Quarterly, The Evergreen Chronicles, The Americas Review, Mayrena, and the anthologies: American Poetry Confronts the 1990s (Black Tie Press 1990). The Limits of Silence (Asterion Press 1991), Poesida (Ollantay Press, 1995), and Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of Latin American Poetry in The United States (University of Washington Press, 1998). He is also included as a contributor in Queer Brown Voices, the first anthology of Latino LGBT history in the United States and Puerto Rico published by University of Texas Press, in 2015. He is currently the Artistic Director for Casa de Duende and he is a co-founding editor of Wicked Gay Ways an online artistic and literary journal devoted to queer erotica at the intersections of art and desire.

Charles S. Carr, Host