Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading with Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman

Sunday October 30 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:

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Byron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including The Galway Review, Cyphers, Poetry Pacific, London Magazine, The Tower Journal and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets).  His most recent collection is The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions). 

Philip Brady has taught at University College Cork in Ireland, as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the National University of Zaire, in the Semester at Sea Program, in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MFA Program, at the Chautauqua Institute, at San Francisco State University, the University of Delaware, and SUNY Binghamton. Currently he is a distinguished professor of English at Youngstown State University, where he teaches creative writing and literature. 

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics, including texts on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis, and his poetry and fiction have been published widely in independent journals and magazines. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic. This chapbook is his first collection of poems. 

Steven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle Of A Bear, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His work is available from the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, the Iowa Review, the Gettysburg Review, Oversound, as well as others. Steven is a contributing manager at the American Poetry Review, where he co-hosts the APR podcast. He is the interim director of Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, where he also serves as the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop.  

John Lavin Host