Moonstone Poetry Reading with Millicent Borges Accardi, Margaret R. Sáraco, MM Wittle, Anne Harding Woodworth & R.G Ziemer

Thursday November 10 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL

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Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, Canto Mundo and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle).

Margaret R. Sáraco grew up in an Italian-American extended family, was awarded master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and in Mathematics, which inform her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals, has been featured at The Art and Poetry of Teaching, Havdalah Café, Gallery U, Welcome the Sabbath Bride, and others and has conducted workshops at Stockton Tour of Poetry, Save our Schools, Hudson Valley Writing Project, the American Italian Historical Association, Montclair State and New York Universities on writing, teaching, activism and music.  

MM Wittle, author of Reconstruction, is a writer of all genres who is a high school and middle school teacher during the day, a college professor at night, and a book worm and writer on the weekends. Wittle’s play Family Guidance was selected for honorable mention at the 5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Workshop’s Playwriting Competition. The Education of Allie Rose was shortlisted in the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her work has appeared in Transient, The Bond Street Review, Free Flash Fiction, The Fox Chase Review, The Four Quarters, Decades Review, Emerging Literary Journal and others.  

Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of eight books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her most recent book is Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (October 2022), a Literary Titan Silver Award book. Her book, Trouble, received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry. An excerpt from her chapbook, The Last Gun, won the 2016 COG Poetry Award, judged by A. Van Jordan, and was subsequently animated (https://vimeo.com/193842252). Anne is a member of the Poetry Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum. 

R.G Ziemer was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, worked in the construction trades, practiced genealogy and presently teaches writing at the College of DuPage. He is active with several writing groups and enjoys sharing prose and poetry at local reading venues and open mics. Ziemer’s novel the Ghost of Jamie McVay was published in 2019.