Moonstone Arts Center’s Virtual Poetry

Tuesday October 11, 2022 – 7pm Eastern

Registration Required – Registration Link

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcOyqpjovGdO2icZAh6MDWK7NmFH-gjmZ

A Reading by the Previous Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners

Lisa Grunberger is author of I am dirty and Born Knowing which are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman, a mother, and a daughter of Shoah survivors.  She is also author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position.

Vernita Hall is author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, and others.

George McDermott is a Philadelphia poet who lives in Florida (that’s not impossible, not even particularly uncommon). He’s also been an English teacher, a speechwriter, and a screenwriter (those are not mutually exclusive, not even especially different). He is author of  Pictures, Some of Them Moving.

Charles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park with Wolverine Farm Publishing. He coordinates writing programs in the community for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.

Kenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections, including Bend of Quiet, Loplop in a Red City, and Lilac And Sawdust and The Book of Micah. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Asheville Literary Review, Nimrod, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere.

Joe Roarty won the first Moonstone Chapbook Contest in 2015 for Moritat (German for “street ballad”), poetry of high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease.

Mbarek Sryfi, poet and translator, is author of The Trace of a Smile and City Poems, co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film. His work appears in many journals and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African Studies, and others.

Emma Wynn is author of  Help Me to Fall, her poetry has appeared in Sky Island Journal, West Trade Review, peculiar magazine, apricity press, The Raw Art Review, Delmavra Review and others Most recently, she was a finalist for the Subnivean magazine 2021 poetry award.

Nathalie F Anderson, Moonstone’s 2022 Judge, will Host.