Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

699 Ranstead Street

Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967
or Verizon FIOS 29/30
in Philadelphia.

2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM

There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us.

Tuesday May 7, 2019 -6:30pm

Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy

May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, who spent the last decades of his life in Camden, NJ, a short ferry ride from Philadelphia. Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy is being planned as an exploration of the relevance of the poet’s life and words for a contemporary audience through a region-wide program of cultural events. One vital component of Whitman’s writings, his poetics of nature, views man on a continuum with the natural world: both of it and able to appreciate it for itself and for its spiritual dimension. For Whitman, the “Nature-element” is essential to our Democracy and “really underlie[s] the whole politics, sanity, religion and art of the New World.”

Partners & Performers

Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia whose work is presented as installation, performance art, public art, video and audio. Mr. Jackson has received support for his work from the Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Civitella Rainieri Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Playwrights Center and Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art. Homer Jackson serves as the director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project.

Jarboe (she/he) is a cabaret artist, director, writer, historian, and host serving you revolution, herstory, queer community making, and a whole lot of glitter.  Going back to the interdisciplinary roots of cabaret, Jarboe is transforming opera, and live performance from her home in Philadelphia, making work that is insistent on its liveness and interactivity, work that will make you sing, dance, clap and question.  Jarboe has created work with and for Opera Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Barnes Foundation, The Wilma Theater, The Kimmel Center, FringeArts among others.

Andrew Nurkin is the Deputy Director for Enrichment and Civic Engagement at the Free Library of Philadelphia, where he directs humanities and civic programs across the library’s fifty-four locations. His poems have appeared in The Believer, Cimarron Review, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. He was a 2016 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and holds his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Host: Charles S. Carr

Moonstone Arts Center Office

110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107,

(215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com