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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Lauren Holguin\, Gabriel Ramirez\, & Nicole Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Holguin\, Gabriel Ramirez\, & Nicole Steinberg\nWednesday\, September 6 @ 7pm\n\nLive at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street)\n \nOn Zoom(Zoom Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkf-GorjIrHt0InuIzJoO7o0oivHo2OOLS \n Lauren Holguin is a writer\, educator\, & dancer from Los Angeles who now calls Philly home. She teaches K-12 neurodivergent students while pursuing her MFA in fiction and poetry at Rutgers Camden. She is the Co-creator of West Philly based Spit Poetry reading series & open mic\, assistant poetry editor at Barrelhouse Magazine\, and fiction reader for Story Quarterly. You can check out her poems at Subnivean Magazine & The Fourth River. \n  \n  \nGabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx writer\, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival\, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival\, CantoMundo\, Miami Book Fair\, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole\, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. Gabriel has performed on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre\, United Nations\, Lincoln Center\, Apollo Theatre\, The National Museum of Romanian Literature\, and other venues. Gabriel was featured in Huffington Post\, VIBE Magazine\, Blavity\, Upworthy\, The Flama\, and Remezcla. You can find his work in various spaces\, including Youtube\, and in publications like POETRY Magazine\, Muzzle Magazine\, Adroit Journal\, The Volta\, Split This Rock\, BOMB\, Acentos Review\, Up the Staircase Quarterly and others. \nNicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress (Furniture Press Books\, 2017)\, Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press\, 2013)\, and multiple chapbooks\, including dear Elsie / seltzer (Bloof Books\, 2023) and Fat Dreams (Barrelhouse\, 2018). She is also the editor of Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press\, 2011). Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times\, Newsweek\, Flavorwire\, Bitch\, and Hyperallergic. She was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, PA and since 2019\, she has served on the board of the American Poetry Review. \nAmy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Which Side Are You On? - Labor Day 2023 Anthology Reading
DESCRIPTION:Which Side Are You On?\nMoonstone’s Labor Day Anthology 2023\nSunday September 10\, 2pm Eastern\n\nVirtual Poetry Reading: Register Here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-GgpzItGtEprSH7oS_w4fC9ME9T9R37\n  \n \nLabor is increasingly militant after years of inaction \n“It’s been a fast and furious few weeks for labor. First\, 3\,000 workers went on strike at 150 Starbucks\, then 6\,000 Los Angeles hotel workers walked out\, and now 11\,500 Hollywood writers and 160\,000 television and movie actors have gone on strike. Not only that\, 340\,000 UPS workers seemed ready to walk out on 1 August\, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is threatening to strike one or more Detroit automakers later this summer.” – The Guardian \nJoin us as people read their a poem about work\, labor activity\, labor history\, and more.\n \nThe book includes photos taken by Frank Espada and poetry written by his son\, the author and people’s attorney\, Martín Espada.
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SUMMARY:Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n  \nWatch on the PhillyCAM website\nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 (in Philadelphia)\nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \nDiane Sahms\, a native Philadelphian\, is author of six poetry collections\, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia)\, 2022\, with her latest chapbook\, Luna\, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press\, 2023. Published in North American Review\, Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Arts\, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal\, The Northern Virginia Review\, POEMS-FOR-ALL\, Valley Voices\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Chiron Review\, Southern Arizona Press\, among others\, with poems forthcoming from Tiny Seed Literary Journal & Arlington Literary Journal. Winner of several poetry awards\, including the Partisan Press Award\, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher\, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford. https://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com  & http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@dianesahms-uarnieri9258/featured  
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SUMMARY:E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff
DESCRIPTION:E-Verse Equinox Reading Series with Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff\nWednesday September 13\, 2023 – 7pm\n  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nOn Zoom (Zoom Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsfu-opzItE9f7cd5C6rwgG98X26_pFlmY \n \nKathleen Ossip’s books include July\, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War\, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine\, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks\, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post\, The Best American Poetry\, The Best American Magazine Writing\, The New York Review of Books\, The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Statesman\, Poetry\, The Paris Review\, and The Poetry Review (UK). She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University\, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. \nRobyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry\, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic\, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin\, 2016)\, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard\, a co-editor of Canarium Books\, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize\, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust\, at the American Academy in Rome. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. \nErnest Hilbert\, Spencer Short\, and Luke Stromberg Hosts – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:New Books from Moonstone Press: Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:New Books from Moonstone Press\nSeptember 26\, 2023 – 7pm Eastern – VIRTUAL\nZoom registration required \n https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkcO6sqzkjGtOgxLEXgialYpLRAU4sIiZw \nWith featured works from:\nBeth Bayley is a writer\, yoga instructor\, and occasional archivist who divides her time between Massachusetts and Singapore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Evening Street Review\, Ghost City Review\, Slant\, Vox Poetica\, and Neologism Poetry Journal\, among others. \nJefferson Carter has work in such journals as Carolina Quarterly\, Barrow Street\, and Rattle.  He published his ninth collection\, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems\, chosen as a Southwest Best Book of 2013.  Birkenstock Blues\, is now available through his website: jeffersoncarterverse.com. He taught writing for 30 years at Pima Community College\, the last 18 years as Writing as Department Chair.   Currently\, he’s a passionate supporter of Sky Island Alliance\, a regionally-based environmental organization. \nFlower Conroy is a LGBTQ+ writer\, NEA and MacDowell Fellow and former Key West Poet Laureate\, Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder was chosen as the winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition; A Sentimental Hairpin is forthcoming from Tolsun Books. Her poetry will/has appeared in American Poetry Review\, New England Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Michigan Quarterly Review and others. \nMarjorie Gowdy writes at home in the Blue Ridge mountains\, she has three chapbooks\, her poetry has been published in a number of journals\, including the international Friends Journal\, Artemis\, Streetlight\, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature\, and Roanoke Review. \nRichard Stimac\, author of Bricolage\, Of Water and of Stone\, and published over thirty poems in Burningword\, Clackamas\, The Examined Life Journal\, Faultline\, Havik\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Mikrokosmos\, New Plains Review\, Novus\, Penumbra\, Salmon Creek\, and Wraparound South. He published flash fiction in BarBar\, The Blue Mountain Review\, Book of Matches\, Bridge Eight\, New Feathers\, and more.  He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing\, Clepsydra\, and a fiction reader for the Marine Review. \nDaniel Williams\, recipient of the Robinson Jeffers Poetry Prize\, is a long-standing member of Poets’ West\, California Federation of Chaparral Poets\, Poets & Writers\, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule\, a haiku engraved on MAVEN\, the Mar’s orbiter\, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His poem\, Water Creatures in Yosemite Fall\, was awarded first place for poems in the California Federation of Chaparral Poets’ contest for 2022. \nTheresa Wyatt\, a Buffalo native\, is a retired teacher. She is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg\, and her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review\, Spillway\, Snapdragon\, steel bellow\, The Ekphrastic Review\, The Healing Muse\, The Phare\, W.W. Norton’s New Micro\, and elsewhere. She credits her artistic parents\, participation in the Siena\, Italy Program during college\, and teaching in the NYS prison system and abroad – as the major influences on her life.
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