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SUMMARY:Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts
DESCRIPTION:Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts\nWednesday\, January 7th at 7pm\nLive at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom Street\nFeatured readers for this live event are all of Moonstone’s poetry reading hosts. We hope you join us in the new year to meet our hosts\, hear their latest work\, and gather in community. \nFeatured Moonstone Poetry Hosts \nLiz  Allen  \nCharles Carr is author of 3 collections\, and his poetry has been published widely in the small press. He is the host of Philly Loves Poetry on Philly Cam and is active with the Moonstone Arts Center. \nMac Chandler is a writer. They have been published in some places and not in others. You can find them hosting for Moonstone\, as well as reading\, bartending\, and\, i don’t know\, just kinda waiting around. \nJulianna Forlano\, writer\, radio host\, and educator\, whose work weaves personal narrative with politics\, culture\, and Italian-American history\,  her writing explores cultural memory\, and family. \nSean Hanrahan\, author of Headless\, Safer Behind Popcorn and Ghost Signs\, Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work has also been included in various anthologies and journals.. \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet\, first mate at Scribes on South\, a coproducer at House Poet\, half of the experimental group Kelpius\, the author of two chapbooks and a copywriter for Temple University. \nWarren C. Longmire\, Black poet\, performer\, and technologist from North Philadelphia\, whose poetry and hybrid media work investigate race\, surveillance\, and digital embodiment through generative literature\, interactive design\, and live performance. \nS.W. Lynch is a writer and editor\, author of five books of poetry and a novel entitled The Beast in the Pines. He has worked with Moonstone Arts Center for over a decade as an editor and poetry reading host \nAaren Perry\, author of Shipping and Receiving and Open Fire\, is a grant writer and editor. He co-edited Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row; and The Art Of Inclusion. \nAmy Saul-Zerby\, author of three poetry collections\, her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, The Chicago Review of Books\, American Poetry Review\, \, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems. \nAnne-Adele Wight\, author of An Internet of Containment\, The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult. Her work has appeared in Poets and Writers\, Luna Luna\, and other publications. \nLarry Robin is the director of the Moonstone Arts Center.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry: Reading and Interview with Hayden Saunier
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with Hayden Saunier\nTuesday January 13\, 2026  \n6:30pm EST – Live Broadcast \nCan be viewed for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series with Hayden Saunier \nHayden Saunier is a poet\, actor\, and teaching artist living in the Philadelphia area. Hayden has published six collections of poetry and her work has been awarded numerous prizes including a Pushcart Prize and twelve nominations; the Rattle Poetry Prize; Nimrod International’s Pablo Neruda  Prize\, among others. She is the founder and director of No River Twice\, a group of poets who offer interactive poetry readings that are never the same twice. Hayden is a Poet Laureate Emerita of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. \nHosted by Charles S. Carr
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Herman Beavers\, Anisha Bhat\, Steve Burke\, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Herman Beavers\, Anisha Bhat\, Steve Burke\, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee\nWednesday January 14\, 2026 – 7pm  \nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nHerman Beavers is an African American writer and the author of The Vernell Poems and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Beavers’s honors include the Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award. He is currently a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Burlington Township\, New Jersey. \nAnisha Bhat\, originally from Chicago\, Illinois\, is a writer and staff member at Temple University where she directs research and creative programs for undergraduates. She has an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge and an MA in History from Northwestern University. In her free time she can be found buying too many books at used book stores\, eating at the same five restaurants in South Philly\, or working on her first poetry chapbook. \nSteve Burke’s poems have been published in numerous journals & magazines; has three chapbooks – After The Harvest\, For Now\, & Small Answers – published by Moonstone Press. He has been a featured reader at the Painted Bride Arts Center\, Moore College of Art\, the Free Library\, the Philadelphia Poetry Festival\, the Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, the Mad Poets’ Festival\, the Green Line Café\, along with Fergie’s Pub. He worked for 25 years as a labor and delivery nurse; lives with wife Giselle in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee’s work is influenced by the convergence of cultures and the many ways in which people move throughout the world\, she explores relationships within the broader framework of global inequality and contributes to The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series (exploring African and diasporic migration through poetry and is involved with Forced Migration and The Arts.) Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including For Harriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\,  Yellow Medicine\,  South Philly Fiction\, Damazine; A Literary Journal of the Muslim World\, Fingernails Across The Chalkboard: Poetry And Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora\, Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer\, The Journal of the National Medical Association\, Art in Medicine Section\, International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas\, the Beloit Poetry Journal.  Her poetry collections include Assuming Voices\, Where My Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers. \nLiz Allen Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-herman-beavers-anisha-bhat-steve-burke-and-octavia-mcbride-ahebee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander\, Holiday Noel Campanella\, Shannon Frost Greenstein & C.L. Liedekev
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander\, Holiday Noel Campanella\, Shannon Frost Greenstein & C.L. Liedekev\nWednesday\, January 21st at 7pm\nLive at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom St.\nE. Lynn Alexander is an artist\, poet\, maker of unlikely things from other things\, independent publisher\, and cemetery walker. She cohosts The Friday Collapse reading series and has a book of meandering femwarrior poetry called Find Me in the Iris. She says the following: “Why are we destroying everything at such an alarming rate\, turning the corner on so much that is irreversible? Our path is one that rewards extremes: self centered\, immediate and empty gratification\, consumption\, competition\, exhibitionism\, self interest. To commune and cooperate is to be “weak”\, to share knowledge is to lose “advantage”. Where shame is the tool\, coerced participation is the result. The desire to diminish and destroy pushes us to channel our energies defensively and we are depleted.” \n  \n  \n \nHoliday Noel Campanella is a multi-disciplinary writer and artist from South Philadelphia. Her work has been published in numerous lit mags and journals\, (Gigantic Sequins\, San Pedro River Review\, Pink Disco\, Meow Meow Pow Pow) exhibited and sold nationally\, (The Smithsonian Museum\, Anthropologie\, The Clay Studio) and collected in public and private collections (The Free Library of Philadelphia\, Vanderbilt Libraries Special Collections). She has a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in painting and creative writing. You can find out more at holidaynoelcampanella.com. \n  \n  \n  \n \nShannon Frost Greenstein is the author of Through the Lens of Time\, and These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s\, Pithead Chapel\, Nimrod Journal\, and elsewhere. Shannon’s passions include Friedrich Nietzsche\, anti-racism\, the Seven Summits\, the Hamilton Soundtrack\, and acquiring more cats. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nC.L. Liedekev is a poet living in Conshohocken\, PA\, with his real name\, wife\, and children. He is a two-time nominee for Best of the Net\, with his poem “November Snow. Philadelphia Children’s Hospital” being a finalist in 2021. His poem\, The Hungry\, was a 2023 Inaugural Plentitudes Prize finalist. Alien Buddha Press released his debut collection\, No Damage Visible\, in 2024. \nOpen Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Anne Kaier\, Massimo Lavelle\, and Aaren Perry
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Anne Kaier\, Massimo Lavelle\, and Aaren Perry\nWednesday\, January 28\, 2026 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nAnne Kaier a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and has served on a Fulbright screening committee for creative writers.  Her poetry collection\, How Can I Say It Was Not Enough? won the Propel Poetry Award and was published by Nine Mile Press and the University of Syracuse in Spring 2025. Her essays have appeared widely in venues such as The New York Times\, The Kenyon Review\, 1966 journal\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and the anthology About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of The New York Times for which she appeared on NPR’s Radio Times. “Maple Lane” was mentioned on the list of notables in an edition of Best American Essays. \nMassimo Lavelle is a spoken word poet. He performs throughout Philadelphia and has also featured at Yale University African American Studies Department and O’bheal in Ireland. He has hosted different events in the city and has collaborated with musicians\, dancers and videographers on a diverse range of projects. He loves seeing people sharing positive and creative work and hopes his poetry encourages that. \nAaren Perry’s most recent book Shipping and Receiving is published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College\, Perry is a grant writer and editor. He edited a forthcoming collection of new poems by Lamont B. Steptoe; co-edited with James Villarreal\, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row\, by Anthony Reid; and co-edited The Art Of Inclusion with John Lavin and Eleanor Wilner. \nAnne-Adele Wight Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-anne-kaier-massimo-lavelle-and-aaren-perry/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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