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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Joshua Barnes\, Sarah Browning\, Eileen M. D’Angelo\, & Juniper Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday February 14\, 2024 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street\nOR Join Us on Zoom (Registration Required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-GrqzwrHNS3jAMLOupFHyUci7eweq4_ \nJoshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband.  His poetry has previously appeared in &Change\, Olney Magazine\, Impossible Archetype\, Philadelphia Stories\, and Moonstone Press. When not writing\, he can be found reading poetry\, horror fiction\, and comic books\, and perfecting his handstands. He can be found on Instagram @ jsb1800. \nSarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poetry of Provocation & Witness for 10 years. She is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Browning is a recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Yaddo\, Mesa Refuge\, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. She has been guest editor or co-edited special issues of Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, The Delaware Poetry Review\, and three issues of POETRY magazine. \nEileen M. D’Angelo\, twice nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts\, she received two Pushcart Prize / Best of the Small Press nominations from Verse Magazine and Schuylkill Valley Journal.  Her poetry\, essays and book reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, the News of Delaware County\, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century\, Manhattan Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Drexel Online Journal\, Wild River Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Independent Review\, Negative Capability\, One Trick Pony\, and others. \nJuniper Sweeney is a nonbinary trans poet\, queer community contributor\, and outdoorsthem. She helped expand the Philadelphia Voices of Pride as part of their board and is excited to start sharing her own developing creative voice. She also helps organize Phlash\, Philadelphia’s gay climbing community\, and especially loves climbing outdoors and connecting new climbers to a practice that brings her joy and embodiment. This is their first time being featured and she’s deeply excited to be a new member of the Philadelphia poetry community \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-joshua-barnes-sarah-browning-eileen-m-dangelo-juniper-sweeney/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: David Eberhardt\, Stephen Jones\, Marjorie Moorhead\, Daniel Williams\, & Samantha Wright
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 8\, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrce-spj4pE9Jq0ZszDJHI7vYgFYFf19BY \nDavid Eberhardt\, author of Melange\, The Tree Calendar\, Blue Running Lights\, and Poems from the Website\, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two others he poured blood on draft files in 1967 to protest the Viet Nam war. For that action\, he spent 21 months in Lewisburg Federal Prison. He has completed a peace movement memoir\, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. In 2020 he won the Enoch Pratt Library/ Little Patuxent Review prize for poetry. \nStephen Jones has lived in Detroit for more than forty years\, has worked as a journalist\, high school English teacher and university history instructor. He is a student of Zen Buddhism\, which sparked his interest in such ancient Chinese poets as Han Shan\, Su Tung’p’o\, Tu Fu\, Li Po\, and Po Chu-i. Jones’ poems have appeared in Abandon Automobile\, an anthology of Detroit poets; Maxis Review; Poet in the House; Buddhist Poetry Review; Third Wednesday\, and Temenos. \nMarjorie Moorhead lives and writes at the border of NH/VT. She is author of poetry collections Every Small Breeze\, What I Ask\, and chapbooks Survival: Trees\, Tides\, Song  and Survival Part 2: Trees\, Birds\, Ocean\, Bees.  Marjorie’s work appears in journals including Amethyst Review\, Tiny Seed Literary\, Moist Poetry Journal\, Bloodroot Literary\, Sheila-Na-Gig\, Porter House Review\, Poeming Pigeon\, Verse-Virtual\, What Rough Beast\, A River Sings\, The Poet’s Touchstone\, and others. Her poems are included in anthologies benefitting environmental\, women’s\, Covid first responder\, and refugee aid organizations. She has a poem in The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews\, ed. 2023). Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4th Friday Poets. \nDaniel Williams has published in many journals and anthologies\, he 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 California inspired poems have been featured in Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle Anthologies\, Gathering 14 and Gathering 15. \nSamantha Wright\, author of Edges Holding Edges and Postcards from the West\, lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Beyond Words\, Prometheus Dreaming\, Pontoon Poetry\, Minerva Arts\, Welter\, Cathexis Northwest\, among others. Her debut chapbook\, Edges Holding Edges\, was published by Moonstone Arts in 2022.  She currently divides her time between writing and teaching yoga. \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-david-eberhardt-stephen-jones-marjorie-moorhead-daniel-williams-samantha-wright/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Emiliano Martín\, Diane McManus\, Keith Woodrow\, & Robert Zaller
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 7\, 2024 – 7pm -LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nOR on Zoom (Registration Required):  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOigqz4qHtCj5tnSWrCaVRobrdm0Q2HM \nEmiliano Martín is Spanish born and an advocate of the spoken word\, he is the founder of Philadelphia Poetry Forum for the NE Regional Public Library. Past President of Pennsylvania Poetry Society (PPS\, Inc) has also served as the Executive Director of Latin American Guild for the Arts (LAGA) in Philadelphia. Author of more than a dozen books of Poetry\, like “Selected Bilingual Poems” (2023)\, at this time he is proud to introduce… his latest title: “Songs out of the Drawer” (2024). Martín is a longtime resident in the Philadelphia area and his verse keeps moving on. \nDiane McManus teaches in the English Department of Community College of Philadelphia as an adjunct\, writes\, swims (including marathon swims)\, and reflects on the colors of rivers. Her poetry has appeared in Listening Eye\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, and in two Moonstone anthologies: the 26th Anniversary Poetry Ink\, as well as The Struggle for Liberty. \nKeith Woodrow studied Classics at the University of Southern California\, focusing on queer Roman poetry. He has been published in New York Quarterly\, Moonstone Arts Center Annual Poetry Ink\, and River River Journal. He was also a Brooklyn Poets Yawp Poet of the Month. \nRobert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Drexel University.  Poet\, critic\, and historian\, his books of verse include Speaking to Power and The Dresden Zoo\, both published by Moonstone Press. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-emiliano-martin-diane-mcmanus-keith-woodrow-robert-zaller/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with g emil reutter
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nFeaturing – g emil reutter\nTuesday February 6\, 2024 – 6:30pm – EST – VIRTUAL  \nWatch for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n\ng emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have been published\, most recently\, Until Next Time – Selected Poems 1990-2022. A chapbook\, Glint- Down the Shore Poems is pending release. \nHe can be found here: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/ \nVideos: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/videos/ \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-moonstone-poetry-phillycam-with-g-emil-reutter/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: House Poet @ Fergie's with Lindsay Hargrave and Noah David Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 31st – 7PM \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd–tpj4uEtTGjg-a2O9NZBvpHqx9GFyw \nWelcome to House Poet @ Fergie’s \nSince March 2022\, House Poet has strived to bring together writers\, dancers\, DJs and musicians alike. Join us in 2024 as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergie’s\, featuring an open reading\, featured readers\, live music and a soundtrack you can bounce to. \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet\, editor at Graphic Violence\, and a copywriter for Temple University. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Hargrave or follow @notporkroll on Twitter. Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet\, the author of 6 collections\, including Mutable Forests. In 2022\, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry contest. They are a 2023 Pushcart nominee. You can learn more on Instagram at @the.apocalypse.poet. \nWarren Longmire Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-house-poet-fergies-with-lindsay-hargrave-and-noah-david-roberts/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240129T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
DESCRIPTION:27th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology \nMonday\, January 29th\, 2024 – 2PM \nVirtual on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduytqjwjG9dP-hVrP8szAyz7uxDeUXTe \nWe want you all: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets who write Sonnet\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\, Epigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order.   We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event on zoom on Monday. Last year we presented 50 poets at each event.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-27th-annual-poetry-ink/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240128T140000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
DESCRIPTION:Sunday January 28\, 2024 – 2pm \nLive at The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut Street \nWe want you all: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets who write Sonnet\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\, Epigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse. \nJoin us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event over Zoom on Monday. Last year we presented 50 poets at each event.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-27th-annual-poetry-ink/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday January 24\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: \nttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm \nW. D. Ehrhart\, Poet\, Writer\, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work\, a poem about Swarthmore College\, appeared seven years later in the Chronicle of Higher Education\, and the following year eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Exclusively a poet until he was almost 30\, he has since written and published a wide variety of nonfiction prose from 400-word newspaper commentaries to 40-page scholarly essays to 400-page personal narratives. The influence of Ehrhart’s encounter with the Vietnam War can readily be seen in his writing\, but though he is known primarily as a “Vietnam War poet\,” in fact his subject matter ranges widely. \nM. L. Liebler is a internationally known Detroit poet\, university professor\, literary arts activist and arts organizer. He is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream\, has read and performed his work around the world\, taught English\, Creative Writing\, American Studies\, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University and he is the founding director of both The National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization.  He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit’s Metro Time\, and his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the Jams was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-w-d-ehrhart-and-m-l-liebler/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven\, Pat Rodgers\, and Robert Zell
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Koven\, author of Palm Lines\, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize\, and Mystic Orchards\,  Grew up on Long Island\, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University\, works as a technical writer\, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Delana\, and their cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. He has had both fiction and poetry published\, by Assure Press\, Animal Heart Press\, Thirty West Publishing\, and more. \nPat Rodgers is a poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in Neptune and several Moonstone anthologies. Recall is the title of his first chapbook. \nRobert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine\, North of Oxford\, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club. \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jonathan-koven-pat-rodgers-and-robert-zell/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Elliott Levin\, Ursula Rucker\, and Yolanda Wisher
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Elliott Levin\, Ursula Rucker\, and Yolanda Wisher\nWednesday January 10\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-msrDgjGNDxkIxf_eV0ZxVv2dn-IOG61/17/2024 \nElliott Levin\, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. Whatever it is jazz performers do when they blow into their horn as Levin does a lot of it\, on tenor saxophone and flute. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances\, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience and to the chagrin of hipsters who insist jazz poetry is a form of torture\, worse than cold showers. Other listeners might find the entire free jazz experience itself torture\, in which case it’s back to the beginning as far as advice regarding Levin: there is nothing watered-down or weak about his performances\, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible to the novices\, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy. \nUrsula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet\, performer\, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history\, family\, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Rucker has released five albums and collaborated with a wide range of artists outside of the field of poetry\, including The Roots\, musicians and Pew Fellows Jamaaladeen Tacuma and King Britt\, and\, most recently\, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Clarence Williams III. \n“I stand for poetry as a source of profound truth. That truth\, for me\, is connected to the idea that cities are places that redeem our strivings and leave us longing; the ways family life shapes and shakes us\, and brings us back; and the thought that artists safeguard stories and struggles” Ursula Rucker \nYolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania\, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia\, and currently serves as chair of the Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. She co-founded Germantown Poetry Festival and served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts from\, founded of School of Guerrilla Poetics\, a training ground for folks interested in nurturing and mobilizing communities through poetryand with Trapeta B. Mayson she co-founded ConsenSIS\, an initiative that seeks to count\, gather\, and memorialize Black femme poets in the Philadelphia area. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow\, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change\, and last year\, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow. \nLarry Robin\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-elliott-levin-ursula-rucker-and-yolanda-wisher/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T193000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock\nTuesday January 9\, 2023 @ 6:30pm  VIRTUAL \nWatch for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n \nAutumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook\, Dirt Bird\, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press\, and poems of hers have appeared in The Account\, Cimarron Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Georgia Review\, among others. She is Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. Find her online at autumnmcclintock.com.  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-autumn-mcclintock/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis
DESCRIPTION:Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr\nWednesday January 3\, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub \nRegistration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B \nCharles S. Carr from Philadelphia graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 years.  Charles has been a lay missionary for Hands Together raising money to serve the poorest of the poor in Haiti.  He has two books of poems paradise\, pennsylvania\, (Cradle Press\, 2009) and Haitian Mudpies and Other Poems\, (Moonstone Press\, 2013).  In 2008\, one of Charles’s poems won first place in Mad Poets Review. His poems have been published in local and national print and online poetry journals\, For five years Charles hosted the second Tuesday Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub.  For the past seven years he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry\, a monthly broadcast from Philly CAM.  Charles has one son\, Evan\, and is married to award-winning artist Karen Stabenow. His latest chapbook is Eat This Poem with Moonstone Press.  \nProceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain. \nDavid Kertis\, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied creative writing with David Young\, and has lived in Philadelphia since 1978. He is married and works as a claims adjuster. In Philadelphia\, he has studied with Leonard Gontarek and Eleanor Wilner. He has been published on line in Frigate and Apiary and given a number of readings in the Philadelphia area. His book\, Word of the Day\, has recently been published. \nLeonard Gontarek Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/book-release-eat-this-poem-by-charles-s-carr-feat-david-kertis/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231227T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown\, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, & Lawrence Dugan
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub\n7PM ET & on Zoom\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf \n\nCydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate\, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book\, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press\, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies\, Whirlwind Magazine\, Bomb Magaine\, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP. \nLawrence Dugan’s new book\, The Sea again: Poems\, made up of poems that first appeared in magazines and journals such as Daedqlus\, Arion\, Cyphers\, The Gettysburg Review\, Nation Review  and others. He is retired from The Free Library of Philadelphia where he once ran the Monday Poets Series. \n\nLarry Robi\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-reading-cydney-brown-charles-s-carr-lawrence-dugan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023\nNovember 19th at 2pm\nVia Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP\n\nCelebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!\n\nNew Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.\n\n\n\nWe tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience\, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.\n\n\nJoin us on November 19th at 2pm online to support the next generation of poets and writers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-fall-2023-virtual-reading/
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:New Voices Fall 2023: Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023\nNovember 16th at 6pm\nHosted: Parkway Central Library\, 1901 Vine Street\nIn cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia\n\nCelebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!\n\nNew Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.\n\n\n\nWe tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience\, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.\n\n\nJoin us on November 16th at 6pm at the Literature Department of the Parkway Central location of the Philadelphia Free Library.\n\nA virtual reading will be held on November 19th as well for poets who are not local to Philadelphia.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-fall-2023-live-reading/
LOCATION:Parkway Central Library\, 1901 Vine St
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230926T190000
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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.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-books-from-moonstone-press-virtual-reading/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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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
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-kathleen-ossip-robyn-schiff/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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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  
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/diane-sahms-philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-reading/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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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.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/which-side-are-you-on-labor-day-2023-anthology-reading/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230906T190000
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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
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-lauren-holguin-gabriel-ramirez-nicole-steinberg/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Winners of 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest
DESCRIPTION:Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest\nSunday\, August 27 @ 2pm\nVirtual on Zoom\, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh \nChad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award\, and a chapbook\, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo\, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe\, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, and elsewhere\, on iTunes from the Library of Congress\, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project. \nLeonard Kress (winning chapbook Poppy Seeds) author of Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems\, Walk Like Bo Diddley\, The Orpheus Complex\, Sappho’s Apples Thirteens\, Braids & Other Sestinas\, and The Centralia Mine Fire. His poetry\, fiction\, non-fiction\, reviews\, and translations have appeared in Missouri Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Iowa Review\, American Poetry Review\, and Harvard Review. He has received grants in playwriting and poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, studied religion at Temple University\, Poetry at Columbia University\, and Polish at Jagiellonian University in Krakow\, Poland\, He currently teaches religion\, philosophy\, and English at Owens Community College. \nAlina Macneal (winning chapbook After a War) is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary\, Poems for the Writing\, The World to Come\, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet\, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said\, History doesn’t repeat itself\, but it often rhymes. \nKarin Molde (author of Self-Portrait with Sheep Skull)\, feels at home in Ireland and Germany. She teaches languages and has published in magazines like Honest Ulsterman\, Light Journal\, The Blue Nib\, Skylight 47\, and in anthologies\, e.g. Everything that can happen. (Emma Press\, 2019)\, Identity (Fly on the Wall\, 2020)\, Remembering Toni Morrison (Moonstone Press\, 2020)\, “New Beginnings” (Renard Press\, 2021)\, and Ukraine War Special Edition (Poetica Review\, 2022). \n  \nJohn Timpane (winning chapbook Buck in the Piano Room) is former Commentary Page Editor (1997-2008) and Books Editor (2014-2020) for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. His work has appeared in Sequoia\, The Fox Chase Review\, Apiary\, Cleaver\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Rathalla Review\, Per Contra\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Vocabula Review\, Wild River Review\, and elsewhere. Among his books is a chapbook\, Burning Bush (Judith Fitzgerald/Cranberry Tree\, 2010). He is the spouse of Maria-Christina Keller. They live in New Jersey. \n  \nNathalie Anderson\, Judge of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest\, is author of Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, Held and Firmly Bound.  Her new book\, Rough\, is forthcoming in 2024. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, Nimrod\, and Plume.  She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly\, was Pew Fellow\, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where she taught for 39 years\, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing. \n  \nReading hosted by the chapbook contest’s annual judge\, Nathalie Anderson.  \nTheir prize-winning chapbooks are all available for purchase on our website. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-winners-of-2022-moonstone-chapbook-contest/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230823T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Marion Deutsche Cohen\, Paige Menton\, & Aaron Poochigian
DESCRIPTION:Marion Deutsche Cohen\, Paige Menton\, & Aaron Poochigian\nWednesday\, August 23\, 2023 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street)\nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrf-6qpjIvGtNxsmbaYlsKYyf_iEJ2zGlM \n Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for poetry and memoir on three topics: spousal chronic illness\, late pregnancy loss\, and math. She is the author of 33 books; her newest poetry collection is Disturbing Shapes and her latest prose collection is Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother. This year\, her work has been included in six anthologies. She teaches a course she developed\, Mathematics in Literature\, at Drexel University’s Honors College. \n  \nPaige Menton\, author of Wrim and Twenty Miles to April lives outside of Philadelphia where she runs a land restoration organization called Journeywork and cares for the land of a Quaker meeting. She is a poet\, gardener\, and teacher of writing and environmental education\, has led writing workshops for homeschoolers for the past fifteen years\, has taught children how to garden and publishes a journal of environmental writing and art for young people called Planet A. A mixture of Socratic method and Zen koan\, Wrim’s erasure poetics models the participatory learning essential to national and global health. \n  \nAaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including the thrillers-in-verse\, Mr. Either/Or and its sequel\, Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry\, The Paris Review and POETRY. \n  \n  \nLarry Robin Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-marion-deutsche-cohen-paige-menton-aaron-poochigian/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230820T150000
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SUMMARY:Remembering Charles Bukowski
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Charles Bukowski\nSunday\, August 20\, 2023 @ 2pm ET\nVirtual on Zoom\, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkceurrzsvGtLKg_bv0IY358lkec-u3qU2 \nSubmissions are open until August 13th at midnight. Send us a poem here. \nA reading from our Remembering anthology series. List of featured poets to be announced. \nCharles Bukowski (August 16\, 1920 – March 9\, 1994) was a prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society. A cult hero\, Bukowski relied on experience\, emotion\, and imagination in his work\, using direct language and violent and sexual imagery.  Bukowski’s work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans\, the act of writing\, alcohol\, relationships with women\, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City. Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. He wrote thousands of poems\, hundreds of short stories and six novels\, eventually publishing over sixty books during the course of his career. Some of these works include Burning in Water\, Drowning in Flame. Join us as poets continue the tradition.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-charles-bukowski/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230816T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Mac Chandler\, Mikey Franz\, & Faith Paulsen
DESCRIPTION:Mac Chandler\, Mikey Franz\, and Faith Paulsen\nWednesday\, August 16 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub (1217 Sansom Street)\nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElcumvpzooE9Lkcp94pXXWZiAskj7MUwoS \nMac Chandler is a recent graduate of The University Of The Arts. She has been published in HASH magazine\, Rappahannock Review\, and High Shelf Press. \n  \n  \n  \nMikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook\, Terrestrial Sanctuaries was published by Moonstone last year & you can typically find him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area. \n  \n  \nFaith Paulsen’s work has appeared in venues including Philadelphia Stories\, Apiary\, Ghost City Press\, Book of Matches\, One Art\, Panoply\, Thimble\, Evansville Review\, Literary Mama and Mantis. She is the author of three chapbooks\, including We Marry We Bury We Sing or We Weep with Moonstone Press. \nhttps://www.faithpaulsenpoet.com/
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-mac-chandler-mikey-franz-faith-paulsen/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry From the Ukraine: Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Poetry from the Ukraine: Live Poetry Reading\nWednesday\, August 9 @ 7pm ET \nFeaturing: David Acosta\, Sibelan Forrester\, Sean Hanrahan\, Olga Livshin\, Lynn Levin\, and Warren C. Longmire \nLive at Fergies Pub – 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrfuuoqjgjGNM2meg9Y-c3Zh8hI-tcRU5M \nMoonstone is selling book bundles for the featured Ukrainian poets on our website. All profits will be donated to Ukraine TrustChain. Books are sold online and at the event. \nToday is a Different War by Lyudmyla Khersonska \nTranslated by Olga Livshin\, Andrew Janco\, Maya Chhabra\, and Lev Fridman – $18.00\, Arrowsmith Press – A portrayal of life from inside war-torn Ukraine. No other volume of poems captures the duality of fear and bravery\, anger and love\, despair and hope\, as well as the numbness and deep feeling of what it means to be Ukrainian in these unthinkable times. If you want to know what’s in the heart of the Ukrainian people\, look no further than this stunning volume of poems. Lyudmyla Khersonska is a poet and translator from Odesa\, Ukraine. She is the author of four poetry collections in Russian. Khersonska was recently included in the list\, “33 International Women Writers Who are Bold for Change.” Olga Livshin is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman and her poems appear in various journals.   \n  \nIn the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine – Edited by Carolyn Forché & Ilya Kaminsky $22.00\, Arrowsmith – “… Indeed\, we have heard the barrage on the 6 o’clock news\, but now we engage the war’s most apt witnesses who command the human heart through images and rhythms of language. These poems written primarily in Ukrainian\, and then translated into English\, refuse to glorify gore\, but instead render reflection. Have we grown numb to body counts? Poets of the Ukraine deliver a reckoning\, and the souls of a people are laid bare. … Such surrealism bears not only blinding terror\, but also moments of natural beauty. … some fight even with their hands tied behind their backs.” -Yusef Komunyakaa\, Pulitzer Prize winning poet \n  \n“We act like children with our dead\,” Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: “confused\,/ as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die.” In poem after devastating poem\, Kruk confronts what we would prefer not to see: “a person runs toward a bullet/ with a wooden shield and a warm heart…” Translated with the utmost of care by Amelia Glaser and Yulia Ilchuk\, A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails is a guidebook to the emotional combat in Ukraine.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-from-the-ukraine-live-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Fundraiser,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\nTuesday\, August 8\, 2023 @ 6:30pm\nVirtual via PhillyCAM website\, Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS (YesYes Books\, 2023)\, Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize\, and The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, 2019) and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays\, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine\, Julia’s birthplace. Her poems have appeared in POETRY\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, and AGNI\, among others. Julia holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Denison University. \nJulia also worked with Moonstone on our recent anthology\, The Weight of Motherhood\, as inspiration for our poets. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-reading-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230730T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230730T150000
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SUMMARY:Remembering Woody Guthrie
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Woody Guthrie\nA Moonstone Anthology Reading\nSunday\, July 30 @ 2pm ET \nRegister at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtde2tqTwtEtUjpGY7ROT771gcvgkLZGrU \nIn celebration of our Remember Woody Guthrie anthology\, featuring over 25 poets writing for his memory. \nWoody Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter\, one of the most significant figures in American folk music whose work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. He has inspired generations both politically and musically with songs such as “This Land Is Your Land”\, written in response to the American exceptionalist song “God Bless America”. Woody’s empathy allowed him to insert himself into the stories of others\, and he shared those narratives through music\, prose\, and artwork. We feel his presence and see his influence when people everywhere speak out for those who need a voice and shine a light on injustice in our world. Join us as poets reflect Woody’s vision. \n  \n“Wherever little children are hungry and cry \nWherever people ain’t free \nWherever men are fightin’ for their rights \nThat’s where I’m a-gonna be\, Ma \nThat’s where I’m a-gonna be” \n(from Tom Joad by Woody Guthrie) \n  \nList of Featured Poets to be announced.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-woody-guthrie/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230726T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Debora Kuan & Jeffrey McDaniel
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Debora Kuan & Jeffrey McDaniel\nWednesday\, July 26 @ 7:oopm ET\n  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsfuysqj8sGdfVuBztAiNMRw-_Z7J809Xm \n Debora Kuan is the author of three poetry collections XING (Saturnalia Books)\, Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press)\, and the forthcoming Women on the Moon (The Word Works). She has been awarded a U.S. Fulbright creative writing fellowship (Taiwan)\, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop Graduate Merit Fellowship\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholarship\, multiple Pushcart Prize nominations\, the NELLE Three Sisters Award\, and residencies at Yaddo\, Macdowell\, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The New Republic\, Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Boston Review\, The Baffler\, Fence\, The Iowa Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and other publications. Currently\, she lives in Wallingford\, CT\, where she is poet laureate and works remotely for the MIT Press. \n  \nJeffrey McDaniel is the author of seven books of poetry\, most recently Thin Ice Olympics (Write Bloody\, 2022) Other books include: Holiday in the Islands of Grief (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2020)\, Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (Pittsburgh\, 2013)\, The Endarkenment (Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, The Splinter Factory (Manic D Press\, 2002)\, The Forgiveness Parade (Manic D\, 1998)\, and Alibi School (Manic D\, 1995). McDaniel’s poems have appeared in numerous places\, including The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, The New York Times\, and Best American Poetry 1994\, 2010\, and 2019. Recipient of an NEA fellowship\, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-debora-kuan-jeffrey-mcdaniel/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T140000
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DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday May 28\, 2023 – 2:00pm\nVirtual  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 \nMother’s Day (May 14) \nThis is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For\, in a time like ours\, mothers have no room to be sentimental. Inspired by Julia Kilchinsky Dasbach books 40 Weeks and The Many Names for Mother. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/18517/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday May 24\, 2023 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscO6rrj8iHtb48QlmLMmqMWfM5uAm1lHv  \nKelly McQuain is a painter and poet\, and the author of Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers (2023)\, a collection chosen by Texas Review Press for the Southern Breakthrough Award. He has also authored two chapbooks\, and his prose\, poetry and illustrations have appeared in Best American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Rattle and Superstition Review\, as well as such anthologies as: Best New Poets 2020; LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia; and Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. A native of WV\, he now lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Community College of Philadelphia. \nLucy Bell Sellers\, a retired drama teacher\, is a longtime resident of Germantown. Her book of poems. Don’t Drop Me God\, came out last summer.  \n  \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-9/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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