Moonstone Arts Center

August 28th Poetry Reading with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Nora Hikari and Topaz Winters
2022-08-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading
LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Sunday August 28, 2022 – 7pm
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of the poetry books, My Rice Tastes Like the Lake, In the Absent Everyday, and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press, Berkeley) and three chapbooks of which Revolute was published in 2021 by Albion Books. Dhompa’s first non-fiction book, Coming Home to Tibet was published in the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016. She was born in India and raised in the Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Dhompa teaches in the English Department at Villanova University
Nora Hikari (she/her) is an Asian American transgender poet and artist based in Philadelphia. She is a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow, and her work is published or forthcoming in Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, Palette Poetry, Foglifter, The Journal, and others. Her chapbook, GIRL 2.0, was a Robin Becker Series winner and is available at Seven Kitchens Press. She was a finalist for the Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award, and can be found at her website norahikari.com. (photo by Cassi Segulin)
Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of three poetry collections (most recently So, Stranger, Button Poetry, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief of the independent publishing house & literary journal Half Mystic. Her peer-reviewed scholarly work is published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Her creative work is published in diode, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Puritan, & Hobart, & has been featured by The Straits Times, American Banker, the National University of Singapore, the Boston Poetry Slam, the Center for Fiction, & the Academy of American Poets. Topaz is 22 years old & studies Creative Writing, Italian, & Visual Art at Princeton University. You can find more of her work at topazwinters.com.

August 31st Live Poetry Reading Feat. Sean Hanrahan, Faith Paulsen and Pat Rodgers
2022-08-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Arts Center — LIVE Poetry Reading

Wednesday August 31, 2022 – 7pm
Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Event will also be streamed via Zoom – Registration is Required. Register Here:
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Sean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collection Safer Behind Popcorn (2019 Cajun Mutt) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (2018 Moonstone) and Gay Cake (2020 Toho). His
work has also been included in several anthologies, including Moonstone Featured Poets, Queer Around the World, and Stonewall’s Legacy, and several journals, including Impossible Archetype, Poetica Review, and Voicemail Poems. He has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days and Ekphrastic Poetry and hosted poetry events throughout Philadelphia.
Faith Paulsen’s most recent chapbook is Cyanometer (Finishing Line Press 2021). Her chapbook “We Marry, We Bury, We Sing, or We Weep” was a runner-up in Moonstone Arts’ Chapbook Contest in 2021 (Moonstone Press). Her poetry and prose have appeared in many venues including Philadelphia Stories, Ghost City Press, Book of Matches, Thimble, Evansville Review, One Art, The Curator, and Mantis. Faith lives and writes just outside Philadelphia. Please check out her website at https://www.faithpaulsenpoet.com/
Pat Rodgers is a former science teacher, current dental student, and poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in The Juggler, Neptune, and Moonstone’s haiku anthology. He is currently working on his first chapbook.

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with David P. Kozinski
2022-09-13 18:30 - 20:30 | PA
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with David P. Kozinski

Tuesday September 13, 2022, 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL
699 Ranstead Street,
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
David P. Kozinski has two full-length books of poems. The original manuscript of I Hear It the Way I Want It to Be (2022) was a finalist for the Inlandia (California) Institute’s Hillary Gravendyke Prize and Tripping Over Memorial Day was published in 2017 (both from Kelsay Books). His chapbook, Loopholes (Broadkill Press), won the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. He is Poet-in-Residence at Rockwood Park and Museum in New Castle County, Delaware and is Art Editor for Schuylkill Valley Journal. Delaware Today magazine will feature him in October. Kozinski was the 2018 Established Professional Poetry Fellowship recipient from the Delaware Division of the Arts. That year he was named Mentor of the year by Expressive Path, a non-profit that fosters arts participation for youth in Montgomery County and Philadelphia. Publications recently in One Art, Dreamstreets, and North of Oxford, and forthcoming in the Eunoia Review.

Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
2022-09-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday September 14, 2022 @ 7 PM EST

Event will be streamed via Zoom — Registration is Required. Register Here:
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Austin Allen is the author of Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, The Missouri Review, 32 Poems, and other publications. He has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati.

Shannon Robinson’s stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, Nimrod, failbetter, and Joyland. She has received Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and a Hedgebrook Fellowship, as well as grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Robinson has been a writer in residence at the Interlochen Arts Academy and currently teaches fiction at Johns Hopkins University.

Vijay Seshadri is the author of the poetry books “Wild Kingdom,” “The Long Meadow,” “The Disappearances,” (Harper-Collins India), “3 Sections,” and, in 2020, “That Was Now, This Is Then,” as well as dozens of essays, reviews, and memoir fragments. His work has been widely published and anthologized and recognized with a number of honors, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Barbara Siegel Carlson, Lynn Levin, and Maggie Paul
2022-09-15 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading with Barbara Siegel Carlson, Lynn Levin, and Maggie Paul

Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 7 PM EDT — VIRTUAL

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Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of the chapbook Between the Hours (2022) and 2 books of poetry Once in Every Language and Fire Road. She is co-translator of Look Back, Look Ahead, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel and Open as well as a co-editor of A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives. Her poetry and translations have appeared in The Cortland Review, Mid-American Review, American Journal of Poetry, Salamander, Glimpse and Ezra, among others. Her 3rd book of poems What Drifted Here is due out in 2022. Carlson is Poetry in Translation Editor of Solstice. More at barbarasiegelcarlson.com

Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair Creatures of an Hour, and Imaginarium. She is the translator, from the Spanish, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Rattle, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com

Maggie Paul is the author of Borrowed World, Scrimshaw, and the chapbook, Stones from the Baskets of Others. Her work has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader, Rattle, The Monterey Poetry Review, Phren-Z, The Porter Gulch Review, Red Wheelbarrow, SALT, The Jung Journal, Moonstone, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review. Co-founder of Poetry Santa Cruz and a former writing instructor at UCSC, Cabrillo, CSUMB and DeAnza College, she is an Education Consultant and Writing Coach for college-bound students. Maggie lives in Santa Cruz, California. More can be found at: https://maggiepaulpoetry.com

Dave Worrell Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Banned Books Week
2022-09-18 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Reading: Banned Books Week

Sunday September 18 @ 2 PM EDT — VIRTUAL

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Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, draws attention to banned and challenged books, and highlights persecuted individuals. Held during the last week of September since 1982, the United States campaign “stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them” and the requirement to keep material publicly available so that people can develop their own conclusions and opinions. The international campaign notes individuals “persecuted because of the writings that they produce, circulate or read.” Join us as poets read their work about censorship or in praise of their favorite banned book.

Live Poetry Event: No River Twice
2022-09-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with No River Twice

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday September 21, 2022 @ 7PM EST

Event will be streamed via Zoom — Registration is Required. Register Here:
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No River Twice creates interactive poetry readings where audiences and poets actively determine the direction of the reading, poem by poem, beginning to end, creating readings that are never the same twice. And then we make a poem of it. Jump in! More information about us at www.norivertwice.org
Meet the Poets!

Liz Chang

Grant Clauser

Chad Frame

Shawn R. Jones

Vasiliki Katsarou

Hayden Saunier

Cleveland Wall

Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Rock & Sling, Origins Journal, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal, among others. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company in Paris.
Grant Clauser is the author of five books, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, Kenyon Review, and others. He works as an editor and teaches at Rosemont College.
Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book, Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work has appeared in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere.
Shawn R. Jones is author of two poetry chapbooks, Womb Rain and A Hole to Breathe. Her work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, New Ohio Review, River HeronReview, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her poetry collection, Date of Birth, has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in.
Vasiliki Katsarou is the author of Memento Tsunami, Three Sea Stones and The Second. A poet, editor, filmmaker, and publisher, her poetry has been published widely, and internationally, including in Poetry Daily, Otoliths, Tiferet, and Literary Mama. She is poetry curator at Frenchtown Bookshop and a Teaching Artist at Hunterdon Art Museum.
Hayden Saunier is the author of five books of poetry, honored with the Pablo Neruda Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize, Gell Poetry Award and published in journals such as 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pedestal, Thrush, and Virginia Quarterly Review and has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and others. She is the founder of No River Twice.
Cleveland Wall is a poet, teaching artist, and librarian. In addition to her work with No River Twice, she performs with musical combo The Starry Eyes and coordinates the poetry program at the Ice House in Bethlehem, PA. She is the author of Let X=X and many small, hand-made chapbooks.

Live Poetry Event: Alicia Askenase and Valerie Fox
2022-09-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Alicia Askenase and Valerie Fox

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday September 28 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration is Required. Register Here:
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Alicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos and Shirley Shirley and a few chaplettes. She was a co-founder of the literary journal 6ix, and Literary Curator of the Walt Whitman Art Center for many years. Her poetry has appeared in the anthologie New Work by Philadelphia Poets, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets, An Ekphrastic Poetry Collection, among others. Her writing has also appeared in literary journals: Chain, editions #2 and #12, Poetry New York, The World, Feminist Studies, and The Journal of Modern Languages. Recent publications include The Manhattanville Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly. http://pbqmag.org/issue-100/.
Valerie Fox recently won The Phare’s WriteWords contest (for flash). She’s published poetry or brief prose in Juked, Cleaver, Reflex, Okay Donkey, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ellipsis, Hanging Loose, Across the Margin, and other journals. Her poetry books include The Rorschach Factory (Straw Gate) and Insomniatic (PS Books). Much interested in collaboration, she recently published The Real Sky (art/word collaboration), a limited edition, hand-made book, with artist Jacklynn Niemiec. Recent work can be found in MicroLit Almanac:  https://www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-almanac/morgana-humming-fox

Virtual Poetry Reading: Siduri Beckman, H.E. Fisher, Melanie McCabe, Ann E. Michael, & Halle Prenata
2022-09-29 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Reading With Siduri Beckman, H.E. Fisher, Melanie McCabe, Ann E. Michael, and Halle Prenata

Thursday September 29 @ 7PM EDT — VIRTUAL

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Siduri Beckman is the author of Yearling and served as the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Her mentor was Poet Laureate Sonia Sanchez. Siduri is passionate about the intersection of poetry, public education, and civic engagement. Siduri graduated from Yale University.

H.E. Fisher is the author of Jane Almost Always Smiles and Sterile Field. Her poems have appeared in Indianapolis Review, The Hopper, Miracle Monocle, Anti-Heroin Chic, Longleaf Review Barren Magazine, and Canary, among other publications. H.E. was awarded the 2019 Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson at City College of New York, was a finalist in the 2020-21 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. H.E. is the editor of (Re) An Ideas Journal. Her work can be found at: www.hefisher.com
Melanie McCabe is the author of The Night Divers, History of the Body and What The Neighbors Know (Honorable Mention in the Library of Virginia’s Literary Awards). Her nonfiction book, His Other Life: Searching for My Father, His First Wife, and Tennessee Williams, won the University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. Her poems have appeared in Georgia Review, Threepenny Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Massachusetts Review, and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in Best New Poets 2010. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia, and taught high school English for twenty-two years.

Ann E. Michael is author of Strange Ladies, Water-Rites, Barefoot Girls, Small Things Rise & Go, and three other collections. Her poems have been widely anthologized. She maintains a long-running blog, garden, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com

Halle Preneta is a writer from Ohio who enjoys writing short romance, sci-fi, and horror stories along with poetry and gets her ideas from random life experiences and fanfiction. She’s had works published in various literary magazines such as Write Now Lit, Tealight Press, The Hearth Magazine, and more. When she’s not writing, she’s either playing video games or watching other people play video games on YouTube.

Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Cleveland Wall
2022-10-04 18:30 | 699 Ranstead Street, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM –
2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 6:30 PM
699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.
Cleveland Wall is a poet, editor, and teaching artist living in Bethlehem, PA. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first full-length collection, Let X=X was released by Kelsay Books in 2019. Current obsessions include dream life, embodied poetics, ephemeral art, and the power of persistent, incremental change.
As an artist, Ms. Wall enjoys experimenting with form and performance—appropriated forms, predictive text, erasure, devised theater, and extemporaneous poetry. She performs with poetry improv troupe No River Twice, of which she is a founding member. and with The Starry Eyes, a poetry/guitar duo whose debut album, The Garden of Terrors and Delights dropped in January 2020.
As a teaching artist, she enjoys working with both children and adults, often incorporating visual and performing arts elements in her workshops.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Moonstone Arts Live Poetry Reading Featuring Mac Chandler, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli
2022-10-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Mac Chandler, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli
Wednesday October 5, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Mac Chandler is a senior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review, HASH Magazine, and High Shelf Press. She currently edits for University Of The Arts’ Annual Zine ‘Underground Pool’. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can stay extra up to date with her work and publications on her instagram, @frillysox.

Mikey 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 (Moonstone 2022), was released in June & you can typically find him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area.

Jim Mancinelli is author of Primer, In Deep, The Bartimeus Poems for which he also did the drawings and is currently developing a collection around coming of age as a gay boy in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review, Vice-Versa, Philadelphia Poets, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and issues of Poetry Ink. He was a finalist in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, judged by Mark Doty. He is the founder/moderator of the Moveable Beats Reading Series (MBRS) which now has a new format: UpClose with MBRS.

Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading feat/ Eight of Moonstone's Former Chapbook Winners
2022-10-11 19:00 | PA
Moonstone Arts Center’s Virtual Poetry
Tuesday October 11, 2022 – 7pm Eastern
Registration Required – Registration Link
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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.

Live Poetry Reading with Eli C. Goldblatt, Vernita Hall, and Peter F. Murphy
2022-10-12 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Readings
Wednesday October 12, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Eli C. Goldblatt is author of Wissahickon Creek: Walks & Dreams, and seven other books. He is Professor Emeritus at Temple University, former director of writing directed New City Writing, the community outreach arm of the writing program. Goldblatt also taught science, math and English for six years in an urban alternative high school in Philadelphia. He earned a master’s in education and certificate in biology from Temple.His master’s in literature and doctorate in composition studies came from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published work includes “Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum” and “Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography,” as well as three collections of poetry and two children’s books.
Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians, winner of the 2016 Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, The Common, River Styx, The Hopkins Review, and Arts & Letters. With fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Ucross, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College and serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories.
Peter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay, NY, the Heart of the Thousand Islands, where he learned to ice fish and shoot pool. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, New Madrid, The Café Review, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others. His chapbook, A Map of Three Continents, was published by Moonstone Press (2020). Underwater, his new book of poems, came out in 2021 from Human Error Publishing.

Live Poetry Event: E. Lynn Alexander & Amy Saul-Zerby
2022-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading With E. Lynn Alexander and Amy Saul-Zerby

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday October 19 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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E. Lynn Alexander is a poet, artist, mother, and maker of new things from old. She has been involved in the small press for many years, producing both online and print projects. She has organized and hosted performance and open mic events locally, and currently cohosts two monthly readings online. Right now, she is working on programming for the Easton Book Festival which takes place each year in October. She has recently released a collection of poetry, “Find Me in the Iris”, available now.

Amy Saul-Zerby is the author of the poetry collections Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds (Be About It Press 2017) and Deep Camouflage (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018). Her third collection, Choose Your Own Beginning, is forthcoming from Be About It Press. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.

Sean Hanahan Host, Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry Event: Amy Barone & David Ebenbach
2022-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Live Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Amy Barone and David Ebenbach

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday October 26 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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Amy Barone’s new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection, We Became Summer, in 2018. She wrote chapbooks, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City.
David Ebenbach is the author of three books of poems, including his new collection What’s Left to Us by Evening, and four books of fiction and non-fiction, winners of such awards as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Juniper Prize, among others. A West Philly native, he lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event: Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman
2022-10-30 14:00 | PA
Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading with Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman

Sunday October 30 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:
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Byron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including The Galway Review, Cyphers, Poetry Pacific, London Magazine, The Tower Journal and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). His most recent collection is The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).

Philip Brady has taught at University College Cork in Ireland, as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the National University of Zaire, in the Semester at Sea Program, in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MFA Program, at the Chautauqua Institute, at San Francisco State University, the University of Delaware, and SUNY Binghamton. Currently he is a distinguished professor of English at Youngstown State University, where he teaches creative writing and literature.

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics, including texts on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis, and his poetry and fiction have been published widely in independent journals and magazines. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic. This chapbook is his first collection of poems.

Steven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle Of A Bear, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His work is available from the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, the Iowa Review, the Gettysburg Review, Oversound, as well as others. Steven is a contributing manager at the American Poetry Review, where he co-hosts the APR podcast. He is the interim director of Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, where he also serves as the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop.

John Lavin Host

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Interview & Reading
2022-11-01 18:30 | PA
2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series With Zina Bethea Dawson, Jenny Pacanowski & J. C. Todd

Tuesday November 1 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL
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Zina Bethea Dawson a served as a combat medic. She spent the majority of her adult life caring for others; fellow service members while on active duty and family upon separation from duty. From as early as she can recall, creativity was interwoven into her life’s journey. Every form of textile artistry piques her interest to the point of formal training and execution. Whether it’s a quilt, hand tooled leather accessory, or a custom piece of jewelry, seeing a smile is the elixir that energizes her passions. Give her a needle and thread; magic will happen. Joy is a mission for Zina as she uses humor in her written work with Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving, where experiential expression is the medium of camaraderie and healing.
Jenny Pacanowski is the Founder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving; a reintegration program that utilizes writing and performance to empower veterans to thrive in their daily life. She is also the program director of Poetic Theater Productions NYC Veteran Voices and the Associate Director of Lucid Body’s Impact theatre. Jenny believes that partnerships, collaborations and empowerment through community and ritual storytelling are the key to reintegration for veterans and their families. She travels all over the country performing, speaking, facilitating workshops and inviting people to empower themselves from within their experiences.
J. C. Todd was a Blue Star Mother between 2002-2012, when three of her family members were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and she began to write her book of poems, Beyond Repair, (2021) a selection for the Able Muse Press Book Award. Other poetry collections include The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press, 2018), a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award, and What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008). Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize and a ‘commended’ winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition: Poetry Society of the UK, she holds fellowships from the Pew Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bemis Center. Poems and interviews have appeared in the Baltimore Review, The Night Heron Barks, One Art, The Paris Review, and other journals. In 2023, PDR Press will publish a collection of her new and selected poems in a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) edition. www.jc-todd.com

Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry Event: Gina Myers, Alina Pleskova, Warren Longmire
2022-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Gina Myers, Alina Pleskova, and Warren Longmire

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 2 @ 7:30PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceqvqTIsGtHtpjemioTAOXaz6B_ZzVn6

Gina Myers’s latest book, Some of the Times, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013), as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry, she has published essays, reviews, and articles for a variety of publications. She lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she works in communications and co-edits the tiny with ebs and Cul-de-sac of Blood with Jeff T. Johnson.

Alina Pleskova is fixing to become poet-in-residence of the astral realm. She is a Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet & editor, author of What Urge Will Save Us, Toska. Alina is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change and Window of Opportunity grants; has hosted workshops, events, & panels, is founder of the Cheburashka Collective (women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora), and co-edits bedfellows, a literary magazine topically focused on sex, desire, & intimacy.

Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He’s been published in journals including Prolit, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication, Open Source, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press. His second, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop is set to release in the winter of 2022 through Fonograf Editions.

ebs Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event: The Future of America
2022-11-06 14:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Presents:
The Future of America– VOTE

Sunday November 6 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:
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What is our future? Will we take the effort to vote on November 8? Do we believe in Democracy or will we become an authoritarian state? 4 million students graduate high school each year and do not vote until they are 25. We would live in a different world if they voted. This may be the most important election in our lifetime. VOTE and urge other to VOTE. Do it with poetry, Join us as poets reflect on the Future of America.
Join us a poets read their submissions.

Live Poetry Reading: Alexander Khan, Claire Palmer, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain
2022-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Alexander Khan, Claire Palmer, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 9 @ 7:30PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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Alexander Khan is a creative writing student at the University of the Arts. As a queer person, his writing focuses on the link between queerness, mental health, and family. He was first published in 3rd grade in a national book focused on poems about bullying.

Claire Palmer is a 21-year-old writer, poet, & philosopher based in Philadelphia. Born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, she currently attends The University of the Arts as a senior in the Creative Writing program. Drawing from magical realism & pagan folklore, her artistic style also sources inspiration from political history & dialogic language. Motifs of ancestry, karma, & free will often can be found in her work. Find Claire on Instagram @cklayre.

John Tom Raczkowski is the Senior Editor and Coordinator for University of the Art’s annual magazine Underground Pool, responsible for publishing student driven works as well as hosting events and open mics for students. He is also a consistent Review Writer for Publisher’s Weekly. He reads and writes poetry in his spare time.

China Rain is a writer and mixed media artist living in Philadelphia, inhabiting a 24-year-old body in its last year at the Universtiy of the Arts.
She likes long walks and feeding birds, you can find their work in the newest issue of Prolit Magazine, Prose online, and elsewhere at @china_rainnn on instagram.

John Wall Barger, Host – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event Featuring Five Poets
2022-11-10 19:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Millicent Borges Accardi, Margaret R. Sáraco, MM Wittle, Anne Harding Woodworth & R.G Ziemer

Thursday November 10 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL

Registration is Required. Register Here:
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Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, Canto Mundo and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle).

Margaret R. Sáraco grew up in an Italian-American extended family, was awarded master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and in Mathematics, which inform her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals, has been featured at The Art and Poetry of Teaching, Havdalah Café, Gallery U, Welcome the Sabbath Bride, and others and has conducted workshops at Stockton Tour of Poetry, Save our Schools, Hudson Valley Writing Project, the American Italian Historical Association, Montclair State and New York Universities on writing, teaching, activism and music.
MM Wittle, author of Reconstruction, is a writer of all genres who is a high school and middle school teacher during the day, a college professor at night, and a book worm and writer on the weekends. Wittle’s play Family Guidance was selected for honorable mention at the 5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Workshop’s Playwriting Competition. The Education of Allie Rose was shortlisted in the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her work has appeared in Transient, The Bond Street Review, Free Flash Fiction, The Fox Chase Review, The Four Quarters, Decades Review, Emerging Literary Journal and others.
Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of eight books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her most recent book is Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (October 2022), a Literary Titan Silver Award book. Her book, Trouble, received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry. An excerpt from her chapbook, The Last Gun, won the 2016 COG Poetry Award, judged by A. Van Jordan, and was subsequently animated (https://vimeo.com/193842252). Anne is a member of the Poetry Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum.
R.G Ziemer was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, worked in the construction trades, practiced genealogy and presently teaches writing at the College of DuPage. He is active with several writing groups and enjoys sharing prose and poetry at local reading venues and open mics. Ziemer’s novel the Ghost of Jamie McVay was published in 2019.

Virtual Event: Emerging Poets
2022-11-12 14:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Reading with New Voices: Emerging Poets

Saturday November 12 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required – Register Here:
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Avik Belenje, age 15, has studied poetry at Poetry Power, he has received the Silver Key from Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards and four First Place Awards from California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc.

Cydney Brown was the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. A Freshman at Northwestern University she has been writing poetry since 5th grade. She has been featured in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6abc, Philadelphia Citizen, and Fox29 and loves that there are no limitations to writing. Her poetry explore social justice, self-image, love, and nature. Cydney won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop competition, is the Recipient of The Romero Scholarship For Excellence In Spoken Word and is a Gold Award Lifetime Member Girl Scout who is active in improving her community and is the recipient of The Good Citizenship Award. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world.
Jules Hostetter is a poet from Pennsylvania. She currently studies creative writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her poems explore depression/anxiety, love, and sexuality. She loves collecting records, roller skating, and playing guitar.

王潇/Evan Wang is the inaugural Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate from Pennsylvania. His work is forthcoming or has been published in VIBE, Philadelphia Stories, National Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. His work has been recognized by or featured at Wawa Welcome America, the ruth weiss foundation, Bleeding Soul Poetry, and Society of Poetry.

Virtual Poetry Event with Cheryl J. Fish, Lisa Grunberger & Alison Lubar
2022-11-13 16:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Presents
Stretching Forms: Poetry to Prose

Sunday November 13 @ 4PM — VIRTUAL

Registration is Required. Register Here:
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Cheryl J. Fish is author of the debut novel Off the Yoga Mat, the story of three characters coming of middle age. She is also the author of recent poetry collections, Crater & Tower, and The Sauna is Full of Maids. She is co-editor of the collection A Stranger in the Village :Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Cheap Pop, Spank the Carp, Liars League, Boog City and KGB Bar Lit. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Hanging Loose, Maintenant, Terrain, Mom Egg Review, New American Writing, Reed, Postcard poems, Santa Monica Review, ISLE and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World.  Fish has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com.
Pushcart nominee, Temple University Professor, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her poetry books I am dirty (Moonstone Press) and Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman, a mother, and a daughter of Shoah survivors. Her book, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins) is currently being adapted as a musical. Her work is widely published and translated from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review. Almost Pregnant, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, is published by Smith Scripts. Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre and will soon be a short film.
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, is out now with Thirty West (May 2022); their second, sweet euphemism, is forthcoming with CLASH!, an imprint of Mouthfeel Press, in 2023. You can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.

Live Poetry Event: Luke Stromberg's The Elephant's Mouth
2022-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Luke Stromberg’s Debut Poetry Collection

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 16 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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The Elephant’s Mouth, Luke’s Debut Poetry Collection, Years in the Making
“Luke Stromberg is an autobiographical poet, but instead of being confined to the past, his best narratives deliver enough metaphoric lift to transmute them into poetry. I’m remembering his shadow being “a movie on the wall;” tombstones as “baby teeth;” and days that “pile up like dishes in the sink.” The Elephant’s Mouth is a noteworthy debut.” —Billy Collins (Former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling)

Luke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Think Journal, ONE ART, Cleaver, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University.
WITH:

John Wall Barger

Luke Bauerlein

Ernest Hilbert

Z Murphy

Anne-Adele Wight

John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, ZYZZYVA, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems, Smog Mother, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Luke Bauerlein grew up in SE PA and first met Luke Stromberg in an undergraduate poetry workshop at West Chester University. He co-founded the now extinct rock n roll band, The Late Greats, and his poems and essays have appeared in the NY Times, Rattle, BODY, Unsplendid, and elsewhere. Ernest Hilbert is the author of four collections of poetry, Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan, winner of the Poets’ Prize, and Last One Out . His fifth book, Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and will appear in 2023. Z Murphy (she/they) is a multiracial multidisciplinary artist studying creative writing at the University of the Arts. Since she was little, she’s valued the art of storytelling and proceeds to tell stories in whatever way she sees fit, whether it be through writing, performance, song – Z remains constantly inspired to make new art. Z writes about race, sex, class, mental health, and about writing itself (how meta of them). She is currently a writer for the online magazine Nicki Swift, a dog dad, and a retired child. Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment, The Age of Greenhouses, Opera House Arterial, and Sidestep Catapult, all from BlazeVOX. For four years she curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket. Her work has been published internationally in print and online and includes appearances in Luna Luna, Apiary, Bedfellows, Oz Burp, Have Your Chill, and Read On 2. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.

Live Event: Celebrating Larry Robin's 80th Birthday!
2022-11-20 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Come Join Us As We Celebrate Larry Robin’s 80th Birthday!

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Sunday November 20 @ 2PM

“In my youth in the 60’s the motto was “never trust anyone over 30”, now my grandchildren are over 30. I am extremely lucky to have worked on the things I believe in my entire life. 52 years at Robin’s Book Store, 41 years with Moonstone. Promoting art and education. What else could one wish for? Should you want to do something for me, donate something to the Moonstone Arts Center, www.moonstoneartscenter.com. I hope to see you on the 20th. If you have any questions, please contact me.” – Larry
Picture by Sandy Robin

Join Us for Socializing and Poetry!
2pm – Doors Open
3pm – Ten Minutes of Readings

Lynn Levin
Warren Longmire
Sean Hanahan
Z Murphy
Matilda Bray
Joe Roarty

4pm – Ten Minutes of Readings

C. Todd
Lamont Steptoe
Aaren Perry
Mac Chandler
Evan Wang
Eleanor Wilner

5pm – Open Reading
Elijah Pringle Host

Live Poetry Event: David Acosta, Chris Bullard, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff
2022-11-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with David Acosta, Chris Bullard, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 23 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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David Acosta, author of Miscellany, is a well-known poet, writer, and activist whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He has served on a variety of committees and boards, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The AIDS Law Project. As a founding member of both the Art Emergency Coalition and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (which went on to successfully sue the National Endowment for the Arts during the 90s culture wars.) As a Latinx, racially mixed, indigenous, gay man, he continues to blend art and activism as he collaborates on countless projects throughout the city while producing his own art and writing.
Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, is author of Continued, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.

Colin Morgan (known as Marc Moore in some literary circles) is the CEO of Night City Publishing, a record label based in Philadelphia, PA. Additionally, they are the lead editor and founder of Parquet Poetry magazine, a small literary and art journal also based in Philadelphia. Colin plays bass in the band Queen Mob and has been published worldwide in many elite verse and art journals, but their most important work is the unseen text of whatever they are currently writing. Follow Night City Publishing on IG: @nightcitypublishing – Submit to Parquet Poetry on IG: @parquet.poetry
Molly Russakoff has been living and writing in Philadelphia since 1979. She was a poetics student and teaching assistant in the early days of Naropa University in Boulder Co., studying with many of the Beat, Black Mountain and New York School poets. She won a Pew Fellowship in 1993. Molly currently owns Molly’s Books & Records with her husband, Joe Ankenbrand. She will be reading from her recently completed novel manuscript, Red Tape.

Live Event with Elliott batTzedek, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers
2022-11-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Poetry Reading with Elliott batTzedek, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 30 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here:
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Elliott batTzedek’s translation manuscript of “Dance of the Lunatic” by the Israeli Jewish lesbian writer Shez won the 2012 Robert Bly Translation prize. She is the events coordinator for Big Blue Marble Bookstore, cofounder of QuillsEdge Press, and founder of Poetry Business Manager. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals: American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Naugatuck River Review, Lambda Literary Online, and Sinister Wisdom. She blogs about poetry and translation at thisfrenzy.com.
Glen A. Mazis taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg, retiring in 2020. He has more than 90 poems in literary journals, including Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou’wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, Atlanta Review, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review, and the collection, The River Bends, a chapbook, The Body Is a Dancing Star, and Bodies of Space and Time oks. He has published five philosophy books with the most recent being, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize.
Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. Appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam as a founding member of Yellow Rage, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Title Magazine, Brevity, and USA Today. Her work also has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation, Loft Literary Center, Asian Arts Initiative, and Dodge Poetry Program. Michelle currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Berrie Center, and her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys. Michelle’s poetry is featured in the NY Times bestseller Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now as well as My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.

Virtual Poetry Event with International Poets
2022-12-04 14:00 | PA
Virtual Event with Anuradha Bhowmik, Fiona Bolger, Rosaleen McDonagh, Michelle Myers & Ewuare X. Osayande

Sunday December 4 @ 2PM EST — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:
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Anuradha Bhowmik, Bangladeshi American, Kundiman Fellow and AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Her work has appeared in POETRY, the Sun, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Brown Girl Chromatography: Poems – “Anuradha Bhowmik speaks for all the brown girls who ‘couldn’t have/crushes in fourth grade,’ all of us who weren’t ‘white women/wearing lingerie in the glossy Macy’s ad.’ The speaker’s journey through the minefield of popular culture, family responsibility, and maturation into an unmapped womanhood is handled with deft precision.” —Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
Fiona Bolger is author of Love in the Original Language from Salmon Poetry, 2022. She works as a mentor and creative facilitator between Ireland and India. Her other publications include A Compound of Words, All the Worlds Between: An Anthology from Yoda Press Delhi and Geometry of Love Between the Elements and Triptych: Three Poets, from Poetry Bus, Arklow, Ireland. She also works with Outlandish Theatre Platform.

Rosaleen McDonagh is a playwright, performer, columnist for The Irish Times and a member of Aosdána. Her plays include The Baby Doll Project, She’s Not Mine, Rings, The Prettiest Proud Boy and Mainstream. Recent commissions were Walls and Windows for the Abbey Theatre and Contentious Spaces for the Project Arts Centre. Rosaleen holds a BA, two MPhils from Trinity College and a PhD from Northumbria University. A board member of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner. Unsettled is her first book, a collection of essays exploring racism, ableism, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community, family and friendship.
Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. A founding member of Yellow Rage, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Title Magazine, Brevity, and USA Today, has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation, Loft Literary Center, Asian Arts Initiative, and Dodge Poetry Program. Her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys and her poetry is featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.
Ewuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet, essayist, activist, and publisher. The author of several books including, Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka, Osayande’s latest book of poems is entitled Black Phoenix Uprising. In 2013, Osayande edited and published Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, a global anthology of social justice poetry that raised thousands of dollars for both justice campaigns. Osayande is the founding editor of The Poetariat, an international journal of working-class poetry. Learn more about his work at Osayande.org.
John Lavin Host

Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Ona Gritz
2022-12-06 18:30 | PA
Moonstone @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with Ona Gritz

Tuesday December 6 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL
To Attend, Visit https://phillycam.org/
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Ona Gritz is an award-winning poet, essayist, children’s author, and creative writing instructor. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Utne Reader, Ploughshares, Brevity, and River Teeth, and has been widely anthologized. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project. Ona’s middle grade novel, August Or Forever, is forthcoming from Fitzroy Books in February.

Charles S. Carr, Host

Virtual Event Featuring Five Poets
2022-12-08 19:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Event with Chris Bullard, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Raya Tuffaha, Donna Wolf-Palacio & Katie Sarah Zale

Thursday December 8 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Below!
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Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, is author of Continued, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.

Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Salvage (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2016). She is a member of the Sanctuary Advocate Coalition, which works to expand sanctuary in vision and practice through the framework of black-brown unity.

Raya Tuffaha is a Palestinian artist from Seattle, WA. Her first collection, To All the Yellow Flowers, was published in March 2020 with Golden Antelope Press. Her first chapbook, apocalypse blues, was published with Plan B Press this August. Raya is a current senior at Swarthmore College, where she studies Theatre and Peace & Conflict Studies. She specializes in solo performance and fight direction, and will move to the east coast after graduation. She hopes her work on the page & the stage serves her communities with integrity.
Donna Wolf-Palacio is author of The Architect of Elsewhere, What I Don’t Know, The Other Side, and Step Lightly.  She taught an ongoing poetry workshop at the University of the Arts and was editor/consultant of the UARTS Poetry Review.  She has published her writing in Poetry, The Pennsylvania Gazette, the Musehouse Journal, Intro, The Interpreter, Poems from the Heart: Poems about Adoption, and Voices.  She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, The Leeway Foundation, and the PCA.
Katie Sarah Zale teaches writing and works on Art for Justice programs in Arizona. Her first book, The Art of Folding, was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine. The collection Sometimes You Do Things (Aquarius Press, Living Detroit Series) highlights the history of Detroit and celebrates its rebuilding. She lives in Tucson.
