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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Michael J. Ivory Jr.\, Matthew Kosinski\, & Mattie Phrances McDonald
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Michael J. Ivory Jr.\, Matthew Kosinski\, & Mattie Phrances McDonald\nWednesday July 1\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nMichael J. Ivory\, Jr. is a Worker of the Word — in other words\, a writer. A Miami\, FL-native\, he currently lives in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. As the queer son of Pentecostal preachers\, Michael lives out his sacred mission to affirm the inherent divinity of all people\, but most especially Black queer “outcasts” like himself. He does this through his writing\, which can be found on his Substack\, as well as in his work with O\, Miami Press\, Iansá Mag\, Duke Magazine\, and Oxford American. He is currently working on his debut novel. \nMatthew Kosinski is a poet\, socialist and occultist from Philadelphia. His books include Alone in the White Marble City (NDR\, 2020)\, Your Human Shape (Broken Sleep Books\, 2022) and Year of the Inverted Star (Broken Sleep Books\, 2026). \nMattie Phrances McDonald (they/she/bun) is an engineer\, musician\, and writer.  Along with their solo project Betty’s Eyes\, she is the guitarist/vocalist in Booklegger\, creates art and circuits for Electrofoods\, Ultd.\, and co-founded the queer- and trans-centered sandlot baseball team the Quaker City Cryptids.  Bun lives in their adoptive home of Philadelphia with two of her partners and two kitties.  Their work can be found at booklegger.bandcamp.com\, electrofoods.space\, and on instagram at @bettys.eyes and @cryptidsbaseball \nWarren Longmire Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-michael-j-ivory-jr-matthew-kosinski-mattie-phrances-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry: Jim Timpane
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series with Jim Timpane \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \nWatch on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nJohn Timpane was a professor and lecturer in English\, first at Rutgers University and later at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. In 1997 The Philadelphia Inquirer\, hired him as Opinion Page Editor\, and later the Books Editor and Theater Critic. He retired from The Inquirer in 2019. Since The Inquirer\, John has freelanced fulltime. He specializes in ghostwriting autobiographies; arts reviewing\, especially in poetry and theater; and writing seminars. He keeps working at the craft of versemaking. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-jim-timpane/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jessica Buten\, Caroline Furr\, Ben Saff\, Abby Minor & Amy Thatcher
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Jessica Buten\, Caroline Furr\, Ben Saff\, Abby Minor & Amy Thatcher\nWednesday July 15\, 2026 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nJessica Buten is a poet from Bucks County. \nCaroline Furr has a decades long history in painting\, sculpture\, interior and surface design\, gallery and museum work. At this less distracting time of life she has turned to her accumulation of written work as inspiration for new words. \nBen Saff is a technologist by trade and a creative when the moon comes knocking at his window\, asking for a poem. He lives in Philadelphia with his cat\, Simba. \nAbby Minor lives in the ridges and valleys of central Pennsylvania\, where she works on poems\, essays\, gardens\, collages\, and projects exploring regional and reproductive politics. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fence\, the American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ninth Letter\, Bombay Gin\, Sixth Finch\, Harvard Review\, Feminist Studies\, and elsewhere. \nAmy Thatcher is a native Philadelphian. Her poems have been published in Denver Quarterly\, Split LIp\, The Journal\, Copper Nickel\, Salt Hill and other journals. Her first manuscript\, Weird Girl\, won the 2025 Charles B Wheeler Prize and will be published by the Ohio State University Press in February 2027. \nAnne-Adele Wight Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jessica-buten-caroline-furr-ben-saff-abby-minor-amy-thatcher/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Censorship: A Panel Discussion with Larry Robin\, Ernest Hilbert & Keith Kopka
DESCRIPTION:Censorship: A Panel Discussion with Larry Robin\, Ernest Hilbert\, & Keith Kopka \nSat\, July 18\, 2026 @ 2:00 P.M.\nRare Book Department at Parkway Central Library\nCost: FREEElkins Library\, 3rd FloorA discussion on censorship with Larry Robin\, Director of Moonstone Arts Center and former owner of Robin’s Book Store\, which was the Philadelphia defendant in the Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) pornography case in 1961. Larry will be joined by poet and rare book dealer Ernest Hilbert\, and Keith Kopka\, Writers Resist and Senior Editor at Narrative Magazine and Poetry Editor at Philadelphia Stories. \nThis program is presented in association with Book Complaints and the Defense of Intellectual Freedom\, an exhibition from Special Collections and will take place in the Rare Book Department’s Elkins Library. \nThe views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/censorship-a-panel-discussion-with-larry-robin-ernest-hilbert-keith-kopka/
LOCATION:The Free Library of Philadelphia\, 1901 Vine Street\, 1901 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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