Moonstone Arts Center

Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar
2022-06-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sunday June 26, 2022 – 2 pm
Virtual
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Join us for Paul Laurence Dunbar’s two hundredth birthday (born June 27, 1872)
“Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote, and to maintain a high level of performance. He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor, its superstitions, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds, its yearnings, its aspirations, and to voice them all in a purely literary form.”—James Weldon Johnson
Readings by contributors to the Moonstone anthology

Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
2022-06-29 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
Wednesday June 29, 2022 – 7pm EST
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link:
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James Shea is the author of two poetry collections, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye, both from Fence Books. Recipient of grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and National Endowment for the Arts, he is the director of the Creative and Professional Writing Program at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dorothy Tse is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose books include Owlish and So Black. Tse has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award (Taiwan), and the Hong Kong Award for Creative Writing in Chinese. She has been a resident at Art Omi, the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Ryan Wilson’s books include The Stranger World (2017), winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, How to Think Like a Poet (Wiseblood, 2019), and Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-20 (Franciscan UP, 2021). His work appears widely in periodicals such as Best American Poetry, Five Points, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, and The Yale Review. Editor-in-Chief of Literary Matters (literarymatters.org), he teaches at The Catholic University of America and in the M.F.A. program at The University of St. Thomas-Houston.

The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading
2022-07-03 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading

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Struggle for Liberty – Everyone Struggles for Freedom
Independence Day in the US (July 4th) – Bastille Day in France (July 14th)
The continuing struggle for liberty is prevalent all over the world, but there are contradictions and complexities in words like “freedom” and “liberty.” Freedom for who? Liberty to do what? Can these words even truly be defined? Readings by contributors to the Moonstone anthology

Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic
2022-07-05 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic

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Ken Holland has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has had work published in such journals as Rattle, Tulane Review, Southwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The American Journal of Poetry and Tar River among others. He’s won/placed in a number of contests, including those sponsored by Naugatuck River Review and the Stephen DiBiase competition. One of his poems, adapted for stage, was selected for performance in NYC in July. He lives and breathes in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York. And has recently launched his website: www.kenhollandpoet.com

Mike Jurkovic is published widely: full length collections include mooncussers, AmericanMental, and Blue Fan Whirring; anthologies include Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology, Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose, and others. Now in its 23rd year, Mike serves as President of Calling All Poets. A 2016 Pushcart nominee, online CD reviews at All About Jazz and Lightwood. Chairman, Music Fan Film Series, Rosendale Theater. Host, New Jazz Excursions, WIOX 91.3FM, Roxbury, NY. Streaming at wioxradio.org. Regional features Van Wyck Gazette, 2013-2020. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine, 1996-2003. He loves Emily most of all.

Virtual Author Reading at PhillyCAM: J.C. Todd
2022-07-12 18:30 - 20:30 | 699 Ranstead Street, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Virtual Author Reading at PhillyCAM: J.C. Todd

2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series
699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

J.C. Todd’s most recent book of poetry are Beyond Repair, a special selection for the 202 Able Muse Book award, and The Damages of Morning, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. A winner of a Poetry Society of the UK award and the Rita Dove Prize in Poetry, she has received fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and residency programs including the Bemis Center. Her poems and interviews have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Mezzo Cammin, The Night Heron Barks, Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Philadelphia. Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Summer J. Hart, and Osimiri Sprowal
2022-07-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Summer J. Hart, and Osimiri Sprowal

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Savannah Cooper-Ramsey holds a BA in History from Bard College, an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She is the author of the artist’s book Not Fit for Print, winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award, her poems can be found in publications like BOMB, Dream Pop Journal, Bedfellows, and Whirlwind Magazine. Savannah works for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden, NJ, and teaches Creative Writing at UArts and with the Arts Alliance of Philadelphia’s Writers’ Workshop.
Summer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist from Maine, living in the Hudson Valley, New York. Her written and visual artworks are influenced by folklore, superstition, divination, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is the author of Boomhouse and Augury of Ash. Her poetry can be found in Waxwing, The Massachusetts Review, Northern New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. Summer is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation.

Osimiri Sprowal (they/them) is an Afro-Indigenous, Trans, Queercrip poet, homeless rights activist, and sibling. Their poetry has been featured at Bowery Poetry, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gettysburg University, The University of Arizona-Tuscon, among other locations. They were the 2015 Philly Youth Grand Slam Champion, 2018 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) Semi-Finalist, where they received the Best Love Poem Award. They were a 2018 Till Arts Emerging Artist Fellow, 2019 Feminine Empowerment Slam Champion, and a 2020 CoLab Arts Fellow. They were a winner of the 2019 Shockwire Micro Chapbook Contest for their book Gemini: Duality of Self, a chapbook chronicling their experiences as a genderfluid person. They were the founder and President of deadname.arts, Philly’s only gender-expansive collective in its time. Most recently, they recieved the Marshall Scholarship, and are preparing to relocate to the U.K to write Black Queer plays.

Virtual Poetry Reading: High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review
2022-07-17 20:00 - 22:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review: Best of The Sucks

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Best of the Sucks:
High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review
Edited by Mark Spitzer ($21.95, MadHat Press)
For fans of the legendary Toad Suck Review, and for anyone who missed that boat but would have an appreciation for innovative literature that’s quirky, edgy, and International Avant-Garde, this revival publication is your ticket to get on board. This publication will reestablish Toad Suck Editions as MadHat takes it into the future, so consider this your time to catch up with the class! Digging back to its Exquisite Corpse roots, the transitional period to the inception of Toad Suck, and pummeling chronologically through the issues.
Presenters include: Marc Vincenz, publisher, reading from CD Wright, Mark Spitzer, editor, reading from preface, Scotty Lewis, assistant editor, reading from Rimbaud, Brenda Mann Hammack, “Gargoyles & Phantoms”, Tyrone Jaeger, “From The Runaway Note”, Elva Maxine Beach, “Raised by Mobsters & Born Agains”, Robert Archambeau, “The Sproks”, Lea Graham, “From The Hotel Vernon”, Ken Waldman, “Where the Ink Is Self and the Sex Burns”

Moonstone Poetry Reading & New Book Publications: Steven Dale Davison, Beth Brown Preston, John Gallagher, and Amber Renee
2022-07-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading & New Book Publications: Steven Dale Davison, Beth Brown Preston, John Gallagher, and Amber Renee

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New Books from the Moonstone Press
Steven Dale Davison, author of O My Heart (Moonstone Press), Dancing Mockingbird, and The Road to Continental Heart. worked for twenty years as a journalist and professional writer and has written both short and long fiction and has published non-fiction essays.

Beth Brown Preston, author of Oxygen II (Moonstone Press), is a poet and novelist with two collections of poetry from the Broadside Lotus Press and a poetry chapbook. She has been published in numerous journals including African American Review, The Black Scholar, Callaloo, Obsidian and other literary and scholarly journals.

John Gallagher, author of Undaunted Light (Moonstone Press). is the son of working class immigrants from Donegal, Ireland, and grew up on the other side of the tracks in Bryn Mawr, PA. These two settings are the backdrops that formed him and provide the core of this collection.

Amber Renee, author of In memory, energy (Moonstone Press), is a chronic writer, author of Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode and i feel like i’m nothing. During the pandemic Amber created what she calls “Poetry Songs” and was an editor for Serotonin Poetry.

Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading and New Book Publications: R. Bremner, Rosemary Capello, Albert Tacconelli, Daniel Williams, and James Redfern
2022-07-24 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading and New Publications: R. Bremner, Rosemary Capello, Albert Tacconelli, Daniel Williams, and James Redfern

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New Books from the Moonstone Press
R. Bremner, author of Erasing Influences (Moonstone Press) and seven other books, has been writing of incense, peppermints, and the color of time since the 1960s. His work has appeared in International Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Sigmund Freud in Poetry, and many more journals.

Rosemary Cappello, author of Suitcase Poems (Moonstone Press) is passionate about many things, poetry heads the list, and she spent a large portion of my life reading poetry, writing it, and presenting it to the public. She is passionate about editing and puts a great deal of thought into the publication of “Philadelphia Poets”.

Albert Tacconelli, author of Such Things (Moonstone Press), is a Poet and artist whose poems and art have appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Philadelphia Poets, VIA, Mad Poets Review, and Endicott Review. Tacconelli read at Hofstra University, Calandra Institute, Free Library of Philadelphia, and the American Italian Historical Association Annual Conference.

Daniel Williams, author of Lost Language of Mars (Moonstone Press) is primarily a poet of the Sierra Nevada range in central California, his work encompasses a wide variety of material. He has also been a community college instructor, a park ranger, and a stand-in and actor in Back to the Future III.

James Redfern, author of Baker (Moonstone Press) is a teacher, editor, printmaker, artist, writer, and poet: Redfern has built up a long rap sheet of artistic creation. Recently, his poetry has appeared in High Shelf, Beatific Magazine, The Raw Art Review, Transcend, We Are Antifa (Into the Void), 2020: Good Writing/Bad Year (Dutch Kills Press), and elsewhere

Live Poetry Reading: Aaren Perry and Lamont B. Steptoe
2022-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Live Poetry with Aaren Perry & Lamont B. Steptoe
Wednesday July 27, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
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Aaren Perry’s new book is Shipping and Receiving, published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College, he recently edited a forthcoming collection of new poems by Lamont B. Steptoe. He co-edited with Dr. James Villarreal, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row, by Anthony Reid, an ebook out now on Amazon. Perry runs Yeatts Perry Consulting, grants and donor management for health equity and social change nonprofits.

Lamont B. Steptoe was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steptoe is a father, grandfather, and Vietnam veteran. A graduate of Temple University majoring in Radio, Television and Film, Steptoe is the author of sixteen collections of poetry among which include, Crimson River, Mad Minute, Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare, A Long Movie of Shadows, Crowns and Halos, and Meditations in Congo Square. Steptoe’s work appears in over one hundred anthologies among which are the Oxford University Press Anthology of African American Literature. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award, Pew Fellow in the Arts, and two Pennsylvania Council on Arts Awards. His forthcoming collection is Woke! Soon to be published by Whirlwind Press.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts,
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Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview and Reading with Julia Blumenreich
2022-08-02 18:30 - 20:30 | PA
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview and Reading with Julia Blumenreich
Tuesday August 2, 2022, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL
699 Ranstead Street
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2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Julia Blumenreich is the author of Meeting Tessie, Artificial Memory, Blue Angel of a Day, and The What of Underfoot, and her poems have been published in a number of journals including o-blék, Central Park, Aerial, and Chain. Julia also served as one of the founders and editors of 6ix, a poetry journal based in Philadelphia.
A recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowship for her poetry, Julia has read her work widely at a variety of venues, including The University of Pennsylvania, Temple and Brown Universities, The Cleveland New Music Festival, and Small Press Distribution in San Francisco. She collaborated with the visual artist, Wendy Osterweil, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest.”
Julia worked for a number of years as a poet-in-the-schools before becoming a fourth- grade teacher (first for eight years in West Philadelphia and 25 years at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington). Since working in the schools, she received a Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award in 2000
Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry Reading: Erin Castaldi and elijah b pringle, III
2022-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Erin Castaldi and elijah b pringle, III
Wednesday August 3, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
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Erin Castaldi is Poet Laureate of Somers Point, N.J. and former Social Media Manager for The Haiku Society of America, edited the Haiku Society of America’s Member’s Anthology 2021; and her latest book, ’Boundary Disruption’, was the 2021 12th Annual Encircle Pub., LLC Book Contest Winner. Her work has appeared in such journals as, Akitsu Quarterly, Heron’s Nest, Presence, Blithe Spirit, Frogpond, Wales Haiku Journal, Modern Haiku, Alien Buddha Press, Chrysanthemum and Asahi Haikuist, Heron’s Nest, Asahi Haikuist.#FemKuMag, Blithe Spirit, ChaNo Keburi, Failed Haiku and Japan Society; as well as at least a dozen anthologies.

elijah b pringle, III is an artivist based in Philadelphia. He has used all the arts to convey his philosophy of art, either showing life as it is or as it should be. He has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, nationally and internationally as well as publishing several Chapbooks. He was recently nominated for a Best-In-Net (the on-line equivalent to a Pushcart Award). He is a well-respected editor and mentor to not just writers but also to actors, singers, and dancers. He has directed several plays and is in early production of a play he has written “Should be …” To his credit he has worked in Radio, Television and Film. Recently he made his debut as a Free-Jazz Singer and has appeared in the US and Ireland. Lastly and most importantly he is an educator who has lectured both here and overseas. He counts as his inspiration his failures and credits his real “schooling” to 5 generations of teachers.
Sean Lynch Host – Open Reading Follows

Hiroshima Day Anthology Poetry Reading: Virtual Event
2022-08-07 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Hiroshima Day Anthology Poetry Reading: Virtual Event

2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific
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Hiroshima Day Anthology
On August 6th, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, and another three days later in Nagasaki Japan. The possibility of nuclear war is no longer a distant memory, but now a contemporary issue. As we mark the anniversary of Hiroshima send us a poem honoring the of victims and/ or examining the impact of these events.

Hiroshima Day acknowledges the devastation of nuclear war on an international scale, but also serves as a reminder of the repercussions of racism and racist policies. We are all complicit and we are all responsible for dismantling the systems of oppression and violence that led to this tragedy, as well as the ongoing and horrific legacy of anti-Asian racism in the United States. Yuri Kochiyama, the revolutionary activist, once said: “We are all part of one another.” Poetry is one small yet mighty way that we can not only develop compassion, but hold space for processing grief and trauma in the aftermath of this anniversary.

Join us as contributors to this anthology read their poems
Profits from the sale of the book will go to Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia

Live Poetry Reading: Marion Bell, Faye Chevalier, Corey Qureshi and Host Ebs
2022-08-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Reading: Marion Bell, Faye Chevalier, Corey Qureshi and Host Ebs
Wednesday August 10, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
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Marion Bell is the author of Austerity (Radiator Press, 2019.) She is a queer writer and Capricorn. She has lived in the Delaware watershed for most of her life – originally in the suburbs and in Philly for the past 15 years or so.

Faye Chevalier is a Philadelphia-based poet and seltzer-appreciator. She is the author of the chapbooks future.txt and flesh_wound. Her work has been featured in bedfellows, The Wanderer, Peach Mag, Yes Poetry, the tiny, and elsewhere. She has been widely recognized as the first poet ever to have work published in a cyberpunk tabletop rpg podcast (Neoscum 2018). Find her on Twitter where she cries about River Phoenix, vampires, and having a body at @bratcore.
Corey Qureshi is a writer, musician, and parent based in Philadelphia. Their poetry, stories, and reviews of performances and visual art shows have appeared in many publications and self-made booklets.

Ebs, Host. Ebs (previously published under Emma Brown Sanders) is a genderqueer poet and editor living in Philadelphia. With Gina Myers, they co-edit the tiny. Their work has appeared in Asterion Projects, bedfellows, blush, Bone Bouquet, boneless skinless, Full Stop, Fungiculture, G U E S T, Prolit, The Rumpus and Tripwire, among others. They are the author of A Fallow Channel and a bunch of chapbooks and zines.
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Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann "justthepen" Toombs Bautista, Chukwuma Ndulue, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan
2022-08-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann “justthepen” Toombs Bautista, Chukwuma Ndulue, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan

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Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista is a mother, Grant Administrator, Playwright, Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Founder and CEO of Just The Pen, LLC, Founder of Just The Pen Foundation, Founder & Facilitator of The SisterStrength Symposium and Creator and host of “Talks with Just The Pen”. Adriann’s published works include Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King, Sanctuary of Snow and SisterStrength:She/Her/We/Me, and over 15 anthologies. “When my pen no longer touches paper upon the earth, I pray to be remembered for the faith I tried to share with everyone I came in contact with, for the light I tried to share, my concern for humanity, the connections I have established and how I tried to give space without leaving, for how I gave love in large doses without borders or judgement and for the desire I carried to have my words leave a warm impact in a cold world.”
Chukwuma Ndulue is a writer and teacher. He is the author of the chapbook Boys Quarter (Ugly Duckling Presse) and is co-founder of the Aftermath Arts Cooperative. His poetry collection Holding Rain is forthcoming from Word Galaxy Press.

Anthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while addressing issues of social justice, identity, and existence. He has 2 books, a full-length collection entitled flashes of light from the deep, and a new chapbook, Horror. An organizer and connector, he is president of the Mad Poets Society, and works to live the ideal that poetry is for everybody. Be sure to look him up on social media at anthonypalmapoetry.

Sean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows

Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect, Octavia Clarkson, Rabivatu Jalloh, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook
2022-08-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect, Octavia Clarkson, Rabivatu Jalloh, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook

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Educator-Poets
Presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Writing Project
Lyrispect is an award-winning lyricist, author,activist, educator and voiceover artist. She is an advocate for Black Folx, women, girls, people of color and marginalized communities. She is the Director of Programming for the African American Museum in Philadelphia and has held sustained leadership roles in Black Girls Rock, her work has appeared at the NAACP National Convention, The Toni Cade Bambara Conference, on two murals. Whether curating teaching, organizing or performing, she infuses in all her work the belief that honest expression with layered execution can disrupt, heal, liberate and transform.
Octavia Clarkson is blessed with the gift to write poetry, music and narratives. She has been an educator for over 15 years demonstrating her love of learning and sharing it with the community. Currently a Temple University doctoral student, she examines the importance of African women’s narratives as a ritual for cultural empowerment and identity. She began writing more poetry after being introduced to the great poets of The Black Arts Movement which she now teaches at Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP).

Rabivatu Jalloh is an English Language Arts and Social Justice Educator and Poet from Philadelphia and New York City.

Barrett Rosser is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at UPENN after over a decade of facilitating student, teacher, and adult learning as a literacy teacher, adjunct professor, teacher coach, and diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist. She is the Philadelphia Writing Project Scholar, a practitioner-scholar involved in the practice of education in schools, school districts, colleges, and universities, a dreamer, lover, and poet. She is a huge reader, and she loves giving back to her community.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts – Open Reading Follows

August 28th Poetry Reading with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Nora Hikari and Topaz Winters
2022-08-28 19:00 - 21:00 | 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.
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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,
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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

Registration Required — Use this Link:
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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

Registration is Required. Register Here:
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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

Registration Required — Use this Link:
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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
Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
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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
Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
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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
