Moonstone Arts Center

Live Poetry: Marion Deutsche Cohen, Paige Menton, & Aaron Poochigian
2023-08-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Marion Deutsche Cohen, Paige Menton, & Aaron Poochigian
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 @ 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street)
And on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrf-6qpjIvGtNxsmbaYlsKYyf_iEJ2zGlM
Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for poetry and memoir on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She is the author of 33 books; her newest poetry collection is Disturbing Shapes and her latest prose collection is Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother. This year, her work has been included in six anthologies. She teaches a course she developed, Mathematics in Literature, at Drexel University’s Honors College.

Paige Menton, author of Wrim and Twenty Miles to April lives outside of Philadelphia where she runs a land restoration organization called Journeywork and cares for the land of a Quaker meeting. She is a poet, gardener, and teacher of writing and environmental education, has led writing workshops for homeschoolers for the past fifteen years, has taught children how to garden and publishes a journal of environmental writing and art for young people called Planet A. A mixture of Socratic method and Zen koan, Wrim’s erasure poetics models the participatory learning essential to national and global health.

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the thrillers-in-verse, Mr. Either/Or and its sequel, Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.

Larry Robin Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual: Winners of 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest
2023-08-27 14:00 - 16:00 | virtual
Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest
Sunday, August 27 @ 2pm
Virtual on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh
Chad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.
Leonard Kress (winning chapbook Poppy Seeds) author of Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems, Walk Like Bo Diddley, The Orpheus Complex, Sappho’s Apples Thirteens, Braids & Other Sestinas, and The Centralia Mine Fire. His poetry, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and translations have appeared in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and Harvard Review. He has received grants in playwriting and poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, studied religion at Temple University, Poetry at Columbia University, and Polish at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, He currently teaches religion, philosophy, and English at Owens Community College.
Alina Macneal (winning chapbook After a War) is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s. Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize. She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years. Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet, Julian Tuwim. As Mark Twain said, History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Karin Molde (author of Self-Portrait with Sheep Skull), feels at home in Ireland and Germany. She teaches languages and has published in magazines like Honest Ulsterman, Light Journal, The Blue Nib, Skylight 47, and in anthologies, e.g. Everything that can happen. (Emma Press, 2019), Identity (Fly on the Wall, 2020), Remembering Toni Morrison (Moonstone Press, 2020), “New Beginnings” (Renard Press, 2021), and Ukraine War Special Edition (Poetica Review, 2022).

John Timpane (winning chapbook Buck in the Piano Room) is former Commentary Page Editor (1997-2008) and Books Editor (2014-2020) for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. His work has appeared in Sequoia, The Fox Chase Review, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rathalla Review, Per Contra, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Vocabula Review, Wild River Review, and elsewhere. Among his books is a chapbook, Burning Bush (Judith Fitzgerald/Cranberry Tree, 2010). He is the spouse of Maria-Christina Keller. They live in New Jersey.

Nathalie Anderson, Judge of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest, is author of Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, Held and Firmly Bound. Her new book, Rough, is forthcoming in 2024. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume. She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly, was Pew Fellow, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught for 39 years, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Reading hosted by the chapbook contest’s annual judge, Nathalie Anderson.
Their prize-winning chapbooks are all available for purchase on our website.

Live Poetry: Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg
2023-09-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg
Wednesday, September 6 @ 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street)

On Zoom(Zoom Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkf-GorjIrHt0InuIzJoO7o0oivHo2OOLS
Lauren Holguin is a writer, educator, & dancer from Los Angeles who now calls Philly home. She teaches K-12 neurodivergent students while pursuing her MFA in fiction and poetry at Rutgers Camden. She is the Co-creator of West Philly based Spit Poetry reading series & open mic, assistant poetry editor at Barrelhouse Magazine, and fiction reader for Story Quarterly. You can check out her poems at Subnivean Magazine & The Fourth River.

Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx writer, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. Gabriel has performed on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, United Nations, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theatre, The National Museum of Romanian Literature, and other venues. Gabriel was featured in Huffington Post, VIBE Magazine, Blavity, Upworthy, The Flama, and Remezcla. You can find his work in various spaces, including Youtube, and in publications like POETRY Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Adroit Journal, The Volta, Split This Rock, BOMB, Acentos Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly and others.
Nicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress (Furniture Press Books, 2017), Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013), and multiple chapbooks, including dear Elsie / seltzer (Bloof Books, 2023) and Fat Dreams (Barrelhouse, 2018). She is also the editor of Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press, 2011). Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic. She was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA and since 2019, she has served on the board of the American Poetry Review.
Amy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows

Which Side Are You On? - Labor Day 2023 Anthology Reading
2023-09-10 14:00 - 16:00 | virtual
Which Side Are You On?
Moonstone’s Labor Day Anthology 2023
Sunday September 10, 2pm Eastern

Virtual Poetry Reading: Register Here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-GgpzItGtEprSH7oS_w4fC9ME9T9R37

Labor is increasingly militant after years of inaction
“It’s been a fast and furious few weeks for labor. First, 3,000 workers went on strike at 150 Starbucks, then 6,000 Los Angeles hotel workers walked out, and now 11,500 Hollywood writers and 160,000 television and movie actors have gone on strike. Not only that, 340,000 UPS workers seemed ready to walk out on 1 August, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is threatening to strike one or more Detroit automakers later this summer.” – The Guardian
Join us as people read their a poem about work, labor activity, labor history, and more.

The book includes photos taken by Frank Espada and poetry written by his son, the author and people’s attorney, Martín Espada.

Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading
2023-09-12 18:30 - 19:30
Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

Watch on the PhillyCAM website
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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is author of six poetry collections, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia), 2022, with her latest chapbook, Luna, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press, 2023. Published in North American Review, Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Arts, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, The Northern Virginia Review, POEMS-FOR-ALL, Valley Voices, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chiron Review, Southern Arizona Press, among others, with poems forthcoming from Tiny Seed Literary Journal & Arlington Literary Journal. Winner of several poetry awards, including the Partisan Press Award, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford. https://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com & http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@dianesahms-uarnieri9258/featured

E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff
2023-09-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
E-Verse Equinox Reading Series with Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff
Wednesday September 13, 2023 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
On Zoom (Zoom Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsfu-opzItE9f7cd5C6rwgG98X26_pFlmY

Kathleen Ossip’s books include July, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Poetry Review (UK). She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute.
Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust, at the American Academy in Rome. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.
Ernest Hilbert, Spencer Short, and Luke Stromberg Hosts – Open Reading Follows

New Books from Moonstone Press: Virtual Reading
2023-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
New Books from Moonstone Press
September 26, 2023 – 7pm Eastern – VIRTUAL
Zoom registration required
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With featured works from:
Beth Bayley is a writer, yoga instructor, and occasional archivist who divides her time between Massachusetts and Singapore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Evening Street Review, Ghost City Review, Slant, Vox Poetica, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others.
Jefferson Carter has work in such journals as Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, and Rattle. He published his ninth collection, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems, chosen as a Southwest Best Book of 2013. Birkenstock Blues, is now available through his website: jeffersoncarterverse.com. He taught writing for 30 years at Pima Community College, the last 18 years as Writing as Department Chair. Currently, he’s a passionate supporter of Sky Island Alliance, a regionally-based environmental organization.
Flower Conroy is a LGBTQ+ writer, NEA and MacDowell Fellow and former Key West Poet Laureate, Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder was chosen as the winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition; A Sentimental Hairpin is forthcoming from Tolsun Books. Her poetry will/has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review and others.
Marjorie Gowdy writes at home in the Blue Ridge mountains, she has three chapbooks, her poetry has been published in a number of journals, including the international Friends Journal, Artemis, Streetlight, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Roanoke Review.
Richard Stimac, author of Bricolage, Of Water and of Stone, and published over thirty poems in Burningword, Clackamas, The Examined Life Journal, Faultline, Havik, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mikrokosmos, New Plains Review, Novus, Penumbra, Salmon Creek, and Wraparound South. He published flash fiction in BarBar, The Blue Mountain Review, Book of Matches, Bridge Eight, New Feathers, and more. He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing, Clepsydra, and a fiction reader for the Marine Review.
Daniel Williams, recipient of the Robinson Jeffers Poetry Prize, is a long-standing member of Poets’ West, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Poets & Writers, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule, a haiku engraved on MAVEN, the Mar’s orbiter, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His poem, Water Creatures in Yosemite Fall, was awarded first place for poems in the California Federation of Chaparral Poets’ contest for 2022.
Theresa Wyatt, a Buffalo native, is a retired teacher. She is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, and her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review, Spillway, Snapdragon, steel bellow, The Ekphrastic Review, The Healing Muse, The Phare, W.W. Norton’s New Micro, and elsewhere. She credits her artistic parents, participation in the Siena, Italy Program during college, and teaching in the NYS prison system and abroad – as the major influences on her life.

New Voices Fall 2023: Live Reading
2023-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St
Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023
November 16th at 6pm
Hosted: Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street
In cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!

New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.

We tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike, look alike, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.

Join us on November 16th at 6pm at the Literature Department of the Parkway Central location of the Philadelphia Free Library.

A virtual reading will be held on November 19th as well for poets who are not local to Philadelphia.

New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading
2023-11-19 14:00 - 15:30
Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023
November 19th at 2pm
Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP

Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!

New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.

We tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike, look alike, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.

Join us on November 19th at 2pm online to support the next generation of poets and writers.

Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, & Lawrence Dugan
2023-12-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub
7PM ET & on Zoom
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf

Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade.
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies, Whirlwind Magazine, Bomb Magaine, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP.
Lawrence Dugan’s new book, The Sea again: Poems, made up of poems that first appeared in magazines and journals such as Daedqlus, Arion, Cyphers, The Gettysburg Review, Nation Review and others. He is retired from The Free Library of Philadelphia where he once ran the Monday Poets Series.

Larry Robi, Host – Open Reading Follows

Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis
2024-01-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr
Wednesday January 3, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
Registration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B
Charles S. Carr from Philadelphia graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 years. Charles has been a lay missionary for Hands Together raising money to serve the poorest of the poor in Haiti. He has two books of poems paradise, pennsylvania, (Cradle Press, 2009) and Haitian Mudpies and Other Poems, (Moonstone Press, 2013). In 2008, one of Charles’s poems won first place in Mad Poets Review. His poems have been published in local and national print and online poetry journals, For five years Charles hosted the second Tuesday Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub. For the past seven years he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry, a monthly broadcast from Philly CAM. Charles has one son, Evan, and is married to award-winning artist Karen Stabenow. His latest chapbook is Eat This Poem with Moonstone Press.
Proceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain.
David Kertis, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied creative writing with David Young, and has lived in Philadelphia since 1978. He is married and works as a claims adjuster. In Philadelphia, he has studied with Leonard Gontarek and Eleanor Wilner. He has been published on line in Frigate and Apiary and given a number of readings in the Philadelphia area. His book, Word of the Day, has recently been published.
Leonard Gontarek Host, Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock
2024-01-09 18:30 - 19:30
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock
Tuesday January 9, 2023 @ 6:30pm VIRTUAL
Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website
Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

Autumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook, Dirt Bird, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press, and poems of hers have appeared in The Account, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, and The Georgia Review, among others. She is Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. Find her online at autumnmcclintock.com.

Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher
2024-01-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher
Wednesday January 10, 2024 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
And on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-msrDgjGNDxkIxf_eV0ZxVv2dn-IOG61/17/2024
Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. Whatever it is jazz performers do when they blow into their horn as Levin does a lot of it, on tenor saxophone and flute. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience and to the chagrin of hipsters who insist jazz poetry is a form of torture, worse than cold showers. Other listeners might find the entire free jazz experience itself torture, in which case it’s back to the beginning as far as advice regarding Levin: there is nothing watered-down or weak about his performances, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible to the novices, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy.
Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Rucker has released five albums and collaborated with a wide range of artists outside of the field of poetry, including The Roots, musicians and Pew Fellows Jamaaladeen Tacuma and King Britt, and, most recently, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Clarence Williams III.
“I stand for poetry as a source of profound truth. That truth, for me, is connected to the idea that cities are places that redeem our strivings and leave us longing; the ways family life shapes and shakes us, and brings us back; and the thought that artists safeguard stories and struggles” Ursula Rucker
Yolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and currently serves as chair of the Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. She co-founded Germantown Poetry Festival and served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts from, founded of School of Guerrilla Poetics, a training ground for folks interested in nurturing and mobilizing communities through poetryand with Trapeta B. Mayson she co-founded ConsenSIS, an initiative that seeks to count, gather, and memorialize Black femme poets in the Philadelphia area. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change, and last year, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow.
Larry Robin, Host

Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven, Pat Rodgers, and Robert Zell
2024-01-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards, Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University, works as a technical writer, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Delana, and their cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. He has had both fiction and poetry published, by Assure Press, Animal Heart Press, Thirty West Publishing, and more.
Pat Rodgers is a poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in Neptune and several Moonstone anthologies. Recall is the title of his first chapbook.
Robert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine, North of Oxford, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club.
Sean Hanrahan Host, Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler
2024-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
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W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work, a poem about Swarthmore College, appeared seven years later in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the following year eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Exclusively a poet until he was almost 30, he has since written and published a wide variety of nonfiction prose from 400-word newspaper commentaries to 40-page scholarly essays to 400-page personal narratives. The influence of Ehrhart’s encounter with the Vietnam War can readily be seen in his writing, but though he is known primarily as a “Vietnam War poet,” in fact his subject matter ranges widely.
M. L. Liebler is a internationally known Detroit poet, university professor, literary arts activist and arts organizer. He is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream, has read and performed his work around the world, taught English, Creative Writing, American Studies, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University and he is the founding director of both The National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit’s Metro Time, and his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the Jams was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award.

Live Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
2024-01-28 14:00 - 17:00 | The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Sunday January 28, 2024 – 2pm
Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street
We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse.
Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event over Zoom on Monday. Last year we presented 50 poets at each event.

Virtual Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
2024-01-29 14:00 - 16:00
27th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
Monday, January 29th, 2024 – 2PM
Virtual on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduytqjwjG9dP-hVrP8szAyz7uxDeUXTe
We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event on zoom on Monday. Last year we presented 50 poets at each event.

Live Poetry: House Poet @ Fergie's with Lindsay Hargrave and Noah David Roberts
2024-01-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday, January 31st – 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
And over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd–tpj4uEtTGjg-a2O9NZBvpHqx9GFyw
Welcome to House Poet @ Fergie’s
Since March 2022, House Poet has strived to bring together writers, dancers, DJs and musicians alike. Join us in 2024 as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergie’s, featuring an open reading, featured readers, live music and a soundtrack you can bounce to.
Lindsay Hargrave is a poet, editor at Graphic Violence, and a copywriter for Temple University. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Hargrave or follow @notporkroll on Twitter. Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet, the author of 6 collections, including Mutable Forests. In 2022, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry contest. They are a 2023 Pushcart nominee. You can learn more on Instagram at @the.apocalypse.poet.
Warren Longmire Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with g emil reutter
2024-02-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Featuring – g emil reutter
Tuesday February 6, 2024 – 6:30pm – EST – VIRTUAL
Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website
Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have been published, most recently, Until Next Time – Selected Poems 1990-2022. A chapbook, Glint- Down the Shore Poems is pending release.
He can be found here: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/
Videos: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/videos/
Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry: Emiliano Martín, Diane McManus, Keith Woodrow, & Robert Zaller
2024-02-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday February 7, 2024 – 7pm -LIVE
Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
OR on Zoom (Registration Required):
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Emiliano Martín is Spanish born and an advocate of the spoken word, he is the founder of Philadelphia Poetry Forum for the NE Regional Public Library. Past President of Pennsylvania Poetry Society (PPS, Inc) has also served as the Executive Director of Latin American Guild for the Arts (LAGA) in Philadelphia. Author of more than a dozen books of Poetry, like “Selected Bilingual Poems” (2023), at this time he is proud to introduce… his latest title: “Songs out of the Drawer” (2024). Martín is a longtime resident in the Philadelphia area and his verse keeps moving on.
Diane McManus teaches in the English Department of Community College of Philadelphia as an adjunct, writes, swims (including marathon swims), and reflects on the colors of rivers. Her poetry has appeared in Listening Eye, Philadelphia Poets, Mad Poets Review, and in two Moonstone anthologies: the 26th Anniversary Poetry Ink, as well as The Struggle for Liberty.
Keith Woodrow studied Classics at the University of Southern California, focusing on queer Roman poetry. He has been published in New York Quarterly, Moonstone Arts Center Annual Poetry Ink, and River River Journal. He was also a Brooklyn Poets Yawp Poet of the Month.
Robert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Drexel University. Poet, critic, and historian, his books of verse include Speaking to Power and The Dresden Zoo, both published by Moonstone Press.
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Virtual Poetry: David Eberhardt, Stephen Jones, Marjorie Moorhead, Daniel Williams, & Samantha Wright
2024-02-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
Thursday February 8, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual
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David Eberhardt, author of Melange, The Tree Calendar, Blue Running Lights, and Poems from the Website, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two others he poured blood on draft files in 1967 to protest the Viet Nam war. For that action, he spent 21 months in Lewisburg Federal Prison. He has completed a peace movement memoir, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. In 2020 he won the Enoch Pratt Library/ Little Patuxent Review prize for poetry.
Stephen Jones has lived in Detroit for more than forty years, has worked as a journalist, high school English teacher and university history instructor. He is a student of Zen Buddhism, which sparked his interest in such ancient Chinese poets as Han Shan, Su Tung’p’o, Tu Fu, Li Po, and Po Chu-i. Jones’ poems have appeared in Abandon Automobile, an anthology of Detroit poets; Maxis Review; Poet in the House; Buddhist Poetry Review; Third Wednesday, and Temenos.
Marjorie Moorhead lives and writes at the border of NH/VT. She is author of poetry collections Every Small Breeze, What I Ask, and chapbooks Survival: Trees, Tides, Song and Survival Part 2: Trees, Birds, Ocean, Bees. Marjorie’s work appears in journals including Amethyst Review, Tiny Seed Literary, Moist Poetry Journal, Bloodroot Literary, Sheila-Na-Gig, Porter House Review, Poeming Pigeon, Verse-Virtual, What Rough Beast, A River Sings, The Poet’s Touchstone, and others. Her poems are included in anthologies benefitting environmental, women’s, Covid first responder, and refugee aid organizations. She has a poem in The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews, ed. 2023). Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4th Friday Poets.
Daniel Williams has published in many journals and anthologies, he is a long-standing member of Poets’ West, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Poets & Writers, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule, a haiku engraved on MAVEN, the Mar’s orbiter, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His California inspired poems have been featured in Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle Anthologies, Gathering 14 and Gathering 15.
Samantha Wright, author of Edges Holding Edges and Postcards from the West, lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Beyond Words, Prometheus Dreaming, Pontoon Poetry, Minerva Arts, Welter, Cathexis Northwest, among others. Her debut chapbook, Edges Holding Edges, was published by Moonstone Arts in 2022. She currently divides her time between writing and teaching yoga.

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Live Poetry: Joshua Barnes, Sarah Browning, Eileen M. D’Angelo, & Juniper Sweeney
2024-02-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Readings
Wednesday February 14, 2024 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street
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Joshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband. His poetry has previously appeared in &Change, Olney Magazine, Impossible Archetype, Philadelphia Stories, and Moonstone Press. When not writing, he can be found reading poetry, horror fiction, and comic books, and perfecting his handstands. He can be found on Instagram @ jsb1800.
Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poetry of Provocation & Witness for 10 years. She is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Browning is a recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Yaddo, Mesa Refuge, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. She has been guest editor or co-edited special issues of Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Delaware Poetry Review, and three issues of POETRY magazine.
Eileen M. D’Angelo, twice nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts, she received two Pushcart Prize / Best of the Small Press nominations from Verse Magazine and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Her poetry, essays and book reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, the News of Delaware County, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century, Manhattan Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, Drexel Online Journal, Wild River Review, Philadelphia Stories, Philadelphia Poets, The Independent Review, Negative Capability, One Trick Pony, and others.
Juniper Sweeney is a nonbinary trans poet, queer community contributor, and outdoorsthem. She helped expand the Philadelphia Voices of Pride as part of their board and is excited to start sharing her own developing creative voice. She also helps organize Phlash, Philadelphia’s gay climbing community, and especially loves climbing outdoors and connecting new climbers to a practice that brings her joy and embodiment. This is their first time being featured and she’s deeply excited to be a new member of the Philadelphia poetry community
Sean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry - Fatal Force: Poetic Justice
2024-02-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
Fatal Force: Poetic Justice
Saturday February 17, 2024 – 7pm EST Virtual
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As of December 4, 2023, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023).
Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14, 2023. On August 15th, Philadelphia police changed their story, stating that Irizarry was actually in the car when he was shot six times. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw stated that officers’ body-worn camera footage “made it very clear that what we initially reported was not actually what happened.” Read more about the details and legal proceedings here:
(The Killing of Eddie Irizarry).
Martín Espada recently wrote a poem entitled, “Officer Mark Dial, Who Shot Eddie Irizarry, Will Be Fired for Insubordination” to elegize the innocent young man whose alleged murder this past August is an outrage.
Fatal Force : Poetic Justice contributors, featuring Martín Espada, will read their work virtually on February 17th to honor poet/activist, Julia de Burgos’ birthday. She was the foremother for the Nuyorican Poetry Movement in New York who advocated for anti-imperialism and social justice. Fatal Force: Poetic Justice commemorates her ideals.
Presented by Taller Puertorriqueño, Casa de Duende, and Moonstone

Although not everyone will be reading, we have poems by these poets

Mary Anne Abdo
Sonia Aggarwal
Austin Alexis
Star Anderson
Naomi Ayala
Diane Bier
Steve Bloom
Christopher Butters
Cameron Carvalho
Raheem Curry
Martin Espada
Steven Halpern
Zita Holbourne
Ace Howlen
Jane Ellen Ibur
Irving Jones
Ron Kolm
Donald Krieger
Mindy Kronenberg
D Lang
Jeffrey lee
Kostya Malukhin
Aurora McKee
Samuel Miranda
David Mook
Deeci Murphy
Jane Muschenetz
Maureen Nolan
George Northrup
Tauwan Patterson
Alex Phuong
Rescue Poetix
Susana Praver-Perez
David Radavich
Alexis Raymond
Sultana Raza
Janet Restino
Joe Roarty
Jake Rogers
Mykyta Ryzhykh
India Shank
Calvin Shaw
Larissa Shmailo
Megha Sood
Rowan Tate
Alyssa Velazquez
Eike Waltz
Bruce Whitacre
Martin Wiley
Glenn Wright
Samantha Wright

Virtual Poetry: Remembering Audre Lorde
2024-02-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992)

Sunday February 18, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL
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The Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples and of organizing in coalition across differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, age and ability. An internationally recognized activist and artist, Audre Lorde was the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit, which conferred the mantle of New York State poet for 1991-93. In designating her New York State’s Poet Laureate, Governor Mario Cuomo observed: “Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty, of sexual prejudice…She cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere.” Join us as poets remember.

Live Poetry: Chris Bullard, L.M. Camiolo, & Noah David Roberts
2024-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday February 21, 2024 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Chris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia, PA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a MFA from Wilkes University. He has had thirteen books published, including poetry, short fiction and monologues. In 2022, Main Street Rag published his poetry chapbook, Florida Man, and Moonstone Press published his poetry chapbook, The Rainclouds of y. His poetry has appeared recently in Canary, Devil, Stonecrop, Wrath-Bearing Tree, Waccamaw and other publications. He was nominated this year for the Pushcart Prize.

L.M. Camiolo is co-founder of Impostor, a poetry journal, and is a former poetry editor for Toho Journal. Her work can be found in Troublemaker Firestarter, The Minison Zine, The Daily Drunk, Bullshit Lit, and elsewhere. Originally from New York, she currently lives and writes in Philadelphia.

Noah David Roberts (they/them) is a non-binary poet and artist attending University of the Arts. Roberts is the author of 6 poetry collections, including What I Do in the Dark and Mutable Forests. Roberts has poems published in Anti-Heroin Chic, Tribes Magazine, Horror Sleaze Trash, and more. Their Instagram handle is @the.apocalypse.poet.

Sean Hanrahan Host, Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023
2024-02-25 14:00 - 16:00 | The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023
Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
In 2023, Moonstone Arts Center hosted over 100 events with almost 300 poets and an audience of close to 3000. Join us for a reading with our featured poets of 2023.
Featured Poets (not all will read):
David Acosta
Nathalie Anderson
Catherine Bancroft
Peter Baroth
Elliott batTzedek
Beth Bayley
Matilda Bray
Cydney Brown
Steve Burke
Charles Carr
Jefferson Carter
Mac Chandler
Liz Chang
George Elliott Clarke
Marion Deutsche Cohen
Cathleen Cohen
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey
Jim Cory
C. M. Crockford
Gregory Crosby
Terence Culleton
Pheralyn Dove
Lawrence Dugan
W. D. Ehrhart
Joseph Farley
James Feichthaler
Doris Ferleger
Sibelan Forrester
Adam Gianforcaro
Leonard Gontarek
Marjorie Gowdy
Sean Hanrahan
Jared Harél
Betti E. Kahn
Vasiliki Katsarou
Dev Kiyota
Leonard Kress
Mabel Lee
Joanne Leva
Elliott Levin
Lynn Levin
Alison Lubar
Terri Lyons
Joseph Thomas Makoviecki
Emiliano Martín
Paige Menton
Sharnita Midgett
Karin Molde
Steve Nolan
Hermond Palmer
Faith Paulsen
g emil reutter
Don Riggs
Ruth A. Rouff
Lynda Gene Rymond
Diane Sahms
George Schaefer
Daniel Simpson
Heather H. Thomas
Matthew Thorburn
John Timpane
Cleveland Wall
Evan Wang
Arlene Weiner
Sharon White
Daniel Williams
David Worrell
Monika Wysong
Sekai’afua Zankel

Live Poetry: Liz Abrams-Morley & Amy Small-Mckinney
2024-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday February 28, 2024 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of the forthcoming Because Time, as well as of Beholder, Inventory, and Necessary Turns, which won an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press Publishing. In 2020 she was named the Passager Poet of the year in Passager Journal’s annual contest. Liz’s poems and short stories have been published in a variety of nationally distributed anthologies, journals and ezines, and have been read on NPR. A semi-retired faculty member in the Rosemont College MFA program, she is co-founder of Around the Block Writers’ Collaborative. A poet, professor, gramma and activist, Liz wades knee deep in the flow of everyday life from which she draws inspiration and, occasionally, exasperation.

Amy Small-McKinney, Montgomery County Poet Laureate Emeritus, is the author of the forthcoming book of poems, & You Think It Ends, as well as, Walking Toward Cranes, winner of the 2016 Kithara Book Prize, and One Day I Am A Field, written during COVID and her husband’s illness and death. For the 2020 virtual AWP, she co-moderated an interactive discussion, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief During COVID. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Banyan Review, Comstock Review, One Art, Pedestal Magazine, Persimmon Tree, Philadelphia Stories, SWWIM, Tiferet, Verse Daily, and Vox Populi, among others, and have been translated into Korean and Romanian.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows

Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6th
2024-03-03 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Virtual -2pm EST
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Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6, 2021
Moonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter called Traitor (you can read the poem on our website) on the January 6 insurrection which made me realize that this was an issue we have not responded to yet.
More than 2,000 rioters entered the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, many of whom vandalized and looted the building. Rioters assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm. A gallows was erected west of the Capitol. Some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” after he rejected false claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results. Five people died, more people were injured, including 174 police officers. As of July 7, 2022, monetary damages caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. More than 1,230 people have been charged over the course of three years, with many trials still pending. Join us as poets reflect.

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
2024-03-05 18:30 - 20:30 | Virtual
Tuesday MARCH 5, 2024
6:30pm – VIRTUAL
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website
Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Elliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award for her translations, and a residency at Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women. Her poems, essays, and translations have been published in the journals including American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Sakura Review, Apiary, Cahoodaloodaling, Naugatuck River Review, Poemeleon, Poetica, Philadelphia Stories, Sinister Wisdom, Trivia, The Lesbian Review of Books, Lambda Literary Online, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Reconstructionism Today, DoubleSpeak, Menacing Hedge. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: Beside Still Waters, Who by Plague: High Holy Days Sermons from COVID19 Times, Passageways: The 2012 Two Lines Translation Anthology, Overplay/Underdone, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, the English edition of the 2013 Hebrew anthology Israeli Women’s Protest Poetry ed. by Dorit Weisman, and the Oxford University Press textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference.

For her day jobs, Elliott works multiple roles within the bookselling industry: as an event manager at a bookstore, as the Member Manager for a Regional Indie Bookstore Trade Association; as the administrator for the Professional Booksellers School; and as the dean of that school’s course in Event Management. Photo Credit: Darla Himeles
Charles S. Carr, Host

LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello, Airea D. Matthews, and Artress Bethany White
2024-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday March 6, 2024 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link:
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Jessica Cuello author of Yours, Creature, Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt and Pricking. Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015), By Fire (2013), and Curie (2011). She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY.
Airea D. Matthews is the author of Bread and Circus and Simulacra, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson describes Matthews’s experimental forms in Simulacra as “Fugues, text messages to the dead, imagined outtakes from Wittgenstein, tart mini-operas, fairy tales: Matthews is virtuosic, frantic, and darkly, very darkly, funny.” Matthews’s work has appeared in Callaloo, Best American Poets 2015, Harvard Review, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award, the 2016 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts award, fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the James Merrill House. She associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and was Philadelphia’s sixth poet laureate.
Artress Bethany White is a poet, essayist, and literary critic, author of My Afmerica, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Pleiades, Solstice, Poet Lore, Ecotone, Birmingham Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and the Hopkins Review. White has received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction, the Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and writing residencies at the Writer’s Hotel and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania.
