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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Wednesday February 28th\, 2018 - 7pm
DESCRIPTION:Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem\, Palestine and moved to the U.S. when he was 18 years old. He is a poet\, scholar\, and translator of Arabic literature. His set of poems “Recourse\,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Jacket 2\, Track//Four\, All Roads Will Lead You Home\, Apiary and forthcoming in Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by Refugees and Supplement. \n  \n \nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. A three-time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, Black Renaissance Noire\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. She has served as a Poetry Mentor for the Blueshift Journal’s Speakeasy Project\, and is the creator of Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop for immigrant poets in Philadelphia. \nAn open reading will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHosts: Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-wednesday-february-28th-2018-7pm/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Cafe\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Wednesday February 21st\, 2018 - 7pm
DESCRIPTION:Romance\, with Courtney K. Bambrick. She is poetry editor of Philadelphia Stories and her work has appeared in print or online in Apiary\, Certain Circuits\, Dirty Napkin\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Courtney has taught composition\, creative writing\, and literature at a number of colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area. \n  \n \nPeter Baroth is a writer\, visual artist\, musician\, and sometimes editor. He’s recently published his first full-length book of poetry\, Lost Autographs\, with Moonstone Press. His poetry\, short stories\, and artwork have appeared in a variety of print and online journals including Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and elsewhere. \n  \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHost: Suzan Jivan
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-1201-spruce-street-wednesday-february-21st-2018-7pm/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Wednesday February 14th\, 2018 - 7pm
DESCRIPTION:Savannah Cooper-Ramsey is a poet and a member of Philly’s Art Dept Collective. Her conceptual chapbook projects\, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles and The Self and Other Jokes\, will be released by Waterhouse Ltd Press in Spring 2018. Her poems have appeared in Whirlwind Magazine\, the 2017 Moonstone Anthology\, and elsewhere. She is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and teaches at Drexel. \n  \nLynn Hoffmn is a master of moments\, stacking them together like photographs to make a coherent statement about the need for sex and love to cohere. He writes\, “Sometimes the lack is half the joy.” He’s a lyrical poet\, creating music through the repetition of lines. The language has a rock and roll bounce; I see him as a modern Yeats\, taking on the discordance of love and sex\, transforming them into poetry that remains breath-taking and heart-wrenching. —Hal Sirowitz\, Author of Mother Said\, Former Poet Laureate of Queens\, Winner of the Nebraska Book Award. \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHost: Dave Worrel
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-wednesday-february-14th-2018-7pm/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T190000
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CREATED:20180129T205624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T205823Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Wednesday February 7th\, 2018 - 7pm
DESCRIPTION:Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet\, activist\, Vietnam Veteran\, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. Steptoe has a clear\, direct and matter-of-fact approach and his language is rich and revealing to his socio-cultural subject matter. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry\, has performed his work at the Library of Congress\, the National Library of Nicaragua\, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival\, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris\, the Knitting Factory\, the Schomburg Center for Black Culture\, and various colleges. An open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHost: Sean Lynch
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-wednesday-february-7th-7pm/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20180129T203812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T205937Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Tuesday February 6th\, 2018 - 6:30pm
DESCRIPTION:Poetry as a Home for the Homeless: Host: Charles S. Carr\, Poetry from One Step Away\, featuring Richard “Ram” Ramson*\, Tammy Mitchell* and Joseph Albater* \nThere are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia are. They represent every form of poetry\, ethnic background\, age\, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month over Comcast Cable 66/966 HD/967 and Verizon FIOS 29/30. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us! \nOne Step Away\, a nonprofit organization that produces a monthly street paper\, raises awareness while creating jobs for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. \n“One Step Away is a fantastic organization giving real opportunities to the homeless or those on the verge of being homeless. The program gives its vendors the opportunity to earn an income with a low barrier to entry. The work is by no means easy. The vendors are on their feet all day and have to learn a surprisingly large amount about entrepreneurship–budgeting\, inventory management\, customer service\, and business planning to name a few. One Step Away makes a real in hard working peoples’ lives as they climb out of the troubles any of us could one day face. Please consider helping to expand the program and be sure to visit your local vendors!” – Erik Hudzik\, October 4\, 2016 \n*One Step Away Vendors and poets
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-699-ranstead-street-tuesday-february-6th-630pm/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T210000
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CREATED:20171205T210707Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub
DESCRIPTION:Continuing our Wednesday night readings at Fergie’s and sending us into the second month of 2018 will be a few familiar faces in Nathelie Anderson\, Alicia Askenase\, and Herman Beavers! \nMore details tba
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-5/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171205T210412Z
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SUMMARY:No River Twice: Improvisational Poetry "ImproPo"
DESCRIPTION:A new addition to our stable of poetry events\, join us for Improvisational Poetry at Fergie’s for what is certain to be a one-of-a-kind afternoon! \nMore details tba
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/no-river-twice-improvisational-poetry-impropo/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180124T210000
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CREATED:20171205T210006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T210006Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub
DESCRIPTION:Readers tba \nOpen mic will follow \nHosted by Jennifer Hook and Alina MacNeal
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-4/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180121T170000
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CREATED:20171205T205758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T210123Z
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SUMMARY:A Philadelphia Tribute to Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of our chapbook that collects local poetry made in tribute to Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon! Contributors will read their selections from the chapbook\, which will be available for sale to the public during the event. \nMore details tba
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/a-philadelphia-tribute-to-kimmika-l-h-williams-witherspoon/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171121T214106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T214139Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub
DESCRIPTION:Jacob Russell lives in South Philly where he writes\, plays barroom pool\, and grows tomatoes and basil in the little strip of a garden in front of his apartment. Paul Siegell is the author of  wild life rifle fire\, jambandbootleg and Poemergency Room. He has contributed to American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Coconut\, Rattle\, and many other fine journals. Paul is a copywriter by day and a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly by choice. An open mic will follow the featured readers. Suzan Jivan\, host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-3/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180109T193000
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CREATED:20171205T204817Z
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry: The Moonstone Chapbooks
DESCRIPTION:The newest Moonstone poets sit down to read their poetry and discuss the context of their writings. This event is also broadcast LIVE on PhillyCAM (Comcast channel 66/966 and Verizon channel 29/30). \nMore details tba.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-the-moonstone-chapbooks/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171220T210000
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CREATED:20171121T212702Z
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SUMMARY:Debs of December - Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Burnham\, author of Anna and the Steel Mill\, Still and  a volume ofpoetry\, is the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department and teaches poetry and poetry writing\, with a particular interest in formal poems and in the history of women’s poetry at UPENN. Deborah Fox found her love for poetry as a result of a 5th grade homework assignment and has been writing poetry ever since. She is author of Treasures in Darkness and In the Stillness. Deborah Fries is a poet and non-fiction writer whose work reflects her interest in environmental\, medical and social issues. She is the author of two books of poetry and her recent poems and essays appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer\, Grit\, Gravity & Grace\, 0-Dark-Thirty\, Philadelphia Stories\, Terrain.org\, Narrative Matters and Poet Lore.  Debra Leigh Scott is a multi-disciplined artist – a singer\, writer\, playwright\, documentary filmmaker as well as an activist whose work focuses largely in areas of education rights and economic justice. She is the Founding Director of Hidden River Arts and her fiction has appeared in such literary journals as The Oxford American\, The Chattahoochee Review\, River City\, Words of Wisdom\, TPQ\, The Abiko Quarterly (Japan)\, Purnev (Portugal) and The Ashen Eye (Thailand) \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers\, Suzan Jivan\, Host.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/debs-of-december-moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe/
LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171213T210000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café
DESCRIPTION: Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections\, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook\, Named After Death. In 2013\, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel\, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems\, Kill Class is forthcoming\, based on two years of fieldwork she conducted within war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military across America. Stone has a PhD in Anthropology\, and MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson\, and teaches at Princeton University. \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers\, Dave Worrell\, host.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-2/
LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171121T211640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T211759Z
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poet Laureates @PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSonia Sanchez\, Philadelphia’s First Poet Laureate\, Yolanda Wisher is the 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia\, Husnaa Hashim is the current Youth PoetLaureate\,  David Jones is a former Youth Poet Laureate. \nHost: Charles S. Carr
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poet-laureates-phillycam/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171121T201743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T210505Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café
DESCRIPTION:Angel Murray-Kelly is a singer/songwriter\, LGBTQ+ youth advocate\, vegetarian\, & local Philly youth poet. David Jones is a Philadelphia native\, poet\, writer\, performer\, Temple University student\, and Youth Poet Laureate Emeritus of Philadelphia. Christian Warrick  is a Philadelphia-born Maori-American poet and story writer. He’s a junior at the University of Pennsylvania\, majoring in English and minoring in Education. An open mic will follow the featured readers. Alina Macneal& Jennifer Hook\, hosts
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe/
LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20170920T205710Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Gold @ Fergie’s Pub Presents Afaa M. Weaver Interviewed by Earnest Hilbert
DESCRIPTION:Tickets $15.00\, Students with ID – $7.50 – available at Square.com \nIn 2014\, Weaver completed his Plum Flower Trilogy with the publication of his 14th collection of poetry\, City of Eternal Spring. A Los Angeles Times review of the trilogy echoed previous critical evaluations of his oeuvre to date: “Compared to Whitman by the poet Michael Harper and critic Arnold Rampersad\, Weaver brings in new voices and experiences to American poetry\, and like Whitman he sings and celebrates himself. … poems written in the black vernacular … with their short\, crisp lines\, and with great attention to detail and with great compassion\, take us to inner city Baltimore\, to his mother’s kitchen and his grandmother’s bedside\, to the basketball court\, the factory\, and the front stoop to show the different experiences\, voices\, histories that are part of his own unique development.” \nIn Spirit Boxing ($15.95\, Pitt Poetry Series)\, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore\, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working class. He writes with an intimacy that is unique in American poetry\, and echoes previous comparisons of his oeuvre to that of Walt Whitman. The singularity of his voice resonates here through the prism of his realization of self through a lifelong project of the integration of American and Chinese culture. The work is Daoist in influence and structure as it echoes both a harmonic realization of context and the intuitive and transcendent dance of body\, mind\, and spirit. Books will be available for purchase and to be autographed.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-gold-fergies-pub-presents-afaa-m-weaver-interviewed-by-earnest-hilbert/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171110T204022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171110T204022Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street
DESCRIPTION:John Oliver Mason\, author of All of the Above \n“Like every writer\, I have tried to find a place to publish my material-what better motivation to write than to find some place to write for? I read an article in The Writer which had an essay about how writers should have their own e-mail newsletter; so I started one. Now\, ten years later\, The Mason Missile still goes on as my platform for my beliefs and causes\, as well as the milestones and incidents of my life. All of the Above is a collection of my poems and of the Mason Missile.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-1201-spruce-street-3/
LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171110T203758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171110T203758Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nBrandon H. Blake has been an artist throughout his life\, eventually studying Fine Arts at Millersville University. Primarily\, he has been writing haikus as well as exploring other traditional forms of poetry throughout the last ten to fifteen years. \n  \n \n  \nPoet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival\, the Women’s Writing and Spoken Word Series\, the Black Women’s Art Festival and Lady Fest Philly. Her poetry has appeared in small press poetry journals and the Chesapeake Bay Poets Anthology. An open mic will follow the featured readers. \n  \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. Suzan Jivan\, host \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-10/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20171110T202542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171110T203444Z
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SUMMARY:Release Party for Home(less) @ Brandywine Workshop\, 728 S Broad Street
DESCRIPTION:  \nPoetry by Krisann Janowitz\, Photography by Harvey Finkle\n \n  \n  \nKrisann Janowitz – “I wanted to show my readers that those we label as “bums”\, “hobos”\, “beggars”\, etc are just people\, like you and me. That is what I have experienced through befriending members of a tent city in Bucks County and that is what all too many of us forget when we walk by men and women laying on our city’s sidewalks\, asking for money.” \n  \n  \nHarvey Finkle – “In the beginning\, I walked streets and eventually would end up on Skid Row\, Philly’s Bowery\, and meet those living on the street or 25cent a night rooming houses. It was enlightening to learn this was not a group monolithically depicted as alcoholics or disturbed individuals. Their reasons for dropping out were much more varied than our conventional wisdoms. For months\, I photographed these casualties\, motivated by the same feelings conveyed in these powerful poems.”
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/release-party-for-homeless-brandywine-workshop-728-s-broad-street/
LOCATION:Brandywine Workshop\, 728 S. Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19146\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T034321
CREATED:20170920T200713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T204153Z
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SUMMARY:Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks
DESCRIPTION:African American Museum in Philadelphia\, 701 Arch St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19106 \nFree with Reduced Museum Admission of $5.00 \nPoet\, educator\, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate\, Brook’s poetry\, fiction\, and social commentary shed light on the beauty of humanity\, the distinct qualities of black life and community\, and the destructive effects of racism\, sexism\, and class inequality. \nAn informal discussion honoring Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial with Herman Beavers\, Margo Natalie Crawford\, Sonia Sanchez\, and Lamont Steptoe. \n“But each time I read Miss Brooks\, each time I revisit her poems\, they climb up on my knees and sit in tight contentment. They speak to me of form and color\, patterns and dawns. They talk of myths: they tell me where flesh lives\, where a troop of young heroes and sheroes lean back in chairs. “beautiful. Imprudent. Ready for life’ Where the young ‘Live not for battles won. /Live not for the-end-of-the-song/Live in the along’” -Sonia Sanchez \n“If a person from another planet continent or culture wishes to gain insight into the inner working\, the comings and goings of black people in America\, an excellent place to begin a formal or informal education is with the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks.”-Haki R. Madubuti \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nHERMAN BEAVERS is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania\, he has been teaching African American Literature and Creative Writing since 1989. His poems have appeared in Whiskey Island\, Cross Connect\, Black American Literature Forum (presently titled The African American Review)\, Dark Phrases\, The Cincinnati Poetry Review\, Peregrine\, The Painted Bride Quarterly\, Callaloo\, MELUS\, The Langston Hughes Colloquy\, Versadelphia\, Cleaver Magazine\, and American Arts Quarterly\, as well as the anthology\, Gathering Ground: A Cave Canem Reader. His chapbook\, A Neighborhood of Feeling won first prize in the Doris Press Chapbook competition. His poems have been nominated for The Best American Poetry series\, The Best of the Web\, and nominated three times for The Pushcart Prize in Poetry. He has been a finalist for the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award\, the Kathryn A. Morton Poetry Prize\, and the Lena Miles Wever Poetry Prize. Dr. Beavers has recently completed work on a chapbook of poems\, The Vernell Poems an d a full length poetry manuscript. His chapbook\, Obsidian Blues\, is forthcoming from Agape Editions as part of its Morning House Chapbook Series. \nMARGO NATALIE CRAWFORD is the author of Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (Ohio State University Press\, 2008) and the coeditor\, with Lisa Gail Collins\, of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (Rutgers University Press\, 2006). Her essays appear in a wide range of books and journals\, including American Literature\, Want to Start a Revolution?\, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Since 1945\, The Modernist Party\, Callaloo\, Black Camera\, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art\, Black Renaissance Noire\, and James Baldwin: Go Tell It on the Mountain; Historical and Critical Essays. She is on the editorial board of the Society for Textual Scholarship\, the James Baldwin Review\, and the Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature. She is now completing “Black Post-Blackness: the 1960s and 70s Roots of 21st Century Black Aesthetics.” Margo has participated in programs with Gwendolyn Brooks in Chicago in the past. She was the faculty director of Cornell’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research program\, and now works as an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania. \nSONIA SANCHEZ  is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry\, as well as short stories\, critical essays\, plays\, and children’s books. She was a recipient of 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts\, the Lucretia Mott Award for 1984\, the Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women\, and the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. In 2001\, Sanchez was the recipient of the Robert Frost Medal for her poetry (one of the highest honors awarded to a nationally recognized poet)\, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities for 1988\, the Peace and Freedom Award from the Women International League for Peace and Freedom\, and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award for 1999. She has lectured at over 500 universities and colleges in the United States and has traveled extensively\, reading her poetry in Africa\, Cuba\, England\, the Caribbean\, Australia\, Europe\, Nicaragua\, the People’s Republic of China\, Norway\, and Canada. She has been influential to other African-American female poets\, including Krista Franklin. \nLAMONT STEPTOE is a poet\, activist\, Vietnam Veteran\, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He is a graduate of Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater\, where he majored in Radio\, Television\, and Film. Steptoe has a clear\, direct and matter-of-fact approach to his socio-cultural subject matter and his language is rich and revealing. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry and is the editor of two collections of poems by South African poet\, Dennis Brutus. He has performed his work at the Library of Congress\, the National Library of Nicaragua\, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival\, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris\, the Knitting Factory\, the Schomburg Center for Black Culture\, and various colleges and universities throughout the United States. He was awarded the Life-time Achievement Award by the Kuntu Writers Workshop from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002\, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in 1996 and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Steptoe was awarded the American Book Award in 2005.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-gwendolyn-brooks/
LOCATION:African American Museum\, 701 Arch Sreet\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Eliza Callard\, Lucy Bell Sellers\, and Fritz Ward
DESCRIPTION:Eliza Callard is a Philly gal\, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in.  She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill\, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown\, taught theatre at Germantown  Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry since she was little\, but never very much. \nFritz Ward is the author of Tsunami Diorama and the Doppelganged. The recipient of the Cecil Hemley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America\, his poetry has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\,  and elsewhere. He works at Swarthmore College and lives just outside of Philadelphia. Open Reading Follows\, Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal Hosts
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-featuring-eliza-callard-lucy-bell-sellers-and-fritz-ward/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Shevaun Brannigan\, Jamie J. Brunson\, and Joyce Meyers
DESCRIPTION:Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars\, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012\, Rhino\, Washington Square Review\, and Crab Orchard Review. Jamie J. Brunson has brought storytelling to the stage within different spheres of the arts and cultural community for over 16 years. She served as managing director of New Freedom Theatre and the Providence Black Repertory Company\, an accomplished playwright\, Brunson is a four-time Delaware Division of the Arts/NEA grantee for. Joyce Meyers has been to every continent except Antarctica. Many of her travel experiences find their way into her writing.  Her numerous publications include Atlanta Review\, The Comstock Review\, Iodine Poetry Journal\, Slant\, and Com-mon Ground Review. She has received several poetry prizes from Atlanta Review\, including First Prize in the Atlanta Review 2014 International Poetry Competition. \nOpen Reading Follows\, Suzan Jivan Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-featuring-shevaun-brannigan-jamie-j-brunson-and-joyce-meyers/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café featuring Christopher Bernard and . Luke Stromberg
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard is author of A Spy in the Ruins\, Voyage to a Phantom City\, Dangerous Stories for Boys and others. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism.. He lives in San Francisco. Luke Stromberg has published work in Rotary Dial\, Victorian Violet Journal\, Tower Journal\, Shot Glass Journal\, Lucid Rhythms\, Philadelphia Stories\, Think Journal\, Mid-America Poetry Review\, and on Ernest Hilbert’s blog E-Verse Radio.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-featuring-christopher-bernard-and-luke-stromberg/
LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub presenting Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse
DESCRIPTION:Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse by Grace Bauer\, Editor ($24.00\,  Lost Horse Press) Poets reading include Grace Bauer\, Kim Bridgeford\, Emari DiGiorgio\, Corie Feiner\, Ona Gritz\, Harriet Levin\, Lynn Levin\, Carolina Morales & Nancy Reddy –  \nNasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse is an anthology of poems from women who proudly celebrate their own nastiness and that of other women who have served as nasty role models; poems by and about women defying limitations and lady-like expectations; women refusing to be “nice girls;” women embracing their inner bitch when the situation demands it; women being formidable and funny; women speaking to power and singing for the good of their souls; women being strong\, sexy\, strident\, super-smart\, and stupendous; women who want to encourage little girls to keep dreaming. \nThis timely collection of poems speaks not just to the current political climate and the man who is responsible for its title\, but to the stereotypes and expectations women have faced dating back to Eve\, and to the long history of women resisting those limitations. The nasty women poets included here talk back to the men who created those limitations\, honor foremothers who offered models of resistance and survival\, rewrite myths\, celebrate their own sexuality and bodies\, and the girlhoods they survived. They sing\, swear\, swagger\, and celebrate\, and stake claim to life and art on their own terms. \nEach participant will read her own poem and at least one poem by another contributor not in attendance. Books will be available for purchase. \nAbout the readers/ poets: \n  \nGRACE BAUER’s history of resistance began when a nun told her thatthe greatest thing a girl could grow up to be was a virgin. Having failed at that particular life goal\, she became a poet instead. She hates being called Miss\, Ma’am\, or Little Lady\, but these days\, takes nasty as a compliment. The idea for this anthology came to her in the shower. Her books include MEAN/TIME\, The Women at the Well\, Nowhere All At Once\, Retreats & Recognitions. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Arts & Letters\, the Colorado Review\, Poetry\, Rattle\, and the Southern Poetry Review. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize\, Individual Artist’s Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council\, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Bauer is currently a senior book prize reader for Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska\, Lincoln. \nKIM BRIDGFORD is an award-winning poet\, editor\, college professor\, fiction writer\, and critic. She writes primarily in traditional forms\, of which the sonnet is her form of choice. She is the director of Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference. She is editor-in-chief at Mezzo Cammin\, a journal of poetry by women and was formerly the editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. She received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry and a poetry fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her book In the Extreme: Sonnets about World Records received the 2007 Donald Justice Poetry Award. \nEMARI DIGIORGIO is the author of Girl Torpedo (Agape\, 2018)\, the winner of the 2017 Numinous Orison\, Luminous Origin Literary Award\, and The Things a Body Might Become (Five Oaks Press\, 2017). She’s the recipient of the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize\, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize\, and a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She’s received residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Sundress Academy of the Arts\, and Rivendell Writers’ Colony. She teaches at Stockton University\, is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet\, and hosts World Above\, a monthly reading series in Atlantic City\, NJ. \nONA GRITZ is the author of the poetry collections\, Geode\, (Main Street Rag 2014)\, and Left Standing\, (Finishing Line Press\, 2005). Together with her husband Daniel Simpson\, she is co-author of Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems (Finishing Line Press\, 2017)\, and co-editor of More Challenges For the Delusional: Prompts\, Poetry\, and Prose Celebrating 25 Years of Murphy Writing Workshops (forthcoming\, Diode Editions). She is also an essayist\, memoirist and children’s author. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, Ploughshares\, and elsewhere. \nCOROE FEINER is an award-winning poet\, performer\, and educator. Called\, “wonderful” by \nThe New York Times\, and “stunning\,” by Backstage Magazine\, she is the author of the \npoetry collection\, Radishes into Roses\, and the children’s book\, Who Was Born at Home? \nCorie is the former poetry editor of The Washington Square Review\, and the esteemed \nBellevue Literary Review. She was the 2011 Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, PA.. \nHARRIET LEVIN is the author of Girl in Cap and Gown\, which was a National Poetry Series finalist\, and The Christmas Show\, which was chosen for the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. She is coeditor of Creativity and Writing Pedagogy: Linking Creative Writers\, Researchers and Teachers. Levin’s honors include the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Catagnola Award\, the Ellen La Forge Memorial Poetry Prize\, the Pablo Neruda Prize\, and a PEW Fellowship in the. She currently teaches and directs the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing at Drexel University. Her debut novel\, How Fast Can You Run is an IPPY and Living Now Awards winner. \nLYNN LEVIN is a poet\, writer\, translator\, and the author of six books. Her most recent collection of poems is Miss Plastique\, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry. She is the co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets\, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in education/academic. Levin has received 13 Pushcart Prize nominations\, two grants from the Leeway Foundation\, and is a Bucks County\, Pennsylvania poet laureate. She teaches at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania. \nCAROLINA MORALES is the author of four chapbooks of poetry\, Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman (2015)\, Dear Monster (2012)\, In Nancy Drew’s Shadow (2010)\, Bride of Frankenstein and other poems (2008) each published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in the Journal of New Jersey Poets\, Nimrod\, Paterson Literary Review\, Poet Lore\, Presence\, Spoon River Poetry Review and other journals. Awards include scholarships from the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, MA along with honorable mentions for an Allen Ginsberg Award and a Mill Wills Fellowship. Her one-act plays have been produced/staged in California\, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. \nNANCY REDDY is the author of Double Jinx\, selected by Alex Lemon for the National Poetry Series and her chapbook Acadiana won the Black River Chapbook. Her poems have appeared in Linebreak\, Memorious\, Best New Poets\, Poetry Daily\, Smartish Pace\, and elsewhere. She has been awarded a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, a Walter E Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and a New Jersey Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship. She is Assistant Professor of Writing and First Year Studies at Stockton University in southern New Jersey.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-presenting-nasty-women-poets-an-unapologetic-anthology-of-subversive-verse/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone @ Communally Presents Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism's Triumph over Democracy
DESCRIPTION:  \nKill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy \nby Corey Dolgon ($34.95 -University of Chicago Press) Books will be available to purchase and be autographed \n“To understand the popularity of Italian Fascism in the ’30s\, we needed Antonio Gramsci. To understand the popular malaise among the US middle class in the ’50s\, we needed C. Wright Mills. And to understand the popularity of Donald J. Trump and the prevailing logic that turns billionaires into job creators\, unions into job destroyers\, and climate scientists into godless Communists\, we need Corey Dolgon. Clear-eyed and perceptive\, Dolgon reveals that the new ‘common sense’ upholding privatization\, deregulation\, wealth concentration\, and the erosion of democracy and civil liberties as the only path to prosperity was not the handiwork of Fox News and wily neocons but the outcome of a deeper ideological and cultural shift. Kill It to Save It is mandatory reading if we are to replace the neoliberal ‘common sense’ with the radical possibilities of ‘good sense.’” Jim Hightower\, author\, radio commentator\, and editor of “The Hightower Lowdown.”
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-communally-presents-kill-it-to-save-it-an-autopsy-of-capitalisms-triumph-over-democracy/
LOCATION:Communally\, 1128 Walnut Street\, 2nd Floor\, Philadelphia\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Megan Gillespie and Aubrey Rehab
DESCRIPTION:Megan Gillespie is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review\, New Delta Review and Cimarron Review. Aubrey Rehab is the founder of South Jersey Poets Collective and hosts ‘World Above: Free Poetry Nights’ at Dante Hall in Atlantic City on a monthly basis. She has most recently been published in the Seneca Review’s Beyond Category. Dave Worrell\, host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-featuring-megan-gillespie-and-aubrey-rehab/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub Featuring Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Lillian Dunn\, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
DESCRIPTION:  Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, a fitful Philadelphian who likes to make things (often poems)\, is the author of “The Self\, it’s nothing personal”\, the first of two chapbook projects forthcoming with Waterhouse Ltd. Her work has also been published in Whirlwind Magazine Lillian Dunn studied community literary projects in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar before moving to Philadelphia and co-founding APIARY and runs the SPACES Artist in Residence Program at the Village of Arts and Humanities. She writes poetry with the Rogue Workshop. Gabriel Ojeda-Sague is a Miami -> Philly\, Latino\, gay Leo. His first collection\, Oil and Candle\, is a set of writings on Santería\, war\, and the precarity of Latino-American lives. He is also the author of 4 chapbooks\, most recently Where Everything is in Halves. His work can be found at ojedasague.com. Host: Sean Lynch
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:PHILLY LOVES HAIKU - Host: Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street \nDid you know that there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area? They represent every poetry form\, every ethnic background\, every age\, gender and community. This series ll consist of an interview with the directors of these groups followed by a reading by group members. The program will be broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. \n \nHenry Brann is the roving ambassador of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association\, where he has served on the board for twenty five years in various roles including Board President. Robin Pally currently is the Secretary  of the board of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association and is administrator of the Annual Haiku Competition for seventh through twelfth grades. Lamont Steptoe is the author of fourteen collections of poetry while also serving as editor for two books b y the late South African poet\, Dennis Brutus. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award\, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and is founder of Whirlwind Press.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-haiku-host-charles-s-carr/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171002T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry at Brandywine Workshop and Archive\, 728 S. Broad Street
DESCRIPTION:Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars\, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Best New Poets\, Rhino\, Washington Square Review\, and Crab Orchard Review. Tim Lynch has published   with Mead\, War\, Literature\, and the Arts\, HEArt Online\, Whirlwind\, & Radius. He was awarded a 2015 Piper Global Writing Residency in Southeast Asia. Trapeta B. Mayson is a dynamic poet\, workshop leader and educator who has received numerous literary awards and fellowships including a  Pew Fellowship\, PCA Grant and a Leeway Award. Trapeta is a Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow. Anne-Adele Wight is the author of The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult\, her work has appeared in journal including American Writing\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Bedfellows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-at-brandywine-workshop-and-archive-728-s-broad-street/
LOCATION:Brandywine Workshop\, 728 S. Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19146\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry at Fergie's Pub: Featuring Alicia Askenase\, Julia Blumenrich\, and Nina Schafer
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Askenase is a poet and educator who has taught in Puerto Rico\, Spain and the US\, is the author of the chapbooks Cover\, Suspect\, The Luxury of Pathos and Shirley Shirley.  Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Review Revista Americana\, 5trope\, sonaweb\, texture\, Chain\, Black and New Works by Philadelphia Poets.  She was a founding co-editor of the poetry journal 6ix and Literary Program Director at the Walt Whitman Center. \nJulia Blumenreich is a poet\,  recipient of a PCA grant and a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award.  She has read her work in various venues including the University of Pennsylvania\, Brown University\, and Muse House in Philadelphia. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review\, and “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets\,” and has published two chapbooks:Meeting Tessie and Artificial Memory.  \nNina Schafer  is a poet based in Philadelphia and a member of Leonard Gontarek’s Workshop and the 34th Street Poets. She created the Unexpected Poetry Project through which she distributes 12\,000 poems a year\, one-by-one\, to unsuspecting people waiting in grocery store lines\, at the gas station\, in the elevator\, or browsing IKEA on Delaware Avenue. The responses have been unexpected.  Open Reading Follows\, Jennifer Hook & Alina Macneal Hosts
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-at-fergies-pub-featuring-alicia-askenase-julia-blumenrich-and-nina-schafer/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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