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SUMMARY:The Atheist in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry  @ the Pub \nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nSunday May 6\, 2018\, 2pm \nSamuel R. Delany\n \nThe Atheist in the Attic\n$14.00\, Books will be available to purchase and autographed \n  \n “A talent very close to time travel—or magic.” —Locus \n“The most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction.” —William Gibson \n“I consider Delany not only one of the most important science fiction writ- ers of the present generation\, but a fascinating writer in general who has invented a new style.” —Umberto Eco \n  \nThe title novella\, “The Atheist in the Attic\,” appearing here in book form    for the first time\, is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative\, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and the brilliant “big bang” of the Enlightenment. \nPlus: equal parts history\, confession\, complaint\, gossip\, and personal tri- umph\, Delany’s “Racism and Science Fiction” combines scholarly research and personal experience in the unique true story of the first major African American author in the genre. And featuring: a bibliography\, an author biography\, and our candid\, uncompromising\, and customary Outspoken Interview. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn into a distinguished Harlem family\, Samuel R. Delany was a success at nineteen\, changing the tone\, the content\, and the very shape of modern science fiction with his acclaimed novels and stories that bridged the ap- parent gap between science and fantasy to explore gay sexuality\, racial and class consciousness\, and the limits of imagination and memory. His vast body of work includes memoir\, comics\, space adventure\, mainstream novels\, homosexual erotica\, and literary criticism of a high order. Until     his recent retirement he was a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University. \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Featured Readers: Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 9\, 2018 – 7pm\nJulia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid\nJulia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry. She is a founding member of 6ix: a literary journal devoted to cutting edge work\, edited by six Philadelphia area women. She was 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. In 2012\, she collaborated with the visual artist\, Wendy Osterweil\, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest” in 2014. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review\, “Philadelphia Stories\,” and in “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets\,” edited by Valerie Fox and translated into Romanian by Daniel Dragomirescu. She has published three chapbooks: Meeting Tessie and Artificial Memory and most recently\, Blue Angel of a Day. \nTherése Halscheid’s latest poetry collection Frozen Latitudes (Press 53) received an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Other collections include Uncommon Geography\, Without Home\, Powertalk\, and a chapbook award by Pudding House Publications. Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in such magazines as Gettysburg Review\, Tampa Review\, Sou’wester\, Natural Bridge. Recent contest awards include Welcome Table Press’s Essaying the Body contest. She is an itinerant writer by way of house-sitting. Her photography chronicles her nomadic lifestyle. She teaches for Atlantic Cape Community College and also in unusual locales\, such as Eskimo village in northern Alaska\, and the Ural Mountains of Russia. www.ThereseHalscheid.com \nDave Worrell \, Host\nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180513T140000
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SUMMARY:Soldier Poets--W.D. Ehrhart\, Bill Wunder\, & Members of Warrior Writers
DESCRIPTION:South Philadelphia Free Library\n1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\nSunday May 13\, 2018 – 2pm\nW.D. Ehrhart\, Bill Wunder\, &\nMembers of Warrior Writers \nW. D. Ehrhart joined the US Marines in 1966 at the age of 17\, serving three years including 13 months in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat\, and earned the rank of sergeant and an honorable discharge. He is also a veteran of Vietnam Veterans Against the War\, and has received awards from both Vietnam Veterans of America and Veterans for Peace. A 1983 Bucks County Poet Laureate and a 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts\, he teaches English and history at the Haverford School in suburb Philadelphia. His most recent books are Praying at the Altar (Adastra Press) and W. D. Ehrhart in Conversation: Vietnam\, America\, and the Written Word (McFarland)\, both published in 2017. \nBill Wunder is the author of Pointing at the Moon\, Hands Turning the Earth\, and Kingdom of Heaven. In 2004\, he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. His poems have been widely published\, and he has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry. Bill has been a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. In 2010\, he was nominated for a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He has read and lectured in local schools\, colleges\, festivals\, book stores\, libraries\, and on public television. Bill\, a Vietnam veteran\, serves as Poetry Editor of The Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and lives with his two black labs in the wilds of Bucks County. \nWarrior Writers is a national non-profit. Our mission is to create a culture that articulates veterans’ experiences\, build a collaborative community for artistic expression\, and bear witness to war and the full range of military experiences. We value Respect for ourselves\, each other\, our experiences\, and our creative community; Honesty; Transformation; and Pride in our work and our experiences. Our goals include providing opportunities for veterans to engage in artistic expression\, creating visibility for veteran artists and their work\, supporting veterans in the discovery of the arts as a transformative tool\, and tell the truths about veterans’ experiences.
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LOCATION:South Philadelphia Free Library\, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19145\, United States
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SUMMARY:Thinking Green with Jacob Russell\, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 16\, 2018 – 7pm\nThinking Green with \nJacob Russell\, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight\nJacob\, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name\, Jacob Russell\, they have published three chapbooks\, many poems\, and have four books of poetry searching for publishers. He is also author of the novel Ari Figue’s Cat. Since 2012\, they have been making visual art\, signed with the name on their birth certificate—Willard. In recent years\, Jacob\, Willard and Goby (their most recent go-to name) have been writing serial poems\, interconnected\, but in no particular order\, or rather—ordered to the mood of the occasion—as will be the case at this reading. \nPaul Siegell is the author of Take Out Delivery (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2018)\, as well as wild life rifle fire\, jambandbootleg and Poemergency Room. He is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly and has contributed to American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Rattle\, and many other fine journals. Kindly find more of his work – and concrete poetry t-shirts – at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com) and @paulsiegell. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of The Age of Greenhouses (2016)\, Opera House Arterial (2013)\, and Sidestep Catapult (2011)\, all from BlazeVOX. Her work has appeared in diverse publications including American Writing\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, Fairies in America\, Jupiter 88\, Luna Luna\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Bedfellows. Anne-Adele’s work has received awards from Philadelphia Poets Magazine\, the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference\, and the Sandy Crimmins Poetry Competition. \nHost\, Suzan Jivan \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Remembering Lili Bita
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nSunday May 20\, 2018\, 2pm\nRemembering Lili Bita\nLili Bita\, of Bala Cynwyd\, author\, actress\, and pianist\, died February 12\, 2018. An artist of international acclaim and a figure in Philadelphia cultural life for more than thirty years. \nBorn Angeliki Euterpe Bita in Zakynthos\, Greece but universally known as Lili\, she published the first of her twenty-one books of poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, and translation at the age of nineteen\, a work praised by the celebrated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis for its “power and compassion.” Later admirers included Anais Nin\, who said in her preface to Lili’s verse collection\, Furies: “Her words are strong\, body and soul in balance. Her vision is direct\, unifying and complete.” Nin also noted Lili as “a full blossomed woman of beauty\,” a beauty equally evident within and without to all who knew her. \nLili received degrees from the Greek Conservatory of Music and the Athens School of Drama. She also held a Master of Arts Degree in drama\, summa cum laude\, from the University of Miami. She taught at Villanova among several American universities\, and was Artist in Residence and Cultural Affairs Coordinator at Drexel University. Lili began her stage career with leading roles from ancient drama\, Shakespeare\, Ibsen\, O’Neill\, and others. She emigrated to the United States in 1959 with her late son\, Philip Rethis. In America\, she toured with her one-woman shows\, “The Greek Woman Through the Ages\,” “Body Light\,” and “Freedom or Death\,” as well as adaptations from several of her books. With her husband and collaborator\, Robert Zaller\, she founded the Theater Cooperative in 1973\, which for nearly two decades was a fixture of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She was for three decades the cultural affairs correspondent of the Hellenic News of America\, was a longtime member of the Greek Writers Association\, and in 2014 was inducted into the oldest and most prestigious literary organization in Greece\, the Hellenic Authors Society\, in recognition of her lifetime achievements as an author\, actress\, and cultural ambassador. Her local honors included a Leeway Foundation grant\, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts award for fiction\, and the Amy Tritsch Needle and Gemini awards from Philadelphia Poets. \nAmong Lili’s score of books and half dozen plays\, her love poetry\, collected in Fleshfire\, is best known\, but she was also deeply imbued with a tragic sense of life that ran through much of her work in verse and fiction and in her two memoirs\, Sister of Darkness and The Storm Rider. Notwithstanding this\, she embraced life in all its dimensions.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180523T190000
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SUMMARY:Featured Readers: Angel Hogan & David Kertis
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 23\, 2018 – 7pm\nAngel Hogan & David Kertis\nAngel Hogan has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival\, Literary Death Match\, Moonstone Presents\, First Person Arts and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Angel worked with ArtWell\, was a Contributing Editor to Philadelphia Stories\, and a review panelist for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. As a teaching artist\, Angel is most interested in initiatives that use storytelling as a vehicle for tolerance\, peace\, and community building. See more at: www.angelhogan.com\nPhoto by Anne Saint Peter \nDavid Kertis 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. \nHosts\, Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\nOpen Reading follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hive Night: Open Mic\, Featured Reading
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 30\, 2018 – 7pm\nHive Night @ Fergie’s Pub\nHIVE NIGHT is Apiary Magazine’s showcase and open mic celebrating every stripe of literary artist the city has to offer. Come to hear voices from Philadelphia writing tribes old and new\, spanning Apiary’s decade-long history. Stay to share your own work in a laidback\, inclusive space\, whatever the form\, genre or mood\, to a crowd hungry for diverse voices. \nMeg Pendoley (Apiary 9) is a writer living in West Philadelphia. She is interested in queer homes (bodies\, housers\, neighborhoods)\, the boundaries they share\, and how what happens here might be recorded\, kept. Her work appears in Cleaver Magazine and on Tin House’s Open Bar. \nAlex Smith (Apiary 8) is a queer black activist\, poet\, dj\, actor\, musician\, afro punk/afro-futurist chronicler of the naughty universe. Smith’s work speaks to the edge\, to the post-fringe dystopia slowly creeping upon us. Too cantankerous and flamboyant for the Saul Williams wanna-be/def poetry set\, too tribal for academia\, Smith paints viral inscriptions for an audience of armed pixie insurrectionists. He is the founder and curator of the queer-empowered Laser Life sci-fi reading series\, where he met his co-conspirators in Metropolarity\, a sci-fi/speculative arts collective that uses the genre’s tropes for activism and transformative\, visionary art. It’s Alex’s flash fiction collection\, “Gang Stalk Oprah“\, with its lines hashed like an SAT-word injected SEPTA bus graffiti\, and self-published sci-fi zine “Ark Dust” that will kidnap you\, convert you\, shoot you in the leg and then set you free. \nLamont B. Steptoe (Apiary 4) was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry while also serving as editor for two books by the late South African poet\, Dennis Brutus. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He’s the founder and publisher of Whirlwind Press. His latest book of poetry\, Beyond the White Stone Lions\, was published by Radical Paper Press in the summer of 2017. \n“There are places we dream\, and places\, often mass grave sits\, that dream through us- if\, like Lamont Steptoe\, we are open to the restless spirits who abide there\, denied voice in their time\, and wishing now to catch history’s ear. “Turn up the silence loud\,” he says\, and the whispering dead are heard\, as lost ancestors “call this place out of its name\,” and Philly’s Washington Square Park becomes Congo Square\, a restitution and a requiem.” Eleanor Wilner \nHosted by Warren C. Longmire and Alex Smith
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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