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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of 'Storm Swimmer'!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nWednesday April 12\, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx \n  \nJoin us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems \nStorm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) \nIn poems that celebrate survival and renewal\, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time\, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters\, Hilbert’s eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America\, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water—what Melville called “the ungraspable phantom of life.” \n“Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams\, nightmares\, tenderness\, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry\, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Heaven and judge \nCopies of the book will be available at a discounted rate of $10. Join us! \nErnest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan\, and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018\, and his poems appear in Yale Review\, American Poetry Review\, BOMB\, Harvard Review\, Parnassus\, Sewanee Review\, Hudson Review\, Boston Review\, The New Republic\, American Scholar\, and the London Review. \nGuest reader April Lindner is the author of Skin\, which received the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press\, and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. With Ryan Wilson\, she is co-editing an anthology of contemporary Catholic poetry for Paraclete Press\, and with R. S. Gwynn\, she co-edited Contemporary American Poetry in Longman’s Penguin Pocket Academics series. She has written three Young Adult novels\, and is a professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University\, she lives in Stockton\, New Jersey. \nGuest reader David Hale Sylvester chronicles his adventures and achievements in two books\, Traveling at the Speed of Life\, which appeared in 2011\, and One Hug at a Time: 99 Stories From the Man Who Embraced the World\, published in 2021. You can learn more about him at www.davidhalesylvester.com. \nHost John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry\, and many other journals and anthologies. Smog Mother is his latest book\, he teaches Creative Writing at UArts in Philadelphia. \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading at Finn Mccool's!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday April 19\, 2023 – 7:00pm \nLive at Finn McCools\nCorner of 12th & Sansom Street \nNote the change of venue for this event  \nJim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings\, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems . Recent essays include “ What makes a queen a queen?& rdquo; in the Gay & Lesbian Review\, & ldquo; Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra & rdquo; in New Haven Review\, and “ Where & rsquo;s the hot boy going tonight?& rdquo; in Chelsea Station. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council\, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. \nBesides receiving awards for journalism and erotic writing\, Chris Kaiser has had poems published in Dissident Voice and The Scriblerus\, prose poetry in Eastern Iowa Review\, and haiku in Better Than Starbucks. His poetry and haiku also appear in several anthologies from Moonstone Press. In addition\, his poetry has been featured alongside works of art at the DaVinci Art Alliance. \nDeborah Turner’s poetry & writing sustains her and is even helping her transform from a librarian to a realtor. Her works have appeared in Philadelphia Stories\, the Lavender Reader\, and anthologies including The Body Eclectic (Henry Holt) and Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity (Beacon Press). “Juneteenth\,” a poem in her chapbook of sports poetry titled SWEATING IT OUT (Finishing Line Press)\, earned a nomination for a Pushcart Prize.  \nMonika Wysong is a Philadelphia-based poet\, playwright\, and psychotherapist. Her chapbook\, Poems for the Rest of Us\, was published by Moonstone Press in 2021. Her play\, Laundromat\, was featured in Short Plays on Twelve on Philadelphia’s PBS station\, and she has been a semi-finalist in the Louisville Actors’ Theater playwriting competition. Her poems have appeared in American Writing. She holds an MFA from Goddard College. \n 
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LOCATION:Finn Mccools\, 118 S 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the Art of the Haiku at a Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nHaiku 2023\nSunday April 23\, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual \nRegistration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- \nInternational Haiku Day \nThe old pond \n A frog jumps in \n Plop! \nMatsuo Basho (1644-1694) \nTranslated by Allan Watts \n \nThe Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku \nThe haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines\, with five syllables in the first line\, seven in the second\, and five in the third. The haiku developed from the hokku\, the opening three lines of a longer poem known as a tanka. The haiku became a separate form of poetry in the 17th century. \nJoin us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 \n 
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday April 26\, 2023 – 7:30pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ \n  \nMaya Pindyck’s third poetry collection\, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press\, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is also author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books) and Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, winner of the Many Voices Project Award\, and co-author of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (Bloomsbury\, 2022). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, and grants from the Historic House Trust of New York City and Abortion Conversation Projects. She lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design \nHila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press\, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Narrative\, Linebreak\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Adroit Journal\, and other journals\, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She was editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Storyscape (2011–2017) and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is director of virtual content & programs at Ritualwell.org and lives in Oak Park\, Illinois \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday April 30\, 2023 – 2:00pm  Virtual \nJoin us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 \nRegistration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 \n  \nEkphrastic Poetry \nEkphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis\, the poet engages with a painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and dance might also be considered a type of ekphrastic writing. \nApril 8 is the 50th anniversary of the Death of Pablo Picasso\, who created 50\,000 works of modern art. In honor of his achievement\, we are doing an anthology of Ekphrastic Poetry. \nJoin us as contributors read their Ekphrastic Poems. \n  \n  \nContributing Poets \nMichael Abreu \nAllison Baldwin \nMark Balobeck \nChristine Barbour \nElizabeth Bodien \nR. Bremner \nStarr Bright \nSarah Browning \nRachel Aviva Burns \nNatalie Canavor \nCathy Carlisi \nLuanne Castle \nAlan Catlin \nA.J. Chilson \nGreg Colburn \nJim Cory \nJessica Cramer \nChristine Davis \nLinda Dickman \nJoanne Durham \nDavid Eberhardt \nElizabeth Esris \nKatherine Falk \nStewart Florsheim \nBryan Franco \nStephen Frank \nMichael Franz \nRosemary Freedman \nCaroline Furr \nRobin Gabbert \nRobert Gibbons \nDanely Gonzalez \nShotsey Gorman \nLinda Goss \nOna Gritz \nBeejay Grob \nBruce Grossberg \nHanoch Guy \nAnna Halberstadt \nAnnie Hartford \nSharon Hollingsworth \nAnn Huang \nJoan Huffman \nJane Ellen Ibur \nJudy Ireland \nJosh Jacobs \nMike Jurkovic \nPhilip Kennedy \nKollin Kennedy \nLisa Kosow \nEelka Lampe \nMaria Lisella \nJosephine LoRe \nJames Mancinelli \nTawanda Manyati \nKaren Marker \nStefanie Maura \nKathleen McGraw \nErika Michael \nRobin Michel \nPatricia Middleton \nMary Ann Miller \nLinda Morales \nBeth Morris \nCharlene Moskal \nRuth Mota \nAngela Muir \nNancy Murray \nGloria Nixon-John \nAllayna Nofs \nMaureen Sauvain O’Connor \nJennifer O’Neill \nPickering \nHermond Palmer \nFaith Paulsen \nDavid Radavich \nCami Rothmuller \nCarla Schick \nAmeerah Shabazz \nJohn Shea \nMiki Simic \nJim Stewart \nJocelyn Stokes \nMarya Summers \nChuck Sweetman \nRenee Szostek \nKaren Paul Topham \nLois Villemaire \nEike Waltz \nGail Wasserman \nShin Watanabe \nKelley White \nDaniel   Williams \nNellie Wong \nDavid Worrell \nSamantha Wright \nRaymond Ziemer
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