BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Moonstone Arts Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Moonstone Arts Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220206T160000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20220130T221613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220130T232413Z UID:16961-1644156000-1644163200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press: RuNett Ebo\, Nina Gadson\, David Lawton\, Charles Rammelkamp\, Louisa Schnaithmann DESCRIPTION:New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press\n  \nVIRTUAL – Registration Required:   \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-6oqTgvHNRG34IB6Bx8gkC-PKeD1n5H  \nRuNett Ebo\, author of Expressing Myself on Purpose\, has performed all over the country\, is contributing writer for Kwee\, a Liberian magazine. \n  \n  \nNina Gadson\, author of When I Was 16\, realized that poetry is a part of her purpose\, she collected these poems when she was 16\, it is a time capsule into that period of her life. \n  \n  \n  \nDavid Lawton is the author of Inspirative – “rootedness in the accomplishments and frustrations of actors\, musicians\, poets and artists whose brushes with fame were as real and as raw as own anonymous struggles in life…” George Wallace. \n  \n  \nCharles Rammelkamp author of Sparring Partners puts us in the ring with Fred\, Flanagan\, and a crowd of emotions\, struggles\, and complexities that most people must spar with at one time or another. \n  \n  \n \nLouisa Schnaithmann\, author of Plague Love\, is the consulting editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-chapbooks-from-moonstone-press/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Feb-6th-2022-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20211230T184951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211231T203752Z UID:16811-1642014000-1642021200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Jeffrey Ethan Lee\, Mbarek Sryfi\, Octavia McBride-Ahebee DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Jeffrey Ethan Lee\, Mbarek Sryfi\, Octavia McBride-Ahebee\nON ZOOM \nRegistration Required – Registration Link\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uduqqqT4tGdxHPamACb5lmRvm5KxM3fY3 \n  \nJeffrey Ethan Lee‘s first poetry book\, invisible sister\, was a finalist for the\nMMM Press Book Prize. His second book\, identity papers\, was a finalist for\nthe Colorado Book Award. His novel\, The Autobiography of Somebody Else\,\nwas published by White Pine Press. He won the Sow’s Ear Poetry Press Prize\nand the Seven Kitchens Press prizes for poetry chapbooks\, and he has\npublished other poetry chapbooks with Ashland Poetry Press and Moonstone\nPress. Poems and prose have been published in APR\, North American Review\,\nXconnect\, etc. \n  \n  \nMbarek Sryfi\, poet and translator\, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.\nHe is the author of The Trace of a Smile and City Poems\, co-authored\nPerspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film and co-translator of\nseveral books. His work has been widely published in many journals and\nanthologies including Al-Arabiyya\, Banipal\, CELAAN Review\,\nMetamorphoses\, Middle Eastern Literatures\, The Journal of North African\nStudies\, Translation Review\, and World Literature Today. \n  \n  \n  \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee‘s work presents human relationships within the\ncontext of global inequality. She is the author of Assuming Voices\, Where My\nBirthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers. Her work has\nappeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Rigorous\, For\nHarriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\, Yellow\nMedicine\, Damazine; A Literary Journal of the Muslim World\, Fingernails\nAcross The Chalkboard: Poetry And Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black\nDiaspora\, Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer and others. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-jeffrey-ethan-lee-mbarek-sryfi-octavia-mcbride-ahebee/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Screen-Shot-2021-12-31-at-3.31.34-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20211109T014605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211127T230737Z UID:16704-1640199600-1640203200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Lynn Levin\, Jim Mancinelli\, Elijah B. Pringle III DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading with Lynn Levin\, Jim Mancinelli\, and Elijah B. Pringle III\n  \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – \nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf-mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr \n  \nLynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection\, The Minor Virtues  is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small\, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique\, Fair Creatures of an Hour\, and Imaginarium. She is the translator\, from the Spanish\, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard\, Artful Dodge\, Rattle\, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac\, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com \n  \n  \n  \n \nJim Mancinelli is author of Primer\, In Deep\, and The Bartimeus Poems for which he also did the improvisational drawings.  His writing is informed by gazing upwards\, wandering the depths\, and digging in the muddy present.  His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts\, Sea Change\, Mad Poets Review\, Fox Chase Review\, and Poetry Ink. He has been a featured reader in various Philadelphia\, New Jersey and Delaware including Live from Kelly Writer’s House\, was selected as a finalist in the 2011 Atlanta Queer Literary Festival\, judged by Mark Doty and is the moderator and founder of the Moveable Beats Reading Series.  Jim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at La Salle University in Philadelphia with research interests in the sociological aspects of stuttering. \n  \n  \n  \n \nElijah B Pringle III is a Philadelphia based writer/director/actor/choreographer.  He has published several chapbooks and his words have been published on every continent except for South American and Antarctica.  He has lectured and lead workshops on poetry in AZ\, CA\,IL\, MA\, MD\, MN\, NY\, PA\, SC and DC. His opinions and insights have appeared in the NY Times\, Newsweek and the Philadelphia Daily News.  He has recently completed his first full length play entitled “Should Be.”  His most recent publication is Lamda Lancer\, a collection of LGBT inspired poetry.    \n  \n  \nOpen Reading Follows \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-lynn-levin-jim-mancinelli-elijah-b-pringle-iii/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/December-22nd-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211212T150000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20211118T190534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211127T220714Z UID:16741-1639317600-1639321200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Christian Andres Alfaro De La Rosa\, Paul Buchanan\, Reuben Gelley Newman\, Nicole Liu\, Yi Wei\, with Nathalie Anderson DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets in Their Youth\nFeaturing Christian Andres Alfaro De La Rosa\, Paul Buchanan\, Reuben Gelley Newman\, Nicole Liu\, and Yi Wei\, hosted by Nathalie Anderson\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956\, Passcode: 704102 \n  \n \nChristian Andres Alfaro De La Rosa (he/him) is a first generation\, Mexican/Chicano writer based out of his hometown of Chicago\, Illinois. He writes about the intersections of race\, ethnicity\, gender\, class\, inter racial solidarity\, poems that touch on his hometown of Chicago\, his upbringing\, childhood and coming of age within the city’s Southwest Side; he also incorporates other mediums art into his poetry as well (such as photography\, visual art\, music) that not only inspire\, but fuel his creativity and his writing.  \n  \n  \n  \n \nPaul Buchanan (he/they) is a queer\, Afro-Caribbean writer with roots in Guyana and the American South. His primary interests lie in the intersections between Black identity formation\, trauma\, and the Black literary tradition. Currently\, he is teaching 1st grade full time\, working on  \nextending his research surrounding Black family trauma narratives into a full paper\, and working on a collection of chapbooks. He has a B.A in Black Studies and English from Swarthmore College and is a recipient of both the John Russel Hayes Poetry prize and the Mellon Mays Fellowship. \n  \n  \n \nReuben Gelley Newman (he/him) is a writer and musician from New York City. His work is available in diode\, DIALOGIST\, Hobart Pulp\, and elsewhere. He was a Fall 2020 intern at Copper Canyon Press and works in the library at Williams College in Williamstown\, MA. He tweets @joustingsnail.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nNicole Liu (she/her) was born in Hong Kong\, raised in Shenzhen\, and came of age in Boston. In her poems and essays\, she is attracted to topics of miscommunication and the absurd details of her life. Nicole graduated magna cum laude from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in English and Chinese. She is currently applying to graduate school while working as a writer\, writing instructor\, and translator.   \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nYi Wei is a first-generation Chinese writer with a BA in Asian American Studies and English from Swarthmore College. She currently serves as the Assistant Flash Fiction Editor at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Yi has been awarded the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize and is the third-place winner for the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. Her work can be found in Palette Poetry\, Lantern Review\, and Crosswinds. She’s currently a Writer in the Public Schools fellow at NYU’s MFA in poetry. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-christian-andres-alfaro-de-la-rosa-paul-buchanan-reuben-gelley-newman-nicole-liu-yi-wei-with-nathalie-anderson/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/December-12th-Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20211109T020017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211127T215419Z UID:16711-1639076400-1639080000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Daniel Biegelson\, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Lisa Grunberger\, Alicia Jo Rabins DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading with Daniel Biegelson\, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Lisa Grunberger\, Alicia Jo Rabins\nSplit at the Root: Jewish Writers Wrestle with Parenthood\, Politics\, and Memory\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n  \n \nDaniel Biegelson is the author of the book of being neighbors (Ricochet Editions) and the chapbook Only the Borrowed Light (VERSE). He serves as the Director of the Visiting Writers Series at Northwest Missouri State University\, where he also works as an editor for The Laurel Review. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Denver Quarterly\, Diagram\, Mid-American Review\, New Orleans Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, & RHINO Poetry\, among other places He holds an MFA from the University of Montana and an MA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He lives near Kansas City with his wife and children. \n  \n  \n \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of The Many Names for Mother\, The Bear Who Ate the Stars\, Don’t Touch the Bones and 40 WEEKS. Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast\, TriQuarterly\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and The Nation. She is Editor-in-Chief of Construction Magazine and occasionally writes Other women don’t tell you\, a blog about motherhood. Julia came to the United States as a Jewish refugee in 1993\, from Dnepropetrovsk\, Ukraine\, and grew up in the DC metro area suburb of Rockville\, Maryland. Her research focuses on contemporary poetry about the Holocaust\, with a special focus on atrocity in former Soviet territories. \n  \n  \n \nPushcart nominee\, Temple University Professor\, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer.  Her poetry books  I am dirty and Born Knowing are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Shoah survivors.  Her book\, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position is currently being adapted as a musical.   Her work is widely published and translatred from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review.  Almost Pregnant\, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is published by Smith Scripts.  Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicyle Theatre and will soon be a short film.\n \n  \n \nAlicia Jo Rabins is a writer\, musician\, composer\, performer and Torah teacher\, author of Divinity School (2015 APR/Honickman First Book Prize) and Fruit Geode(a finalist for the Jewish Book Award.) She creates multi-genre works of experimental beauty which explore the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life\, is the creator of Girls in Trouble\, an indie-folk song cycle about the complicated lives of Biblical women and A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff (now an award-winning independent feature film). She is a coffee drinker\, plant lover\, DIY bar/bat/b’nai mitzvah tutor\, and ritualist based in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-daniel-biegelson-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach-lisa-grunberger-alicia-jo-rabins/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/December-9th.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211208T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20211109T013107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211127T214527Z UID:16696-1638990000-1638993600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Eduardo C. Corral\, Cameron MacKenzie\, Spencer Short\, with John Wall Barger DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading with Eduardo C. Corral\, Cameron MacKenzie\, and Spencer Short\, hosted by John Wall Barger\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf-mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr \n  \n \nEduardo C. Corral\, author of Slow Lightning\, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize  \nand Guillotine. Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish\, tender treatment of history\, and careful exploration of sexuality\, Corral has received numerous honors and awards\, including the Discovery/The Nation Award\, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow\, he has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2016 he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Corral teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. \n  \n \nCameron MacKenzie was born in Virginia and has worked as a dry cleaner\, house painter\, contractor\, editor\, and teacher\, residing in Santa Barbara\, London\, Tokyo\, Philadelphia\, San Francisco and now Virginia once again\, where he lives with his wife and two children. Cameron MacKenzie’s work has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review\, Salmagundi\, The Rumpus\, and J Journal\, among other places. His novel\, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career and monograph Badiou and American Modernist Poetics were both published in 2018. He teaches English at Ferrum College and writes for The Roanoke Review. \n  \n  \n \nSpencer Short‘s collection of poetry\, Tremolo\, was a winner of the 2000 National Poetry Series\, selected by Billy Collins. Emily Nussbaum\, reviewing Tremolo for The New York Times\, noted “”a prickly stir of humor\, philosophy and romantic giddiness\,” and that “reading this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you’d never met\, mid-gesticulation — a terrific storyteller\, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence\, mid-phrase\, mid-thought.” Cal Bedient\, reviewing Tremolo in the Boston Review\, found “a clawing power of invention.”  In 2003\, Short was included in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets festival honoring the “most interesting recent first book poets.” His poems have been included in several anthologies.  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading Follows \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-eduardo-c-corral-cameron-mackenzie-spencer-short-with-john-wall-barger/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/December-8th-Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211201T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20211109T012044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211127T213428Z UID:16685-1638385200-1638388800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Book Release Party: John Wall Barger's "Resurrection Fail" with Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Ernest Hilbert\, Warren C Longmire\, Glorious Piner\, Luke Stromberg DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party for John Wall Barger’s “Resurrection Fail” \nFeaturing readings from Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Ernest Hilbert\, Warren C Longmire\, Glorious Piner\, Luke Stromberg\, hosted by Fayyaz Vellani\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegister for the Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86880897372?pwd=WXhNc3NSREpLZnZrQnpSQmp0cDNQZz09 \n  \n \nJohn Wall Barger is the author of Pain-proof Men; Hummingbird; The Book of Festus; The Mean Game and Resurrection Fail. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches at UARTS.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey is the author of the artist book Not Fit for Print\, winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nErnest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out\, he works as a rare book dealer and book critic for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nWarren C Longmire is a writer\, software engineer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. His writing has been published in American Poetry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, The Painted Bride Quarterly and in the upcoming Best American Poetry Anthology of 2021.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nGlorious Piner teaches Poetry at the University of Maryland and at the University of the Arts\, published in Queerbook\, The American Poetry Review\, The Florida Review\, Conduit Magazine\, and more. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nLuke Stromberg’s poetry and criticism have appeared in Smartish Pace\, The Hopkins Review\, The New Criterion\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Golidad Review\, Think Journal\, and others\, he is Associate Poetry Editor of E-Verse Radio.  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nHOST: Fayyaz Vellani is a British-Canadian writer who has lived in London\, New York\, and Philadelphia\, where he teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania.  His first novel Tea with Ms. Tanzania will be published by Africa World Press in 2022. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-john-wall-barger-savannah-cooper-ramsey-ernest-hilbert-warren-c-longmire-glorious-piner-luke-stromberg-with-fayyaz-vellani/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/December-1st-Square2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210912T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210912T160000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210727T151418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210819T185300Z UID:16317-1631455200-1631462400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Tribute to RuNett Nia Ebo DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Tribute to RuNett Nia Ebo\nVirtual Poetry Reading: Tribute to RuNett Nia Ebo \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \n\n \nRuNett Nia Ebo \nRuNett Nia Ebo\, author of 8 chapbooks and 3 paperbacks of poetry and counting. She is also the co-author of a poetry book entitled Truth With Purpose with Victoria Huggins Peurifoy. Her signature poem is “Lord\, Why Did You Make Me Black?” It is featured in Chicken Soup For the African American Soul and a children’s version is available as a coloring book. Ms. Ebo visits schools (all grades) as part of Nia’s Purpose: Poetry & Percussion At Work. She is a recipient of the Golden Mic Award (2014) from World Renowned Entertainment and was honored for Poetic Excellence by Poetic Ventures and the National Black Authors’ Tour (2016). Ms. Ebo has written 3 plays and a blog for her church. She has co-hosted a poetry venue- “POET-IFY: Poetry to Edify” bi-monthly since 2005. \n  \nPlus a new chapbook by RuNett Nia Ebo\,  Expressing Myself on Purpose ($10.00\, Moonstone Press) \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-tribute-to-runett-nia-ebo/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Memorial,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tribute-to-RuNett-Nia-Ebo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210825T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210825T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210819T190555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210819T190651Z UID:16338-1629918000-1629925200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Educator-Poet Reading\, hosted by Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Educator-Poet Reading\, hosted by Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09\nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146\n  \nLanre-Habeeb Animashaun is author of  On Love. On Hope. On Heartbreak. When he’s not writing\, he is inspired by his dynamic 7th and 8th grade students in North Philadelphia. \n  \n  \n  \n  Barefoot Bella (Ariel Goodwin) is an earthy expressionist\, innovative educator and light-bearing black woman. Currently she serves as a Sexual Health and Social Skills teacher\, as well as a community educator. \n  \n  \n  \nOctavia “Alonge” Clarkson is an educator at Simon Gratz Mastery Charter High School as a PostSecondary Coordinator providing juniors and seniors with the tools necessary for their lives after graduation and is a doctoral student in Africology & African American Studies at Temple University. \n  \n  \nBarrett Rosser created the Black Girls Literacies Project where adolescent girls ages 13-18 read\, write and respond to each other about Black girlhood\, love\, and imagination\, she has been a poet since elementary school\, and she loves crafting multimodal poetry on social media. \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-educator-poet-reading-hosted-by-alina-macneal-and-jennifer-hook/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/August-25-2021_Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210818T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210727T150825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210818T213342Z UID:16315-1629313200-1629313200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Audrey Gidman\, Joan Kwon Glass\, and Marcela Sulak with Host Larry Robin DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Audrey Gidman\, Joan Kwon Glass\, and Marcela Sulak with Host Larry Robin\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n \n  \nAudrey Gidman \nAudrey Gidman is a queer poet living in Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Rust + Moth\, Luna Luna\, SWWIM\, Wax Nine\, Okay Donkey\, Rogue Agent\, The Inflectionist Review\, Bear Review\, The Shore\, The West Review\, and elsewhere. She serves as assistant poetry editor for Gigantic Sequins and an editor for Newfound’s Emerging Poets Chapbook Series. Her chapbook\, body psalms\, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize\, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoan Kwon Glass \nJoan Kwon Glass is author of How to Make Pancakes For a Dead Boy and If Rust Can Grow on the Moon. In 2021 she was a finalist for the Harbor Review Editor’s Prize\, the Subnivean Award\, the Lumiere Review Writing Contest & the Five South Poetry Prize & a semi-finalist for the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize. She serves as Poet Laureate for the city of Milford\, CT\, is a graduate of Smith College & serves as Poetry Co-Editor for West Trestle Review.\, Joan has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. She tweets @joanpglass & you may read her previously published work at www.joankwonglass.com. \n  \n  \n \n  \nMarcela Sulak \nMarcela Sulak is author of City of Skypapers\, Decency\, Immigrant\, and the lyric memoir\, Mouth Full of Seeds. Sulak\, who translates from the Hebrew\, Czech\, and French\, is a 2019 NEA Translation Fellow\, and her translation of Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems of Orit Gidali\, was nominated for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.  She directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University\, where she is an associate professor in American Literature. She also edits The Ilanot Review and hosts the TLV.1 Radio podcast\, Israel in Translation. \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading Follows \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-audrey-gidman-laura-mccullough-and-marcela-sulak-with-host-larry-robin/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Virtual-Poetry-Reading-August-18th-7PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210815T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210815T103000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210727T145737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210727T165914Z UID:16305-1629023400-1629023400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Poetry of Displacement with Fióna Bolger\, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan\, and Divya Victor DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Poetry of Displacement with Fióna Bolger\, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan\, and Divya Victor\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09\nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102\n\n\n“By bringing together three poets with overlapping connections to one another through the places they have called home over the course of their lives we seek to explore the ideas of home\, migration\, citizenship\, belonging as well as borders\, unhoming and disowning. While these poets share places\, both Fióna and Divya have lived in Tamil Nadu\, both Chandrika and Fióna live in Dublin\, and both Divya and Chandrika were born in India\, their writing emerges from displacement and cannot be easily situated in a national poetic tradition.” \n\n \nFióna Bolger \nFióna Bolger is author of a compound of words. She lives between Ireland and India. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review\, Southword\, The Brown Critique\, The Poetry Bus\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and others. She is a co-ordinator of Dublin Writers’ Forum and a member of the creative team of Outlandish Theatre Platform. She is currently working towards a PhD at Dublin City University entitled ‘Searching for Poems in the Cracks Between Borders’. Poems can be corralled into lists by country\, by language\, by form. Fióna Bolger is interested in those that fall between categories\, challenge the existence of formal\, linguistic\, cultural\, or geographic boundaries\, borders. \n  \n \nChandrika Narayanan-Mohan \nChandrika Narayanan-Mohan (She/Her) is a Dublin-based arts manager\, writer\, and performer from India. Her work has been published in Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets from Dedalus Press\, The Ireland Chair of Poetry Hold Open the Door anthology by UCD Press\, the Green Carnations: 25 Young LGBTQ+ Poets from Ireland anthology by Book Hub Publishing\, Banshee\, Honest Ulsterman\, Impossible Archetype\, and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2020 Chandrika won 3rd place in the Fingal Poetry Prize. Chandrika is editor of Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet issue 9\, book reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland’s Inis magazine\, and one of Science Gallery Dublin’s current Rapid Residency Artists. In 2021 Chandrika joined the Board of the Irish Writers Centre. \n  \n \nDivya Victor \nDivya Victor is the author of Curb; Kith\, a book of verse\, prose memoir\, lyric essay\, and visual objects; Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays; Natural Subjects (Winner of the Bob Kaufman Award); Unsub\, Things To Do With Your Mouth. Her work has appeared in BOMB\, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader\, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing\, The Best American Experimental Writing\, POETRY\, and others. She has been translated into French\, German\, Spanish\, and Czech\, been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum\, a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego\, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit. \n  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-poetry-of-displacement-with-fiona-bolger-chandrika-narayanan-mohan-and-divya-victor/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210811T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210811T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210726T161525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T221023Z UID:16289-1628708400-1628708400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Caroline Furr\, Darrell Parry\, and Ben Saff with Host Sean Hanrahan DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Caroline Furr\, Darrell Parry\, and Ben Saff with Host Sean Hanrahan\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n \n  \nCaroline Furr \nCaroline Furr began professional and personal life in Texas\, then moved to Los Angeles to complete an MA in sculpture. She has worked in museums and galleries\, sometimes as founder and director\, and painted sets for TV and film. When living in Barcelona\, she began writing\, and in Philadelphia\, surface and interior design. She is the author of A Foreigner’s Conception and Uneven Terrain available at www.tohopub.com. Find her online at carolinefurr.com or @carolinefurrdesign.art on Instagram. \n  \n \n  \nDarrell Parry \nDarrell Parry is a writer\, artist\, and event organizer from Easton\, Pennsylvania. He founded the online publication\, Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly\, and the monthly Stick Figure Poetry open mic. He also co-founded Lehigh Valley Poetry’s Virtual Salon\, which meets on Zoom the first Monday of every month. His alter ego works in higher education\, not as a professor\, but as one of those reviled peddlers of unaffordable course materials. Believe it or not\, he even sometimes sells poetry books. \n  \n \n  \nBen Saff \nBen Saff is a book-lover\, a cat-watcher\, and a breath-breather living in Philadelphia. His first chapbook\, Minor League All American Dance Club\, is available at www.tohopub.com. You can find all of his published work to date at bsaff.github.io. \n  \n  \nSean Hanrahan\, Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-caroline-furr-darrell-parry-and-ben-saff-with-host-sean-hanrahan/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/8_11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210807T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210807T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210726T160643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T222453Z UID:16284-1628344800-1628344800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 婕 Venus Cohen\, Heidi Seaborn\, and Lauren Zazzara with Host Sean Lynch DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 婕 Venus Cohen\, Heidi Seaborn\, and Lauren Zazzara with Host Sean Lynch\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 \n\n \n  \n婕 Venus Cohen \n婕 Venus Cohen is a mixed\, trans creator and current undergrad in English at Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar. Their work has been recognized in various formats with writing and visual arts in Boston Fashion Week\, Disquiet Arts\, and is upcoming in Beyond Queer Words Anthology\, Wrongdoing Magazine\, Fahmidan Journal and The B’K. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nHeidi Seaborn \nHeidi Seaborn is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and author of [PANK] Book Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021)\, Give a Girl Chaos (2019) and the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook\, Bite Marks. Recent work in American Poetry Journal\, Beloit\, Copper Nickel\, The Cortland Review\, The Greensboro Review\, The Missouri Review\, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith\, Tinderbox\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU. www.heidiseabornpoet.com \n  \n  \n \n  \nLauren Zazzara \nLauren Zazzara is a writer in Buffalo\, NY. When she isn’t reading\, (loudly) tapping at her keyboard\, or napping\, she is likely adoring her cat\, Margaret. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host. \nOpen Reading Follows. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-venus-cohen-heidi-seaborn-and-lauren-zazzara-with-host-sean-lynch/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/8_7.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210804T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210726T162714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T221203Z UID:16295-1628103600-1628103600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Joanna Fuhrman\, Christine Hamm\, and Kathleen Ossip DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Joanna Fuhrman\, Christine Hamm\, and Kathleen Ossip\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n \n  \nJoanna Fuhrman \nJoanna Fuhrman is the author of six books of poetry\, including To a New Era\, The Year of Yellow Butterflies\, and Pageant. She is a former poetry editor for Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday-night coordinator for the poetry readings at The Poetry Project from 2001 to 2003 and the Wednesday-night coordinator from 2010 to 2011. She currently teaches poetry writing at Rutgers University and coordinates the Introduction to Creative Writing Classes and the faculty and alumni readings. \n  \n \n  \nChristine Hamm \nChristine Hamm has published four books of poetry exploring the roles of animals\, fairytales\, gender\, and violence. Her newest book is GORILLA\, “a potent and wholly original collection that traces—with the indelible strokes of dream logic—the contours of domestic dramas and estranging losses\, along with the menaces of masculinity… The emotional complexity limned by Hamm is something to marvel at.”—Jenny Xie. Her poems have been published in Painted Bride Quarterly\, Rattle\, Rhino\, and Pinch. She also has an MSW from NYU\, an MA in fiction writing\, and is halfway through an MFA in poetry from Columbia. She is the 8th annual winner of the Tenth Gate Prize. \n  \n \n  \nKathleen Ossip \nKathleen Ossip is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Do-Over\, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War\, which was one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; and The Search Engine\, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. 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\, Poetry\, Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, and many others. Ossip teaches at The New School\, the 92nd Street Y\, and the Hudson Valley Writers Center. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-joanna-fuhrman-christine-hamm-and-kathleen-ossip/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/8_4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210803T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210803T183000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210726T155540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T221240Z UID:16279-1628015400-1628015400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Cydney Brown with Host Charles S. Carr DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Cydney Brown with Host Charles S. Carr\n2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \n699 Ranstead Street\, Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 OR Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n\n \n  \nCydney Brown \nCydney Brown is the Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of “Daydreaming”. She is a Senior at Abington Friends School and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. The Philadelphia Inquirer\, 6abc\, Philadelphia Citizen\, and Fox29 featured Brown. She loves that there are no limitations to writing. She has recited her poetry at Benjamin Franklin Hall\, Lincoln University\, The Ideas We Should Steal Festival and The Kelly’s Writers house. Her poetry explores the topics of social justice\, self-image\, love\, and nature. She won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop poetry competition and loves to perform spoken word poetry. She is a Gold Award Ambassador Girl Scout who is active in improving her community. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world. \nHost Charles S. Carr talks with Cydney Brown\, current Youth Poet Laureate\, who will also read her poetry URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-cydney-brown-with-host-charles-s-carr/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/8_3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210731T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210731T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210721T144957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T145016Z UID:16270-1627758000-1627758000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman\, Wanda Phipps\, and M.G. Stephens DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman\, Wanda Phipps\, and M.G. Stephens\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 \n\n \n  \nRichard Hoffman \nRichard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry\, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road\, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and Noon until Night\, awarded the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. His other books include the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury\, and the story collection Interference and Other Stories. He is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College in Boston\, and nonfiction editor at Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices. \n  \n \n  \nWanda Phipps \nWanda Phipps is a writer and translator. Her books include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian\, Hungarian\, Arabic\, Galician and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the National Theater Translation Fund\, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine\, Kyrgyzstan\, Siberia\, and at La MaMa\, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City\, Time Out New York\, Paper Magazine\, and others. Her new book is Mind Honey! \n  \n \n  \nM. G. Stephens \nM. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) is the author of over twenty books\, including the critically acclaimed novel The Brooklyn Book of the Dead; the travel memoir Lost in Seoul; the award-winning essay collection Green Dreams; and Hobo Haiku from Moonstone. His play Our Father ran on Theatre Row (42nd Street in New York) for over five years. MadHat just published his book of prose poems and poetry about an out of work actor who lands the part of Hamlet and is called History of Theatre or the Glass of Fashion. Dispatches Editions is shortly going to publish his book about the origins of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bouwerie; entitled When Poetry Was the World: St. Mark’s\, the East Village\, the 1960s\, and Beyond. Stephens earned a doctorate from the University of Essex (UK)\, researching and writing on the Poetry Project; an MFA in writing from Yale\, with Derek Walcott his supervisor; and his BA and MA from the City University of New York (City College). He’s taught at Princeton\, Columbia\, and New York universities\, and the University of London. After living in London for fifteen years\, he now lives just north of Chicago. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-richard-hoffman-wanda-phipps-and-m-g-stephens/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/7_31.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210729T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210729T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210721T145522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T145522Z UID:16264-1627585200-1627585200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: "Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn" by Jonathan Zimmerman\, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator) DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman\, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87881707311?pwd=S0pHK2tnUkp4SzlmajNmV2hCUkFMQT09 \nMeeting ID: 878 8170 7311 – Passcode: 322627 \n Purchase This Title\n\n \nIn America\, we like to think we live in a land of liberty\, where everyone can say whatever they want. Throughout our history\, however\, we have also been quick to censor people who offend or frighten us. We talk a good game about freedom of speech\, then we turn around and deny it to others. In this brief but bracing book\, historian Jonathan Zimmerman and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson tell the story of free speech in America: who established it\, who has denounced it\, and who has risen to its defense. They also make the case for why we should care about it today when free speech is once again under attack. Across the political spectrum\, Americans have demanded the suppression of ideas and images that allegedly threaten our nation. But the biggest danger to America comes not from speech but from censorship\, which prevents us from freely governing ourselves. Free speech allows us to criticize our leaders. It lets us consume the art\, film\, and literature we prefer. And\, perhaps most importantly\, it allows minorities to challenge the oppression they suffer. While any of us are censored\, none of us are free. \nJonathan Zimmerman is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Peace Corps volunteer\, he is the author of Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know and seven other books. He is also a frequent op-ed contributor to The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and other national newspapers and magazines. Zimmerman received the 2019 Open Inquiry Leadership Award from Heterodox Academy\, which promotes viewpoint diversity in higher education. \nSigne Wilkinson was the first female to receive the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1992. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-free-speech-and-why-you-should-give-a-damn-by-jonathan-zimmerman-signe-wilkinson-illustrator/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210728T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210728T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210721T142916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210721T142916Z UID:16258-1627498800-1627498800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Heather Lanier and Autumn McClintock with Hosts Alina MacNeal and Jennifer Hook DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Heather Lanier and Autumn McClintock with Hosts Alina MacNeal and Jennifer Hook\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n \n  \nHeather Lanier \nHeather Lanier is the author of the memoir\, Raising a Rare Girl\, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, as well as two award-winning poetry chapbooks. Her poems have been published most recently with The Cincinnati Review\, The Sun\, and Mid-American Review. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Rowan University\, and her TED talk has been viewed over two million times. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nAutumn McClintock \nAutumn McClintock lives in Philadelphia and works at the Free Library. Poems of hers have recently appeared in The Account\, Cimarron Review\, Denver Quarterly\, The Georgia Review\, Sonora Review\, and others. Her chapbook\, After the Creek\, was published in 2016. She is a staff reader for Ploughshares and Associate Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Follows \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-heather-lanier-and-autumn-mcclintock-with-hosts-alina-macneal-and-jennifer-hook/ LOCATION:Moonstone Arts Center CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/7_28.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210725T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210725T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210706T210743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210709T001214Z UID:16172-1627221600-1627232400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic\, edited by Elayne Clift DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic\, edited by Elayne Clift\nwith Michael Bosworth\, Elayne Clift\, Marion Deutsche Cohen\, Barbara Crooker\, Charlotte Friedman\, Jim Kates\, Burt Rashbaum\, Irene Sherlock\, Miriam Weinstein\, and Daniel Williams. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \n\nIt is more than a year since Covid-19 invaded our countries and our bodies\, causing us to long for the touch of loved ones\, to fight anxiety and despair\, and to adjust to the stunning effects of prolonged isolation. We watched as the numbers of deaths mounted and agreed that it was the worst health crisis we’d experienced in a hundred years. What we longed for were stories about people lost to the insidious virus\, and those left behind. We wanted stories of survival\, coping\, finding our way to the future. In making much of the mundane\, 53 poets share 70 poems in the anthology A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic. The poems\, by diverse and award-winning writers\, capture and share the collective Covid. They reveal that we were brave in our contemplative journey. This anthology adds to the tradition of sharing stories in well-chosen words that move and enlighten us. \n  \nMichael Bosworth recently returned to writing poetry and creative nonfiction after a 45-year hiatus. He is on the board of the Brattleboro Commons newspaper in Vermont and an active member of WriteAction in Brattleboro. \n  \n  \nElayne Clift is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work appears in numerous publications and anthologies internationally. Her travel memoir Around the World in 50 Years: Travel Tales of a Not So Innocent Abroad was published in 2019. This is her 4th anthology. \n  \nMarion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry and memoir. Her prose and poetry collections include Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother\, and The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems. She teaches Mathematics in Literature at Drexel University. \n  \n  \nBarbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian-Americana\, author of twelve chapbooks and nine poetry books\, including Some Glad Morning\, published in 2019 by the University of Pittsburgh Poetry Press. Her awards include the WB Yeats Society of New York Award. \n  \n  \nCharlotte Friedman teaches Narrative Medicine at Barnard College. Her poetry has been published in Connecticut River Review\, Intima\, and elsewhere. Her book The Girl Pages was published by Hyperion. \n  \n  \n  \nJim Kates is a poet and literary translator. He lives in New Hampshire. \n  \n  \n  \nBurt Rashbaum has published in literary and poetry journals\, including Contemporary Literary Horizon in Bucharest. His latest book is Of the Carousel (2019). His work has been anthologized and his books include A Century of Love\, Becoming an American\, and Tears for My Mother. \n  \n  \n  \nIrene Sherlock is a marriage and family therapist. His poems\, essays\, and short stories have been published in various literary magazines. Finishing Line Press published Equinox\, a poetry chapbook. \n  \n  \n  \n \nMiriam Weinstein has published poetry in several anthologies including Reflections on Home: The Heart of All That Is and Broken Atoms in Our Hands. Her chapbook Twenty Ways of Looking was published in 2017. \n  \n  \n  \n \nDaniel Williams has been widely anthologized. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry and several of his poems are in the time capsules at Yosemite. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-a-21st-century-plague-poetry-from-a-pandemic-edited-by-elayne-clift/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210724T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T022825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T164950Z UID:16233-1627153200-1627153200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 6 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 6\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n\nMoonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store\, thousands of writers\, poets\, fiction\, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program\, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different\, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us\, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets\, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read\, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink\, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke. \n  \nNot Everyone Will Be Reading. \nDay 6 Potential Readers\n\nPeter E. Murphy\nCharlotte Muse\nWunKuen Ng\nThom Nickels\nLeonard Niedermayer\nGloria Nixon-John\nStu O’Connor\nDaniel O’Hara\nCynthia Oka\nEwuare Osayande\nAlicia Ostriker\nMarko Otten\nHermond Palmer\nOur Sun Paul\nFaith Paulsen\nJoan Penn\nAaren Perry\nJohn Polier\nSteve Pollack\nKate Potter\nPrabha Prabhu\nSusana Praver-Perez\nHalle Preneta\nElijah Pringle\nElijah Pryor\nDavid Radavich\nMargaret Randall\nPatrick Reardon\nTennessee Reed\nDon Riggs\nTheresa Rodriguez\nRuth Rouff\nUrsula Rucker\nDestiny Samuel\nSonia Sanchez\nHayden Saunier\nGeorge Schaefer\nNina Schafer\nPeter Schmidt\nJennifer Schneider\nEsther Schnur-Berlot\nNaila Schulte\nConnie Wasem Scott\nFereshteh Sholevar\nAlyson Shore Adler\nDaniel Simpson\nDavid R. Slavitt\nBob Small\nChristopher Sohnly\n\nAll 300 poets are listed here on our website. \nPre-order the anthology here! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-25th-anniversary-of-poetry-ink-day-6/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210723T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210723T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T022522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T165310Z UID:16230-1627066800-1627066800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 5 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 5\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n\nMoonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store\, thousands of writers\, poets\, fiction\, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program\, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different\, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us\, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets\, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read\, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink\, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke. \n  \nNot Everyone Will Be Reading. \nDay 5 Potential Readers\n\nPeter E. Murphy\nCharlotte Muse\nWunKuen Ng\nThom Nickels\nLeonard Niedermayer\nGloria Nixon-John\nStu O’Connor\nDaniel O’Hara\nCynthia Oka\nEwuare Osayande\nAlicia Ostriker\nMarko Otten\nHermond Palmer\nOur Sun Paul\nFaith Paulsen\nJoan Penn\nAaren Perry\nJohn Polier\nSteve Pollack\nKate Potter\nPrabha Prabhu\nSusana Praver-Perez\nHalle Preneta\nElijah Pringle\nElijah Pryor\nDavid Radavich\nMargaret Randall\nPatrick Reardon\nTennessee Reed\nDon Riggs\nTheresa Rodriguez\nRuth Rouff\nUrsula Rucker\nDestiny Samuel\nSonia Sanchez\nHayden Saunier\nGeorge Schaefer\nNina Schafer\nPeter Schmidt\nJennifer Schneider\nEsther Schnur-Berlot\nNaila Schulte\nConnie Wasem Scott\nFereshteh Sholevar\nAlyson Shore Adler\nDaniel Simpson\nDavid R. Slavitt\nBob Small\nChristopher Sohnly\n\nAll 300 poets are listed here on our website. \nPre-order the anthology here! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-25th-anniversary-of-poetry-ink-day-5/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210722T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T022201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T165104Z UID:16228-1626980400-1626980400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 4 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 4\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n\nMoonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store\, thousands of writers\, poets\, fiction\, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program\, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different\, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us\, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets\, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read\, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink\, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke. \n  \nNot Everyone Will Be Reading. \nDay 4 Potential Readers\n\nDonald Krieger\nEd Krizek\nJim LaVilla-Havelin\nKyle Laws\nJeffrey Lee\nLynn Levin\nMichael Levin\nElliott Levin\nAntoinette Libro\nCarey Link\nJewel Lloyd\nRobin Longfield\nWarren Longmire\nGregory Loselle\nDick Lourie\nGregory Loselle\nDick Lourie\nFrederick Lowe\nAlison Lubar\nLynette\nNick Lutwyche\nSean Lynch\nDeidra Lyngard\nTerri Lyons\nAlina Macneal\nHaki Madhubuti\nAnn Malaspina\nNorman Marshall\nAngel Martinez\nJohn Mason\nTrapeta Mayson\nBernadette McBride\nOctavia McBride-Ahebee\nCecelia McKinney\nAustin McLain\nPat McLean\nDiane McManus\nTony Medina\nBarbara Meier\nDrew Miller\nEthelbert Miller\nMichael Miller\nHelen Markil\nGail Mitchell\nAbbe Mogell\nCurtis Mohn\nDavid Mook\nKathleen Moore\nMichael Moss\nIryna Mozovaya\n\nAll 300 poets are listed here on our website. \nPre-order the anthology here! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-25th-anniversary-of-poetry-ink-day-4/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210721T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210721T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T021958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T165121Z UID:16226-1626894000-1626894000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 3 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 3\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n\nMoonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store\, thousands of writers\, poets\, fiction\, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program\, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different\, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us\, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets\, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read\, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink\, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke. \n  \nNot Everyone Will Be Reading. \nDay 3 Potential Readers\n\nKeith Gaboury\nNina Gadson\nMaria Gillan\nEli Goldblatt\nLeonard Gontarek\nAmy Gordon\nBeulah Gordon-Skinner\nLinda Goss\nSandy Green\nRay Greenblatt\nOna Gritz\nLuray Gross\nHouston Baker\nFloi Baker\nJohn Balaban\nCatherine Bancroft\nJT Barbarese\nKatherine Barham\nLisa Alexander Baron\nHerschel Baron\nAmy Barone\nPeter Baroth\nTina Barr\nMargaret Chew\nBarringer\nSamantha Barrow\nAdriann Bautista\nSiduri Beckman\nKen Been\nMichele Belluomini\nNorma Bernstock\nSylvia Beverly\nByron Beynon\nLili Bita\nPamela Blanding\nLynn Blue\nJulia Blumenreich\nWilleena Booker\nElizabeth Boquet\nMatilda Bray\nJoni brenner\nR. Bremner\nEugene Brown\nDeborah brown\nMegan Brown\nMargaret Brown\nMary Brownell\nLisa Bruckman\nSteve Burke\n\nAll 300 poets are listed here on our website. \nPre-order the anthology here! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-25th-anniversary-of-poetry-ink-day-3/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210720T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210720T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T021707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T165138Z UID:16223-1626807600-1626807600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 2 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 2\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n\n\nMoonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store\, thousands of writers\, poets\, fiction\, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program\, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different\, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us\, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets\, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read\, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink\, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke. \n  \nNot Everyone Will Be Reading. \nDay 2 Potential Readers\n\nDennis Brutus\nBarbara Carlson\nCharles Carr\nAileen Cassinetto\nErin Castaldi\nGrace Cavalieri\nSandra Chaff\nJoseph Chelius\nChina Rain Chung\nTy Clark\nEulinda Antonette\nClarke-Akalanne\nCA Conrad\nJim Cory\nBeverly Cottman\nLynda V. E. Crawford\nTerence Culleton\nRaheem Curry\nCraig Czury\nEileen D’Angelo\nSteven Davison\nToi Derricotte\nSteven Deutsch\nGregory Djanikian\nPheralyn Dove\nTom Driscoll\nCarlos Dufflar\nTerry Dugan\nPhilip Dykhouse\nMare Earley\nRuNett Ebp\nRyan Eckes\nOliver Egger\nW.D. Ehrhart\nHelene Eisman Fisher\nMassimo Elijah\nAlfred Encarnacion\nMartin Espada\nCole Eubanks\nR.G. Evans\nKatherine Falk\nLinda Fischer\nPeggy Fisher\nFrancis Flavin\nPhilip Foster\nBryan Franco\nDaisy Fried\nDeborah Fries\n\nAll 300 poets are listed here on our website. \nPre-order the anthology here! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-25th-anniversary-of-poetry-ink-day-2/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210719T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210719T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T020435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T165202Z UID:16220-1626721200-1626721200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 1 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink\, Day 1\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\nMoonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store\, thousands of writers\, poets\, fiction\, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program\, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different\, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us\, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets\, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read\, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink\, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke. \nNot Everyone Will Be Reading. \nDay 1 Potential Readers\n\nAlandra Abrams\nFran Abrams\nLiz Abrams-Morley\nMichael Abreu\nDavid Acosta\nCarolyn Adams\nMarjorie Agosin\nNathalie Anderson\nNathan Antoine\nMeredith Avakian\nFran Baird\nKwame Bakari\nHouston Baker\nFloi Baker\nJohn Balaban\nCatherine Bancroft\nJT Barbarese\nKatherine Barham\nLisa Alexander Baron\nHerschel Baron\nAmy Barone\nPeter Baroth\nTina Barr\nMargaret Chew\nBarringer\nSamantha Barrow\nAdriann Bautista\nSiduri Beckman\nKen Been\nMichele Belluomini\nNorma Bernstock\nSylvia Beverly\nByron Beynon\nLili Bita\nPamela Blanding\nLynn Blue\nJulia Blumenreich\nWilleena Booker\nElizabeth Boquet\nMatilda Bray\nJoni Brenner\nR. Bremner\nEugene Brown\nDeborah brown\nMegan Brown\nMargaret Brown\nMary Brownell\nLisa Bruckman\nSteve Burke\n\nAll 300 poets are listed here on our website. \nPre-order the anthology here! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-25th-anniversary-of-poetry-ink-day-1/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210718T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210718T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210710T170531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210712T164533Z UID:16236-1626616800-1626616800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: "Liberté\, égalité\, fraternité" Anthology DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté\, égalité\, fraternité” Anthology\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n Purhcase the Anthology\n“liberty\, equality\, fraternity” the national motto of France\nA legacy of the Age of Enlightenment\, the motto “Liberté\, égalité\, fraternité” first appeared during the French Revolution. It was written into the 1958 constitution and is nowadays part of the French national heritage. \nJuly 14 is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille in 1789\, the turning point in the French Revolution. Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France\, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In French\, it is formally called Féte nationale “National Celebration” and commonly and legally le 14 juillet\, “the 14th of July” \nPotential Readers: \n\nByron Beynon\nWilleena Booker\nJane-Rebecca Cannarella\nMarie-Louise Eyres\nLinda Goss\nSteven Halpern\nKathleen Herrmann\nJoan Huffman\nJones Irwin\nIrving Jones\nRachel Kiskaddon\nResolute Lee\nJohn Mason\nHelen MIRKIL\nJonathan Pessant\nBegonya Plaza-Rosenbluth\nPeter Prizel\nDavid Radavich\nGeorge Schaefer\nJennifer Schneider\nBob Small\nJose Trejo Maya\nEric Wittkopf\nSamantha Wright\n\nClick here for our liberté\, égalité\, fraternité Anthology ($10.00\, 978-1-954499-20-1) URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-liberte-egalite-fraternite-anthology/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/CALL-FOR-SUBMISSIONS.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210717T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210717T170000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210706T212017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210707T003805Z UID:16186-1626530400-1626541200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets with Aimee Schwartz\, Taleen Postian\, and Host Larry Robin DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets with Aimee Schwartz\, Taleen Postian\, and Host Larry Robin\nNew Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 \n\nAimee Schwartz \nAimee Schwartz is a poet\, artist\, and performer. Her poetry has been featured in Moonstone Arts Center’s New Voices and APIARY as well as Widener University’s publication Widener Ink. She has co-edited\, contributed poetry\, flash fiction\, and artwork to an anthology for Widener’s English Department (she is a Senior Criminal Justice major and Psychology minor at Widener University). Her poetry is heavily influenced by Sylvia Plath and she will often write about mental health\, bullying\, death\, and sexual harassment. She also loves to incorporate mythology into her work. \n  \n  \n \n  \nTaleen Postian \nTaleen Postian is an Armenian American poet from New York. Her writing has fallen under the realms of scientific literature\, journalism\, poetry\, and heartfelt birthday cards. You can read her poetry in Hyebred magazine as well as Moonstone Art Center’s New Voices anthology. You can write to her at taleen.postian@gmail.com. She thanks you for reading her work. \n  \n  \n  \nLarry Robin – Host \nOpen Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-new-voices-emerging-poets-with-aimee-schwartz-taleen-postian-and-host-larry-robin/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/7_17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210706T203758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210709T001525Z UID:16165-1626289200-1626289200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard\, Hermond Palmer\, Connie Scott\, and Virginia Watts DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard\, Hermond Palmer\, Connie Scott\, and Virginia Watts\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n  \nChris Bullard\, author of Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife \nChris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia\, PA. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler\, Muse/A Journal\, The Woven Tale\, Nimrod\, American Journal of Poetry\, and The Offbeat. Grey Book Press published his chapbook\, “Continued\,” in May of 2020. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nHermond Palmer\, author of Aquarian Love Poems \nHermond Palmer is a poet\, author\, and songwriter who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem\, Philadelphia\, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. \n  \n  \n \n  \nConnie Wasem Scott\, author of Predictable as Fire \nConnie Wasem Scott makes her home among the pine trees and maples in Spokane\, WA\, where she teaches writing and literature at Spokane Falls Community College and spends as much time as she can enjoying the outdoors with her Aussie-American husband. Her first full collection\, I Come to Know Thirst\, was recently accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press (publishing date TBA). Her most recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal\, The Shore\, Cirque\, Streetlight\, Wild Roof\, and Citron Review. \n  \n  \n \n  \nVirginia Watts\, author of The Werewolves of Elk Creek \nVirginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in Illuminations\, The Florida Review\, CRAFT\, Sunspot Literary Journal\, Sky Island Journal\, Permafrost Magazine\, Bacopa Literary Review\, Streetlight Magazine among others. Winner of the 2019 Florida Review Meek Award in nonfiction and nominee for Best of the Net Nonfiction 2019 and 2020\, she has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-new-chapbook-spotlight-with-chris-bullard-hermond-palmer-connie-scott-and-virginia-watts/ LOCATION:Moonstone CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210703T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210703T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210619T204408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210619T204408Z UID:16133-1625320800-1625320800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison\, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek\, Daniel Nester\, Catie Rosemurgy\, and Host Jennifer Hook DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison\, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek\, Daniel Nester\, Catie Rosemurgy\, and Host Jennifer Hook\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 \n\nLeonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems\, including The Paris Poems Of Jim Morrison (Moonstone Press); Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket\, Shiva; He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs; St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris; and\, forthcoming in 2021\, The Long Way Home. \nDaniel Nester‘s most recent book is Shader\, a memoir. Previous books include How to Be Inappropriate\, God Save My Queen I and II\, and The Incredible Sestina Anthology\, which Nester edited. His recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, The Collagist\, Bennington Review\, and Electric Literature. \nCatie Rosemurgy’s poetry collections include The Stranger Manual (2010)\, My Favorite Apocalypse (2001)\, and the chapbook First the Burning (2018). Her poems have been featured in the anthologies Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets (2004)\, Poetry 30 (2005)\, and Best American Poetry (1997). \n \nThis event\, Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris July 3\, 1971: A Tribute\, will also feature readings from Arthur Rimbaud by Maxwell Gontarek and Léa Fougerolle and William Blake & The Eternals. \nJennifer Hook\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-jim-morrison-a-tribute-with-leonard-gontarek-daniel-nester-catie-rosemurgy-and-host-jennifer-hook/ CATEGORIES:Events,Memorial,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/1080x1080.png.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210630T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T013237 CREATED:20210609T211405Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210609T211405Z UID:16124-1625079600-1625079600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Samuel R. Delaney Reads Occasional Views Volume 1: "More About Writing" and Other Essays DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Samuel R. Delaney Reads Occasional Views Volume 1: “More About Writing” and Other Essays\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n\n \nSamuel R. Delany \nSamuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory\, queer literature\, and fiction. His “prismatic output is among the most significant\, immense and innovative in American letters\,” wrote novelist Jordy Rosenberg in the New York Times in 2019. Occasional Views: “More About Writing” and Other Essays is an anthology of essays\, lectures\, and interviews addresses topics such as 9/11\, race\, the garden of Eden\, the interplay of life and writing\, and notes on other writers such as Theodore Sturgeon\, Hart Crane\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Hölderlin\, and an introduction to―and a conversation with―Octavia E. Butler. The first of two volumes\, this book gathers more than 30 pieces on films\, poetry\, and science fiction. These sharp\, focused writings by a bestselling Black and gay author are filled with keen insights and observations on culture\, language\, and life. \n  \nIn 2016\, Samuel R. Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the author of Babel-17\, Nova\, Dhalgren\, Dark Reflections\, Atlantis: Three Tales\, the Return to Nevèrÿon series\, an autobiography\, The Motion of Light in Water\, and the paired essays “Times Square Red / Times Square Blue”. Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award for 2008\, and in 2015 he won the Nicolas Guillén Award for Philosophical Literature\, and in 1997 the Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies. Delany has also won four Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction Writers of America and two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Convention. In 2013\, he was made a Grand Master of Science Fiction\, following in the steps of Asimov\, Heinlein\, and Le Guin. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-samuel-r-delaney-reads-occasional-views-volume-1-more-about-writing-and-other-essays/ CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Moonstone-Arts-Center-Presents-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR