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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!
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LOCATION:Moonstone
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Mike Cohen and Connie on Poetry & Humor with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Charles S. Carr talks with Mike Cohen\, Writer\, and Connie\n\nWatch the live broadcast at Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch \nIn the beginning\, Mike Cohen started on his complete works\, which remain a work-in-progress. Along the way\, he discovered the wisdom of youth and its foolishness. He discovered the wisdom of age and its foolishness. He discovered young love and its foolishness. He discovered true love. He has meandered and stumbled and lurched and found no answers\, but many\, many satisfying ways to phrase the questions. Mike Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store. His articles on sculpture regularly appear in the Schuylkill Valley Journal in which he is a contributing editor. \n  \n  \n  \nHis colleague in these endeavors is also his constant companion\, cohabitant\, cohort\, and confidante\, Connie\, who keeps Mike and his writing from going off-kilter.  Mike’s wry writing has appeared in the Mad Poets Review\, Fox Chase Review\, and other journals. His poetic presentations feature humor and drama against a philosophical backdrop. Mike likes to bring poetry and audiences to life in cafes\, libraries\, book stores and venues including Princeton’s Café Improv\, the Pen and Pencil Club\, the Hedgerow Theatre\, Fergie’s Pub\, Harlem’s Apollo Theater\, and neither least nor last\, Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery. \n  \n  \nPeople often ask about a poet’s process. Connie is integral to my process. My first reader\, primary audience\, she gives me invaluable feedback and insight on the potential reaction to my writing. She took an interest in poetry for my benefit. She attends the Philadelphia Writers Conference\, she says\, so she can better help me with my poems. She writes sparingly\, but when I entered one of her poems in a contest at the conference\, Connie won first prize in poetry. Her poem was not a humorous one\, but poetry is a funny thing. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-mike-cohen-and-connie-on-poetry-humor-with-charles-s-carr/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Jazz & Forgiveness: aTONEment - Contemporary Responses to James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones with Elijah Pringle and John Lavin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87964733385?pwd=Nk5LN2FMNjhUeE5uVnQ2VVdBMVZPQT09 \nMeeting ID: 879 6473 3385 – Passcode: 904825 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Jazz & Forgiveness: aTONEment – Contemporary Responses to James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones \nCo-hosts Elijah B. Pringle\, III & John Lavin welcome audience to the May Edition of aTONEment and share topic of how James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones has taught jazz to pray and to play in the context of this 1927 Harlem Renaissance poetic treasure. “As real today as 93 years ago.” \nReflection: Massimo Elijah (poet/artist)\, Carole Metellus (poet)\, Sandy Oasin (dancer)\, and Bethlehem (Vocussionist) share what gestures in God’s Trombones have moved them and how and why and what illustrations of those movements they can share by describing or performing their thoughts and feelings. \nJam Session: Raheem Curry\, Michael Angelo to read passages verbatim from James Weldon John’s God’s Trombones: Derek Washington (Jazz Violinist)\, Bethlehem (Vocussionist)\, Justin Deutsch (Guitarist)\, Brent White (Trombonist) to CALL &; Respond to lines from God’s Trombones. Trombonist & Composer\, Brent White to share compositions. Special Presentation by Massimo Elijah. \nReflection on how healing is made possible by God’s Trombones \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virutal-poetry-reading-jazz-and-forgiveness-atonement-contemporary-responses-to-james-weldon-johnsons-gods-trombones/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200816T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200816T140000
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SUMMARY:On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades with Dave Worrell
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting ID: 818 3720 4326\, Zoom Passcode: 100371\, Phone: 1-646-9923\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837204326?pwd=VzBwOVFVZHNjckMrNzVCU1loOVBpZz09 \nOn the Verge: Poets of the Palisades III is an anthology that consists of 80 contributors in the Tri-State who were featured over a four-year period from both series that are sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community and hosted by Denise La Neve and Paul Nash. \nNorma Ketzis Bernstock‘s poetry has appeared in many print and online journals\, including Napalm and Novacaine\, Stillwater Review\, Exit 13\, US 1 Worksheets\, Connecticut River Review\, and Paterson Literary Review. \nTheresa Burns is author of Two Train Town\, Pushcart Prize nominee\, and founder and curator of Watershed Literary Events in New Jersey. Her poetry\, reviews\, and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Prairie Schooner\, New Ohio Review\, JAMA\, America Magazine\, The Cortland Review\, SWWIM\, and elsewhere. \nDeborah Gerris is the author of three books of poems\, Light in Light (2017)\, The Language of Paisley\, and the chapbook The Language of Rain. Her poems appear in many anthologies and journals. \nAnton Yakovlev‘s latest poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books\, 2018) won the James Tate Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New Criterion\, The Hopkins Review\, and elsewhere. \nPaul Nash works at AMNH\, conducting laboratory and field research on ancient organisms preserved in amber and sedimentary rock.  He authors scientific articles\, poetry\, fiction\, and satire.  He has been both an editor and contributor for three Poets of the Palisades anthologies\, an editor for Roy Lucianna’s posthumous poetry collection Neptune on High\, and founded and co-hosts two reading series (with his wife Denise). \nDenise La Neve writes both poetry and fiction. She was a contributor and editor for the 2010 and 2016 Poets of the Palisades anthologies Beyond the Rift and META-LAND. She co-hosts two poetry series under the umbrella of the North Jersey Literary Community (The Poets of the Palisades in Teaneck and The High Mountain Meadow in Wayne). \nJohn J. Trause\, Director of Oradell Public Library\, is the author of six books of poetry and one of parody\, Latter-Day Litany (Éditions élastiques\, 1996)\, the latter staged Off-Broadway. Marymark Press has published his visual poetry and art as broadsides and sheets. He is a founder of the William Carlos Williams Poetry Cooperative in Rutherford\, N. J.\, and the former host and curator of its monthly reading series. \nDave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and the ekphrastic collection Close to Home features paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant\, Canary\, Shot Glass Journal\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, U.S. 1 Worksheets\, Exit 13\, and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia. \nDave Worrell\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poets-of-the-palisades-with-dave-worrell/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
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SUMMARY:23rd Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading
DESCRIPTION:Sunday June 2\, 2019 – noon\nMoonstone at 1199C Headquarters\, 1319 Locust Street \nHello! We are hosting our 23rd annual Poetry Ink release event which will be commemorated by readings from 84 (not quite 100 this year!) poets. Join us in enjoying the work of academic poets\, famous poets\, free form poets\, street poets\, unknown poets\, spoken word poets\, published poets\, unpublished poets- you name it! Poetry Ink was created with the goal of generating conversation between poets of different ages\, backgrounds\, ethnicities\, and stylings in order to celebrate Philadelphia’s historically diverse literary community.  \nAccordingly\, the 100 Poets Reading aims to provide a platform for poets from all different walks of life so that the audience and readers alike may enjoy new poetic experiences- nowhere else in Philadelphia is there such a unique congregation of poets and poetry. Food contributions are encouraged\, as this will be a potluck community event for all ages. Whether you stop by for hours or just a few minutes\, an enjoyable time is guaranteed for all attendees. \n Purchase the Anthology\nNot all contributors will be reading.\nAll Reading Times are Approximate\n12:00\nSekai’afua Zankel\nDavid Worrell\nShanyah Womack\nDonna Wolf-Palacio\nRocky Wilson\nEleanor Wilner12:30\nAnthony Williams\nNotus Williams\nSharon Wellons\nMercedes Weathers\nBill Van Buskirk\nJonathon Todd1:00\nJohn Timpane\nElaine Terranova\nLamont Steptoe\nMbarek Sryfi\nFereshteh Sholevar\nGeorge Schaefer\nTonya Ryva \n1:30\nAyo Rosier\nTyrone “Marcy” Roosevelt\nStuart Roberts\nDon Riggs\nElizabeth Quigley\nElijah Pringle\nPrabha Prabhu \n\n2:00\nAaren Perry\nHermond Palmer\nClaire Owen\nEwuare Osayande\nDaniel O’Hara\nStu O’Connor\nMichael Miller2:30\nJohn Mason\nAlina Macneal\nSean Lynch\nCynthia Lee\nHazel Lee\nJeffrey Lee\nKinard Lang3:00\nLynette\nLisa Konigsberg\nMichelle Keita\nAnne Kaier\nBetti Kahn\nBea Joyner\nIrving Jones \n3:30\nChristina Jones\nLeah Jackson\nAnn Huang\nJennifer Hook\nAlison Hicks\nLaura Hawley\nJanelle Harvey\nSean Hanrahan \n\n4:00\nSteven Halpern\nHanoch Guy\nLinda Goss\nBeulah Gordon-Skinner\nGreg Francis\nWilliam Foster\nPeggy Fisher4:30\nAlfred Encarnacion\nRunett Ebo\nPheralyn Dove\nAshini Desai\nNicole Davis\nTiffany Cooper\nCathleen Cohen5:00\nMarion Cohen\nJose Cedillos\nSteve Burke\nEugene Brown\nElizabeth Bodien\nLynn Blue\nPamela Blanding \n5:30\nBrandon Blake\nMichele Belluomini\nPeter Baroth\nCatherine Bancroft\nKwame Bakari\nMeredith Avakian\nSilvino Alexander\nLiz Abrams-Morley
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/23rd-poetry-ink-100-poets-reading/
LOCATION:1199C Headquarters\, 1319 Locust st.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T210000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave\, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia\, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit\, a literary magazine about class\, work\, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows\, Apiary\, and Mad House magazines. \nFae Aspen Gehringer is the author of “I Love You It Looks Like Rain” (Be About It Press 2017) and “I Don’t Write About Race” the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms’s 2017 Mainline contest\, an Entropy Best Poetry Book of 2018\, and debuted as the number one LGBT new release on Amazon. \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee’s poetry is informed by the convergence of cultures and the many ways people move throughout the world. Her work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Rigorous\, For Harriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\,  Yellow Medicine\, Badilisha Poetry Exchange\,  South Philly Fiction\, Blackberry Magazine\,  International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas and the Beloit Poetry Journal.  McBride-Ahebee’s poetry collections include Assuming Voices (Lit Pot Press) and Where My Birthmark Dances (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry chapbook\, Praise Songfor the Gravediggers\, was released in January 2019.  https://omcbrideahebee.squarespace.com/ \nSean Lynch\, Host\, Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-patrick-belgrave-fae-aspen-gehringer-octavia-mcbride-ahebee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Cuba\, 2019 - Poetry & Information
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nPresenters include:\n \n  \nSteve Halpern was a member of the UAW and has been working as a housekeeper in Philadelphia area hospitals. \n  \n  \n \n  \nEnrique Sacerio-Garí\, born in Cuba\, professor at Bryn Mawr College known for his work on Jorge Luis Borges\, and is author of Comunión (a concrete poem)\, Poemas interreales\, Para llegar a La Habana and El mercado de la memoria.  \n  \n \n  \nJohn Staggs\, Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Philadelphia City Council\, a Walmart worker\, Staggs participated in the “Dairy Farm Crisis Hearing” and joined the teacher’s picket lines in West Virginia. \n  \n  \n\nInternational Volunteer Work Brigade to Cuba 2019 will take place April 21 – May 5.\nBrigade members will participate in the May Day celebration in Havana. These tours are sponsored by the Cuban organization ICAP. \nFor more information: ICanGoToCuba@nnoc.info. \nApplications are due by March 29.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-cuba-2019/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190130T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone & Apiary Magazine Present: HIVE NIGHT
DESCRIPTION:  \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 laid back\, inclusive space\, whatever the form\, genre or mood\, to a crowd hungry for diverse voices.\nFeaturing:\n  \n \n  \nMichael O’Hara is the author of The Year With No Holidays and The Fine Art of Selling Out. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nNicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress\, Getting Lucky\, and several chapbooks\, including Fat Dreams. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nSekai’afua Zankel is author of Behind These Eyes /Optical Poems\, won the Frank Moore Poetry Prize 2008 and the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. Her poems have been published In the CAP literary magazine\, Poetry Ink\, and in Apiary. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis Reading Includes an Open Mic (Hosted by the staff of Apiary Magazine)
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-apiary-magazine-present-hive-night/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181205T170000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Aaren Perry\, Don Riggs & Lamont Steptoe
DESCRIPTION:Aaren Perry is a Philadelphia-based writer who teaches poetry and writing He is the recipient of a 1990 Writing Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and is Poet-in-Residence at a number of educational institutions. \n  \n  \n  \n Don Riggs is author of Bilateral Asymmetry\, his poetry has appeared in many publications and he teaches several courses for the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University. \n  \n  \nLamont B. Steptoe is a poet\, activist\, Vietnam Veteran\, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry and he has performed his work at the Library of Congress\, the National Library of Nicaragua\, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival\, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris\, the Knitting Factory\, the Schomburg Center for Black Culture\, and various colleges and universities throughout the United States. \n  \n  \nSean Lynch\, host – An open mic will follow the featured readers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-aaren-perry-don-riggs-lamont-steptoe/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T203000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: New Voices with Bela Azar & Vision
DESCRIPTION:Perry “Vision” DiVirgilio is a poet\, activist and youth poetry educator. A graduate of Dickinson College\, Vision’s work focuses on racial identity\, identity politics\, healing\, and dismantling toxic masculinity. Vision’s poetry and poetry workshops were featured on CNN’s “Black in America 5\,” the highest rated documentary in CNN history. He’s performed in over 30 international cities\, 40 universities\, as well as on TVOne’s Verses and Flow. \nHe currently co-coaches the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Team and is author of three collections of poetry\, “Surviving Saturn’s Return\,” “Heal On Purpose\,” and “About Her.” \n  \nHost: Charles S. Carr
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-new-voices-with-bela-azar-vision/
LOCATION:South Philadelphia Free Library\, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19145\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181128T220000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T184258Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Lynn Levin & Joan Roberta Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Lynn Levin is a poet\, writer\, translator\, and teacher\, author of six books\, most recently a poetry collection\, Miss Plastique; a translation from the Spanish\, Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales; and\, as co-author\, the textbook Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. The recipient of fourteen Pushcart Prize nominations\, Levin has published poems\, stories\, essays\, and translations in Ploughshares\, Boulevard\, The Hopkins Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Connecticut Review\, Rattle\, and Verse Daily.  \n  \nJoan Roberta Ryan lives in Taos New Mexico where she indulges her passions for skiing\, mushroom hunting\, Mediterranean cooking—and above all—reading and writing poetry.  Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review\, Calyx\, Nimrod\, The Sow’s Ear Review\, Spillway\, Naugatuck River Review\, Euphony\, Ekphrasis\, Crab Orchard Review and other journals. Joan’s poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars was published 2017. \n  \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Host\, A open mic will follow the featured readers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-lynn-levin-joan-roberta-ryan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181121T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T183707Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Hanoch Guy & Lisa Grunberger
DESCRIPTION:Hanoch Guy is a bilingual poet who spent his younger years in Israel. An emeritus professor at Temple\, he has published poetry in Genre Magazine\, Poetry Newsletter\, Tracks\, the International Journal of Genocide Studies\, Poetry Motel\, Visions International and Poetica Magazine. \n  \n  \nLisa Grunberger\, Temple University Professor and playwright\, is also an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in The New York Times and in numerous literary publications. She is the author of  Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position and Born Knowing.  Her poems have been translated into Hebrew\, Slovenian\, Russian\, Polish\, and Yiddish. \n  \n  \nWarren Longmire\, Host – An open mic will follow the featured readers
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-hanoch-guy-lisa-grunberger/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
CREATED:20181025T183432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T183432Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: New Voices
DESCRIPTION:New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets \nA Voice for Everyone: Listen\, Share\, Connect with Other Writers \nJoin us on the third Monday of each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. \nAn open reading follows the featured poets.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-new-voices/
LOCATION:South Philadelphia Free Library\, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19145\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181118T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
CREATED:20181025T183135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T183135Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Krisann Janowitz & Thom Nickels
DESCRIPTION:Homeless in Philadelphia \nKrisann Janowitz\, author of Home(less) began writing poetry at an early age (elementary school– if you count all the song lyrics about bubblegum). Her love for music and words has further driven her passion for poetry. \n  \n  \nThom Nickels is the author Learn To Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt and 13 other books the latest of which is Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-krisann-janowitz-thom-nickels/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Barbara Siegel Carlson & Micellina & Joe McCullough
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of two poetry collections Fire Road and Once in Every Language. She is co-translator of Look Back\, Look Ahead\, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel and is co-editor of A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives.   \n  \n  \nMicellina & Joe McCullough are a dynamic duo in the garden of mystic lovers. Their poetry is an open invitation to all creative spirits who wish to wander amongst the flowers of hope\, healing\, and joy-filled creative expression. This couple and their words are far from ordinary. Micellina and Joe’s writings have been published in Moonstone Press\, Whirlwind Magazine\, Soapbox Publishing as well as in artist Peter Kinney’s poetry art books. \n  \nDave Worrell \, host – An open mic will follow the featured readers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-barbara-siegel-carlson-micellina-joe-mccullough/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
CREATED:20181025T182228Z
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SUMMARY:Sounds & Words: A Fundraiser for The Moonstone Arts Center
DESCRIPTION:Sounds & Words: A Fundraiser for the Moonstone Arts Center\nwith Music\, Poetry\, Food\, Cash Bar\, Exhibits\, Book Sales \nFor 35 years\, Moonstone Arts Center has brought Philadelphia the best in the performance and publication of poetry. To support this Philadelphia treasure\, 11 poets and 2 bands will come together on one evening to remind you of why Moonstone is at the epicenter of the City’s literary scene.  \nMusic with Bobby Zankel’s Wonderful Sound 4\, featuring Sumi Tonooka and Richard Hill and Elliot Levin & Friends \nPoetry by: Siduri Beckman\, Jamar Hall\, Ryan Eckes\, Jeffrey Ethan Lee\, Michelle Myers\, Joe Roarty\, Bethlehem Robertson\, Sonia Sanchez\, Kirwyn Sutherland\, Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon\, Sekai Afua Zankel \nEmcees Warren Longmire & Elijah Pringle
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/sounds-words-a-fundraiser-for-the-moonstone-arts-center/
LOCATION:1199C Hospital Workers Union Headquarters\, 1319 Locust Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Fundraiser,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
CREATED:20181025T181713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T181753Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Candida Rodriguez & BJ Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Candida Rodriguez grew up in Puerto Rico where she developed a passion for reading and writing. When she turned 16 years old\, she moved to Camden\, where she joined her parents and two siblings. Her passion is in writing fantasy and science fiction\, but has found a home in the lyricism of poetry and is a happy member of Brigid’s Writers House in Camden. \n  \n  \nBJ Swartz\, a retired science and medical librarian\, has been writing since elementary school in Haddonfield\, NJ.  Her first published poem\, “Mystery in the Swamp”\, appeared in a 1966 thirty years later “Ode to My Gall Bladder”\, her excuse for missing a writing class\, was published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humor. \n  \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host\, An open mic will follow the featured readers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/13002/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180617T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180617T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
CREATED:20180611T201541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180611T201652Z
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SUMMARY:Philadelphia Says: Haiku
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Moonstone Arts Center & The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association \nat Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nSunday June 17\, 2018 – 2pm\nPhiladelphia Says Haiku\nCelebrating the release of  \nPhiladelphia Says Haiku\,\n an Anthology of Haiku by Philadelphia Area Poets\n ($10\, The Moonstone Press) with a reading by contributors. \nPhiladelphia is home to Sonia Sanchez\, who writes a Haiku every morning and worked with Mural Arts on the Peace is a Haiku song mural\, exploring haiku as a vehicle for peace and transformation. Sonia gives herself over with deep pleasure to the exacting beauty of haiku\, a form she has cherished her entire writing life. Their brevity seems built for speed\, but their lyricism and warmth inspire lingering\, savoring\, reading\, and rereading\, perhaps aloud. African-American novelist Richard Wright\, in his final years\, composed some 4\,000 haiku\, 817 of which are collected in the volume Haiku: This Other World. Wright hewed to a 5-7-5 syllabic structure for most of these pieces. In current English language haiku\, most successful poems have fewer than fourteen syllables. \n  \nThe Nick Virgilio Writers House opened in Camden on April 28\, 2018\, in honor of the city’s second best-known poet. Virgilio was one of America’s pre-eminent writers of haiku\, known for his prolific work in the traditional Japanese short-poetry format and admired for upsetting its stringent rules. The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association was founded in 1990 to keep alive Nick Virgilio’s artistic legacy and to promote literacy and self-expression among young people through all forms of writing\, especially haiku. \nMr. Virgilio is one of the acknowledged masters who in the 60’s\, 70’s and 80’s brought the delicate art of Japanese haiku into the English language. He died January 3\, l989\, while taping a segment of Nightwatch.  At that time\, according to Cor van den Heuvel\, a Newsweek poetry editor and author of The Haiku Anthology\, Virgilio “…. was on the verge of becoming American haiku’s first celebrity.” \nA haiku in English is a very short poem\, following to a greater or lesser extent the form and style of the Japanese haiku. A typical haiku is a three-line observation about a fleeting moment involving nature.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philadelphia-says-haiku/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
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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
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/hive-night-open-mic-featured-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
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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
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/featured-readers-angel-hogan-david-kertis/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T045449
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192819Z
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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.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-lili-bita/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Memorial,Poetry,Poetry Events
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