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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/
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DTSTART;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
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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
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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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CREATED: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:20260425T065027
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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:20260425T065027
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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:20260425T065027
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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:20260425T065027
CREATED:20181025T182615Z
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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:20260425T065027
CREATED:20181025T182228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T184408Z
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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:20260425T065027
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:20260425T065027
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:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T191332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192946Z
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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:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T185848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192850Z
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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:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T185005Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T183840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192622Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Green with Jacob Russell\, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 16\, 2018 – 7pm\nThinking Green with \nJacob Russell\, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight\nJacob\, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name\, Jacob Russell\, they have published three chapbooks\, many poems\, and have four books of poetry searching for publishers. He is also author of the novel Ari Figue’s Cat. Since 2012\, they have been making visual art\, signed with the name on their birth certificate—Willard. In recent years\, Jacob\, Willard and Goby (their most recent go-to name) have been writing serial poems\, interconnected\, but in no particular order\, or rather—ordered to the mood of the occasion—as will be the case at this reading. \nPaul Siegell is the author of Take Out Delivery (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2018)\, as well as wild life rifle fire\, jambandbootleg and Poemergency Room. He is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly and has contributed to American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Rattle\, and many other fine journals. Kindly find more of his work – and concrete poetry t-shirts – at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com) and @paulsiegell. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of The Age of Greenhouses (2016)\, Opera House Arterial (2013)\, and Sidestep Catapult (2011)\, all from BlazeVOX. Her work has appeared in diverse publications including American Writing\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, Fairies in America\, Jupiter 88\, Luna Luna\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Bedfellows. Anne-Adele’s work has received awards from Philadelphia Poets Magazine\, the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference\, and the Sandy Crimmins Poetry Competition. \nHost\, Suzan Jivan \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/thinking-green-with-jacob-russell-paul-siegell-anne-adele-wight/
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:20180513T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T174846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192654Z
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SUMMARY:Soldier Poets--W.D. Ehrhart\, Bill Wunder\, & Members of Warrior Writers
DESCRIPTION:South Philadelphia Free Library\n1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\nSunday May 13\, 2018 – 2pm\nW.D. Ehrhart\, Bill Wunder\, &\nMembers of Warrior Writers \nW. D. Ehrhart joined the US Marines in 1966 at the age of 17\, serving three years including 13 months in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat\, and earned the rank of sergeant and an honorable discharge. He is also a veteran of Vietnam Veterans Against the War\, and has received awards from both Vietnam Veterans of America and Veterans for Peace. A 1983 Bucks County Poet Laureate and a 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts\, he teaches English and history at the Haverford School in suburb Philadelphia. His most recent books are Praying at the Altar (Adastra Press) and W. D. Ehrhart in Conversation: Vietnam\, America\, and the Written Word (McFarland)\, both published in 2017. \nBill Wunder is the author of Pointing at the Moon\, Hands Turning the Earth\, and Kingdom of Heaven. In 2004\, he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. His poems have been widely published\, and he has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry. Bill has been a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. In 2010\, he was nominated for a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He has read and lectured in local schools\, colleges\, festivals\, book stores\, libraries\, and on public television. Bill\, a Vietnam veteran\, serves as Poetry Editor of The Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and lives with his two black labs in the wilds of Bucks County. \nWarrior Writers is a national non-profit. Our mission is to create a culture that articulates veterans’ experiences\, build a collaborative community for artistic expression\, and bear witness to war and the full range of military experiences. We value Respect for ourselves\, each other\, our experiences\, and our creative community; Honesty; Transformation; and Pride in our work and our experiences. Our goals include providing opportunities for veterans to engage in artistic expression\, creating visibility for veteran artists and their work\, supporting veterans in the discovery of the arts as a transformative tool\, and tell the truths about veterans’ experiences.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/soldier-poets-w-d-ehrhart-bill-wunder-members-of-warrior-writers/
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:20180509T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180509T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T181209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192726Z
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SUMMARY:Featured Readers: Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 9\, 2018 – 7pm\nJulia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid\nJulia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry. She is a founding member of 6ix: a literary journal devoted to cutting edge work\, edited by six Philadelphia area women. She was a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. She has read her work in various venues including the University of Pennsylvania\, Brown University\, and Muse House in Philadelphia. In 2012\, she collaborated with the visual artist\, Wendy Osterweil\, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest” in 2014. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review\, “Philadelphia Stories\,” and in “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets\,” edited by Valerie Fox and translated into Romanian by Daniel Dragomirescu. She has published three chapbooks: Meeting Tessie and Artificial Memory and most recently\, Blue Angel of a Day. \nTherése Halscheid’s latest poetry collection Frozen Latitudes (Press 53) received an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Other collections include Uncommon Geography\, Without Home\, Powertalk\, and a chapbook award by Pudding House Publications. Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in such magazines as Gettysburg Review\, Tampa Review\, Sou’wester\, Natural Bridge. Recent contest awards include Welcome Table Press’s Essaying the Body contest. She is an itinerant writer by way of house-sitting. Her photography chronicles her nomadic lifestyle. She teaches for Atlantic Cape Community College and also in unusual locales\, such as Eskimo village in northern Alaska\, and the Ural Mountains of Russia. www.ThereseHalscheid.com \nDave Worrell \, Host\nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/featured-readers-julia-blumenreich-therese-halscheid/
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:20180506T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180506T160000
DTSTAMP:20260425T065027
CREATED:20180502T165901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T170437Z
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SUMMARY:The Atheist in the Attic
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry  @ the Pub \nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nSunday May 6\, 2018\, 2pm \nSamuel R. Delany\n \nThe Atheist in the Attic\n$14.00\, Books will be available to purchase and autographed \n  \n “A talent very close to time travel—or magic.” —Locus \n“The most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction.” —William Gibson \n“I consider Delany not only one of the most important science fiction writ- ers of the present generation\, but a fascinating writer in general who has invented a new style.” —Umberto Eco \n  \nThe title novella\, “The Atheist in the Attic\,” appearing here in book form    for the first time\, is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative\, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and the brilliant “big bang” of the Enlightenment. \nPlus: equal parts history\, confession\, complaint\, gossip\, and personal tri- umph\, Delany’s “Racism and Science Fiction” combines scholarly research and personal experience in the unique true story of the first major African American author in the genre. And featuring: a bibliography\, an author biography\, and our candid\, uncompromising\, and customary Outspoken Interview. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn into a distinguished Harlem family\, Samuel R. Delany was a success at nineteen\, changing the tone\, the content\, and the very shape of modern science fiction with his acclaimed novels and stories that bridged the ap- parent gap between science and fantasy to explore gay sexuality\, racial and class consciousness\, and the limits of imagination and memory. His vast body of work includes memoir\, comics\, space adventure\, mainstream novels\, homosexual erotica\, and literary criticism of a high order. Until     his recent retirement he was a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/12870/
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:20171017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171017T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T065027
CREATED:20170920T185459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T190042Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café featuring Christopher Bernard and . Luke Stromberg
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard is author of A Spy in the Ruins\, Voyage to a Phantom City\, Dangerous Stories for Boys and others. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism.. He lives in San Francisco. Luke Stromberg has published work in Rotary Dial\, Victorian Violet Journal\, Tower Journal\, Shot Glass Journal\, Lucid Rhythms\, Philadelphia Stories\, Think Journal\, Mid-America Poetry Review\, and on Ernest Hilbert’s blog E-Verse Radio.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-featuring-christopher-bernard-and-luke-stromberg/
LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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