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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings by Courtney Bambrick\, Micheal Angelo Abreu\, Aja Beech\, Rhianna Searle\, and Olga Livshin - LIVE
DESCRIPTION:Courtney Bambrick author of World Without was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories 2010-2024. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. Her own poems appear in Landlocked Magazine\, Pinhole Poetry\, Thimble\, Invisible City\, and more. \nMichael Angelo Abreu\, author of Gemini\, is a leaf. He takes frequent walks through the Wissahickon woods\, musing about life and its many particulars\, such as love\, happiness\, suffering\, and spiritual growth. Aja Beech\, author of Blood/Magic\, is an artist\, author\, and organizer who uses her art to address systemic issues related to equity for people of all abilities. Rhianna Searle\, author of Hope is Shades of Purple\, is the 2023 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year. She is 20-years-old and currently attends Haverford College. Olga Livshin\, author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman and the co-translator of Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska\, grew up in Ukraine and Russia and came to the US as a teenager.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-readings-by-courtney-bambrick-micheal-angelo-abreu-aja-beech-rhianna-searle-and-olga-livshin-live/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:S/He Speaks 3: Voices of Women and Trans Folx
DESCRIPTION:Women\, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7\, 2025.  The anthology will contain poetry\, essays and stories by writers who are either women\, trans or non-binary identified. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/s-he-speaks-3-voices-of-women-and-trans-folx/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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SUMMARY:S/He Speaks 3: Voices of Women and Trans Folx - LIVE
DESCRIPTION:Women\, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7\, 2025.  The anthology will contain poetry\, essays and stories by writers who are either women\, trans or non-binary identified.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/s-he-speaks-3-voices-of-women-and-trans-folx-live/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250604T220000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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SUMMARY:Poets From Around the World - LIVE
DESCRIPTION:Asia – Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso is an architect\, artist\, and activist was born in Jakarta.Western Europe – Fióna Bolger is a poet\, mentor\, creative facilitator from Ireland.  Middle East – Faleeha Hassan was born and raised in Najaf\, Iraq\, she was the first woman in Najaf to publish a book of. Eastern Europe – Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia based educator\, writer\, poet\, translator\, architect\, born in Poland. \nCaribbean – Carole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer\, cultural worker\, and performer from the East Coast of the United States.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poets-from-around-the-world-live/
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:20250603T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T200000
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series - Live Broadcast
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAMCan be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 In Philadelphia. \nFióna Bolger is an Irish poet\, mentor and creative facilitator\, author of Love in the Original Language and a compound of word\, co-editor of KIN: Anthology of Roma\, Traveller and Nomadic Women’s Writing. Her facilitation and creative practice are polyvocal\, plurilingual and co-operative. She welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing\, poetry making spaces. Charles S. Carr\, Host \n           
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-readings-series-live-broadcast-3/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T190000
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SUMMARY:A Mamafesta for Hearts and Minds Workshop - LIVE
DESCRIPTION:In the circle of all those who have struggled in their bedrooms or in the boardroom\, in the courtroom or in the open fields\, who have bellowed songs of endurance and stomped their feet in joyful defiance for brighter futures\, Carole Metellus and Fióna Bolger invite us to renew our mandate to struggle and joy. Participants are invited to bring their words of resistance and to pen their sustenance to self\, to community\, and to nature that calls them home.We will share our ideas\, listen to the words of the wise ones\, and craft our mamafestas for a healing existence in these times of human distress. We hope you can join us\,  facilitated by: \nCarole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer\, cultural worker long-time activist starting with Indigenous rights\, to Women’s\, GLBTQ\, immigration\, and peace and justice issues\, she manifests her passion currently in her writing.  Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet\, mentor and creative facilitatorShe welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing\, poetry making spaces. See also: A. Stepien\, Migrant Voices in the Plurilingual Poetry and Creative Practice of Fióna Bolger. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries\, 2024\, Vol. 21\, No. 2. \n Free and open to Everyone
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/a-mamafesta-for-hearts-and-minds-workshop-live/
LOCATION:Sueño Restaurant\, 114 S 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250601T170000
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SUMMARY:Philly Lingo: Speaking Our Tongues\, Sharp and Sweet Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us in a plurilingual workshop  \nWhere all the languages in your head are welcome. We will listen to each other\, share words and ideas\, read and make poems. This workshop will explore the crossing of borders both linguistic and political and the spaces between\, rooted in a trauma informed\, anti-racist pedagogy and will be facilitated by: \nCarole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer\, cultural worker long-time activist starting with Indigenous rights\, to Women’s\, GLBTQ\, immigration\, and peace and justice issues\, she manifests her passion currently in her writing. Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet\, mentor and creative facilitator\, author of Love in the Original Language and a compound of word. Her facilitation and creative practice are polyvocal\, plurilingual and co-operative. She welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing\, poetry making spaces.  Free and open to Everyone \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-lingo-speaking-our-tongues-sharp-and-sweet-workshop/
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:20250528T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading by Love McTiernan\, Myles Matunis\, Adiah Siler
DESCRIPTION:Love McTiernan feels an obsession with the natural world and thus tends to write about clouds\, trees\, and Earth’s other unknown beasts. \nMyles Matunis work has been published by Expat Press and the Bitchin Kitsch\, featured on public radio\, and nominated for the Best of the Net. \nAdiah Siler is an east coaster through and through and so excited to be back in Philly for the show. Mac Chandler Host\, Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-reading-by-love-mctiernan-myles-matunis-adiah-siler/
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:20250525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T170000
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SUMMARY:Book launch for Jane-Rebecca Cannarella's Long Island Sad Poems(Serotonin Press)
DESCRIPTION:  \nJane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review\, a magazine published on postcards\, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit\, a broadside press\, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. \nKrystle Griffin is an Aquarian alien who emerged from the depths of the Delaware River. A writer\, actor\, artist\, and Swiss army knife of all trades\, trying to spin brain bees and nightmares into something shiny. Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment\, The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult. Sean Lynch Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/book-launch-for-jane-rebecca-cannarellas-long-island-sad-poemsserotonin-press/
LOCATION:Sueño Restaurant\, 114 S 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250525T170000
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SUMMARY:Support Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:  \nRussia invaded Ukraine on February 24\, 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified over 12\,600 civilian deaths as of January 2025. The war has resulted in a humanitarian crisis\, as thousands of Ukrainians were internally displaced or fled abroad. From a population of 41 million\, about 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million have fled the country\, creating Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II. \nJoin as poets respond!
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/support-ukraine/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250505T200206Z
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SUMMARY:29th Annual Poetry Ink: Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:29th Annual Poetry Ink\nWe want everyone: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets\nwho write Sonnet\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\,\nEpigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse.\nJoin us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order\nMonday May 19\, 2025 – No matter where you live\, please join us virtually\nVIRTUAL at 7:00pm EDT on Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/29th-annual-poetry-ink-virtual-reading/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250514T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Sarah Browning\, W.D. Ehrhart\, Jack Miller
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes\, Killing Summer\, and others\, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry\, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam\, Patriotism\, and American Life\, and At Smedley Butler’s Grave. Jack Miller\, author of Habit: Seven Decades of Poems is a former English teacher who retired after a long career at Ocean City High School. Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-sarah-browning-w-d-ehrhart-jack-miller-2/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024\nSunday November 17\, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL\nRegister to access Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6tpzotGNe7ciI7XVSoht8wYC9CkeMW\nNew Voices Anthology – Fall 2024 – A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. \nA monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from\nvarious communities. We tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that\nexcept we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s\nexperience\, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this\ngeneration. \nWe will also host a live\, in-person reading on November 21st.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-reading-new-voices-fall-2024/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240922T150000
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SUMMARY:Banned Books Week 2024
DESCRIPTION:Banned Books Week 2024\nSunday September 22\, 2024 \nVirtual on Zoom – 2pm \nRegistration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86935252863?pwd=8GIY87i0AJsTBbQWImX3sOVVUlx1ZO.1 \n“This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers\, particularly students\, are losing access to critical information\, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs.” – Deborah Caldwell-Stone\, director of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom \nBanned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. In a time of intense political polarization\, library staff in every state are facing an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom ALA documented 1\,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022\, the highest number of attempted book bans for more than 20 years ago. The unparalleled number of reported book challenges in 2022 nearly doubles the 729 book challenges reported in 2021. Of the record 2\,571 unique titles targeted for censorship\, most were by or about LGBTQIA+ persons and Black\, Indigenous\, and people of color. Coming from the book industry Larry\, Robin’s Book Store\, and Moonstone have always fought censorship.  Join us as Poets respond to the issue of suppression and their right to write. \nOver 30 poets shared their works to combat book banning for our anthology. \nFeatured Poets\nnot all contributors will be reading \n\n\n\nAustin Alexis \nSusan Baer \nAnne Catharine Blake \nCharles Briggs \nSharnta Bullard \nAJ Chilson \nSuzanne Cooke \nLinda M. Crate \nAmber Deamer \n \nJoanne Durham \nAna Fores Tamayo \nBeejay Grob \nSteven Halpern \nJane Ellen Ibur \nJones Irwin \nMindy Kronenberg \nEelka Lampe \n \nKinard Lang \nScott Leff \nDaphne M \nCurtis Nelson \nFaith Paulsen \nElijah Pringle \nDavid Radavich \nJanet Restino \nLinda Romanowski \n \nKasey Ryman \nGeorge Schaefer \nJennifer Schneider \nKendall Snee \nKen Waldman \nEike Waltz \nKelley White \nSamantha Wright \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/banned-books-week-2024/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240918T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: David Ebenbach\, Elayna Mae Darcy\, Autumn Konopka\, Sean Lynch\, and Victoria Mier
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry – Prose Night\nDavid Ebenbach\, Elayna Mae Darcy\, Autumn Konopka\, Sean Lynch\, and Victoria Mier \nWednesday September 18\, 2024 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82017815042?pwd=aLRcZOFnBsBoOfrU6001OawDPCuChe.1 \nDavid Ebenbach is the author of ten books of fiction\, poetry\, and non-fiction\, including his new novel Possible Happiness\, which author Gary Eldon Peter calls “a coming of age love letter to Philadelphia in the late 1980s and to one young man’s journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance.” A Philly native\, Ebenbach lives with his family in Washington\, DC. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com \nElayna Mae Darcy (they/she) is a queer poet\, YA author\, and filmmaker from Philadelphia. They aren’t sure what they love more—writing\, or their cat\, Bean. (Ok yeah it’s definitely the cat.) She is the author of the short story\, CONTINUUM and has had poems published in just femme & dandy\, and Impostor Lit\, among others. They are the author of a poetry duology that includes UNRAVELING LIGHT  and DARKNESS UNDONE as well as the YA fantasy novel in verse\, STILL THE STARS. \nAutumn Konopka is a writer\, runner\, and trauma-informed teaching artist. A former poet laureate of Montgomery County\, PA (2016)\, Autumn’s work has been published widely in literary journals\, and her poetry chapbook\, a chain of paper dolls\, was published in 2014 by the Head & the Hand Press. Her debut novel\, Pheidippides Didn’t Die (2023)\, has earned awards from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards\, the Eric Hoffer Books Awards\, and Writer’s Digest. Kirkus calls the book “a compelling adult romance that captures the complexities of trauma dynamics.” Autumn is a Book Reviews & Interviews Editor for Cleaver magazine and a volunteer and ambassador for Still I Run. \nSean Lynch is a writer and editor who’s published five books of poetry\, the city of your mind (Whirlwind Press\, 2013)\, Broad Street Line (Moonstone Press\, 2016)\, 100 Haiku (Moonstone Press\, 2017)\, On Violence (Radical Paper Press\, 2019)\, and Halo Nest (Alien Buddha Press\, 2024). He’s also the author of The Beast in the Pines\, a psychological horror novel about the Jersey Devil. \nVictoria Mier is a queer\, disabled writer and suspected changeling. Her short fiction has been published in Del Sol SFF Review\, Fifth Wheel Press\, SORTES\, and more. Earlier this year\, she released her debut novel\, Beyond the Aching Door\, an urban fantasy set in Philadelphia. Learn more at victoriamier.com. \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-reading-david-ebenbach-elayna-mae-darcy-autumn-konopka-sean-lynch-and-victoria-mier/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240911T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: Justin Ryan\, James Milanesi\, Alexandra Naughton
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Justin Ryan\, James Milanesi\, Alexandra Naughton\nWednesday September 11\, 2024 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom \nRegistration Link https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82262171863?pwd=shO59ocZl1I7bpqxl5EGfs0b0wFY3x.1 \nJustin Ryan Fyfe is a poet in Philly. He just got fired from his job. You can read all his poems online at fromfromfrom.tumblr.com. \nJames Milanesi was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. He is an interdisciplinary poet and bartender. He has previously written a chapbook titled Momentary Sweetheart (Bottlecap Press). He is the curator and founder of a collective of poets who call themselves\, Poet’s Row. \nAlexandra Naughton is a poet\, novelist\, publisher\, and literary events producer based in Philadelphia. Her writing has been widely published on the web and in print\, and she performs regularly. Naughton’s work straddles the line between fiction and non-fiction\, prose and poetry\, and explores themes such as self-objectification\, existentialism\, the frailty of text-based communication\, and capitalism. She is the founder of Be About It Press\, established in 2010\, and co-host of the Bring A Blanket reading series. \nAmy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-reading-justin-ryan-james-milanesi-alexandra-naughton/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Independence Day of Ukraine Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 24\, 2024 – 3:30pm \n \nLive at at Barnes & Noble\, 1708 Chestnut Street\nJulia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of 40 WEEKS\, Don’t Touch the Bones\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize\, and The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays\, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine\, Julia’s birthplace. Her poems have appeared in POETRY\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, and AGNI\, among others.\nKateryna Derysheva is a Ukrainian poet from Kharkiv\, co-founder and organizer of the kntxt literary project. Her poems and translations have been published in the journals: Plume\, Zerkalo\, Tlen Literacki\, Literatur in Bayern\, Literaturportal Bayern\, Visions\, Volga\, SoFloPoJo\, The Colon\, Literature\, Articulation\, New Coast\, Arion\, Homo legens\, Kreshchatik\, and others. She is the author of the books Starting Point\, There Will Be No Installation; co-author of the book Earth time. She was long-listed for the Arkadiy Dragomoshchenko Prize (2019) and is laureate of the Europa Mai Prize. Her poems and essays have been translated into 11 languages.)\nOlena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets\, the chapbook Memory Project\, and the novel Temporary Shelter. She is a translator of collections by Ukrainian poets\, Kateryna Kalytko\, together with Oksana Lutsyshyna\, Iryna Shuvalova\, together with the author\, and Vasyl Makhno.  Her translation\, together with the author\, of Yuliya Musakovska’s The God of Freedom was released in May 2024 from Arrowsmith Press. She founded and curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press.\nOlga Livshin’s poetry and translations appear in the New York Times\, Ploughshares\, the Kenyon Review\, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman. Livshin co-translated A Man Only Needs a Room\, a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry and Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska\,. She is a private creative writing teacher\, working with children.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-independence-day-of-ukraine-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St.\, 1708 Chesnut Street.\, Phildelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T153000
DTSTAMP:20260423T222045
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry - May Day 2024 Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 19\, 2024 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvcOiqrTIuGtI4ZR23zt_f1C1FDbB5uk6U \nMay Day commemorating the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement\, observed in many countries on May 1. In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers\, in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886). Five years later\, U.S. Pres. Grover Cleveland\, uneasy with the socialist origins of Workers’ Day\, signed legislation to make Labor Day—already held in some states on the first Monday of September—the official U.S. holiday in honour of workers. \nWe invited poets to reflect on the history of labor and the recent surges in the movement. You can purchase the anthology collection here. \nNot All Poets Will Be Reading – Open Reading Follows \nFeatured Poets \nMary Anne Abdo \nByron Beynon \nAJ Chilson \nCraig Czury \nJoan Donato \nSteven Halpern \nJane Ellen Ibur \nJones Irwin \nNathaniel Krenkel \nMharlyn Merriitt \nLeslie Perry \nJohn Potter \nAdam Rubin \nJennifer Schneider \nJulia Robinson Shimizu \nStephani Twidwell \nGail Wasserman \nKelley White
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-may-day-2024-anthology/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: World Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 17\, 2024\n2pm EST – VIRITUAL \nJoin us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 \n“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that on World Poetry Day\, on March 21. The United Nations Educational\, Scientific\, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and imagery to elicit emotion and the imagination of the reader. Poetry can rhyme\, using what are called meters of long and short syllables. Some poetry\, written in what’s called ‘free verse\,’ doesn’t employ rhyme or meters. Poems are broken into stanzas\, which are like paragraphs\, and can be up to 12 lines long. We believe the first known poem appeared 4\,000 years ago in Babylon. Today\, countless types of poems are available to enjoy\, including haikus\, limericks\, sonnets\, and ballads.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-world-poetry-day/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240313T190000
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly\, Airea D. Matthews\, Matthew Buckley Smith
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\nWednesday March 13\, 2024 – 7pm \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 \nTimothy Donnelly’s most recent book\, Chariot\, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many\, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize\, and The Cloud Corporation\, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his family. \n  \n Airea D. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra\, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus\, a memoir-in-verse that combines poetry\, prose\, and imagery to explore the realities of economic necessity\, marginal poverty\, and commodification\, through a personal lens. Matthews received a 2020 Pew Fellowship\, a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and was awarded the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry \nfrom the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. From 2022-2023 she served as Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College where she directs the poetry program.  \n Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife\, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award\, and Dirge for an Imaginary World\, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. He is the Associate Editor of Literary Matters\, and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. \n  \nOpen mic hosted by Luke Stromberg
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-timothy-donnelly-airea-d-matthews-matthew-buckley-smith/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T150000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 10\, 2024\n2pm EST – VIRIUAL \nJoin us on Zoom – Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-mgpzovG9bdKnadMSczNTW-YMqGyTKa \nInternational Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions\, whether national\, ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, economic or political. \nIn 1848\, indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention\, Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregated a few hundred people at their nation’s first women’s rights convention in New York. Together they demand civil\, social\, political and religious rights for women in a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. \nThe first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States on 28 February. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York\, where women protested against working conditions \nOfficially recognized by the United Nations in 1977\, International Women’s Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe. Join us as poets reflect
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-international-womens-day/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T190000
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello\, Airea D. Matthews\, and Artress Bethany White
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday March 6\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGrrTgiHNJ7uriRBEe6MkL9clKCpLu1 \nJessica Cuello author of Yours\, Creature\, Liar\, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize\, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize\, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt and Pricking. Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize\, two CNY Book Awards\, The 2016 Washington Prize\, The New Letters Poetry Prize\, a Saltonstall Fellowship\, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition\, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015)\, By Fire (2013)\, and Curie (2011). She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY. \nAirea D. Matthews is the author of Bread and Circus  and Simulacra\, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson describes Matthews’s experimental forms in Simulacra as “Fugues\, text messages to the dead\, imagined outtakes from Wittgenstein\, tart mini-operas\, fairy tales: Matthews is virtuosic\, frantic\, and darkly\, very darkly\, funny.” Matthews’s work has appeared in Callaloo\, Best American Poets 2015\, Harvard Review\, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award\, the 2016 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts award\, fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the James Merrill House.  She associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and was Philadelphia’s sixth poet laureate. \nArtress Bethany White is a poet\, essayist\, and literary critic\, author of My Afmerica\, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Pleiades\, Solstice\, Poet Lore\, Ecotone\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and the Hopkins Review. White has received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction\, the Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and writing residencies at the Writer’s Hotel and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jessica-cuello-airea-d-matthews-and-artress-bethany-white/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T203000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday MARCH 5\, 2024 \n6:30pm – VIRTUAL\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\nCan be viewed on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nElliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue\, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award for her translations\, and a residency at Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women. Her poems\, essays\, and translations have been published in the journals including  American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Sakura Review\, Apiary\, Cahoodaloodaling\, Naugatuck River Review\, Poemeleon\, Poetica\, Philadelphia Stories\, Sinister Wisdom\, Trivia\, The Lesbian Review of Books\, Lambda Literary Online\, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Reconstructionism Today\, DoubleSpeak\, Menacing Hedge. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: Beside Still Waters\, Who by Plague: High Holy Days Sermons from COVID19 Times\, Passageways: The 2012 Two Lines Translation Anthology\, Overplay/Underdone\, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence\, the English edition of the 2013 Hebrew anthology Israeli Women’s Protest Poetry ed. by Dorit Weisman\, and the Oxford University Press textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference. \n\nFor her day jobs\, Elliott works multiple roles within the bookselling industry: as an event manager at a bookstore\, as the Member Manager for a Regional Indie Bookstore Trade Association; as the administrator for the Professional Booksellers School; and as the dean of that school’s course in Event Management. Photo Credit: Darla Himeles \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-4/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240303T140000
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SUMMARY:Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6th
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 3\, 2024 \nVirtual -2pm EST\nJoin us on Zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn \nTraitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6\, 2021\nMoonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets\, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter called Traitor (you can read the poem on our website) on the January 6 insurrection which made me realize that this was an issue we have not responded to yet. \nMore than 2\,000 rioters entered the Capitol building on January 6\, 2021\, many of whom vandalized and looted the building. Rioters assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm. A gallows was erected west of the Capitol. Some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” after he rejected false claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results. Five people died\, more people were injured\, including 174 police officers. As of July 7\, 2022\, monetary damages caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. More than 1\,230 people have been charged over the course of three years\, with many trials still pending. Join us as poets reflect. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/traitor-patriot-reflections-on-january-6th/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Liz Abrams-Morley & Amy Small-Mckinney
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 28\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucOqgpj4tGN3csD4gaXLwnIJKTVj80_Qr \nLiz Abrams-Morley is the author of the forthcoming Because Time\, as well as of Beholder\, Inventory\, and Necessary Turns\, which won an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press Publishing.  In 2020 she was named the Passager Poet of the year in Passager Journal’s annual contest.   Liz’s poems and short stories have been published in a variety of nationally distributed anthologies\, journals and ezines\, and have been read on NPR.  A semi-retired faculty member in the Rosemont College MFA program\, she is co-founder of Around the Block Writers’ Collaborative.  A poet\, professor\, gramma and activist\, Liz wades knee deep in the flow of everyday life from which she draws inspiration and\, occasionally\, exasperation. \n \nAmy Small-McKinney\, Montgomery County Poet Laureate Emeritus\, is the author of the forthcoming book of poems\, & You Think It Ends\, as well as\, Walking Toward Cranes\, winner of the 2016 Kithara Book Prize\, and One Day I Am A Field\, written during COVID and her husband’s illness and death. For the 2020 virtual AWP\, she co-moderated an interactive discussion\, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief During COVID. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals\, including American Poetry Review\, Banyan Review\, Comstock Review\, One Art\, Pedestal Magazine\, Persimmon Tree\, Philadelphia Stories\, SWWIM\, Tiferet\, Verse Daily\, and Vox Populi\, among others\, and have been translated into Korean and Romanian. \n                                    Alina Macneal  & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-liz-abrams-morley-amy-small-mckinney/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240221T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Chris Bullard\, L.M. Camiolo\, & Noah David Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 21\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom\nUse this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO2pqTMrHNbspqMc34fEumC-hinMXbUp \nChris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia\, PA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a MFA from Wilkes University. He has had thirteen books published\, including poetry\, short fiction and monologues. In 2022\, Main Street Rag published his poetry chapbook\, Florida Man\, and Moonstone Press published his poetry chapbook\, The Rainclouds of y. His poetry has appeared recently in Canary\, Devil\, Stonecrop\, Wrath-Bearing Tree\, Waccamaw and other publications. He was nominated this year for the Pushcart Prize. \n \n  \nL.M. Camiolo is co-founder of Impostor\, a poetry journal\, and is a former poetry editor for Toho Journal. Her work can be found in Troublemaker Firestarter\, The Minison Zine\, The Daily Drunk\, Bullshit Lit\, and elsewhere. Originally from New York\, she currently lives and writes in Philadelphia. \n  \n  \n \n  \nNoah David Roberts (they/them) is a non-binary poet and artist attending University of the Arts. Roberts is the author of 6 poetry collections\, including What I Do in the Dark and Mutable Forests. Roberts has poems published in Anti-Heroin Chic\, Tribes Magazine\, Horror Sleaze Trash\, and more. Their Instagram handle is @the.apocalypse.poet. \n  \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-chris-bullard-l-m-camiolo-noah-david-roberts/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Remembering Audre Lorde
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992)\n\nSunday February 18\, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL\nJoin us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdeipqTsoHdwqmC1q3s_Nx34bh3KSabHn \nThe Black feminist\, lesbian\, poet\, mother\, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples and of organizing in coalition across differences of race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, class\, age and ability. An internationally recognized activist and artist\, Audre Lorde was the recipient of many honors and awards\, including the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit\, which conferred the mantle of New York State poet for 1991-93. In designating her New York State’s Poet Laureate\, Governor Mario Cuomo observed: “Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty\, of sexual prejudice…She cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere.” Join us as poets remember.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-remembering-audre-lorde/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry - Fatal Force: Poetic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Fatal Force: Poetic Justice\nSaturday February 17\, 2024 – 7pm EST  Virtual \nJoin us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D \nAs of December 4\, 2023\, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). \nPolice officer\, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14\, 2023. On August 15th\, Philadelphia police changed their story\, stating that Irizarry was actually in the car when he was shot six times. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw stated that officers’ body-worn camera footage “made it very clear that what we initially reported was not actually what happened.” Read more about the details and legal proceedings here: \n(The Killing of Eddie Irizarry). \nMartín Espada recently wrote a poem entitled\, “Officer Mark Dial\, Who Shot Eddie Irizarry\, Will Be Fired for Insubordination” to elegize the innocent young man whose alleged murder this past August is an outrage. \nFatal Force : Poetic Justice contributors\, featuring Martín Espada\, will read their work virtually on February 17th to honor poet/activist\, Julia de Burgos’ birthday. She was the foremother for the Nuyorican Poetry Movement in New York who advocated for anti-imperialism and social justice. Fatal Force: Poetic Justice commemorates her ideals. \nPresented by Taller Puertorriqueño\, Casa de Duende\, and Moonstone \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlthough not everyone will be reading\, we have poems by these poets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Anne Abdo\nSonia Aggarwal\nAustin Alexis\nStar Anderson\nNaomi Ayala\nDiane Bier\nSteve Bloom\nChristopher Butters\nCameron Carvalho\nRaheem Curry\nMartin Espada\nSteven Halpern\nZita Holbourne\nAce Howlen\nJane Ellen Ibur\nIrving Jones\nRon Kolm\nDonald Krieger\nMindy Kronenberg\nD Lang\nJeffrey lee\nKostya Malukhin\nAurora McKee\nSamuel Miranda\nDavid Mook\nDeeci Murphy\nJane Muschenetz\nMaureen Nolan\nGeorge Northrup\nTauwan Patterson\nAlex Phuong\nRescue Poetix\nSusana Praver-Perez\nDavid Radavich\nAlexis Raymond\nSultana Raza\nJanet Restino\nJoe Roarty\nJake Rogers\nMykyta Ryzhykh\nIndia Shank\nCalvin Shaw\nLarissa Shmailo\nMegha Sood\nRowan Tate\nAlyssa Velazquez\nEike Waltz\nBruce Whitacre\nMartin Wiley\nGlenn Wright\nSamantha Wright
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Joshua Barnes\, Sarah Browning\, Eileen M. D’Angelo\, & Juniper Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday February 14\, 2024 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street\nOR Join Us on Zoom (Registration Required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-GrqzwrHNS3jAMLOupFHyUci7eweq4_ \nJoshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband.  His poetry has previously appeared in &Change\, Olney Magazine\, Impossible Archetype\, Philadelphia Stories\, and Moonstone Press. When not writing\, he can be found reading poetry\, horror fiction\, and comic books\, and perfecting his handstands. He can be found on Instagram @ jsb1800. \nSarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poetry of Provocation & Witness for 10 years. She is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Browning is a recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Yaddo\, Mesa Refuge\, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. She has been guest editor or co-edited special issues of Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, The Delaware Poetry Review\, and three issues of POETRY magazine. \nEileen M. D’Angelo\, twice nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts\, she received two Pushcart Prize / Best of the Small Press nominations from Verse Magazine and Schuylkill Valley Journal.  Her poetry\, essays and book reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, the News of Delaware County\, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century\, Manhattan Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Drexel Online Journal\, Wild River Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Independent Review\, Negative Capability\, One Trick Pony\, and others. \nJuniper Sweeney is a nonbinary trans poet\, queer community contributor\, and outdoorsthem. She helped expand the Philadelphia Voices of Pride as part of their board and is excited to start sharing her own developing creative voice. She also helps organize Phlash\, Philadelphia’s gay climbing community\, and especially loves climbing outdoors and connecting new climbers to a practice that brings her joy and embodiment. This is their first time being featured and she’s deeply excited to be a new member of the Philadelphia poetry community \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-joshua-barnes-sarah-browning-eileen-m-dangelo-juniper-sweeney/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: David Eberhardt\, Stephen Jones\, Marjorie Moorhead\, Daniel Williams\, & Samantha Wright
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 8\, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrce-spj4pE9Jq0ZszDJHI7vYgFYFf19BY \nDavid Eberhardt\, author of Melange\, The Tree Calendar\, Blue Running Lights\, and Poems from the Website\, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two others he poured blood on draft files in 1967 to protest the Viet Nam war. For that action\, he spent 21 months in Lewisburg Federal Prison. He has completed a peace movement memoir\, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. In 2020 he won the Enoch Pratt Library/ Little Patuxent Review prize for poetry. \nStephen Jones has lived in Detroit for more than forty years\, has worked as a journalist\, high school English teacher and university history instructor. He is a student of Zen Buddhism\, which sparked his interest in such ancient Chinese poets as Han Shan\, Su Tung’p’o\, Tu Fu\, Li Po\, and Po Chu-i. Jones’ poems have appeared in Abandon Automobile\, an anthology of Detroit poets; Maxis Review; Poet in the House; Buddhist Poetry Review; Third Wednesday\, and Temenos. \nMarjorie Moorhead lives and writes at the border of NH/VT. She is author of poetry collections Every Small Breeze\, What I Ask\, and chapbooks Survival: Trees\, Tides\, Song  and Survival Part 2: Trees\, Birds\, Ocean\, Bees.  Marjorie’s work appears in journals including Amethyst Review\, Tiny Seed Literary\, Moist Poetry Journal\, Bloodroot Literary\, Sheila-Na-Gig\, Porter House Review\, Poeming Pigeon\, Verse-Virtual\, What Rough Beast\, A River Sings\, The Poet’s Touchstone\, and others. Her poems are included in anthologies benefitting environmental\, women’s\, Covid first responder\, and refugee aid organizations. She has a poem in The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews\, ed. 2023). Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4th Friday Poets. \nDaniel Williams has published in many journals and anthologies\, he is a long-standing member of Poets’ West\, California Federation of Chaparral Poets\, Poets & Writers\, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule\, a haiku engraved on MAVEN\, the Mar’s orbiter\, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His California inspired poems have been featured in Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle Anthologies\, Gathering 14 and Gathering 15. \nSamantha Wright\, author of Edges Holding Edges and Postcards from the West\, lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Beyond Words\, Prometheus Dreaming\, Pontoon Poetry\, Minerva Arts\, Welter\, Cathexis Northwest\, among others. Her debut chapbook\, Edges Holding Edges\, was published by Moonstone Arts in 2022.  She currently divides her time between writing and teaching yoga. \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-david-eberhardt-stephen-jones-marjorie-moorhead-daniel-williams-samantha-wright/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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