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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Emiliano Martín\, Diane McManus\, Keith Woodrow\, & Robert Zaller
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 7\, 2024 – 7pm -LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nOR on Zoom (Registration Required):  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOigqz4qHtCj5tnSWrCaVRobrdm0Q2HM \nEmiliano Martín is Spanish born and an advocate of the spoken word\, he is the founder of Philadelphia Poetry Forum for the NE Regional Public Library. Past President of Pennsylvania Poetry Society (PPS\, Inc) has also served as the Executive Director of Latin American Guild for the Arts (LAGA) in Philadelphia. Author of more than a dozen books of Poetry\, like “Selected Bilingual Poems” (2023)\, at this time he is proud to introduce… his latest title: “Songs out of the Drawer” (2024). Martín is a longtime resident in the Philadelphia area and his verse keeps moving on. \nDiane McManus teaches in the English Department of Community College of Philadelphia as an adjunct\, writes\, swims (including marathon swims)\, and reflects on the colors of rivers. Her poetry has appeared in Listening Eye\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, and in two Moonstone anthologies: the 26th Anniversary Poetry Ink\, as well as The Struggle for Liberty. \nKeith Woodrow studied Classics at the University of Southern California\, focusing on queer Roman poetry. He has been published in New York Quarterly\, Moonstone Arts Center Annual Poetry Ink\, and River River Journal. He was also a Brooklyn Poets Yawp Poet of the Month. \nRobert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Drexel University.  Poet\, critic\, and historian\, his books of verse include Speaking to Power and The Dresden Zoo\, both published by Moonstone Press. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-emiliano-martin-diane-mcmanus-keith-woodrow-robert-zaller/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240206T193000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with g emil reutter
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nFeaturing – g emil reutter\nTuesday February 6\, 2024 – 6:30pm – EST – VIRTUAL  \nWatch for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n\ng emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have been published\, most recently\, Until Next Time – Selected Poems 1990-2022. A chapbook\, Glint- Down the Shore Poems is pending release. \nHe can be found here: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/ \nVideos: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/videos/ \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-moonstone-poetry-phillycam-with-g-emil-reutter/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240131T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: House Poet @ Fergie's with Lindsay Hargrave and Noah David Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 31st – 7PM \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd–tpj4uEtTGjg-a2O9NZBvpHqx9GFyw \nWelcome to House Poet @ Fergie’s \nSince March 2022\, House Poet has strived to bring together writers\, dancers\, DJs and musicians alike. Join us in 2024 as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergie’s\, featuring an open reading\, featured readers\, live music and a soundtrack you can bounce to. \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet\, editor at Graphic Violence\, and a copywriter for Temple University. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Hargrave or follow @notporkroll on Twitter. Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet\, the author of 6 collections\, including Mutable Forests. In 2022\, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry contest. They are a 2023 Pushcart nominee. You can learn more on Instagram at @the.apocalypse.poet. \nWarren Longmire Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-house-poet-fergies-with-lindsay-hargrave-and-noah-david-roberts/
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:20240129T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20231228T183819Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
DESCRIPTION:27th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology \nMonday\, January 29th\, 2024 – 2PM \nVirtual on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduytqjwjG9dP-hVrP8szAyz7uxDeUXTe \nWe want you all: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets who write Sonnet\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\, Epigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order.   We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event on zoom on Monday. Last year we presented 50 poets at each event.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-27th-annual-poetry-ink/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240128T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240128T170000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
DESCRIPTION:Sunday January 28\, 2024 – 2pm \nLive at The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut Street \nWe want you all: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets who write Sonnet\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\, Epigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse. \nJoin us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event over Zoom on Monday. Last year we presented 50 poets at each event.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-27th-annual-poetry-ink/
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:20240124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday January 24\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: \nttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm \nW. D. Ehrhart\, Poet\, Writer\, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work\, a poem about Swarthmore College\, appeared seven years later in the Chronicle of Higher Education\, and the following year eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Exclusively a poet until he was almost 30\, he has since written and published a wide variety of nonfiction prose from 400-word newspaper commentaries to 40-page scholarly essays to 400-page personal narratives. The influence of Ehrhart’s encounter with the Vietnam War can readily be seen in his writing\, but though he is known primarily as a “Vietnam War poet\,” in fact his subject matter ranges widely. \nM. L. Liebler is a internationally known Detroit poet\, university professor\, literary arts activist and arts organizer. He is the author of 15 books and chapbooks including the Award winning Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream\, has read and performed his work around the world\, taught English\, Creative Writing\, American Studies\, Labor Studies and World Literature at Wayne State University and he is the founding director of both The National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit and the Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization.  He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by The Detroit Free Press & Detroit’s Metro Time\, and his groundbreaking anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock & Kicking Out the Jams was given a 2011 Library of Michigan Notable Book Award.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-w-d-ehrhart-and-m-l-liebler/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven\, Pat Rodgers\, and Robert Zell
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Koven\, author of Palm Lines\, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize\, and Mystic Orchards\,  Grew up on Long Island\, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University\, works as a technical writer\, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Delana\, and their cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. He has had both fiction and poetry published\, by Assure Press\, Animal Heart Press\, Thirty West Publishing\, and more. \nPat Rodgers is a poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in Neptune and several Moonstone anthologies. Recall is the title of his first chapbook. \nRobert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine\, North of Oxford\, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club. \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jonathan-koven-pat-rodgers-and-robert-zell/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Elliott Levin\, Ursula Rucker\, and Yolanda Wisher
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Elliott Levin\, Ursula Rucker\, and Yolanda Wisher\nWednesday January 10\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-msrDgjGNDxkIxf_eV0ZxVv2dn-IOG61/17/2024 \nElliott Levin\, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. Whatever it is jazz performers do when they blow into their horn as Levin does a lot of it\, on tenor saxophone and flute. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances\, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience and to the chagrin of hipsters who insist jazz poetry is a form of torture\, worse than cold showers. Other listeners might find the entire free jazz experience itself torture\, in which case it’s back to the beginning as far as advice regarding Levin: there is nothing watered-down or weak about his performances\, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible to the novices\, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy. \nUrsula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet\, performer\, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history\, family\, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Rucker has released five albums and collaborated with a wide range of artists outside of the field of poetry\, including The Roots\, musicians and Pew Fellows Jamaaladeen Tacuma and King Britt\, and\, most recently\, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Clarence Williams III. \n“I stand for poetry as a source of profound truth. That truth\, for me\, is connected to the idea that cities are places that redeem our strivings and leave us longing; the ways family life shapes and shakes us\, and brings us back; and the thought that artists safeguard stories and struggles” Ursula Rucker \nYolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania\, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia\, and currently serves as chair of the Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. She co-founded Germantown Poetry Festival and served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts from\, founded of School of Guerrilla Poetics\, a training ground for folks interested in nurturing and mobilizing communities through poetryand with Trapeta B. Mayson she co-founded ConsenSIS\, an initiative that seeks to count\, gather\, and memorialize Black femme poets in the Philadelphia area. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow\, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change\, and last year\, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow. \nLarry Robin\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-elliott-levin-ursula-rucker-and-yolanda-wisher/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T193000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock\nTuesday January 9\, 2023 @ 6:30pm  VIRTUAL \nWatch for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n \nAutumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook\, Dirt Bird\, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press\, and poems of hers have appeared in The Account\, Cimarron Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Georgia Review\, among others. She is Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. Find her online at autumnmcclintock.com.  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-autumn-mcclintock/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis
DESCRIPTION:Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr\nWednesday January 3\, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub \nRegistration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B \nCharles S. Carr from Philadelphia graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 years.  Charles has been a lay missionary for Hands Together raising money to serve the poorest of the poor in Haiti.  He has two books of poems paradise\, pennsylvania\, (Cradle Press\, 2009) and Haitian Mudpies and Other Poems\, (Moonstone Press\, 2013).  In 2008\, one of Charles’s poems won first place in Mad Poets Review. His poems have been published in local and national print and online poetry journals\, For five years Charles hosted the second Tuesday Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub.  For the past seven years he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry\, a monthly broadcast from Philly CAM.  Charles has one son\, Evan\, and is married to award-winning artist Karen Stabenow. His latest chapbook is Eat This Poem with Moonstone Press.  \nProceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain. \nDavid Kertis\, author of Word of the Day. 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. \nLeonard Gontarek Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/book-release-eat-this-poem-by-charles-s-carr-feat-david-kertis/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231227T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231227T203000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown\, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, & Lawrence Dugan
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub\n7PM ET & on Zoom\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf \n\nCydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate\, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book\, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press\, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies\, Whirlwind Magazine\, Bomb Magaine\, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP. \nLawrence Dugan’s new book\, The Sea again: Poems\, made up of poems that first appeared in magazines and journals such as Daedqlus\, Arion\, Cyphers\, The Gettysburg Review\, Nation Review  and others. He is retired from The Free Library of Philadelphia where he once ran the Monday Poets Series. \n\nLarry Robi\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-reading-cydney-brown-charles-s-carr-lawrence-dugan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230726T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Debora Kuan & Jeffrey McDaniel
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Debora Kuan & Jeffrey McDaniel\nWednesday\, July 26 @ 7:oopm ET\n  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsfuysqj8sGdfVuBztAiNMRw-_Z7J809Xm \n Debora Kuan is the author of three poetry collections XING (Saturnalia Books)\, Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press)\, and the forthcoming Women on the Moon (The Word Works). She has been awarded a U.S. Fulbright creative writing fellowship (Taiwan)\, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop Graduate Merit Fellowship\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference work-study scholarship\, multiple Pushcart Prize nominations\, the NELLE Three Sisters Award\, and residencies at Yaddo\, Macdowell\, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, The New Republic\, Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Boston Review\, The Baffler\, Fence\, The Iowa Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and other publications. Currently\, she lives in Wallingford\, CT\, where she is poet laureate and works remotely for the MIT Press. \n  \nJeffrey McDaniel is the author of seven books of poetry\, most recently Thin Ice Olympics (Write Bloody\, 2022) Other books include: Holiday in the Islands of Grief (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2020)\, Chapel of Inadvertent Joy (Pittsburgh\, 2013)\, The Endarkenment (Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, The Splinter Factory (Manic D Press\, 2002)\, The Forgiveness Parade (Manic D\, 1998)\, and Alibi School (Manic D\, 1995). McDaniel’s poems have appeared in numerous places\, including The New Yorker\, American Poetry Review\, The New York Times\, and Best American Poetry 1994\, 2010\, and 2019. Recipient of an NEA fellowship\, he teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-debora-kuan-jeffrey-mcdaniel/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230528T160000
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday May 28\, 2023 – 2:00pm\nVirtual  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 \nMother’s Day (May 14) \nThis is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For\, in a time like ours\, mothers have no room to be sentimental. Inspired by Julia Kilchinsky Dasbach books 40 Weeks and The Many Names for Mother. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/18517/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230508T171044Z
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UID:18512-1684954800-1684962000@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday May 24\, 2023 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscO6rrj8iHtb48QlmLMmqMWfM5uAm1lHv  \nKelly McQuain is a painter and poet\, and the author of Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers (2023)\, a collection chosen by Texas Review Press for the Southern Breakthrough Award. He has also authored two chapbooks\, and his prose\, poetry and illustrations have appeared in Best American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Rattle and Superstition Review\, as well as such anthologies as: Best New Poets 2020; LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia; and Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. A native of WV\, he now lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Community College of Philadelphia. \nLucy Bell Sellers\, a retired drama teacher\, is a longtime resident of Germantown. Her book of poems. Don’t Drop Me God\, came out last summer.  \n  \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-9/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T183108Z
UID:18508-1684677600-1684684800@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:VIRTUAL Poetry Reading: World Laughter Day
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday May 21\, 2023 – 2:00pm\nVirtual\nRegister for the event HERE: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rd-yuqj4oGdQ1vLBDn31qkpzuQMtjqjM9 \nWorld Laughter Day  \n(May 7) is an annual event celebrated is a celebration that raises awareness about all the benefits of laughing and promotes world peace through laughter. \nIt raises awareness about laughter and its many healing benefits\, as well as about thousands of community groups around the world who regularly practice comedy that promote wellness. \nAfter dealing with Freud and your internal conflict\, write something we can laugh at. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-world-laughter-day/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230505T182415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T182415Z
UID:18501-1684350000-1684357200@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading\nWednesday May 17\, 2023 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdu-trjIvGd2Q9NK9mK9MtZzQ3PmYhVIt \ndev kiyota is an editor; they got an MFA in Creative Writing from Temple University. \n  \n  \nLynda Gene Rymond author of The Village of Basketeers and Oscar and the Mooncats\, attended Bucks County Community College\, received a B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts\, and was a member of Dr. Chris Bursk’s Master Poetry Workshop. A runner-up or finalist for Bucks County Poet Laureate for the past four years\, her poems and short stories have been published in multiple journals and the anthology\, Carry Us to the Next Well. She lives on Goblin Farm in Applebachsville\, Pa\, where she and her husband tend goats\, chickens\, honeybees\, cats\, and an enormous fruit and vegetable garden. \nCleveland Wall is a poet\, teaching artist\, and librarian. She is the author of Let X=X and many homemade chapbooks and zines. She performs with interactive poetry troupe No River Twice & with musical combo The Starry Eyes and hosts an experiential poetry series called Poetry Lab at the Ice House in Bethlehem\, PA. She is falling deeply in love with antiproductivity. More info at clevelandwall.com. \nLauren Yates is a writer\, visual artist\, & burlesque performer from Philadelphia by way of San Diego. Lauren has represented Philly at the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work has been featured in bedfellows\, Voicemail Poems\, GLITTERBRAIN\, Bettering American Poetry\, and more. Lauren is also a teaching artist and is currently developing a workshop that marries poetry and burlesque. \nSean Hanahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-8/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T181720Z
UID:18494-1683745200-1683752400@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading\nWednesday May 10\, 2023 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqduygpjMuHd0HPcfGrZY8yNfOp-0L4ixR \nCourtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody\, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She loves nail polish\, tattoos and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet’s father. Love and hunger intertwine and become inseparable as the poet grapples to find\, and listen\, to both. With a distinct and feminist voice\, this collection delves into a life now lived without a beloved parent\, while trying to survive a pandemic\, and battling demons that have lived inside her for most of her life. With both fierceness and tenderness\, we see a woman trying to find her place within her own body and within an ever-changing world. This collection of poems is both an elegy and an anthem – praising both those who’ve been lost and those who remain. \n  \nLauren Ray is a Junior Creative writing major with an Art history minor at the University of the arts. She writes poetry and stories from the lens of the black woman experience. She is excited to share her work to an audience for the first time in a couple of years. \n  \nRuth Rouff is a freelance educational writer living in Collingswood\, NJ. Her poetry and prose have been published in various literary journals\, including Parhelion\, New World Writing\, the International Quarterly\, Philadelphia Poets\, and Philadelphia Stories. In 2016\, Bedazzled Ink published her collection of poetry and prose entitled Pagan Heaven. Her novel Lone Star\, which is based on the life of famed athlete\, Babe Didrikson Zaharias\, was published by Bedazzled Ink in 2022 and is available on Amazon.com\, BN.com\, and BedazzledInk.com. \nLarry Robin Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-7/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230428T174529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T174529Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Virtual Event: Poems From Your Psyche
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nSunday May 7\, 2023 – 2:00pm \nVirtual  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOmrrDsjHtd4OlL4eORzQZETeuwo5oB9 \nPoems From Your Psyche\nis a type of poetic expression which addresses the multiple psychological aspects of the human existence. April 24 is the 100th anniversary of The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud\, an analytical study of the human psyche outlining Freud’s theories. It develops a groundwork for explaining various psychological conditions which result from powerful internal tensions. In honored of this by inviting poets to write a poem illustrating these tensions. \n  \nJoin us as poets explore their Psyche  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-virtual-event-poems-from-your-psyche/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230503T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230428T165115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T165115Z
UID:18472-1683140400-1683147600@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Moonstone Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading\nWednesday May 3\, 2023 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpce6vrzsjGd0lKdmttrpxCM9RPs8seGAo \nEleventh-grade student\, Matilda Bray\, is author of When You Wanted Blue\, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry\, Under the Moon as My Sun at the age of twelve.  The full-length collection was featured on PhillyCam’s Poetry Interview and Reading Series\, and in February of 2023\, she was the high-school winner of the Phillip’s Mill Play With Words Youth Playwriting Challenge. Her work has appeared in Rattle\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, Sad Girls Club\, OpenDoor Magazine\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, River Poets Journal\, and the Moonstone Poets Anthology. Matilda competes regularly at open poetry competitions and is a voracious reader and cross-country runner who resides in a suburb of Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania with her family and beloved dog\, Tuck. \nMatthew Thorburn’s new book of poems is String (LSU Press\, 2023). He’s also the author of seven previous collections of poetry\, including The Grace of Distance\, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize\, and Dear Almost\, which received the Lascaux Prize. His work has been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, as well as fellowships from the Bronx and New Jersey arts councils. Originally from Michigan and for many years a New Yorker\, he lives with his family just up the road in Kingston\, New Jersey. \nKimmika Williams-Witherspoon  – PhD (Cultural Anthropology)\, MA (Anthropology)\, MFA (Theater)\, Graduate Certificate) Women’s Studies\, BA (Journalism); is an Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement. Recipient of a 2003 Provost’s Arts Commission Grant; a 2001 Independence Foundation Theater Communications Group Grant\, the 2000 winner of the PEW Charitable Trust fellowship in scriptwriting\, and the 1999\, winner of the DaimlerChrysler “Spirit of the Word” National Poetry Competition. Author of Through Smiles and Tears: The History of African American Theater (From Kemet to the Americas); The Secret Messages in African American Theater: Hidden Meaning Embedded in Public Discourse. She has had over twenty-three of her plays produced. Her stage credits include thirteen productions and she is a contributing poet to twenty-six poetry anthologies. \nLarry Robin Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-live-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230428T161832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230428T161832Z
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nTuesday May 2\, 2023 – 6:30pm VIRTUAL \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nIn Philadelphia. \nEleventh-grade student\, Matilda Bray\, is author of When You Wanted Blue\, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry\, Under the Moon as My Sun at the age of twelve.  The full-length collection was featured on PhillyCam’s Poetry Interview and Reading Series\, and in February of 2023\, she was the high-school winner of the Phillip’s Mill Play With Words Youth Playwriting Challenge. Her work has appeared in Rattle\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, Sad Girls Club\, OpenDoor Magazine\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, River Poets Journal\, and the Moonstone Poets Anthology. Matilda competes regularly at open poetry competitions and is a voracious reader and cross-country runner who resides in a suburb of Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania with her family and beloved dog\, Tuck.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-readings-series/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230410T181627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230430T140735Z
UID:18456-1682863200-1682870400@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday April 30\, 2023 – 2:00pm  Virtual \nJoin us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 \nRegistration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 \n  \nEkphrastic Poetry \nEkphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis\, the poet engages with a painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and dance might also be considered a type of ekphrastic writing. \nApril 8 is the 50th anniversary of the Death of Pablo Picasso\, who created 50\,000 works of modern art. In honor of his achievement\, we are doing an anthology of Ekphrastic Poetry. \nJoin us as contributors read their Ekphrastic Poems. \n  \n  \nContributing Poets \nMichael Abreu \nAllison Baldwin \nMark Balobeck \nChristine Barbour \nElizabeth Bodien \nR. Bremner \nStarr Bright \nSarah Browning \nRachel Aviva Burns \nNatalie Canavor \nCathy Carlisi \nLuanne Castle \nAlan Catlin \nA.J. Chilson \nGreg Colburn \nJim Cory \nJessica Cramer \nChristine Davis \nLinda Dickman \nJoanne Durham \nDavid Eberhardt \nElizabeth Esris \nKatherine Falk \nStewart Florsheim \nBryan Franco \nStephen Frank \nMichael Franz \nRosemary Freedman \nCaroline Furr \nRobin Gabbert \nRobert Gibbons \nDanely Gonzalez \nShotsey Gorman \nLinda Goss \nOna Gritz \nBeejay Grob \nBruce Grossberg \nHanoch Guy \nAnna Halberstadt \nAnnie Hartford \nSharon Hollingsworth \nAnn Huang \nJoan Huffman \nJane Ellen Ibur \nJudy Ireland \nJosh Jacobs \nMike Jurkovic \nPhilip Kennedy \nKollin Kennedy \nLisa Kosow \nEelka Lampe \nMaria Lisella \nJosephine LoRe \nJames Mancinelli \nTawanda Manyati \nKaren Marker \nStefanie Maura \nKathleen McGraw \nErika Michael \nRobin Michel \nPatricia Middleton \nMary Ann Miller \nLinda Morales \nBeth Morris \nCharlene Moskal \nRuth Mota \nAngela Muir \nNancy Murray \nGloria Nixon-John \nAllayna Nofs \nMaureen Sauvain O’Connor \nJennifer O’Neill \nPickering \nHermond Palmer \nFaith Paulsen \nDavid Radavich \nCami Rothmuller \nCarla Schick \nAmeerah Shabazz \nJohn Shea \nMiki Simic \nJim Stewart \nJocelyn Stokes \nMarya Summers \nChuck Sweetman \nRenee Szostek \nKaren Paul Topham \nLois Villemaire \nEike Waltz \nGail Wasserman \nShin Watanabe \nKelley White \nDaniel   Williams \nNellie Wong \nDavid Worrell \nSamantha Wright \nRaymond Ziemer
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230426T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday April 26\, 2023 – 7:30pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ \n  \nMaya Pindyck’s third poetry collection\, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press\, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is also author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books) and Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, winner of the Many Voices Project Award\, and co-author of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (Bloomsbury\, 2022). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, and grants from the Historic House Trust of New York City and Abortion Conversation Projects. She lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design \nHila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press\, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Narrative\, Linebreak\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Adroit Journal\, and other journals\, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She was editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Storyscape (2011–2017) and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is director of virtual content & programs at Ritualwell.org and lives in Oak Park\, Illinois \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-6/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230423T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230410T173719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T173848Z
UID:18444-1682258400-1682265600@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Celebrate the Art of the Haiku at a Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nHaiku 2023\nSunday April 23\, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual \nRegistration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- \nInternational Haiku Day \nThe old pond \n A frog jumps in \n Plop! \nMatsuo Basho (1644-1694) \nTranslated by Allan Watts \n \nThe Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku \nThe haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines\, with five syllables in the first line\, seven in the second\, and five in the third. The haiku developed from the hokku\, the opening three lines of a longer poem known as a tanka. The haiku became a separate form of poetry in the 17th century. \nJoin us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/18444/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230419T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230410T170552Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading at Finn Mccool's!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday April 19\, 2023 – 7:00pm \nLive at Finn McCools\nCorner of 12th & Sansom Street \nNote the change of venue for this event  \nJim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings\, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems . Recent essays include “ What makes a queen a queen?& rdquo; in the Gay & Lesbian Review\, & ldquo; Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra & rdquo; in New Haven Review\, and “ Where & rsquo;s the hot boy going tonight?& rdquo; in Chelsea Station. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council\, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. \nBesides receiving awards for journalism and erotic writing\, Chris Kaiser has had poems published in Dissident Voice and The Scriblerus\, prose poetry in Eastern Iowa Review\, and haiku in Better Than Starbucks. His poetry and haiku also appear in several anthologies from Moonstone Press. In addition\, his poetry has been featured alongside works of art at the DaVinci Art Alliance. \nDeborah Turner’s poetry & writing sustains her and is even helping her transform from a librarian to a realtor. Her works have appeared in Philadelphia Stories\, the Lavender Reader\, and anthologies including The Body Eclectic (Henry Holt) and Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity (Beacon Press). “Juneteenth\,” a poem in her chapbook of sports poetry titled SWEATING IT OUT (Finishing Line Press)\, earned a nomination for a Pushcart Prize.  \nMonika Wysong is a Philadelphia-based poet\, playwright\, and psychotherapist. Her chapbook\, Poems for the Rest of Us\, was published by Moonstone Press in 2021. Her play\, Laundromat\, was featured in Short Plays on Twelve on Philadelphia’s PBS station\, and she has been a semi-finalist in the Louisville Actors’ Theater playwriting competition. Her poems have appeared in American Writing. She holds an MFA from Goddard College. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-at-finn-mccools/
LOCATION:Finn Mccools\, 118 S 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230410T164407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230410T164538Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of 'Storm Swimmer'!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nWednesday April 12\, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx \n  \nJoin us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems \nStorm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) \nIn poems that celebrate survival and renewal\, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time\, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters\, Hilbert’s eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America\, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water—what Melville called “the ungraspable phantom of life.” \n“Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams\, nightmares\, tenderness\, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry\, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Heaven and judge \nCopies of the book will be available at a discounted rate of $10. Join us! \nErnest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan\, and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018\, and his poems appear in Yale Review\, American Poetry Review\, BOMB\, Harvard Review\, Parnassus\, Sewanee Review\, Hudson Review\, Boston Review\, The New Republic\, American Scholar\, and the London Review. \nGuest reader April Lindner is the author of Skin\, which received the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press\, and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. With Ryan Wilson\, she is co-editing an anthology of contemporary Catholic poetry for Paraclete Press\, and with R. S. Gwynn\, she co-edited Contemporary American Poetry in Longman’s Penguin Pocket Academics series. She has written three Young Adult novels\, and is a professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University\, she lives in Stockton\, New Jersey. \nGuest reader David Hale Sylvester chronicles his adventures and achievements in two books\, Traveling at the Speed of Life\, which appeared in 2011\, and One Hug at a Time: 99 Stories From the Man Who Embraced the World\, published in 2021. You can learn more about him at www.davidhalesylvester.com. \nHost John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry\, and many other journals and anthologies. Smog Mother is his latest book\, he teaches Creative Writing at UArts in Philadelphia. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-celebrating-the-publication-of-storm-swimmer/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Alexa Smith & Joseph Earl Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Alexa Smith and Joseph Earl Thomas\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 25 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqurjojHtLlYIEefDTD2M2u1XpBGvZS \n  \nAlexa Smith is a poet and essayist from Washington D.C. She lives in West Philadelphia\, where she works in publishing and serves as Editorial Director of Apiary\, a free literary magazine centering Philly-area authors and artists of all genres and backgrounds in print and online. She received her MFA from Temple University and teaches workshops in poetry\, creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary writing. Her work can be found in Interim\, Entropy\, Memoir Mixtapes\, Peach Mag\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere\, as well as streaming on STELLA Radio and Spotify. \n  \nJoseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared in VQR\, N+1\, Gulf Coast\, The Offing\, and The Kenyon Review. An excerpt of his memoir\, Sink\, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright\, VONA\, Tin House\, Kimbilio\, & Breadloaf\, though he is now the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow at the CSU Poetry Center. He’s writing the novel God Bless You\, Otis Spunkmeyer\, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach\, among other oddities. He is also an associate faculty member at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research\, as well as Director of Programs at Blue Stoop\, a literary hub for Philly writers. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-alexa-smith-joseph-earl-thomas/
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:20230121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230121T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Telicia Darius & 王潇/Evan Wang
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event with New Voices\n\nSaturday January 21 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-igqjgqHNESm_1z3fGzzgKz5Y4BBrb3 \n  \nTelicia Darius\, 2022-2023 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate\, is a senior at Hardy Williams Mastery Charter School in a dual enrollment program at Community College of Philadelphia. Telicia has participated in the Young Writer’s Workshop at Bard College and the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. Telicia writes and performs in both English and French and is a member of the Hardy Williams Philly Slam League team. Telicia loves a good challenge and believes in the words of poetry. On poetry and the Poet Laureate position\, Telicia says “Poetry is the writer’s ink and the laureate is the platform\, giving the inaudible text a chance to speak.” \n王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Violet Indigo Blue\, Etc.\, Philadelphia Stories\, National Poetry Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. Evan has performed his work at various venues such as the Oval XP\, ArtWRKD\, and The Rotunda at The University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry\, Philadelphia Contemporary\, and Wawa Welcome America.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-telicia-darius-%e7%8e%8b%e6%bd%87-evan-wang/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20221221T224624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221221T224624Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Liz Chang\, Chad Frame & Mary Jo LoBello Jerome
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Liz Chang\, Chad Frame\, and Mary Jo LoBello Jerome\n\nWednesday January 18 @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom Street\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu-trzIqHdBee3AuTkKCu3tGXaMoi1cJ \n  \nLiz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily\, Exit 7\, Rock & Sling\, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal\, among others. Her fourth collection\, a chapbook called Museum of Things\, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her creative nonfiction recently appeared in Oyster River Pages\, and her flash fiction has been published internationally. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company. Liz lives en les environs de Philadelphia with her family\, dog\, cat\, and a hive of honeybees. She is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University.  \nPhoto credit: Adrianne Matiowetz   \nChad Frame is the author of Little Black Book (2022\, Finishing Line Press)\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award\, and a chapbook\, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo\, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe\, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, and elsewhere\, on iTunes from the Library of Congress\, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.  \n  \nMary Jo LoBello Jerome has a new book out\, Torch the Empty Fields\, which was a finalist in the Women’s Voices Competition at Finishing Line\, and released in December. She is one of the Poetry Co-Editors of Schuylkill Valley Journal and a Poet Laureate of Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems\, an anthology of writing prompts for teachers\, published in 2021. Her poems and short stories have been published widely. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, has taught writing at all levels\, and has written for The New York Times\, Scholastic Inc.\, and many other publications.    \nSean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-liz-chang-chad-frame-mary-jo-lobello-jerome/
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:20230111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20221216T153215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T153215Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Peter Baroth\, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Peter Baroth\, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 11 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required– register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-qtrT0rGNUpSm6pNoX_JoJ016NR2VAU \n  \nPeter Baroth\, writer\, artist\, and musician\, is a graduate of Washington University and Temple Law School. His novel is Long Green (iUniverse) and his book of poetry\, Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press). He has been published in Philadelphia Poets\, Red Fez\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Apiary\, Legal Studies Forum\, Poetry Ink\, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Amy Tritsch Needle Award\, a 2016 Petracca Family Award\, was a finalist for the Joie de Vivre book prize\, has been nominated for Best of the Net\, and is on Philadelphia Stories’ editorial board. He lives in Media\, PA. \n  \nMassimo Elijah is a spoken word poet and Philly native who is proud to be a part of such a thriving arts scene in his home city. He loves how art can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together…where artist and audience remind each other how human beings are healers who are also healed by healing others. \n  \nGlen A. Mazis has more than 90 poems in literary journals\, including Rosebud\, The North American Review\, Sou’wester\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Willow Review\, Atlanta Review\, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review\, and the collection\, The River Bends in Time\, a chapbook\, The Body Is a Dancing Star\, and Bodies of Space and Time. He taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg\, has published five philosophy books with the most recent being\, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence\, Ethics\, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-peter-baroth-massimo-elijah-glen-a-mazis/
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:20230109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T031424
CREATED:20230106T161314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T161314Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Events: Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s Virtual Annual Poetry Ink Events\n  \nIn addition to Moonstone’s live Poetry Ink Event on January 8\, there will be TWO VIRTUAL EVENTS: January 9 & January 10\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTimes and Dates\nMonday\, January 9 @ 7PM\nRegistration Link: click here! \nTuesday January 10 @ 7PM\nRegistration Link: click here! \n  \nJanuary 9 Featured Contributors:\nAlyson Shore Adler  \nE. Lynn Alexander \nNathalie Anderson  \nTonita Austin  \nFloi Baker  \nAmy Barone  \nElliott batTzedek  \nDeborah Bayer  \nMiriam Ben-Yoseph  \nCarole Bernstein  \nAnuradha Bhowmik  \nCelia Bland  \nPamela Lynn Blanding-Godbolt  \nJulia Bluemenreich  \nFiona Bolger  \nVeronica Bowlan  \nR. Bremner \nCydney Brown  \nKristen Holt Browning   \nAnthony Cappo  \nAnnie Chian  \nCathleen Cohen  \nAlejandro Cortes  \nLynda V.E. Crawford  \nTerence Culleton  \nLiz Cunningham  \nCarlos Raul Dufflar  \nDavid Ebenbach  \nDavid Eberhardt  \nSophia Falco  \nMaria Fama  \nCheryl J. Fish  \nGloria Fredkove  \nHal Freedman  \nCaroline Furr  \nShotsie Gorman   \nMarjorie Gowdy  \nNeal Grace  \nShannon Frost Greenstein  \nJen Heller  \nJennifer Hook  \nJones Irwin  \nMaria James-Thiaw  \nJanuary 10 Featured Contributors:\nCharles Jenkins  \nMike Jurkovic   \nSusan Justiniano  \nChris Kaiser  \nLisa Naomi Konigsberg  \nJonathan Koven  \nLeonard Kress  \nEelka Lampe  \nHiram Larew   \nDavid Lawton   \nJosephine LoRe  \nDeirdre Maher  \nAngel L. Martinez  \nMichael McCarthy   \nDiane McManus  \nMatt Mitchell  \nD. Nurkse \nHermond Palmer  \nFaith Paulsen  \nAaren Yeats Perry  \nKenneth Pobo  \nPrabha  Nayak Prabhu  \nAnna Prader  \nHalle Preneta  \nBarrett Rosser  \nMolly Russakoff  \nMargaret Saraco  \nGeorge Schaefer  \nCarla S. Schick   \nLynne Shapiro  \nBeth SKMorris  \nFereshteh Sholevar   \nMegha Sood  \nRenée Szostek  \nElaine Terranova  \nTerry Tierney   \nJohn Timpane  \nJ.C. Todd  \nAlan Toltzis  \nCatherine Trapani  \nRaya Tuffaha   \nLois Villemaire  \nKen Waldman  \nDan Williams   \nAnne Harding Woodworth 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-events-annual-poetry-ink-anthology/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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