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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
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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 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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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 
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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 
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LOCATION:Finn Mccools\, 118 S 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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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 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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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
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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.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T190000
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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
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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
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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/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221202T173411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T054639Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s \n26th Annual Poetry Ink Event\n\nSunday\, January 8 @ 12PM\nLIVE at The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\n\n  \n \n  \nWe want you all: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets who write Sonnets\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\, Epigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse. Join us for our 26th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. \nYou can buy the anthology here ($20 USD): https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/26th-poetry-ink-anthology/400 \n  \n  \nOUR 143 CONTRIBUTORS: \nLiz Abrams-Morley \nSusan Anmuth \nGregory Ashe \nFloi Baker \nAmy Barone \nPeter Baroth \nElliott batTzedek \nMiriam Ben-Yoseph \nCarole Bernstein \nPamela Blanding \nJulia Blumenreich \nVeronica Bowlan \nMatilda Bray \nBarbara Breitman \nR. Bremner \nJamie Brown \nLisa Bruckman \nMaryrose Carroll \nAnnie Chian \nTakudzwa Chikepe \nA.J. Chilson \nCathleen Cohen \nCathleen Cohen \nTiffany Cooper \nBeverly Cottman \nLynda V. E.  Crawford \nKatharine Cristiani \nELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM \nToby Devens \nAnn Ellen Dickter \nPheralyn Dove \nTom Driscoll \nCarlos Dufflar \nDavid  Eberhardt \nRUNETT EBO \nBill Ehrhart \nAlfred Encarnacion \nRichard Epstein \nSophia Falco \nKatherine Falk \nMaria Fama \nCheryl Fish \nPeggy Fisher \nFrancis Flavin \nBRYAN FRANCO \nGloria Fredkove \nHal Freedman \nCaroline Furr \nLinda Goss \nMarjorie Gowdy \nNeal Grace \nBeejay Grob \nBob Groves \nhanoch guy \nMARK HAMMERSCHICK \nPeggy Hammond \nSean Hanrahan \nJerri Hardesty \nAnnie Hartford \nFaleeha Hassan \nStephen Hattrich \nJen Heller \nDitta Baron Hoeber \nJane Ibur \nJones Irwin \njack israel \nCharles Jenkins \nIrving Jones \nKarl Kadie \nBetti Kahn \nChris Kaiser \nLouis Kamason \nBrian Kerr \nlisa konigsberg \nCarthornia Kouroupos \nLeonard Kress \nEd Krizek \nLaurie Kuntz \nEelka Lampe \nD Lang \nHiram Larew \nJim LaVilla-Havelin \nJeffrey Lee \nAntoinette Libro \nJosephine LoRe \nAlison Lubar \nNick Lutwyche \nGeorge MacMillan \nDeirdre Maher \nTawanda Manyati \nAngel Martinez \nJohn Mason \nMeg McCarney \nDiane McManus \nGabre Medhin \nEmily Melvin \nGary Metras \nBeth Morris \nDaniel O’Hara \nCharles O’Hay \nClaire Owen \nHermond Palmer \nFaith Paulsen \nJonathan Pessant \nVICTORIA HUGGINS PEURIFOY \nRescue Poetix \nKate Potter \nPrabha Prabhu \nDylan Ragas \nDon Riggs \nPatrick Rodgers \nLinda Romanowski \nMarco Romeo \nGeorge Schaefer \nCarla  Schick \nJennifer Schneider \nFereshteh Sholevar \nAlyson Shore Adler \nAmy Beth Sisson \nAmy Small-McKinney \nMegha Sood \nMaggie Stearns \nj.c. Sutton \nRenee Szostek \nAlbert  Tacconelli \nAlexi Terris \nTerry Tierney \nJohn Timpane \nJ. C. Todd \nKaren Paul Topham \nJim Trainer \nSebastian Trainer-Oneill \nCatherine Trapani \nLois Villemaire \nynotcreations webb \nTheresa Werba \nDANIEL WILLIAMS \nLauren Wolffe \nNellie Wong \nSamantha Wright \nTheresa Wyatt \nSekai’afua Zankel \nDaniel Zehner
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-26th-annual-poetry-ink-anthology/
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:20230104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230104T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221216T143357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T143357Z
UID:18198-1672858800-1672866000@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Event: Hosts of Other Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Elliott batTzedek\, Eileen M. D’Angelo\, James Feichthaler\, Joanne Leva & Robert Zell\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 4 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required. Register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfumgrTIjHdLPYnBWIkzwDwM2mU-lNZGy \n  \nElliott batTzedek holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. For 10 years she organized readings\, writing workshops\, and a poetry book group at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy. Since 2021\, she’s organized poetry at Main Point Books in Wayne\, PA.  Her work appears in: Sakura Review\, American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Cahoodaloodaling\, Naugatuck River Review\, and Poemeleon. \n  \n  \nEileen M. D’Angelo is Founder of the Mad Poets Society and Mad Poets Review. Since 1987\, she produced over 1\,500 special events\, including performances\, slams\, readings\, conferences\, workshops\, bonfires and literary festivals in the Delaware Valley.  Twice nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts\, D’Angelo also received two Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press nominations. \n  \nJames Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has most recently appeared in One Art\, Sortes\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE\, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times\, was published in late 2020 by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk\, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia. \n  \nJoanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know\, founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet\, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Peace Is a Haiku Song\, 50 Over Fifty\, Apiary\, E-Verse Radio\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Rag Queen Periodical\, Bucks County Writer\, Transcendent Visions\, and elsewhere. \n  \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 First Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-hosts-of-other-poetry-series/
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:20221228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221119T024140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221119T024140Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Anthony Cappo\, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Anthony Cappo\, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday December 28 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctceCppz8iE9HhItlupBaoL-TCdkVXAuhL \n  \nAnthony Cappo\, author of When You’re Deep In A Thing and My Bedside Radio\, poems and other writings have appeared in THRUSH\, Prelude\, Entropy\, The Rumpus\, and other publications. “Cappo’s voice is intimate\, but the arc is visceral: ‘come with me and I will show you/fissures of men.’ His poems aren’t looking for alchemy\, only for what’s real\, this world in which a child might ‘endure/like an Arctic explorer.’ They are true\, meaning: wholehearted and ambivalent. Cappo won’t show you prefabricated emotions\, rather the contraries we wrestle as we try to conjure our destinies ‘under God’s random jackhammer.’ He charts an America of absent fathers and thrift shop hand grenades\, an era in which the line between common sense and paranoia is fading. When You’re Deep in a Thing isn’t just beautiful-it’s courageous and necessary.” – D. Nurkse  \nMaria James-Thiaw\, author of Count Each Breath\, is an award-winning poet\, performer\, and playwright. She is the author of four poetry collections and her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, and Essential Voices: A Covid19 Anthology. Poems from her play\, Reclaiming My Time: An American Griot Project won the Art of Protest Award from Penn State University’s Center for American Literary Studies in 2018. Maria James-Thiaw is the founder of Reclaim Artist Collective\, an organization that brings her American Griot Project programming to marginalized communities.  \nAnn E. Michael\, author of Strange Ladies\, Water-Rites\, More than Shelter\, The Minor Fauna\, Small Things Rise & Go\, and The Capable Heart\, poems and essays have been widely published in many journals\, including Poem\, Natural Bridge\, Ninth Letter\, Runes\, The Comstock Review\, Diner\, Sentence\, Slant\, ISLE\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts and others\, as well as in numerous literary anthologies. She maintains a long-running blog\, garden\, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-anthony-cappo-maria-james-thiaw-ann-e-michael/
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:20221221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221119T023631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221119T023631Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Enoch\, Maria Masington & LindoYes
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Enoch\, Maria Masington & LindoYes\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday December 21 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOmtqjMpGNxRsoAGpcUEeIs1nyqctIhI \n  \nEnoch is a poet\, author\, trauma-informed teaching artist and manga writer born and raised on the Northside of Wilmington\, DE. As a mental health advocate and someone living with bi-polar disorder\, his work examines the process of healing and the ways that trauma and mental health move through a family\, as well as the outside forces that affect or have affected these developments. His goal is to create written works\, curriculum\, and platforms that deepen our emotional understanding and its cyclical relation to the conditions acting on the Black mind\, body\, and spirit. Enoch is the 2017 Philadelphia Fuze Grand Slam Champion and the author of two poetry collections\, “The Guide to Drowning” released in 2017 and “Burned at the Roots” released in 2020.   \nMaria Masington is a poet\, author\, and spoken word artist from Wilmington\, Delaware. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen publications including The News Journal\, Gargoyle\, The Broadkill Review\, Adanna\,  Earth’s Daughters\, Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11\, and by the University of Colorado. Parnilis Media released Masington’s first chapbook\, Mouth Like a Sailor\, in 2021. It was awarded first place by both Delaware Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. Her work and upcoming events can be found at “Maria Masington Amazon.”   \nLindoYes is a spoken word artist\, creator of LindoYes! clothing line\, and an event host who was born and raised in Uptown Philadelphia\, PA. He is an unapologetically Black fusion of theatrical poetics and visual art whose work addresses the constructs of love\, masculinity and social injustice. Lindo’s work has led him to opportunities across the east coast from appearing on Def Poetry Jam to featuring at various colleges such as Bucknell University\, Haverford College\, and UPENN as well as venues including Busboys and Poets\, Spit Dat\, The Drunken Retort\, Urban Grind\, just to name a few. His work has been featured in on the well-known poetry youtube channel\, Button Poetry.  \n  \nSean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-enoch-maria-masington-lindoyes/
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:20221217T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221217T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221205T162317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T163043Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: New Voices Anthology 2022
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s New Voices Anthology 2022\n\nSaturday December 17 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdOGrqTovGdbz4UDH0b52ubiHSHRj8aIh \n  \n \n  \nA series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. We tend to gather in our own communities\, there is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. Our attempt to expand everyone’s experience\, to introduce other ways of everything. Join us as contributors read their poems.  \n  \n  \n  \nNot All Contributors Will Be Reading \nKyla Artwell  \nTesana Aurora  \nTaylor  Baker  \nIjhana Bayes  \nAvik Belenje  \nNina Braum  \nDomenica Brunetti  \nYakov Burton  \nChristina Campanaro  \nConnor Campbell  \nAnnie Chian  \nLillien Cirino  \nTori D’Amico  \nEzana Demissie  \nMark Doraszelski  \nMaura  Gallagher  \nEthan Garrity  \nAmy Goodman  \nRasheeda Graham  \nEmma  Heaton  \nElijah Johnson  \nJulian Kennedy  \nZoe Khan  \nMatthew Klauber  \nJane Lee  \nAaron Madison   \nAlana Maguire  \nTyreea McBride  \nCampbell McCormack  \nRyland McGinniss  \nSonja Meijer  \nYves-Melsein Metellus   \nFrancisco Mojica  \nJoy Olree  \nLindsay Pelliccia  \nTheo Robinson  \nShawn Sandman  \nBlaithin Simpson  \nDrop Spam  \nMilli Straub  \nCharlotte Suttee  \nJacob Swenson   \nSebastian Trainer-Oneill  \nDionna  Vereen  \nKevin Wallner 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-new-voices-anthology-2022/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221214T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221119T021250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221119T021250Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St\nWednesday December 14 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. The registration link will be posted shortly! \n  \nSunil Iyengar is the author of a new chapbook of poems\, A Call from the Shallows (Finishing Line Press). His poems and book reviews appear in such publications as the Washington Post\, The American Scholar\,The New Criterion\, Literary Matters\, The Hopkins Review\, Essays in Criticism\, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He works as an arts research director in Washington\, D.C. \n  \n  \nHugh Sheehy is the author of two short story collections\, Design Flaw (Acre\, forthcoming in November) and The Invisibles (Flannery O’Connor Award\, University of Georgia Press). Some of his recent stories have appeared in Fence\, swamp pink (as Crazyhorse)\, failbetter\, and the final issue of The Rupture. He also reviews books\, mostly novels\, from time to time. He teaches writing at Ramapo College. \n  \n  \nLuke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace\, The Hopkins Review\, The New Criterion\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Think Journal\, ONE ART\, Cleaver\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years\, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference\, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University and lives in Upper Darby\, PA.  \n  \nJohn Wall Barger Host – Open Reading Follows 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-e-verse-equinox-reading-series/
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:20221211T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221211T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221116T153144Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221116T153144Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Remembering The Waste Land
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event Remembering The Waste Land\n\nSunday December 11 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudeGsqDwiHNGbIKB3XwIbDO4_P-84tFgv \n100th Anniversary of The Waste Land\n \nSeptember 26th marked T.S. Eliot’s 134th birthday \nEliot’s groundbreaking poem The Waste Land was published in 1922\, 100 years ago\n\nWritten in the wake of World War I\, a war which turned the battlefield into a waste land\, and wasted a generation of combatants and civilians — 20 million dead\, 21 million wounded — the poem might be read as a civilian’s post-traumatic stress\, or as ecological disaster\, or emotional devastation\, or spiritual drought. \n\nEliot’s style in the poem — fragmented\, allusive\, difficult\, obscure…\nwas startling at the time\, so much so that William Carlos Williams considered it a “great catastrophe” for American Poetry; and the notes Eliot appended have led many readers to think of the poem more as an exam than a lyric. Yet even as Eliot’s influence has faded\, even as we question his conservatism\, his attitudes toward race\, his uneasiness with women\, his personal demons\, The Waste Land continues to signify to our own waste land\, and many of us write under its shadow. \nMoonstone Invites You  \nto “come in under the shadow of this red rock” and speak to The Waste Land\, or within The Waste Land\, or after The Waste Land\, or against The Waste Land.  \nNathalie Anderson\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-remembering-the-waste-land/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221114T170511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T170247Z
UID:18101-1670526000-1670526000@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Event Featuring Five Poets
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event with Chris Bullard\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, Raya Tuffaha\, Donna Wolf-Palacio & Katie Sarah Zale \n\nThursday December 8 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Below! \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-yhrTkrGtVASsuWFKKJOHohW82TroZM \n  \nChris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia\, is author of Continued\, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler\, Muse/A Journal\, The Woven Tale\, Nimrod\, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat. \n  \nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press\, 2021)\, Salvage (Northwestern University Press\, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press\, 2016). She is a member of the Sanctuary Advocate Coalition\, which works to expand sanctuary in vision and practice through the framework of black-brown unity.   \n  \n \nRaya Tuffaha is a Palestinian artist from Seattle\, WA. Her first collection\, To All the Yellow Flowers\, was published in March 2020 with Golden Antelope Press. Her first chapbook\, apocalypse blues\, was published with Plan B Press this August. Raya is a current senior at Swarthmore College\, where she studies Theatre and Peace & Conflict Studies. She specializes in solo performance and fight direction\, and will move to the east coast after graduation. She hopes her work on the page & the stage serves her communities with integrity. \nDonna Wolf-Palacio is author of The Architect of Elsewhere\, What I Don’t Know\, The Other Side\, and Step Lightly.  She taught an ongoing poetry workshop at the University of the Arts and was editor/consultant of the UARTS Poetry Review.  She has published her writing in Poetry\, The Pennsylvania Gazette\, the Musehouse Journal\, Intro\, The Interpreter\, Poems from the Heart: Poems about Adoption\, and Voices.  She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities\, The Leeway Foundation\, and the PCA.    \nKatie Sarah Zale teaches writing and works on Art for Justice programs in Arizona. Her first book\, The Art of Folding\, was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine. The collection Sometimes You Do Things (Aquarius Press\, Living Detroit Series) highlights the history of Detroit and celebrates its rebuilding. She lives in Tucson.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-featuring-five-poets/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221114T030358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T030358Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Ona Gritz
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with Ona Gritz\n\nTuesday December 6 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\nOna Gritz is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, children’s author\, and creative writing instructor. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Utne Reader\, Ploughshares\, Brevity\, and River Teeth\, and has been widely anthologized. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in Best American Essays\, a Best Life Story in Salon\, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project. Ona’s middle grade novel\, August Or Forever\, is forthcoming from Fitzroy Books in February.  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-phillycam-with-ona-gritz/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221204T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221114T010115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T161143Z
UID:18087-1670162400-1670162400@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event with International Poets
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event with Anuradha Bhowmik\, Fiona Bolger\, Rosaleen McDonagh\, Michelle Myers & Ewuare X. Osayande\n\nSunday December 4 @ 2PM EST — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-moqDsiHdZ-8fulshSjDrRRGm4piBqC \n  \nAnuradha Bhowmik\, Bangladeshi American\, Kundiman Fellow and AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Her work has appeared in POETRY\, the Sun\, Copper Nickel\, Pleiades\, Indiana Review\, and elsewhere. Brown Girl Chromatography: Poems – “Anuradha Bhowmik speaks for all the brown girls who ‘couldn’t have/crushes in fourth grade\,’ all of us who weren’t ‘white women/wearing lingerie in the glossy Macy’s ad.’ The speaker’s journey through the minefield of popular culture\, family responsibility\, and maturation into an unmapped womanhood is handled with deft precision.” —Allison Joseph\, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman  \nFiona Bolger is author of Love in the Original Language from Salmon Poetry\, 2022. She works as a mentor and creative facilitator between Ireland and India. Her other publications include A Compound of Words\, All the Worlds Between: An Anthology from Yoda Press Delhi and Geometry of Love Between the Elements and Triptych: Three Poets\, from Poetry Bus\, Arklow\, Ireland. She also works with Outlandish Theatre Platform.   \n  \nRosaleen McDonagh is a playwright\, performer\, columnist for The Irish Times and a member of Aosdána. Her plays include The Baby Doll Project\, She’s Not Mine\, Rings\, The Prettiest Proud Boy and Mainstream. Recent commissions were Walls and Windows for the Abbey Theatre and Contentious Spaces for the Project Arts Centre. Rosaleen holds a BA\, two MPhils from Trinity College and a PhD from Northumbria University. A board member of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner. Unsettled is her first book\, a collection of essays exploring racism\, ableism\, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community\, family and friendship.  \nMichelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. A founding member of Yellow Rage\, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Title Magazine\, Brevity\, and USA Today\, has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation\, Loft Literary Center\, Asian Arts Initiative\, and Dodge Poetry Program. Her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys and her poetry is featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.  \nEwuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, activist\, and publisher. The author of several books including\, Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka\, Osayande’s latest book of poems is entitled Black Phoenix Uprising. In 2013\, Osayande edited and published Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander\, a global anthology of social justice poetry that raised thousands of dollars for both justice campaigns. Osayande is the founding editor of The Poetariat\, an international journal of working-class poetry. Learn more about his work at Osayande.org.  \nJohn Lavin Host 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-with-international-poets/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221104T134540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T134540Z
UID:18059-1669834800-1669842000@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Event with Elliott batTzedek\, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers 
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading with Elliott batTzedek\, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 30 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdu-srjstH9bN8iOr3xoQ7a_AzzwN6Nbd \n  \nElliott batTzedek’s translation manuscript of “Dance of the Lunatic” by the Israeli Jewish lesbian writer Shez won the 2012 Robert Bly Translation prize. She is the events coordinator for Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, cofounder of QuillsEdge Press\, and founder of Poetry Business Manager. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals: American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Lambda Literary Online\, and Sinister Wisdom. She blogs about poetry and translation at thisfrenzy.com. \nGlen A. Mazis taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg\, retiring in 2020. He 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\, a chapbook\, The Body Is a Dancing Star\, and Bodies of Space and Time oks. He 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. \nMichelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. Appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam as a founding member of Yellow Rage\, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Title Magazine\, Brevity\, and USA Today. Her work also has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation\, Loft Literary Center\, Asian Arts Initiative\, and Dodge Poetry Program. Michelle currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Berrie Center\, and her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys. Michelle’s poetry is featured in the NY Times bestseller Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now as well as My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-with-elliott-battzedek-glen-a-mazis-michelle-myers/
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:20221123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221123T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221014T153503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T153503Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: David Acosta\, Chris Bullard\, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with David Acosta\, Chris Bullard\, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 23 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdOyhrD8vHdFWcWTkXfzrI94iaoui6QyV \n  \nDavid Acosta\, author of Miscellany\, is a well-known poet\, writer\, and activist whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He has served on a variety of committees and boards\, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The AIDS Law Project. As a founding member of both the Art Emergency Coalition and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (which went on to successfully sue the National Endowment for the Arts during the 90s culture wars.)  As a Latinx\, racially mixed\, indigenous\, gay man\, he continues to blend art and activism as he collaborates on countless projects throughout the city while producing his own art and writing. \nChris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia\, is author of Continued\, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler\, Muse/A Journal\, The Woven Tale\, Nimrod\, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.   \n  \nColin Morgan (known as Marc Moore in some literary circles) is the CEO of Night City Publishing\, a record label based in Philadelphia\, PA. Additionally\, they are the lead editor and founder of Parquet Poetry magazine\, a small literary and art journal also based in Philadelphia. Colin plays bass in the band Queen Mob and has been published worldwide in many elite verse and art journals\, but their most important work is the unseen text of whatever they are currently writing. Follow Night City Publishing on IG: @nightcitypublishing – Submit to Parquet Poetry on IG: @parquet.poetry \nMolly Russakoff has been living and writing in Philadelphia since 1979.  She was a poetics student and teaching assistant in the early days of Naropa University in Boulder Co.\, studying with many of the Beat\, Black Mountain and New York School poets.  She won a Pew Fellowship in 1993. Molly currently owns Molly’s Books & Records with her husband\, Joe Ankenbrand.  She will be reading from her recently completed novel manuscript\, Red Tape.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-david-acosta-chris-bullard-colin-morgan-molly-russakoff/
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:20221116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221012T144817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T144817Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Luke Stromberg's The Elephant's Mouth
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Luke Stromberg’s Debut Poetry Collection\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 16 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcofuutpz4tHtylEA7Zoqzz0WYEMBrGcYS0 \nThe Elephant’s Mouth\, Luke’s Debut Poetry Collection\, Years in the Making\n“Luke Stromberg is an autobiographical poet\, but instead of being confined to the past\, his best narratives deliver enough metaphoric lift to transmute them into poetry.  I’m remembering his shadow being “a movie on the wall;” tombstones as “baby teeth;” and days that “pile up like dishes in the sink.” The Elephant’s Mouth is a noteworthy debut.”  —Billy Collins (Former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling) \n  \nLuke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace\, The Hopkins Review\, The New Criterion\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Think Journal\, ONE ART\, Cleaver\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years\, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference\, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University. \nWITH: \n\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				John Wall Barger\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Luke Bauerlein\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Ernest Hilbert\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Z Murphy\n				\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Anne-Adele Wight\n				\n		\n\nJohn Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, ZYZZYVA\, The Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems\, Smog Mother\, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Luke Bauerlein grew up in SE PA and first met Luke Stromberg in an undergraduate poetry workshop at West Chester University. He co-founded the now extinct rock n roll band\, The Late Greats\, and his poems and essays have appeared in the NY Times\, Rattle\, BODY\, Unsplendid\, and elsewhere. Ernest Hilbert is the author of four collections of poetry\, Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan\, winner of the Poets’ Prize\, and Last One Out . His fifth book\, Storm Swimmer\, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and will appear in 2023. Z Murphy (she/they) is a multiracial multidisciplinary artist studying creative writing at the University of the Arts. Since she was little\, she’s valued the art of storytelling and proceeds to tell stories in whatever way she sees fit\, whether it be through writing\, performance\, song – Z remains constantly inspired to make new art. Z writes about race\, sex\, class\, mental health\, and about writing itself (how meta of them). She is currently a writer for the online magazine Nicki Swift\, a dog dad\, and a retired child. Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment\, The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult\, all from BlazeVOX. For four years she curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket. Her work has been published internationally in print and online and includes appearances in Luna Luna\, Apiary\, Bedfellows\, Oz Burp\, Have Your Chill\, and Read On 2. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-luke-strombergs-the-elephants-mouth/
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:20221113T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221012T135546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T135546Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event with Cheryl J. Fish\, Lisa Grunberger & Alison Lubar
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Presents\nStretching Forms: Poetry to Prose\n\nSunday November 13 @ 4PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucOusrjwqGdQvZiF1EPQIBDccZrOP4A_C \n  \nCheryl J. Fish is author of the debut novel Off the Yoga Mat\, the story of three characters coming of middle age. She is also the author of recent poetry collections\, Crater & Tower\, and The Sauna is Full of Maids. She is co-editor of the collection A Stranger in the Village :Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review\, Cheap Pop\, Spank the Carp\, Liars League\, Boog City and KGB Bar Lit. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Hanging Loose\, Maintenant\, Terrain\, Mom Egg Review\, New American Writing\, Reed\, Postcard poems\, Santa Monica Review\, ISLE and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World.  Fish has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com.  \nPushcart nominee\, Temple University Professor\, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her poetry books  I am dirty (Moonstone Press) and Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Shoah survivors. Her book\, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins) is currently being adapted as a musical. Her work is widely published and translated from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review. Almost Pregnant\, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is published by Smith Scripts. Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre and will soon be a short film.    \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary\, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices\, and sometimes even poetry\, to young people.  Their debut chapbook\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, is out now with Thirty West (May 2022); their second\, sweet euphemism\, is forthcoming with CLASH!\, an imprint of Mouthfeel Press\, in 2023. You can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-with-cheryl-j-fish-lisa-grunberger-alison-lubar/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221019T145442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T131040Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emerging Poets
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with New Voices: Emerging Poets\n\nSaturday November 12 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required – Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuduGqqzIiGdMlWS6MiZcP2t8f1F0h-zaD \n  \n Avik Belenje\, age 15\, has studied poetry at Poetry Power\, he has received the Silver Key from Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards and four First Place Awards from California Federation of Chaparral Poets\, Inc. \n  \n  \n  \nCydney Brown was the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. A Freshman at Northwestern University she has been writing poetry since 5th grade. She has been featured in The New York Times\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, 6abc\, Philadelphia Citizen\, and Fox29 and loves that there are no limitations to writing. Her poetry explore social justice\, self-image\, love\, and nature. Cydney won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop competition\, is the Recipient of The Romero Scholarship For Excellence In Spoken Word and is a Gold Award Lifetime Member Girl Scout who is active in improving her community and is the recipient of The Good Citizenship Award. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world. \nJules Hostetter is a poet from Pennsylvania. She currently studies creative writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her poems explore depression/anxiety\, love\, and sexuality. She loves collecting records\, roller skating\, and playing guitar. \n  \n  \n王潇/Evan Wang is the inaugural Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate from Pennsylvania. His work is forthcoming or has been published in VIBE\, Philadelphia Stories\, National Poetry Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. His work has been recognized by or featured at Wawa Welcome America\, the ruth weiss foundation\, Bleeding Soul Poetry\, and Society of Poetry.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-emerging-poets/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221011T220250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T220250Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event Featuring Five Poets
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Millicent Borges Accardi\, Margaret R. Sáraco\, MM Wittle\, Anne Harding Woodworth & R.G Ziemer\n\nThursday November 10 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lduGsqzkiHdeZ-LzSwvwEPghc5xYPGBgI \n  \nMillicent Borges Accardi\, a Portuguese-American poet\, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA)\, the California Arts Council\, Barbara Deming Foundation\, Canto Mundo and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle). \n  \nMargaret R. Sáraco grew up in an Italian-American extended family\, was awarded master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and in Mathematics\, which inform her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals\, has been featured at The Art and Poetry of Teaching\, Havdalah Café\, Gallery U\, Welcome the Sabbath Bride\, and others and has conducted workshops at Stockton Tour of Poetry\, Save our Schools\, Hudson Valley Writing Project\, the American Italian Historical Association\, Montclair State and New York Universities on writing\, teaching\, activism and music.   \nMM Wittle\, author of Reconstruction\, is a writer of all genres who is a high school and middle school teacher during the day\, a college professor at night\, and a book worm and writer on the weekends. Wittle’s play Family Guidance was selected for honorable mention at the 5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Workshop’s Playwriting Competition. The Education of Allie Rose was shortlisted in the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her work has appeared in Transient\, The Bond Street Review\, Free Flash Fiction\, The Fox Chase Review\, The Four Quarters\, Decades Review\, Emerging Literary Journal and others.   \nAnne Harding Woodworth is the author of eight books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her most recent book is Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (October 2022)\, a Literary Titan Silver Award book. Her book\, Trouble\, received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry. An excerpt from her chapbook\, The Last Gun\, won the 2016 COG Poetry Award\, judged by A. Van Jordan\, and was subsequently animated (https://vimeo.com/193842252). Anne is a member of the Poetry Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum.  \nR.G Ziemer was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago\, worked in the construction trades\, practiced genealogy and presently teaches writing at the College of DuPage. He is active with several writing groups and enjoys sharing prose and poetry at local reading venues and open mics. Ziemer’s novel the Ghost of Jamie McVay was published in 2019.  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-featuring-five-poets/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221010T145527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T175450Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Alexander Khan\, Claire Palmer\, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Alexander Khan\, Claire Palmer\, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 9 @ 7:30PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOurqT8tEtfqB8TkrAAoNrx3q7OUGbv8 \n  \nAlexander Khan is a creative writing student at the University of the Arts. As a queer person\, his writing focuses on the link between queerness\, mental health\, and family. He was first published in 3rd grade in a national book focused on poems about bullying.  \n  \n  \nClaire Palmer is a 21-year-old writer\, poet\, & philosopher based in Philadelphia. Born in Doylestown\, Pennsylvania\, she currently attends The University of the Arts as a senior in the Creative Writing program. Drawing from magical realism & pagan folklore\, her artistic style also sources inspiration from political history & dialogic language. Motifs of ancestry\, karma\, & free will often can be found in her work. Find Claire on Instagram @cklayre.  \n  \nJohn Tom Raczkowski is the Senior Editor and Coordinator for University of the Art’s annual magazine Underground Pool\, responsible for publishing student driven works as well as hosting events and open mics for students. He is also a consistent Review Writer for Publisher’s Weekly. He reads and writes poetry in his spare time. \n  \n  \nChina Rain is a writer and mixed media artist living in Philadelphia\, inhabiting a 24-year-old body in its last year at the Universtiy of the Arts.  \nShe likes long walks and feeding birds\, you can find their work in the newest issue of Prolit Magazine\, Prose online\, and elsewhere at @china_rainnn on instagram.  \n  \n  \nJohn Wall Barger\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-alexander-khan-claire-palmer-john-tom-raczkowski-china-rain/
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:20221106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221010T153212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T185723Z
UID:17947-1667743200-1667743200@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: The Future of America
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Presents:\nThe Future of America– VOTE\n\nSunday November 6 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsc-urrTwjG92Ddk8jG1I7lqkWuqO8ehGj \n  \n \nWhat is our future? Will we take the effort to vote on November 8?  Do we believe in Democracy or will we become an authoritarian state? 4 million students graduate high school each year and do not vote until they are 25. We would live in a different world if they voted. This may be the most important election in our lifetime. VOTE and urge other to VOTE. Do it with poetry\, Join us as poets reflect on the Future of America. \nJoin us a poets read their submissions. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-the-future-of-america/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221010T044114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T175533Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Gina Myers\, Alina Pleskova\, Warren Longmire
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Gina Myers\, Alina Pleskova\, and Warren Longmire\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 2 @ 7:30PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceqvqTIsGtHtpjemioTAOXaz6B_ZzVn6 \n  \n Gina Myers’s latest book\, Some of the Times\, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections\, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013)\, as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry\, she has published essays\, reviews\, and articles for a variety of publications. She lives in Philadelphia\, PA\, where she works in communications and co-edits the tiny with ebs and Cul-de-sac of Blood with Jeff T. Johnson.  \n  \nAlina Pleskova is fixing to become poet-in-residence of the astral realm. She is a Moscow-born\, Philadelphia-based poet & editor\, author of What Urge Will Save Us\, Toska. Alina is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change and Window of Opportunity grants; has hosted workshops\, events\, & panels\, is founder of the Cheburashka Collective (women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora)\, and co-edits bedfellows\, a literary magazine topically focused on sex\, desire\, & intimacy.   \n  \nWarren Longmire is a writer\, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine\, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He’s been published in journals including Prolit\, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication\, Open Source\, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press. His second\, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop is set to release in the winter of 2022 through Fonograf Editions.  \n  \nebs Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-gina-myers-alina-pleskova-warren-longmire/
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:20221101T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T183000
DTSTAMP:20260424T065448
CREATED:20221018T164954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T043040Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Interview & Reading
DESCRIPTION:2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series With Zina Bethea Dawson\, Jenny Pacanowski & J. C. Todd\n\nTuesday November 1 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\n  \nZina Bethea Dawson a served as a combat medic. She spent the majority of her adult life caring for others; fellow service members while on active duty and family upon separation from duty. From as early as she can recall\, creativity was interwoven into her life’s journey. Every form of textile artistry piques her interest to the point of formal training and execution. Whether it’s a quilt\, hand tooled leather accessory\, or a custom piece of jewelry\, seeing a smile is the elixir that energizes her passions. Give her a needle and thread; magic will happen. Joy is a mission for Zina as she uses humor in her written work with Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving\, where experiential expression is the medium of camaraderie and healing.   \nJenny Pacanowski is the Founder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving; a reintegration program that utilizes writing and performance to empower veterans to thrive in their daily life. She is also the program director of Poetic Theater Productions NYC Veteran Voices and the Associate Director of Lucid Body’s Impact theatre. Jenny believes that partnerships\, collaborations and empowerment through community and ritual storytelling are the key to reintegration for veterans and their families. She travels all over the country performing\, speaking\, facilitating workshops and inviting people to empower themselves from within their experiences.  \nJ. C. Todd was a Blue Star Mother between 2002-2012\, when three of her family members were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and she began to write her book of poems\, Beyond Repair\, (2021) a selection for the Able Muse Press Book Award. Other poetry collections include The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press\, 2018)\, a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award\, and What Space This Body (Wind Publications\, 2008). Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize and a ‘commended’ winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition: Poetry Society of the UK\, she holds fellowships from the Pew Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, and Bemis Center. Poems and interviews have appeared in the Baltimore Review\, The Night Heron Barks\, One Art\, The Paris Review\, and other journals. In 2023\, PDR Press will publish a collection of her new and selected poems in a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) edition. www.jc-todd.com  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-jenny-pacanowski-j-c-todd/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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