Moonstone Arts Center

Poetry Readings by Courtney Bambrick, Micheal Angelo Abreu, Aja Beech, Rhianna Searle, and Olga Livshin - LIVE
2025-06-08 14:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Courtney Bambrick author of World Without was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories 2010-2024. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. Her own poems appear in Landlocked Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Thimble, Invisible City, and more.
Michael Angelo Abreu, author of Gemini, is a leaf. He takes frequent walks through the Wissahickon woods, musing about life and its many particulars, such as love, happiness, suffering, and spiritual growth. Aja Beech, author of Blood/Magic, is an artist, author, and organizer who uses her art to address systemic issues related to equity for people of all abilities. Rhianna Searle, author of Hope is Shades of Purple, is the 2023 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year. She is 20-years-old and currently attends Haverford College. Olga Livshin, author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman and the co-translator of Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska, grew up in Ukraine and Russia and came to the US as a teenager.

S/He Speaks 3: Voices of Women and Trans Folx
2025-06-07 13:00 - 17:00 | The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Women, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7, 2025. The anthology will contain poetry, essays and stories by writers who are either women, trans or non-binary identified.

S/He Speaks 3: Voices of Women and Trans Folx - LIVE
2025-06-07 13:00 - 16:00 | The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States

Poets From Around the World - LIVE
2025-06-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Asia – Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso is an architect, artist, and activist was born in Jakarta.Western Europe – Fióna Bolger is a poet, mentor, creative facilitator from Ireland. Middle East – Faleeha Hassan was born and raised in Najaf, Iraq, she was the first woman in Najaf to publish a book of. Eastern Europe – Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia based educator, writer, poet, translator, architect, born in Poland.
Caribbean – Carole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer, cultural worker, and performer from the East Coast of the United States.

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series - Live Broadcast
2025-06-03 18:30 - 20:00 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAMCan be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia.
Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet, mentor and creative facilitator, author of Love in the Original Language and a compound of word, co-editor of KIN: Anthology of Roma, Traveller and Nomadic Women’s Writing. Her facilitation and creative practice are polyvocal, plurilingual and co-operative. She welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing, poetry making spaces. Charles S. Carr, Host

A Mamafesta for Hearts and Minds Workshop - LIVE
2025-06-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Sueño Restaurant, 114 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
In the circle of all those who have struggled in their bedrooms or in the boardroom, in the courtroom or in the open fields, who have bellowed songs of endurance and stomped their feet in joyful defiance for brighter futures, Carole Metellus and Fióna Bolger invite us to renew our mandate to struggle and joy. Participants are invited to bring their words of resistance and to pen their sustenance to self, to community, and to nature that calls them home.We will share our ideas, listen to the words of the wise ones, and craft our mamafestas for a healing existence in these times of human distress. We hope you can join us, facilitated by:
Carole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer, cultural worker long-time activist starting with Indigenous rights, to Women’s, GLBTQ, immigration, and peace and justice issues, she manifests her passion currently in her writing. Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet, mentor and creative facilitatorShe welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing, poetry making spaces. See also: A. Stepien, Migrant Voices in the Plurilingual Poetry and Creative Practice of Fióna Bolger. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 2024, Vol. 21, No. 2.
Free and open to Everyone

Philly Lingo: Speaking Our Tongues, Sharp and Sweet Workshop
2025-06-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Come and join us in a plurilingual workshop
Where all the languages in your head are welcome. We will listen to each other, share words and ideas, read and make poems. This workshop will explore the crossing of borders both linguistic and political and the spaces between, rooted in a trauma informed, anti-racist pedagogy and will be facilitated by:
Carole Metellus is a Haitian-American writer, cultural worker long-time activist starting with Indigenous rights, to Women’s, GLBTQ, immigration, and peace and justice issues, she manifests her passion currently in her writing. Fióna Bolger is an Irish poet, mentor and creative facilitator, author of Love in the Original Language and a compound of word. Her facilitation and creative practice are polyvocal, plurilingual and co-operative. She welcomes all languages and works to create language sharing, poetry making spaces. Free and open to Everyone

Poetry Reading by Love McTiernan, Myles Matunis, Adiah Siler
2025-05-28 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Love McTiernan feels an obsession with the natural world and thus tends to write about clouds, trees, and Earth’s other unknown beasts.
Myles Matunis work has been published by Expat Press and the Bitchin Kitsch, featured on public radio, and nominated for the Best of the Net.
Adiah Siler is an east coaster through and through and so excited to be back in Philly for the show. Mac Chandler Host, Open Reading Follows

Book launch for Jane-Rebecca Cannarella's Long Island Sad Poems(Serotonin Press)
2025-05-25 17:00 | Sueño Restaurant, 114 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017.
Krystle Griffin is an Aquarian alien who emerged from the depths of the Delaware River. A writer, actor, artist, and Swiss army knife of all trades, trying to spin brain bees and nightmares into something shiny. Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment, The Age of Greenhouses, Opera House Arterial, and Sidestep Catapult. Sean Lynch Host – Open Reading Follows

Support Ukraine
2025-05-25 14:00 - 17:00 | virtual
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified over 12,600 civilian deaths as of January 2025. The war has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, as thousands of Ukrainians were internally displaced or fled abroad. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million have fled the country, creating Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II.
Join as poets respond!

29th Annual Poetry Ink: Virtual Reading
2025-05-19 19:00 | PA
29th Annual Poetry Ink
We want everyone: 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 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order
Monday May 19, 2025 – No matter where you live, please join us virtually
VIRTUAL at 7:00pm EDT on Zoom

29th Annual Poetry Ink: LIVE at the Rotunda
2025-05-18 14:00 | The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
29th Annual Poetry Ink
We want everyone: 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 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order
Sunday May 18, 2025 – If you live near Philadelphia please join us live
LIVE at 2:00pm EDT

New Voices: Virtual Reading on Zoom
2025-05-17 14:00 | PA
New Voices: Spring 2025
A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.
Join us as contributors read their poems
Saturday May 17th, 2025 – No matter where you live, please join us virtually
VIRTUAL at 2pm EDT on Zoom

New Voices: Live at Parkway Central Library
2025-05-15 17:30 | Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St
New Voices: Spring 2025
A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.
Join us as contributors read their poems
Thursday May 15th, 2025 – If you live near Philadelphia please join us live
LIVE at 5:30 EDT – Central Library, 1901 Vine St.

Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W.D. Ehrhart, Jack Miller
2025-05-14 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley Butler’s Grave. Jack Miller, author of Habit: Seven Decades of Poems is a former English teacher who retired after a long career at Ocean City High School. Open Reading Follows

2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners
2025-05-11 14:00 | PA
Sunday May 11, 2025 – 2:00 pm – VIRTUAL On Zoom – 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VJprZxhkRxGtL6tgxl7bkA
First Prize – Partridge Boswell, author of Heckler, poems appear in Poetry, American Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas
Honorable Mentions
Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philadelphia-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review).
Dayle Olson, author of From the Dead Letter Department, was a Northwest Voices guest writer at Lower Columbia College and winner of the Oregon Poetry Association’s first prize for prose in 2024.
Martha Brenckle, author of Inside a Snow Globe is Professor at the University of Central Florida in the Writing and Rhetoric Department and an affiliated faculty in Women and Gender Studies and Text and Technologies, a transdisciplinary PhD Program.
Jacqueline Jewell, author of Lady Arab, is a poet, college professor, EMMY Award-winning journalist, mother, and activist. A Philadelphia area native and proud daughter of an immigrant, Jacqueline uses her poetry to amplify underrepresented and discounted voices.
Host & Judge – Nathalie Anderson is a poet and librettist, who manages the lit-philly listserv for literary events in the Philadelphia area. She has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she served as a Professor of English Literature, and directed the Program in Creative Writing

Live Poetry: Grace Bauer, Majorie Maddox, Amy Small-McKinney
2025-05-07 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday May 7, 2025 — 7:00 pm – LIVE
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Grace Bauer is a Philadelphia-based poet who has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press).
Marjorie Maddox is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University as well as an author who has published 17 collections of poetry among other works.
Amy Small-McKinney is the author of two full-length books and three chapbooks. Her newest chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, was published by Glass Lyre Press (April,2022). She resides in Philadelphia.
Larry Robin, Host – Open Reading Follows

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series
2025-05-06 18:30 - 19:30 | PA
Tuesday May 6, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast
On the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 – Philly
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
David 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. Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W.D. Ehrhart, Jack Miller
2025-05-05 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

World Press Freedom Day
2025-05-04 00:00 - 23:59 | Virtual
Sunday May 4, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day
The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in Windhoek in 1991. Send us a poem.

Live Poetry: Thomas Devaney, Sean Lynch, and Kim Gek Lin Short
2025-04-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 23, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Thomas Devaney is a poet, facilitator, educator and author of Getting to Philadelphia and You Are the Battery. His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019.
Sean Lynch, author of five, has been the editor of various magazines, journals, anthologies, and books, and is the Founding Editor of Serotonin Press.
Kim Gek Lin Short is the author of China Cowboy and The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits. Her poems and stories appear in numerous anthologies. With Ryan Eckes, she runs Radiator Press.
Anne-Adele Wight Hosts, Open Reading Follows

International Haiku Poetry Day
2025-04-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Sunday April 20, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0vQ-qLRCTqaki87Hoxes8A
International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month (April). According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second with seven and the third with five.

Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Peter Baroth, Julia Gwiazdowski, and George Schaefer
2025-04-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 16, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE
Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street
E. Lynn Alexander is an artist, poet, and “crazy cat lady” from the Lehigh Valley. She is a partnering artist and writer in the Perspectives: Art on Environment project at the Nurture Nature Center.
Peter Baroth, author of Long Green and Lost Autograph is a writer, artist, and musician. He has been published in Philadelphia Poets, Red Fez, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Apiary, and others.
Julia Gwiazdowski is a poet, musician, zine maker, and the resident Sappho of Philadelphia, author of 31 Days of Venus Aphrodite, illustrated and formatted by dear friend and collaborator, Jesse Arbor.
George Schaefer is a Philly born poet, philosopher and prankster. He started writing over 4 decades ago in an attempt to make some sense of this crazy world. All these years later, he’s as confused as ever but still clinging to the belief that the word can lead to wisdom.
Sean Hanrahan Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky's PARALLAX
2025-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147, United States
April 12, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE
Live at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street
Join us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX
Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence, Kolchinsky struggles to process the war unfolding far away, on the same soil where so many of her ancestors perished during the Holocaust. Julia Kolchinsky is the author of PARALLAX, 40, Don’t Touch the Bones, and The Many Names for Mother.
Julia will be joined by these terrific poets: Sarah Browning, Steven Kleinman, Olgq Livshin, and Artress Bethany White

Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Krystle Griffin, and Anne-Adele Wight
2025-04-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 9, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Join us for the Book Launch of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (Serotonin Press)
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket. She will be joined by:
Krystle Griffin is a writer, actor, artist, and Swiss army knife of all trades, trying to spin brain bees and nightmares into something shiny.
Anne-Adele Wight is the author four books of poetry. Her work has appeared in American Writing, Philadelphia Poets, Tabula Rasa, Shrike, Mad Poets Review, Philadelphia Writers’ Conference Anthology, and The Dariens.
Sean Lynch Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Live Broadcast: Grady Chambers
2025-04-08 18:30 - 20:30 | virtual
Tuesday April 8, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast
Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia.
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Grady Chambers is the author of the novel Great Disasters and the poetry collection North American Stadiums, selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories can be found in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, The Sun, Joyland, Image, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Virtual: Featured Poets 2024
2025-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
Monday, April 7th — 2pm
VIRTUAL – 2024 Featured Poets
On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lfcdsIFeTdGAdAm0v0FnkQ
In 2024, Moonstone Arts Center hosted almost 100 events with nearly 200 poets, both local and international. 75 of those featured poets contributed to this anthology and will read with us again.
Buy the Featured Poets 2024 anthology here.
Featured Poets 2024
(not all poets will be reading, some will also read at the live event)

Liz Abrams-MorleyNathalie Anderson
Katherine Antarikso
Cynthia Arrieu-King
Madeline Artenberg
Subhaga Crystal Bacon
Fran Baird
Elliott batTzedek
Herman Beavers
Sarah Browning
Chris Bullard
Steve Burke
L.M. Camiolo
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Charles S. Carr
Sydney CoffinCathleen Cohen
Bernard Collins
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey
Jessica Cuello
Raheem Curry
Eileen D’Angelo
Guy D’Annolfo
Thomas Devaney
John DiMenna
Susan DIPronio
David Eberhardt
WD Ehrhart
Michael Franz
Leonard Gontarek

Sean HanrahanFaleeha Hassan
William Hazard
Ditta Baron Hoeber
Randi Hoffman
Rachael Ikins
Jack Israel
Stephen Jones
Linda Kleinbub
Jonathan Koven
Matt Lake
Lynn Levin
Elliott Levin
M.J. Liebler
Olga Livshin

Jennifer MaloneyEmiliano Martin
Julianna May
Chris McCreary
Matt McGarvey
Alexandra McIntosh
Pat McLean-Smith
Diane McManus
C.O. MOED
Marjorie Moorhead
Michelle Myers
Allayna Nofs
Am(i)lia Pikovsky
g emil reutter
Patrick Rodgers

Zack RogowLauren Russell
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri
Hayden Saunier
Clinton Smith
Juniper Sweeney
Mary Tarantini
Alan Toltzis
Peter Webb
Theresa Werba
Daniel Williams
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Samantha Wright
Monika Wysong
Robert Zaller

Live Reading: Featured Poets 2024
2025-04-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Sunday April 6, 2025 – 2pm EDT
LIVE – 2024 Featured Poets
Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street
On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_t25rgq-TDyw9s-2xGxuCw
In 2024, Moonstone Arts Center hosted almost 100 events with nearly 200 poets, both local and international. 75 of those featured poets contributed to this anthology and will read with us again.
Buy the Featured Poets 2024 anthology here.
Featured Poets 2024
(not all poets will be reading, some will also read at the virtual event)

Liz Abrams-Morley
Nathalie Anderson
Katherine Antarikso
Cynthia Arrieu-King
Madeline Artenberg
Subhaga Crystal Bacon
Fran Baird
Elliott batTzedek
Herman Beavers
Sarah Browning
Chris Bullard
Steve Burke
L.M. Camiolo
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Charles S. Carr

Sydney Coffin
Cathleen Cohen
Bernard Collins
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey
Jessica Cuello
Raheem Curry
Eileen D’Angelo
Guy D’Annolfo
Thomas Devaney
John DiMenna
Susan DIPronio
David Eberhardt
WD Ehrhart
Michael Franz
Leonard Gontarek

Sean Hanrahan
Faleeha Hassan
William Hazard
Ditta Baron Hoeber
Randi Hoffman
Rachael Ikins
Jack Israel
Stephen Jones
Linda Kleinbub
Jonathan Koven
Matt Lake
Lynn Levin
Elliott Levin
M.J. Liebler
Olga Livshin

Jennifer Maloney
Emiliano Martin
Julianna May
Chris McCreary
Matt McGarvey
Alexandra McIntosh
Pat McLean-Smith
Diane McManus
C.O. MOED
Marjorie Moorhead
Michelle Myers
Allayna Nofs
Am(i)lia Pikovsky
g emil reutter
Patrick Rodgers

Zack Rogow
Lauren Russell
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri
Hayden Saunier
Clinton Smith
Juniper Sweeney
Mary Tarantini
Alan Toltzis
Peter Webb
Theresa Werba
Daniel Williams
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Samantha Wright
Monika Wysong
Robert Zaller

Live Poetry: Courtney Bambrick, Caroline M. Mar, Hayden Saunier, and Robert Zaller
2025-04-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 2, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE
Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street
On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMJG5oarQqGAkXCjjv6H6A
Courtney Bambrick, author of World Without, teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls, was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories.

Caroline M. Mar, author of Water Guest, Special Education, and Dream of the Lake, a member of Rabble Collective, and serves on the board of Friends of Writers.

Hayden Saunier is the author of six poetry collections including her new book, Wheel, awards include a Pushcart Prize, Pablo Neruda Award, and Rattle Poetry Prize.

Robert 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.

Anthology Reading: Chaos, Crises, Conflict
2025-03-31 19:00 - 21:00 | virtual
Monday March 31, 2025 – 7pmEST – Chaos, Crises, Conflict Anthology Reading – VIRTUAL
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/o5aORNAuQH6qAzaYCOI-Yg
In a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict, how can we reframe, heal, and continue to live in the midst of destruction, chaos, and loss? We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is our empathy? How do we reconcile? How do we survive? Poets Respond
