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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Vasiliki Argyris & William Lessard
DESCRIPTION:Vasiliki Argyris looks for the threads that bind history\, poetry\, and walking the earth. Her work can be found in Voicemail Poems\, Pamphilet\, and Works & Days. William Lessard writing has appeared in American Poetry Review\, McSweeney’s\, and others\, he is the Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-vasiliki-argyris-william-lessard/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Michael J. Ivory Jr.\, Matthew Kosinski\, & Mattie Phrances McDonald
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Michael J. Ivory Jr.\, Matthew Kosinski\, & Mattie Phrances McDonald\nWednesday July 1\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nMichael J. Ivory\, Jr. is a Worker of the Word — in other words\, a writer. A Miami\, FL-native\, he currently lives in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. As the queer son of Pentecostal preachers\, Michael lives out his sacred mission to affirm the inherent divinity of all people\, but most especially Black queer “outcasts” like himself. He does this through his writing\, which can be found on his Substack\, as well as in his work with O\, Miami Press\, Iansá Mag\, Duke Magazine\, and Oxford American. He is currently working on his debut novel. \nMatthew Kosinski is a poet\, socialist and occultist from Philadelphia. His books include Alone in the White Marble City (NDR\, 2020)\, Your Human Shape (Broken Sleep Books\, 2022) and Year of the Inverted Star (Broken Sleep Books\, 2026). \nMattie Phrances McDonald (they/she/bun) is an engineer\, musician\, and writer.  Along with their solo project Betty’s Eyes\, she is the guitarist/vocalist in Booklegger\, creates art and circuits for Electrofoods\, Ultd.\, and co-founded the queer- and trans-centered sandlot baseball team the Quaker City Cryptids.  Bun lives in their adoptive home of Philadelphia with two of her partners and two kitties.  Their work can be found at booklegger.bandcamp.com\, electrofoods.space\, and on instagram at @bettys.eyes and @cryptidsbaseball \nWarren Longmire Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-michael-j-ivory-jr-matthew-kosinski-mattie-phrances-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Freedom 250? - Virtual Poetry Event
DESCRIPTION:The United States is a federal republic whose people benefit from a vibrant political system\, a strong rule-of-law tradition\, robust freedoms of expression and religious belief\, and a wide array of other civil liberties. \nHowever\, in recent years its democratic institutions have suffered erosion\, as reflected in rising political polarization and extremism\, partisan pressure on the electoral process\, mistreatment and dysfunction in the criminal justice and immigration systems\, and growing disparities in wealth\, economic opportunity\, and political influence. \n  \nLink to Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f7cHnTsGSLGnHbzv4dA2jQ
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/sunday-july-5-2026-2pm-virtual-freedom-250/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam\, Claudia Gary\, & Mike Jurkovic
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 8\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE \nIndran Amirthanayagam is a poet\, editor\, publisher\, translator\, youtube host and diplomat.  He writes in English\, Spanish\, French\, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; has received fellowships from the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, The US/Mexico Fund for Culture and the Macdowell Colony. He is the 2025 Matwaala Poet of Honor. His first book The Elephants of Reckoning won the 1994 Paterson Poetry Prize in the United States and is the 2025 Poet of Honor for Matwaala and IFLAC’s 2022 World Poet/Poeta Mundial. Indran comments on poetry at indranmx.substack.com \nClaudia Gary’s new poetry book\, Time and Other Solvents\, is a story of healing. She lives near Washington DC and teaches workshops on Sonnets\, Villanelles\, Natural Meter\, Persona Poems\, Poetry vs. Trauma\, etc. at The Writer’s Center (writer.org). She is also the author of Humor Me and chapbooks\, and is an advisory editor for New Verse Review\, health/science writer\, visual artist\, and composer of tonal art songs and chamber music. \nMike Jurkovic is 2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. Little reportable income. Collections: Circling Planes\, Buckshot Reckoning\, mooncussers\, AmericanMental\,  2016 Pushcart nominee. President Calling All Poets Series. Co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series\, Rosendale Theatre\, Rosendale\, NY. CD reviews online All About Jazz and lightwoodpress.com  Host of NuJazzXcursions\, Mondays\, 9-11a WVKR-FM 91.3 Vassar College. He loves Emily most of all. \nLiz Allen Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-indran-amirthanayagam-claudia-gary-mike-jurkovic-2/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Painting in the Dark: An Artistic Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 11th\, 2026 – 4 to 7 pm \nCity Arts Salon\, 5838 Germantown Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA 19144 \nPainting in the Dark interrogates the hideousness of war\, addiction\, and delusion with the consolation concluding poet John Lavin’s final poem\, –but that’s all we have is each other. Illustrators Gregorio Torres\, III and Janelle Robinson have joined Lavin in mapping the extreme pain and pleasure inherent in this collection’s narrative arc: a journey from darkness to light. Just such solidarity is engrained in this book’s search within the darkness imposed  by a king’s tyranny (“Goya Under House Arrest”) and elaborated in erotic euphoria\, colonial oppression\, exile\, and erasure. John Lavin was Gregorio’s drama teacher and ten years after Greg’s graduation Lavin attended an exhibition of Torres and his partner\, Janelle Robinson’s art in New York (2023) where they began the conversation that inspired this collection.  Event will combine reading from Collection of Poems\, Musical Performance and Reflection.
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LOCATION:City Arts Salon\, 5838 Germantown Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19144\, United States
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