Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou
2022-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou
Live in Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link
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John Wall Barger is the author of four books of poetry: Pain-proof Men (2009); Hummingbird (2012), finalist for the Raymond Souster Award; The Book of Festus (2015), finalist for the J.M. Abraham Award; and The Mean Game (2019), finalist for The Phillip H. McMath Book Award. Resurrection Fail (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2021) is his fifth book. 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. (johnwallbarger.com)

Vasiliki Katsarou grew up Greek American in Jack Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Memento Tsunami, and a chapbook, Three Sea Stones. She is also co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems and Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems. Her poems have been published internationally, including in Japan, the U.K., Australia, Denmark, and in Greek translation. A Geraldine R. Dodge poet, independent curator, and sometime filmmaker, she is a teaching artist at New Jersey’s Hunterdon Art Museum. Her poetry is part of the upcoming art exhibition Invisible at ArtYard, the contemporary art center in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Serotonin
2022-01-29 02:00 - 16:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: Serotonin
On Zoom – Registration required – Zoom link:
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Serotonin is partnering with Moonstone Arts Center for a mental illness marathon poetry reading over Zoom. Neurodivergent readers from around the world will share their work on how they live with their mental illnesses. Readers include Sean Lynch, Raye Hendrix, Thomas Nuhfer, Kika Man, Cleo, Lemmy Ya’akova, Jerica Taylor, Alexandra Weiss, James Roach, Erica Abbott, Lexi Locket, Lauren Theresa, Claire Taylor, Maddi Crease, plus an open mic!
Serotonin seeks to be a safe haven for neurodivergent writers and readers. We publish poetry and short poetic prose on mental illness, neurodivergence, and suicide prevention. Due to lack of mental healthcare and general ignorance or discrimination, neurodivergent people are marginalized. We hope to help fight against that marginalization. Serotonin publishes literature by mentally ill people for mentally ill people. Our goal is to survive together.

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Anthony Palma and Brooke Palma
2022-02-01 18:30 - 20:30 | 699 Ranstead Street, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Anthony Palma and Brooke Palma
2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

Anthony Palma is the president of the Mad Poets Society and author of flashes of light from the deep. He holds a degree in English from Saint Joseph’s University, and a Masters from Arcadia University. His work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms. His readings include elements of performance and music as well as traditionally read poems. His work has appeared in Show Us Your Papers, Rue Scribe, Oddball Magazine, and Harbinger Asylum, among others. He teaches writing at several universities in the Greater Philadelphia Area. He resides in West Chester PA with his wife and family.

Brooke Palma is Vice-President, Treasurer and Blog Master of Mad Poets Society and host of Livin’ on Luck Poetry Series. She is author of Conversations Unfinished and has been published in The Mad Poets’ Review, Moonstone Arts, Toho Journal, and E-Verse Radio (online), and Unbearables: A Global Anthology. Brooke focus on the connections between culture and identity and finding beauty in the everyday.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, John Lavin, Elijah B. Pringle, III, Fióna Bolger
2022-02-02 15:00 - 17:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, John Lavin, Elijah B. Pringle, III, Fióna Bolger

VIRTUAL – Registration Required: Virtual – Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGprT8qGNcj0i5hXzXxbHwMGpIttrri

Neal Kosaly-Meyer is a Seattle-based composer and performer. As a member of Moonstone’s aTONEment community, Neal has joined John Lavin to coordinate a Free Jazz performance in Dublin of Finnegans Wake with Jazz players from the United States and Ireland in June 2022. Neal’s performances of Finnegans Wake have been presented to the International James Joyce Foundations Symposia in Belgium (2018) and Mexico City (2019).

John Lavin is a jazz percussionist, has taught English in Philadelphia public high schools and is an adjunct English professor at Saint Joseph’s University. He has taught the novels of James Joyce since living and working in Dublin, and he has performed in Jazz ensembles with Jo Jones at Chuck’s Composite in New York and with both Sonny Stitt and Eric Kloss during the 1970s. Currently Lavin is distilling his teaching and jazz improvisation experience into Blues Pedagogy: Educational Tales from the Teaching Life, a study of diverse learning styles in urban 21st Century contexts. He is co-facilitating the Finnegans Wake & Jazz project with Neal Kosaly-Meyer, anticipating a concert and panel in June 2022 in Dublin.

Elijah B. Pringle, III is a Philadelphia poet, lyric baritone, composer, actor, and artivist. Published globally he has appeared on Radio, Television & Dramatic Stage. He credits his true education to five generations of teachers. Mr. Pringle has recently worked with several jazz bands, sharing his trademark sound in Blues, Brazilian, and Reggae renditions of the standard American Jazz Book. He will join in recitation, composition, and improvisation of James Joyce’s innovative classic Finnegans Wake in June 2022.

Fióna Bolger is lending her voice to the Finnegans Wake Jazz revival by way of recitation and composition. Her first poetry collection, a compound of words was launched in 2019 by Yoda Press. Love in the Original Language is due out from Salmon Poetry in June 2022. She lives between Ireland and India. More at www.fionabolgerpoetry.com.

Moonstone Poetry Readings: Lake Angela and DJ
2022-02-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Readings: Lake Angela and DJ

Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required for Zoom – use this link:
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Lake Angela is a poet, author of Organblooms and Words for the Dead, choreographer, and dancer from Lake Erie who constantly studies and develops her methods of dance as language. She works with psychiatric patients on discovering the transformative properties of dance as a therapeutic and accessible nonverbal language. Lake Angela studied choreography, modern dance, ballet and flamenco and rumba flamenca. In Barcelona, she continued her professional training in contemporary, release, improv, ballet, kung fu, and capoeira. Lake Angela’s special interests involve the poetry and dance of medieval women mystics, the possibilities in and kinds of darknesses and silences, and expressions of colors, waters, and suffering, which she often explores in her poems and choreography.

DJ is relatively new to Philadelphia and a lifelong writer. Their poetry is straight forward with a confessional style and touches on a variety of topics ranging from Queer identity to spirituality. She started to dabble in performance poetry in 2016 and quickly fell in love with the sense community at open mic nights and poetry slams. DJ is currently working on their first chapbook and looks forward to becoming a published author. When not writing, you can find her hiking at Wissahickon, frequenting their favorite South Philly dive bars, or waxing philosophical about the state of the world.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei
2022-02-05 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei

Registration Required, Link:
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Lynda V. E. Crawford has lived in the US longer than her childhood home Barbados. Both ‘homes’ sway and punctuate her writing. She writes to sneak behind eyes, blow through ears, stretch voices like others dance words. Her work has appeared in The Galway Review, The Halcyone Literary Journal, The Bookends Review, and in anthologies by Spectrum Publishing, Los Angeles Poet Society, and Moonstone Arts Center. She also has work forthcoming in The Caribbean Writer in April 2022.

Hiram Larew constantly prowls for poems that surprise by dint of leaps, yelps, and pokes. His poems have appeared widely in journals, on the radio, in anthologies and newspapers, on public posters and in galleries. Author of three collections, organizer of The Poetry Poster Project, recipient of artist grants and purveyor of Poetry x Hunger, he facilitates diversity in poetry communities while serving on Poetry Boards and as Courtesy Faculty at four research universities. What Hiram Larew offers in this fifth collection is a grateful glisten of poems. Many were written as outdoor rambles during the 2020-21 pandemic. Others look back over a shoulder at what seems long ago. And some are simply puddles of ponder. But above and beyond all of that, with eyes that love sound and hearts that gleam, Larew’s Mud Ajar is an opening that’s not meant to end.
Yi Wei is a first-generation Chinese writer with a BA in Asian American Studies and English from Swarthmore College. She currently serves as the Assistant Flash Fiction Editor at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Yi has been awarded the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize and is the third-place winner for the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. Her work can be found in Palette Poetry, Lantern Review, and Crosswinds. She’s currently a Writer in the Public Schools fellow at NYU’s MFA in poetry.

New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press: RuNett Ebo, Nina Gadson, David Lawton, Charles Rammelkamp, Louisa Schnaithmann
2022-02-06 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press

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RuNett Ebo, author of Expressing Myself on Purpose, has performed all over the country, is contributing writer for Kwee, a Liberian magazine.

Nina Gadson, author of When I Was 16, realized that poetry is a part of her purpose, she collected these poems when she was 16, it is a time capsule into that period of her life.

David Lawton is the author of Inspirative – “rootedness in the accomplishments and frustrations of actors, musicians, poets and artists whose brushes with fame were as real and as raw as own anonymous struggles in life…” George Wallace.

Charles Rammelkamp author of Sparring Partners puts us in the ring with Fred, Flanagan, and a crowd of emotions, struggles, and complexities that most people must spar with at one time or another.

Louisa Schnaithmann, author of Plague Love, is the consulting editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Rose-Marie Athiley, Edythe Rodriguez, Basia Wilson
2022-02-08 19:00 - 20:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: Rose-Marie Athiley, Edythe Rodriguez, Basia Wilson
Tuesday February 8, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL
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Rose-Marie Athiley, is a published poet and essayist, a recent graduate of Hamline with a degree in English, moved to the U.S. in 2006 and found the art of pen and word through learning her third language, English.

Edythe Rodriguez is a Philly-based Afrikan Renaissance poet who studied Creative Writing and Africology at Temple University. She is a copywriter / poet / semi-evolved virgo / bustelo drinker / violent Scrabble player / non-violent Beyhive member / bears / beets / battlestar galactica

Basia Wilson holds a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Temple University, where she took courses such as Ecofeminist Poetics. She studied the intersection of psychogeography and poetry, culminating in a manuscript about her local Wegmans that forever altered how she understands store-brand crème brûlée ice cream and Yelp reviews. Open Reading follows

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Gabrielle Martin, Scott Sigl, Jonathon Todd
2022-02-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Virtual Poetry Reading: Gabrielle Martin, Scott Sigl, Jonathon Todd
Wednesday February 9, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Gabrielle Martin is the author of Gritty City, a poet living and working in West Philly, where they are currently attempting (maybe successfully) to grow tomatoes on their windowsill.

Scott Sigl is a musician, poet, and teacher in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area. He has represented the city of Philadelphia at the National Poetry Slam and Rowan University at the College National Slam.

Jonathon Todd is the author of Over/time, a poet, musician, and recovery specialist living in South Philadelphia. His work deals with observations mainly written between breaks, trying to find humanity outside of and within labor. Open Reading Follows

2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners: Charles Malone, Kristen Holt-Browning, Heather Lanier
2022-02-13 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners
Sunday February 13, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL
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First Place: Charles Malone, author of After an Eclipse of Moths: the Crewdson Poems
Charles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Honorable Mention: Kristen Holt-Browning author of The Only Animal Awake in the House
Kristen Holt-Browning is a freelance editor and writer. Her poems have been published in Sheila-na-Gig, Juxtaprose, Frontier Poetry, and Barrow Street’s 4×2 Project, among other publications.

Honorable Mention: Heather Lanier author of Erasing the Book of Pregnancy
Heather Lanier is the author of the memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, as well as two award-winning poetry chapbooks. Her poems have been published in journals including The Cincinnati Review, The Sun, and Mid-American Review.

Virtual Poetry Event: Deborah Fries, Peter F. Murphy, Alan Toltzis
2022-02-15 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Tuesday February 15, 2022 – 7pm -VIRTUAL
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Deborah Fries is a Philadelphia writer and printmaker whose chapbook, Having Visions Again, was the 2021 Keystone selection from Seven Kitchens Press. Her two full-length books of poetry, Various Modes of Departure, selected by Carolyn Forche, and The Bright Field of Everything, were published by Kore Press.

Peter F. Murphy is author of two poetry books: Maps of Three Continents and Underwater; his critical work includes three books on men and masculinity: Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By; Fictions of Masculinity; and Feminism and Masculinities. His essays and reviews have been published in various journals.

Alan Toltzis is the author of Mercy, Nature Lessons, 49 Aspects of Human Emotion, and The Last Commandment. His poems have appeared in numerous print and online publications including, Plainsong, Grey Sparrow, The Wax Paper, Black Bough Poetry, and Anthropocene Poetry. Open Reading Follows.

Readings from the Penn & Pencil Club
2022-02-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Readings from the Penn & Pencil Club
Wednesday February 16, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House, Penn & Pencil Club is a creative writing workshop for faculty and staff. From a variety of backgrounds, participants are writers of fiction, literary non-fiction, and poetry. We have among us several published writers, and the balance are hopeful. In our bi-monthly meetings, we are encouraging, but not shy, in our criticism and very supportive of one another’s writing. In addition to our critiquing sessions, we hold annual readings at the Writers House, take part in “Live at the Luellen Fletcher, Amy Miller, Holman Massey, Alexander O’Donnell, John Shea, Sam Smith, Susan Staggs, Wendy Washburn, and Linda White”

Honoring Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Winner of the 2021 Paz Poetry Prize: Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Carlos José Pérez Sámano, Dulce Ramirez
2022-02-19 17:00 - 19:00 | PA
Honoring Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Winner of the 2021 Paz Poetry Prize
Saturday February 19, 2022 – VIRTUAL
5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific – On Zoom
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Alejandro Pérez-Cortés is the author of Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed, winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; while others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima.

Carlos José Pérez Sámano is a writer and poet who has 4 published books in Mexico. His work has been featured in anthologies in Argentina, Spain, the United States, Italy, Spain, and India.

Dulce Ramirez directs Mighty Writers El Futuro, a Philly-based organization focused on teaching children to think clearly through the power of writing. This has given her the perfect opportunity to help other Latinos instill in their children the love for culture.

John Lavin Host – Question and Answer Period and Open Reading Follows

Readings from the 2021 Featured Poets Anthology
2022-02-20 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Readings from the 2021 Featured Poets Anthology
Sunday February 20, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL –
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2021 was Moonstone’s busiest year ever
With over 130 live and virtual events
Presenting over 300 Poets
Please join us
Not all poets will be reading

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Nicole Greaves and Amy Small-McKinney
2022-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading: Nicole Greaves and Amy Small-McKinney
Wednesday February 23, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpduisqjkjGtR_CB38zTyfRrxnOYrXoiOt
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Nicole Greaves’ poetry has appeared in numerous literary reviews and was awarded prizes by The Academy of American Poets and the Leeway Foundation. Nicole is a former poet laureate of Montgomery County. She teaches English and creative writing at the Crefeld School and her book, Having Witnessed the Illusion, is forthcoming with Glass Lyre Press.

Amy Small-McKinney’s third chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, written during Covid and her husband’s death, is forthcoming with Glass Lyre Press, 2022. For the 2020 virtual AWP, she co-moderated an interactive discussion, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief During Covid. Her second full-length collection, Walking Toward Cranes, won The Kithara Book Prize 2016 (Glass Lyre Press). Small-McKinney was the 2011 Montgomery County Poet Laureate. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, for example, Baltimore Review, Pedestal Magazine, Philadelphia Stories and SWWIM. Her book reviews have appeared in journals, such as Prairie Schooner and Matter, and her poems have been translated into Korean and Romanian. She resides in Philadelphia.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe
2022-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe

Friday February 25, 2022 – 7pm
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M. Nzadi Keita is the author of Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass. That book, a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Prize, is cited by David Blight in his prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. Migration Letters, forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2023, will feature poems that center Keita’s perspectives as a first-generation northerner. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications. She has received Leeway Foundation grants and a Pew Fellowship for poetry. Keita is a Professor of English at Ursinus College, where she teaches creative writing, American literature, and Africana Studies.

Aaren Perry’s new book is Shipping and Receiving, published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College, he recently edited a forthcoming 2022 collection of new poems by lamont b. steptoe. He co-edited with Dr. James Villarreal, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row, by Anthony Reid, out this month on Amazon. Perry runs Yeatts Perry Consulting, grants and donor management for health equity and social change nonprofits. Contact him for a two-book special: “Shipping and Receiving (Moonstone) and Open Fire (Whirlwind Press) mindfulpoetics@gmail.com includes shipping.

Lamont B. Steptoe is an award-winning poet, born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steptoe is a Vietnam veteran, photographer and founder of Whirlwind Press. He has published sixteen collections of poems and is winner of an American Book Award, a Pew fellow in the Arts, induction into the International Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center in Chicago, and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts awards. Steptoe’s work appears in over one hundred anthologies, the most recent being Waging Peace in Vietnam. Hismost recent titles are Crowns & Halos, Oracular Rumblings & Stilt Walking, Meditations in Congo Square and Beyond the White Stone Lions.

Open Reading follows

New Voices: Emerging Poets with Avik Belenje, Ryan Hiemenz, Vriddhi Vinay
2022-02-26 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
New Voices: Emerging Poets with Avik Belenje, Ryan Hiemenz, Vriddhi Vinay
Saturday February 26, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL –
Registration Required:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlde6urjgiE9afmUo3Ku3FO0NBWLhLZ7C3
New Voices: Emerging Poets – a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience.

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.

Ryan Hiemenz is author of Fearing Fiction, a Junior at Arcadia University where he is involved in writing and editing in various styles.

Vriddhi Vinay, of South Indian background interested in research into gender justice, post-colonial studies, and revolutionary South Asian histories. She loves the intersection of academia, erotica, and poetics that she represents in her work.

Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading Follows

Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes
2022-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes

Wednesday March 2, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom, Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
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Join us for a memorial open mic poetry reading for Sandra Turner-Barnes

Sandra Turner-Barnes of Lawnside — writer, arts administrator, and well-known poet — died Friday January 10, 2022 at the age of 74.
Turner-Barnes was former director of the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission. At the time of her passing, she served on the board of the Camden County Historical Society, often speaking publicly to adults and students about the history of enslaved peoples of the region.
A well-known poet, Turner-Barnes also led several poetry series in the area. For many years, she hosted a popular Poetry in the Park series at Hopkins House in Cooper River Park, which helped nurture the writing careers of numerous aspiring poets. Up until last month, she also hosted A Place in Time open-mic series at the historical society and The Poet’s House series at the IDEA Center for the Arts in Camden.
Together with her friend and protégé Brother Daoud Bey of Camden, Turner-Barnes for many years administered the Arts for Teens program at Rutgers-Camden, through her role as county cultural & heritage director.
Her poetry community often referred to her as the Cadillac Lady, a reference to one of her early poems and her love for the car.
From Tammy Paolino, Cherry Hill Courier-Post

Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022
2022-03-06 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022
Sunday March 6, 2022 – 2pm EST
Registration Required-Registration Link:
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Readings from our new anthology, International Women’s Day 2022
“Another world is not only possible,
she is on her way.
On a quiet day,
I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati Roy

Imagine a gender equal world.
A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination.
A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive.
A world where difference is valued and celebrated.

Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann, Nicole Liu, George Schaefer
2022-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann, Nicole Liu, George Schaefer
Wednesday March 9, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
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Lucia Herrmann is an artist and educator originally from Miami, FL who thinks a lot about her sinking city. She now lives in Philadelphia where she teaches 5th and 6th grade. Lucia has been published by APIARY, Defunkt Magazine, Impostor Poetry, Toho Journal, and has two elegies in O, Miami’s collection Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering. Poetry and performance are her passion and she believes art is the most effective means of initiating social change.

Nicole Liu (she/her) was born in Hong Kong, raised in Shenzhen, and came of age in Boston. In her poems and essays, she gravitates towards topics of miscommunication and censorship. She also likes to write about pesky suburban critters, like badgers and opossums. Nicole graduated magna cum laude from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in English and Chinese. She is currently applying to graduate school while working as a writer, writing instructor, and translator.

George Schaefer is a Philly born poet who started writing as a lonely teenager hoping to impress girls. It didn’t work but it left him plenty of time to hone his craft. 4 decades later, he still clings to the muse. He has recently published Thru Peripheral Vision, a collection of poems and Cannibalized Haibun, a collection of haibun.

Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey, Philip Dykhouse, Massimo Elijah
2022-03-16 07:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey, Philip Dykhouse, Massimo Elijah
Wednesday March 16, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street – and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link
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Kate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings are hard. Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction, she touches on issues relating to trauma, fat liberation, mental illness and sexuality. You can find more about her at https://www.katemcarey.com/

Philip Dykhouse released his debut chapbook Bury Me Here in 2020. His work has appeared in Moonstone Press, Soup Can Magazine, everseradio.com, Toho Journal, and Spiral Poetry. He was the featured reader for the Dead Bards of Philadelphia at the 2018 Philadelphia Poetry Festival. Find him on Facebook at Philip Dykhouse Poetry and on Instagram @philip_dykhouse_poetry

Massimo Elijah is a spoken word poet born and raised in Philadelphia. He loves how the arts can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together.

Sean Hanrahan Host, Open Reading Follows

New Voices: Aya Borish, Cydney Brown, Nikole Hood
2022-03-19 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
New Voices: Emerging Poets
Saturday March 19, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL –
Registration Required- Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudumhqTkqG9ZH4Mw6iNZnZRsITbFmHWo
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience.

Aya Borish is 14, in the 9th grade, and from Philadelphia. She has always been passionate about civil rights, feminism, and climate change and feel we can all change the world we just need to find our voice.

Cydney Brown (2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate), author of Daydreaming, is a Senior at Abington Friends School and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. She loves that there are no limitations to writing, her poetry explores the topics of social justice, self-image, love, and nature and she won first place in The National Hip Hop poetry competition and loves to perform spoken word. Cydney has been featured in The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, has recited her poetry at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Hall, Lincoln University and The Kelly’s Writers house. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world.

Nikole Hood is a 24-year-old English Creative Writing major at Arcadia University. It is her goal to tell her story through poetry and inspire others to share their stories in order to make the world a better place. She has been writing most of her life, but has chosen the concentration of poetry and cannot wait to build a strong voice behind her words.
Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading Follows

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Paul Muldoon
2022-03-22 18:30 - 20:30 | PA
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Tuesday March 22, 2022, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL – Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
699 Ranstead Street, Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.
Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004 and has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.”
Charles S. Carr, Host

Welcome To Philadelphia 2022
2022-03-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Welcome To Philadelphia 2022
Wednesday March 23, 2022 – 7pm – Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceqhqzgqGNf-ubdBlSr-KjldISeXsuRI
Marathon Poetry Reading from the Moonstone Anthology celebrating the 2022 AWP Conference
Hours of Poetry, Food & Drink at Fergie’s Pub
A Welcoming, TV-Free, Philly-inspired Irish Pub in the heart of Center City
Poetry from some of the many poets in Philadelphia for the AWP conference
Presented alphabetical order by last name – Remember that plans change and not everyone who signed up will be available to read

Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland
2022-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland
Tuesday March 29, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL
Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdqorD4qGd0ZSypQGzm70h7Zx6x9e5Ki
Ben Hyland, author of Shelter in Place, has poetry is collected in three chapbooks, all under his birth name (Ben Heins): The Empathy Thief, Cut Me Free, and Greatest Hits & B-Sides. Ben’s individual poems have appeared in journals such as Hawai’i-Pacific Review, Penumbra, and The Meadow. As a career coach, Ben has helped hundreds of jobseekers find employment. Connect with Ben and follow his work at benhylandlives.com.

Deborah Bayer is a retired Infectious Disease doctor and former cancer patient from Atlantic City, NJ. Her chapbook, Rope Made of Bandages, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2023. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. She is pursuing a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University.

Shelley Cohen has been writing poetry since her retirement from the world of work when she exchanged a career in grant writing for the craft of poetry. Along with the other featured readers, she has ties to the South Jersey poetry scene and frequently uses images from the Shore to inspire her work.

Barbara Daniels’ Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has recently been accepted by Permafrost, Westchester Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Coachella Review. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the most recent in 2020.

Cole Eubanks is a retired teacher from the Philadelphia and Atlantic City School Districts. Cole has conducted three workshops for Stockton University’s Teen Arts Festival and has been the featured poet for the Sovereign Avenue Black History Jazz Celebration. In 2010, he won the Literacy Volunteers of America in Atlantic County’s Poet of the Year contest. Cole’s work can be found in Poet’s against War, Inferno No Boundaries, Apiary, Stray Cat, and E Pluribus Unum.

Jacalyn Shelley has been published in several journals including Sugar House Review, Dunes Review, Main Street Rag, and Barely South. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies most recently including Moonstone’s anthologies The Virus and Protest 2021. She is the recipient of three Pushcart nominations.

Live Poetry Reading: Mac Chandler, Jules Hostetter, Z Murphy
2022-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Reading: Mac Chandler, Jules Hostetter, Z Murphy

Wednesday March 30, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-GgqTwsHtR1CaWU3y2Sqixd4Z7BQtqK

Mac Chandler is a junior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review, HASH Magazine, and High Shelf Press issue XXXIX. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can find more of her work on her instagram, @frillysox

Jules Hostetter is a poet who is studying creative writing at The University of the Arts. She will be published in the school literary magazine, Underground Pool, in Spring 2022.”

Z Murphy aka “The Zany Thing” is a multiracial multimedia artist from central Jersey. Z identifies as a storyteller, sharing her art in whatever medium she dims fit. So whether it be performance, the written word, visual art, etc, she takes it upon herself to share the stories she needs to tell. She is currently a Creative Writing Major at the University of the Arts and has been published in different literary magazines. She co-hosts the country’s longest-running queer open mic Out of the Box. Z can be reached at zmurphy@uarts.edu for information regarding her work and information regarding her open mic.

John Wall Barger Host – Open Reading

Tribute to Rosemary Cappello
2022-04-10 14:00 - 16:00 | PA
Sunday April 10, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – – registration required at
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-CgrD8uH9ZLWJTWV627rAArWkH5IjA0
Tribute to Rosemary Cappello
Poet, Writer, Watercolorist, Editor of “Philadelphia Poets“

Rosemary Cappello is a poet, painter, prose writer, community organizer, and editor whose work has appeared in such venues as Voices in Italian Americana, Poet Lore, Iconoclast, Avanti Popolo, Sweet Lemons 2, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Poetry Ink, and Autumn Sky, to name a few. She is the author of Wonderful Disaster, The Habit of Wishing (with Ann Menebroker and Joan Jobe Smith); The Sid Poems; and San Paride, named for the patron saint of Teano, Italy, her father, John Petracca’s native town.
“I am passionate about many things. Poetry heads the list, and I’ve spent a large portion of my life reading poetry, writing it, and presenting it to the public. However, it’s not just my own poetry that I promote, but that of many, many others. I am passionate about editing and put a great deal of thought into the publication of “Philadelphia Poets”: reading submissions, making decisions as to which poems merit publication and which poems do not. Approximately sixty poets are published in each issue of “Philadelphia Poets.”
Not All Contributors Will Be Reading

Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee
2022-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuCgqzIuH9yFuMAp-FO6iL9rBOqligPl

D. Ehrhart began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing ever since. Eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans (1972) and 24 books have followed. His Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War (revised) is due shortly. Exclusively a poet until he was almost 30, he has since written and published a wide variety of nonfiction prose from 400-word newspaper commentaries to 40-page scholarly essays to 400-page personal narratives. The influence of Ehrhart’s encounter with the Vietnam War can readily be seen in his writing, but though he is known primarily as a “Vietnam War poet,” in fact his subject matter ranges widely. He has written essays and articles on such topics as radio disc jockeys, tugboats on the Delaware River, the Internal Revenue Service, and a variety of modern and contemporary poets from William Wantling to Daniel Hoffman. His wife and daughter are major sources of inspiration for his poetry. His poems also reflect his respect for nature, his love of friends, his active engagement with the world around him, and his consternation at the human condition.
Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair Creatures of an Hour, and Imaginarium. She is the translator, from the Spanish, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Rattle, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com

Amber Renee, she/her, is a chronic writer from Bucks County, PA. Known to mix mediums, Amber self-published a book Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode in 2016, shortly before its musical counterpart released on SoundCloud. In January 2020 she put out a Poetry Picture book i feel like i’m nothing available online. During the pandemic lockdown, Amber used her time to create tracks she calls “Poetry Songs.” As well, she spent time as an editor for Serotonin Poetry; a journal of mental health by poets with mental illness. 2022 saw her first traditionally published book In memory energy by Moonstone publishing. Find her on social media @amberreneepoet

Open Reading Follows

New Voices: Maura Gallagher, Isabella Piacentino, Vriddhi Vinay
2022-04-16 14:00 - 17:00 | PA
Saturday April 16, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – New Voices: Emerging Poets
Registration Required, Registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOCrrTgpH9eHzx8FFy7kTWkpF7osbsal
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25.

Maura Gallagher, a freshman at Villa Maria Academy High School, where she contributes to the school literary magazine.

Isabella Piacentino, from South Philadelphia, studying to be a high school English teacher. When she is not writing poetry, she is arguing with her conservative family members about.

Vriddhi Vinay, is a poet of South Indian background, who loves the intersection of academia, erotica, and poetics that she represents in her work. Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event: International Haiku Day
2022-04-17 16:00 - 17:00 | PA
Sunday April 17, 2pm – VIRTUAL – International Haiku Day
Registration Required, Registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdOCsqzkjGtNEuH75LhkFaTTLV7PkKZyV

The old pond, A frog jumps in, Plop!
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) – Translated by Allan Watts
The Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku
“Haiku is an important form of creative expression because it distills language down to the essentials: observation, interpretation, and communication. It asks both the reader and the writer to look and search inward and outward.” Sean Lynch, Program Director of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association and Writers House in Camden, NJ.
Reading from the contributors to Haiku 2022
