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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Leeway Foundation Poets
DESCRIPTION:Live at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom. \nNzadi Keita’s new poetry collection\, Migration Letters\, centers her upbringing in Black working-class Philadelphia. Pat McLean-Smith is a female word artist dedicated to the writing\, reciting and powerful performance of poetry. Debra Powell-Wright has been a performance poet for the past 25+ years and has been published in numerous anthologies\, including a tribute to the legacy of Nina Simone. Nikki Powerhouse uses performance and literary art to create a space for collective healing and transformation within communities. \nLink for Zoom:
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-leeway-foundation-poets/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: 2024 Chapbook Reading Contest
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Virtual Poetry on Zoom! \n  \nGuy D’Annolfo\, winner\, poems have been published by Mantis (2024)\, Schuylkill Valley Journal (2023)\, Paperbark (2023)\, and Chestnut Review (2022). When not at work\, or kindling a love of Natural History with his son\, or accidentally disrupting peace in a Satipaṭṭhāna class\, he’s likely to be found reading and writing. \nSheleen McElhinney\, runner-up\, is a poet\, baker\, robot maker living in Bucks County\, Pennsylvania\, with her family. Her work has appeared in Whiskey Island Magazine and Dogzplot. Her debut book\, Every Little Vanishing\, will be released this October with Write Bloody Publishing. \nFinalists \nCathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. A painter and teacher\, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell\, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia. Cathleen holds a PhD in Special Education has led various workshops and classes on poetry\, art and literacy. Her writing appears in journals\, anthologies and three collections of poetry. Cathleen received the Interfaith Relations Award  and the Public Service Award . \nJohn DiMenna was released from federal prison in May 2020. Since then\, he has completed a collection of prose poems titled A DIFFERENT KIND OF HELL\, a hybrid form of memoir IN SEARCH OF MYSELF\, and is currently writing a long-form memoir titled WHITE COLLAR ELEGY. Selections from the above have been published in several literary journals. He resides on the east coast of Florida with his wife of fifty-two years and writes full-time. \nTyler Dunston is a poet\, visual artist\, and PhD candidate at the University of Michigan studying literature. He received his MFA in poetry from Boston University\, and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Narrative\, Nimrod International\, Raleigh Review\, and elsewhere. \nAlexandra McIntosh\, author of Bowlfuls of Blue\, lives and writes in Kentucky\, her favorite place on Earth. Her writing explores memory\, both personal and communal\, and its connection to the natural world. In August of 2019\, she received her MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University as well as her MA in English from Northern Kentucky University. She is currently teaching college English and working on her next book: a memoir about family stories and the mental landscapes they inhabit. \nLynn Levin\, Judge and Host\, is a poet and writer\, author of nine books\, teaches writing and literature at Drexel University and lives in Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. \n  \nRegister for Zoom!
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-2024-chapbook-reading-contest/
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Save Chinatown Anthology Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Independence Library and on Zoom! \nFor 150 years\, Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been the cultural heart of Philly’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities\, and our community is worth fighting for. Chinatown has been the place where we share community\, culture\, and language. It is where generations of immigrants have found home. It is where folks who don’t speak English can easily navigate and find community\, and at a time of rising anti-Asian hate\, Chinatown is where we are safe. Chinatown is one of the few remaining communities of color and low-income communities in Center City\, and one of few authentic Chinatowns left in the country. The Save Chinatown Coalition includes: Pennsylvania United Chinese Coalition\, Philadelphia Chinatown Dragon Boat Team\, Asian Americans United\, Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School\, Chinese Restaurant Association of Greater Philadelphia\, Concerned Citizens of Chinatown Association\, Philadelphia Suns\, and Asian Arts Initiative. Join us as people respond in poetry to the fight to preserve neighborhoods\, preserve culture\, and against displacement or gentrification \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-save-chinatown-anthology-reading/
LOCATION:Independence Library\, 18 S. 7th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Warren C. Longmire\, Kirwya Sutherland
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nWarren C. Longmire\, author of Bird/Diz\,  is an uncle\, writer\, performer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. Kirwyn Sutherland makes poems centering the black experience in America\, whose work has been published in American Poetry Review\, APIARY Magazine\, FOLDER\, The Wanderer and elsewhere. \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-warren-c-longmire-kirwya-sutherland/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: International Haiku Day
DESCRIPTION:International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month. \nAccording 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. Write us a Haiku. \n“Haiku are short imagistic poems about things that make the reader feel connected to nature.” \n— William J. Higginson (1938-2008)\, in his essay “Guidelines for Writing Haiku in English.” \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-international-haiku-day/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Matt Lake\, Jon Lawrence\, Hannah McDonald
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nMatt Lake is frankly baffled\, he began writing and editing books about folklore\, monsters\, and dark history–including his best-known book Weird Pennsylvania. Jon Lawrence poetry and reviews have been published in Newfound\, American Writers Review\, The Bangalore Review\, and others. Hannah McDonald is a writer\, poet\, geek\, and generally funny queer woman. Her writing has appeared in Apiary\, The Legendary\, and Dreamstreets. Hannah writes fan-fiction\, if you’re into that sort of thing. \nSean Hanrahan\, Host – Open Reading Follows  \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-matt-lake-jon-lawrence-hannah-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: zach blackwood\, Faye Chevalier\, Violet Gehringer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nzach blackwood is a poet and culture writer in philadelphia\, author of ultra-fine and the apocryphal chapbook sexy unique hollow point. Faye Chevalier is a Philadelphia-based creatur\, lurking. She is the author of futur.txt and flesh_wound\, her poetry has been featured in bedfellows\, The Wanderer\, Peach Mag\, Yes Poetry\, the tiny\, & elsewhere\, & she serves as a editor for Voicemail Poems.  Violet Gehringer’s work has appeared in Vice\, them.\, Barrelhouse\, and elsewhere. Her first book of poems\, i love you it looks like rain\, was published by Be About It in 2017. She lives in Philadelphia with her cat\, Noodle. \nAmy Saul-Zerby\, Host – open reading follows  \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-faye-chevalier-zach-blackwood-violet-gehringer/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Ona Gritz\, Alina Macneal\, Zack Rogow
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nOna Gritz writes memoir\, essays\, and poetry for adults\, verse novels for teens\, and fiction for children\, her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Zack Rogow is an American poet\, playwright\, translator\, and critic. He is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Irreverent Litanies; Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music\, and My Mother and the Ceiling Dancers. He has taught in several MFA creative writing programs and serves as a contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. Daniel Simpson has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, the Cortland review\, and many other journals\, and works as a technical support specialist for the Library of Congress’s braille and audio book download service for the print-impaired. \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-ona-gritz-alina-macneal-zack-rogow/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Anuradha Bhowmik\, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri\, Jess Yuan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading\, live at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nAnuradha Bhowmik  is a Bangladeshi-American poet and writer from South Jersey\, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first collection Brown Girl Chromatography\, a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Diane Sahms-Guarnieri\, a native Philadelphian\, is the author 8 books\, the latest of which is Blues\, Prayers\, & Pagan Chant. She has been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Pennsylvania Literary Journal\, Many Mountains Moving\, Philadelphia Stories. Jess Yuan is a poet\, educator\, and architect\, author of the Slow Render\, winner of the Airlie Prize\, and Threshold Amnesia\, winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest\, her poems appear in Best New Poets\, Tupelo Quarterly Review\, jubilat\, and elsewhere. \nRegister for zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-anuradha-bhowmik-diane-sahms-guarnieri-jess-yuan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with Brain Tierney
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 6/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 In Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nBrian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float\, winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, AGNI\, NER\, The Adroit Journal\, and others. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, and a graduate of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars\, he was named among Narrative Magazine’s 2013 “30 Below 30” emerging writers\, and is winner of the 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America. Raised in Philadelphia\, he lives in Oakland\, Ca.\, where he teaches poetry at The Writing Salon. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-moonstone-poetry-phillycam-with-brain-tierney/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center and the Literature Department of The Free Liberty of Philadelphia Present: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists  \nThe Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program is designed to award a young poet (14-18) the title of Youth Poet Laureate who is well versed in poetic expression\, exemplifies a deep understanding of poetic language\, exhibits uniqueness and newness\, and shows appreciation for all art forms. \nFeaturing Sofia Bagarazzi\, Maya Brothers\, Sophia Hall\, Emi Maeda\, Samrithaa H.V. \nSofia Bagarazzi is a sophomore at Friends’ Central School. She plays a multitude of sports and is involved with BSA and Girl Scouts. She loves to read\, write\, cook\, and play with her dog and cats! Maya Brothers is a sophomore at Friends’ Central School\, captain of the Debate Tea\, a competitive cyclist and she loves to weightlift. In her free time\, she writes poetry\, draws & paints\, and participates in mock trial.Sophia Hall lives a double life: eighteen-year-old poet by day\, secret agent by night. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards\, the Library of Congress\, and Button Poetry. Emi Maeda is a Junior at The Baldwin School. Her work has appeared in the NY Seikatsu Newspaper\, The Rising Phoenix Review\, The Kenyon Young Writer’s Anthology\, and more\, and she is the first-place winner of the Charlotte Miller Poetry Contest. Samrithaa H.V. is a freshman at Methacton Senior High School\, currently a writer and editor for Element\, a superior Literary Arts Magazine and certified staff writer for her school newspaper\, The Windy Hill. \n王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania and is judge and host of this reading
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-reading-montgomery-county-youth-poet-laureate-finalists/
LOCATION:The Free Library of Philadelphia\, 1901 Vine Street\, 1901 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Hearing Women's Voices: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Michelle Myers\, & Kimmika L.H Williams-Witherspoon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Barnes and Noble! \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS\, Don’t Touch the Bones\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize\, and The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays\, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine\, Julia’s birthplace. Her poems have appeared in POETRY\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, and AGNI\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Denison University. Michelle 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. Michelle received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, awards from the Leeway Foundation\, Loft Literary Center\, Asian Arts Initiative\, Japanese American National Museum\, and Dodge Poetry Program. Michelle’s CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys.  Michelle’s poetry was featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now as well as My Life: Growing Up Asian in America. Michelle’s TEDx Talk Let Hearts Love. Let Hearts Live (TEDx YouTube Channel\, December 2023) and she hosts a podcast called Mind Your Margins\, which is produced by her daughter\, Myong. Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon has been a force in the spoken word/poetry scene for decades. This new release (You Gotta Have Game) from Boyer College of Music and Dance is Williams-Witherspoon at her best. The poet tells us: “I am the crack of morning\, Light in the shadow of dark” – In this beautiful collection of poetic text with instrumental accompaniment Williams-Witherspoon brings us through the struggle of life\, always the light in the shadow of dark. No matter how hard the journey\, no matter the roadblocks placed\, Williams-Witherspoon offers hope in endurance. The poem” By g emil reutter. “Life is a journey—not just a trip with destinations and an expiration date! Traveling is an action AND a process. These are the pieces that fill my heart and remind me to greet each day glad to be alive.” —Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/hearing-womens-voices-julia-kolchinsky-dashbach-michelle-myers-kimmika-l-h-williams-witherspoon/
LOCATION:Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St.\, 1708 Chesnut Street.\, Phildelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Nathalie Anderson\, Steve Burke\, Cassie MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nNathalie Anderson\, author of Rough\, Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and Held and Firmly Bound\, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals\, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia; worked for many years as a labor & delivery nurse. He’s read in many venues around the Philly area; has two Moonstone-published chapbooks – After the Harvest & For Now – plus another\, Small Answers\, forthcoming. Cassie MacDonald served as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House\, where she welcomed writers and other artists with wide-open creative space and loving encouragement. Cassie was also a founder and the first Director of Camden FireWorks\, an arts destination serving the community with gallery space\, studios\, and workshops. Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows.  \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-nathalie-anderson-steve-burke-cassie-macdonald/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Robert Frost
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading honoring Robert Frost! \nRobert Lee Frost (March 26\, 1874 – January 29\, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech\, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century\, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Frequently honored during his lifetime\, Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America’s rare “public literary figures\, almost an artistic institution”. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. Frost was 86 when he performed a reading at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy on January 20\, 1961. On July 22\, 1961\, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-remembering-robert-frost/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: World Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 17\, 2024\n2pm EST – VIRITUAL \nJoin us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 \n“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that on World Poetry Day\, on March 21. The United Nations Educational\, Scientific\, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and imagery to elicit emotion and the imagination of the reader. Poetry can rhyme\, using what are called meters of long and short syllables. Some poetry\, written in what’s called ‘free verse\,’ doesn’t employ rhyme or meters. Poems are broken into stanzas\, which are like paragraphs\, and can be up to 12 lines long. We believe the first known poem appeared 4\,000 years ago in Babylon. Today\, countless types of poems are available to enjoy\, including haikus\, limericks\, sonnets\, and ballads.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-world-poetry-day/
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly\, Airea D. Matthews\, Matthew Buckley Smith
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\nWednesday March 13\, 2024 – 7pm \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 \nTimothy Donnelly’s most recent book\, Chariot\, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many\, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize\, and The Cloud Corporation\, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his family. \n  \n Airea D. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra\, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus\, a memoir-in-verse that combines poetry\, prose\, and imagery to explore the realities of economic necessity\, marginal poverty\, and commodification\, through a personal lens. Matthews received a 2020 Pew Fellowship\, a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and was awarded the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry \nfrom the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. From 2022-2023 she served as Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College where she directs the poetry program.  \n Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife\, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award\, and Dirge for an Imaginary World\, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. He is the Associate Editor of Literary Matters\, and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. \n  \nOpen mic hosted by Luke Stromberg
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-timothy-donnelly-airea-d-matthews-matthew-buckley-smith/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240310T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 10\, 2024\n2pm EST – VIRIUAL \nJoin us on Zoom – Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-mgpzovG9bdKnadMSczNTW-YMqGyTKa \nInternational Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions\, whether national\, ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, economic or political. \nIn 1848\, indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention\, Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregated a few hundred people at their nation’s first women’s rights convention in New York. Together they demand civil\, social\, political and religious rights for women in a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. \nThe first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States on 28 February. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York\, where women protested against working conditions \nOfficially recognized by the United Nations in 1977\, International Women’s Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe. Join us as poets reflect
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-international-womens-day/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T190000
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello\, Airea D. Matthews\, and Artress Bethany White
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday March 6\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGrrTgiHNJ7uriRBEe6MkL9clKCpLu1 \nJessica Cuello author of Yours\, Creature\, Liar\, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize\, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize\, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt and Pricking. Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize\, two CNY Book Awards\, The 2016 Washington Prize\, The New Letters Poetry Prize\, a Saltonstall Fellowship\, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition\, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015)\, By Fire (2013)\, and Curie (2011). She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY. \nAirea D. Matthews is the author of Bread and Circus  and Simulacra\, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson describes Matthews’s experimental forms in Simulacra as “Fugues\, text messages to the dead\, imagined outtakes from Wittgenstein\, tart mini-operas\, fairy tales: Matthews is virtuosic\, frantic\, and darkly\, very darkly\, funny.” Matthews’s work has appeared in Callaloo\, Best American Poets 2015\, Harvard Review\, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award\, the 2016 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts award\, fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the James Merrill House.  She associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and was Philadelphia’s sixth poet laureate. \nArtress Bethany White is a poet\, essayist\, and literary critic\, author of My Afmerica\, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Pleiades\, Solstice\, Poet Lore\, Ecotone\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and the Hopkins Review. White has received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction\, the Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and writing residencies at the Writer’s Hotel and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jessica-cuello-airea-d-matthews-and-artress-bethany-white/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240305T183000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday MARCH 5\, 2024 \n6:30pm – VIRTUAL\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\nCan be viewed on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nElliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue\, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award for her translations\, and a residency at Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women. Her poems\, essays\, and translations have been published in the journals including  American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Sakura Review\, Apiary\, Cahoodaloodaling\, Naugatuck River Review\, Poemeleon\, Poetica\, Philadelphia Stories\, Sinister Wisdom\, Trivia\, The Lesbian Review of Books\, Lambda Literary Online\, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Reconstructionism Today\, DoubleSpeak\, Menacing Hedge. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: Beside Still Waters\, Who by Plague: High Holy Days Sermons from COVID19 Times\, Passageways: The 2012 Two Lines Translation Anthology\, Overplay/Underdone\, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence\, the English edition of the 2013 Hebrew anthology Israeli Women’s Protest Poetry ed. by Dorit Weisman\, and the Oxford University Press textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference. \n\nFor her day jobs\, Elliott works multiple roles within the bookselling industry: as an event manager at a bookstore\, as the Member Manager for a Regional Indie Bookstore Trade Association; as the administrator for the Professional Booksellers School; and as the dean of that school’s course in Event Management. Photo Credit: Darla Himeles \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-4/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240303T140000
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SUMMARY:Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6th
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 3\, 2024 \nVirtual -2pm EST\nJoin us on Zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn \nTraitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6\, 2021\nMoonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets\, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter called Traitor (you can read the poem on our website) on the January 6 insurrection which made me realize that this was an issue we have not responded to yet. \nMore than 2\,000 rioters entered the Capitol building on January 6\, 2021\, many of whom vandalized and looted the building. Rioters assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm. A gallows was erected west of the Capitol. Some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” after he rejected false claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results. Five people died\, more people were injured\, including 174 police officers. As of July 7\, 2022\, monetary damages caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. More than 1\,230 people have been charged over the course of three years\, with many trials still pending. Join us as poets reflect. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/traitor-patriot-reflections-on-january-6th/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Liz Abrams-Morley & Amy Small-Mckinney
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 28\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom\nZoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucOqgpj4tGN3csD4gaXLwnIJKTVj80_Qr \nLiz Abrams-Morley is the author of the forthcoming Because Time\, as well as of Beholder\, Inventory\, and Necessary Turns\, which won an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press Publishing.  In 2020 she was named the Passager Poet of the year in Passager Journal’s annual contest.   Liz’s poems and short stories have been published in a variety of nationally distributed anthologies\, journals and ezines\, and have been read on NPR.  A semi-retired faculty member in the Rosemont College MFA program\, she is co-founder of Around the Block Writers’ Collaborative.  A poet\, professor\, gramma and activist\, Liz wades knee deep in the flow of everyday life from which she draws inspiration and\, occasionally\, exasperation. \n \nAmy Small-McKinney\, Montgomery County Poet Laureate Emeritus\, is the author of the forthcoming book of poems\, & You Think It Ends\, as well as\, Walking Toward Cranes\, winner of the 2016 Kithara Book Prize\, and One Day I Am A Field\, written during COVID and her husband’s illness and death. 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 poems have appeared in numerous journals\, including American Poetry Review\, Banyan Review\, Comstock Review\, One Art\, Pedestal Magazine\, Persimmon Tree\, Philadelphia Stories\, SWWIM\, Tiferet\, Verse Daily\, and Vox Populi\, among others\, and have been translated into Korean and Romanian. \n                                    Alina Macneal  & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-liz-abrams-morley-amy-small-mckinney/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023\nLive at The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19104 \nIn 2023\, Moonstone Arts Center hosted over 100 events with almost 300 poets and an audience of close to 3000. Join us for a reading with our featured poets of 2023. \nFeatured Poets (not all will read): \nDavid Acosta \nNathalie Anderson \nCatherine Bancroft \nPeter Baroth \nElliott batTzedek \nBeth Bayley \nMatilda Bray \nCydney Brown \nSteve Burke \nCharles Carr \nJefferson Carter \nMac Chandler \nLiz Chang \nGeorge Elliott Clarke \nMarion Deutsche Cohen \nCathleen Cohen \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey \nJim Cory \nC. M. Crockford \nGregory Crosby \nTerence Culleton \nPheralyn Dove \nLawrence Dugan \nW. D. Ehrhart \nJoseph Farley \nJames Feichthaler \nDoris Ferleger \nSibelan Forrester \nAdam Gianforcaro \nLeonard Gontarek \nMarjorie Gowdy \nSean Hanrahan \nJared Harél \nBetti E. Kahn \nVasiliki Katsarou \nDev Kiyota \nLeonard Kress \nMabel Lee \nJoanne Leva \nElliott Levin \nLynn Levin \nAlison Lubar \nTerri Lyons \nJoseph Thomas Makoviecki \nEmiliano Martín \nPaige Menton \nSharnita Midgett \nKarin Molde \nSteve Nolan \nHermond Palmer \nFaith Paulsen \ng emil reutter \nDon Riggs \nRuth A. Rouff \nLynda Gene Rymond \nDiane Sahms \nGeorge Schaefer \nDaniel Simpson \nHeather H. Thomas \nMatthew Thorburn \nJohn Timpane \nCleveland Wall \nEvan Wang \nArlene Weiner \nSharon White \nDaniel Williams \nDavid Worrell \nMonika Wysong \nSekai’afua Zankel
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-featured-readers-2023/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Chris Bullard\, L.M. Camiolo\, & Noah David Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 21\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom\nUse this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO2pqTMrHNbspqMc34fEumC-hinMXbUp \nChris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia\, PA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a MFA from Wilkes University. He has had thirteen books published\, including poetry\, short fiction and monologues. In 2022\, Main Street Rag published his poetry chapbook\, Florida Man\, and Moonstone Press published his poetry chapbook\, The Rainclouds of y. His poetry has appeared recently in Canary\, Devil\, Stonecrop\, Wrath-Bearing Tree\, Waccamaw and other publications. He was nominated this year for the Pushcart Prize. \n \n  \nL.M. Camiolo is co-founder of Impostor\, a poetry journal\, and is a former poetry editor for Toho Journal. Her work can be found in Troublemaker Firestarter\, The Minison Zine\, The Daily Drunk\, Bullshit Lit\, and elsewhere. Originally from New York\, she currently lives and writes in Philadelphia. \n  \n  \n \n  \nNoah David Roberts (they/them) is a non-binary poet and artist attending University of the Arts. Roberts is the author of 6 poetry collections\, including What I Do in the Dark and Mutable Forests. Roberts has poems published in Anti-Heroin Chic\, Tribes Magazine\, Horror Sleaze Trash\, and more. Their Instagram handle is @the.apocalypse.poet. \n  \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-chris-bullard-l-m-camiolo-noah-david-roberts/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240218T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Remembering Audre Lorde
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992)\n\nSunday February 18\, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL\nJoin us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdeipqTsoHdwqmC1q3s_Nx34bh3KSabHn \nThe Black feminist\, lesbian\, poet\, mother\, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples and of organizing in coalition across differences of race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, class\, age and ability. An internationally recognized activist and artist\, Audre Lorde was the recipient of many honors and awards\, including the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit\, which conferred the mantle of New York State poet for 1991-93. In designating her New York State’s Poet Laureate\, Governor Mario Cuomo observed: “Her imagination is charged by a sharp sense of racial injustice and cruelty\, of sexual prejudice…She cries out against it as the voice of indignant humanity. Audre Lorde is the voice of the eloquent outsider who speaks in a language that can reach and touch people everywhere.” Join us as poets remember.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-remembering-audre-lorde/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry - Fatal Force: Poetic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Fatal Force: Poetic Justice\nSaturday February 17\, 2024 – 7pm EST  Virtual \nJoin us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D \nAs of December 4\, 2023\, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). \nPolice officer\, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14\, 2023. On August 15th\, Philadelphia police changed their story\, stating that Irizarry was actually in the car when he was shot six times. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw stated that officers’ body-worn camera footage “made it very clear that what we initially reported was not actually what happened.” Read more about the details and legal proceedings here: \n(The Killing of Eddie Irizarry). \nMartín Espada recently wrote a poem entitled\, “Officer Mark Dial\, Who Shot Eddie Irizarry\, Will Be Fired for Insubordination” to elegize the innocent young man whose alleged murder this past August is an outrage. \nFatal Force : Poetic Justice contributors\, featuring Martín Espada\, will read their work virtually on February 17th to honor poet/activist\, Julia de Burgos’ birthday. She was the foremother for the Nuyorican Poetry Movement in New York who advocated for anti-imperialism and social justice. Fatal Force: Poetic Justice commemorates her ideals. \nPresented by Taller Puertorriqueño\, Casa de Duende\, and Moonstone \n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlthough not everyone will be reading\, we have poems by these poets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Anne Abdo\nSonia Aggarwal\nAustin Alexis\nStar Anderson\nNaomi Ayala\nDiane Bier\nSteve Bloom\nChristopher Butters\nCameron Carvalho\nRaheem Curry\nMartin Espada\nSteven Halpern\nZita Holbourne\nAce Howlen\nJane Ellen Ibur\nIrving Jones\nRon Kolm\nDonald Krieger\nMindy Kronenberg\nD Lang\nJeffrey lee\nKostya Malukhin\nAurora McKee\nSamuel Miranda\nDavid Mook\nDeeci Murphy\nJane Muschenetz\nMaureen Nolan\nGeorge Northrup\nTauwan Patterson\nAlex Phuong\nRescue Poetix\nSusana Praver-Perez\nDavid Radavich\nAlexis Raymond\nSultana Raza\nJanet Restino\nJoe Roarty\nJake Rogers\nMykyta Ryzhykh\nIndia Shank\nCalvin Shaw\nLarissa Shmailo\nMegha Sood\nRowan Tate\nAlyssa Velazquez\nEike Waltz\nBruce Whitacre\nMartin Wiley\nGlenn Wright\nSamantha Wright
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-fatal-force-poetic-justice/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Joshua Barnes\, Sarah Browning\, Eileen M. D’Angelo\, & Juniper Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday February 14\, 2024 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street\nOR Join Us on Zoom (Registration Required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-GrqzwrHNS3jAMLOupFHyUci7eweq4_ \nJoshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband.  His poetry has previously appeared in &Change\, Olney Magazine\, Impossible Archetype\, Philadelphia Stories\, and Moonstone Press. When not writing\, he can be found reading poetry\, horror fiction\, and comic books\, and perfecting his handstands. He can be found on Instagram @ jsb1800. \nSarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poetry of Provocation & Witness for 10 years. She is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies. Browning is a recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Yaddo\, Mesa Refuge\, and the Adirondack Center for Writing. She has been guest editor or co-edited special issues of Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, The Delaware Poetry Review\, and three issues of POETRY magazine. \nEileen M. D’Angelo\, twice nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts\, she received two Pushcart Prize / Best of the Small Press nominations from Verse Magazine and Schuylkill Valley Journal.  Her poetry\, essays and book reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, the News of Delaware County\, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century\, Manhattan Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Drexel Online Journal\, Wild River Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Independent Review\, Negative Capability\, One Trick Pony\, and others. \nJuniper Sweeney is a nonbinary trans poet\, queer community contributor\, and outdoorsthem. She helped expand the Philadelphia Voices of Pride as part of their board and is excited to start sharing her own developing creative voice. She also helps organize Phlash\, Philadelphia’s gay climbing community\, and especially loves climbing outdoors and connecting new climbers to a practice that brings her joy and embodiment. This is their first time being featured and she’s deeply excited to be a new member of the Philadelphia poetry community \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-joshua-barnes-sarah-browning-eileen-m-dangelo-juniper-sweeney/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: David Eberhardt\, Stephen Jones\, Marjorie Moorhead\, Daniel Williams\, & Samantha Wright
DESCRIPTION:Thursday February 8\, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrce-spj4pE9Jq0ZszDJHI7vYgFYFf19BY \nDavid Eberhardt\, author of Melange\, The Tree Calendar\, Blue Running Lights\, and Poems from the Website\, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two others he poured blood on draft files in 1967 to protest the Viet Nam war. For that action\, he spent 21 months in Lewisburg Federal Prison. He has completed a peace movement memoir\, For All the Saints: A Protest Primer. In 2020 he won the Enoch Pratt Library/ Little Patuxent Review prize for poetry. \nStephen Jones has lived in Detroit for more than forty years\, has worked as a journalist\, high school English teacher and university history instructor. He is a student of Zen Buddhism\, which sparked his interest in such ancient Chinese poets as Han Shan\, Su Tung’p’o\, Tu Fu\, Li Po\, and Po Chu-i. Jones’ poems have appeared in Abandon Automobile\, an anthology of Detroit poets; Maxis Review; Poet in the House; Buddhist Poetry Review; Third Wednesday\, and Temenos. \nMarjorie Moorhead lives and writes at the border of NH/VT. She is author of poetry collections Every Small Breeze\, What I Ask\, and chapbooks Survival: Trees\, Tides\, Song  and Survival Part 2: Trees\, Birds\, Ocean\, Bees.  Marjorie’s work appears in journals including Amethyst Review\, Tiny Seed Literary\, Moist Poetry Journal\, Bloodroot Literary\, Sheila-Na-Gig\, Porter House Review\, Poeming Pigeon\, Verse-Virtual\, What Rough Beast\, A River Sings\, The Poet’s Touchstone\, and others. Her poems are included in anthologies benefitting environmental\, women’s\, Covid first responder\, and refugee aid organizations. She has a poem in The Wonder of Small Things (James Crews\, ed. 2023). Marjorie’s local poetry group is 4th Friday Poets. \nDaniel Williams has published in many journals and anthologies\, he is a long-standing member of Poets’ West\, California Federation of Chaparral Poets\, Poets & Writers\, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule\, a haiku engraved on MAVEN\, the Mar’s orbiter\, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His California inspired poems have been featured in Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle Anthologies\, Gathering 14 and Gathering 15. \nSamantha Wright\, author of Edges Holding Edges and Postcards from the West\, lives in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have appeared in Beyond Words\, Prometheus Dreaming\, Pontoon Poetry\, Minerva Arts\, Welter\, Cathexis Northwest\, among others. Her debut chapbook\, Edges Holding Edges\, was published by Moonstone Arts in 2022.  She currently divides her time between writing and teaching yoga. \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Emiliano Martín\, Diane McManus\, Keith Woodrow\, & Robert Zaller
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 7\, 2024 – 7pm -LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nOR on Zoom (Registration Required):  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOigqz4qHtCj5tnSWrCaVRobrdm0Q2HM \nEmiliano Martín is Spanish born and an advocate of the spoken word\, he is the founder of Philadelphia Poetry Forum for the NE Regional Public Library. Past President of Pennsylvania Poetry Society (PPS\, Inc) has also served as the Executive Director of Latin American Guild for the Arts (LAGA) in Philadelphia. Author of more than a dozen books of Poetry\, like “Selected Bilingual Poems” (2023)\, at this time he is proud to introduce… his latest title: “Songs out of the Drawer” (2024). Martín is a longtime resident in the Philadelphia area and his verse keeps moving on. \nDiane McManus teaches in the English Department of Community College of Philadelphia as an adjunct\, writes\, swims (including marathon swims)\, and reflects on the colors of rivers. Her poetry has appeared in Listening Eye\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, and in two Moonstone anthologies: the 26th Anniversary Poetry Ink\, as well as The Struggle for Liberty. \nKeith Woodrow studied Classics at the University of Southern California\, focusing on queer Roman poetry. He has been published in New York Quarterly\, Moonstone Arts Center Annual Poetry Ink\, and River River Journal. He was also a Brooklyn Poets Yawp Poet of the Month. \nRobert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Drexel University.  Poet\, critic\, and historian\, his books of verse include Speaking to Power and The Dresden Zoo\, both published by Moonstone Press. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-emiliano-martin-diane-mcmanus-keith-woodrow-robert-zaller/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with g emil reutter
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nFeaturing – g emil reutter\nTuesday February 6\, 2024 – 6:30pm – EST – VIRTUAL  \nWatch for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n\ng emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have been published\, most recently\, Until Next Time – Selected Poems 1990-2022. A chapbook\, Glint- Down the Shore Poems is pending release. \nHe can be found here: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/about/ \nVideos: https://gereutter.wordpress.com/videos/ \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: House Poet @ Fergie's with Lindsay Hargrave and Noah David Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 31st – 7PM \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd–tpj4uEtTGjg-a2O9NZBvpHqx9GFyw \nWelcome to House Poet @ Fergie’s \nSince March 2022\, House Poet has strived to bring together writers\, dancers\, DJs and musicians alike. Join us in 2024 as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergie’s\, featuring an open reading\, featured readers\, live music and a soundtrack you can bounce to. \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet\, editor at Graphic Violence\, and a copywriter for Temple University. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Hargrave or follow @notporkroll on Twitter. Noah David Roberts is a non-binary poet\, the author of 6 collections\, including Mutable Forests. In 2022\, Roberts won the Judith Stark poetry contest. They are a 2023 Pushcart nominee. You can learn more on Instagram at @the.apocalypse.poet. \nWarren Longmire Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-house-poet-fergies-with-lindsay-hargrave-and-noah-david-roberts/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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