Moonstone Arts Center

Virtual Poetry Reading: Educator-Poet Reading, hosted by Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
2021-08-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Virtual Poetry Reading: Educator-Poet Reading, hosted by Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Lanre-Habeeb Animashaun is author of On Love. On Hope. On Heartbreak. When he’s not writing, he is inspired by his dynamic 7th and 8th grade students in North Philadelphia.

Barefoot Bella (Ariel Goodwin) is an earthy expressionist, innovative educator and light-bearing black woman. Currently she serves as a Sexual Health and Social Skills teacher, as well as a community educator.

Octavia “Alonge” Clarkson is an educator at Simon Gratz Mastery Charter High School as a PostSecondary Coordinator providing juniors and seniors with the tools necessary for their lives after graduation and is a doctoral student in Africology & African American Studies at Temple University.

Barrett Rosser created the Black Girls Literacies Project where adolescent girls ages 13-18 read, write and respond to each other about Black girlhood, love, and imagination, she has been a poet since elementary school, and she loves crafting multimodal poetry on social media.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Audrey Gidman, Joan Kwon Glass, and Marcela Sulak with Host Larry Robin
2021-08-18 19:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: Audrey Gidman, Joan Kwon Glass, and Marcela Sulak with Host Larry Robin
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Audrey Gidman
Audrey Gidman is a queer poet living in Maine. Her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Rust + Moth, Luna Luna, SWWIM, Wax Nine, Okay Donkey, Rogue Agent, The Inflectionist Review, Bear Review, The Shore, The West Review, and elsewhere. She serves as assistant poetry editor for Gigantic Sequins and an editor for Newfound’s Emerging Poets Chapbook Series. Her chapbook, body psalms, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is forthcoming from Slate Roof Press.

Joan Kwon Glass
Joan Kwon Glass is author of How to Make Pancakes For a Dead Boy and If Rust Can Grow on the Moon. In 2021 she was a finalist for the Harbor Review Editor’s Prize, the Subnivean Award, the Lumiere Review Writing Contest & the Five South Poetry Prize & a semi-finalist for the Ralph Angel Poetry Prize. She serves as Poet Laureate for the city of Milford, CT, is a graduate of Smith College & serves as Poetry Co-Editor for West Trestle Review., Joan has been nominated four times for the Pushcart Prize. She tweets @joanpglass & you may read her previously published work at www.joankwonglass.com.

Marcela Sulak
Marcela Sulak is author of City of Skypapers, Decency, Immigrant, and the lyric memoir, Mouth Full of Seeds. Sulak, who translates from the Hebrew, Czech, and French, is a 2019 NEA Translation Fellow, and her translation of Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems of Orit Gidali, was nominated for the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University, where she is an associate professor in American Literature. She also edits The Ilanot Review and hosts the TLV.1 Radio podcast, Israel in Translation.

Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Poetry of Displacement with Fióna Bolger, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, and Divya Victor
2021-08-15 10:30 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: Poetry of Displacement with Fióna Bolger, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, and Divya Victor
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

“By bringing together three poets with overlapping connections to one another through the places they have called home over the course of their lives we seek to explore the ideas of home, migration, citizenship, belonging as well as borders, unhoming and disowning. While these poets share places, both Fióna and Divya have lived in Tamil Nadu, both Chandrika and Fióna live in Dublin, and both Divya and Chandrika were born in India, their writing emerges from displacement and cannot be easily situated in a national poetic tradition.”

Fióna Bolger
Fióna Bolger is author of a compound of words. She lives between Ireland and India. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, The Brown Critique, The Poetry Bus, The Chattahoochee Review, and others. She is a co-ordinator of Dublin Writers’ Forum and a member of the creative team of Outlandish Theatre Platform. She is currently working towards a PhD at Dublin City University entitled ‘Searching for Poems in the Cracks Between Borders’. Poems can be corralled into lists by country, by language, by form. Fióna Bolger is interested in those that fall between categories, challenge the existence of formal, linguistic, cultural, or geographic boundaries, borders.

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan (She/Her) is a Dublin-based arts manager, writer, and performer from India. Her work has been published in Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets from Dedalus Press, The Ireland Chair of Poetry Hold Open the Door anthology by UCD Press, the Green Carnations: 25 Young LGBTQ+ Poets from Ireland anthology by Book Hub Publishing, Banshee, Honest Ulsterman, Impossible Archetype, and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2020 Chandrika won 3rd place in the Fingal Poetry Prize. Chandrika is editor of Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet issue 9, book reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland’s Inis magazine, and one of Science Gallery Dublin’s current Rapid Residency Artists. In 2021 Chandrika joined the Board of the Irish Writers Centre.

Divya Victor
Divya Victor is the author of Curb; Kith, a book of verse, prose memoir, lyric essay, and visual objects; Scheingleichheit: Drei Essays; Natural Subjects (Winner of the Bob Kaufman Award); Unsub, Things To Do With Your Mouth. Her work has appeared in BOMB, the New Museum’s The Animated Reader, Crux: Journal of Conceptual Writing, The Best American Experimental Writing, POETRY, and others. She has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Czech, been a Mark Diamond Research Fellow at the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Riverrun Fellow at the Archive for New Poetry at University of California San Diego, and a Writer in Residence at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibit.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Caroline Furr, Darrell Parry, and Ben Saff with Host Sean Hanrahan
2021-08-11 19:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: Caroline Furr, Darrell Parry, and Ben Saff with Host Sean Hanrahan
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Caroline Furr
Caroline Furr began professional and personal life in Texas, then moved to Los Angeles to complete an MA in sculpture. She has worked in museums and galleries, sometimes as founder and director, and painted sets for TV and film. When living in Barcelona, she began writing, and in Philadelphia, surface and interior design. She is the author of A Foreigner’s Conception and Uneven Terrain available at www.tohopub.com. Find her online at carolinefurr.com or @carolinefurrdesign.art on Instagram.

Darrell Parry
Darrell Parry is a writer, artist, and event organizer from Easton, Pennsylvania. He founded the online publication, Stick Figure Poetry Quarterly, and the monthly Stick Figure Poetry open mic. He also co-founded Lehigh Valley Poetry’s Virtual Salon, which meets on Zoom the first Monday of every month. His alter ego works in higher education, not as a professor, but as one of those reviled peddlers of unaffordable course materials. Believe it or not, he even sometimes sells poetry books.

Ben Saff
Ben Saff is a book-lover, a cat-watcher, and a breath-breather living in Philadelphia. His first chapbook, Minor League All American Dance Club, is available at www.tohopub.com. You can find all of his published work to date at bsaff.github.io.

Sean Hanrahan, Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: 婕 Venus Cohen, Heidi Seaborn, and Lauren Zazzara with Host Sean Lynch
2021-08-07 14:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: 婕 Venus Cohen, Heidi Seaborn, and Lauren Zazzara with Host Sean Lynch
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

婕 Venus Cohen
婕 Venus Cohen is a mixed, trans creator and current undergrad in English at Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar. Their work has been recognized in various formats with writing and visual arts in Boston Fashion Week, Disquiet Arts, and is upcoming in Beyond Queer Words Anthology, Wrongdoing Magazine, Fahmidan Journal and The B’K.

Heidi Seaborn
Heidi Seaborn is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and author of [PANK] Book Award winner An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe (2021), Give a Girl Chaos (2019) and the 2020 Comstock Review Prize Chapbook, Bite Marks. Recent work in American Poetry Journal, Beloit, Copper Nickel, The Cortland Review, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith, Tinderbox, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU. www.heidiseabornpoet.com

Lauren Zazzara
Lauren Zazzara is a writer in Buffalo, NY. When she isn’t reading, (loudly) tapping at her keyboard, or napping, she is likely adoring her cat, Margaret.

Sean Lynch, Host.
Open Reading Follows.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Joanna Fuhrman, Christine Hamm, and Kathleen Ossip
2021-08-04 19:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: Joanna Fuhrman, Christine Hamm, and Kathleen Ossip
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Joanna Fuhrman
Joanna Fuhrman is the author of six books of poetry, including To a New Era, The Year of Yellow Butterflies, and Pageant. She is a former poetry editor for Ping Pong and Boog City and served as the Monday-night coordinator for the poetry readings at The Poetry Project from 2001 to 2003 and the Wednesday-night coordinator from 2010 to 2011. She currently teaches poetry writing at Rutgers University and coordinates the Introduction to Creative Writing Classes and the faculty and alumni readings.

Christine Hamm
Christine Hamm has published four books of poetry exploring the roles of animals, fairytales, gender, and violence. Her newest book is GORILLA, “a potent and wholly original collection that traces—with the indelible strokes of dream logic—the contours of domestic dramas and estranging losses, along with the menaces of masculinity… The emotional complexity limned by Hamm is something to marvel at.”—Jenny Xie. Her poems have been published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Rattle, Rhino, and Pinch. She also has an MSW from NYU, an MA in fiction writing, and is halfway through an MFA in poetry from Columbia. She is the 8th annual winner of the Tenth Gate Prize.

Kathleen Ossip
Kathleen Ossip is the author of three volumes of poetry: The Do-Over, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, which was one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; and The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and many others. Ossip teaches at The New School, the 92nd Street Y, and the Hudson Valley Writers Center.

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Cydney Brown with Host Charles S. Carr
2021-08-03 18:30 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Cydney Brown with Host Charles S. Carr
2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
699 Ranstead Street, Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 OR Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

Cydney Brown
Cydney Brown is the Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of “Daydreaming”. She is a Senior at Abington Friends School and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6abc, Philadelphia Citizen, and Fox29 featured Brown. She loves that there are no limitations to writing. She has recited her poetry at Benjamin Franklin Hall, Lincoln University, The Ideas We Should Steal Festival and The Kelly’s Writers house. Her poetry explores the topics of social justice, self-image, love, and nature. She won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop poetry competition and loves to perform spoken word poetry. She is a Gold Award Ambassador Girl Scout who is active in improving her community. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world.
Host Charles S. Carr talks with Cydney Brown, current Youth Poet Laureate, who will also read her poetry

Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman, Wanda Phipps, and M.G. Stephens
2021-07-31 19:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman, Wanda Phipps, and M.G. Stephens
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Richard Hoffman
Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; and Noon until Night, awarded the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. His other books include the memoirs Half the House and Love & Fury, and the story collection Interference and Other Stories. He is Senior Writer in Residence at Emerson College in Boston, and nonfiction editor at Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.

Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps is a writer and translator. Her books include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and written about the arts for Boog City, Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and others. Her new book is Mind Honey!

M. G. Stephens
M. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) is the author of over twenty books, including the critically acclaimed novel The Brooklyn Book of the Dead; the travel memoir Lost in Seoul; the award-winning essay collection Green Dreams; and Hobo Haiku from Moonstone. His play Our Father ran on Theatre Row (42nd Street in New York) for over five years. MadHat just published his book of prose poems and poetry about an out of work actor who lands the part of Hamlet and is called History of Theatre or the Glass of Fashion. Dispatches Editions is shortly going to publish his book about the origins of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bouwerie; entitled When Poetry Was the World: St. Mark’s, the East Village, the 1960s, and Beyond. Stephens earned a doctorate from the University of Essex (UK), researching and writing on the Poetry Project; an MFA in writing from Yale, with Derek Walcott his supervisor; and his BA and MA from the City University of New York (City College). He’s taught at Princeton, Columbia, and New York universities, and the University of London. After living in London for fifteen years, he now lives just north of Chicago.

Virtual Poetry Reading: "Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn" by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)
2021-07-29 19:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87881707311?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 878 8170 7311 – Passcode: [REDACTED]
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In America, we like to think we live in a land of liberty, where everyone can say whatever they want. Throughout our history, however, we have also been quick to censor people who offend or frighten us. We talk a good game about freedom of speech, then we turn around and deny it to others. In this brief but bracing book, historian Jonathan Zimmerman and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson tell the story of free speech in America: who established it, who has denounced it, and who has risen to its defense. They also make the case for why we should care about it today when free speech is once again under attack. Across the political spectrum, Americans have demanded the suppression of ideas and images that allegedly threaten our nation. But the biggest danger to America comes not from speech but from censorship, which prevents us from freely governing ourselves. Free speech allows us to criticize our leaders. It lets us consume the art, film, and literature we prefer. And, perhaps most importantly, it allows minorities to challenge the oppression they suffer. While any of us are censored, none of us are free.
Jonathan Zimmerman is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Peace Corps volunteer, he is the author of Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know and seven other books. He is also a frequent op-ed contributor to The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other national newspapers and magazines. Zimmerman received the 2019 Open Inquiry Leadership Award from Heterodox Academy, which promotes viewpoint diversity in higher education.
Signe Wilkinson was the first female to receive the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1992.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Heather Lanier and Autumn McClintock with Hosts Alina MacNeal and Jennifer Hook
2021-07-28 19:00 | Moonstone Arts Center
Virtual Poetry Reading: Heather Lanier and Autumn McClintock with Hosts Alina MacNeal and Jennifer Hook
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Heather Lanier
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 most recently with The Cincinnati Review, The Sun, and Mid-American Review. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Rowan University, and her TED talk has been viewed over two million times.

Autumn McClintock
Autumn McClintock lives in Philadelphia and works at the Free Library. Poems of hers have recently appeared in The Account, Cimarron Review, Denver Quarterly, The Georgia Review, Sonora Review, and others. Her chapbook, After the Creek, was published in 2016. She is a staff reader for Ploughshares and Associate Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic, edited by Elayne Clift
2021-07-25 14:00 - 17:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic, edited by Elayne Clift
with Michael Bosworth, Elayne Clift, Marion Deutsche Cohen, Barbara Crooker, Charlotte Friedman, Jim Kates, Burt Rashbaum, Irene Sherlock, Miriam Weinstein, and Daniel Williams.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

It is more than a year since Covid-19 invaded our countries and our bodies, causing us to long for the touch of loved ones, to fight anxiety and despair, and to adjust to the stunning effects of prolonged isolation. We watched as the numbers of deaths mounted and agreed that it was the worst health crisis we’d experienced in a hundred years. What we longed for were stories about people lost to the insidious virus, and those left behind. We wanted stories of survival, coping, finding our way to the future. In making much of the mundane, 53 poets share 70 poems in the anthology A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic. The poems, by diverse and award-winning writers, capture and share the collective Covid. They reveal that we were brave in our contemplative journey. This anthology adds to the tradition of sharing stories in well-chosen words that move and enlighten us.

Michael Bosworth recently returned to writing poetry and creative nonfiction after a 45-year hiatus. He is on the board of the Brattleboro Commons newspaper in Vermont and an active member of WriteAction in Brattleboro.

Elayne Clift is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work appears in numerous publications and anthologies internationally. Her travel memoir Around the World in 50 Years: Travel Tales of a Not So Innocent Abroad was published in 2019. This is her 4th anthology.

Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry and memoir. Her prose and poetry collections include Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother, and The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems. She teaches Mathematics in Literature at Drexel University.

Barbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian-Americana, author of twelve chapbooks and nine poetry books, including Some Glad Morning, published in 2019 by the University of Pittsburgh Poetry Press. Her awards include the WB Yeats Society of New York Award.

Charlotte Friedman teaches Narrative Medicine at Barnard College. Her poetry has been published in Connecticut River Review, Intima, and elsewhere. Her book The Girl Pages was published by Hyperion.

Jim Kates is a poet and literary translator. He lives in New Hampshire.

Burt Rashbaum has published in literary and poetry journals, including Contemporary Literary Horizon in Bucharest. His latest book is Of the Carousel (2019). His work has been anthologized and his books include A Century of Love, Becoming an American, and Tears for My Mother.

Irene Sherlock is a marriage and family therapist. His poems, essays, and short stories have been published in various literary magazines. Finishing Line Press published Equinox, a poetry chapbook.

Miriam Weinstein has published poetry in several anthologies including Reflections on Home: The Heart of All That Is and Broken Atoms in Our Hands. Her chapbook Twenty Ways of Looking was published in 2017.

Daniel Williams has been widely anthologized. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry and several of his poems are in the time capsules at Yosemite.

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 6
2021-07-24 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 6
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke.

Not Everyone Will Be Reading.
Day 6 Potential Readers

Peter E. Murphy
Charlotte Muse
WunKuen Ng
Thom Nickels
Leonard Niedermayer
Gloria Nixon-John
Stu O’Connor
Daniel O’Hara
Cynthia Oka
Ewuare Osayande
Alicia Ostriker
Marko Otten
Hermond Palmer
Our Sun Paul
Faith Paulsen
Joan Penn
Aaren Perry
John Polier
Steve Pollack
Kate Potter
Prabha Prabhu
Susana Praver-Perez
Halle Preneta
Elijah Pringle
Elijah Pryor
David Radavich
Margaret Randall
Patrick Reardon
Tennessee Reed
Don Riggs
Theresa Rodriguez
Ruth Rouff
Ursula Rucker
Destiny Samuel
Sonia Sanchez
Hayden Saunier
George Schaefer
Nina Schafer
Peter Schmidt
Jennifer Schneider
Esther Schnur-Berlot
Naila Schulte
Connie Wasem Scott
Fereshteh Sholevar
Alyson Shore Adler
Daniel Simpson
David R. Slavitt
Bob Small
Christopher Sohnly

All 300 poets are listed here on our website.
Pre-order the anthology here!

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 5
2021-07-23 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 5
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke.

Not Everyone Will Be Reading.
Day 5 Potential Readers

Peter E. Murphy
Charlotte Muse
WunKuen Ng
Thom Nickels
Leonard Niedermayer
Gloria Nixon-John
Stu O’Connor
Daniel O’Hara
Cynthia Oka
Ewuare Osayande
Alicia Ostriker
Marko Otten
Hermond Palmer
Our Sun Paul
Faith Paulsen
Joan Penn
Aaren Perry
John Polier
Steve Pollack
Kate Potter
Prabha Prabhu
Susana Praver-Perez
Halle Preneta
Elijah Pringle
Elijah Pryor
David Radavich
Margaret Randall
Patrick Reardon
Tennessee Reed
Don Riggs
Theresa Rodriguez
Ruth Rouff
Ursula Rucker
Destiny Samuel
Sonia Sanchez
Hayden Saunier
George Schaefer
Nina Schafer
Peter Schmidt
Jennifer Schneider
Esther Schnur-Berlot
Naila Schulte
Connie Wasem Scott
Fereshteh Sholevar
Alyson Shore Adler
Daniel Simpson
David R. Slavitt
Bob Small
Christopher Sohnly

All 300 poets are listed here on our website.
Pre-order the anthology here!

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 4
2021-07-22 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 4
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke.

Not Everyone Will Be Reading.
Day 4 Potential Readers

Donald Krieger
Ed Krizek
Jim LaVilla-Havelin
Kyle Laws
Jeffrey Lee
Lynn Levin
Michael Levin
Elliott Levin
Antoinette Libro
Carey Link
Jewel Lloyd
Robin Longfield
Warren Longmire
Gregory Loselle
Dick Lourie
Gregory Loselle
Dick Lourie
Frederick Lowe
Alison Lubar
Lynette
Nick Lutwyche
Sean Lynch
Deidra Lyngard
Terri Lyons
Alina Macneal
Haki Madhubuti
Ann Malaspina
Norman Marshall
Angel Martinez
John Mason
Trapeta Mayson
Bernadette McBride
Octavia McBride-Ahebee
Cecelia McKinney
Austin McLain
Pat McLean
Diane McManus
Tony Medina
Barbara Meier
Drew Miller
Ethelbert Miller
Michael Miller
Helen Markil
Gail Mitchell
Abbe Mogell
Curtis Mohn
David Mook
Kathleen Moore
Michael Moss
Iryna Mozovaya

All 300 poets are listed here on our website.
Pre-order the anthology here!

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 3
2021-07-21 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 3
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke.

Not Everyone Will Be Reading.
Day 3 Potential Readers

Keith Gaboury
Nina Gadson
Maria Gillan
Eli Goldblatt
Leonard Gontarek
Amy Gordon
Beulah Gordon-Skinner
Linda Goss
Sandy Green
Ray Greenblatt
Ona Gritz
Luray Gross
Houston Baker
Floi Baker
John Balaban
Catherine Bancroft
JT Barbarese
Katherine Barham
Lisa Alexander Baron
Herschel Baron
Amy Barone
Peter Baroth
Tina Barr
Margaret Chew
Barringer
Samantha Barrow
Adriann Bautista
Siduri Beckman
Ken Been
Michele Belluomini
Norma Bernstock
Sylvia Beverly
Byron Beynon
Lili Bita
Pamela Blanding
Lynn Blue
Julia Blumenreich
Willeena Booker
Elizabeth Boquet
Matilda Bray
Joni brenner
R. Bremner
Eugene Brown
Deborah brown
Megan Brown
Margaret Brown
Mary Brownell
Lisa Bruckman
Steve Burke

All 300 poets are listed here on our website.
Pre-order the anthology here!

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 2
2021-07-20 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 2
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke.

Not Everyone Will Be Reading.
Day 2 Potential Readers

Dennis Brutus
Barbara Carlson
Charles Carr
Aileen Cassinetto
Erin Castaldi
Grace Cavalieri
Sandra Chaff
Joseph Chelius
China Rain Chung
Ty Clark
Eulinda Antonette
Clarke-Akalanne
CA Conrad
Jim Cory
Beverly Cottman
Lynda V. E. Crawford
Terence Culleton
Raheem Curry
Craig Czury
Eileen D’Angelo
Steven Davison
Toi Derricotte
Steven Deutsch
Gregory Djanikian
Pheralyn Dove
Tom Driscoll
Carlos Dufflar
Terry Dugan
Philip Dykhouse
Mare Earley
RuNett Ebp
Ryan Eckes
Oliver Egger
W.D. Ehrhart
Helene Eisman Fisher
Massimo Elijah
Alfred Encarnacion
Martin Espada
Cole Eubanks
R.G. Evans
Katherine Falk
Linda Fischer
Peggy Fisher
Francis Flavin
Philip Foster
Bryan Franco
Daisy Fried
Deborah Fries

All 300 poets are listed here on our website.
Pre-order the anthology here!

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 1
2021-07-19 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 1
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore and has continued as our largest program, about 100 poets reading for six hours with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are virtual. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up. Six days of Poetry Ink, Monday we have from Abrams to Burke.
Not Everyone Will Be Reading.
Day 1 Potential Readers

Alandra Abrams
Fran Abrams
Liz Abrams-Morley
Michael Abreu
David Acosta
Carolyn Adams
Marjorie Agosin
Nathalie Anderson
Nathan Antoine
Meredith Avakian
Fran Baird
Kwame Bakari
Houston Baker
Floi Baker
John Balaban
Catherine Bancroft
JT Barbarese
Katherine Barham
Lisa Alexander Baron
Herschel Baron
Amy Barone
Peter Baroth
Tina Barr
Margaret Chew
Barringer
Samantha Barrow
Adriann Bautista
Siduri Beckman
Ken Been
Michele Belluomini
Norma Bernstock
Sylvia Beverly
Byron Beynon
Lili Bita
Pamela Blanding
Lynn Blue
Julia Blumenreich
Willeena Booker
Elizabeth Boquet
Matilda Bray
Joni Brenner
R. Bremner
Eugene Brown
Deborah brown
Megan Brown
Margaret Brown
Mary Brownell
Lisa Bruckman
Steve Burke

All 300 poets are listed here on our website.
Pre-order the anthology here!

Virtual Poetry Reading: "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" Anthology
2021-07-18 14:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Anthology
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Purhcase the Anthology
“liberty, equality, fraternity” the national motto of France
A legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, the motto “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” first appeared during the French Revolution. It was written into the 1958 constitution and is nowadays part of the French national heritage.
July 14 is the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille in 1789, the turning point in the French Revolution. Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries to the national day of France, which is celebrated on 14 July each year. In French, it is formally called Féte nationale “National Celebration” and commonly and legally le 14 juillet, “the 14th of July”
Potential Readers:

Byron Beynon
Willeena Booker
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella
Marie-Louise Eyres
Linda Goss
Steven Halpern
Kathleen Herrmann
Joan Huffman
Jones Irwin
Irving Jones
Rachel Kiskaddon
Resolute Lee
John Mason
Helen MIRKIL
Jonathan Pessant
Begonya Plaza-Rosenbluth
Peter Prizel
David Radavich
George Schaefer
Jennifer Schneider
Bob Small
Jose Trejo Maya
Eric Wittkopf
Samantha Wright

Click here for our liberté, égalité, fraternité Anthology ($10.00, 978-1-954499-20-1)

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets with Aimee Schwartz, Taleen Postian, and Host Larry Robin
2021-07-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets with Aimee Schwartz, Taleen Postian, and Host Larry Robin
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Aimee Schwartz
Aimee Schwartz is a poet, artist, and performer. Her poetry has been featured in Moonstone Arts Center’s New Voices and APIARY as well as Widener University’s publication Widener Ink. She has co-edited, contributed poetry, flash fiction, and artwork to an anthology for Widener’s English Department (she is a Senior Criminal Justice major and Psychology minor at Widener University). Her poetry is heavily influenced by Sylvia Plath and she will often write about mental health, bullying, death, and sexual harassment. She also loves to incorporate mythology into her work.

Taleen Postian
Taleen Postian is an Armenian American poet from New York. Her writing has fallen under the realms of scientific literature, journalism, poetry, and heartfelt birthday cards. You can read her poetry in Hyebred magazine as well as Moonstone Art Center’s New Voices anthology. You can write to her at taleen.postian@gmail.com. She thanks you for reading her work.

Larry Robin – Host
Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard, Hermond Palmer, Connie Scott, and Virginia Watts
2021-07-14 19:00 | Moonstone
Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard, Hermond Palmer, Connie Scott, and Virginia Watts
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Chris Bullard, author of Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife
Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, PA. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry, and The Offbeat. Grey Book Press published his chapbook, “Continued,” in May of 2020.

Hermond Palmer, author of Aquarian Love Poems
Hermond Palmer is a poet, author, and songwriter who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep, Words to Fill the Light in You, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen.

Connie Wasem Scott, author of Predictable as Fire
Connie Wasem Scott makes her home among the pine trees and maples in Spokane, WA, where she teaches writing and literature at Spokane Falls Community College and spends as much time as she can enjoying the outdoors with her Aussie-American husband. Her first full collection, I Come to Know Thirst, was recently accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press (publishing date TBA). Her most recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal, The Shore, Cirque, Streetlight, Wild Roof, and Citron Review.

Virginia Watts, author of The Werewolves of Elk Creek
Virginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in Illuminations, The Florida Review, CRAFT, Sunspot Literary Journal, Sky Island Journal, Permafrost Magazine, Bacopa Literary Review, Streetlight Magazine among others. Winner of the 2019 Florida Review Meek Award in nonfiction and nominee for Best of the Net Nonfiction 2019 and 2020, she has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.

Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: Research and Poetic Practice with Jena Osman, Orchid Tierney, and Host Charles S. Carr
2021-07-06 18:30 | Moonstone
Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: Research and Poetic Practice with Jena Osman, Orchid Tierney, and Host Charles S. Carr
Watch the live broadcast: Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch

Documents in the Archive: Research and Poetic Practice
How and why do poets conduct research? In what ways do poets use the archive to write poetry? This discussion will explore archival research and how poets incorporate their findings into their work.

Jena Osman
Jena Osman’s books of poems include Motion Studies, Corporate Relations, Public Figures, The Network, An Essay in Asterisks and The Character, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. Osman was a Pew Fellow in the Arts and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Howard Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry. She founded and edited the award-winning and internationally recognized literary magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr for twelve years; Osman and Spahr now edit the occasional ChainLinks Book series together.

Orchid Tierney
Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa-New Zealand, now residing in Gambier, Ohio. Her chapbooks include Brachiation (Dunedin: Gumtree Press, 2012), The World in Small Parts (Chicago: Dancing Girl Press, 2012), Gallipoli Diaries (Gausspdf, 2017), and the full-length sound translation of Margery Kemp, Earsay (Trollthread, 2016). First collection, a year of misreading the wildcats, is out from The Operating System (2019). She received an MCW from the University of Auckland (2010), an MA from University of Otago (2013), and a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2019). She is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College.

Charles S. Carr – Host

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook
2021-07-03 14:00
Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including The Paris Poems Of Jim Morrison (Moonstone Press); Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs; St. Genevieve Watching Over Paris; and, forthcoming in 2021, The Long Way Home.
Daniel Nester‘s most recent book is Shader, a memoir. Previous books include How to Be Inappropriate, God Save My Queen I and II, and The Incredible Sestina Anthology, which Nester edited. His recent work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Collagist, Bennington Review, and Electric Literature.
Catie Rosemurgy’s poetry collections include The Stranger Manual (2010), My Favorite Apocalypse (2001), and the chapbook First the Burning (2018). Her poems have been featured in the anthologies Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Young American Poets (2004), Poetry 30 (2005), and Best American Poetry (1997).

This event, Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris July 3, 1971: A Tribute, will also feature readings from Arthur Rimbaud by Maxwell Gontarek and Léa Fougerolle and William Blake & The Eternals.
Jennifer Hook, Host

Virtual Poetry Reading: Samuel R. Delaney Reads Occasional Views Volume 1: "More About Writing" and Other Essays
2021-06-30 19:00
Virtual Poetry Reading: Samuel R. Delaney Reads Occasional Views Volume 1: “More About Writing” and Other Essays
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany is an acclaimed writer of literary theory, queer literature, and fiction. His “prismatic output is among the most significant, immense and innovative in American letters,” wrote novelist Jordy Rosenberg in the New York Times in 2019. Occasional Views: “More About Writing” and Other Essays is an anthology of essays, lectures, and interviews addresses topics such as 9/11, race, the garden of Eden, the interplay of life and writing, and notes on other writers such as Theodore Sturgeon, Hart Crane, Ursula K. Le Guin, Hölderlin, and an introduction to―and a conversation with―Octavia E. Butler. The first of two volumes, this book gathers more than 30 pieces on films, poetry, and science fiction. These sharp, focused writings by a bestselling Black and gay author are filled with keen insights and observations on culture, language, and life.

In 2016, Samuel R. Delany was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. He is the author of Babel-17, Nova, Dhalgren, Dark Reflections, Atlantis: Three Tales, the Return to Nevèrÿon series, an autobiography, The Motion of Light in Water, and the paired essays “Times Square Red / Times Square Blue”. Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award for 2008, and in 2015 he won the Nicolas Guillén Award for Philosophical Literature, and in 1997 the Kessler Award for LGBTQ Studies. Delany has also won four Nebula Awards from the Science Fiction Writers of America and two Hugo Awards from the World Science Fiction Convention. In 2013, he was made a Grand Master of Science Fiction, following in the steps of Asimov, Heinlein, and Le Guin.

Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lucille Clifton
2021-06-27 14:00
Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lucille Clifton
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010)
Her first book of poems, Good Times (1969), was rated one of the best books of the year by the New York Times.
Lucille Clifton was the author of several other collections of poetry, including Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000, which won the National Book Award; Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and Two-Headed Woman, also a Pulitzer Prize nominee as well as the recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize. Clifton was also the author of Generations: A Memoir and more than sixteen books for children, written expressly for an African-American audience.
“In contrast to much of the poetry being written today—intellectualized lyricism characterized by an application of inductive thought to unusual images—Lucille Clifton’s poems are compact and self-sufficient…Her revelations then resemble the epiphanies of childhood and early adolescence, when one’s lack of preconceptions about the self-allowed for brilliant slippage into the metaphysical, a glimpse into an egoless, utterly thingful and serene world.” – Rita Dove
Send us a Praise poem or Tribute to Lucille Clifton
Deadline for submissions: June 18, 2021 | Click here to submit
Program: June 27, 2021

Virtual Poetry Reading: Angel Hogan and Stephanie Durann with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
2021-06-23 19:00
Virtual Poetry Reading: Angel Hogan and Stephanie Durann with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Angel Hogan
Angel Hogan is an activist, poet and filmmaker pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Drexel University. She has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival, Literary Death Match, Moonstone Presents, First Person Arts and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She worked with ArtWell, was a Contributing Editor to Philadelphia Stories, and a review panelist for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. Angel is interested in storytelling as a vehicle for visibility and community building. Her documentary, By Law, By Love: A Documentary about Family, Race and Identity, was completed in 2019. See more at: www.angelhogan.com.

Stephanie Durann
Stephanie Durann is a writer from Philadelphia, PA who has performed under various reading series, festivals, and cabarets in the city including Poets and Prophets, LadyFest Philly, and Black Women’s Arts Festival, She was also a participant in the National Book Foundation Summer Writing Camp in 2004. Stephanie has also worked as a freelance journalist, covering arts events in the city. As a devotee to music, Stephanie also works as a part-time live sound engineer and sound editor. One of her several dream jobs is to write and produce a podcast.

Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook, Hosts — Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets: Nina Gadson, Lindsay Hargrave, and China Rain with Larry Robin
2021-06-19 14:00
Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets: Nina Gadson, Lindsay Hargrave, and China Rain with Larry Robin
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nina Gadson
Nina Gadson grew up In North Philadelphia where roses grow out of concrete. She 18 years old and soon to graduate high school. Poetry has always been a way to express herself and relate to others; it is her strength, passion, and gift from God. She believes if she can inspire and have a positive or informative impact on others, it is a job well done.

Lindsay Hargrave
Lindsay Hargrave is a writer with recent and forthcoming publications in giallo, Button Eye Review, Maudlin House, Wrongdoing, Rust + Moth and more. Lindsay reads poems with the improvised music group Oarsman and the indie pop band Mỹ Tâm and serves as managing editor for Rejection Letters. Twitter: @notporkroll.

China Rain
China Rain is a 22-year-old student at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is a writer as well as a visual artist. Her work focuses mostly on the anxieties and uncomfortableness we tend to try to avoid. She loves the color green and will recommend the book Love by Leo Buscaglia to anyone. Links to current projects, poems, and animations can be found on her Instagram @china_rainnn.

Larry Robin, Host – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sean Hanrahan, Michael Angelo Abreu, Valerie Little, and Valerie Nies with Elijah Pringle
2021-06-16 19:00
Virtual Poetry Reading: Sean Hanrahan, Michael Angelo Abreu, Valerie Little, and Valerie Nies with Elijah Pringle
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Sean Hanrahan
A Chapbook in 49 Days Workshop Facilitator, Sean Hanrahan, is the author of the full-length poetry collection Safer Behind Popcorn (Cajun Mutt 2019) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (Moonstone Press 2018) and Gay Cake (Toho 2020). He is head poetry editor for Toho, serves on the Moonstone Press Editorial Board, writes poetry reviews for Mad Poets, and hosts a poetry series at Moonstone.

Michael Angelo Abreu
To read the Zen-like poetry of Michael Angelo Abreu is to fall in love with language again. Each line has the beauty and grace of a dragon fly’s delicate wing or a flower’s gentle petal. His poetry paces away from the noise of survival to the tranquility of living. His chapbook, Amor de Naturaleza, is forthcoming through Toho Publishing.

Valerie Little
Pennsylvania native Valerie Little’s non-fiction work has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she has a forthcoming chapbook, Little Blue Primer, through Toho Publishing. She lives in Minneapolis where she is a violist and orchestra librarian with the Minnesota Orchestra.

Valerie Nies
Valerie Nies’ poetry is woven with vibrant imagery that transports you to “the then now” that created the poem. She writes with the surefootedness of a ledge-walker making a path along a cliff. She is scheduled to release a chapbook entitled Imaginary Frenemies through Toho Publishing.

Elijah Pringle, Host — Open Reading Follows

E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Daisy Fried, Micheline Maylor, and Thaddeus Rutkowski with John Wall Barger
2021-06-09 19:00
E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Daisy Fried, Micheline Maylor, and Thaddeus Rutkowski with John Wall Barger
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]

Daisy Fried
Daisy Fried’s fourth book, The Year the City Emptied: After Baudelaire, is forthcoming from Flood Editions in 2022. She is the author of three other books of poetry: Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It, all from the Pitt Poetry Series. She has been awarded Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships. Recent poems have been published in Paris Review, The Nation, Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, Zocalo, At Length, and PN Review. She is a poetry critic, poetry editor for the journal Scoundrel Time and a member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia.

Micheline Maylor
Micheline Maylor is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Calgary (2016-18) and was the Calgary Public Library Author in Residence in Fall, 2016. She teaches creative writing at Mount Royal University. Her most recent book Little Wildheart was long-listed for both the Pat Lowther and Raymond Souster awards. She is the poetry editor at Frontenac House Press and the Co-Founder of Freefall Literary Society. Find her online at www.michelinemaylor.com.

Thaddeus Rutkowski
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of seven books, most recently Tricks of Light, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s members’ choice award. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

John Wall Barger, Host — Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin
2021-06-02 19:00
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: [REDACTED]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin

Terence Culleton
Terence Culleton’s new book is A Tree and Gone, he is also author of A Communion of Saints and Eternal Life. He publishes in diverse magazines and reviews and reads widely throughout the Philadelphia region, as well as in northeastern PA and New York. His work has been featured on radio and cable TV shows in Pennsylvania and New York. and on NPR, and he has won a number of prizes and awards both for his poetry and his teaching. His work has also been set to music and recorded by Vermont composer Don Jamison for his book and CD Far Heaven, as well as by Darryl Harper and Onus for their CD Stories in Real Time. Terence lives in Langhorne PA, just outside Philadelphia, where he’s taught writing and literature for forty years.

Ernest Hilbert
Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer and book reviewer for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018, and his poems appear in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, The New Republic, American Scholar, and the London Review. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com.

Don Riggs
Don Riggs has written verse since sixth grade. Influenced by the Beats and sonnet traditions, he integrates his drawing and words. Don has been writing a daily 14-line poem for over a decade now. “This focus on the purely formal allows my subconscious mind to feed me whatever inspiration it will; I go through my daily texts and cull the few that appeal to me, printing up only the best of those, and then selecting out of those the poems that I, at last, feel good about.” Don teaches first-year writing, Science Fiction, and related courses through Drexel University.

Larry Robin, Host — Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Mike Cohen and Connie on Poetry & Humor with Charles S. Carr
2021-06-01 18:30
2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Charles S. Carr talks with Mike Cohen, Writer, and Connie

Watch the live broadcast at Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch
In the beginning, Mike Cohen started on his complete works, which remain a work-in-progress. Along the way, he discovered the wisdom of youth and its foolishness. He discovered the wisdom of age and its foolishness. He discovered young love and its foolishness. He discovered true love. He has meandered and stumbled and lurched and found no answers, but many, many satisfying ways to phrase the questions. Mike Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store. His articles on sculpture regularly appear in the Schuylkill Valley Journal in which he is a contributing editor.

His colleague in these endeavors is also his constant companion, cohabitant, cohort, and confidante, Connie, who keeps Mike and his writing from going off-kilter. Mike’s wry writing has appeared in the Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and other journals. His poetic presentations feature humor and drama against a philosophical backdrop. Mike likes to bring poetry and audiences to life in cafes, libraries, book stores and venues including Princeton’s Café Improv, the Pen and Pencil Club, the Hedgerow Theatre, Fergie’s Pub, Harlem’s Apollo Theater, and neither least nor last, Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery.

People often ask about a poet’s process. Connie is integral to my process. My first reader, primary audience, she gives me invaluable feedback and insight on the potential reaction to my writing. She took an interest in poetry for my benefit. She attends the Philadelphia Writers Conference, she says, so she can better help me with my poems. She writes sparingly, but when I entered one of her poems in a contest at the conference, Connie won first prize in poetry. Her poem was not a humorous one, but poetry is a funny thing.
Charles S. Carr, Host
