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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella\, Nycir Keen\, & Charles O’Hay
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella\, Nycir Keen\, & Charles O’Hay\nWednesday July 22\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nJane-Rebecca Cannarella is the author of Better Bones and Marrow; as well as an editor at HOOT Review\, a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket\, and a sometimes contributor at SSG Music. She likes: playing toy instruments\, the ocean\, symbolic use of bathtubs\, and hanging out with her cats. Feed her candy and validation to receive her eternal gratitude. She loves Philadelphia \nNycir Keen is a Philly based poet and playwright with roots in slam poetry. A member of the Collective Mic as well as House Poet and a former performer for the Gullah Traveling Theater. Founder of the Day Trolley\, a writing circle and yearly open mic in west philly\, Nycir has a passion for facilitating creative and safe spaces for writers. In 2024\, Nycir wrote and directed his first short screenplay\, “Renaissance///Addiction”. Today he is still active in the poetry scene\, moving between Beaufort South Carolina and the Philadelphia area to cultivate his own work and find new writers to work with\, share with and create with. \nCharles O’Hay is a Philly-based poet whose work has appeared in over 250 publications including the New York Quarterly\, Mudfish\, and Gargoyle. His collections include Far from Luck and Smoking in Elevators. His third collection\, The Flame Orchard\, is due for release from Rose Violet Publishers in 2026 \nAnne-Adele Wight Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jane-rebecca-cannarella-nycir-keen-charles-ohay/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:House Poet Presents: Juniper Danger & Thalia Geiger
DESCRIPTION:House Poet Presents: Juniper Danger & Thalia Geiger\nWednesday July 29\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nJuniper Danger is a Philly based queer poet and science teacher. She loves filling her house with people and those people with soup. You can find her work in Collide Zine and Voicemail Poems\, and her Instagram is @androjunous \nThalia Geiger is a poet and fiction writer\, author of the chapbook Wild Like a Woman\, and her debut poetry collection\, Red Death\, Purple Dark\, is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing. She is the winner of Black Fox Literary’s 2025 Summer Fox Tales Contest\, and her work has been featured in New York Quarterly\, Allegory Ridge\, Coffin Bell\, Grim & Gilded and more. She hails from Philadelphia\, where she works in journal publishing. You can find her on Instagram and BlueSky @thalierr\, and on Substack at thalierr.substack.com \nWarren C. Longmire – Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-juniper-danger-thalia-geiger/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry: David Livewell
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series with David Livewell\nTuesday\, August 4\, 2026 \n6:30pm – Live Broadcast \nWatch live on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nDavid Livewell was raised in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia. He won the 2012 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his first book\, Shackamaxon. His poems have appeared in The Hudson Review\, The Threepenny Review\, Dark Horse\, Poetry\, The Yale Review\, American Life in Poetry\, The Hopkins Review\, and other journals.  He received a 2025 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and lives with his family just outside Philadelphia. His latest collection\, Pass and Stow\, is out now from Paul Dry Books. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-david-livewell/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Stevie Edwards\, Mike Jurkovic and Joe Roarty
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Stevie Edwards\, Mike Jurkovic and Joe Roarty\nWednesday August 5\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nStevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry Editor of The South Carolina Review. \nMike Jurkovic\, 2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. President Calling All Poets Series. Co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series.\n\nJoe Roarty –   Anyone who has seen local legend\, Joe Roarty\, perform at Fergie’s Pub or other venues around Philadelphia knows to expect poetry that is original\, explosive\, humorous\, and\, literally\, percussive. \nAaren Perry – Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-stevie-edwards-mike-jurkovic-and-joe-roarty/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT - National Book Lovers Day
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT – National Book Lovers Day\nBook Lovers Day is celebrated on the 9th of August every year. This is an unofficial holiday observed to encourage bibliophiles to celebrate reading and literature. People are advised to put away their smartphones and every possible technological distraction and pick up a book to read. Book Lovers Day is widely recognized on global scale yet its origin and creator remain unknown to date. \nLink to Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f7cHnTsGSLGnHbzv4dA2jQ \n  \n 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260816T140000
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SUMMARY:Recent Publications: Regina Dilgen\, Wendell Hawken\, Beth Konkoski\, & Sophia Pinto Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Recent Poetry Books from Moonstone Press: Regina Dilgen\, Wendell Hawken\, Beth Konkoski\, & Sophia Pinto Thomas\nSunday August 16\, 2pm ET – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3i7OYv8sRwqh_OHp-K-cAQ \nRegina’s new book is Back from the River\, $11.00  \nRegina Dilgen was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Poughkeepsie\, New York. She served as Professor of English and Department Chair at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth\, Florida\, and she holds a Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University.  Her poetry has been published  in Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets\, Poetry South\, Blueline\, redrosethorns\,  Earth’s Daughters\, Quartler(ly)\, The Dewdrop\, Persimmon Tree\, Passager\,  and Apollo’s Lute. Regina attended the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Sicily\, and she was a featured poet at a Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches reading. \nWendell’s new book is Slinky on the Bottom\, $11.00  \n \nWendell Hawken (she/her) earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. Publications include four chapbooks and six full collections. Hawkens was named the inaugural Post Laureate of Millwood VA\, an unincorporated quirky village in the northern Shenandoah Valley where she lives. \nBeth’s new book is Hold Near the Middle\, $11.00  \nBeth Konkoski is a writer and high school English teacher living in Virginia where she spends as much time as possible listening to the sounds of a pen across the page and water across rocks. Her poetry has been published in journals such as: The American Journal of Poetry\, Mid-Atlantic Review\, and The Potomac Review. She is the author of A Drawn & Papered Heart\, a collection of short and flash fiction that won the 2023 Acacia Prize for Short Fiction and was published by Kallisto Gaia Press in 2024. \nSophia’s new book is Floodings\, $11.00 \nSophia Pinto Thomas is a poet from Boston\, Massachusetts. She enjoys experimenting with the possibilities of rhyme\, learning from thetrials of young adulthood\, and observing the wonders of the natural world. Sophia is an eco-poet\, world-maker\, and eternal student. Her first poetry book\, “Alchemies\, Arrivals”\, was published with QuillKeepers press in 2025.
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