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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven\, Pat Rodgers\, and Robert Zell
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Koven\, author of Palm Lines\, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize\, and Mystic Orchards\,  Grew up on Long Island\, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University\, works as a technical writer\, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Delana\, and their cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. He has had both fiction and poetry published\, by Assure Press\, Animal Heart Press\, Thirty West Publishing\, and more. \nPat Rodgers is a poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in Neptune and several Moonstone anthologies. Recall is the title of his first chapbook. \nRobert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine\, North of Oxford\, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club. \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jonathan-koven-pat-rodgers-and-robert-zell/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Elliott Levin\, Ursula Rucker\, and Yolanda Wisher
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Elliott Levin\, Ursula Rucker\, and Yolanda Wisher\nWednesday January 10\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoc-msrDgjGNDxkIxf_eV0ZxVv2dn-IOG61/17/2024 \nElliott Levin\, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. Whatever it is jazz performers do when they blow into their horn as Levin does a lot of it\, on tenor saxophone and flute. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances\, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience and to the chagrin of hipsters who insist jazz poetry is a form of torture\, worse than cold showers. Other listeners might find the entire free jazz experience itself torture\, in which case it’s back to the beginning as far as advice regarding Levin: there is nothing watered-down or weak about his performances\, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible to the novices\, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy. \nUrsula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet\, performer\, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history\, family\, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Rucker has released five albums and collaborated with a wide range of artists outside of the field of poetry\, including The Roots\, musicians and Pew Fellows Jamaaladeen Tacuma and King Britt\, and\, most recently\, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Clarence Williams III. \n“I stand for poetry as a source of profound truth. That truth\, for me\, is connected to the idea that cities are places that redeem our strivings and leave us longing; the ways family life shapes and shakes us\, and brings us back; and the thought that artists safeguard stories and struggles” Ursula Rucker \nYolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania\, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia\, and currently serves as chair of the Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. She co-founded Germantown Poetry Festival and served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts from\, founded of School of Guerrilla Poetics\, a training ground for folks interested in nurturing and mobilizing communities through poetryand with Trapeta B. Mayson she co-founded ConsenSIS\, an initiative that seeks to count\, gather\, and memorialize Black femme poets in the Philadelphia area. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow\, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change\, and last year\, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow. \nLarry Robin\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-elliott-levin-ursula-rucker-and-yolanda-wisher/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock\nTuesday January 9\, 2023 @ 6:30pm  VIRTUAL \nWatch for free on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n \nAutumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook\, Dirt Bird\, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press\, and poems of hers have appeared in The Account\, Cimarron Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and The Georgia Review\, among others. She is Poetry Editor of Doubleback Review. Find her online at autumnmcclintock.com.  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-autumn-mcclintock/
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis
DESCRIPTION:Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr\nWednesday January 3\, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub \nRegistration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B \nCharles S. Carr from Philadelphia graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 years.  Charles has been a lay missionary for Hands Together raising money to serve the poorest of the poor in Haiti.  He has two books of poems paradise\, pennsylvania\, (Cradle Press\, 2009) and Haitian Mudpies and Other Poems\, (Moonstone Press\, 2013).  In 2008\, one of Charles’s poems won first place in Mad Poets Review. His poems have been published in local and national print and online poetry journals\, For five years Charles hosted the second Tuesday Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub.  For the past seven years he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry\, a monthly broadcast from Philly CAM.  Charles has one son\, Evan\, and is married to award-winning artist Karen Stabenow. His latest chapbook is Eat This Poem with Moonstone Press.  \nProceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain. \nDavid Kertis\, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied creative writing with David Young\, and has lived in Philadelphia since 1978. He is married and works as a claims adjuster. In Philadelphia\, he has studied with Leonard Gontarek and Eleanor Wilner. He has been published on line in Frigate and Apiary and given a number of readings in the Philadelphia area. His book\, Word of the Day\, has recently been published. \nLeonard Gontarek Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/book-release-eat-this-poem-by-charles-s-carr-feat-david-kertis/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231227T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown\, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, & Lawrence Dugan
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub\n7PM ET & on Zoom\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf \n\nCydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate\, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book\, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press\, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies\, Whirlwind Magazine\, Bomb Magaine\, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP. \nLawrence Dugan’s new book\, The Sea again: Poems\, made up of poems that first appeared in magazines and journals such as Daedqlus\, Arion\, Cyphers\, The Gettysburg Review\, Nation Review  and others. He is retired from The Free Library of Philadelphia where he once ran the Monday Poets Series. \n\nLarry Robi\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-reading-cydney-brown-charles-s-carr-lawrence-dugan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Bill of Rights Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, 12/17 @ 2P EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuGpqz4rHdBXineZDgxkf1GHD6__eNeO \nDecember 15\, 1791: Ten amendments protect the most basic rights of Americans\, known as the Bill of Rights.\nThe Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments made to the United States Constitution\, and their purpose is to spell out the personal freedoms and rights of the American people. The Bill of Rights was first written on September 25\, 1789\, and was later ratified on December 15\, 1791\, which is why Bill of Rights Day is celebrated on this date.\nJoin us as poets reflect on our rights.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/bill-of-rights-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231213T190000
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SUMMARY:Paul Muldoon\, Courtney Sender\, & Patricia Davis-Muffet in Equinox Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\nWednesday\, 12/13 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom @ 7PM\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcof-6tpjsqG9XjTAb-Gp1JCqHN2E0OkAAr \nPaul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast\, he taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore\, which will be published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award\, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award\, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry\, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize\, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry\, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nCourtney Sender’s essays have appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love\, The Atlantic\, and Slate\, and her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares\, AGNI\, The Kenyon Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many others. Her debut\, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me (WVU Press 2023)\, has been called “a stunner from the very first page” by Deesha Philyaw and “literary rock ‘n’ roll” by Aimee Bender. She is currently at work on a debut novel. www.courtneysender.com \nPatricia Davis-Muffett holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her chapbook\, Alchemy of Yeast and Tears\, was published in spring 2023\, and her work appears in Atlanta Review\, Whale Road Review\, Calyx\, and About Place. Visit her at www.patriciadavismuffett.com
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/paul-muldoon-courtney-sender-patricia-davis-muffet-in-equinox-reading-series/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo & Alina Pleskova
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday December 6\, 2023 – 7PM \nLive at Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom \nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceisrj4jGdA8Joyup6aFvmbnFCF3ld1e \n  \n\nJuliet Gelfman-Randazzo is the author of the chapbook “DUH” and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Cleveland Review of Books\, Barrelhouse Magazine\, Passages North\, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics\, and The Offing\, among others. \nAlina Pleskova is author of Toska\, a poet\, editor\, and Moscow-born immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. You can find her work in various places\, and her spirit in the astral realm. \n\nAmy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-reading-juliet-gelfman-randazzo-alina-pleskova/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231205T183000
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Reading Series: Evan Wang
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, December 5 @ 6:30 PM EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY\nCan be viewed on the PhillyCAM website\, Cable 66/966HD/967\nor Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 In Philadelphia\n  \n王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania\, the 2023 Jacklyn Potter Young Poet\, and the current editor-in-chief of Hominum Journal. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal\, RHINO\, Rust + Moth\, and more\, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Evan has performed at various venues such as Love Park\, the Oval XP\, Chinatown Friendship Arch\, and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania\, and has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry\, TEDx\, NPR\, the Miami Book Fair\, Wawa Welcome America\, The Adroit Journal\, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro\, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation\, and more. \n\nCharles S. Carr Hosts.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-reading-series-evan-wang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231203T140000
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SUMMARY:Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 3 @ 2PM EDT–VIRTUAL ONLY\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-yprD0pGtBXNxHxU9ZE1Z1Zu8CaUbPs \nAustrian poet and novelist acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet\, Rainer Maria Rilke’s work has undertones of mysticism\, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus\, Letters to a Young Poet. The Sonnets to Orpheus are a cycle of 55 sonnets.\nJoin us as poets praise Rilke or present poems inspired by him.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-rainer-maria-rilke/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T203000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jim Cory\, Peter F. Murphy\, & Sekai'afua Zankel
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 29 — 7PM LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcumpqD4sG9xoEzReApFvVfqvS36PY7KL \nJim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings\, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems Recent essays include “What makes a queen a queen?” in the Gay & Lesbian Review\, “ Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra” in New Haven Review\, and “Where’s the hotboy going tonight?” in Chelsea Station. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council\, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. \nPeter F. Murphy is author of two poetry books: Maps of Three Continents and Underwater and teaches at Murray State University. His books include Studs\, Tools\, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By\, Fictions of Masculinity\, and Feminism and Masculinities. His essays and reviews have been published in\, among others\, The Review of Contemporary Fiction\, Twentieth Century Literature\, Modern Fiction Studies\, College Literature\, Signs\, and Feminist Studies. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review and New Madrid. \nSekai’afua Zankel\, actor\, writer\, and poet\, She is the author of Behind These Eyes/Optical Poems\, and a winner of the Leeway Foundation\, Art and Change Grant for her Poetry Play\, Miss Pearl’s Spirit: In the Mysteries of Mirrors. Her poems have been published In the CAP literary magazine\, “Poetry Ink”\, several Anthologies\, and in “Apiary”\, 7 Power Issue. Sekai lives in Philadelphia with her husband\, musician Bobby Zankel.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jim-cory-peter-f-murphy-sekaiafua-zankel/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Pheralyn Dove\, & Joseph Farley
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 22\, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-qsrDgqHddl-HC4vUoC0r-JRYbaeol6 \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book\, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press\, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies\, Whirlwind Magazine\, Bomb Magazine\, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP. \nPheralyn Dove\, a.k.a. Lady Dove\, is a writer\, jazz poet\, photographer\, collage artist\, and hopelessly optimistic romantic. She lives her life in a state of perpetual gratitude. A graduate of Hampton University\, Pheralyn’s aspirations are guided by Spirit. Her intellectual and creative work are informed by The Struggle for the Liberation of all African People throughout The Diaspora\, Cultural Preservation\, and Emotional Healing. She is the author of PARADOXES: An Illustrated Book of True-Life Stories. www.pheralyndove.com \nJoseph Farley edited Axe Factory from 1986 to 2010 and ran Cynic Press from 2000 to 2010. He is the author of 12 poetry collections including Yellow Brick Pilgrim (Alien Buddha Press\, 2023)\, Written In The Sand (Alien Buddha Press\, 2023) and Longing For The Mother Tongue (March Street Press\, 2010). His fiction books include Labor Day (Peasantry Press)\, Farts And Daydreams (Dumpster  Fire Press)\, and Once Upon A Time In Whitechapel (Alien Buddha Press).
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-savannah-cooper-ramsey-pheralyn-dove-joseph-farley/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231119T140000
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SUMMARY:New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023\nNovember 19th at 2pm\nVia Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP\n\nCelebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!\n\nNew Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.\n\n\n\nWe tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience\, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.\n\n\nJoin us on November 19th at 2pm online to support the next generation of poets and writers.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-fall-2023-virtual-reading/
CATEGORIES:Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T180000
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SUMMARY:New Voices Fall 2023: Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023\nNovember 16th at 6pm\nHosted: Parkway Central Library\, 1901 Vine Street\nIn cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia\n\nCelebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!\n\nNew Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.\n\n\n\nWe tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience\, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.\n\n\nJoin us on November 16th at 6pm at the Literature Department of the Parkway Central location of the Philadelphia Free Library.\n\nA virtual reading will be held on November 19th as well for poets who are not local to Philadelphia.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-fall-2023-live-reading/
LOCATION:Parkway Central Library\, 1901 Vine St
CATEGORIES:Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Erica Abbott\, Adriann "Justthepen" Toombs Bautista\, Kate Carey\, Anne-Adele Wight\, & John Wojtowicz
DESCRIPTION:Erica Abbott\, Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista\, Kate Carey\, Anne-Adele Wight\, & John Wojtowicz\nWednesday\, November 15 @ 7PM\nLive @ Fergie’s Pub: 1214 Sansom St. & on Zoom\nZoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucO2gqj0qEtDvbu6-vUf_fJNvAwVhOMaS \nErica Abbott (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Stone Circle Review\, Shō Poetry Journal\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Philadelphia Stories\, Midway Journal\, and other journals. She is the author of Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship\, is a Best of the Net nominee\, and is a poetry editor for Variant Literature. She is pursuing her MFA at Randolph College starting this winter. Visit her website at erica-abbott.com. \nAdriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista\, is a native of Philadelphia\, Grant Administrator at Moses/Weitzman Health Center located in CT\, Poet\, Workshop Facilitator\, Founder and CEO of Just The Pen\, LLC\, Founder of Just The Pen Foundation\, Founder & Facilitator of The SisterStrength Symposium and Creator and host of “Talks with Just The Pen”. Adriann’s published works include Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King\, Sanctuary of Snow\, SisterStrength:She/Her/We/Me and in over 15 various anthologies. Adriann has read her life poetry at many venues throughout the Tri-State Area and beyond. \nKate Carey(she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings are hard. Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction\, she touches on issues relating to trauma\, fat liberation\, mental illness and sexuality. December 2022’s Hot Poet in the Bullshit Lit x Olney magazine Hot Poets calendar and producer of Philadelphia’s Slutty Poems Night\, you can find more about her & her work at https://www.katemcarey.com/ and on twitter @oldbae_fries \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment\, The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult\, all from BlazeVOX. For four years she curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket. Her work has been published internationally in print and online and includes appearances in Poets and Writers\, The Adroit Journal\, Luna Luna\, Apiary\, Bedfellows\, Oz Burp\, Have Your Chill\, and Read On 2. She lives and writes in Philadelphia. \nJohn Wojtowicz is author of Roadside Attractions: a Poetic Guide to American Oddities. He teaches social work at Stockton University\, been featured on Rowan University’s Writer’s Roundtable\, his poems were in Princeton University’s 2021 Unique Minds: Creative Voices art exhibition. He has also published in Rattle\, Split Rock Review\, Soundings East\, Ekphrastic Review South Florida Poetry Journal and others. \nSean Hanrahan Hosts.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-erica-abbott-adriann-justthepen-toombs-bautista-kate-carey-anne-adele-wight-john-wojtowicz/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Michael Miller @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nTuesday\, November 14\, 6:30 PM EDT\nVIRTUAL: Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website\nor Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia  \nMichael Miller is a Spoken Word Artist/Poet who has served 8 years in the Maine Corps and 7 years in the Army/ Army National Guard. He served in Afghanistan amongst other military installations. His new mission in life is to bridge the gap of understanding in civilians about the military experience and the aftermath of serving.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/michael-miller-phillycam/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Anna Prader\, Jonathan Todd\, & Leonard Gontarek
DESCRIPTION:Anna Prader\, Jonathan Todd\, & Leonard Gontarek\nWednesday November 8\, 2023 @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. \n1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom \nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApcuuuqjosGN2LvQ3zzR2f-PsJwKGmqmve \nAnna Prader lives and writes in Philadelphia with her three children. She believes in poetry that betrays codes of social decency and tells the truth instead. She works in harm reduction and peer support\, and she would like to take a nap. \nJonathan Todd is a poet/musician/Buddhist/anarchist and generally confused individual. His poems attempt to find moments between and within labor\, fusing ideas about emptiness\, collectivity\, and absurdity. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others. \nLeonard Gontarek is the author of The Long Way Home; Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket\, Shiva; and The Paris Poems of Jim Morrison. His poems have appeared in Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry and The Best American Poetry. His poem\, 37 Photos From The Bridge\, selected by Alice Quinn\, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges MotionPoems project and the basis for the award-winning film sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. \nThirty-Seven Photos from the Bridge by Leonard Gontarek
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-anna-prader-and-jonathan-todd/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live at Fergie's Pub: No River Twice Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:No River Twice: An interactive poetry reading with Chad Frame\, Joanne Leva and Hayden Saunier\, with special guests Charles Carr\, Ona Gritz\, and Shawn R. Jones\nWednesday\, November 1 @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom \nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpd-uhrD8iE9bkoCmSXYzn-GnHqhrzqlrM\n\nNo River Twice creates interactive poetry readings where audiences and a group of poets actively determine the direction of the reading\, poem by poem\, beginning to end\, creating readings that are never the same twice. And then we make a poem of it. Jump in!  More information about us at www.norivertwice.org\n\nChad Frame is the author of Little Black Book\, Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program\, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo\, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work has appeared in Rattle\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, and elsewhere\, including on iTunes from the Library of Congress\, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.\n\nJoanne Leva\, an advocate for creative writing and community service\, is the founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and author of the poetry collections Eve Would Know  and Eve Heads Back.\n\nHayden Saunier is the author of five books of poetry and her most recent is A Cartography of Home.  Her work has won a Pushcart Prize\, Rattle Poetry Prize\, and Pablo Neruda Award and has been published in journals such as Plume\, 32 Poems\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pedestal\, Thrush\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the founder and director of No River Twice.\n\nSpecial Guests:\n\nCharles Carr of Philadelphia has two published books of poems\, paradise\,pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles has been active in the Philadelphia poetry community for 20 years and he hosted a Moonstone Arts Center Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub for 5 years and is currently the host of a live monthly broadcast Philly Loves Poetry now in its seventh season.  Eat This Poem\, a Chapbook of Charles’s poems published by Moonstone Arts\, will be released in November.  Proceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain.\n\nOna Gritz’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Bellevue Literary Review\, River Teeth\, Catamaran Literary Reader\, One Art\, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Everywhere I Look\, Ona’s memoir\, will be on March 12\, 2024. She also has two verse novels for teens forthcoming. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays\, a Best Life Story in Salon\, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project.\n\nShawn R. Jones was born in Hartford\, Connecticut and grew up in Atlantic City\, New Jersey. She is a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Fellow\, and her poetry collection\, Date of Birth\, has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Womb Rain (2008) and A Hole to Breathe (2015). Her work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly\, New Ohio Review\, Cider Review\, Passengers Journal\, Rattle\, Essence\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-at-fergies-pub-no-river-twice-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Remembering Sylvia Plath on the 80th Anniversary of Her Death\, VIRTUAL
DESCRIPTION:Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965)\, as well as The Bell Jar\, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. The Collected Poems was published in 1981\, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982\, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously. \nJoin us as poets remember and praise her. \nZoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfumoqj0tHdaENGdEFTMOKcVXcP-utDIH
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-sylvia-plath-on-the-80th-anniversary-of-her-death-virtual/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231025T210000
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SUMMARY:The Poet's Story: House Party
DESCRIPTION:The Poet’s Story: House Party\, with Ernest Hill and poet Lynn Levin\nWednesday October 25\, 2023 @ 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom \nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rduuvpzIoH9BGVWgfaei8XDxUJdsqmt27 \nThe Poet’s Story: Ernest Hilbert in conversation with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories\, House Parties \nWhat’s it like to turn from writing poems to writing short stories? Poet and critic Ernest Hilbert speaks with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories House Parties ($20.00\, Spuyten Duyvil\, 2023)\, named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine. How is the fiction writing process different from the poetry writing process? What new themes and moods emerge in the House Parties stories? A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. \nCalled one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College)\, Lynn Levin is a poet\, writer\, longtime professor of English at Drexel University\, and\, for many years\, was a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Magazine’s June 2023 issue named Levin’s debut collection of short stories House Parties one of the best books of summer\, calling the stories “vivid\, funny\, and quietly powerful…House Parties may break your heart\, but it’ll never do it the same way twice.” Levin is the author of five previous collections of poems. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com. \nErnest Hilbert is the author Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan (selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize) and Last One Out. Storm Swimmer\, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. He works as a rare book dealer and book critic for The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Fine Books and Collections. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018\, and his poems appear in Yale Review\, American Poetry Review\, BOMB\, Harvard Review\, Parnassus\, Sewanee Review\, Hudson Review\, Boston Review\, The New Republic\, American Scholar\, and the London Review. In 2023 he was awarded the Meringoff Writing Award for Poetry from the Association of Literary Scholars\, Critics\, and Writers. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-poets-story-house-party/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: elijah b pringle\, III\, joe roarty\, and George Schaefer
DESCRIPTION:elijah b pringle\, III\, joe roarty\, and George Schaefer\nWednesday October 18\, 2023 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdumqpjMsEt3XU14E0f2jxu84yhbF5pW9 \nelijah b pringle\, III is an internationally published American poet from Philadelphia\, PA.  His works appears in several international anthology: Compagnia de’ Colombari’s Whitman on Walls\, 99 Poets for the 99 Percent\, Selfhood\, Moonstone Poetry Ink 25th Anniversary Anthology\, and Aquarius Press critical acclaimed anthology on the continuation of the Black Arts Movement – Black Fire This Time. Overall\, he has appeared in nearly 40 anthologies and journals since the turn of this century.  Constantly evolving and exploring\, he has maintained a voice that consistently reveals his keen insight into the “human experiment”\, as he would say \njoe roarty written & read poetry in Chgo\, New York & Philadelphia-he has 2 chapbooks including MORITAT published by Moonstone Press-this year his first full length collection SHOWTUNES was brought out by Iniquity/Vendetta Press \nGeorge Schaefer is a Philly born poet\, philosopher and prankster\,  He started writing poetry in high school in a ill fated attempt to impress girls.  It didn’t work so he kept writing and trying to hone the craft.  Over 4 decades later\, he’s still writing and trying to make sense of the world \nSean Hanrahan Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-elijah-b-pringle-iii-jonathan-koven-joe-roarty-and-george-schaefer/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jared Harél\, Vasiliki Katsarou\, and Martin Wiley
DESCRIPTION:Jared Harél\, Vasiliki Katsarou\, and Martin Wiley\nWednesday October 11\, 2023 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street\nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocOutqzwqE9w5cBXchawlmvcizTnhmYqD \nJared Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject\, winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in and Go Because I Love You. He’s been awarded the ‘Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize’ from American Poetry Review\, as well as the ‘William Matthews Poetry Prize’ from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél’s poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Electric Literature\, Ploughshares\, Poem-a-Day\, The Southern Review and The Sun. He teaches writing\, plays drums\, and lives in Westchester\, NY with his wife and two kids. \n  \nVasiliki Katsarou is a Greek and American poet\, editor\, independent curator\, and sometime filmmaker. She is the author of Memento Tsunami\, Three Sea Stones\, and The Second Home. Her award-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843 was screened at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, the Harvard Film Archive\, and the Drama International Film Festival in Greece. She is a Teaching Artist at Hunterdon Art Museum and has collaborated with many arts organizations in New Jersey including the Dodge Poetry Festival\, Hopewell Theater\, ArtYard\, Panoply Books\, Ellarslie Museum\, and the Princeton Humanities Council. \n  \nMartin Wiley author of Just/More and When Did We Stop Being Cute?\, grew up confronting and embracing a world as mixed and confused as he was\, surrounded by beautiful words one minute and screamed at with hate the next. A long- time activist\, spoken-word artist\, and slam poet\, he had begun to see himself as a “recovering poet” but his children’s growing love of words dragged him\, mostly happily\, off the wagon. His work has appeared in journals like Apiary\, Philadelphia Stories\, The Northern Virginia Review\, The Northridge Review\, Conspire\, and others. \nLarry Robin Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jared-harel-vasiliki-katsarou-and-martin-wiley/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Lisa Grunberger\, Diane Sahms\, Dr Patrick James Errington\, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Grunberger\, Diane Sahms\, Dr Patrick James Errington\, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki\nWednesday October 4 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street\nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpc-ivqTovGdfkOKx4qhufU6xfFHUmLv_p \nLisa Grunberger has published two books – a collection of poetry\, Born Knowing and Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position\, which she is adapting as a stage performance called Yiddish Yoga: The Musical. She is a widely published poet in such journals as Mudfish\, The Drunken Boat\, Bridges\, Philadelphia Poets\, Paroles des Jours\, and Dialogi. Her poems have also been translated into Russian and Yiddish. Her one-woman show\, A Prayer Collector\, premiered at the Makor Center for the Arts/92 St Y. \nDiane Sahms\, a native Philadelphian\, is the author of  six poetry collections: Images of Being (Stone Garden Publishing\, 2011)\, Lights Battered Edge (Anaphora Literary Press\, 2015)\, and Night Sweat (Red Dashboard Press\, 2016)\, Handheld Mirror of the Mind\, (Kelsay Books\, 2018); Covid 19 2020 – A Poetic Journal (Moonstone Press\, 2021); most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia) – Alien Buddha Press. Her poems have appeared in a number of online and print publications.   Diane is the Poetry Editor at North of Oxford and works as a purchasing agent. \nDr Patrick James Errington is a poet\, translator\, critic\, editor\, and academic from the prairies of Alberta\, Canada. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks Glean (ignitionpress\, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press\, 2019) and the poetry collection the swailing (McGill-Queens University Press). He is a Lecturer in the School of Literatures\, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh\, where he teaches literature and creative writing and is also the primary and co-investigator on several interdisciplinary research projects. \nJoseph Thomas Makoviecki is a poet and the singer-songwriter in the indie folk band Jackson Pines. Born in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey\, Joseph has lived in New York City and Philadelphia while traveling America\, the UK\, and Ireland performing as a musician. hornpipe & other poems was written as a recipient of the 2021 Tory Dent Research Scholarship at New York University. His work has appeared in The Rational Creature\, Soupcan Magazine\, Oddball Magazine\, and more.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-lisa-grunberger-diane-sahms-dr-patrick-james-errington-and-joseph-thomas-makoviecki/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION: \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Featuring Doris Ferleger\, PhD\nTuesday October 3\, 2023 – 6:30pm  VIRTUAL\nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia.\n  \nDoris Ferleger\, PhD\, is the author of Big Silences in a Year of Rain\, As the Moon Has Breath\, Leavened\, and When You Become Snow. Among many accolades about Ferleger’s work\, Aliki Barnestone writes: These memorable poems keep singing with their insistent beauty. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review\, L.A. Review\, and South Carolina Review\, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. \nFerleger has attended esteemed writers conferences nationally and internationally including Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont and Sicily\, Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference\, Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania\, Polish Poetry Conference in Krakow\, Poland\, and Vermont College of Fine Arts Poetry Manuscript Conference. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in psychology and maintains a mindfulness based therapy practice in Wyncote PA. Ferleger uses poetry and mindfulness approaches in her practice as a way to help clients feel a sense of belonging\, acceptance and compassion for all challenges. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-3/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Remembering Pablo Neruda On the 50th Anniversary of His Death
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Pablo Neruda On the 50th Anniversary of His Death\n Virtually on Sunday October 1\, 2023 – 2pm – EDT\nRegistration Required \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdOqvrD8vEtIQEWRBwuRPNJom-LEUtNnh \nPablo Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old\, and wrote in a variety of styles\, including surrealist poems\, historical epics\, political manifestos\, a prose autobiography\, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. He was a close advisor to Chile’s socialist President Salvador Allende\, and\, when he got back to Chile after accepting his Nobel Prize in Stockholm\, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70\,000 people. Join us as poets remember and praise him.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-pablo-neruda-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-his-death/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230927T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: H. Alonzo Jennings and Dave Worrell
DESCRIPTION:H. Alonzo Jennings and Dave Worrell\nWednesday\, September 27th @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street\nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscO-opz4iHdP1mAGNBQfnceJ-5eKT_Olc \nAlonzo Jennings is an artist\, photographer\, poet\, jazz aficionado and raconteur. He is a graduate of Montclair State University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. Alonzo has written four volumes of poetry\, the latest titled ON ECHO\, JOY AND ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD. His poetry addresses themes of love\, social consciousness\, individual responsibility and the joy of being. Alonzo is author of THIS WAS JAZZ\, a book containing 160 of his photographs of legendary jazz musicians\, along with his original jazz poems and commentary on music\, art and the creative process. He hosts the award-winning Philadelphia based radio program Jazz From An Eclectic Mind on WPPM. Alonzo is available for presentations of his photography and poetry. \nDave Worrell’s verse memoir “Runnemede Boy” was published by Parnilis Media in 2023. His chapbook “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His limited-edition ekphrastic collection “Close to Home” appeared in 2015\, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant\, Canary\, Shot Glass Journal\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, U.S. 1 Worksheets\, Exit 13 and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Books from Moonstone Press: Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:New Books from Moonstone Press\nSeptember 26\, 2023 – 7pm Eastern – VIRTUAL\nZoom registration required \n https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkcO6sqzkjGtOgxLEXgialYpLRAU4sIiZw \nWith featured works from:\nBeth Bayley is a writer\, yoga instructor\, and occasional archivist who divides her time between Massachusetts and Singapore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Evening Street Review\, Ghost City Review\, Slant\, Vox Poetica\, and Neologism Poetry Journal\, among others. \nJefferson Carter has work in such journals as Carolina Quarterly\, Barrow Street\, and Rattle.  He published his ninth collection\, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems\, chosen as a Southwest Best Book of 2013.  Birkenstock Blues\, is now available through his website: jeffersoncarterverse.com. He taught writing for 30 years at Pima Community College\, the last 18 years as Writing as Department Chair.   Currently\, he’s a passionate supporter of Sky Island Alliance\, a regionally-based environmental organization. \nFlower Conroy is a LGBTQ+ writer\, NEA and MacDowell Fellow and former Key West Poet Laureate\, Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder was chosen as the winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition; A Sentimental Hairpin is forthcoming from Tolsun Books. Her poetry will/has appeared in American Poetry Review\, New England Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Michigan Quarterly Review and others. \nMarjorie Gowdy writes at home in the Blue Ridge mountains\, she has three chapbooks\, her poetry has been published in a number of journals\, including the international Friends Journal\, Artemis\, Streetlight\, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature\, and Roanoke Review. \nRichard Stimac\, author of Bricolage\, Of Water and of Stone\, and published over thirty poems in Burningword\, Clackamas\, The Examined Life Journal\, Faultline\, Havik\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Mikrokosmos\, New Plains Review\, Novus\, Penumbra\, Salmon Creek\, and Wraparound South. He published flash fiction in BarBar\, The Blue Mountain Review\, Book of Matches\, Bridge Eight\, New Feathers\, and more.  He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing\, Clepsydra\, and a fiction reader for the Marine Review. \nDaniel Williams\, recipient of the Robinson Jeffers Poetry Prize\, 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 poem\, Water Creatures in Yosemite Fall\, was awarded first place for poems in the California Federation of Chaparral Poets’ contest for 2022. \nTheresa Wyatt\, a Buffalo native\, is a retired teacher. She is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg\, and her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review\, Spillway\, Snapdragon\, steel bellow\, The Ekphrastic Review\, The Healing Muse\, The Phare\, W.W. Norton’s New Micro\, and elsewhere. She credits her artistic parents\, participation in the Siena\, Italy Program during college\, and teaching in the NYS prison system and abroad – as the major influences on her life.
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella\, Josh Dale\, Shannon Frost Greenstein\, & Christina Rosso-Schneider
DESCRIPTION:Jane-Rebecca Cannarella\, Josh Dale\, Shannon Frost Greenstein\, & Christina Rosso-Schneider\nWednesday\, September 20 @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street\nOn Zoom (Zoom registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kceCqpjwvEt0iXD0CPL_Ds58DREw-rLI0 \nJane-Rebecca Cannarella (she/her) is a writer\, editor\, and salt enthusiast living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit\, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Jane-Rebecca is the author of Better Bones\, published by Thirty West Publishing House\, Thirst and Frost by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press\, A Practical Almanac by Bottlecap Press\, Collections From a Shipwreck by Alien Buddha Press\, and Eleven-Hundred by Really Serious Literature. \nJosh Dale is a native Pennsylvanian and the author of the novella\, The Light to Never Be Snuffed (Alien Buddha Press\, 2022\,) and the poetry collection\, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West Publishing\, 2016.) He hopes you read them outside\, far away from society\, and maybe with a cat. Say hi at www.joshdale.co \nShannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “Pray for Us Sinners\,” a fiction collection with Alien Buddha Press\, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana\,” a chapbook forthcoming from Bullsh*t Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, Pithead Chapel\, Bending Genres\, Parentheses Journal\, and elsewhere. \nChristina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) is a writer\, educator\, and bookstore owner living outside of Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House\, 2021) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications\, 2020). Their writing has been nominated for Best of the Net\, Best Small Fictions\, and the Pushcart Prize. Currently\, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art and through Rosemont College’s MFA Writer’s Studio. Find them on Twitter @rosso_christina. \n                                                            Sean Hanrahan Host– Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jane-rebecca-cannarella-josh-dale-shannon-frost-greenstein-christina-rosso-schneider/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff
DESCRIPTION:E-Verse Equinox Reading Series with Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff\nWednesday September 13\, 2023 – 7pm\n  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nOn Zoom (Zoom Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsfu-opzItE9f7cd5C6rwgG98X26_pFlmY \n \nKathleen Ossip’s books include July\, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War\, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine\, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks\, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. 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\, The New Statesman\, Poetry\, The Paris Review\, and The Poetry Review (UK). She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University\, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. \nRobyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry\, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic\, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin\, 2016)\, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard\, a co-editor of Canarium Books\, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize\, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust\, at the American Academy in Rome. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. \nErnest Hilbert\, Spencer Short\, and Luke Stromberg Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-kathleen-ossip-robyn-schiff/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n  \nWatch on the PhillyCAM website\nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 (in Philadelphia)\nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \nDiane Sahms\, a native Philadelphian\, is author of six poetry collections\, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia)\, 2022\, with her latest chapbook\, Luna\, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press\, 2023. Published in North American Review\, Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Arts\, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal\, The Northern Virginia Review\, POEMS-FOR-ALL\, Valley Voices\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Chiron Review\, Southern Arizona Press\, among others\, with poems forthcoming from Tiny Seed Literary Journal & Arlington Literary Journal. Winner of several poetry awards\, including the Partisan Press Award\, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher\, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford. https://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com  & http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@dianesahms-uarnieri9258/featured  
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/diane-sahms-philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-reading/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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