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SUMMARY:The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading\n  \nRegistration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduCsrjwiEtMrMCgeWMUJulqmM7ujVoJv \n \nStruggle for Liberty – Everyone Struggles for Freedom \nIndependence Day in the US (July 4th) – Bastille Day in France (July 14th) \nThe continuing struggle for liberty is prevalent all over the world\, but there are contradictions and complexities in words like “freedom” and “liberty.” Freedom for who? Liberty to do what? Can these words even truly be defined? Readings by contributors to the Moonstone anthology
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-struggle-for-freedom-virtual-moonstone-anthology-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\nLive at Fergie’s Pub \nWednesday June 29\, 2022 – 7pm EST \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtc-ippjIjG9wawPtiJPNKdw22fqzjEDIs \nJames Shea is the author of two poetry collections\, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye\, both from Fence Books. Recipient of grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program\, Hong Kong Arts Development Council\, and National Endowment for the Arts\, he is the director of the Creative and Professional Writing Program at Hong Kong Baptist University. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDorothy Tse is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose books include Owlish and So Black. Tse has received the Hong Kong Book Prize\, Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award (Taiwan)\, and the Hong Kong Award for Creative Writing in Chinese. She has been a resident at Art Omi\, the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program\, and the Vermont Studio Center. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nRyan Wilson’s books include The Stranger World (2017)\, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize\, How to Think Like a Poet (Wiseblood\, 2019)\, and Proteus Bound: Selected Translations\, 2008-20 (Franciscan UP\, 2021). His work appears widely in periodicals such as Best American Poetry\, Five Points\, The Hopkins Review\, The New Criterion\, The Sewanee Review\, and The Yale Review. Editor-in-Chief of Literary Matters (literarymatters.org)\, he teaches at The Catholic University of America and in the M.F.A. program at The University of St. Thomas-Houston. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-e-verse-equinox-reading-series/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar\nSunday June 26\, 2022 – 2 pm \nVirtual \nRegistration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-2vqzsqG9ds6zRdZ9c866kl-iVbrBix \nJoin us for Paul Laurence Dunbar’s two hundredth birthday (born June 27\, 1872) \n“Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery over poetic material and poetic technique\, to reveal innate literary distinction in what he wrote\, and to maintain a high level of performance. He was the first to rise to a height from which he could take a perspective view of his own race. He was the first to see objectively its humor\, its superstitions\, its short-comings; the first to feel sympathetically its heart-wounds\, its yearnings\, its aspirations\, and to voice them all in a purely literary form.”—James Weldon Johnson \nReadings by contributors to the Moonstone anthology
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-reading-remembering-paul-laurence-dunbar/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson & Herman Beavers
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson & Herman Beavers\nWednesday June 22\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdeuvpjIuG9I1jgckykQGy4BbPanE4irb \n  \nNathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America\, and her new book\, Rough\, is forthcoming in 2024 from The Word Works.  Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, Nimrod\, and Plume.  She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly that informs about 500 members about literary events in the Philadelphia area.  A 1993 Pew Fellow\, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where she taught for 39 years\, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing. \n  \nHerman Beavers Distinguished Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania \, where he’s taught since 1989.  Professor Beavers teaches a section of the intermediate poetry workshop in the Creative Writing Program\, “August Wilson and Beyond\,” which brings Penn students together with West Philadelphia residents together to read August Wilson’s 20th Century Cycle. Professor Beavers latest books are Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison\, and The Vernell Poems. His poems are anthologized in Obsession: Sestinas for the Twenty-First Century\, Remembering Gwen\, Who Will Speak for America\, and Show Us Your Papers.  He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Furious Flower Poetry Center\, Modern Fiction Studies\, The Black Scholar\, The Langston Hughes Review\, and African American Review.  \nWith hosts Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook. Open Reading Follows. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-nathalie-anderson-herman-anderson/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: A Chapbook in 49 Days
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Live Poetry Reading \nSunday June 19\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdu2rrjkrE9PKXtJuraSgJDR63v-5q4eB22-Jun \n  \nA Chapbook in 49 Days with Host Sean Hanrahan \nThis course was designed to aid poets in developing a chapbook manuscript that realized its full artistic potential. Over seven weeks\, we discussed the history of the chapbook\, poem selection\, poem order\, marketing\, performance\, and the revision process. Poets received individualized feedback from the teacher and fellow students. A Reading by graduates. \n  \n \n  \nMikey Franz is a writer\, composer\, & surrealist something from the Philadelphia area. He records weird pop music under the moniker Frxnch — most recently releasing his sixth full-length record\, What It Is & What It Seemed to Be (2021). You can catch him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area or find his music on most streaming platforms. For more information\, you can follow him on Instagram @mikeyfranz. \n  \n  \n \n  \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet\, one quarter of the improvised music group Oarsman\, the author of a poetry column in the Philly Plain Dealer and a copywriter for Temple University. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Hargrave or follow @notporkroll on Twitter. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMatthew Mitchell is a writer and mathematics teacher who lives near the banks of the American River in Sacramento. His poems have appeared through The Write Launch\, Cathexis Northwest Press\, Kestrel\, and Other Rooms Press. Toho Press Online published his flash nonfiction story “The Question\,” and several of his short radio essays have appeared on KQED Public Radio. He also keeps a whimsically updated blog that considers the intersecting dimensions of how to create more widely shared urban prosperity at www.prospericity.net. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nAngela Muir is a writer and yogi who wrote most of this book under rainy Seattle skies\, with a cup of coffee in her hand. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School. She currently resides in Boston\, where she is a Teaching Fellow and graduate student at Boston College. memory of water is her debut chapbook.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-a-chapbook-in-49-days/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Mark Danowsky\, Jonathan Koven\, Louisa Schnaithmann
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Mark Danowsky\, Jonathan Koven\, Louisa Schnaithmann\nWednesday June 8\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrceihqz0jH9YoLTUs0yvwj-U4FPFu1a0w \n  \n \n  \nMark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Mark is Poetry Craft Essays Editor for Cleaver Magazine. His photography occasionally appears in Versification. He is the author of As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press) and JAWN (Moonstone Press). \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nJonathan Koven grew up on Long Island\, NY\, embraced by tree-speak\, tide’s rush\, and the love and support of his family. He works as a technical writer\, and freelance editor (and formerly head fiction editor of Toho Journal). He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Delana\, and cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. Jonathan is author of Palm Lines and Below Torrential Hill. \n  \n\n  \n \n  \nLouisa Schnaithmann is the author of Plague Love (Moonstone Press\, 2021). Her poems have received Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations\, and her most recent work has appeared in Grey Sparrow Journal and The Broadkill Review. She is the consulting editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry and lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-mark-danowsky-jonathan-koven-louisa-schnaithmann/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Iain Haley Pollock with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \n699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Phila. \nIain Haley Pollock is the author of Ghost\, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy\, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, The Baffler\, and The New York Times Magazine. Pollock is the incoming director of the Creative Writing MFA Program at Manhattanville College in Purchase\, NY.  He also serves on the editorial advisory board of Slapering Hol Press.  Charles S. Carr\, Host \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-iain-haley-pollock-with-charles-s-carr/
LOCATION:699 Ranstead Street\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220601T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Author Reading: Shannon Frost Greenstein and Michael McCarthy with Sean Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Live Author Reading: Shannon Frost Greenstein and Michael McCarthy with Sean Lynch\nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81186651710?pwd=Mm8vOXVwSzc2NUxQblRvTFJhaGVQZz09  \nShannon Frost Greenstein is the author of These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things and An Oral History of One Day in Guyana. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’sInternet Tendency\, Pithead Chapel\, Bending Genres\, andelsewhere. She lives in Philadelphia\, and her writing can be found online at  https://shannonfrostgreenstein.com/ \n \nMichael McCarthy’s work has appeared in Cleaver\, The Adroit Journal\, and Prairie Schooner\, among others. He works as the Book Reviews Editor for Catalyst\, an online magazine focusing on social justice and international travel. Sean Lynch\, Host – Open Reading \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-author-reading-shannon-frost-greenstein-and-michael-mccarthy-with-sean-lynch/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220525T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Grady Chambers\, Lynne Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Grady Chambers\, Lynne Shapiro\nWednesday May 25\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeuopjMiGdy_NWWqt0nufO2NwbPVx \nGrady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions\, 2018). His poems have recently appeared in The Paris Review\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, The Sun\, and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia\, and his writing can be found online at gradychambers.com \n  \n  \n \nLynne Shapiro is a poet and essayist living in Hoboken\, New Jersey. Originally from Ozone Park\, Queens\, Lynne grew up in Culver City\, California. She studied Comparative Literature at San Diego State and earned an MA from Brandeis University. She has been on the faculty of Parsons School of Design/The New School and Hudson County Community College in New Jersey and worked for over a decade at The Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the author of two poetry collections\, To Set Right (WordTech Editions) and Gala (Solitude Hill Press). https://www.lynneshapiropoet.com \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-grady-chambers-lynne-shapiro/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander\,  Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)\, Shakeema Smalls
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander\, Shakeema Smalls\nSunday May 22\, 2022 – 2pm \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-2trT4vGN0OaXwq5nWShZLwqTdgLBnJ \n Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse\, patriarch of the Alexander clan\, leader\, organizer\, Raceman\, and Maude Anna\, Griot\, visionary artist\, poet\, muse\, teacher\, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in Maryland. “We are a stolen but thriving people\, living on stolen land.” His poetry has won second place in the First Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Zero Hunger in the First World Food Day 2018 Contest\, and placed as a finalist in the 1999 Paterson Literary Review’s Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. He has been featured at Grace Cavalieri’s The Poet and the Poem 2020-21 Series\, Words out Loud Virtual Reading\, Evil Grin\, the Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church’s Annual Poetry Service\, The Knitting Factory\, Groove Drops\, and the Sumei Multidisciplinary Center. His work has appeared in Remembering Amiri Baraka\, Free Black Space: Content and Code for those Living in the Black\, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora\, Sojourners Magazine\, The Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic Poetry\, and Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary\, Cultural & Vision Arts. \n  \n \nBro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) is a poet and non-fiction writer\, author of One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven\, published in Crab Orchard Review\, African-American Review\, Ploughshares\, Beltway Quarterly\, and other journals.  He teaches at Bowie State University. \n  \n  \n \nShakeema Smalls is from Georgetown\, South Carolina. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Blackberry: A Magazine\, Tidal Basin Review\, The Fem\, Radius Lit\, Free Black Space\, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Rigorous\, among others.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-omowole-jesse-n-alexander-shakeema-smalls/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022\nSaturday May 21\, 2022– 2pm EST \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcuitqTooGdwfpzt7nCg8xrIqo7F7spOJ \n  \nNew Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wider audience. \nUs humans tend to narrow our audience and present to others in our schools or poetry groups. Moonstone’s objective is to expand your audience\, introduce you to others who share your interest in poetry but live in different communities and go to different schools. Each month we present three poets from different communities followed by an open reading. We are still virtual on zoom. In addition to monthly readings we publish a New Voices anthology twice a year\, once in spring and once in fall\, and have a reading from the anthology. This is an on-going project so please send us your poems. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-new-voices-spring-2022/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin\, Sibelan Forrester\, Alison Lubar
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin\, Sibelan Forrester\, Alison Lubar\nWednesday May 18\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudOCrpjovE9JWt5KotUx73STwYpTOT0og \n \nTonita Austin also known as “Toni Love” is a gifted poet\, singer\, activist\, and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University\, Tonita was a student of Amiri Baraka and performed in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” as the Lady in Orange. Her writing is influenced by both experiences. She is a contributor to the anthology The Black Body and featured poet in the 2018 and 2020 Winter/Fall edition of the Philadelphia Arts and Urban Literary magazine. The Restoration EP is her first published recording; Toni’s Room is her first published book. Toni currently resides in Media\, PA with her two children James and Janai. \n \nSibelan Forrester is a poet and translator who grew up in Colorado but now lives in the Philadelphia suburbs. She has published translations of fiction\, poetry and scholarly prose from Croatian\, Russian and Serbian\, and of poetry from Ukrainian\, and her book of poetry SECOND HAND FATE was published in 2016 by Parnilis Media. She is the host of the Mad Poets Society’s First Wednesday reading series. In her day job she teaches at Swarthmore College. \n  \n \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary femme of color whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices\, and sometimes even poetry\, to young people. Their debut chapbook\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, is forthcoming with Thirty \nWest Publishing in May 2022. Most recently\, their work has been published by or is forthcoming with Moonstone Press\, New York Quarterly\, and Sinister Wisdom.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-tonita-austin-sibelan-forrester-alison-lubar/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session
DESCRIPTION:Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session\nSunday May 15\, 2022 – 5 pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub & Online \n1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqceusqj8jHNTEJbA47-4Q57xV7jsy66bq \n  \nCome witness the Jazz Experiment of the Ages! \nHorns and Drums and Arms and Lungs will be Jamming the Lyrical\, Witty\, Rollicking novel by James Joyce into an Open Jazz Rendition in the style of Cecil Taylor. \nFeaturing: Neal Kosaly-Meyer (Composer-Performer); Lilia Federico (Vocalist); Fiona Bolger (Poet via Satellite); Justin Deutsch (Bass); Elijah B. Pringle\, III (Poet); and John Lavin (Percussion) and Special Guests. \n“O tell me all about Anna Livia! I want to hear all about Anna Livia. Well\, you know Anna Livia? Yes\, of course\, we all know Anna Livia. Tell me all . . .” – James Joyce \nThis performance will also be staged at the International James Joyce Festival in Dublin in June 2022 \nCome Join the Chorus!
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/jazz-and-finnegans-wake-jam-session/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton\, Emiliano Martin\, Anne-Adele Wight
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton\, Emiliano Martin\, Anne-Adele Wight\nWednesday May 11\, 2022 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub  \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvdO6tqD4qGNGb2JxU8ATv4mRIoTmU3fFu \n  \nTerence Culleton has published several collections of formally crafted narrative and lyric poems\, including A Communion of Saints and Eternal Life. His most recent book\, A Tree and Gone is a collection of formal English sonnets\, many of which have appeared in journals and anthologies and/or been short-listed in sonnet contests. A Tree and Gone was recently included in the New York Review of Books Small Press Releases.  A two-time Pushcart nominee\, Mr. Culleton has had work featured on NPR\, and he reads widely throughout the Philadelphia and New York areas. Several of his poems have been set to music by Vermont composer Don Jamison\, as well as jazz clarinetist Darryl Harper and his ensemble Onus. \n  \n \nEmiliano Martin\, Spanish born and long time resident of Bucks County\, PA.\, is the founder and former director of Philadelphia Poetry Forum and past president of the Latin American Guild for the Arts. Currently and since 2018\, he is president of Pennsylvania Poetry Society. He has authored over a dozen titles of poetry (and prose)\, besides having been published in Mad Poets Review\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Lite Fuuse\, S.V. Journal\, US 1\, The Swarthmorean\, and other Spanish language publications in Spain\, such as Mizares and Marejadas. Author of “Footprints of Spain in Philadelphia” (2020)\, his latest book of poems is “Caught Between Layers.” \n  \n \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 Luna Luna\, Apiary\, Bedfellows\, Oz Burp\, Have Your Chill\, and Read On 2. She lives and writes in Philadelphia. \n  \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-terence-culleton-emiliano-martin-anne-adele-wight/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220508T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220508T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220420T153149Z
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SUMMARY:Remembering Thomas Kinsella
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Thomas Kinsella\nSunday May 8\, 2022 – 2pm \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-GpqTwpE9QBzsJ92os8X53FdKo3E0zv \n  \nThomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet\, translator\, editor\, and publisher. \nHe began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and\, around the same time\, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the 1960s\, he moved to the United States to teach English at universities including Temple University\, where he started Temple’s Irish studies program. \nHis sensitive lyrics deal with primal aspects of the human experience\, often in a specifically Irish context. He began serving in the Irish civil service in 1946\, and in the early 1950s he met Liam Miller\, the founder of the Doleman Press\, which published much of Kinsella’s poetry beginning in 1952. In 1965 he left the Irish civil service and took a position as a writer in residence at Southern Illinois University in 1965 and at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1970. \nKinsella founded his own publishing company\, the Peppercanister Press\, in Dublin in 1972\, which allowed him to publish pamphlets and individual poems in limited editions without relying on submissions to journals or magazines. Kinsella’s first poem to be published through his press was Butcher’s Dozen about Bloody Sunday\, in which 13 demonstrators were killed by British troops in Londonderry (Derry)\, Northern Ireland\, and the ensuing tribunal. Numerous collections of Kinsella’s poems were released\, including Collected Poems\, 1956–2000)\, Selected Poems\, Fat Master\, and Late Poems; the latter was published by Carcanet Press\, which released several of his works in the early 21st century.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-thomas-kinsella/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Memorial,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220420T152721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T170420Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho\, Gina Myers\, Ryan Eckes
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho\, Gina Myers\, Ryan Eckes\nWednesday May 4\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-uorzosHdZJNPRXR3kPUT25I8ohQknW \n  \nJacob L. Camacho is a CHamoru writer\, educator\, and activist born and raised in Guahan (Guam)\, of Islas Marianas. He received his Creative Writing MFA from Rutgers University\, Camden. He is an alumni of The University of Guam and UCLA’s Extension Writers Program. Currently\, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stockton University\, a writer for Philadelphia’s TrailOff and co-founder of the Move Mountains Project 501(c)(3) in San Luis\, Colorado. His stories and poems have been featured in University of Guam’s Storyboard\, University of Hawai’i’s Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia and Philadelphia’s MadHouse Magazine. \n  \n \nGina Myers‘ latest book\, Some of the Times\, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections\, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013)\, as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry\, she has published essays\, reviews\, and articles for a variety of publications\, including Hyperallergic\, Frontier Psychiatrist\, Fanzine\, The Rumpus\, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Originally from Saginaw\, MI\, she lives in Philadelphia\, PA\, where she co-edits the tiny with Emma Brown Sanders. \n  \n  \n \nRyan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. His most recent books\, General Motors\, Fine Nothing and Wet Money\, are out of print but can be downloaded for free from Internet Archive. His work can also be read in Protean Magazine\, Prolit\, Wax Nine Journal and elsewhere. He edits Radiator Press. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-jacob-l-camacho-gina-myers-ryan-eckes/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220503T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T165859Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Katie Ford
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Katie Ford\nTuesday May 3\, 2022\, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL \n699 Ranstead Street \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \n  \nKatie Ford is the author of four books of poems: Deposition; Colosseum; Blood Lyrics; and If You Have to Go. Blood Lyrics was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Rilke Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books of 2008” by Publishers Weekly and the Virginia Quarterly Review and led to a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize. International invitations to read and lecture include festivals in Tunis\, Morocco\, Oslo\, and Stockholm. She has taught poetry and creative writing for nineteen years around the country–at Loyola University New Orleans\, Reed College\, Franklin & Marshall College\, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival\, the Community of Writers\, and at numerous festivals and residencies. She teaches at the University of California\, Riverside. New work\, “Estrangement\,” will be featured in the May/June issue of Philadelphia’s American Poetry Review. Katie lived in Philadelphia from 2007-2014 and holds it dear as the city in which her daughter was born. \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-katie-ford/
LOCATION:699 Ranstead Street\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220501T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220404T221258Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker's Day
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day\nSunday May 1\, 2022 – 2 pm -VIRTUAL – International Workers’ Day (Labor Day\, May 1) \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf–qrT0pGtX7GFWtGu2R5kGRSju8bauy \n  \nInternational Workers’ Day\, also known as Labor Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day\, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May Day (1 May). Though it’s celebrated internationally\, Labor Day originated in the United States and has its roots in the rise of trade unions in 19th century Chicago\, their hard-fought battle for workers’ rights\, and the fight for the eight-hour workday. International Workers’ Day was officially recognized in 1889 at the first International Socialist Congress in Paris to commemorate the Haymarket Affair—a bloody confrontation between striking union workers and Chicago police in 1886.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-international-workers-day/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220404T220723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T220937Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase\, Julia Blumenreich
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase\, Julia Blumenreich\n  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudOqpqT8oEt0RnjqPfwJgqoS46VZuKs6W \nAlicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb) and a few chaplets. She was a co-founding editor of the literary journal 6ix\, and Literary Curator of the Walt Whitman Art Center for many years. Her poetry has appeared in the anthologies: New Work by Philadelphia Poets\, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets\, Second Edition\, Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets\, An Ekphrastic Poetry Collection\, and others. Her writing has also appeared in literary journals such as: Chain\, editions #2 and #12\, Poetry New York\, The World\, Feminist Studies\, and The Journal of Modern Languages. Recent publications include The Manhattanville Review\, The Painted Bride Quarterly http://pbqmag.org/issue-100/\, with new work forthcoming in spring 2022 from the Paterson Literary Review. \nJulia Blumenreich\, author of Meeting Tessie\, Artificial Memory\, Blue Angel of a Day and The What of Underfoot\, is a poet who is in her 25th year of teaching 4th grade at Germantown Academy. She is a recipient of a PCA grant and a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. In 2012\, she collaborated with the visual artist\, Wendy Osterweil\, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest” in 2014. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review\, “Philadelphia Stories\,” and in “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets\,” edited by Valerie Fox and translated into Romanian by Daniel Dragomirescu. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-alicia-askenase-julia-blumenreic/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220424T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220404T220032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T220032Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: Earth Day
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event: Earth Day\nSunday April 24\, 2022 – 2pm – VIRUAL – Earth Day (April 22\, 2022) \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kceGuqj4rE9BYdBT7P4IXS-2P4v93SRNJ \n \nWhat world are you inheriting? What world are we passing on? \nFirst held on April 22\, 1970\, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. The first Earth Day was focused on the United States. In 1990 it went international with events in 141 nations. On Earth Day 2016\, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by the United States\, the United Kingdom\, China\, and 120 other countries. This signing satisfied a key requirement for the entry into force of the historic draft climate protection treaty adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-earth-day/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220421T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220404T215520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220413T185000Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones\, Marci Blackman\, Sarah Gambito\, D. Nurkse\, Bushra Rehman\, Yolanda Wisher
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones\, Marci Blackman\, Sarah Gambito\, D. Nurkse\, Bushra Rehman\, Yolanda Wisher\nThursday April 21\, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-usqjwuGteb-36iCgphT76_l9ZkiKT9 \n  \nJoin us for a night celebrating poetry and Quincy Scott Jones’ new-ish book How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children\, a meditation on racial violence and the prospect of raising Black and Brown children in a world that doesn’t care for Black or Brown (or children). \n  \nQuincy Scott Jones is the author of two books of poetry: The T-Bone Series (Whirlwind Press\, 2009) and How to KillYourself Instead of Your Children (C&R Press\, 2021). His work has appeared in the African American Review\, The North American Review\, the Bellingham Review\, Love Jawns: A Mixtape\, and The Feminist Wire. With Nina Sharma he co-curates Blackshop\, a column that thinks about allyship between BIPOC artist. His graphic narrative\, >BlackNerd<\, is in the works. \n  \n \nMarci Blackman is the author of the novels\, PO MAN’S CHILD\, recipient of the ALA’s Stonewall Award for Best Fiction\, and TRADITION\, noted in Band of Thebes as one of the Best LGBTQ Books of the year. Blackman’s third novel\, ELEPHANT\, is forthcoming. \n  \n  \n \nSarah Gambito is Professor of English / Director of Creative Writing at Fordham University and co-founder of Kundiman\, a non-profit organization serving writers and readers of Asian American literature. \n  \n  \n \nD. Nurkse is the author of twelve poetry collections\, most recently A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS\, just out from Knopf. A former Brooklyn poet laureate\, he taught poetry at Rikers Island and served on the board of Amnesty International-USA. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. \n  \n  \n \nBushra Rehman is a writer and cultural activist\, author of Corona\, a dark comedy about being Muslim and her collection of poems\, Marianna’s Beauty Salon. She is creator of the community-based writing workshop Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction. \n  \n  \n \nPoet\, singer\, educator\, and curator Yolanda Wisher is author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the anthology Peace is a Haiku Song. Wisher was named Poet Laureate of Montgomery County and third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow\, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award\, works as Curator of Spoken Word and Co-Director of Curatorial Programs at Philadelphia Contemporary. She performs a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-quincy-scott-jones-marci-blackman-sarah-gambito-d-nurkse-bushra-rehman-yolanda-wisher/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220420T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T164254Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: James Feichthaler\, M. Elizabeth Hershey\, Jonathan Koven
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: James Feichthaler\, M. Elizabeth Hershey\, Jonathan Koven\nWednesday April 20\, 2022 – 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/tZIsdu6hpjkuHNGjHoEg5OmObWBGmSPWFSi0 \nJames Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has most recently appeared in One Art\, Sortes\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE\, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times\, was published in late 2020 by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk\, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia. \n  \n \nM. Elizabeth Hershey is originally from a Midwest university town in southern Indiana. She graduated from Brown University with a BA in Visual Arts\, where she studied much of her art degree at the accompanying Rhode Island School of Design. She works in several mediums\, but photography remains her primary passion and profession. Look to the North is her first published chapbook\, in which each poem depicts a memoir of a moment in time approaching middle age. She also has a passion for piano\, speaking Italian\, and finding four-leaf clovers. \nJonathan Koven grew up on Long Island\, NY\, embraced by tree-speak\, tide’s rush\, and the love and support of his family. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University\, works as a technical writer\, and freelance editor (and formerly head fiction editor of Toho Journal). He lives in Philadelphia with his best friend and future wife Delana\, and cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. Jonathan’s debut chapbook Palm Lines\, and his award-winning novella Below Torrential Hill are available and the current list of his publications is available at https://linktr.ee/jonathankoven. \n  \n  \n  \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-james-feichthaler-m-elizabeth-hershey-jonathan-koven/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220417T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220404T214914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T224942Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: International Haiku Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 17\, 2pm – VIRTUAL – International Haiku Day   \nRegistration Required\, Registration link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdOCsqzkjGtNEuH75LhkFaTTLV7PkKZyV \n \nThe old pond\, A frog jumps in\, Plop! \nMatsuo Basho (1644-1694) – Translated by Allan Watts \nThe Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku \n“Haiku is an important form of creative expression because it distills language down to the essentials: observation\, interpretation\, and communication. It asks both the reader and the writer to look and search inward and outward.” Sean Lynch\, Program Director of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association and Writers House in Camden\, NJ. \nReading from the contributors to Haiku 2022 \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/17299/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220416T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220416T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220404T214616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T215415Z
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SUMMARY:New Voices: Maura Gallagher\, Isabella Piacentino\, Vriddhi Vinay
DESCRIPTION:Saturday April 16\, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – New Voices: Emerging Poets  \nRegistration Required\, Registration link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOCrrTgpH9eHzx8FFy7kTWkpF7osbsal \nNew Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25.  \n \n  \nMaura Gallagher\, a freshman at Villa Maria Academy High School\, where she contributes to the school literary magazine. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nIsabella Piacentino\, from South Philadelphia\, studying to be a high school English teacher. When she is not writing poetry\, she is arguing with her conservative family members about. \n  \n  \n \n  \nVriddhi Vinay\, is a poet of South Indian background\, who loves the intersection of academia\, erotica\, and poetics that she represents in her work. Larry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-maura-gallagher-isabella-piacentino-vriddhi-vinay/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T174501
CREATED:20220407T193604Z
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart\, Lynn Levin\, Amber Renee
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart\, Lynn Levin\, Amber Renee\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuCgqzIuH9yFuMAp-FO6iL9rBOqligPl \n  \nD. Ehrhart began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing ever since. Eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans (1972) and 24 books have followed. His Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War (revised) is due shortly. Exclusively a poet until he was almost 30\, he has since written and published a wide variety of nonfiction prose from 400-word newspaper commentaries to 40-page scholarly essays to 400-page personal narratives. The influence of Ehrhart’s encounter with the Vietnam War can readily be seen in his writing\, but though he is known primarily as a “Vietnam War poet\,” in fact his subject matter ranges widely. He has written essays and articles on such topics as radio disc jockeys\, tugboats on the Delaware River\, the Internal Revenue Service\, and a variety of modern and contemporary poets from William Wantling to Daniel Hoffman. His wife and daughter are major sources of inspiration for his poetry. His poems also reflect his respect for nature\, his love of friends\, his active engagement with the world around him\, and his consternation at the human condition. \nLynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection\, The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky\, 2020) is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small\, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique\, Fair Creatures of an Hour\, and Imaginarium. She is the translator\, from the Spanish\, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard\, Artful Dodge\, Rattle\, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac\, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com \n \nAmber Renee\, she/her\, is a chronic writer from Bucks County\, PA. Known to mix mediums\, Amber self-published a book Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode in 2016\, shortly before its musical counterpart released on SoundCloud. In January 2020 she put out a Poetry Picture book i feel like i’m nothing available online. During the pandemic lockdown\, Amber used her time to create tracks she calls “Poetry Songs.” As well\, she spent time as an editor for Serotonin Poetry; a journal of mental health by poets with mental illness. 2022 saw her first traditionally published book In memory energy by Moonstone publishing. Find her on social media @amberreneepoet \n  \n Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-w-d-ehrhart-lynn-levin-amber-renee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Tribute to Rosemary Cappello
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 10\, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – – registration required at \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-CgrD8uH9ZLWJTWV627rAArWkH5IjA0 \nTribute to Rosemary Cappello \nPoet\, Writer\, Watercolorist\, Editor of “Philadelphia Poets“ \n \nRosemary Cappello is a poet\, painter\, prose writer\, community organizer\, and editor whose work has appeared in such venues as Voices in Italian Americana\, Poet Lore\, Iconoclast\, Avanti Popolo\, Sweet Lemons 2\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Poetry Ink\, and Autumn Sky\, to name a few. She is the author of Wonderful Disaster\, The Habit of Wishing (with Ann Menebroker and Joan Jobe Smith); The Sid Poems; and San Paride\, named for the patron saint of Teano\, Italy\, her father\, John Petracca’s native town. \n“I am passionate about many things. Poetry heads the list\, and I’ve spent a large portion of my life reading poetry\, writing it\, and presenting it to the public. However\, it’s not just my own poetry that I promote\, but that of many\, many others. I am passionate about editing and put a great deal of thought into the publication of “Philadelphia Poets”: reading submissions\, making decisions as to which poems merit publication and which poems do not. Approximately sixty poets are published in each issue of “Philadelphia Poets.”  \nNot All Contributors Will Be Reading
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/tribute-to-rosemary-cappello/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Mac Chandler\, Jules Hostetter\, Z Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Mac Chandler\, Jules Hostetter\, Z Murphy\n  \nWednesday March 30\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link:  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-GgqTwsHtR1CaWU3y2Sqixd4Z7BQtqK \n  \nMac Chandler is a junior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review\, HASH Magazine\, and High Shelf Press issue XXXIX. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can find more of her work on her instagram\, @frillysox \n  \n \nJules Hostetter is a poet who is studying creative writing at The University of the Arts. She will be published in the school literary magazine\, Underground Pool\, in Spring 2022.” \n  \n  \n \nZ Murphy aka “The Zany Thing” is a multiracial multimedia artist from central Jersey. Z identifies as a storyteller\, sharing her art in whatever medium she dims fit. So whether it be performance\, the written word\, visual art\, etc\, she takes it upon herself to share the stories she needs to tell. She is currently a Creative Writing Major at the University of the Arts and has been published in different literary magazines. She co-hosts the  country’s longest-running queer open mic Out of the Box. Z can be reached at zmurphy@uarts.edu for information regarding her work and information regarding her open mic. \n  \nJohn Wall Barger Host – Open Reading
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-mac-chandler-jules-hostetter-z-murphy/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland\nTuesday March 29\, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL \nRegistration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdqorD4qGd0ZSypQGzm70h7Zx6x9e5Ki \nBen Hyland\, author of Shelter in Place\, has poetry is collected in three chapbooks\, all under his birth name (Ben Heins): The Empathy Thief\, Cut Me Free\, and Greatest Hits & B-Sides. Ben’s individual poems have appeared in journals such as Hawai’i-Pacific Review\, Penumbra\, and The Meadow. As a career coach\, Ben has helped hundreds of jobseekers find employment. Connect with Ben and follow his work at benhylandlives.com. \n  \nDeborah Bayer is a retired Infectious Disease doctor and former cancer patient from Atlantic City\, NJ. Her chapbook\, Rope Made of Bandages\, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2023. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. She is pursuing a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. \n  \n  \nShelley Cohen has been writing poetry since her retirement from the world of work when she exchanged a career in grant writing for the craft of poetry.  Along with the other featured readers\, she has ties to the South Jersey poetry scene and frequently uses images from the Shore to inspire her work. \n  \n  \nBarbara Daniels’ Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has recently been accepted by Permafrost\, Westchester Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, and Coachella Review. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, the most recent in 2020. \n  \n  \n  \nCole Eubanks is a retired teacher from the Philadelphia and Atlantic City School Districts. Cole has conducted three workshops for Stockton University’s Teen Arts Festival and has been the featured poet for the Sovereign Avenue Black History Jazz Celebration. In 2010\, he won the Literacy Volunteers of America in Atlantic County’s Poet of the Year contest. Cole’s work can be found in Poet’s against War\, Inferno No Boundaries\, Apiary\, Stray Cat\, and E Pluribus Unum. \n  \nJacalyn Shelley has been published in several journals including Sugar House Review\, Dunes Review\, Main Street Rag\, and Barely South. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies most recently including Moonstone’s anthologies The Virus and Protest 2021. She is the recipient of three Pushcart nominations.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/17136/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T203000
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SUMMARY:Welcome To Philadelphia 2022
DESCRIPTION:Welcome To Philadelphia 2022\nWednesday March 23\, 2022 – 7pm – Live at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceqhqzgqGNf-ubdBlSr-KjldISeXsuRI \nMarathon Poetry Reading from the Moonstone Anthology  celebrating the 2022 AWP Conference \nHours of Poetry\, Food & Drink at Fergie’s Pub \nA Welcoming\, TV-Free\, Philly-inspired Irish Pub in the heart of Center City \nPoetry from some of the many poets in Philadelphia for the AWP conference \nPresented alphabetical order by last name – Remember that plans change and not everyone who signed up will be available to read
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/welcome-to-philadelphia-2022/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Paul Muldoon
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nTuesday March 22\, 2022\, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL – Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \n699 Ranstead Street\, Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nPaul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004 and has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry\, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-readings-series-paul-muldoon/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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