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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nTuesday May 2\, 2023 – 6:30pm VIRTUAL \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nIn Philadelphia. \nEleventh-grade student\, Matilda Bray\, is author of When You Wanted Blue\, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry\, Under the Moon as My Sun at the age of twelve.  The full-length collection was featured on PhillyCam’s Poetry Interview and Reading Series\, and in February of 2023\, she was the high-school winner of the Phillip’s Mill Play With Words Youth Playwriting Challenge. Her work has appeared in Rattle\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, Sad Girls Club\, OpenDoor Magazine\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, River Poets Journal\, and the Moonstone Poets Anthology. Matilda competes regularly at open poetry competitions and is a voracious reader and cross-country runner who resides in a suburb of Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania with her family and beloved dog\, Tuck.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday April 30\, 2023 – 2:00pm  Virtual \nJoin us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 \nRegistration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 \n  \nEkphrastic Poetry \nEkphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis\, the poet engages with a painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and dance might also be considered a type of ekphrastic writing. \nApril 8 is the 50th anniversary of the Death of Pablo Picasso\, who created 50\,000 works of modern art. In honor of his achievement\, we are doing an anthology of Ekphrastic Poetry. \nJoin us as contributors read their Ekphrastic Poems. \n  \n  \nContributing Poets \nMichael Abreu \nAllison Baldwin \nMark Balobeck \nChristine Barbour \nElizabeth Bodien \nR. Bremner \nStarr Bright \nSarah Browning \nRachel Aviva Burns \nNatalie Canavor \nCathy Carlisi \nLuanne Castle \nAlan Catlin \nA.J. Chilson \nGreg Colburn \nJim Cory \nJessica Cramer \nChristine Davis \nLinda Dickman \nJoanne Durham \nDavid Eberhardt \nElizabeth Esris \nKatherine Falk \nStewart Florsheim \nBryan Franco \nStephen Frank \nMichael Franz \nRosemary Freedman \nCaroline Furr \nRobin Gabbert \nRobert Gibbons \nDanely Gonzalez \nShotsey Gorman \nLinda Goss \nOna Gritz \nBeejay Grob \nBruce Grossberg \nHanoch Guy \nAnna Halberstadt \nAnnie Hartford \nSharon Hollingsworth \nAnn Huang \nJoan Huffman \nJane Ellen Ibur \nJudy Ireland \nJosh Jacobs \nMike Jurkovic \nPhilip Kennedy \nKollin Kennedy \nLisa Kosow \nEelka Lampe \nMaria Lisella \nJosephine LoRe \nJames Mancinelli \nTawanda Manyati \nKaren Marker \nStefanie Maura \nKathleen McGraw \nErika Michael \nRobin Michel \nPatricia Middleton \nMary Ann Miller \nLinda Morales \nBeth Morris \nCharlene Moskal \nRuth Mota \nAngela Muir \nNancy Murray \nGloria Nixon-John \nAllayna Nofs \nMaureen Sauvain O’Connor \nJennifer O’Neill \nPickering \nHermond Palmer \nFaith Paulsen \nDavid Radavich \nCami Rothmuller \nCarla Schick \nAmeerah Shabazz \nJohn Shea \nMiki Simic \nJim Stewart \nJocelyn Stokes \nMarya Summers \nChuck Sweetman \nRenee Szostek \nKaren Paul Topham \nLois Villemaire \nEike Waltz \nGail Wasserman \nShin Watanabe \nKelley White \nDaniel   Williams \nNellie Wong \nDavid Worrell \nSamantha Wright \nRaymond Ziemer
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CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday April 26\, 2023 – 7:30pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ \n  \nMaya Pindyck’s third poetry collection\, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press\, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is also author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books) and Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, winner of the Many Voices Project Award\, and co-author of A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers (Bloomsbury\, 2022). Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, and grants from the Historic House Trust of New York City and Abortion Conversation Projects. She lives in Philadelphia where she is an assistant professor and director of Writing at Moore College of Art & Design \nHila Ratzabi is the author of the poetry collection There Are Still Woods (June Road Press\, 2022). Her poetry has been published in Narrative\, Linebreak\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Adroit Journal\, and other journals\, and in The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. She was editor-in-chief and poetry editor of Storyscape (2011–2017) and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is director of virtual content & programs at Ritualwell.org and lives in Oak Park\, Illinois \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-6/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Celebrate the Art of the Haiku at a Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nHaiku 2023\nSunday April 23\, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual \nRegistration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- \nInternational Haiku Day \nThe old pond \n A frog jumps in \n Plop! \nMatsuo Basho (1644-1694) \nTranslated by Allan Watts \n \nThe Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku \nThe haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines\, with five syllables in the first line\, seven in the second\, and five in the third. The haiku developed from the hokku\, the opening three lines of a longer poem known as a tanka. The haiku became a separate form of poetry in the 17th century. \nJoin us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 \n 
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CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading at Finn Mccool's!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday April 19\, 2023 – 7:00pm \nLive at Finn McCools\nCorner of 12th & Sansom Street \nNote the change of venue for this event  \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?& rdquo; in the Gay & Lesbian Review\, & ldquo; Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra & rdquo; in New Haven Review\, and “ Where & rsquo;s the hot boy going tonight?& rdquo; in Chelsea Station. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council\, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. \nBesides receiving awards for journalism and erotic writing\, Chris Kaiser has had poems published in Dissident Voice and The Scriblerus\, prose poetry in Eastern Iowa Review\, and haiku in Better Than Starbucks. His poetry and haiku also appear in several anthologies from Moonstone Press. In addition\, his poetry has been featured alongside works of art at the DaVinci Art Alliance. \nDeborah Turner’s poetry & writing sustains her and is even helping her transform from a librarian to a realtor. Her works have appeared in Philadelphia Stories\, the Lavender Reader\, and anthologies including The Body Eclectic (Henry Holt) and Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity (Beacon Press). “Juneteenth\,” a poem in her chapbook of sports poetry titled SWEATING IT OUT (Finishing Line Press)\, earned a nomination for a Pushcart Prize.  \nMonika Wysong is a Philadelphia-based poet\, playwright\, and psychotherapist. Her chapbook\, Poems for the Rest of Us\, was published by Moonstone Press in 2021. Her play\, Laundromat\, was featured in Short Plays on Twelve on Philadelphia’s PBS station\, and she has been a semi-finalist in the Louisville Actors’ Theater playwriting competition. Her poems have appeared in American Writing. She holds an MFA from Goddard College. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-at-finn-mccools/
LOCATION:Finn Mccools\, 118 S 12th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230412T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of 'Storm Swimmer'!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nWednesday April 12\, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx \n  \nJoin us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems \nStorm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) \nIn poems that celebrate survival and renewal\, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time\, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters\, Hilbert’s eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America\, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water—what Melville called “the ungraspable phantom of life.” \n“Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams\, nightmares\, tenderness\, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry\, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Heaven and judge \nCopies of the book will be available at a discounted rate of $10. Join us! \nErnest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan\, and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia where he works as a rare book dealer. 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. \nGuest reader April Lindner is the author of Skin\, which received the Walt McDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press\, and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. With Ryan Wilson\, she is co-editing an anthology of contemporary Catholic poetry for Paraclete Press\, and with R. S. Gwynn\, she co-edited Contemporary American Poetry in Longman’s Penguin Pocket Academics series. She has written three Young Adult novels\, and is a professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University\, she lives in Stockton\, New Jersey. \nGuest reader David Hale Sylvester chronicles his adventures and achievements in two books\, Traveling at the Speed of Life\, which appeared in 2011\, and One Hug at a Time: 99 Stories From the Man Who Embraced the World\, published in 2021. You can learn more about him at www.davidhalesylvester.com. \nHost John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry\, and many other journals and anthologies. Smog Mother is his latest book\, he teaches Creative Writing at UArts in Philadelphia. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-celebrating-the-publication-of-storm-swimmer/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Ernest Hilbert's "Storm Swimmer"
DESCRIPTION:Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom. \nRegistration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx \nJoin us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems. \nStorm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) \n“Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams\, nightmares\, tenderness\, and grace. It is a book of great feeling and of great technical skill. Everything in it is sacrificed for poetry\, which is why everything in this beautiful book lives.”—Rowan Ricardo Phillips\, author of Heaven and judge \nCopies of the book will be available at a discounted rate of $10. Join us! \n  \nErnest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan\, and Last One Out. \n  \n  \n  \nGuest reader April Lindner is the author of Skin\, and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nGuest reader David Hale Sylvester is author of Traveling at the Speed of Life and One Hug at a Time: 99 Stories From the Man Who Embraced the World. \n  \n  \n  \nHost John Wall Barger is author of Smog Mother and has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and many other journals. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/ernest-hilberts-storm-swimmer/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading\nDon Riggs\, Hannah McDonald\, and Aaren Perry\n  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom. \nRegistration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-ytrDIiHNH_4_I4bus3BP19d5VhA5Ar \nDon Riggs has been teaching mostly first-year composition at Drexel University for the past quarter century. He writes a sonnet\, broadly defined\, in the bathtub each morning\, and has done so for most of this century. \n  \n  \nHannah McDonald is a writer\, poet\, geek\, and generally funny queer woman. Her writing has appeared in Apiary\, The Legendary\, and Dreamstreets. You might also find her singing karaoke\, eating popsicles\, baby-talking to her two guinea pigs. \n  \n  \n  \nAaren Perry author of Shipping and Receiving\, recently edited a new book of poems by lamont b. Steptoe\, co-edited with Dr. James Villarreal\, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems from Death Row\, by Anthony Reid. Perry runs Yeatts Perry Consulting\, grants and donor management for health equity and social change nonprofits. \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-5/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T183000
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry - Liz Chang
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry\nInterview and Reading Series\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n  \nCan be viewed on the PhillyCAM website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nLiz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily\, Exit 7\, Rock & Sling\, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal\, among others. Her fourth collection\, a chapbook called Museum of Things\, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her creative nonfiction recently appeared in Oyster River Pages\, and her flash fiction has been published internationally. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company. Liz lives en les environs de Philadelphia with her family\, dog\, cat\, and a hive of honeybees. She is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-liz-chang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230402T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230402T170000
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SUMMARY:Featured Poets 2022
DESCRIPTION:Featured Poets 2022\nLive and Virtual Readings\n  \nIn 2022\, Moonstone featured 235 poets in person and virtually; 113 are in the Featured Poets 2022 Anthology. \nWe will be hosting two events (Live and Virtual) that includes our Featured Poets. \n  \nLIVE Event – Sunday April 2\, @ 2pm EST\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom St. \nPoets names are listed below: \n  \nVIRTUAL Event – Monday April 3\, @ 7pm EST\nRegistration required for Zoom. Use the link below: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItceGgrDkrG9A7r6it8yWzVOWM6ZwRd8-Y \nPoets names are listed below: \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/featured-poets-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230322T210000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Arts Center In collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center In collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\nLive at Fergie’s Pub  \nRegister for zoom link here! Zoom Link \n \nCourtney Bambrick is poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Poems in or forthcoming in Invisible City\, New York Quarterly\, Beyond Words\, The Fanzine\, Philadelphia Poets\, Apiary\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Mad Poets Review\, Certain Circuits. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. \n  \nThe 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and the 7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate (2016-17)\, George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor\, Nova Scotia\, in 1960.  A professor of English at the University of Toronto\, Clarke has also taught at Duke\, McGill\, UBC\, and Harvard. His recognitions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Fellowship\, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize\, the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry\, the National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry\, the Premiul Poesis\, the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry\, and International Fellow Poet of the Year\, Encyclopedic Poetry School [2019].  His acclaimed titles include Whylah Falls\, translated into Chinese)\, Beatrice Chancy\, Execution Poems\, Blues and Bliss (selected poems)\, I & I\, Illicit Sonnets\, Traverse\, Canticles II (MMXX)\, and J’Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence). \nAndy Hallman was born in Australia\, raised a Mennonite in Lancaster County\, educated at Harvard University\, Andrew Hallman now lives in Philadelphia where he works in the rare book trade. MIRRENWOOD\, the first in a fantasy series\, was published in 2022 by Crossroad Press; AMBA\, the first in an action-adventure trilogy\, was published in 2022 by Rough Edges Press. He is presently finishing the sequel to MIRRENWOOD. \nJohn Wall Barger Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-arts-center-in-collaboration-with-e-verse-equinox-reading-series/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T213000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading \nMoonstone Poetry Readings \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: Zoom Link Here   \nAdam Gianforcaro is a writer living in Wilmington\, Delaware. His most recent collection\, Every Living Day\, was released in February with Thirty West Publishing House. His work examines queerness\, mental health\, climate change\, and the universe at large\, inviting the reader to question whether those things are so different after all. He was a runner-up in The Maine Review’s 2021 Embody Awards and a winner of Button Poetry’s 2018 Short Form Contest \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. Proceeds from their debut chapbook ROT (2022) benefit ARC Southeast. Read more at https://linktr.ee/Hargrave or follow @notporkroll on Twitter. \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary\, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices\, and sometimes even poetry\, to young people.  Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net\, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, queer feast\, sweet euphemism\, and it skips a generation. You can find out more at http://www.alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.  \nSean    Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-4/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T193000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Live Poetry Reading\nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nZoom Link Here! \nEileen M. D’Angelo\, twice nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts\, she received two Pushcart Prize / Best of the Small Press nominations from Verse Magazine and Schuylkill Valley Journal.  Her poetry\, essays and book reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, the News of Delaware County\, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century\, Manhattan Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Drexel Online Journal\, Wild River Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Independent Review\, Negative Capability\, One Trick Pony\, Odessa Poetry Journal\, The Aurealean\, Bookends\, and others. \nMabel Lee is a native of Philadelphia\, where she teaches middle school Spanish and participates in various literary and poetry groups. She is a language\, travel\, and adventure enthusiast who enjoys backpacking around the world. She believes in the transformative and connective power of poetry within and across communities and language as a bridge towards knowing and helping others. Her work has been published in Aji Magazine\, The 5-2 Crime Weekly\, Apiary Magazine\, Metropolis\, and the Sips Poetry Cards series. She is currently an editor for a new poetry and art magazine called Dark Onus Lit. \nHermond Palmer is a poet\, author and song writer who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem\, Philadelphia\, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. \nOpen Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Interview and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Interview and Reading\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nIn Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nHayden Saunier’s most recent collection\, A Cartography of Home\, was published by Terrapin Books in 2021. Her work has been awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize\, Rattle Poetry Prize\, Gell Poetry Award\, Keystone Award\, and nominated over a dozen times for the Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published widely in journals such as Beloit Poetry Journal\, 32 Poems\, Plume\, Thrush\, Tar River Poetry\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Hayden is an actor with extensive theatre credits as well as appearances in Mindhunter\, House of Cards\, Outsiders\, Do No Harm and as the voice of a broken-down stove for Ikea. She is founder and director of No River Twice (poetry + improvisation) an interactive\, audience-driven poetry reading/performance group based in the Philadelphia area.  Find more online at www.haydensaunier.com.  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-interview-and-reading/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading\nWednesday March 1\, 2023 – 7:30pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nZoom Link Here  \nPheralyn Dove is author of Paradoxes and Color in Motion\, a book of poetry with a foreword by the late legendary drummer Max Roach. She is a poet and visual artist\, lives in a state of perpetual gratitude\, and is passionate about Cultural Preservation\, Global African Liberation and Emotional Healing. Pheralyn states\, “After many years of searching\, trying to discover my way as a writer and poet\, I find myself cultivating a different side of me. Photography\, collage\, and abstract expressionism dominate in my visual work. Ancestors\, Intense Color\, Movement\, and Nature are also recurring themes. I am a Spiritual Dwelling. Listening to my Intuition. Obeying the Spirit. This is my life as an ever-emerging poet and artist. \ng emil reutter lives and writes in Philadelphia. Seventeen collections of his poetry and fiction have been published\, most recently Thunder\, Lightning and Urban Cowboys a poetry collection and Selected Stories 1990-2022 both from Alien Buddha Press.  He is the book review editor and site manager for North of Oxford.  His work has been published widely in the small and electronic press. You can visit him at   http://gereutter.wordpress.com/ \n  \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. You can visit her at http://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com/   and http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ \n  \n Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-2/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Shevaun Brannigan and Amy Saul-Zerby\, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Shevaun Brannigan and Amy Saul-Zerby\, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: Here \n  \nShevaun Brannigan’s work has appeared in such journals as Best New Poets\, AGNI\, Slice\, and Bat City Review. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant\, and holds an MFA from Bennington College. In 2022\, she was selected for the Giacomo Leopardi Scholarship to attend The Leopardi Writing Conference in Recanati\, Italy\, and also pursued independent study in Killeagh\, Ireland at Greywood Arts Residency.  \nAmy Saul-Zerby is the author of Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds\, Deep Camouflage\, and Choose Your Own Beginning. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, The Chicago Review of Books\, American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-shevaun-brannigan-and-amy-saul-zerby-with-alina-macneal-and-jennifer-hook/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of BIRD/DIZ
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of BIRD/DIZ\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-yuqTMrGNSy3JtKXrfrsfF4WkPD1f2p \nCelebrating the publication of BIRD/DIZ by Warren C. Longmire  \nWhat becomes of a history overwritten\, sampled\, celebrated and smeared? How do we find creation past erasure? Part new media archive\, part visual poetry project\, BIRD/DIZ [AN ERASED HISTORY OF BEBOP] is a journey into highs and lows of Black America’s first global music export. Taking biographies of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as a jumping off point\, BIRD/DIZ jumps between actual erasures of the written/oral history of Bebop\, redacted poems taken from those words\, and reflections on historic performances from some of jazz’s chief characters. From St. Louis heroin dins to Copenhagen sound stages\, it strives to find\, in the continued disappearance of Black American contributions to world art\, the seed of innovation that never dies. \nElliott Levin is a Philadelphia jazz legend. Whatever it is jazz performers do when they blow into their horns 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. \nWarren C. Longmire is a poet\, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine\, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He’s been published in journals including Prolit\, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication\, OPEN SOURCE\, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press. \nScott Sigl is a musician\, poet\, and teacher based in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area. He has been writing\, coaching\, and performing wild and unhinged poetry for over ten years. As a musician\, Scott teaches 5 instruments and is part of a successful band that performs weddings and events. Currently studying Jazz Piano under Temple University Professor Tim Brey\, he creates original soundscape music under the name Pitch Drop Experiment\, and has decided he has given up trying to be “normal.”
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-celebrating-the-publication-of-bird-diz/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230208T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: For the Publication of  Smog Mother by John Wall Barger
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: For the Publication of Smog Mother by John Wall Barger\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofu-sqDwqGtX7EDkZbTxSB21412j2TIl_ \n  \nWhat a joy to have another book by John Wall Barger. Restless\, passionate\, and ambitious\, Smog Mother is an ecstatic travelogue whose narrator is always on the move\, full of yearning and curiosity\, even as he remains an outsider in each country that he visits. The poems in Smog Mother ask probing questions about love and empathy\, and about what it means to be a spectator to other people’s pain. Barger is introspective and self-critical\, yet far more interested in others than in himself; his eye is continually drawn to the margins of society\, and to those whose lives are most in danger of being forgotten or erased. A powerful collection. – —   James Arthur\, author of The Suicide’s Son \n  \nThis is deadly serious and absolutely precise poetry about the world in upheaval\, in desire and its excess\, in love and pornography\, in political protest and ecological catastrophe\, in the affirming flame sought but not found. Uncompromising\, riveting\, a kick in the conscience and the unconscious\, a wake up call even at this late point in the evening\, the world about to go dark\, Barger writing with an infinitely bitter\, sad and unforgettable pen. \n—   Indran Amirthanayagam\, author of Ten Thousand Steps against the Tyrant \n  John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, ZYZZYVA\, The Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems\, Smog Mother (Palimpsest Press)\, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Pete Dennis (they/he) is a musician\, improviser\, composer\, visual artist\, and teacher. Living in West Philadelphia\, Dennis is inspired by their beautiful community and the future. Other ever present inspirations include William Parker\, the works of Octavia E. Butler\, their partner Abigail\, and the knowledge that all vibrations carry to potential to transmit the truths of life and death. Dennis’s recorded creations are released using the project name Search for the Infinite Light and include but are not limited to Killing a Dixie Hummingbird (2019)\, World’s End Welcoming Committee (2021)\, and pastē (2022). Their most current projects and collaborations include 99 Futures\, Oarsman\, Mitamu\, St. John’s Wort\, and an ongoing poetry/bass duet performance with Abigail Swoboda. They believe that sound is the foundation of healing and would like to acknowledge all master improvisers of the past\, present\, and future. The ZanyThing\, also known as Z Murphy\, is a multiracial multimedia Creative Writing Major at UArts and one of Philly’s rising stars in the drag scene. She is a reigning pageant winner\, a show producer\, and regularly hosts drag shows and the country’s longest running queer open mic Out Of The Box. John Wall Barger is one of her professors and she was THRILLED and honored when he asked her to be part of his book launch for Smog Mother. She’s been a fan of his since their first class together\, and is grateful for everything he’s taught and every opportunity he’s afforded her.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-for-the-publication-of-smog-mother-by-john-wall-barger/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading and Interview: Catherine Bancroft with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading and Interview: Catherine Bancroft with Charles S. Carr\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nIn Philadelphia \n  \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \n Catherine Bancroft\, artist and writer\, has shown at FireWorks Gallery\, St Asaph’s Gallery\, Fackenthal-Pethick Gallery\, Muse Gallery\, Third Street Gallery\, Off the Wall Gallery\, and elsewhere. She works in collage\, altered books\, acrylic\, and mixed media. Her current Ellis Island Series in conte crayon and acrylic was inspired by photographs of early 20th century immigrants. She has written book reviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer\, co-written two children’s books — Felix’s Hat and That’s Philomena — and has read her poetry at Green Line Cafe\, PAFA\, Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, Fergie’s Pub\, and other venues. The Square Where Ariadne Sleeps: Poems by Catherine Bancroft was recently selected as Number 1 in the A.V. Christie Chapbook Series from Seven Kitchens Press. \nYou can see her Ellis Island images at www.catherinebancroft.cullina.com. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-and-interview-catherine-bancroft-with-charles-s-carr/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger\, Charles S. Carr\, Sean Hanrahan\, Jennifer Hook\, Sean Lynch\, and Alina Macneal\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-yvrzwqH9Cg_QQzT4paZiiDOh1XucDH \n  \n \nJohn Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, ZYZZYVA\, The Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems\, Smog Mother\, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. \nCharles S. Carr\, author of paradise\, pennsylvania\, and & Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems\, was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem Waiting To Come North For five years Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub and is the host of Philly Loves Poetry\, a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. He has read poems in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin Ireland as part of international 100\,000 Poets for Peace. \nSean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City\, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collection Safer Behind Popcorn and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work is included in several anthologies and journals including Moonstone Featured Poets\, Queer Around the World\, Stonewall’s Legacy\, Impossible Archetype\, and Voicemail Poems. He has taught classes  A Chapbook in 49 Days and Ekphrastic Poetry and hosted poetry events throughout Philadelphia. \nJennifer Hook is a California native who came to Philadelphia for the grit. Following the death of her husband and creative partner of thirty-five years\, she chose poetry as an entry into the territory of loss and self-reinvention. She has read her work at 100\,000 Poets for Change\, Poetic Feats of Strength\, The Osage Poets at the Green Line Café\, Philadelphia Poetry Day\, and Why Are They Called The Poetry Liberation Front?. She author of This is How He Left Me and co-host of Moonstone’s fourth Wednesday at Fergie’s. \nSean Lynch is a writer and editor who lives in South Philly. He has worked with Moonstone Arts Center since 2016. His fourth chapbook\, On Violence\, was published by Radical Paper Press in 2019. Poems have appeared in journals such as Hobart\, Poetry Quarterly\, and Apiary Magazine. \n  \nAlina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary\, Poems for the Writing\, The World to Come\, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet\, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said\, History doesn’t repeat itself\, but it often rhymes \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Alexa Smith & Joseph Earl Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Alexa Smith and Joseph Earl Thomas\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 25 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqurjojHtLlYIEefDTD2M2u1XpBGvZS \n  \nAlexa Smith is a poet and essayist from Washington D.C. She lives in West Philadelphia\, where she works in publishing and serves as Editorial Director of Apiary\, a free literary magazine centering Philly-area authors and artists of all genres and backgrounds in print and online. She received her MFA from Temple University and teaches workshops in poetry\, creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary writing. Her work can be found in Interim\, Entropy\, Memoir Mixtapes\, Peach Mag\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere\, as well as streaming on STELLA Radio and Spotify. \n  \nJoseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared in VQR\, N+1\, Gulf Coast\, The Offing\, and The Kenyon Review. An excerpt of his memoir\, Sink\, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright\, VONA\, Tin House\, Kimbilio\, & Breadloaf\, though he is now the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow at the CSU Poetry Center. He’s writing the novel God Bless You\, Otis Spunkmeyer\, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach\, among other oddities. He is also an associate faculty member at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research\, as well as Director of Programs at Blue Stoop\, a literary hub for Philly writers. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-alexa-smith-joseph-earl-thomas/
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:20230121T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Telicia Darius & 王潇/Evan Wang
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event with New Voices\n\nSaturday January 21 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-igqjgqHNESm_1z3fGzzgKz5Y4BBrb3 \n  \nTelicia Darius\, 2022-2023 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate\, is a senior at Hardy Williams Mastery Charter School in a dual enrollment program at Community College of Philadelphia. Telicia has participated in the Young Writer’s Workshop at Bard College and the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. Telicia writes and performs in both English and French and is a member of the Hardy Williams Philly Slam League team. Telicia loves a good challenge and believes in the words of poetry. On poetry and the Poet Laureate position\, Telicia says “Poetry is the writer’s ink and the laureate is the platform\, giving the inaudible text a chance to speak.” \n王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Violet Indigo Blue\, Etc.\, Philadelphia Stories\, National Poetry Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. Evan has performed his work at various venues such as the Oval XP\, ArtWRKD\, and The Rotunda at The University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry\, Philadelphia Contemporary\, and Wawa Welcome America.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-telicia-darius-%e7%8e%8b%e6%bd%87-evan-wang/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230118T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Liz Chang\, Chad Frame & Mary Jo LoBello Jerome
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Liz Chang\, Chad Frame\, and Mary Jo LoBello Jerome\n\nWednesday January 18 @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom Street\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu-trzIqHdBee3AuTkKCu3tGXaMoi1cJ \n  \nLiz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily\, Exit 7\, Rock & Sling\, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal\, among others. Her fourth collection\, a chapbook called Museum of Things\, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her creative nonfiction recently appeared in Oyster River Pages\, and her flash fiction has been published internationally. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company. Liz lives en les environs de Philadelphia with her family\, dog\, cat\, and a hive of honeybees. She is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University.  \nPhoto credit: Adrianne Matiowetz   \nChad Frame is the author of Little Black Book (2022\, Finishing Line Press)\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award\, and a chapbook\, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo\, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe\, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, and elsewhere\, on iTunes from the Library of Congress\, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.  \n  \nMary Jo LoBello Jerome has a new book out\, Torch the Empty Fields\, which was a finalist in the Women’s Voices Competition at Finishing Line\, and released in December. She is one of the Poetry Co-Editors of Schuylkill Valley Journal and a Poet Laureate of Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems\, an anthology of writing prompts for teachers\, published in 2021. Her poems and short stories have been published widely. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, has taught writing at all levels\, and has written for The New York Times\, Scholastic Inc.\, and many other publications.    \nSean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-liz-chang-chad-frame-mary-jo-lobello-jerome/
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:20230111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20221216T153215Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Peter Baroth\, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Peter Baroth\, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 11 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required– register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-qtrT0rGNUpSm6pNoX_JoJ016NR2VAU \n  \nPeter Baroth\, writer\, artist\, and musician\, is a graduate of Washington University and Temple Law School. His novel is Long Green (iUniverse) and his book of poetry\, Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press). He has been published in Philadelphia Poets\, Red Fez\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Apiary\, Legal Studies Forum\, Poetry Ink\, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Amy Tritsch Needle Award\, a 2016 Petracca Family Award\, was a finalist for the Joie de Vivre book prize\, has been nominated for Best of the Net\, and is on Philadelphia Stories’ editorial board. He lives in Media\, PA. \n  \nMassimo Elijah is a spoken word poet and Philly native who is proud to be a part of such a thriving arts scene in his home city. He loves how art can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together…where artist and audience remind each other how human beings are healers who are also healed by healing others. \n  \nGlen A. Mazis has more than 90 poems in literary journals\, including Rosebud\, The North American Review\, Sou’wester\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Willow Review\, Atlanta Review\, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review\, and the collection\, The River Bends in Time\, a chapbook\, The Body Is a Dancing Star\, and Bodies of Space and Time. He taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg\, has published five philosophy books with the most recent being\, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence\, Ethics\, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-peter-baroth-massimo-elijah-glen-a-mazis/
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:20230110T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T183000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20221216T150707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221228T060918Z
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SUMMARY:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Steve Burke
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM: Interview and Reading with Steve Burke\n\nTuesday January 10 @ 6:30PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\n  \n \nSteve Burke’s poems have been published in numerous journals & magazines; has had two chapbooks – After The Harvest & For Now – published by Moonstone Press. He has been a featured reader read at the original Painted Bride Arts Center\, Moore College of Art\, the Free Library’s Monday Night Series\, Fergie’s Pub\, the Green Line Café\, the Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, and the Philadelphia Poetry Festival. He worked for 25 years as a labor and delivery nurse; lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia with his wife Giselle.  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-phillycam-with-steve-burke/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20230106T161314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230106T161314Z
UID:18255-1673290800-1673377200@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Virtual Events: Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s Virtual Annual Poetry Ink Events\n  \nIn addition to Moonstone’s live Poetry Ink Event on January 8\, there will be TWO VIRTUAL EVENTS: January 9 & January 10\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTimes and Dates\nMonday\, January 9 @ 7PM\nRegistration Link: click here! \nTuesday January 10 @ 7PM\nRegistration Link: click here! \n  \nJanuary 9 Featured Contributors:\nAlyson Shore Adler  \nE. Lynn Alexander \nNathalie Anderson  \nTonita Austin  \nFloi Baker  \nAmy Barone  \nElliott batTzedek  \nDeborah Bayer  \nMiriam Ben-Yoseph  \nCarole Bernstein  \nAnuradha Bhowmik  \nCelia Bland  \nPamela Lynn Blanding-Godbolt  \nJulia Bluemenreich  \nFiona Bolger  \nVeronica Bowlan  \nR. Bremner \nCydney Brown  \nKristen Holt Browning   \nAnthony Cappo  \nAnnie Chian  \nCathleen Cohen  \nAlejandro Cortes  \nLynda V.E. Crawford  \nTerence Culleton  \nLiz Cunningham  \nCarlos Raul Dufflar  \nDavid Ebenbach  \nDavid Eberhardt  \nSophia Falco  \nMaria Fama  \nCheryl J. Fish  \nGloria Fredkove  \nHal Freedman  \nCaroline Furr  \nShotsie Gorman   \nMarjorie Gowdy  \nNeal Grace  \nShannon Frost Greenstein  \nJen Heller  \nJennifer Hook  \nJones Irwin  \nMaria James-Thiaw  \nJanuary 10 Featured Contributors:\nCharles Jenkins  \nMike Jurkovic   \nSusan Justiniano  \nChris Kaiser  \nLisa Naomi Konigsberg  \nJonathan Koven  \nLeonard Kress  \nEelka Lampe  \nHiram Larew   \nDavid Lawton   \nJosephine LoRe  \nDeirdre Maher  \nAngel L. Martinez  \nMichael McCarthy   \nDiane McManus  \nMatt Mitchell  \nD. Nurkse \nHermond Palmer  \nFaith Paulsen  \nAaren Yeats Perry  \nKenneth Pobo  \nPrabha  Nayak Prabhu  \nAnna Prader  \nHalle Preneta  \nBarrett Rosser  \nMolly Russakoff  \nMargaret Saraco  \nGeorge Schaefer  \nCarla S. Schick   \nLynne Shapiro  \nBeth SKMorris  \nFereshteh Sholevar   \nMegha Sood  \nRenée Szostek  \nElaine Terranova  \nTerry Tierney   \nJohn Timpane  \nJ.C. Todd  \nAlan Toltzis  \nCatherine Trapani  \nRaya Tuffaha   \nLois Villemaire  \nKen Waldman  \nDan Williams   \nAnne Harding Woodworth 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-events-annual-poetry-ink-anthology/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230108T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20221202T173411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T054639Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s \n26th Annual Poetry Ink Event\n\nSunday\, January 8 @ 12PM\nLIVE at The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\n\n  \n \n  \nWe want you all: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets who write Sonnets\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\, Epigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse. Join us for our 26th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. \nYou can buy the anthology here ($20 USD): https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/26th-poetry-ink-anthology/400 \n  \n  \nOUR 143 CONTRIBUTORS: \nLiz Abrams-Morley \nSusan Anmuth \nGregory Ashe \nFloi Baker \nAmy Barone \nPeter Baroth \nElliott batTzedek \nMiriam Ben-Yoseph \nCarole Bernstein \nPamela Blanding \nJulia Blumenreich \nVeronica Bowlan \nMatilda Bray \nBarbara Breitman \nR. Bremner \nJamie Brown \nLisa Bruckman \nMaryrose Carroll \nAnnie Chian \nTakudzwa Chikepe \nA.J. Chilson \nCathleen Cohen \nCathleen Cohen \nTiffany Cooper \nBeverly Cottman \nLynda V. E.  Crawford \nKatharine Cristiani \nELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM \nToby Devens \nAnn Ellen Dickter \nPheralyn Dove \nTom Driscoll \nCarlos Dufflar \nDavid  Eberhardt \nRUNETT EBO \nBill Ehrhart \nAlfred Encarnacion \nRichard Epstein \nSophia Falco \nKatherine Falk \nMaria Fama \nCheryl Fish \nPeggy Fisher \nFrancis Flavin \nBRYAN FRANCO \nGloria Fredkove \nHal Freedman \nCaroline Furr \nLinda Goss \nMarjorie Gowdy \nNeal Grace \nBeejay Grob \nBob Groves \nhanoch guy \nMARK HAMMERSCHICK \nPeggy Hammond \nSean Hanrahan \nJerri Hardesty \nAnnie Hartford \nFaleeha Hassan \nStephen Hattrich \nJen Heller \nDitta Baron Hoeber \nJane Ibur \nJones Irwin \njack israel \nCharles Jenkins \nIrving Jones \nKarl Kadie \nBetti Kahn \nChris Kaiser \nLouis Kamason \nBrian Kerr \nlisa konigsberg \nCarthornia Kouroupos \nLeonard Kress \nEd Krizek \nLaurie Kuntz \nEelka Lampe \nD Lang \nHiram Larew \nJim LaVilla-Havelin \nJeffrey Lee \nAntoinette Libro \nJosephine LoRe \nAlison Lubar \nNick Lutwyche \nGeorge MacMillan \nDeirdre Maher \nTawanda Manyati \nAngel Martinez \nJohn Mason \nMeg McCarney \nDiane McManus \nGabre Medhin \nEmily Melvin \nGary Metras \nBeth Morris \nDaniel O’Hara \nCharles O’Hay \nClaire Owen \nHermond Palmer \nFaith Paulsen \nJonathan Pessant \nVICTORIA HUGGINS PEURIFOY \nRescue Poetix \nKate Potter \nPrabha Prabhu \nDylan Ragas \nDon Riggs \nPatrick Rodgers \nLinda Romanowski \nMarco Romeo \nGeorge Schaefer \nCarla  Schick \nJennifer Schneider \nFereshteh Sholevar \nAlyson Shore Adler \nAmy Beth Sisson \nAmy Small-McKinney \nMegha Sood \nMaggie Stearns \nj.c. Sutton \nRenee Szostek \nAlbert  Tacconelli \nAlexi Terris \nTerry Tierney \nJohn Timpane \nJ. C. Todd \nKaren Paul Topham \nJim Trainer \nSebastian Trainer-Oneill \nCatherine Trapani \nLois Villemaire \nynotcreations webb \nTheresa Werba \nDANIEL WILLIAMS \nLauren Wolffe \nNellie Wong \nSamantha Wright \nTheresa Wyatt \nSekai’afua Zankel \nDaniel Zehner
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-26th-annual-poetry-ink-anthology/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230104T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20221216T143357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221216T143357Z
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Hosts of Other Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Elliott batTzedek\, Eileen M. D’Angelo\, James Feichthaler\, Joanne Leva & Robert Zell\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 4 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required. Register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfumgrTIjHdLPYnBWIkzwDwM2mU-lNZGy \n  \nElliott batTzedek holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. For 10 years she organized readings\, writing workshops\, and a poetry book group at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy. Since 2021\, she’s organized poetry at Main Point Books in Wayne\, PA.  Her work appears in: Sakura Review\, American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Cahoodaloodaling\, Naugatuck River Review\, and Poemeleon. \n  \n  \nEileen M. D’Angelo is Founder of the Mad Poets Society and Mad Poets Review. Since 1987\, she produced over 1\,500 special events\, including performances\, slams\, readings\, conferences\, workshops\, bonfires and literary festivals in the Delaware Valley.  Twice nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts\, D’Angelo also received two Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press nominations. \n  \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  \nJoanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know\, founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet\, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Peace Is a Haiku Song\, 50 Over Fifty\, Apiary\, E-Verse Radio\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Rag Queen Periodical\, Bucks County Writer\, Transcendent Visions\, and elsewhere. \n  \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 First Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-hosts-of-other-poetry-series/
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:20221228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20221119T024140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221119T024140Z
UID:18137-1672254000-1672261200@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Event: Anthony Cappo\, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Anthony Cappo\, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday December 28 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctceCppz8iE9HhItlupBaoL-TCdkVXAuhL \n  \nAnthony Cappo\, author of When You’re Deep In A Thing and My Bedside Radio\, poems and other writings have appeared in THRUSH\, Prelude\, Entropy\, The Rumpus\, and other publications. “Cappo’s voice is intimate\, but the arc is visceral: ‘come with me and I will show you/fissures of men.’ His poems aren’t looking for alchemy\, only for what’s real\, this world in which a child might ‘endure/like an Arctic explorer.’ They are true\, meaning: wholehearted and ambivalent. Cappo won’t show you prefabricated emotions\, rather the contraries we wrestle as we try to conjure our destinies ‘under God’s random jackhammer.’ He charts an America of absent fathers and thrift shop hand grenades\, an era in which the line between common sense and paranoia is fading. When You’re Deep in a Thing isn’t just beautiful-it’s courageous and necessary.” – D. Nurkse  \nMaria James-Thiaw\, author of Count Each Breath\, is an award-winning poet\, performer\, and playwright. She is the author of four poetry collections and her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, and Essential Voices: A Covid19 Anthology. Poems from her play\, Reclaiming My Time: An American Griot Project won the Art of Protest Award from Penn State University’s Center for American Literary Studies in 2018. Maria James-Thiaw is the founder of Reclaim Artist Collective\, an organization that brings her American Griot Project programming to marginalized communities.  \nAnn E. Michael\, author of Strange Ladies\, Water-Rites\, More than Shelter\, The Minor Fauna\, Small Things Rise & Go\, and The Capable Heart\, poems and essays have been widely published in many journals\, including Poem\, Natural Bridge\, Ninth Letter\, Runes\, The Comstock Review\, Diner\, Sentence\, Slant\, ISLE\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts and others\, as well as in numerous literary anthologies. She maintains a long-running blog\, garden\, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-anthony-cappo-maria-james-thiaw-ann-e-michael/
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:20221221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T212300
CREATED:20221119T023631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221119T023631Z
UID:18135-1671649200-1671656400@moonstoneartscenter.com
SUMMARY:Live Event: Enoch\, Maria Masington & LindoYes
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Enoch\, Maria Masington & LindoYes\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday December 21 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOmtqjMpGNxRsoAGpcUEeIs1nyqctIhI \n  \nEnoch is a poet\, author\, trauma-informed teaching artist and manga writer born and raised on the Northside of Wilmington\, DE. As a mental health advocate and someone living with bi-polar disorder\, his work examines the process of healing and the ways that trauma and mental health move through a family\, as well as the outside forces that affect or have affected these developments. His goal is to create written works\, curriculum\, and platforms that deepen our emotional understanding and its cyclical relation to the conditions acting on the Black mind\, body\, and spirit. Enoch is the 2017 Philadelphia Fuze Grand Slam Champion and the author of two poetry collections\, “The Guide to Drowning” released in 2017 and “Burned at the Roots” released in 2020.   \nMaria Masington is a poet\, author\, and spoken word artist from Wilmington\, Delaware. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen publications including The News Journal\, Gargoyle\, The Broadkill Review\, Adanna\,  Earth’s Daughters\, Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11\, and by the University of Colorado. Parnilis Media released Masington’s first chapbook\, Mouth Like a Sailor\, in 2021. It was awarded first place by both Delaware Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. Her work and upcoming events can be found at “Maria Masington Amazon.”   \nLindoYes is a spoken word artist\, creator of LindoYes! clothing line\, and an event host who was born and raised in Uptown Philadelphia\, PA. He is an unapologetically Black fusion of theatrical poetics and visual art whose work addresses the constructs of love\, masculinity and social injustice. Lindo’s work has led him to opportunities across the east coast from appearing on Def Poetry Jam to featuring at various colleges such as Bucknell University\, Haverford College\, and UPENN as well as venues including Busboys and Poets\, Spit Dat\, The Drunken Retort\, Urban Grind\, just to name a few. His work has been featured in on the well-known poetry youtube channel\, Button Poetry.  \n  \nSean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-enoch-maria-masington-lindoyes/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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