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SUMMARY:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann "justthepen" Toombs Bautista\, Chukwuma Ndulue\, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan
DESCRIPTION:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann “justthepen” Toombs Bautista\, Chukwuma Ndulue\, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqd-mppjgrG9VAJ0fzl1MRGnhDhjt3notB \n  \nAdriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista is a mother\, Grant Administrator\, Playwright\, Poet\, Workshop Facilitator\, Founder and CEO of Just The Pen\, LLC\, Founder of Just The Pen Foundation\, Founder & Facilitator of The SisterStrength Symposium and Creator and host of “Talks with Just The Pen”. Adriann’s published works include Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King\, Sanctuary of Snow and SisterStrength:She/Her/We/Me\, and over 15 anthologies. “When my pen no longer touches paper upon the earth\, I pray to be remembered for the faith I tried to share with everyone I came in contact with\, for the light I tried to share\, my concern for humanity\, the connections I have established and how I tried to give space without leaving\,  for how I gave love in large doses without borders or judgement and for the desire I carried to have my words leave a warm impact in a cold world.” \nChukwuma Ndulue is a writer and teacher. He is the author of the chapbook Boys Quarter (Ugly Duckling Presse) and is co-founder of the Aftermath Arts Cooperative. His poetry collection Holding Rain is forthcoming from Word Galaxy Press. \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while addressing issues of social justice\, identity\, and existence. He has 2 books\, a full-length collection entitled flashes of light from the deep\, and a new chapbook\, Horror. An organizer and connector\, he is president of the Mad Poets Society\, and works to live the ideal that poetry is for everybody.  Be sure to look him up on social media at anthonypalmapoetry. \n  \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-moonstone-poetry-reading-adriann-justthepen-toombs-bautista-chukwuma-ndulue-anthony-palma-with-host-sean-hanrahan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Farewell with Lucia Herrmann
DESCRIPTION:Sunday August 14\, 2022 – 6pm\n Farewell to Lucia\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – Registration Link \n https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYufuyqrDgsE9F2XY93UVrkNYOXd7TcQEpV \nJoin us for Lucia’s final Philadelphia poetry reading with her friends \nLucia Herrmann is a poet-artist and educator from Miami\, FL\, Philly resident since 2014\, and now heading to sunny San Diego for an MFA in the fall. She is an amalgamation of the community members and places she loves\, she performs\, writes\, and philosophizes about home\, identity\, and the general apocalyptic vibes. Lucia has been published by APIARY\, Defunkt Magazine\, Impostor Poetry\, Toho Journal\, and has two elegies in O\, Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering. Poetry and performance are her passion and she believes art is the most effective means of initiating social change. \nCome share your poetry with us
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-farewell-with-lucia-herrmann/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Marion Bell\, Faye Chevalier\, Corey Qureshi and Host Ebs
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Marion Bell\, Faye Chevalier\, Corey Qureshi and Host Ebs\nWednesday August 10\, 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/tZcqfuGgrDkiGt0zp7_kxz13UXQ88RcJFbyT \nMarion Bell is the author of Austerity (Radiator Press\, 2019.) She is a queer writer and Capricorn. She has lived in the Delaware watershed for most of her life – originally in the suburbs and in Philly for the past 15 years or so. \n  \n  \n  \nFaye Chevalier is a Philadelphia-based poet and seltzer-appreciator. She is the author of the chapbooks future.txt and flesh_wound. Her work has been featured in bedfellows\, The Wanderer\, Peach Mag\, Yes Poetry\, the tiny\, and elsewhere. She has been widely recognized as the first poet ever to have work published in a cyberpunk tabletop rpg podcast (Neoscum 2018). Find her on Twitter where she cries about River Phoenix\, vampires\, and having a body at @bratcore. \nCorey Qureshi is a writer\, musician\, and parent based in Philadelphia. Their poetry\, stories\, and reviews of performances and visual art shows have appeared in many publications and self-made booklets. \n  \n  \nEbs\, Host. Ebs (previously published under Emma Brown Sanders) is a genderqueer poet and editor living in Philadelphia. With Gina Myers\, they co-edit the tiny. Their work has appeared in Asterion Projects\, bedfellows\, blush\, Bone Bouquet\, boneless skinless\, Full Stop\, Fungiculture\, G U E S T\, Prolit\, The Rumpus and Tripwire\, among others. They are the author of A Fallow Channel and a bunch of chapbooks and zines. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-marion-bell-faye-chevalier-corey-qureshi-and-host-ebs/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Hiroshima Day Anthology Poetry Reading: Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:Hiroshima Day Anthology Poetry Reading: Virtual Event\n  \n2pm Eastern\, 11am Pacific \nRegistration Required – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtc-2rqDgjHtz9oNarNqMUl-Dwoy__6-FT \nHiroshima Day Anthology \nOn August 6th\, 1945\, the United States detonated an atomic bomb in Hiroshima\, Japan\, and another three days later in Nagasaki Japan. The possibility of nuclear war is no longer a distant memory\, but now a contemporary issue. As we mark the anniversary of Hiroshima send us a poem honoring the of victims and/ or examining the impact of these events. \n  \nHiroshima Day acknowledges the devastation of nuclear war on an international scale\, but also serves as a reminder of the repercussions of racism and racist policies. We are all complicit and we are all responsible for dismantling the systems of oppression and violence that led to this tragedy\, as well as the ongoing and horrific legacy of anti-Asian racism in the United States. Yuri Kochiyama\, the revolutionary activist\, once said: “We are all part of one another.” Poetry is one small yet mighty way that we can not only develop compassion\, but hold space for processing grief and trauma in the aftermath of this anniversary. \n  \nJoin us as contributors to this anthology read their poems \nProfits from the sale of the book will go to Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/hiroshima-day-anthology-poetry-reading-virtual-event/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Erin Castaldi and elijah b pringle\, III
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Erin Castaldi and elijah b pringle\, III\nWednesday August 3\, 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/tZ0qcu6vqzMoGdDK_1iJaHorV8e76kQ3nx2b \nErin Castaldi is Poet Laureate of Somers Point\, N.J. and former Social Media Manager for The Haiku Society of America\, edited the Haiku Society of America’s Member’s Anthology 2021; and her latest book\, ’Boundary Disruption’\, was the 2021 12th Annual Encircle Pub.\, LLC Book Contest Winner. Her work has appeared in such journals as\, Akitsu Quarterly\, Heron’s Nest\, Presence\, Blithe Spirit\, Frogpond\, Wales Haiku Journal\, Modern Haiku\, Alien Buddha Press\, Chrysanthemum and Asahi Haikuist\, Heron’s Nest\, Asahi Haikuist.#FemKuMag\, Blithe Spirit\, ChaNo Keburi\, Failed Haiku and Japan Society; as well as at least a dozen anthologies. \n  \n  \nelijah b pringle\, III is an artivist based in Philadelphia.  He has used all the arts to convey his philosophy of art\, either showing life as it is or as it should be. He has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, nationally and internationally as well as publishing several Chapbooks. He was recently nominated for a Best-In-Net (the on-line equivalent to a Pushcart Award).  He is a well-respected editor and mentor to not just writers but also to actors\, singers\, and dancers. He has directed several plays and is in early production of a play he has written “Should be …”   To his credit he has worked in Radio\, Television and Film.  Recently he made his debut as a Free-Jazz Singer and has appeared in the US and Ireland.  Lastly and most importantly he is an educator who has lectured both here and overseas.  He counts as his inspiration his failures and credits his real “schooling” to 5 generations of teachers. \nSean Lynch Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-elijah-b-pringle-iii/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview and Reading with Julia Blumenreich
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview and Reading with Julia Blumenreich\nTuesday August 2\, 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 \nJulia Blumenreich is the author of Meeting Tessie\, Artificial Memory\, Blue Angel of a Day\, and The What of Underfoot\, and her poems have been published in a number of journals including o-blék\, Central Park\, Aerial\, and Chain. Julia also served as one of the founders and editors of 6ix\, a poetry journal based in Philadelphia. \nA recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowship for her poetry\, Julia has read her work widely at a variety of venues\, including The University of Pennsylvania\, Temple and Brown Universities\, The Cleveland New Music Festival\, and Small Press Distribution in San Francisco. 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.” \nJulia worked for a number of years as a poet-in-the-schools before becoming a fourth- grade teacher (first for eight years in West Philadelphia and 25 years at Germantown Academy in Fort Washington). Since working in the schools\, she received a Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award in 2000 \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-virtual-interview-and-reading-with-julia-blumenreich/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Aaren Perry and Lamont B. Steptoe
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry with Aaren Perry & Lamont B. Steptoe \nWednesday July 27\, 2022 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub  \n1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – \nRegistration Required for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsduurqzwiHtCYbzMsMPYIsGE7cAX8Oinl \n  \nAaren Perry’s new book is Shipping and Receiving\, published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College\, he recently edited a forthcoming collection of new poems by Lamont B. Steptoe. He co-edited with Dr. James Villarreal\, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row\, by Anthony Reid\, an ebook out now on Amazon. Perry runs Yeatts Perry Consulting\, grants and donor management for health equity and social change nonprofits. \n  \nLamont B. Steptoe was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania.  Steptoe is a father\, grandfather\, and Vietnam veteran. A graduate of Temple University majoring in Radio\, Television and Film\, Steptoe is the author of sixteen collections of poetry among which include\, Crimson River\, Mad Minute\, Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare\, A Long Movie of Shadows\, Crowns and Halos\, and Meditations in Congo Square. Steptoe’s work appears in over one hundred anthologies among which are the Oxford University Press Anthology of African American Literature. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award\, Pew Fellow in the Arts\, and two Pennsylvania Council on Arts Awards. His forthcoming collection is Woke! Soon to be published by Whirlwind Press. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\,  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-aaren-perry-and-lamont-b-steptoe/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading and New Book Publications: R. Bremner\, Rosemary Capello\, Albert Tacconelli\, Daniel Williams\, and James Redfern
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading and New Publications: R. Bremner\, Rosemary Capello\, Albert Tacconelli\, Daniel Williams\, and James Redfern\n  \nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdO2grjgpHNduJWSeJ9za5ZyJqHblU-w6 \n  \nNew Books from the Moonstone Press \n  R. Bremner\, author of Erasing Influences (Moonstone Press) and seven other books\, has been writing of incense\, peppermints\, and the color of time since the 1960s. His work has appeared in International Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Sigmund Freud in Poetry\, and many more journals. \n  \nRosemary Cappello\, author of Suitcase Poems (Moonstone Press) is passionate about many things\, poetry heads the list\, and she spent a large portion of my life reading poetry\, writing it\, and presenting it to the public. She is passionate about editing and puts a great deal of thought into the publication of “Philadelphia Poets”. \n  \nAlbert Tacconelli\, author of Such Things (Moonstone Press)\, is a Poet and artist whose poems and art have appeared in Paterson Literary Review\, Philadelphia Poets\, VIA\, Mad Poets Review\, and Endicott Review. Tacconelli read at Hofstra University\, Calandra Institute\, Free Library of Philadelphia\, and the American Italian Historical Association Annual Conference. \n  \nDaniel Williams\, author of Lost Language of Mars (Moonstone Press) is primarily a poet of the Sierra Nevada range in central California\, his work encompasses a wide variety of material.  He has also been a community college instructor\, a park ranger\, and a stand-in and actor in Back to the Future III. \n  \n  \nJames Redfern\, author of Baker (Moonstone Press) is a teacher\, editor\, printmaker\, artist\, writer\, and poet: Redfern has built up a long rap sheet of artistic creation.  Recently\, his poetry has appeared in High Shelf\, Beatific Magazine\, The Raw Art Review\, Transcend\, We Are Antifa (Into the Void)\, 2020: Good Writing/Bad Year (Dutch Kills Press)\,  and elsewhere
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-moonstone-poetry-reading-and-new-book-publications-r-bremner-rosemary-capello-albert-tacconelli-daniel-williams-and-james-redfern/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220720T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry Reading & New Book Publications: Steven Dale Davison\, Beth Brown Preston\, John Gallagher\, and Amber Renee
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading & New Book Publications: Steven Dale Davison\, Beth Brown Preston\, John Gallagher\, and Amber Renee\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuiqrjwsH91tx7Gj9d9t222hmUeUvUvx \n  \nNew Books from the Moonstone Press \n  Steven Dale Davison\, author of O My Heart (Moonstone Press)\, Dancing Mockingbird\, and The Road to Continental Heart. worked for twenty years as a journalist and professional writer and has written both short and long fiction and has published non-fiction essays. \n  \n  \nBeth Brown Preston\, author of Oxygen II (Moonstone Press)\, is a poet and novelist with two collections of poetry from the Broadside Lotus Press and a poetry chapbook. She has been published in numerous journals including African American Review\, The Black Scholar\, Callaloo\, Obsidian and other literary and scholarly journals. \n  \nJohn Gallagher\, author of Undaunted Light (Moonstone Press). is the son of working class immigrants from Donegal\, Ireland\, and grew up on the other side of the tracks in Bryn Mawr\, PA. These two settings are the backdrops that formed him and provide the core of this collection. \n  \n  \nAmber Renee\, author of In memory\, energy (Moonstone Press)\, is a chronic writer\, author of Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode and i feel like i’m nothing. During the pandemic Amber created what she calls “Poetry Songs” and was an editor for Serotonin Poetry. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-reading-new-book-publications-steven-dale-davison-beth-brown-preston-john-gallagher-and-amber-renee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review: Best of The Sucks\n  \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-qtrTsrG9SWC8UP_dlV9CJFR2nNVIYW \n  \nBest of the Sucks: \nHigh-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review\nEdited by Mark Spitzer ($21.95\, MadHat Press) \nFor fans of the legendary Toad Suck Review\, and for anyone who missed that boat but would have an appreciation for innovative literature that’s quirky\, edgy\, and International Avant-Garde\, this revival publication is your ticket to get on board. This publication will reestablish Toad Suck Editions as MadHat takes it into the future\, so consider this your time to catch up with the class! Digging back to its Exquisite Corpse roots\, the transitional period to the inception of Toad Suck\, and pummeling chronologically through the issues. \nPresenters include: Marc Vincenz\, publisher\, reading from CD Wright\, Mark Spitzer\, editor\, reading from preface\, Scotty Lewis\, assistant editor\, reading from Rimbaud\, Brenda Mann Hammack\, “Gargoyles & Phantoms”\, Tyrone Jaeger\, “From The Runaway Note”\, Elva Maxine Beach\, “Raised by Mobsters & Born Agains”\, Robert Archambeau\, “The Sproks”\, Lea Graham\, “From The Hotel Vernon”\, Ken Waldman\, “Where the Ink Is Self and the Sex Burns”
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-high-octane-poetix-from-the-legendary-toad-suck-review/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Summer J. Hart\, and Osimiri Sprowal
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Summer J. Hart\, and Osimiri Sprowal\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdOioqj0uHNJ8-6wjUL4y4IxNsU2xMOZ- \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey holds a BA in History from Bard College\, an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She is the author of the artist’s book Not Fit for Print\, winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award\, her poems can be found in publications like BOMB\, Dream Pop Journal\, Bedfellows\, and Whirlwind Magazine. Savannah works for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden\, NJ\, and teaches Creative Writing at UArts and with the Arts Alliance of Philadelphia’s Writers’ Workshop. \nSummer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist from Maine\, living in the Hudson Valley\, New York. Her written and visual artworks are influenced by folklore\, superstition\, divination\, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is the author of Boomhouse and Augury of Ash. Her poetry can be found in Waxwing\, The Massachusetts Review\, Northern New England Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. Summer is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. \n  \nOsimiri Sprowal (they/them) is an Afro-Indigenous\, Trans\, Queercrip poet\, homeless rights activist\, and sibling. Their poetry has been featured at Bowery Poetry\, The University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Gettysburg University\, The University of Arizona-Tuscon\, among other locations. They were the 2015 Philly Youth Grand Slam Champion\, 2018 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) Semi-Finalist\, where they received the Best Love Poem Award. They were a 2018 Till Arts Emerging Artist Fellow\, 2019 Feminine Empowerment Slam Champion\, and a 2020 CoLab Arts Fellow. They were a winner of the 2019 Shockwire Micro Chapbook Contest for their book Gemini: Duality of Self\, a chapbook chronicling their experiences as a genderfluid person. They were the founder and President of deadname.arts\, Philly’s only gender-expansive collective in its time. Most recently\, they recieved the Marshall Scholarship\, and are preparing to relocate to the U.K to write Black Queer plays.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-savannah-cooper-ramsey-summer-j-hart-and-osimiri-sprowal/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220712T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220712T203000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Reading at PhillyCAM: J.C. Todd
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Author Reading at PhillyCAM: J.C. Todd\n  \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series \n699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n  \nJ.C. Todd’s most recent book of poetry are Beyond Repair\, a special selection for the 202 Able Muse Book award\, and The Damages of Morning\, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. A winner of a Poetry Society of the UK award and the Rita Dove Prize in Poetry\, she has received fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, and residency programs including the Bemis Center. Her poems and interviews have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, The Night Heron Barks\, Paris Review\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Philadelphia. Charles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-author-reading-at-phillycam-j-c-todd/
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:20220705T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220705T210000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic\n  \nRegistration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdeyrrzkvE9a5XaxS_M-lkBnESlr3EBOI  \n  \nKen Holland has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has had work published in such journals as Rattle\, Tulane Review\, Southwest Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, The American Journal of Poetry and Tar River among others.  He’s won/placed in a number of contests\, including those sponsored by Naugatuck River Review and the Stephen DiBiase competition.  One of his poems\, adapted for stage\, was selected for performance in NYC in July.  He lives and breathes in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York.  And has recently launched his website: www.kenhollandpoet.com \n  \nMike Jurkovic is published widely: full length collections include mooncussers\, AmericanMental\, and Blue Fan Whirring; anthologies include Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology\, Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process\, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose\,  and others. Now in its 23rd year\, Mike serves as President of Calling All Poets. A 2016 Pushcart nominee\, online CD reviews at All About Jazz and Lightwood. Chairman\, Music Fan Film Series\, Rosendale Theater. Host\, New Jazz Excursions\, WIOX 91.3FM\, Roxbury\, NY. Streaming at wioxradio.org. Regional features Van Wyck Gazette\, 2013-2020. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine\, 1996-2003. He loves Emily most of all.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-ken-holland-and-mike-jurkovic/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220703T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220703T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220527T183104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220527T183251Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220626T160000
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CREATED:20220527T161845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220623T184335Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220527T144512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220616T073357Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220619T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220619T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220524T185800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220525T181318Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220608T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220524T140932Z
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220607T203000
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CREATED:20220524T181626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T182247Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220601T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220524T154913Z
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220525T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220420T163214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T205941Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
CREATED:20220420T162036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T204455Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220521T160000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T161340
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220420T160404Z
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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
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T190000
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
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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
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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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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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