BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Moonstone Arts Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Moonstone Arts Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Moonstone Arts Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221014T153503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T153503Z UID:18011-1669230000-1669237200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: David Acosta\, Chris Bullard\, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with David Acosta\, Chris Bullard\, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 23 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdOyhrD8vHdFWcWTkXfzrI94iaoui6QyV \n  \nDavid Acosta\, author of Miscellany\, is a well-known poet\, writer\, and activist whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He has served on a variety of committees and boards\, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The AIDS Law Project. As a founding member of both the Art Emergency Coalition and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (which went on to successfully sue the National Endowment for the Arts during the 90s culture wars.)  As a Latinx\, racially mixed\, indigenous\, gay man\, he continues to blend art and activism as he collaborates on countless projects throughout the city while producing his own art and writing. \nChris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia\, is author of Continued\, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler\, Muse/A Journal\, The Woven Tale\, Nimrod\, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.   \n  \nColin Morgan (known as Marc Moore in some literary circles) is the CEO of Night City Publishing\, a record label based in Philadelphia\, PA. Additionally\, they are the lead editor and founder of Parquet Poetry magazine\, a small literary and art journal also based in Philadelphia. Colin plays bass in the band Queen Mob and has been published worldwide in many elite verse and art journals\, but their most important work is the unseen text of whatever they are currently writing. Follow Night City Publishing on IG: @nightcitypublishing – Submit to Parquet Poetry on IG: @parquet.poetry \nMolly Russakoff has been living and writing in Philadelphia since 1979.  She was a poetics student and teaching assistant in the early days of Naropa University in Boulder Co.\, studying with many of the Beat\, Black Mountain and New York School poets.  She won a Pew Fellowship in 1993. Molly currently owns Molly’s Books & Records with her husband\, Joe Ankenbrand.  She will be reading from her recently completed novel manuscript\, Red Tape. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-david-acosta-chris-bullard-colin-morgan-molly-russakoff/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221120T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221104T140000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T140000Z UID:18065-1668952800-1668952800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Event: Celebrating Larry Robin's 80th Birthday! DESCRIPTION:Come Join Us As We Celebrate Larry Robin’s 80th Birthday!\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nSunday November 20 @ 2PM\n\n“In my youth in the 60’s the motto was “never trust anyone over 30”\, now my grandchildren are over 30. I am extremely lucky to have worked on the things I believe in my entire life. 52 years at Robin’s Book Store\, 41 years with Moonstone. Promoting art and education. What else could one wish for? Should you want to do something for me\, donate something to the Moonstone Arts Center\, www.moonstoneartscenter.com. I hope to see you on the 20th. If you have any questions\, please contact me.” – Larry \n              Picture by Sandy Robin \n  \nJoin Us for Socializing and Poetry!\n2pm – Doors Open \n3pm – Ten Minutes of Readings \n\nLynn Levin\nWarren Longmire\nSean Hanahan\nZ Murphy\nMatilda Bray\nJoe Roarty\n\n4pm – Ten Minutes of Readings \n\nC. Todd\nLamont Steptoe\nAaren Perry\nMac Chandler\nEvan Wang\nEleanor Wilner\n\n5pm – Open Reading            \nElijah Pringle Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-celebrating-larry-robins-80th-birthday/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221116T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221012T144817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T144817Z UID:17995-1668625200-1668632400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Luke Stromberg's The Elephant's Mouth DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Luke Stromberg’s Debut Poetry Collection\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 16 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcofuutpz4tHtylEA7Zoqzz0WYEMBrGcYS0 \nThe Elephant’s Mouth\, Luke’s Debut Poetry Collection\, Years in the Making\n“Luke Stromberg is an autobiographical poet\, but instead of being confined to the past\, his best narratives deliver enough metaphoric lift to transmute them into poetry.  I’m remembering his shadow being “a movie on the wall;” tombstones as “baby teeth;” and days that “pile up like dishes in the sink.” The Elephant’s Mouth is a noteworthy debut.”  —Billy Collins (Former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling) \n  \nLuke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace\, The Hopkins Review\, The New Criterion\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Think Journal\, ONE ART\, Cleaver\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years\, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference\, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University. \nWITH: \n\n \n \n \n \n John Wall Barger\n \n \n \n \n \n Luke Bauerlein\n \n \n \n \n \n Ernest Hilbert\n \n \n \n \n \n Z Murphy\n \n \n \n \n \n Anne-Adele Wight\n \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. Luke Bauerlein grew up in SE PA and first met Luke Stromberg in an undergraduate poetry workshop at West Chester University. He co-founded the now extinct rock n roll band\, The Late Greats\, and his poems and essays have appeared in the NY Times\, Rattle\, BODY\, Unsplendid\, and elsewhere. Ernest Hilbert is the author of four collections of poetry\, Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan\, winner of the Poets’ Prize\, and Last One Out . His fifth book\, Storm Swimmer\, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and will appear in 2023. Z Murphy (she/they) is a multiracial multidisciplinary artist studying creative writing at the University of the Arts. Since she was little\, she’s valued the art of storytelling and proceeds to tell stories in whatever way she sees fit\, whether it be through writing\, performance\, song – Z remains constantly inspired to make new art. Z writes about race\, sex\, class\, mental health\, and about writing itself (how meta of them). She is currently a writer for the online magazine Nicki Swift\, a dog dad\, and a retired child. Anne-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. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-luke-strombergs-the-elephants-mouth/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T160000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221012T135546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221012T135546Z UID:17970-1668355200-1668355200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event with Cheryl J. Fish\, Lisa Grunberger & Alison Lubar DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Presents\nStretching Forms: Poetry to Prose\n\nSunday November 13 @ 4PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucOusrjwqGdQvZiF1EPQIBDccZrOP4A_C \n  \nCheryl J. Fish is author of the debut novel Off the Yoga Mat\, the story of three characters coming of middle age. She is also the author of recent poetry collections\, Crater & Tower\, and The Sauna is Full of Maids. She is co-editor of the collection A Stranger in the Village :Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review\, Cheap Pop\, Spank the Carp\, Liars League\, Boog City and KGB Bar Lit. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Hanging Loose\, Maintenant\, Terrain\, Mom Egg Review\, New American Writing\, Reed\, Postcard poems\, Santa Monica Review\, ISLE and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World.  Fish has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com.  \nPushcart nominee\, Temple University Professor\, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her poetry books  I am dirty (Moonstone Press) and Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Shoah survivors. Her book\, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins) is currently being adapted as a musical. Her work is widely published and translated from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review. Almost Pregnant\, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is published by Smith Scripts. Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre and will soon be a short film.    \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 debut chapbook\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, is out now with Thirty West (May 2022); their second\, sweet euphemism\, is forthcoming with CLASH!\, an imprint of Mouthfeel Press\, in 2023. You can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-with-cheryl-j-fish-lisa-grunberger-alison-lubar/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221019T145442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221104T131040Z UID:18026-1668261600-1668261600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emerging Poets DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with New Voices: Emerging Poets\n\nSaturday November 12 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required – Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuduGqqzIiGdMlWS6MiZcP2t8f1F0h-zaD \n  \n Avik Belenje\, age 15\, has studied poetry at Poetry Power\, he has received the Silver Key from Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards and four First Place Awards from California Federation of Chaparral Poets\, Inc. \n  \n  \n  \nCydney Brown was the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. A Freshman at Northwestern University she has been writing poetry since 5th grade. She has been featured in The New York Times\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, 6abc\, Philadelphia Citizen\, and Fox29 and loves that there are no limitations to writing. Her poetry explore social justice\, self-image\, love\, and nature. Cydney won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop competition\, is the Recipient of The Romero Scholarship For Excellence In Spoken Word and is a Gold Award Lifetime Member Girl Scout who is active in improving her community and is the recipient of The Good Citizenship Award. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world. \nJules Hostetter is a poet from Pennsylvania. She currently studies creative writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her poems explore depression/anxiety\, love\, and sexuality. She loves collecting records\, roller skating\, and playing guitar. \n  \n  \n王潇/Evan Wang is the inaugural Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate from Pennsylvania. His work is forthcoming or has been published in VIBE\, Philadelphia Stories\, National Poetry Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. His work has been recognized by or featured at Wawa Welcome America\, the ruth weiss foundation\, Bleeding Soul Poetry\, and Society of Poetry. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-emerging-poets/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221011T220250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221011T220250Z UID:17968-1668106800-1668106800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event Featuring Five Poets DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Millicent Borges Accardi\, Margaret R. Sáraco\, MM Wittle\, Anne Harding Woodworth & R.G Ziemer\n\nThursday November 10 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lduGsqzkiHdeZ-LzSwvwEPghc5xYPGBgI \n  \nMillicent Borges Accardi\, a Portuguese-American poet\, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA)\, the California Arts Council\, Barbara Deming Foundation\, Canto Mundo and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle). \n  \nMargaret R. Sáraco grew up in an Italian-American extended family\, was awarded master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and in Mathematics\, which inform her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals\, has been featured at The Art and Poetry of Teaching\, Havdalah Café\, Gallery U\, Welcome the Sabbath Bride\, and others and has conducted workshops at Stockton Tour of Poetry\, Save our Schools\, Hudson Valley Writing Project\, the American Italian Historical Association\, Montclair State and New York Universities on writing\, teaching\, activism and music.   \nMM Wittle\, author of Reconstruction\, is a writer of all genres who is a high school and middle school teacher during the day\, a college professor at night\, and a book worm and writer on the weekends. Wittle’s play Family Guidance was selected for honorable mention at the 5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Workshop’s Playwriting Competition. The Education of Allie Rose was shortlisted in the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her work has appeared in Transient\, The Bond Street Review\, Free Flash Fiction\, The Fox Chase Review\, The Four Quarters\, Decades Review\, Emerging Literary Journal and others.   \nAnne Harding Woodworth is the author of eight books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her most recent book is Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (October 2022)\, a Literary Titan Silver Award book. Her book\, Trouble\, received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry. An excerpt from her chapbook\, The Last Gun\, won the 2016 COG Poetry Award\, judged by A. Van Jordan\, and was subsequently animated (https://vimeo.com/193842252). Anne is a member of the Poetry Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum.  \nR.G Ziemer was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago\, worked in the construction trades\, practiced genealogy and presently teaches writing at the College of DuPage. He is active with several writing groups and enjoys sharing prose and poetry at local reading venues and open mics. Ziemer’s novel the Ghost of Jamie McVay was published in 2019.  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-featuring-five-poets/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221010T145527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T175450Z UID:17949-1668020400-1668027600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Alexander Khan\, Claire Palmer\, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Alexander Khan\, Claire Palmer\, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 9 @ 7:30PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOurqT8tEtfqB8TkrAAoNrx3q7OUGbv8 \n  \nAlexander Khan is a creative writing student at the University of the Arts. As a queer person\, his writing focuses on the link between queerness\, mental health\, and family. He was first published in 3rd grade in a national book focused on poems about bullying.  \n  \n  \nClaire Palmer is a 21-year-old writer\, poet\, & philosopher based in Philadelphia. Born in Doylestown\, Pennsylvania\, she currently attends The University of the Arts as a senior in the Creative Writing program. Drawing from magical realism & pagan folklore\, her artistic style also sources inspiration from political history & dialogic language. Motifs of ancestry\, karma\, & free will often can be found in her work. Find Claire on Instagram @cklayre.  \n  \nJohn Tom Raczkowski is the Senior Editor and Coordinator for University of the Art’s annual magazine Underground Pool\, responsible for publishing student driven works as well as hosting events and open mics for students. He is also a consistent Review Writer for Publisher’s Weekly. He reads and writes poetry in his spare time. \n  \n  \nChina Rain is a writer and mixed media artist living in Philadelphia\, inhabiting a 24-year-old body in its last year at the Universtiy of the Arts.  \nShe likes long walks and feeding birds\, you can find their work in the newest issue of Prolit Magazine\, Prose online\, and elsewhere at @china_rainnn on instagram.  \n  \n  \nJohn Wall Barger\, Host – Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-alexander-khan-claire-palmer-john-tom-raczkowski-china-rain/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221010T153212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221102T185723Z UID:17947-1667743200-1667743200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: The Future of America DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Presents:\nThe Future of America– VOTE\n\nSunday November 6 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsc-urrTwjG92Ddk8jG1I7lqkWuqO8ehGj \n  \n \nWhat is our future? Will we take the effort to vote on November 8?  Do we believe in Democracy or will we become an authoritarian state? 4 million students graduate high school each year and do not vote until they are 25. We would live in a different world if they voted. This may be the most important election in our lifetime. VOTE and urge other to VOTE. Do it with poetry\, Join us as poets reflect on the Future of America. \nJoin us a poets read their submissions.  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-the-future-of-america/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221010T044114Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T175533Z UID:17940-1667415600-1667422800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Gina Myers\, Alina Pleskova\, Warren Longmire DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Gina Myers\, Alina Pleskova\, and Warren Longmire\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 2 @ 7:30PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceqvqTIsGtHtpjemioTAOXaz6B_ZzVn6 \n  \n Gina Myers’s 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. She lives in Philadelphia\, PA\, where she works in communications and co-edits the tiny with ebs and Cul-de-sac of Blood with Jeff T. Johnson.  \n  \nAlina Pleskova is fixing to become poet-in-residence of the astral realm. She is a Moscow-born\, Philadelphia-based poet & editor\, author of What Urge Will Save Us\, Toska. Alina is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change and Window of Opportunity grants; has hosted workshops\, events\, & panels\, is founder of the Cheburashka Collective (women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora)\, and co-edits bedfellows\, a literary magazine topically focused on sex\, desire\, & intimacy.   \n  \nWarren Longmire is a writer\, 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. His second\, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop is set to release in the winter of 2022 through Fonograf Editions.  \n  \nebs Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-gina-myers-alina-pleskova-warren-longmire/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T183000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221018T164954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221021T043040Z UID:18018-1667327400-1667327400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Interview & Reading DESCRIPTION:2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series With Zina Bethea Dawson\, Jenny Pacanowski & J. C. Todd\n\nTuesday November 1 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\n  \nZina Bethea Dawson a served as a combat medic. She spent the majority of her adult life caring for others; fellow service members while on active duty and family upon separation from duty. From as early as she can recall\, creativity was interwoven into her life’s journey. Every form of textile artistry piques her interest to the point of formal training and execution. Whether it’s a quilt\, hand tooled leather accessory\, or a custom piece of jewelry\, seeing a smile is the elixir that energizes her passions. Give her a needle and thread; magic will happen. Joy is a mission for Zina as she uses humor in her written work with Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving\, where experiential expression is the medium of camaraderie and healing.   \nJenny Pacanowski is the Founder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving; a reintegration program that utilizes writing and performance to empower veterans to thrive in their daily life. She is also the program director of Poetic Theater Productions NYC Veteran Voices and the Associate Director of Lucid Body’s Impact theatre. Jenny believes that partnerships\, collaborations and empowerment through community and ritual storytelling are the key to reintegration for veterans and their families. She travels all over the country performing\, speaking\, facilitating workshops and inviting people to empower themselves from within their experiences.  \nJ. C. Todd was a Blue Star Mother between 2002-2012\, when three of her family members were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and she began to write her book of poems\, Beyond Repair\, (2021) a selection for the Able Muse Press Book Award. Other poetry collections include The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press\, 2018)\, a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award\, and What Space This Body (Wind Publications\, 2008). Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize and a ‘commended’ winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition: Poetry Society of the UK\, she holds fellowships from the Pew Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, and Bemis Center. Poems and interviews have appeared in the Baltimore Review\, The Night Heron Barks\, One Art\, The Paris Review\, and other journals. In 2023\, PDR Press will publish a collection of her new and selected poems in a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) edition. www.jc-todd.com  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-jenny-pacanowski-j-c-todd/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T140000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221004T164813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T164813Z UID:17927-1667138400-1667138400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: Byron Beynon\, Philip Brady\, Jones Irwin\, & Steven Kleinman DESCRIPTION:Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading with Byron Beynon\, Philip Brady\, Jones Irwin\, & Steven Kleinman\n\nSunday October 30 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-moqDsiHdZ-8fulshSjDrRRGm4piBqC \n  \nByron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including The Galway Review\, Cyphers\, Poetry Pacific\, London Magazine\, The Tower Journal and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets).  His most recent collection is The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).  \n  \n  \nPhilip Brady has taught at University College Cork in Ireland\, as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the National University of Zaire\, in the Semester at Sea Program\, in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MFA Program\, at the Chautauqua Institute\, at San Francisco State University\, the University of Delaware\, and SUNY Binghamton. Currently he is a distinguished professor of English at Youngstown State University\, where he teaches creative writing and literature.  \n  \nJones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin\, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics\, including texts on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis\, and his poetry and fiction have been published widely in independent journals and magazines. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist\, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic. This chapbook is his first collection of poems.  \n  \nSteven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle Of A Bear\, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His work is available from the American Poetry Review\, Beloit Poetry Review\, Copper Nickel\, the Iowa Review\, the Gettysburg Review\, Oversound\, as well as others. Steven is a contributing manager at the American Poetry Review\, where he co-hosts the APR podcast. He is the interim director of Creative Writing at the University of the Arts\, where he also serves as the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop.   \n  \nJohn Lavin Host   URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-byron-beynon-philip-brady-jones-irwin-steven-kleinman/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221004T163525Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T163525Z UID:17922-1666810800-1666818000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Amy Barone & David Ebenbach DESCRIPTION:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Amy Barone and David Ebenbach\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday October 26 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuc-CuqzosEtSSxhjrmzE5OLcjFGbqhZWu \n  \nAmy Barone’s new poetry collection\, Defying Extinction\, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection\, We Became Summer\, in 2018.  She wrote chapbooks\, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge\, New Verse News\, Paterson Literary Review\, Sensitive Skin\, and Standpoint (UK)\, among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr\, Pennsylvania\, she lives in New York City.  \nDavid Ebenbach is the author of three books of poems\, including his new collection What’s Left to Us by Evening\, and four books of fiction and non-fiction\, winners of such awards as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Juniper Prize\, among others. A West Philly native\, he lives with his family in Washington\, DC\, where he teaches at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-amy-barone-david-ebenbach/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221019T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20221004T162339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T162339Z UID:17916-1666206000-1666213200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: E. Lynn Alexander & Amy Saul-Zerby  DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading With E. Lynn Alexander and Amy Saul-Zerby\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday October 19 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sce6trj4sG9eyy70A1V-FCiCov-2UCDqN \n  \nE. Lynn Alexander is a poet\, artist\, mother\, and maker of new things from old. She has been involved in the small press for many years\, producing both online and print projects. She has organized and hosted performance and open mic events locally\, and currently cohosts two monthly readings online. Right now\, she is working on programming for the Easton Book Festival which takes place each year in October. She has recently released a collection of poetry\, “Find Me in the Iris”\, available now.  \n  \nAmy Saul-Zerby is the author of the poetry collections Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds (Be About It Press 2017) and Deep Camouflage (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018). Her third collection\, Choose Your Own Beginning\, is forthcoming from Be About It Press. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, The Chicago Review of Books\, American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.  \n  \nSean Hanahan Host\, Open Reading Follows  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-e-lynn-alexander-amy-saul-zerby%e2%80%af/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220929T221626Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T221626Z UID:17899-1665601200-1665601200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading with Eli C. Goldblatt\, Vernita Hall\, and Peter F. Murphy DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nWednesday October 12\, 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/tZYkde-hrjosHtxdLBv1ygNzirA8cimx2HW2 \nEli C. Goldblatt is author of Wissahickon Creek: Walks & Dreams\, and seven other books. He is Professor Emeritus at Temple University\, former director of writing directed New City Writing\, the community outreach arm of the writing program. Goldblatt also taught science\, math and English for six years in an urban alternative high school in Philadelphia. He earned a master’s in education and certificate in biology from Temple.His master’s in literature and doctorate in composition studies came from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published work includes “Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum” and “Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography\,” as well as three collections of poetry and two children’s books. \nVernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color\, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians\, winner of the 2016 Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, African American Review\, Barrow Street\, The Common\, River Styx\, The Hopkins Review\, and Arts & Letters. With fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Ucross\, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College and serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories. \nPeter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay\, NY\, the Heart of the Thousand Islands\, where he learned to ice fish and shoot pool. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review\, New Madrid\, The Café Review\, and Neologism Poetry Journal\, among others. His chapbook\, A Map of Three Continents\, was published by Moonstone Press (2020). Underwater\, his new book of poems\, came out in 2021 from Human Error Publishing. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-with-eli-c-goldblatt-vernita-hall-and-peter-f-murphy/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/october-12-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T190000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220927T152708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T152708Z UID:17874-1665514800-1665514800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading feat/ Eight of Moonstone's Former Chapbook Winners DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Virtual Poetry \nTuesday October 11\, 2022 – 7pm Eastern \nRegistration Required – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcOyqpjovGdO2icZAh6MDWK7NmFH-gjmZ \nA Reading by the Previous Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners \n \n  \nLisa Grunberger is author of I am dirty and Born Knowing which are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Shoah survivors.  She is also author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position. \n  \n \nVernita Hall is author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color\, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians. Her poems have appeared in Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, African American Review\, Barrow Street\, and others. \n  \nGeorge McDermott is a Philadelphia poet who lives in Florida (that’s not impossible\, not even particularly uncommon). He’s also been an English teacher\, a speechwriter\, and a screenwriter (those are not mutually exclusive\, not even especially different). He is author of  Pictures\, Some of Them Moving. \n  \n \nCharles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis\, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park with Wolverine Farm Publishing. He coordinates writing programs in the community for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. \n  \n \nKenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections\, including Bend of Quiet\, Loplop in a Red City\, and Lilac And Sawdust and The Book of Micah. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly\, Asheville Literary Review\, Nimrod\, Washington Square Review\, and elsewhere. \n  \n \nJoe Roarty won the first Moonstone Chapbook Contest in 2015 for Moritat (German for “street ballad”)\, poetry of high octane energy\, passionate intelligence\, supercharged\, insistent blues\, jazz and heightened speech rhythms\, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease. \n  \nMbarek Sryfi\, poet and translator\, is author of The Trace of a Smile and City Poems\, co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film. His work appears in many journals and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya\, Banipal\, Middle Eastern Literatures\, The Journal of North African Studies\, and others. \n  \n \n  \nEmma Wynn is author of  Help Me to Fall\, her poetry has appeared in Sky Island Journal\, West Trade Review\, peculiar magazine\, apricity press\, The Raw Art Review\, Delmavra Review and others Most recently\, she was a finalist for the Subnivean magazine 2021 poetry award. \nNathalie F Anderson\, Moonstone’s 2022 Judge\, will Host. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-feat-eight-of-moonstones-former-chapbook-winners/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Tuesday-October-11th-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221005T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220922T154643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220929T154556Z UID:17836-1664996400-1665003600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Arts Live Poetry Reading Featuring Mac Chandler\, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Mac Chandler\, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli \nWednesday October 5\, 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/tZMrfu-prD4tEtbmdOJHBlNYnIkTkqA-YPyZ \nMac Chandler is a senior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review\, HASH Magazine\, and High Shelf Press. She currently edits for University Of The Arts’ Annual Zine ‘Underground Pool’. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can stay extra up to date with her work and publications on her instagram\, @frillysox. \n \n  \nMikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook\, Terrestrial Sanctuaries (Moonstone 2022)\, was released in June & you can typically find him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area. \n  \n  \n \nJim Mancinelli is author of Primer\, In Deep\, The Bartimeus Poems for which he also did the drawings and is currently developing a collection around coming of age as a gay boy in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review\, Vice-Versa\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts\, Mad Poets Review\, Fox Chase Review\, and issues of Poetry Ink. He was a finalist in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival\, judged by Mark Doty.  He is the founder/moderator of the Moveable Beats Reading Series (MBRS) which now has a new format: UpClose with MBRS. \n  \nOpen Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-arts-live-poetry-reading-featuring-mac-chandler-mikey-franz-and-jim-mancinelli/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Wednesday-October-5-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221004T183000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220922T152950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220922T152950Z UID:17832-1664908200-1664908200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Cleveland Wall DESCRIPTION:  \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM – \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nTuesday\, October 4th\, 2022 6:30 PM \n699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nCleveland Wall is a poet\, editor\, and teaching artist living in Bethlehem\, PA. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first full-length collection\, Let X=X was released by Kelsay Books in 2019. Current obsessions include dream life\, embodied poetics\, ephemeral art\, and the power of persistent\, incremental change. \nAs an artist\, Ms. Wall enjoys experimenting with form and performance—appropriated forms\, predictive text\, erasure\, devised theater\, and extemporaneous poetry. She performs with poetry improv troupe No River Twice\, of which she is a founding member. and with The Starry Eyes\, a poetry/guitar duo whose debut album\, The Garden of Terrors and Delights dropped in January 2020. \nAs a teaching artist\, she enjoys working with both children and adults\, often incorporating visual and performing arts elements in her workshops. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-phillycam-with-cleveland-wall/ LOCATION:699 Ranstead Street\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1022-Moonstone-poetry-@-PhillyCam-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220929T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220922T193941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T020028Z UID:17847-1664478000-1664485200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Siduri Beckman\, H.E. Fisher\, Melanie McCabe\, Ann E. Michael\, & Halle Prenata DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading With Siduri Beckman\, H.E. Fisher\, Melanie McCabe\, Ann E. Michael\, and Halle Prenata\n\nThursday September 29 @ 7PM EDT — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required — Use this Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdOypqj4iG9KaR7UrcoyJzPS3YYLcNCLA \n  \n \nSiduri Beckman is the author of Yearling and served as the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. Her mentor was Poet Laureate Sonia Sanchez. Siduri is passionate about the intersection of poetry\, public education\, and civic engagement. Siduri graduated from Yale University.   \n  \nH.E. Fisher is the author of Jane Almost Always Smiles and Sterile Field. Her poems have appeared in Indianapolis Review\, The Hopper\, Miracle Monocle\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, Longleaf Review Barren Magazine\, and Canary\, among other publications. H.E. was awarded the 2019 Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson at City College of New York\, was a finalist in the 2020-21 Comstock Review Chapbook Contest\, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. H.E. is the editor of (Re) An Ideas Journal. Her work can be found at: www.hefisher.com  \nMelanie McCabe is the author of The Night Divers\, History of the Body and What The Neighbors Know (Honorable Mention in the Library of Virginia’s Literary Awards). Her nonfiction book\, His Other Life: Searching for My Father\, His First Wife\, and Tennessee Williams\, won the University of New Orleans Press Lab Prize. Her poems have appeared in  Georgia Review\, Threepenny Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, and on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and in Best New Poets 2010. She lives in Falls Church\, Virginia\, and taught high school English for twenty-two years.  \n \n  \nAnn E. Michael is author of Strange Ladies\, Water-Rites\, Barefoot Girls\, Small Things Rise & Go\, and three other collections. Her poems have been widely anthologized. She maintains a long-running blog\, garden\, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com  \n  \nHalle Preneta is a writer from Ohio who enjoys writing short romance\, sci-fi\, and horror stories along with poetry and gets her ideas from random life experiences and fanfiction. She’s had works published in various literary magazines such as Write Now Lit\, Tealight Press\, The Hearth Magazine\, and more. When she’s not writing\, she’s either playing video games or watching other people play video games on YouTube. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-siduri-beckman-h-e-fisher-melanie-mccabe-ann-e-michael-and-halle-prenata/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220923T012158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T012158Z UID:17829-1664391600-1664398800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Alicia Askenase and Valerie Fox DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Alicia Askenase and Valerie Fox\n\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday September 28 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88019273389?pwd=MjBYZDIxcVBTVnlIME9Yc2hrSHVTdz09 \n  \nAlicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos and Shirley Shirley and a few chaplettes. She was a co-founder of the literary journal 6ix\, and Literary Curator of the Walt Whitman Art Center for many years. Her poetry has appeared in the anthologie New Work by Philadelphia Poets\, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets\, Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets\, An Ekphrastic Poetry Collection\, among others.  Her writing has also appeared in literary journals: Chain\, editions #2 and #12\, Poetry New York\, The World\, Feminist Studies\, and The Journal of Modern Languages. Recent publications include The Manhattanville Review\, The Painted Bride Quarterly. http://pbqmag.org/issue-100/.  \nValerie Fox recently won The Phare’s WriteWords contest (for flash). She’s published poetry or brief prose in Juked\, Cleaver\, Reflex\, Okay Donkey\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Ellipsis\, Hanging Loose\, Across the Margin\, and other journals. Her poetry books include The Rorschach Factory (Straw Gate) and Insomniatic (PS Books). Much interested in collaboration\, she recently published The Real Sky (art/word collaboration)\, a limited edition\, hand-made book\, with artist Jacklynn Niemiec. Recent work can be found in MicroLit Almanac:  https://www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-almanac/morgana-humming-fox  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-alicia-askenase-and-valerie-fox/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220921T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220909T161600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220917T134117Z UID:17800-1663786800-1663794000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: No River Twice DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with No River Twice\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. \nWednesday September 21\, 2022 @ 7PM EST \n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom — Registration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsf-mqpzkuHNY1DtoL86-46RuVmPANaujl \n  \nNo River Twice creates interactive poetry readings where audiences and poets actively determine the direction of the reading\, poem by poem\, beginning to end\, creating readings that are never the same twice. And then we make a poem of it. Jump in!  More information about us at www.norivertwice.org \nMeet the Poets! \n\n \n \n \n \n Liz Chang\n \n \n \n \n \n Grant Clauser\n \n \n \n \n \n Chad Frame\n \n \n \n \n \n Shawn R. Jones\n \n \n \n \n \n Vasiliki Katsarou \n \n \n \n \n \n Hayden Saunier \n \n \n \n \n \n Cleveland Wall \n \n \n\nLiz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate\, her poems have appeared in Verse Daily\, Rock & Sling\, Origins Journal\, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal\, among others. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company in Paris. \nGrant Clauser is the author of five books\, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Greensboro Review\, Kenyon Review\, and others. He works as an editor and teaches at Rosemont College. \nChad Frame is the author of Little Black Book\, Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program\, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo\, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work has appeared in Rattle\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, and elsewhere. \nShawn R. Jones is author of two poetry chapbooks\, Womb Rain and A Hole to Breathe. Her work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly\, New Ohio Review\, River HeronReview\, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and her poetry collection\, Date of Birth\, has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in. \nVasiliki Katsarou is the author of Memento Tsunami\, Three Sea Stones and The Second. A poet\, editor\, filmmaker\, and publisher\, her poetry has been published widely\, and internationally\, including in Poetry Daily\, Otoliths\, Tiferet\, and Literary Mama. She is poetry curator at Frenchtown Bookshop and a Teaching Artist at Hunterdon Art Museum. \nHayden Saunier is the author of five books of poetry\, honored with the Pablo Neruda Prize\, the Rattle Poetry Prize\, Gell Poetry Award and published in journals such as 32 Poems\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Pedestal\, Thrush\, and Virginia Quarterly Review and has been featured on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and others. She is the founder of No River Twice. \nCleveland Wall is a poet\, teaching artist\, and librarian. In addition to her work with No River Twice\, she performs with musical combo The Starry Eyes and coordinates the poetry program at the Ice House in Bethlehem\, PA. She is the author of Let X=X and many small\, hand-made chapbooks. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-no-river-twice/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Sept-21-PIC.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220918T160000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220916T155832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220916T155832Z UID:17814-1663509600-1663516800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Banned Books Week DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading: Banned Books Week\n\nSunday September 18 @ 2 PM EDT — VIRTUAL \n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdu6srTkjG9CKizvvMoFK92ycgaYP0pOg \n  \nBanned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International\, that celebrates the freedom to read\, draws attention to banned and challenged books\, and highlights persecuted individuals. Held during the last week of September since 1982\, the United States campaign “stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them” and the requirement to keep material publicly available so that people can develop their own conclusions and opinions. The international campaign notes individuals “persecuted because of the writings that they produce\, circulate or read.” Join us as poets read their work about censorship or in praise of their favorite banned book. \n  \n  \n  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-banned-books-week/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220907T160830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T182707Z UID:17764-1663268400-1663275600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Barbara Siegel Carlson\, Lynn Levin\, and Maggie Paul DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading with Barbara Siegel Carlson\, Lynn Levin\, and Maggie Paul\n  \nThursday\, September 15\, 2022\, at 7 PM EDT — VIRTUAL\n  \nRegistration Required — Use this Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0of-CsqzgiGNUamEfrp1xNspDag6I76ztR \n  \nBarbara Siegel Carlson is the author of the chapbook Between the Hours (2022) and 2 books of poetry Once in Every Language and Fire Road. She is co-translator of Look Back\, Look Ahead\, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel and Open as well as a co-editor of A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives. Her poetry and translations have appeared in The Cortland Review\, Mid-American Review\, American Journal of Poetry\, Salamander\, Glimpse and Ezra\, among others. Her 3rd book of poems What Drifted Here is due out in 2022. Carlson is Poetry in Translation Editor of Solstice. More at barbarasiegelcarlson.com \n  \nLynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection\, The Minor Virtues is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small\, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique\, Fair Creatures of an Hour\, and Imaginarium. She is the translator\, from the Spanish\, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard\, Artful Dodge\, Rattle\, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac\, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com \n  \nMaggie Paul is the author of Borrowed World\, Scrimshaw\, and the chapbook\, Stones from the Baskets of Others. Her work has appeared in the Catamaran Literary Reader\, Rattle\, The Monterey Poetry Review\, Phren-Z\, The Porter Gulch Review\, Red Wheelbarrow\, SALT\, The Jung Journal\, Moonstone\, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review. Co-founder of Poetry Santa Cruz and a former writing instructor at UCSC\, Cabrillo\, CSUMB and DeAnza College\, she is an Education Consultant and Writing Coach for college-bound students. Maggie lives in Santa Cruz\, California. More can be found at: https://maggiepaulpoetry.com \n  \nDave Worrell Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-barbara-siegel-carlson-lynn-levin-and-maggie-paul/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220914T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220907T151802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220909T150642Z UID:17749-1663182000-1663189200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday September 14\, 2022 @ 7 PM EST\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom — Registration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtc-yqqjkvGtyGRINX1T0m1WjMi0zhUr1G \n  \n \nAustin Allen is the author of Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press)\, winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Yale Review\, The Sewanee Review\, The Missouri Review\, 32 Poems\, and other publications. He has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati. \n  \n  \n  \nShannon Robinson’s stories have appeared in The Iowa Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, Water-Stone\, Nimrod\, failbetter\, and Joyland. She has received Nimrod’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and a Hedgebrook Fellowship\, as well as grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Robinson has been a writer in residence at the Interlochen Arts Academy and currently teaches fiction at Johns Hopkins University. \n  \nVijay Seshadri is the author of the poetry books “Wild Kingdom\,” “The Long Meadow\,” “The Disappearances\,” (Harper-Collins India)\, “3 Sections\,” and\, in 2020\, “That Was Now\, This Is Then\,” as well as dozens of essays\, reviews\, and memoir fragments. His work has been widely published and anthologized and recognized with a number of honors\, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-e-verse-equinox-reading-series-2/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220913T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220907T154349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T154349Z UID:17758-1663093800-1663101000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with David P. Kozinski DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with David P. Kozinski\n\nTuesday September 13\, 2022\, 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL \n699 Ranstead Street\, \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n\n  \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nDavid P. Kozinski has two full-length books of poems. The original manuscript of I Hear It the Way I Want It to Be (2022) was a finalist for the Inlandia (California) Institute’s Hillary Gravendyke Prize and Tripping Over Memorial Day was published in 2017 (both from Kelsay Books). His chapbook\, Loopholes (Broadkill Press)\, won the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. He is Poet-in-Residence at Rockwood Park and Museum in New Castle County\, Delaware and is Art Editor for Schuylkill Valley Journal. Delaware Today magazine will feature him in October. Kozinski was the 2018 Established Professional Poetry Fellowship recipient from the Delaware Division of the Arts. That year he was named Mentor of the year by Expressive Path\, a non-profit that fosters arts participation for youth in Montgomery County and Philadelphia. Publications recently in One Art\, Dreamstreets\, and North of Oxford\, and forthcoming in the Eunoia Review. \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-virtual-interview-reading-with-david-p-kozinski/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220831T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220831T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220811T192456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T192533Z UID:17722-1661972400-1661979600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:August 31st Live Poetry Reading Feat. Sean Hanrahan\, Faith Paulsen and Pat Rodgers DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center — LIVE Poetry Reading\n  \nWednesday August 31\, 2022 – 7pm \nFergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. \nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom – Registration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOqvrD4vHtNB2awQCLhQHukjrYqWx6IU \nSean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City\, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collection Safer Behind Popcorn (2019 Cajun Mutt) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (2018 Moonstone) and Gay Cake (2020 Toho). His\nwork has also been included in several anthologies\, including Moonstone Featured Poets\, Queer Around the World\, and Stonewall’s Legacy\, and several journals\, including Impossible Archetype\, Poetica Review\, and Voicemail Poems. He has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days and Ekphrastic Poetry and hosted poetry events throughout Philadelphia. \nFaith Paulsen’s most recent chapbook is Cyanometer (Finishing Line Press 2021). Her chapbook “We Marry\, We Bury\, We Sing\, or We Weep” was a runner-up in Moonstone Arts’ Chapbook Contest in 2021 (Moonstone Press).  Her poetry and prose have appeared in many venues including Philadelphia Stories\, Ghost City Press\, Book of Matches\, Thimble\, Evansville Review\, One Art\, The Curator\, and Mantis.  Faith lives and writes just outside Philadelphia. Please check out her website at https://www.faithpaulsenpoet.com/ \nPat Rodgers is a former science teacher\, current dental student\, and poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in The Juggler\, Neptune\, and Moonstone’s haiku anthology. He is currently working on his first chapbook. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/august-31st-live-poetry-reading-feat-sean-hanrahan-faith-paulsen-and-pat-rodgers/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/august-31-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220828T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220828T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220811T182541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220811T182541Z UID:17710-1661713200-1661720400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:August 28th Poetry Reading with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, Nora Hikari and Topaz Winters DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – Registration Link\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcO-rrTgrGN2rrMno2LEP59ULoh3-7_Bf \nSunday August 28\, 2022 – 7pm \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of the poetry books\, My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday\, and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley) and three chapbooks of which Revolute was published in 2021 by Albion Books. Dhompa’s first non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet was published in the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016. She was born in India and raised in the Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Dhompa teaches in the English Department at Villanova University \nNora Hikari (she/her) is an Asian American transgender poet and artist based in Philadelphia. She is a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow\, and her work is published or forthcoming in Ploughshares\, Washington Square Review\, Palette Poetry\, Foglifter\, The Journal\, and others. Her chapbook\, GIRL 2.0\, was a Robin Becker Series winner and is available at Seven Kitchens Press. She was a finalist for the Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award\, and can be found at her website norahikari.com. (photo by Cassi Segulin) \nTopaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of three poetry collections (most recently So\, Stranger\, Button Poetry\, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief of the independent publishing house & literary journal Half Mystic. Her peer-reviewed scholarly work is published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Her creative work is published in diode\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, The Puritan\, & Hobart\, & has been featured by The Straits Times\, American Banker\, the National University of Singapore\, the Boston Poetry Slam\, the Center for Fiction\, & the Academy of American Poets. Topaz is 22 years old & studies Creative Writing\, Italian\, & Visual Art at Princeton University. You can find more of her work at topazwinters.com. \n\n\n\n  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/august-28th-poetry-reading-with-tsering-wangmo-dhompa-nora-hikari-and-topaz-winters/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/August-28-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220824T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220726T223453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220726T223503Z UID:17683-1661367600-1661374800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect\, Octavia Clarkson\, Rabivatu Jalloh\, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook DESCRIPTION:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect\, Octavia Clarkson\, Rabivatu Jalloh\, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqc-qtrzgsGdVtQUJh45wStOVKvBHx2TQ- \n  \nEducator-Poets \nPresented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Writing Project \nLyrispect is an award-winning lyricist\, author\,activist\, educator and voiceover artist. She is an advocate for Black Folx\, women\, girls\, people of color and marginalized communities. She is the Director of Programming for the African American Museum in Philadelphia and has held sustained leadership roles in Black Girls Rock\, her work has appeared at the NAACP National Convention\, The Toni Cade Bambara Conference\, on two murals. Whether curating teaching\, organizing or performing\, she infuses in all her work the belief that honest expression with layered execution can disrupt\, heal\, liberate and transform. \nOctavia Clarkson is blessed with the gift to write poetry\, music and narratives. She has been an educator for over 15 years demonstrating her love of learning and sharing it with the community. Currently a Temple University doctoral student\, she examines the importance of African women’s narratives as a ritual for cultural empowerment and identity. She began writing more poetry after being introduced to the great poets of The Black Arts Movement which she now teaches at Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP). \n \nRabivatu Jalloh is an English Language Arts and Social Justice Educator and Poet from Philadelphia and New York City. \n  \n \nBarrett Rosser is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at UPENN after over a decade of facilitating student\, teacher\, and adult learning as a literacy teacher\, adjunct professor\, teacher coach\, and diversity\, equity\, and inclusion specialist. She is the Philadelphia Writing Project Scholar\, a practitioner-scholar involved in the practice of education in schools\, school districts\, colleges\, and universities\, a dreamer\, lover\, and poet. She is a huge reader\, and she loves giving back to her community. \nAlina   Macneal  & Jennifer Hook Hosts – Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-moonstone-poetry-reading-lyrispect-octavia-clarkson-rabivatu-jalloh-barrett-rosser-with-hosts-alina-macneal-and-jennifer-hook/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Copy-of-august-10-square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220725T152152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220725T152152Z UID:17673-1660762800-1660770000@moonstoneartscenter.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/august-17-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220814T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220814T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220807T190755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220807T191631Z UID:17705-1660500000-1660507200@moonstoneartscenter.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CE93839D-3D4F-4BEF-BB97-17DEFB97FFA4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220810T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220810T210000 DTSTAMP:20260425T211423 CREATED:20220722T190247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220722T190351Z UID:17651-1660158000-1660165200@moonstoneartscenter.com 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/august-10-square.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR