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Virtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology Nonsense Verse, a perfect way to look at today’s world. It is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, establishing a new reality separate from this one. Creative use of distortion, fantasy, surrealism, the impossible, opposites, made-up language form tensions between […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners – Kyle Laws, Faith Paulsen, Paul Siegell

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners First Prize: Kyle Laws – author of the sea is woman Kyle Laws is based out of Steel City Art Works in Pueblo, CO where she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. She was born in Philadelphia and […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87197922839?pwd=QTJyUXFGcHFLdXVQMDAzOWgzczRXUT09 Meeting ID: 871 9792 2839 – Passcode: 991684 Virtual Poetry Reading: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium “Traditional and radical, secular and holy, the poems in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium come to us just as we need them. The poets here celebrate a culture and caution against hatred, all the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sonia Sanchez

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. One […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: The Poet’s Memoir – Elaine Terranova, Natasha Sajé, Spencer Reece, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84569818367?pwd=VzdNcGQ5Z1BpL3BVVWQ0UW5ZVWxEQT09 Meeting ID: 845 6981 8367 – Passcode: 472875 Virtual Poetry Reading: The Poet’s Memoir Elaine Terranova’s memoir The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter is due in May. Elaine grew up in a working-class neighborhood, worked as a factory worker, office temp, preschool teacher, and editor. She taught at Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, University of […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells, Anis Mojgani, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells and Anis Mojgani Vernyce Dannells shares, with Anis, the world view of her jumbled origins and a disarmingly unvarnished response to the world. A graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course, she especially loved the years she reported for National Public Radio. […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: The American War Against Herself Anthology

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: The American War Against Herself Anthology Poems about guns, violence, and the wars within America for Memorial Day May 31 Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jazz & Forgiveness: aTONEment – Contemporary Responses to James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones with Elijah Pringle and John Lavin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87964733385?pwd=Nk5LN2FMNjhUeE5uVnQ2VVdBMVZPQT09 Meeting ID: 879 6473 3385 – Passcode: 904825 Virtual Poetry Reading: Jazz & Forgiveness: aTONEment – Contemporary Responses to James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones Co-hosts Elijah B. Pringle, III & John Lavin welcome audience to the May Edition of aTONEment and share topic of how James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones has taught jazz to pray and to […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Mike Cohen and Connie on Poetry & Humor with Charles S. Carr

2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Charles S. Carr talks with Mike Cohen, Writer, and Connie Watch the live broadcast at Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch In the beginning, Mike Cohen started on his complete works, which remain a work-in-progress. Along the way, he discovered the wisdom of […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin   Terence Culleton Terence Culleton’s new book is A Tree and Gone, he is also author of A Communion of Saints and Eternal Life. He publishes in diverse magazines and reviews and reads widely throughout the […]