Moonstone Arts Center

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Norma Ketzis Bernstock, Sean Hanrahan, and Elaine Terranova, with Charles S. Carr
2021-02-02 18:30 (America/New_York) | PA
699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Writing During the Pandemic
How have writers coped? Have they producd more or less? How has it effected what they write about? Their insights, observations, fears, hopes.

Norma Ketzis Bernstock – After retiring from a 34-year career in education in New York City and Northern New Jersey, Norma moved to Milford, Pennsylvania where she became a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective. She now works full-time writing and publishing her poetry which has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Stillwater Review, Exit 13, Connecticut River Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Meta-Land—Poets of the Palisades II, Pennsylvania Seasons and the International Bilingual Anthology, Bridging the Waters, II. Norma is author of Don’t Write a Poem About Me After I’m Dead (Big Table Publishing.)
Sean Hanrahan is the author of the full-length poetry collection Safer Behind Popcorn (Cajun Mutt 2019) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (Moonstone Press 2018) and Gay Cake (Toho 2020). He is head poetry editor for Toho, serves on the Moonstone Press Editorial Board and as an instructor for Green Street Poetry, writes poetry reviews for Mad Poets, and hosts a poetry series at Moonstone and Art with Spirits. photo credit to Reed Gustow

Elaine Terranova grew up in a working-class neighborhood and has held a variety of jobs: factory worker, office temp, preschool teacher, and editor. She taught at the Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, the University of Delaware, and in the Rutgers, Camden MFA program. She is author of seven collections of poetry and two chapbooks. Terranova’s first book, The Cult of the Right Hand won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award, Perdido, 2018, is her most recent book. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, and other magazines and anthologies. Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize, the Margaret Banister residency at Sweet Briar, the Judah L. Magnes Gold Medal, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Center. Her memoir, The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter will be out this spring.

Charles S. Carr, Host

It Can't Happen Here Reading
2021-01-31 14:00
Reflections on January 6, 2021
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On the same day that an African American minister and a person of Jewish heritage are elected to the Senate from the state of Georgia, giving the Democratic party control of both houses of congress and the presidency, Donald Trump incites a crowd of his supporters to attack the capitol. People waving Confederate flags, breaking into the building, leaving two pipe bombs and several people dead. Sinclair Lewis is reported to have said, “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” The Sinclair Lewis Society says, “This quote sounds like something Sinclair Lewis might have said or written, but we’ve never been able to find this exact quote. There is a similar quote in It Can’t Happen Here”. We depend on poets to speak the truth. Moonstone will release It Can’t Happen Here Anthology today.
$15 – Not All Contributors Will Be Reading

Virtual Poetry Reading: F. X. Baird & Liz Chang, with Alina McNeal and Jennifer Hook
2021-01-27 19:00
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F. X. Baird was born in Philadelphia, the youngest of 12 children. He studied with David Ignatow at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in the early 80’s and later at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He currently studies with Leonard Gontarek in Philadelphia and conducts a poetry workshop, via email since the pandemic, with long term inmates at Phoenix (formerly Graterford) Prison sponsored by the Prison Literacy Project of Pennsylvania and the Phoenix Lifers organization. Ten poems from five poets from this workshop were published in the Fall 2017 Schuylkill Valley Journal. He received “honorable mention” in the 2019 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize for his poem “Phantom Limb” published in the Spring 2019 edition of Philadelphia Stories. His first chapbook, Painting with my Father.
Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Rock & Sling, Origins Journal, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal, among others. Her translations from French appeared in The Adirondack Review. Her 2018 chapbook Animal Nocturne is available from Moonstone Press. She is an Associate Professor of English at Delaware County Community College.
Baird and Chang were inaugural members of the Lansdale Workshop Group, founded in 2010 and sponsored by the Montgomery County Poet Laureate program.
Alina McNeal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: 2020 Featured Poets
2021-01-24 14:00
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Each year we publish a special anthology of those poets who were featured in the year. In 2020 Moonstone presented 67 Poetry Readings with 160 featured poets, despite the pandemic. Unlike our other anthologies this one is by invitation only, and we have had some terrific poets. Please join us on Zoom as some of them share their poetry
with you. Our 2020 Featured Poets Anthology will be available on our website on January 24 in two volumes for $15. Not all contributors will be reading.

Virtual Poetry Reading: F. X. Baird, Steve Burke, and Charles S. Carr, with Larry Robin
2021-01-20 19:00
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F. X. Baird was born in Philadelphia, the youngest of 12 children. He studied with David Ignatow at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in the early 80’s and later at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He currently studies with Leonard Gontarek in Philadelphia and conducts a poetry workshop, via email since the pandemic, with long term inmates at Phoenix (formerly Graterford) Prison sponsored by the Prison Literacy Project of Pennsylvania and the Phoenix Lifers organization. Ten poems from five poets from this workshop were published in the Fall 2017 Schuylkill Valley Journal. He received “honorable mention” in the 2019 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize for his poem “Phantom Limb” published in the Spring 2019 edition of Philadelphia Stories. His first chapbook, Painting with my Father.
Steve Burke is the author of two chapbooks – After The Harvest & For Now. His work-life consisted of being a psychiatric technician & a labor-and-delivery nurse. He now lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia with wife-Giselle & cat “Luigi ‘Golden Eyes’ Boccherini.”
Charles S. Carr was born in Philadelphia and lived here his whole life. Charles was educated at LaSalle and Bryn Mawr College and has worked in social and community development services for 45 years. He has also been active in raising funds for various missions and organizations serving the poorest of the poor In Haiti. In 2007 Charles was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North”. Charles has two published books of poetry: paradise, pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems and his poems have been published in various local and national poetry journals. For five years Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub. Since 2016 he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. He has read poems in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin Ireland as part of international 100,000 Poets For Peace.
Larry Robin, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading - New Voices: Emerging Poets, Cydney Brown, Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, and Teyanna Stone, with Larry Robin
2021-01-16 14:00 - 17:00
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New Voices: Emerging Poets
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry collaborative and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience.
Cydney Brown is the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate. She is currently a Junior at Abington Friends School. She grew to love poetry by reading poems by Maya Angelou and Robert Frost. She loves how there are no limitations with writing. She wrote a book of poems entitled “Daydreaming” and is currently working on another. Her poetry explores the topics of love, self image, and social justice. She won first place in The Hip Hop workshop poetry competition in 2020. Cydney wishes to inspire people to stand up for what they believe in and to share her poetry with the world.
Husnaa Haajarah Hashim is the 2017-2018 Youth Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and author of the poetry collection Honey Sequence (The Head and The Hand, 2018). She is an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Husnaa has competed at Brave New Voices, performed at various conferences, festivals, and Philadelphia-area colleges, and received numerous Scholastic Art and Writing Awards including a National American Voices Medal awarded at Carnegie Hall. Husnaa’s work has been published by Apiary and The On Being Project among others.
Teyanna Stone is a storyteller, a creator of worlds through song, poetry, and other forms of art. A proud Philly girl and a Temple University student majoring in Media Studies and Production and additionally studying Theater and Music, Teyanna is exploring her interests in the arts. When it comes to poetry, her pen goes to love songs, life struggles, and sci-fi and fantasy adventures.
Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading Follows
Join us each month for readings by emerging poets on the third Saturday at 2pm
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect with Other Writers

Virtual Poetry Reading: Alyson Shore Adler, Katherine Barham, and Cathleen Cohen, with Larry Robin
2021-01-13 19:00
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Alyson Shore Adler has been a Clinical Social Worker specializing in working with trauma for 40 years. She’s been writing poetry for the past 20 and has workshopped with and been mentored by many brilliant poets including AV Christie and now Nat Anderson. Alyson is thrilled to celebrate the release of new books by her colleagues Kathy Barham and Cathleen Cohen.
Katherine Barham received an MFA from Warren Wilson Program for Writers and her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Drunken Boat, Spillway, Mad Poets Review, Hubbub, North of Oxford (January, 2021). Katherine’s chapbook, From the Familiar, was published by Moonstone Press in 2015. Katherine is a retired high school English teacher and currently resides in Rose Valley, PA, birdwatching with her cat Elliott.
Cathleen Cohen was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA. A painter and teacher, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia (www.theartwell.org). Her poems appear in Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, East Coast Ink, 6ix, North of Oxford, Passager, Philadelphia Stories, Rockvale Review, Rogue Agent, Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press, 2017) and Etching the Ghost (Atmosphere Press, forthcoming 2021). She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her artwork is on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery (www.ceruleanarts.com).
Larry Robin, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: In Collaboration with Serotonin, Lindsey Heatherly & Dawn Watts, and Sean Lynch
2021-01-09 14:00 - 17:00
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Lindsey Heatherly is a writer born and raised in Upstate South Carolina. She has words in Emerge Literary Journal, X-R-A-Y, Emrys Journal, Red Fez, Schuylkill Valley Journal and more. She spends her time at home raising a strong, confident daughter. Find her on her website at https://r3dwillow.wixsite.com/rydanmardsey or on Twitter: @rydanmardsey.
Dawn Watts is a former barista from Chester Pa. She has poems published in Serotonin, Tealightpress and Stone of Madness Press. Her Twitter handle is @wattswritten.

Sean Lynch, Host
Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Peter Baroth, Bob McNeil, Pheralyn Dove, with Larry Robin
2021-01-06 19:00
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Peter Baroth, writer, visual artist, musician, and staff member of Philadelphia Stories Magazine lives in Media, PA with his partner poet and professor Courtney Bambrick. His recent full-length book of poetry is Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press) and his novel is Long Green (iUniverse). His work has appeared in journals such as Mad Poets Review, Apiary, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Philadelphia Poets where he has won both the Amy Tritsch Needle and Petracca Family awards. His paintings have appeared in such venues as the Imperfect Gallery, OUR Gallery, and the Wayne Art Center. He is also bass player and co-songwriter for the band the Party Crashers.
Bob McNeil, writer, editor, and spoken word artist, is the author of Verses of Realness. Hal Sirowitz, a Queens Poet Laureate, called the book “A fantastic trip through the mind of a poet who doesn’t flinch at the truth.” Among Bob’s recent accomplishments, he found working on Lyrics of Mature Hearts to be a humbling experience because of the anthology’s talented contributors. Copies of that collection are available here: Amazon.com
Pheralyn Dove is passionate about creating art that promotes the ideals of Cultural Preservation, Global African/Black Liberation and Emotional Healing. Although primarily a writer and performance poet, Pheralyn has emerged as a visual artist, working in mixed media, photography and abstract expressionism and has been included in “Generations 7 – Reflections on the Isms: Racism, Sexism, Ageism” curated by Dindga McCannon at Rush Arts Gallery Philadelphia. Pheralyn is the featured poet on Khan Jamal’s “Return from Exile” and Tyrone Brown’s, “Moon of the Falling Leaves” CDs. She has been a press agent, radio producer, entertainment editor for the “Philadelphia Tribune,” feature writer for the “Philadelphia Inquirer,” and lead grant writer on teams that have raised more than $175 million dollars for worthy nonprofit concerns. “All praises to the Creator,” she says. “Thank you for choosing me as the vessel.”
Larry Robin, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, with Valerie Fox & Lynn Levin, and Charles S. Carr
2021-01-05 18:30
699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

Celebrate small things, find creative inspiration in your junk drawer, give thanks (sincere or sarcastic), maybe even write an inaugural poem. Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, both Drexel University creative writing instructors and co-authors of the acclaimed Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Second Edition, will help you power up your poetry with their signature prompts. Fox and Levin’s poetry prompts book was a finalist in Writing/Publishing in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Poets, student poets, teachers, and all who are looking for new ideas, inspiration, and fun should tune into this episode of Philly Loves Poetry.
Valerie Fox grew up in central Pennsylvania. She currently lives in New Jersey with her family and teaches at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Recent work can be found in New Flash Fiction Review, The Cafe Irreal, Juked, Literary Orphans, Reflex, and Cleaver. Much interested in collaboration, she has worked with artist Jacklynn Niemiec and writer Arlene Ang (Collaborative poems with Ang from Poemeleon).

Lynn 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 translatorof 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.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Virtual Poetry Reading: Queer Poetics, Gala Mukomolova, Alina Pleskova, Galina Rymbu
2020-12-20 14:00
Queer Poetics
From the former Soviet Union
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Gala Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised, poet and essayist. Her full length poetry collection, Without Protection, is available through Coffee House Press. Her chapbook, One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations, is available with YesYes Books. She is a recipient of the 2016 Discovery Prize from 92nd St Y & Boston Review and has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Pink Door, and ASYLUM Arts. Gala currently writes astrology articles for NYLON Magazine , cohosts Big Dyke Energy Podcast, and is one of the creators of QueerHealers.com. She is a founder and a part of The Cheburashka Collective.
Alina Pleskova is a poet, editor, and Russian immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. Her work has been featured in American Poetry Review, Thrush, Entropy, Cosmonauts Avenue, Peach Mag, Meduza, the Poetry Project, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press in 2017. She is co-editor of bedfellows magazine and a 2020 Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant awardee.
Galina Rymbu was born in 1990 in the city of Omsk (Siberia, Russia) and lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She edits F-Pis’mo, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory, as well as Gryoza, a website for contemporary poetry. She is the co-founder and co-curator of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for emerging Russian-language poets. She has published three books of poems in Russia: Moving Space of the Revolution, Time of the Earth, and Life in Space. Her essays on cinema, literature, and sexuality have appeared on Séance, Colta, Your Art, and other journals. English translations of her work have appeared in The White Review, Arc Poetry, Berlin Quarterly, Music & Literature, n+1, Asymptote, Powder Keg, and Cosmonauts Avenue, as well as in the chapbook White. Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages and stand-alone collections of her work have been published in Latvian, Dutch, Swedish, and Romanian. Her new book, Life in Space, is translated by Joan Brooks, and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan, Charles Bernstein and others and is a co-production with After Hours Editions, who published Rymbu’s first English-language chapbook, White Bread and Ugly Duckling Presse. “ Daring and surprising in every poem, Life in Space is the arrival of a new major poet.” Valzhyna Mort

Virtual Poetry Reading: Adriann "Just The Pen" Bautista, Aileen Cassinetto, Joanne Leva, with Elijah Pringle
2020-12-16 19:00
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Adriann “Just The Pen” Bautista is a Mother, Research Grant Manager at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Playwright, Poet , Founder and CEO of Just the Pen, LLC, Founder of Just The Pen Foundation, Founder & Facilitator of Inspired & Empowered to Move for Women Who Lead and Host of the new project Talks with Just The Pen. As an established Poet, Adriann is author of “Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King”, “Sister Strength” and “Sanctuary of Snow”. She is published in various anthologies including Poetry Ink, P.E.A.S. Magazine and Thomas Jefferson University’s Literary magazine, Inside Out, and Standing our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander .
Aileen Cassinetto is the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California. Widely anthologized, she is also the author of the poetry collections, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asahi Shimbun, The Banyan Review, Moss Trill, The Nonconformist Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Vox Populi, among others. Organizer of “POWER TO THE POETS reading series, Aileen’s work is also featured in the curated “Wall + Response” project on social, political, racial and justice narratives in Clarion Alley, San Francisco.
Joanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know and an advocate for creative writing and community service. She is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Peace Is a Haiku Song, 50 Over Fifty, Apiary, E-Verse Radio, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, Rag Queen Periodical, Bucks County Writer, and Transcendent Visions, among others. Her poem, “God Walks into a Bar,” was featured in a Philadelphia Calligraphers’ Society Poetry Reading & Exhibit and companion publication entitled, Scripta.
Elijah Pringle, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Black Lives Matter 2020
2020-12-13 14:00 - 17:00
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400 years in the making
Is America finally ready to confront the past, present and future of systemic racism? What do you think?
Poets Respond
People in the street demanding the end of systemic racism, recognizing that it is embedded as normal practice, leading to discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, education, and other issues. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed, sparking demonstrations around the world which continue today and brought BlackLivesMatter to the forefront. Join us as contributors to our new anthology read.
Not all of the poets will be reading, but they are in the anthology:
Joy Alford, Dee Allen, Matilida Bray, Kamaria Delaney, Yves Marie Desir, Minna Duchovnay, Runett Ebo, William Foster, Shannon Frost Greenstein, Linda Goss, Steven Halpern, MaryAnn Miller, Stephen Page, Hermond Palmer, Susana Praver-Perez, George Schaefer, Jordan Webber, Kelley White, & Florence Woods.

Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Vasiliki Katsarou, David Livewell, Tamara Oakman, with John Wall Barger
2020-12-09 19:00
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Vasiliki Katsarou is the author of the poetry collection Memento Tsunami, and the chapbook, Three Sea Stones, published this year by Lucia Press. She is also co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress and Dark as a Hazel Eye (Ragged Sky Press, Princeton). Her award-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843 has been screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Film Archive, the Angelika Film Center, and the Drama Film Festival in Greece. A new digitized version of the film is forthcoming. Vasiliki is a teaching artist at Hunterdon Art Museum, and a Geraldine R. Dodge Poet in New Jersey.
David Livewell grew up in the Kensington section of North Philadelphia. He has taught poetry courses at La Salle University. He won the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for his book, Shackamaxon (Truman State University Press). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Threepenny Review, Yale Review, The Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, Southwest Review, and other journals.
Tamara Oakman is a neo-confessional writer, English, writing, ESL and humanities professor, with work published in Many Mountains Moving, Philadelphia Stories and Best of Anthology, Mad Poets Review, Certain Circuits Magazine, Fox Chase Review and other online and in print magazines. She has awards in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama, and performs poetry and fiction in Philadelphia and the surrounding tri-state areas. Tamara is an event coordinator who has hosted, created and organized events, series, writing workshops and festivals in Philadelphia and has judged the Hidden River Arts fiction and drama contest, the Philadelphia Writer’s Conference poetry contest, the Montgomery County Poet Laureate poetry contest and Ursinis College’s Dolman Prize . She is co-founder and internship coordinator for APIARY magazine.
John Wall Barger, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: 24th Annual Poetry Ink, 100 Poets Reading
2020-12-06 14:00 - 17:00
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Since 2006 Moonstone has had a party with 100 poets reading. This year is different. There will be no food, no gathering, no conversation. There will be a book and a virtual reading. Be part of our tradition of a marathon of poetry with both famous and unknown poets.

Do you Love Poetry? Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Ink has includ-
ed a diverse selection of participants, from renowned Philadelphia poet Sonia Sanchez to Matilda Bray, a 14-year-old girl who published her first poetry book at age thirteen. From nationally known poets to un-
published poets, academic poets to street poets, the Poetry Ink Reading truly captures the diversity within Philadelphia’s literary community. We have featured poets such as Maya Angelou Amiri Baraka, Dennis
Brutus, Rita Dove, Lamont Steptoe and Eleanor Wilner to name just a
few. This will not be the 6 hour marathon, but probably about 3 hours.
Not all of the poets will be reading, but they are in the anthology:
Dee Allen, James Andrews, Sharisse Austin, Peter Baroth, Michele Belluomini, Byron Beynon, Pamela Blanding, Megan Brown, Charles S. Carr, Barbara Clark, Damien Cooper, Beverly Cottman, James D’Aurelio, Kamaria Delaney, Marc Drake, Carlos Dufflar, Alfred Encarnacion, Demetrius Ford, Greg Francis, Keith Gaboury, hanoch guy, Sean Hanrahan, Hollie Hardy, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Jaz, Bea Joyner, Carl Kaucher, Kiraat, Lynette, Angel Martinez, John Mason, Christina McIntire, Barbara Meier, Patricia Middleton, Harve Nichols, Daniel O’Hara, joy olree, Hermond Palmer, Sophia Pope, Prabha Prabhu, Susana Praver-Perez, Elijah Pringle, Tonya Ryva, Gerard Sarnat, George Schaefer, Jennifer Schneider, Naasiha Siddiqui, Bob Small, Megha Sood, Jonathan Steadman, j.c. Sutton, Fatima Telwar, Elaine Terranova, John Timpane, Raymond Tyler, Lenore Uddyback-Fortson, Bill Van Buskirk, Eleanor Wilner, Nellie Wong, & Jing Jing Yang.

Virtual Poetry in Collaboration with Serotonin; C Cimmone, Barracuda Guarisco, Rami Obeid, with Sean Lynch
2020-12-05 14:00 - 17:00
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C Cimmone is a North American author, comic, and editor. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Versification and serves as Editor-at-Large for Trampset. Her work has been featured in a menagerie of print and digital publications. To read more visit www.ccimmone.com or follow her on Twitter @diefunnier.

Barracuda Guarisco / C. C. Hannett / Kris Hall is a cheesesteak obsessed, bisexual crybaby who enjoys absurdity at varying levels. Barry is the author of several books in the Spuyten Duyvil Publishing universe, as well as Uncomfortable Music (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021) and The Gold Boys are back in Gold Town (Really Serious Literature) co-authored with Joshua Robert Long. The Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Really Serious Literature, his work has been placed with giallo lit, Maudlin House, Meow Meow Pow Pow, Silent Auctions, and various others found under Entropy Mag’s ‘Where to Submit’ list. He lives with his wife, Pilar, and doesn’t know what day it is. You can find him if you want to.
Rami Obeid is a poet from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a staff member for Versification Zine and has been published in Stone of Madness Press, Trampset, Serotonin Poetry, and Lucky Pierre Zine, among others. His chapbook Marooned on the Shores of Malaise is forthcoming from Whispering Wick Follow him on twitter: @obeid_ro
Sean Lynch, Host

Virtual Poetry Reading: Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed, with Aaren Perry
2020-12-02 20:00
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Ishmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. In 2003, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater. His newest book is WHY THE BLACK HOLE SINGS THE BLUES ($15.95, Dalkey Archive Press). The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around Reed’s house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. “Moving Richmond” was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem, in huge letters forged into weathering steel billboards greets passengers who enter the new Bay Area mass transit hub in Richmond, California. Other poems were commissioned by musicians. ”Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was performed by Gregory Porter. “Red Summer, 2015” appeared in print first and then was set to music by David Murray. Reed writes, “The longest poem in the book, “Jazz Martyrs,” was begun when Reed learned about the number of black Jazz greats who didn’t live past the age of forty. “I have been fortunate to live beyond the age of 80,” says Reed. “I’ve found out who my best friends are. The ones who got me there.”
Tennessee Reed is the author of six poetry collections, a memoir and a novel. She has read her work around the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, England, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and Japan. She is the chairperson of PEN Oakland and the managing editor of Konch Magazine. Her seventh poetry collection, Calafia Burning, is new collection of poems produced between the years 2012 and 2019 is Califia Burning: Poems, 2012-2019 ($17.95)
Aaren Perry, Host
Open reading follows

Poetry in the Time of Pandemics: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, David Acosta, with Charles S. Carr
2020-12-01 18:30
Poetry in the Time of Pandemics: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
699 Ranstead Street | Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia
This December 1st marks the 31st anniversary of Day Without Art. Launched by Visual AIDS on December 1, 1989, as a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, Day Without Art, focused specifically on bringing attention to the impact that AIDS had on the arts community.
On December 1st, 2020, Philly Loves Poetry features a conversation with poet and activist David Acosta who was one of the founders of Day Without Art in Philadelphia. David will read from poems he wrote during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic as well as new work, and will discuss artistic responses to both the AIDS and COVID pandemics specially as it relates to artistic creation by writers and poets responding to both.
David Acosta, is a poet, writer, and curator. His writings have appeared in many literary journals among them The Painted Bride Quarterly, The Evergreen Chronicles, The Americas Review, Mayrena, and the anthologies: American Poetry Confronts the 1990s (Black Tie Press 1990). The Limits of Silence (Asterion Press 1991), Poesida (Ollantay Press, 1995), and Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of Latin American Poetry in The United States (University of Washington Press, 1998). He is also included as a contributor in Queer Brown Voices, the first anthology of Latino LGBT history in the United States and Puerto Rico published by University of Texas Press, in 2015. He is currently the Artistic Director for Casa de Duende and he is a co-founding editor of Wicked Gay Ways an online artistic and literary journal devoted to queer erotica at the intersections of art and desire.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Virtual Poetry Reading, with Serotonin: Fizza Abbas, Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Leah Holbrook Sackett, with Sean Lynch
2020-11-27 14:00
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Meeting ID: 856 6282 0989, Passcode: [REDACTED]
Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in quite a few journals including Poetry Village, The Daily Drunk, Indiana Voice Journal, London Grip and Poetry Pacific.

Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, as well as the author of Better Bones and Marrow, both published by Thirty West Publishing House, and The Guessing Game published by BA Press. She occasionally drinks wine out of a mug that has a smug poodle on it; she believes that the poodle is the reincarnated spirit of the television show Parker Lewis Can’t Lose.
Leah Holbrook Sackett is an adjunct lecturer in the English department at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, where she also earned her M.F.A. Leah’s stories explore journeys toward autonomy and the boundaries placed on the individual by society, family, and self. Learn about her published fiction at LeahHolbrookSackett.com
Sean Lynch, Host

Virtual Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase & Mike Cohen, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook
2020-11-25 19:00
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Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
Alicia Askenase is the author of four chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb). Her poetry has appeared in many lit journals, including: Chain#2 and #11, Poetry New York, The World, 6ix, Feminist Studies, Big Bridge, The Journal of Modern Languages, and the Manhattanville Review. Recent writing is published in the anthologies New Works by Philadelphia Poets, Remembering Walt Whitman, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Second Edition, edited by Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, and the most recent edition of The Painted Bride Quarterly.
Mike Cohen is author of Between the I’s and Between the Shadow and the Wall and he hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store. His articles on sculpture regularly appear in the Schuylkill Valley Journal in which he is a contributing editor. His wry writing has appeared in the Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and other journals. His poetic presentations feature humor and drama against a philosophical backdrop. Mike likes to bring poetry and audiences to life in cafes, libraries, book stores and venues including Princeton’s Café Improv, the Pen and Pencil Club, the Hedgerow Theatre, Fergie’s Pub, Harlem’s Apollo Theater, and neither least nor last, Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts
Open reading follows

New Voices: Emerging Poets; Matilda Bray, Taylor Byas, Cordelia David, with Colin Faughnan
2020-11-21 19:00
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Meeting ID: 867 1393 7746, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
New Voices is a program designed for poets under the age of 25 in order to give A Voice for Everyone: Listen, Share, and Connect with other writers.
Matilda Bray “Matilda’s passion is contagious. Her writing is imaginative, focused, and thoughtful. Clearly, this young writer is quickly establishing herself as one of tomorrow’s brightest and cherished writers.” – Lorraine Henrie Lins, 2010 Bucks County Poet Laureate.
Taylor Byas is a Black poet and essayist who has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and Best New Poets 2020. She attends the University of Cincinnati, pursuing her degree in Creative Writing (Poetry) and is a reader for both The Rumpus and The Cincinnati Review, and the Poetry Editor for FlyPaper Lit.
Cordelia David is an aspiring physics student at Drexel University with interests in creative writing and philosophy. So far non-fiction and depressing poetry is her cup of tea. She has published “Letter my Rapist Never Sent Me” at poemsforthewriting.com, and a few academic papers that aren’t very interesting.
Colin Faughnan, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Chad Frame, Leah E. Jackson, Shosh Lovett-Graff, with Sean Hanrahan
2020-11-18 19:00
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Chad Frame’s work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Menacing Hedge, Mom Egg Review, Philadelphia Stories, Barrelhouse, and other journals. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo: New Italian American Writing, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat.

Leah E. Jackson aka Lyric: Advocate. Mother. Counselor. Poet. Agitator. is author of Release and Journey from Release, and a Nuyorican Poet’s Café 1998 Grand Slam Semi-Finalist. Leah co-produced #SayHerNameNewark, a social justice multi-media art exhibition and program – featuring ONLY female artists – that explores and responds to violence, sexual assault and police brutality against Black Women and Girls.
Shosh Lovett-Graff is is a founding editor of Toho Journal, and her poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction can be read in Qwerty Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Journal, Crab Fat Magazine, South Broadway Ghost Society, The Flexible Persona (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), and is forthcoming in Forbidden Peak Press.

Sean Hanrahan, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading: Phillip Berryman
2020-11-16 19:00
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Meeting ID: 863 4496 4528, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
El Salvador’s crisis of poverty and violence has remained the primal scene for liberation theology’s political assertion that the most vulnerable people pose a moral opportunity for organized religions. This year, we are remembering November 16th, the iconic anniversary of the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit Priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. The occasion honors the memory of Latin American clergy assassinated for their preaching against exploitation of poor people and draws together dramatic and traumatizing memories of the 1980 murder of Oscar Romero as well as nuns, Maura Clarke, Ida Ford, Ursuline Dorothy Kazel and lay missionary Jean Donovan, also killed in that year. The cause enunciated in this year’s celebration demonstrates special respect for lives and memories that are memorialized by the writing and lived experience of Phillip Berryman, author of Memento of the Living and the Dead, A First-Person Account of Church, Violence, and Resistance in Latin America ($33.00, Wipf and Stock Publishers).
In Memento of the Living and the Dead, Phillip Berryman relates his experiences as a Catholic priest in Panama City starting in 1965, and then, after leaving the priesthood to marry, in Central America in the late 1970s, as conflict and repression rose in Guatemala and El Salvador and the Sandinista revolution overthrew the Somoza dictatorship. Berryman was leading an ecumenical delegation in El Salvador when Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered at the altar and was at the archbishop’s funeral when it was attacked. Under increasing surveillance in Guatemala, he and his family returned to the United States in 1980, where he took part in the movement against US interference in Central America. Through study, travel, and research in South America, he followed the emergence and evolution of liberation theology and the rise of evangelical Pentecostalism.
“With relentless honesty and humbleness, Berryman is always there just before something happens, liberation theology, revolutions in Central America, the end of communism, globalization, and a rising middle class. His focus is Latin America, but his observations carry over into an understanding of the world today . . . and tomorrow.”—June Carolyn Erlick, editor-in-chief, ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America
“For all of us who struggle for human rights—especially for the rights of the poor—whether in the United States or Central America, Berryman will remain a memorable ethical and spiritual reference point.” —Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian
Larry Robin, Host

Virtual Poetry Reading: Dilruba Ahmed, Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Cynthia Dewi Oka, J.C Todd,
2020-11-11 19:00
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Meeting ID: 836 9654 1345, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust, won the Bakeless Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The New York Times Magazine. Her poems have also been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2019, Halal If You Hear Me, Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry, and elsewhere. She holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers.
Sham-e-Ali Nayeem is author of the poetry collection, City of Pearls, she is an Indian Muslim American poet, artist and public interest lawyer of Hyderabadi descent. Her poetry has appeared in Apiary, Dusie and Mizna, and can be found in anthologies, including Shattering the Stereotypes:
Muslim Women Speak Out (Olive Branch Press, 2005), Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak (Beacon Press, 2005) and Shout Out: Women of Color Respond to Violence (Seal Press, 2008). Sham-e-Ali is the recipient of the Loft Literary Center Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship.
Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems (and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Her work has appeared widely in print and online, including in ESPNW, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Scoundrel Time, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and various anthologies. With community partner Asian Arts Initiative, she created Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop for immigrant poets in Philadelphia. She has received scholarships from VONA and the Vermont Studio Center, the Fifth Wednesday Journal Editor’s Prize in Poetry, the Tupelo Quarterly Poetry Prize, and the Leeway Foundation's Transformation Award. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and is originally from Bali, Indonesia.
J. C. Todd’s recent work explores the traumatic effects of war on women. Her most recent books are Beyond Repair, runner-up in the Able Muse Poetry Book Contest, forthcoming in 2020, and The Damages of Morning, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Prize in Poetry and twice a finalist for Poetry Society of America awards, she has held fellowships in poetry from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Bemis Center, and elsewhere. Her work has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, The Paris Review, the Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. She has taught in the Rosemont MFA Program and the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College.
Larry Robin, Host

Poetry & Grief: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Amy Small-McKinney, with Charles S. Carr
2020-11-10 18:30
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM
There is so much to grieve for now. Deaths of loved ones. Death of human contact and some semblance of normalcy. Deaths of our dreams for the world, the earth, for ourselves, and for others. As a poet whose husband died recently, in the midst of this pandemic, I know first-hand how poetry can contain the uncontainable and allow us to say the unsayable. Amy Small-McKinney
Amy Small-McKinney’s poems have been published in numerous journals including American Poetry Review, The Indianapolis Review, and Pedestal Magazine and she has been a guest editor for Pedestal Magazine. Her second full-length book of poems, Walking Toward Cranes, won the Kithara Book Prize 2016. Small-McKinney has an MS in Clinical Neuropsychology from Drexel University and an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and she teaches community poetry workshops and private students.
Charles S. Carr, Host

The Virus: Poets Respond
2020-11-08 14:00 - 17:00
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: [REDACTED]
Coronaviruses are a group of RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the common cold (which is also caused by other viruses, predominantly rhinoviruses), while more lethal varieties can cause SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. There are as yet no vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.
What is it? How do you survive? How has it changed your life?
What Experiences has it generated – loneliness, fear, anti-social feelings
Moonstone Press invited poets to express themselves and the anthology, which includes poems by 50 poets. The list of poets and the book ($10, Moonstone Press) is now available at our website www.moonstoneartscenter.com

Virtual Poetry in Collaboration with Serotonin: Fizza Abbas, Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, & Leah Holbrook Sackett, with Sean Lynch
2020-11-07 14:00

Virtual Poetry Reading: Morri Creech, Joseph Harrison, & Dora Malech
2020-11-04 19:00
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Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
Morri Creech is the author of three collections of poetry, Paper Cathedrals, Field Knowledge, which received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet’s Prize, and The Sleep of Reason, a 2014 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is Blue Rooms published by Waywiser Press in 2018. A recipient of NEA and Ruth Lilly Fellowships, as well as grants from the North Carolina and Louisiana Arts councils, he is the Writer in Residence at Queens University of Charlotte, where he teaches courses in both the undergraduate creative writing program and in the low residency M.F.A. program. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and two children.
Joseph Harrison is the author of six books of poetry, including Someone Else’s Name, Identity Theft, Shakespeare’s Horse, and, most recently, Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman. Someone Else’s Name was named one of five poetry books of the year by The Washington Post and was a finalist for the Poets’ Prize; Shakespeare’s Horse was also a finalist for the Poets’ Prize. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other honors. Mr. Harrison has directed the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize since its inception in 2006. He edited The Hecht Prize Anthology and, with Damiano Abeni, Un mondo che non può essere migliore, a selection from the poetry of John Ashbery that won a Special Prize from the Premio Napoli. He lives in Baltimore, where he teaches privately and works as an editor.
Dora Malech is the author of Flourish, Stet, Say So, and Shore Ordered Ocean. She has been the recipient of an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, a Mary Sawyers Baker Prize, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and a Writing Residency Fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and she has been the Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College and a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. She is a co-founder and former director of the arts engagement organization the Iowa Youth Writing Project. She is an assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she has received a Crenson-Hertz Award for Community Based Learning, two Arts Innovation Grants, a Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service, and a Catalyst Award. She serves on the advisory board of Writers in Baltimore Schools and as an associate editor of The Waywiser Press and Tupelo Quarterly.
Larry Robin, Host
Open reading follows

Virtual Poetry Reading + Interview: Lynn Levin and Barbara Sabol, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook
2020-10-28 19:00
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Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair Creatures of an Hour, and Imaginarium. She is the translator, from the Spanish, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-author of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, Artful Dodge, Rattle, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and other places. She teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com
Barbara Sabol’s second full-length book, Imagine a Town, was awarded the 2019 Sheila-Na-Gig Editions poetry manuscript prize. She is the author of Solitary Spin (Main Street Rag Press) and two chapbooks. Barbara’s poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies. Barbara’s awards include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and the Mary Jean Irion Poetry Prize. She contributes book reviews to the Poetry Matters blog and the Ohioana Quarterly. Barbara lives in Akron, OH with her husband and wonder dogs.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts
Open reading follows

The Red Brick Poet: A Tribute to Peter Krok
2020-10-25 18:00
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Zoom Meeting ID: 834 4674 8712, Passcode: [REDACTED] Phone: +1 646-876-9923
Please join us as poets pay tribute to Peter Krok, the editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal and the Humanities Director of the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center where he has been coordinating a literary series since 1990. His poem “10PM at Philadelphia Recreation Center” was included in Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania.
Contributing poets include:
Courtney Bambrick, John Wall Barger, Lisa Alexander Baron, Peter Baroth, Leonard Belasco, Chris Bursk, Bill Van Buskirk, Rosemary Cappello, Joe Chelius, Mike Cohen, Greg Coleman, W.D. Ehrhart, Brian Fanelli, Eric Greinke, Hanoch Guy, Alison Hicks, Ernest Hilbert, Ron Howard, Carolynn Kingyens, David Kozinski, Antoinette Libro, Marjorie Maddox, Dan MaGuire, Lew Maltby, Emiliano Marin, Suzanne Marinell, Bernadette McBride, Fran Metzman, Ann E. Michael, A.E. Milford, Eileen Moeller, Mike Muir, Prabha Prabhu, Gloria Parker, Tree Riesener, Don Riggs, Hayden Saunier, Nancy Scott, Fereshteh Sholevar, Amy Small-McKinney, Luke Stromberg, Joe Tyson, Kelley Jean White, Bill Wunder, Robert Zaller.
