Virtual: Winners of 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest
2023-08-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | virtual
Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest
Sunday, August 27 @ 2pm
Virtual on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh
Chad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.
Leonard Kress (winning chapbook Poppy Seeds) author of Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems, Walk Like Bo Diddley, The Orpheus Complex, Sappho’s Apples Thirteens, Braids & Other Sestinas, and The Centralia Mine Fire. His poetry, fiction, non-fiction, reviews, and translations have appeared in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, and Harvard Review. He has received grants in playwriting and poetry from the Ohio Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, studied religion at Temple University, Poetry at Columbia University, and Polish at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, He currently teaches religion, philosophy, and English at Owens Community College.
Alina Macneal (winning chapbook After a War) is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s. Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize. She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years. Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet, Julian Tuwim. As Mark Twain said, History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
Karin Molde (author of Self-Portrait with Sheep Skull), feels at home in Ireland and Germany. She teaches languages and has published in magazines like Honest Ulsterman, Light Journal, The Blue Nib, Skylight 47, and in anthologies, e.g. Everything that can happen. (Emma Press, 2019), Identity (Fly on the Wall, 2020), Remembering Toni Morrison (Moonstone Press, 2020), “New Beginnings” (Renard Press, 2021), and Ukraine War Special Edition (Poetica Review, 2022).

John Timpane (winning chapbook Buck in the Piano Room) is former Commentary Page Editor (1997-2008) and Books Editor (2014-2020) for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. His work has appeared in Sequoia, The Fox Chase Review, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Rathalla Review, Per Contra, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Vocabula Review, Wild River Review, and elsewhere. Among his books is a chapbook, Burning Bush (Judith Fitzgerald/Cranberry Tree, 2010). He is the spouse of Maria-Christina Keller. They live in New Jersey.

Nathalie Anderson, Judge of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest, is author of Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, Held and Firmly Bound. Her new book, Rough, is forthcoming in 2024. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, Nimrod, and Plume. She manages the list-serv Lit-Philly, was Pew Fellow, she has recently retired from Swarthmore College, where she taught for 39 years, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing.

Reading hosted by the chapbook contest’s annual judge, Nathalie Anderson.
Their prize-winning chapbooks are all available for purchase on our website.

Live Poetry: Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg
2023-09-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg
Wednesday, September 6 @ 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street)

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Lauren Holguin is a writer, educator, & dancer from Los Angeles who now calls Philly home. She teaches K-12 neurodivergent students while pursuing her MFA in fiction and poetry at Rutgers Camden. She is the Co-creator of West Philly based Spit Poetry reading series & open mic, assistant poetry editor at Barrelhouse Magazine, and fiction reader for Story Quarterly. You can check out her poems at Subnivean Magazine & The Fourth River.

Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx writer, performer and educator. A 2023 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry at Adroit Journal. Gabriel has received fellowships from Palm Beach Poetry Festival, The Conversation Literary Arts Festival, CantoMundo, Miami Book Fair, a graduate fellow at The Watering Hole, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. Gabriel has performed on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, United Nations, Lincoln Center, Apollo Theatre, The National Museum of Romanian Literature, and other venues. Gabriel was featured in Huffington Post, VIBE Magazine, Blavity, Upworthy, The Flama, and Remezcla. You can find his work in various spaces, including Youtube, and in publications like POETRY Magazine, Muzzle Magazine, Adroit Journal, The Volta, Split This Rock, BOMB, Acentos Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly and others.
Nicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress (Furniture Press Books, 2017), Getting Lucky (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2013), and multiple chapbooks, including dear Elsie / seltzer (Bloof Books, 2023) and Fat Dreams (Barrelhouse, 2018). She is also the editor of Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens (SUNY Press, 2011). Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic. She was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA and since 2019, she has served on the board of the American Poetry Review.
Amy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows

Which Side Are You On? - Labor Day 2023 Anthology Reading
2023-09-10 14:00 - 16:00 | virtual
Which Side Are You On?
Moonstone’s Labor Day Anthology 2023
Sunday September 10, 2pm Eastern

Virtual Poetry Reading: Register Here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf-GgpzItGtEprSH7oS_w4fC9ME9T9R37

Labor is increasingly militant after years of inaction
“It’s been a fast and furious few weeks for labor. First, 3,000 workers went on strike at 150 Starbucks, then 6,000 Los Angeles hotel workers walked out, and now 11,500 Hollywood writers and 160,000 television and movie actors have gone on strike. Not only that, 340,000 UPS workers seemed ready to walk out on 1 August, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is threatening to strike one or more Detroit automakers later this summer.” – The Guardian
Join us as people read their a poem about work, labor activity, labor history, and more.

The book includes photos taken by Frank Espada and poetry written by his son, the author and people’s attorney, Martín Espada.

Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading
2023-09-12 18:30 - 19:30 | PA
Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is author of six poetry collections, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia), 2022, with her latest chapbook, Luna, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press, 2023. Published in North American Review, Sequestrum Journal of Literature & Arts, Brushfire Literature & Arts Journal, The Northern Virginia Review, POEMS-FOR-ALL, Valley Voices, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chiron Review, Southern Arizona Press, among others, with poems forthcoming from Tiny Seed Literary Journal & Arlington Literary Journal. Winner of several poetry awards, including the Partisan Press Award, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford. https://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com & http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ & https://www.youtube.com/@dianesahms-uarnieri9258/featured

E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff
2023-09-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
E-Verse Equinox Reading Series with Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff
Wednesday September 13, 2023 – 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
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Kathleen Ossip’s books include July, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Poetry Review (UK). She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute.
Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust, at the American Academy in Rome. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.
Ernest Hilbert, Spencer Short, and Luke Stromberg Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Josh Dale, Shannon Frost Greenstein, & Christina Rosso-Schneider
2023-09-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Josh Dale, Shannon Frost Greenstein, & Christina Rosso-Schneider
Wednesday, September 20 @ 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street
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Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (she/her) is a writer, editor, and salt enthusiast living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Jane-Rebecca is the author of Better Bones, published by Thirty West Publishing House, Thirst and Frost by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, A Practical Almanac by Bottlecap Press, Collections From a Shipwreck by Alien Buddha Press, and Eleven-Hundred by Really Serious Literature.
Josh Dale is a native Pennsylvanian and the author of the novella, The Light to Never Be Snuffed (Alien Buddha Press, 2022,) and the poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West Publishing, 2016.) He hopes you read them outside, far away from society, and maybe with a cat. Say hi at www.joshdale.co
Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “Pray for Us Sinners,” a fiction collection with Alien Buddha Press, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana,” a chapbook forthcoming from Bullsh*t Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, Parentheses Journal, and elsewhere.
Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) is a writer, educator, and bookstore owner living outside of Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House, 2021) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications, 2020). Their writing has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and the Pushcart Prize. Currently, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art and through Rosemont College’s MFA Writer’s Studio. Find them on Twitter @rosso_christina.
Sean Hanrahan Host– Open Reading Follows

New Books from Moonstone Press: Virtual Reading
2023-09-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
New Books from Moonstone Press
September 26, 2023 – 7pm Eastern – VIRTUAL
Zoom registration required
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With featured works from:
Beth Bayley is a writer, yoga instructor, and occasional archivist who divides her time between Massachusetts and Singapore. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Evening Street Review, Ghost City Review, Slant, Vox Poetica, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others.
Jefferson Carter has work in such journals as Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, and Rattle. He published his ninth collection, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems, chosen as a Southwest Best Book of 2013. Birkenstock Blues, is now available through his website: jeffersoncarterverse.com. He taught writing for 30 years at Pima Community College, the last 18 years as Writing as Department Chair. Currently, he’s a passionate supporter of Sky Island Alliance, a regionally-based environmental organization.
Flower Conroy is a LGBTQ+ writer, NEA and MacDowell Fellow and former Key West Poet Laureate, Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder was chosen as the winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition; A Sentimental Hairpin is forthcoming from Tolsun Books. Her poetry will/has appeared in American Poetry Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review and others.
Marjorie Gowdy writes at home in the Blue Ridge mountains, she has three chapbooks, her poetry has been published in a number of journals, including the international Friends Journal, Artemis, Streetlight, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Roanoke Review.
Richard Stimac, author of Bricolage, Of Water and of Stone, and published over thirty poems in Burningword, Clackamas, The Examined Life Journal, Faultline, Havik, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mikrokosmos, New Plains Review, Novus, Penumbra, Salmon Creek, and Wraparound South. He published flash fiction in BarBar, The Blue Mountain Review, Book of Matches, Bridge Eight, New Feathers, and more. He is a poetry reader for Ariel Publishing, Clepsydra, and a fiction reader for the Marine Review.
Daniel Williams, recipient of the Robinson Jeffers Poetry Prize, is a long-standing member of Poets’ West, California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Poets & Writers, and the Ina Coolbrith Circle and has poems in Yosemite National Park’s time capsule, a haiku engraved on MAVEN, the Mar’s orbiter, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prize in poetry. His poem, Water Creatures in Yosemite Fall, was awarded first place for poems in the California Federation of Chaparral Poets’ contest for 2022.
Theresa Wyatt, a Buffalo native, is a retired teacher. She is the author of Hurled Into Gettysburg, and her work has appeared in New Flash Fiction Review, Spillway, Snapdragon, steel bellow, The Ekphrastic Review, The Healing Muse, The Phare, W.W. Norton’s New Micro, and elsewhere. She credits her artistic parents, participation in the Siena, Italy Program during college, and teaching in the NYS prison system and abroad – as the major influences on her life.

Live Poetry: H. Alonzo Jennings and Dave Worrell
2023-09-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
H. Alonzo Jennings and Dave Worrell
Wednesday, September 27th @ 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street
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Alonzo Jennings is an artist, photographer, poet, jazz aficionado and raconteur. He is a graduate of Montclair State University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. Alonzo has written four volumes of poetry, the latest titled ON ECHO, JOY AND ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD. His poetry addresses themes of love, social consciousness, individual responsibility and the joy of being. Alonzo is author of THIS WAS JAZZ, a book containing 160 of his photographs of legendary jazz musicians, along with his original jazz poems and commentary on music, art and the creative process. He hosts the award-winning Philadelphia based radio program Jazz From An Eclectic Mind on WPPM. Alonzo is available for presentations of his photography and poetry.
Dave Worrell’s verse memoir “Runnemede Boy” was published by Parnilis Media in 2023. His chapbook “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His limited-edition ekphrastic collection “Close to Home” appeared in 2015, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant, Canary, Shot Glass Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Exit 13 and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows

Remembering Pablo Neruda On the 50th Anniversary of His Death
2023-10-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Remembering Pablo Neruda On the 50th Anniversary of His Death
Virtually on Sunday October 1, 2023 – 2pm – EDT
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Pablo Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. He was a close advisor to Chile’s socialist President Salvador Allende, and, when he got back to Chile after accepting his Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70,000 people. Join us as poets remember and praise him.

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
2023-10-03 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Featuring Doris Ferleger, PhD
Tuesday October 3, 2023 – 6:30pm VIRTUAL
Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.

Doris Ferleger, PhD, is the author of Big Silences in a Year of Rain, As the Moon Has Breath, Leavened, and When You Become Snow. Among many accolades about Ferleger’s work, Aliki Barnestone writes: These memorable poems keep singing with their insistent beauty. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, L.A. Review, and South Carolina Review, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, PA.
Ferleger has attended esteemed writers conferences nationally and internationally including Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont and Sicily, Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference, Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania, Polish Poetry Conference in Krakow, Poland, and Vermont College of Fine Arts Poetry Manuscript Conference. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in psychology and maintains a mindfulness based therapy practice in Wyncote PA. Ferleger uses poetry and mindfulness approaches in her practice as a way to help clients feel a sense of belonging, acceptance and compassion for all challenges.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry: Lisa Grunberger, Diane Sahms, Dr Patrick James Errington, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki
2023-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Lisa Grunberger, Diane Sahms, Dr Patrick James Errington, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki
Wednesday October 4 @ 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street
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Lisa Grunberger has published two books – a collection of poetry, Born Knowing and Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position, which she is adapting as a stage performance called Yiddish Yoga: The Musical. She is a widely published poet in such journals as Mudfish, The Drunken Boat, Bridges, Philadelphia Poets, Paroles des Jours, and Dialogi. Her poems have also been translated into Russian and Yiddish. Her one-woman show, A Prayer Collector, premiered at the Makor Center for the Arts/92 St Y.
Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is the author of six poetry collections: Images of Being (Stone Garden Publishing, 2011), Lights Battered Edge (Anaphora Literary Press, 2015), and Night Sweat (Red Dashboard Press, 2016), Handheld Mirror of the Mind, (Kelsay Books, 2018); Covid 19 2020 – A Poetic Journal (Moonstone Press, 2021); most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia) – Alien Buddha Press. Her poems have appeared in a number of online and print publications. Diane is the Poetry Editor at North of Oxford and works as a purchasing agent.
Dr Patrick James Errington is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and academic from the prairies of Alberta, Canada. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks Glean (ignitionpress, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press, 2019) and the poetry collection the swailing (McGill-Queens University Press). He is a Lecturer in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches literature and creative writing and is also the primary and co-investigator on several interdisciplinary research projects.
Joseph Thomas Makoviecki is a poet and the singer-songwriter in the indie folk band Jackson Pines. Born in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, Joseph has lived in New York City and Philadelphia while traveling America, the UK, and Ireland performing as a musician. hornpipe & other poems was written as a recipient of the 2021 Tory Dent Research Scholarship at New York University. His work has appeared in The Rational Creature, Soupcan Magazine, Oddball Magazine, and more.

Live Poetry: Jared Harél, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Martin Wiley
2023-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Jared Harél, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Martin Wiley
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @ 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street
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Jared Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject, winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in and Go Because I Love You. He’s been awarded the ‘Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize’ from American Poetry Review, as well as the ‘William Matthews Poetry Prize’ from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél’s poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Electric Literature, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, The Southern Review and The Sun. He teaches writing, plays drums, and lives in Westchester, NY with his wife and two kids.

Vasiliki Katsarou is a Greek and American poet, editor, independent curator, and sometime filmmaker. She is the author of Memento Tsunami, Three Sea Stones, and The Second Home. Her award-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843 was screened at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Harvard Film Archive, and the Drama International Film Festival in Greece. She is a Teaching Artist at Hunterdon Art Museum and has collaborated with many arts organizations in New Jersey including the Dodge Poetry Festival, Hopewell Theater, ArtYard, Panoply Books, Ellarslie Museum, and the Princeton Humanities Council.

Martin Wiley author of Just/More and When Did We Stop Being Cute?, grew up confronting and embracing a world as mixed and confused as he was, surrounded by beautiful words one minute and screamed at with hate the next. A long- time activist, spoken-word artist, and slam poet, he had begun to see himself as a “recovering poet” but his children’s growing love of words dragged him, mostly happily, off the wagon. His work has appeared in journals like Apiary, Philadelphia Stories, The Northern Virginia Review, The Northridge Review, Conspire, and others.
Larry Robin Hosts, Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry: elijah b pringle, III, joe roarty, and George Schaefer
2023-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
elijah b pringle, III, joe roarty, and George Schaefer
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @ 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St.
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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elijah b pringle, III is an internationally published American poet from Philadelphia, PA. His works appears in several international anthology: Compagnia de’ Colombari’s Whitman on Walls, 99 Poets for the 99 Percent, Selfhood, Moonstone Poetry Ink 25th Anniversary Anthology, and Aquarius Press critical acclaimed anthology on the continuation of the Black Arts Movement – Black Fire This Time. Overall, he has appeared in nearly 40 anthologies and journals since the turn of this century. Constantly evolving and exploring, he has maintained a voice that consistently reveals his keen insight into the “human experiment”, as he would say
joe roarty written & read poetry in Chgo, New York & Philadelphia-he has 2 chapbooks including MORITAT published by Moonstone Press-this year his first full length collection SHOWTUNES was brought out by Iniquity/Vendetta Press
George Schaefer is a Philly born poet, philosopher and prankster, He started writing poetry in high school in a ill fated attempt to impress girls. It didn’t work so he kept writing and trying to hone the craft. Over 4 decades later, he’s still writing and trying to make sense of the world
Sean Hanrahan Hosts, Open Reading Follows

The Poet's Story: House Party
2023-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
The Poet’s Story: House Party, with Ernest Hill and poet Lynn Levin
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @ 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom
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The Poet’s Story: Ernest Hilbert in conversation with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories, House Parties
What’s it like to turn from writing poems to writing short stories? Poet and critic Ernest Hilbert speaks with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories House Parties ($20.00, Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine. How is the fiction writing process different from the poetry writing process? What new themes and moods emerge in the House Parties stories? A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.
Called one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College), Lynn Levin is a poet, writer, longtime professor of English at Drexel University, and, for many years, was a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Magazine’s June 2023 issue named Levin’s debut collection of short stories House Parties one of the best books of summer, calling the stories “vivid, funny, and quietly powerful…House Parties may break your heart, but it’ll never do it the same way twice.” Levin is the author of five previous collections of poems. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com.
Ernest Hilbert is the author Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan (selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize) and Last One Out. Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. He works as a rare book dealer and book critic for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Fine Books and Collections. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018, and his poems appear in Yale Review, American Poetry Review, BOMB, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Sewanee Review, Hudson Review, Boston Review, The New Republic, American Scholar, and the London Review. In 2023 he was awarded the Meringoff Writing Award for Poetry from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com

Remembering Sylvia Plath on the 80th Anniversary of Her Death, VIRTUAL
2023-10-29 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual
Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously.
Join us as poets remember and praise her.
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Live at Fergie's Pub: No River Twice Poetry Reading
2023-11-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
No River Twice: An interactive poetry reading with Chad Frame, Joanne Leva and Hayden Saunier, with special guests Charles Carr, Ona Gritz, and Shawn R. Jones
Wednesday, November 1 @ 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom
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No River Twice creates interactive poetry readings where audiences and a group of 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

Chad 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, including on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.

Joanne Leva, an advocate for creative writing and community service, is the founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and author of the poetry collections Eve Would Know and Eve Heads Back.

Hayden Saunier is the author of five books of poetry and her most recent is A Cartography of Home. Her work has won a Pushcart Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, and Pablo Neruda Award and has been published in journals such as Plume, 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pedestal, Thrush, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the founder and director of No River Twice.

Special Guests:

Charles Carr of Philadelphia has two published books of poems, paradise,pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles has been active in the Philadelphia poetry community for 20 years and he hosted a Moonstone Arts Center Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub for 5 years and is currently the host of a live monthly broadcast Philly Loves Poetry now in its seventh season. Eat This Poem, a Chapbook of Charles’s poems published by Moonstone Arts, will be released in November. Proceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain.

Ona Gritz’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, Catamaran Literary Reader, One Art, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Everywhere I Look, Ona’s memoir, will be on March 12, 2024. She also has two verse novels for teens forthcoming. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project.

Shawn R. Jones was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She is a 2023 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, and her poetry collection, Date of Birth, has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Womb Rain (2008) and A Hole to Breathe (2015). Her work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Cider Review, Passengers Journal, Rattle, Essence, and elsewhere.

Live Poetry: Anna Prader, Jonathan Todd, & Leonard Gontarek
2023-11-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Anna Prader, Jonathan Todd, & Leonard Gontarek
Wednesday November 8, 2023 @ 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St.
1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom
On Zoom (Registration required):
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApcuuuqjosGN2LvQ3zzR2f-PsJwKGmqmve
Anna Prader lives and writes in Philadelphia with her three children. She believes in poetry that betrays codes of social decency and tells the truth instead. She works in harm reduction and peer support, and she would like to take a nap.
Jonathan Todd is a poet/musician/Buddhist/anarchist and generally confused individual. His poems attempt to find moments between and within labor, fusing ideas about emptiness, collectivity, and absurdity. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others.
Leonard Gontarek is the author of The Long Way Home; Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; and The Paris Poems of Jim Morrison. His poems have appeared in Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry and The Best American Poetry. His poem, 37 Photos From The Bridge, selected by Alice Quinn, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges MotionPoems project and the basis for the award-winning film sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.
Thirty-Seven Photos from the Bridge by Leonard Gontarek

Michael Miller @ PhillyCAM
2023-11-14 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Tuesday, November 14, 6:30 PM EDT
VIRTUAL: Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website
or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia
Michael Miller is a Spoken Word Artist/Poet who has served 8 years in the Maine Corps and 7 years in the Army/ Army National Guard. He served in Afghanistan amongst other military installations. His new mission in life is to bridge the gap of understanding in civilians about the military experience and the aftermath of serving.

Live Poetry: Erica Abbott, Adriann "Justthepen" Toombs Bautista, Kate Carey, Anne-Adele Wight, & John Wojtowicz
2023-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Erica Abbott, Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista, Kate Carey, Anne-Adele Wight, & John Wojtowicz
Wednesday, November 15 @ 7PM
Live @ Fergie’s Pub: 1214 Sansom St. & on Zoom
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucO2gqj0qEtDvbu6-vUf_fJNvAwVhOMaS
Erica Abbott (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Stone Circle Review, Shō Poetry Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, Philadelphia Stories, Midway Journal, and other journals. She is the author of Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship, is a Best of the Net nominee, and is a poetry editor for Variant Literature. She is pursuing her MFA at Randolph College starting this winter. Visit her website at erica-abbott.com.
Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista, is a native of Philadelphia, Grant Administrator at Moses/Weitzman Health Center located in CT, 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, SisterStrength:She/Her/We/Me and in over 15 various anthologies. Adriann has read her life poetry at many venues throughout the Tri-State Area and beyond.
Kate Carey(she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings are hard. Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction, she touches on issues relating to trauma, fat liberation, mental illness and sexuality. December 2022’s Hot Poet in the Bullshit Lit x Olney magazine Hot Poets calendar and producer of Philadelphia’s Slutty Poems Night, you can find more about her & her work at https://www.katemcarey.com/ and on twitter @oldbae_fries
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 Poets and Writers, The Adroit Journal, Luna Luna, Apiary, Bedfellows, Oz Burp, Have Your Chill, and Read On 2. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.
John Wojtowicz is author of Roadside Attractions: a Poetic Guide to American Oddities. He teaches social work at Stockton University, been featured on Rowan University’s Writer’s Roundtable, his poems were in Princeton University’s 2021 Unique Minds: Creative Voices art exhibition. He has also published in Rattle, Split Rock Review, Soundings East, Ekphrastic Review South Florida Poetry Journal and others.
Sean Hanrahan Hosts.

New Voices Fall 2023: Live Reading
2023-11-16 18:00 - 20:00 | Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St
Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023
November 16th at 6pm
Hosted: Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street
In cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia

Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!

New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.

We tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike, look alike, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.

Join us on November 16th at 6pm at the Literature Department of the Parkway Central location of the Philadelphia Free Library.

A virtual reading will be held on November 19th as well for poets who are not local to Philadelphia.

New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading
2023-11-19 14:00 - 15:30 | PA
Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023
November 19th at 2pm
Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP

Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets!

New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities.

We tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike, look alike, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s experience, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this generation.

Join us on November 19th at 2pm online to support the next generation of poets and writers.

Live Poetry: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Pheralyn Dove, & Joseph Farley
2023-11-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday November 22, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-qsrDgqHddl-HC4vUoC0r-JRYbaeol6
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies, Whirlwind Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP.
Pheralyn Dove, a.k.a. Lady Dove, is a writer, jazz poet, photographer, collage artist, and hopelessly optimistic romantic. She lives her life in a state of perpetual gratitude. A graduate of Hampton University, Pheralyn’s aspirations are guided by Spirit. Her intellectual and creative work are informed by The Struggle for the Liberation of all African People throughout The Diaspora, Cultural Preservation, and Emotional Healing. She is the author of PARADOXES: An Illustrated Book of True-Life Stories. www.pheralyndove.com
Joseph Farley edited Axe Factory from 1986 to 2010 and ran Cynic Press from 2000 to 2010. He is the author of 12 poetry collections including Yellow Brick Pilgrim (Alien Buddha Press, 2023), Written In The Sand (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) and Longing For The Mother Tongue (March Street Press, 2010). His fiction books include Labor Day (Peasantry Press), Farts And Daydreams (Dumpster Fire Press), and Once Upon A Time In Whitechapel (Alien Buddha Press).

Live Poetry: Jim Cory, Peter F. Murphy, & Sekai'afua Zankel
2023-11-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday, November 29 — 7PM LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcumpqD4sG9xoEzReApFvVfqvS36PY7KL
Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems Recent essays include “What makes a queen a queen?” in the Gay & Lesbian Review, “ Fascinating Asshole (or) How I Came To Love Frank Sinatra” in New Haven Review, and “Where’s the hotboy going tonight?” in Chelsea Station. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony.
Peter F. Murphy is author of two poetry books: Maps of Three Continents and Underwater and teaches at Murray State University. His books include Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, Fictions of Masculinity, and Feminism and Masculinities. His essays and reviews have been published in, among others, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Twentieth Century Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, College Literature, Signs, and Feminist Studies. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review and New Madrid.
Sekai’afua Zankel, actor, writer, and poet, She is the author of Behind These Eyes/Optical Poems, and a winner of the Leeway Foundation, Art and Change Grant for her Poetry Play, Miss Pearl’s Spirit: In the Mysteries of Mirrors. Her poems have been published In the CAP literary magazine, “Poetry Ink”, several Anthologies, and in “Apiary”, 7 Power Issue. Sekai lives in Philadelphia with her husband, musician Bobby Zankel.

Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke
2023-12-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual
Sunday, December 3 @ 2PM EDT–VIRTUAL ONLY
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-yprD0pGtBXNxHxU9ZE1Z1Zu8CaUbPs
Austrian poet and novelist acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, Rainer Maria Rilke’s work has undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Letters to a Young Poet. The Sonnets to Orpheus are a cycle of 55 sonnets.
Join us as poets praise Rilke or present poems inspired by him.

Philly Loves Poetry Reading Series: Evan Wang
2023-12-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual
Tuesday, December 5 @ 6:30 PM EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY
Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website, Cable 66/966HD/967
or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia

王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the 2023 Jacklyn Potter Young Poet, and the current editor-in-chief of Hominum Journal. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Journal, RHINO, Rust + Moth, and more, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Evan has performed at various venues such as Love Park, the Oval XP, Chinatown Friendship Arch, and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry, TEDx, NPR, the Miami Book Fair, Wawa Welcome America, The Adroit Journal, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation, and more.

Charles S. Carr Hosts.

Poetry Reading: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo & Alina Pleskova
2023-12-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday December 6, 2023 – 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceisrj4jGdA8Joyup6aFvmbnFCF3ld1e

Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is the author of the chapbook “DUH” and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Cleveland Review of Books, Barrelhouse Magazine, Passages North, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, and The Offing, among others.
Alina Pleskova is author of Toska, a poet, editor, and Moscow-born immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. You can find her work in various places, and her spirit in the astral realm.

Amy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows

Paul Muldoon, Courtney Sender, & Patricia Davis-Muffet in Equinox Reading Series
2023-12-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
Wednesday, 12/13 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom @ 7PM
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcof-6tpjsqG9XjTAb-Gp1JCqHN2E0OkAAr
Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he taught at Princeton University for thirty-five years. He is the author of fifteen collections of poetry including Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, which will be published by FSG and Faber and Faber in 2024. Among his awards are the 1972 Eric Gregory Award, the 1980 Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, the 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Poetry, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize, the 2006 European Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Pigott Poetry Prize, the 2017 Queens Gold Medal for Poetry, and the 2020 Michael Marks Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Courtney Sender’s essays have appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love, The Atlantic, and Slate, and her short stories have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, and many others. Her debut, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me (WVU Press 2023), has been called “a stunner from the very first page” by Deesha Philyaw and “literary rock ‘n’ roll” by Aimee Bender. She is currently at work on a debut novel. www.courtneysender.com
Patricia Davis-Muffett holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her chapbook, Alchemy of Yeast and Tears, was published in spring 2023, and her work appears in Atlanta Review, Whale Road Review, Calyx, and About Place. Visit her at www.patriciadavismuffett.com

Bill of Rights Day
2023-12-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Sunday, 12/17 @ 2P EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuGpqz4rHdBXineZDgxkf1GHD6__eNeO
December 15, 1791: Ten amendments protect the most basic rights of Americans, known as the Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments made to the United States Constitution, and their purpose is to spell out the personal freedoms and rights of the American people. The Bill of Rights was first written on September 25, 1789, and was later ratified on December 15, 1791, which is why Bill of Rights Day is celebrated on this date.
Join us as poets reflect on our rights.

Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, & Lawrence Dugan
2023-12-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub
7PM ET & on Zoom
Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf

Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade.
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies, Whirlwind Magazine, Bomb Magaine, and Cul-de-sac of Blood (forthcoming). She received a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She works in the service industry and teaches at CCP.
Lawrence Dugan’s new book, The Sea again: Poems, made up of poems that first appeared in magazines and journals such as Daedqlus, Arion, Cyphers, The Gettysburg Review, Nation Review and others. He is retired from The Free Library of Philadelphia where he once ran the Monday Poets Series.

Larry Robi, Host – Open Reading Follows

Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis
2024-01-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr
Wednesday January 3, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
Registration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B
Charles S. Carr from Philadelphia graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 years. Charles has been a lay missionary for Hands Together raising money to serve the poorest of the poor in Haiti. He has two books of poems paradise, pennsylvania, (Cradle Press, 2009) and Haitian Mudpies and Other Poems, (Moonstone Press, 2013). In 2008, one of Charles’s poems won first place in Mad Poets Review. His poems have been published in local and national print and online poetry journals, For five years Charles hosted the second Tuesday Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub. For the past seven years he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry, a monthly broadcast from Philly CAM. Charles has one son, Evan, and is married to award-winning artist Karen Stabenow. His latest chapbook is Eat This Poem with Moonstone Press.
Proceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain.
David Kertis, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied creative writing with David Young, and has lived in Philadelphia since 1978. He is married and works as a claims adjuster. In Philadelphia, he has studied with Leonard Gontarek and Eleanor Wilner. He has been published on line in Frigate and Apiary and given a number of readings in the Philadelphia area. His book, Word of the Day, has recently been published.
Leonard Gontarek Host, Open Reading Follows
