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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Terry M. Dugan\, Isabella Piacentino\, Rob Wright\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82768729107?pwd=ZzJmSkp0S1g0SU1ab2N6Nm5WcDByUT09 \nMeeting ID: 827 6872 9107 – Passcode: 896169 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Terry M. Dugan\, Isabella Piacentino\, and Rob Wright \nTerry M. Dugan writes poetry and prose about the collateral damage people suffer from wars\, gun violence and the AIDS/addiction epidemic. Her work has appeared in Alimentum\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Womens’ Studies  Quarterly\, A&U Magazine\,  New Verse News\, Inkwell and numerous anthologies including Poetry Ink\, The Anthology of New England Poets and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora. She has read at the United Nations\, Hudson Valley Writers Center\, Moonstone Arts Center\, Hudson Valley Center for the Contemporary Arts\, and Bowery Poetry Club\, Bread and Roses Gallery\, Fordham University\, and on nytalkradio.net. \n  \nIsabella Piacentino is studying to be a high school English teacher at Temple. You can find her work in Moonstone Art Center’s New Voices #3 and Featured Poets Anthology\, as well as in Hyphen (Temple’s Literary Magazine) and on the websites of Yikes Magazine\, Anti-Herion\, and Short Edition. When she is not writing\, she is jamming out to her “middle school dance 2009-2013” playlist or (most likely) sifting through mountains of homework. \n  \n  \nRob Wright has now chosen to spend his time writing after working for three decades in film production\, He currently serves as associate fiction editor for Able Muse\, and has been awarded three Fellowships in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, and has published fiction\, reviews\, and poetry in Able Muse\, Angle\, Big City Lit\, the Evansville Review\, Measure\, Rattle\, String Poet\, and the Schuylkill Valley Journal. A finalist for the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award\, he recently was awarded the Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry and was honored to give a reading at the home of Frost in Derry\, New Hampshire. \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-terry-m-dugan-isabella-piacentino-rob-wright-with-larry-robin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Elizabeth Catanese\, Darla Himeles\, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Elizabeth Catanese\, Darla Himeles\, and Ysabel Y. Gonzalez \nElizabeth Catanese is a writer and artist whose poems have appeared in The Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, The Stillwater Review\, OVS\, Anomalous Press\, Referential Magazine\, and Calyx. Her most recent books include A Student’s Companion for How to Write Anything and STEAM Jobs You’ll Love: Architecture and Construction. \n  \n  \n  \nDarla Himeles is the author of Flesh Enough and Cleave. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, NAILED Magazine\, Lesbians are Miracles\, The Night Heron Barks\, and Atticus Review. She is poetry editor for Platform Review and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and for Best of the Net. \n  \n  \nYsabel Y. Gonzalez is Assistant Director for the Poetry Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation\, is a CantoMundo Fellow and has been published in Paterson Literary Review; Tinderbox Journal; Anomaly; and others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of Wild Invocations. \n  \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-elizabeth-catanese-darla-himeles-ysabel-y-gonzalez-with-larry-robin/
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: The Spiritual in Poetry with Leonard Gontarek and Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:Watch the live broadcast: \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV:  \nhttps://phillycam.org/watch \n2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: The Spiritual in Poetry with Leonard Gontarek \nIn many ways\, writing poems and the reading of poems are spiritual acts. The poem resembles a prayer. It can be an invocation or a plea. Its origin is a sacred memory and its source\, an illumination. Leonard Gontarek will discuss this through examples of his own poetry\, in conversation with Charles Carr. \nLeonard Gontarek is the author of seven books of poems\, including Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket\, Shiva. His poems have appeared in Field\, Poet Lore\, Verse Daily\, Fence\, Poetry Northwest\, American Poetry Review\, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry\, and The Best American Poetry. He coordinates Peace/Works\, Poetry In Common\, Philly Poetry Day\, hosts The Green Line Reading & Interview Series\, he conducts the poetry workshop: Making Poems That Last. 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. \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-the-spiritual-in-poetry-with-leonard-gontarek-and-charles-s-carr/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Five New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press: Carey Hunter Davis\, Peter F. Murphy\, Leonard Neufeldt\, Monika Wysong\, Seki'afua Zankel\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n5 New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press \nCarey Hunter Davis began writing poetry as a day dreaming fourth grader once she realized words could enhance day dreaming. Her days are spent in writing and reading poetry. Recently dancingirlpress published a collection of her poems\, “THE A POEMS.”  Her work has also been published by the journals: Poeming Pidgeon\, Echoes\, Black Panda Press and the collections: Island of Geese and Stars\, The Weird World Rolls On\, Sarasvati Takes Pegasus As Her Mount\, as well as other venues. It’s The Way We Live $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-946150-75-2) https://square.online/app/store/users/129102844/sites/541329794836208511/#/store/products/245 \n  \n  \n  \nPeter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay\, NY\, the Heart of the Thousand Islands\, where he learned to shoot pool and ice fish. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review\, New Madrid\, and The Café Review. His critical work includes three books on men and masculinity: Studs\, Tools\, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By; Fictions of Masculinity; and Feminism and Masculinities. Maps of Three Continents\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-94615077-6) https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/murphy-peter-f-maps-of-three-continents/250?cs=true&cst=custom \n  \n  \n  \nLeonard Neufeldt “The philosopher George Santayana defined life as the fixation of significant points of interest in the flux of experience. In our interactions with our human world\, certain moments in our relationships offer more than just a transient happening and a brush stroke of memory; they take on a kind of “life meaning” deeply implicated in our own lives. The poems focus on particular tensions and burdens of a strong interaction with the human community.  Figures in Time\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-946150-76-9) https://square.online/app/store/users/129102844/sites/541329794836208511/#/store/products/243 \n  \n  \n  \nMonika Wysong is a Philadelphia based poet\, playwright and psychotherapist. Her play\, Laundromat\, appeared on Philadelphia’s PBS station\, and she has been a semi-finalist in the Louisville Actors’ Theater playwriting competition. Her poems have appeared in American Writing. “ Monika Wysong has given us poems of the body othered by trauma and reclaimed through identification with the natural world.” J .C. Todd\, author of The Damages of Morning. Poems for The Rest of Us\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-946150-78-3 https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/wysong-monika-poems-for-the-rest-of-us/253?cs=true&cst=custom \n  \n  \n  \nSekai’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. What I Heard\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-946150-66-0) https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/zankel-sekai-afua-what-i-heard/248?cs=true&cst=custom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-five-new-chapbooks-from-the-moonstone-press-carey-hunter-davis-peter-f-murphy-leonard-neufeldt-monika-wysong-sekiafua-zankel-with-larry-robin/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210328T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \nRemembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti \nOn February 22\, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. In the 1950s\, Ferlinghetti’s San Francisco bookstore\, City Lights\, was the center of the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti published many of the writers whose goal was to “write in an authentic\, unfettered style.” Ferlinghetti was arrested for obscenity for publishing Howl by Allen Ginsburg in 1956\, but Judge Clayton Horn decided that the poem was of “redeeming social importance”. \nJoin us in remembering Ferlinghetti and the Beat Movement \n “I have a personal connection with Ferlinghetti. While I never met him\, he influenced my life.  A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) was the first poetry book that reached me\, at the age of 16 my friends and I sat around reading it aloud to each other. His fight against censorship also influenced me. When Tropic of Cancer was published by Grove Press in 1961\, Robin’s Book Store was the test case in Pennsylvania. While Ferlinghetti won his case\, we lost. Another Tropic of Cancer case made it to the Supreme Court which permitted sales in the United States.” – Larry Robin \nNot All contributors Will Be Reading: \nJoseph Bathanti \nJoan Bauer \nKen Been \nR. Bremner \nMaryrose Carroll \nGreg Colburn \nTerry Dugan \nOliver Egger \nMarie-Louise Eyres \nFrancis Flavin \nJoan Huffman \nJones Irwin \nIrving Jones \nChris Kaiser \nLeonard Kress \nJim LaVilla-Havelin \nJim McDade \nRichard Paul \nJoan Penn \nKenneth Pobo \nJohn Polier \nLarry Robin \nAri Robinson \nGeorge Schaefer \nLinda Simone \nBob Small \nDiana Tenes \nKelley White \nSamantha Wright \nRobert Zaller
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-remembering-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Kirwyn Sutherland\, Sekai'afua Zankel\, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737     Passcode: 678146 \nKirwyn Sutherland is author of Jump Ship\, a Clinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow\, has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem\, Winter Tangerine\, Poets House\, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym\, and Pearlstein Art Gallery\, was a member of the 2015 Philadelphia Pigeon Slam Team and a member of  the 2016 Philadelphia Fuze Poetry Slam Team.  Kirwyn’s work has been published in American Poetry Review\, Blueshift Journal\, APIARY Magazine\, FOLDER\, The Wanderer and elsewhere.  He has served as Editor of Lists/Book Reviewer for WusGood magazine and poetry editor for APIARY Magazine and currently teaching Spoken Word/Poetry Performance at the University of the Arts. \n  \nSekai’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. \n  \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-kirwyn-sutherland-sekaiafua-zankel-with-alina-macneal-jennifer-hook/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: National Be Nasty Day & International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956    Passcode: 704102 \nMarch 8th is National Be Nasty Day and International Women’s Day. \nIt reminded me of an event we did 2017 when “Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse” edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane came out. It is an excellent anthology\, and the event was lots of fun\, as women responded to Donald Trump’s comment that Hillary Clinton was a Nasty Woman. \n“Like beauty\, “nasty” is in the eye of the beholder… The call for poems made it clear that we were looking for broader—and more varied—perspectives on women’s experience. Women poets have always been resisting\, reclaiming\, and reinventing—sometimes subtly\, sometimes more overtly. To my mind\, any refusal to allow others to define what it means to be a woman is a kind of resistance.” – Grace Bauer \nPoets respond in this spirit\, in the second year of the pandemic. \nContributors in anthology include: \nEmily Batemon \nAja Beech \nWendy Blaxland \nEve Chilali \nMinna Duchovnay \nSuzanne Eaton \nRUNETT EBO \nSophia Falco \nChristine Ferrari Strickland \nHanoch guy \nRachel Haas-Gutin \nDolores Hayden \nEmiliann Lorenzen \nJerri Ketcham McDermott \nEmily Rose Miller \nLiz Minette \nClaire Nolan \nIsabella Piacentino \nKate Potter \nSusanna Rich \nGeorge Schaefer \nJennifer Schneider \nLeanne Shirtliffe \nSolana Warner \nKelley White \nLinda Whittenberg \nSamantha Wright
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-national-be-nasty-day-international-womens-day/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210320T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815    Passcode: 838862 \nThe New Voices program consists of monthly readings by poets under the age of 25\, plus a bi-annual publication. Moonstone’s objective is to expand your audience\, introduce you to others who share your interest in poetry but are in different communities or go to different schools. \n  \nA Voice for Everyone \nListen\, Share\, Connect with Other Writers. \nOpen Reading Follows \n  \n  \nContributors in anthology include: \nIsabel Acosta \nJared Alicea \nColby Bellman \nMatilda Bray \nIsabel Catalan \nChina Rain Chung \nCora Clark \nMichaela Coll \nYves Marie Desir \nJoanna Flynn \nStephanie Frank \nL. J. Gallagher \nSamuel Gunther \nLindsay Hargrave \nRyan Hiemenz \nNikole Hood \nMarygrace Irvine \nDavid Jones \nBrianna Jones-Hollis \nAlexandra Marino \nMichaela Mazzeo \nIsabella McIlvaine \nAustin McLain \nShannon Montgomery \nJessica Moulder \nAudrey Movsesian \nClaire Petersen \nIsabella Piacentino \nTaleen Postian \nDani Radosh \nIsabella Rice \nRachel Rosenblatt \nAimee Schwartz \nDavi Schweizer \nVincent Sergiacomi \nMadison Starinieri \nKelly Thompson \nDuPree Walker \nHan Yang
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson\, Thomas Devaney\, Mary Madec\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \nNathalie Anderson is a poet\, librettist\, and educator based in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Her books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, Nimrod\, and Plume; and she has authored libretti for five operas.  She also manages the list-serv Lit-Philly.  A 1993 Pew Fellow\, she has taught for 39 years at Swarthmore College\, where she serves as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor in the Department of English Literature\, and directs the Program in Creative Writing. \n  \nThomas Devaney is a poet and educator based in Philadelphia. He wrote and co-director the film Bicentennial City with Green House Media (2020). Devaney is the author of Getting to Philadelphia\, Hanging Loose Press (2019) and You Are the Battery\, Black Square Editions (2019). His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019 and he is 2014 Pew Fellow. He is on the Advisory Board of Blue Stoop: A Home for Philly Writers and he teaches at Haverford College. \n  \n  \n  \nMary Madec’s most recent book The Egret Lands with News From Other Parts has been described by Medbh McGuckian as\, “extraordinary\, celebrating the\, “crazy mystery of good agony\,” in a solemn mixture of the banal and the prophetic; these are poems about poems and poets\, birds and the bible\, war and married life\, children and childhood\, insects and parents. Deeply rooted in Irish myth they explore female territories explicitly\, culminating in moving dirges for the mother figure. She has a PhD\, in Linguistics\, from the University of Pennsylvania\, a Master’s in Old English Poetry from NUI\, Galway) and two other collection from Salmon Poetry In Other Words\, 2010\, and Demeter Does Not Remember 2014\, She won the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry in 2008. \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-nathalie-anderson-thomas-devaney-mary-madec-with-larry-robin/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Love & the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956    Passcode: 704102 \n  \n \nLove & the Pandemic \nHow are you coping? \nHas isolation made you crazy? \nDo you have a love life? \nIf you have a family – Are you fighting with your love ones? \nIf you are single – what have you done for the last year? \nHow do you survive? \n69 Poets Respond \n$15 – Not All Contributors Will Be Reading \nContributors in anthology include: \nFran Abrams \nCarolyn Adams \nPrincess Ameenah \nBarbara Arzt \nJohn Balaban \nElisabeth Bass \nVincent Bell \nByron Beynon \nErica Blatt \nJulia Blumenreich \nMatilda Bray \nR. Bremner \nLawrence Bridges \nJoseph Chelius \nChristine Chesire \nPhebe Ciemny \nCraig Czury \nPheralyn Dove \nRunett Ebo \nCole Eubanks \nHugh Findlay \nEli Goldblatt \nLinda Goss \nRebecca Hartz \nChristine Higgins \nAlan Hill \nBrenda Hodges \nHalsey Hyer \nSuzan Jivan \nIrving Jones \nBea Joyner \nChris Kaiser \nDavid Kozinski \nKyle Laws \nMichael Levin \nWarren Longmire \nMarjorie Maddox \nJim McDade \nKindra McDonald \nMichael Miller \nDrew Miller \nRyan Mimna \nMarjorie Moorhead \nBonnie Neubauer \nGloria Nixon-John \nDaniel O’Hara \nKaleigh O’Keefe \nStephen Page \nRandall Potts \nGouri Prakash \nPeter Prizel \nDavid Radavich \nCharles Rammelkamp \nPaul Rousseau \nGeorge Schaefer \nJennifer Schneider \nKatherine Shehadeh \nJacalyn Shelley \nBob Small \nAshley Stahmer \nRichard Stimac \nLois Villemaire \nSkyler Walker \nKelley White \nLinda Whittenberg \nFlorence Woods \nHan Yang \nBrendan Yukins \nSarah Zale \nLarry Robin\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Steven Kleinman\, Warren C. Longmire\, Christina Rosso\, with John Wall Barger
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \nSteven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle of a Bear\, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, the Gettysburg Review\, Beloit Poetry Review\, the Iowa Review\, Oversound\, American Literary Review\, Tikkun\, and elsewhere. He is the interim director of the University of the Arts BFA in creative writing\, he is the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop\, and a contributing editor at the American Poetry Review\, where he co-hosts the podcast. Learn more at stevenkleinmanpoetry.com \n  \n  \n  \n \nWarren C Longmire is a writer\, software engineer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. His writing has been published in American Poetry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, The Painted Bride Quarterly. He is featured in the upcoming Best American Poetry anthology of 2021 and will be releasing his first full length collection through Radiator Press this year. He likes jazz\, being black\, video games and suffering. You can find his work and life on instagram at @alongmirewriter & @doubleyoulongmire respectively. \n  \n  \n  \n \nChristina Rosso lives and writes in South Philadelphia with her rescue pup\, Atticus Finch\, and bearded husband\, Alex\, where they run an independent bookstore and event space called A Novel Idea on Passyunk. She received an MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from Arcadia University in 2016. Her debut chapbook\, SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications)\, was released in May 2020. CREOLE CONJURE\, her first full-length collection\, is forthcoming from Maudlin House. Her fiction and nonfiction work centers around gender\, sexuality\, and fairy tales\, and has been nominated for Best of the Net\, Best Small Fictions\, and the Pushcart Prize. \n  \nJohn Wall Barger\, Host\, Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Lisa Alexander Baron\, Rodger Lowenthal\, Abbey J. Porter\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81679636780?pwd=S3ZQQkxqcFRPU0Y2b01HelVkemFLZz09 \nMeeting ID: 816 7963 6780  Passcode: 788513 \n \nLisa Alexander Baron is the author of four poetry collections\, including While She Poses\, poems prompted by visual art. Her poems appear in Chautauqua\, Confrontation\, Fourth River\, and Philadelphia Stories. She teaches writing and public speaking at two Philadelphia-area colleges. She hosts “Modern Plays Read Aloud” on Meetup\, which offers Open Poetry and Monologue Readings for poets and actors.  \n  \n  \n  \n \nRodger Lowenthal’s new chapbook\, fourteen\, has just be released by the Moonstone Press. He has this to say: \n“I started writing poetry when I was a freshman at Penn State. I had a pattern of finding a girlfriend and writing poetry\, until we broke up. Then I started again with a new girlfriend. \nI have been with my current “girlfriend” for 46 years\, so lots of poetry. \nTrivia: I have 5 grandchildren. More trivia: the historian Bernard Bailyn wrote about the “logic of rebellion.” Think about it.” \n  \n  \n \nAbbey J. Porter writes poetry and memoir about people and relationships\, life and loss. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte\, an MA in liberal studies from Villanova University\, and a BA in English from Gettysburg College. Abbey works in communications and lives in Cheltenham\, Pa.\, with her two beloved dogs—who help her remember to smile\, particularly during these challenging times. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-lisa-alexander-baron-rodger-lowenthal-abbey-j-porter-with-larry-robin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Mama Poets From Eastern Europe: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Luisa Muradyan\, Alina Stefanescu\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85477352895?pwd=UitzbDI1akc5eEN6Y3BNNE5CVTJIdz09 \nMeeting ID: 854 7735 2895    Passcode: 019747 \nMama Poets From Eastern Europe\, Celebrate International Women’s Day \n \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach (www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com) is the author of three poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, 2019) and finalist for the Jewish Book Award; Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize; and 40 WEEKS\, forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2023. Her recent poems appear in POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and The Nation\, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and just defended her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philly with her two kids\, two cats\, one dog\, and one husband. Books@https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GblDW6X0ARL1NLSsHTYhNQ_FrUqIZax86fw1GXR9YoI/edit \nLuisa Muradyan is originally from the Ukraine and holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Houston. She is the author of American Radiance and was the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from 2016-2018. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the 2016 Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Additionally\, Muradyan is a member of the Cheburashka Collective\, a group of women and non-binary writers from the former Soviet Union. Previous poems have appeared in Poetry International\, the Los Angeles Review\, West Branch\, Blackbird\, and Ninth Letter among others. \n  \n  \n \nAlina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham\, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook\, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series\, Nov. 2020). Her poetry collection\, dor\, won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize and is forthcoming in July 2021. Alina’s writing can be found in diverse journals\, including Prairie Schooner\, North American Review\, FLOCK\, Southern Humanities Review\, Crab Creek Review\, World Literature Review\, and others. She serves as Poetry Editor for Pidgeonholes\, Poetry Editor for Random Sample Review\, Poetry Reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly\, and Co-Director of PEN America’s Birmingham Chapter.  A finalist for the 2019 Kurt Brown AWP Prize\, Alina won the 2019 River Heron Poetry Prize. She still can’t believe (or deserve) any of this. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com. \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follow
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-mama-poets-from-eastern-europe-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach-luisa-muradyan-alina-stefanescu-with-larry-robin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 34th Street Poets
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956   Passcode: 704102 \nThe 34th Street Poets\, one of the longest-running poetry groups in the Philadelphia area (since 1992)\, meets weekly and currently comprises seven members: Alyson Shore Adler\, Deidra Greenleaf Allan\, Sandra L. Chaff\, Barbara Daniels\, Minna Duchovnay\, B.E. Kahn\, and Nina Schafer. The group includes poetry book and chapbook authors\, a Montgomery County poet laureate\, Leeway Foundation award winner\, Pushcart Prize nominee\, and recipients of grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and NJ State Council on the Arts. Works by the group have appeared in numerous print and online journals including Adirondack Review\, American Poetry Review\, The Mid-American Review\, Harrisburg Review\, Passager\, Poet Lore\, and West Branch. The 34th Street Poets are currently based at the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House. \n \nAlyson Shore Adler has 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. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSandra Chaff’s poetry has appeared in Poet Lore\, Full Bleed\, Unlocking the World: An Anthology of Found Poetry\, among other publications. Her poetic subjects these days tend towards non-human sentient beings; philosophical musings on phenomena; and – no surprise here – mortality. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nBarbara Daniels is author of Talk to the Lioness\, Black Sails\, Quinn & Marie\, and Moon Kitchen. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver\, Faultline\, and elsewhere\, and she received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.                \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMinna Canton Duchovnay left business to study Latin and translates early 16th Century Renaissance Latin love poetry.  Minna has been a featured reader in the Philadelphia area and has been published in Mad Poets Review\, Premier\, The Elixir\, and the anthology\, Embers and Flames among others. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nB.E. Kahn\, Pushcart Prize Nominee\, recipient of both a PCA and CBE grant\, among other awards. Her poems have appeared in Philadelphia Stories\, Harrisburg Review\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary and other journals. Author of 3 chapbooks\, her book\, Moon Writing to be published in 2022. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nDeidra Greenleaf Allan has been published in American Poetry Review\, Apiary\, Haibun Today.com\, Poetry Miscellany\, and Puerto del Sol\, among other journals. In 2001\, she was selected as Montgomery County Poet Laureate and has received a Leeway Emerging Artist Award and been a finalist for a Pew Fellowship in poetry. \n                   \n  \n                                          \n  \n \nNina Schafer is a member of the Lansdowne Poetry Workshop and the 34th Street Poets\, and works with many poets at The Frost Place in New Hampshire every summer. She created The Unexpected Poetry Project through which she distributes (before the pandemic-induced hiatus) 12\,000 poems a year\, one-by-one\, to unsuspecting people waiting in grocery store lines\, at the gas station\, in the elevator. The responses have been unexpected.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with Serotonin: Cynthia Arrieu-King\, Roseline Mgbodichinma\, Theresa Rodriguez\, with Sean Lynch
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815   Passcode: 838862   Phone: 646 876 9923 US (New York) \n \nCynthia Arrieu-King teaches creative writing\, literature\, and general studies. Her poetry books include People are Tiny in Paintings of China\, Manifest\, and Futureless Languages. Her poetry book Continuity is forthcoming from Octopus Books and her book of experimental memoir The Betweens is forthcoming from Noemi in 2021. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nRoseline Mgbodichinma is a Nigerian writer whose works have appeared or are forthcoming in The African writer Magazine\, West Trestle Review\, X-ray lit mag\, JFA human rights mag\, Artmosterrific & elsewhere.  In 2018\, she won the audience’s favorite award powered by Union Bank and Okadabooks for her short story\, Silence That Spoke. Her poem\, The Giant\, was published in the Poets in Nigeria (PIN) 2019 Anthology\, You can reach her on her blog at www.mgbodichi.com and Twitter @Rmgbodichinma. \n  \n  \n  \n \nTheresa Rodriguez is the author of three books of poetry: Jesus and Eros: Sonnets\, Poems and Songs (Bardsinger Books\, 2015)\, Longer Thoughts (Shanti Arts\, 2020)\, and Sonnets\, a collection of sixty-five sonnets (Shanti Arts\, 2020). Her work has appeared in such journals as The Scarlet Leaf Review\, The Wilderness House Literary Review\, Spindrift\, Mezzo Cammin\, The Road Less Traveled\, and the Society of Classical Poets Journal. Her website is http://www.bardsinger.com\, where you can view videos of her performance poetry and find information about her books. Follow Theresa on Instagram and Twitter @thesonnetqueen. \n  \n                 \n   Sean Lynch\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Nathan Antoine\, Philip Dykhouse\, Susana Praver-Pérez\, with Elijah Pringle
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n \nNathan Antoine – “I’m an introverted poet living somewhere in my mind. Although\, Charlotte\, NC is where you’ll find me. I’ve been writing poetry for over 15 years\, specializing in poetry that details our specific thoughts\, feelings\, observations\, rage or whatever comes mind. I mix current and traditional style poetry\, prose and story telling and create art from my mind\, that you feel in your soul.” \n  \n  \n \nPhilip Dykhouse lives in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. His first chapbook\, Bury Me Here\, was published by Toho Publishing in 2020. His work has appeared in Toho Journal\, Moonstone Press\, everseradio.com\, and Spiral Poetry. He was the featured reader for the Dead Bards of Philadelphia at the 2018 Philadelphia Poetry Festival. Visit his website philipdykhousepoetry.home.blog \n  \n  \n  \n \nSusana Praver-Pérez is an Oakland-based\, Pushcart nominated poet. By day\, she works as a Physician Assistant at La Clínica de la Raza. By night\, she can be found reading poetry at open mics from San Francisco to San Juan\, By nature\, she is a storyteller recounting that to which she bears witness through her poetic lens. Susana’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including two published by Moonstone Press. Her first full-length book of poetry titled: Hurricanes\, Love Affairs and Other Disasters\, will be released by Nomadic Press in mid to late 2021. \n  \nElijah Pringle\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-nathan-antoine-philip-dykhouse-susana-praver-perez-with-elijah-pringle/
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Dilruba Ahmed with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:Watch the live broadcast: \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV:  \nhttps://phillycam.org/watch2021  \n 2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nDilruba Ahmed is the author Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series\, 2020)\, with poems featured in New York Times Magazine\, The Best American Poetry 2019\, and podcasts such as The Slowdown and Poetry Unbound.  Her debut book of poetry\, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press\, 2011)\, won the Bakeless Prize.  Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and Ploughshares.  Ahmed is part of the low-residency MFA faculty at Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers and Chatham University’s MFA Program.  She also teaches with Hugo House and The Writing Lab. Website: www.dilrubaahmed.com/ \n  \n“In Bring Now the Angels\, Dilruba Ahmed sings a complex song of loss: loss of a father\, loss of a culture\, and loss of country\, both the original country and the one in which one is raised. In tightly-wound lyrics\, Ahmed questions what it is to live in this present moment where loss seems to build almost hourly. With stringent rhetoric and beautiful imagery\, Ahmed shows us what it means to be ‘[c]aught between one world / and the next . . .’”—C. Dale Young \n  \n“There are books of poetry whose service approaches public ritual of private feeling\, Dilruba Ahmed’s Bring Now the Angels is one of those books. It is a prayer to see more clearly one’s grief and one’s relationship to the vibrancy and complexity of parents and children and the natural world. This is a book that asks about neglect and regret in order to understand how we might care for the living and the dead. What a healing collection of poems Ahmed has given us.” —Patrick Rosal \n  \n“Dilruba Ahmed’s luminous second book of poems\, Bring Now the Angels\, considers layered relationships and identities: adults to parents and children; bystanders as public witnesses; humans to angels\, to water\, or bureaucracy — or\, as in ‘Zodiac\,’ to the self.” —Naomi Shihab Nye\, New York Times Magazine \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Martín Espada\, Afaa Weaver\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815    Passcode: 838862 \nMartín Espada\nCelebrating his new book Floaters: Poems\nAutographed copies for $26.95 available at our website www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nMartín Espada is celebrating his new book Floaters: Poems ($26.95\, W. W. Norton & Company\, 978-0393541038). \n“Vintage Espada―essential\, topical\, political\, irrepressible; in his poems\, mercy acquires muscle and close attention confers value―reminding us that protest and praise rise from the same source. Such eloquence in comradeship\, elegy and homage to those who lit the path\, and\, oh\, a fresh bounty of love poems\, written ‘not in lust but in astonishment.'” — Eleanor Wilner \nFloaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria\, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande\, and allegations posted in the “I’m 10-15” Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked.  \nEspada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago\, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love―even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. \nMartín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn\, he now lives in western Massachusetts. \n \n  \nAfaa M. Weaver (尉雅風) \n“Afaa Michael Weaver reaffirms the value and necessity of a worker’s poetics in his latest collection\, Spirit Boxing. Here\, work is not celebrated for its own sake or merely derided as drudgery but is considered as a primary source of hardship\, solidarity\, pain\, pride\, and joy.”  —the Literary Review \nBorn in 1951 in Baltimore\, Maryland\, he spent fifteen years (1970-85) working in factories and developing himself as a poet\, editor\, and free-lance journalist. Near the end of that period\, he received a 1985 NEA in poetry. He has published fifteen books of poetry\, the most recent of which is Spirit Boxing. From 1997 to 2001\, he was the editor of Obsidian III. His awards include the 1993 PDI playwriting award\, multiple Pushcarts\, a 2002 Fulbright at National Taiwan University\, the Beijing Writers’ Gold Friendship medal in 2005\, the 2014 Kingsley Tufts\, the 2015 Phyllis Wheatley award\, and a 2017 Guggenheim. In 2019\, Afaa was given two lifetime achievement awards\, from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston and in Taiwan the 96th National Medal in Art & Literature. His poetry has been translated into Arabic and Chinese. Afaa is a lifelong student of Chinese language and culture. In 2017\, he retired from Simmons U\, after twenty years holding the Alumnae Endowed Chair. He now teaches at Sarah Lawrence.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ahmad Almallah\, Grant Clauser\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n \nAhmad Almallah holds a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic Poetry from Indiana University Bloomington. He is currently a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania\, working on writing a book on Arabic love poetry and the ghazal. He held the position of Assistant Professor of Arabic and Arabic Literature at Middlebury College and left that position to move to Philadelphia with his wife and daughter in 2014. Since then he has found inspiration in Philadelphia to work on writing poetry and has been involved with the Arab arts and education organization\, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture\, in West Philadelphia. He is currently managing their project “Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.” \n  \n \nGrant Clauser is the author of five books\, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Cortland Review\, The Literary Review\, The Journal\, Rattle\, Southern Poetry Review and others. He was the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate\, has been a presenter at numerous writing conferences and a guest speaker at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He is a senior editor at the New York Times’ Wirecutter and teaches poetry classes at Rosemont College
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Philly Jawns: For Women Revisited\, Poetry Anthology Tribute to Nina Simone
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81841890688?pwd=TU4yZ3g2Y2hBZCtzdk1hNVBFTHRzZz09 \nMeeting ID: 818 4189 0688  Passcode: 380783 \nPHILLY JAWNS: FOR WOMEN REVISITED \n A poetry anthology in tribute to Nina Simone \n“Editors Debra Powell-Wright and Pat McLean-Smith have lovingly gathered a chorus of voices from the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection to honor Nina Simone\, the queen of Black Woman Magic\, Rage and Reckoning. These Philly jawns revisit and revive Nina’s infinite gospel. This anthology is both playlist and prayer for Ms. Simone\, our mold-breaker and future fashioner.” —Yolanda Wisher\, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2016-2017 \nWith: Annette Deigh\, Wanda Flowers\, Brenda Hodges\, Jaz\, Aziza Kebe\, Kia Knight\, Oni Lasana\, Pat McLean-Smith\, Alida Padilla\, Debra Powell-Wright\, Rahnda Rize\, Sandra Turner-Barnes\, Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon \n \nAnnette Deigh is a mother\, wife\, daughter\, sister\, friend\, child of God\, and survivor of child abuse and sexual assault\, which led her to become an “artivist\,” channeling her love of the arts and humanity into helping to heal others. \n  \n  \n  \n \nWanda Flowers Peacock has spent her life advocating for human rights\, as a teacher and as an attorney fighting discrimination in the workplace. She is focused on creating peace through interfaith activities\, exploring justice through poetic expression\, and by elevating the state of girls and women\, as a mentor. \n  \n  \n  \nBrenda Hodges is a poet and author whose work centers on telling the stories of Black\, Brown\, and Indigenous Women. She is the author of Contradictions in Shades of Blue\, a poetry collection\, and Naima The Junkman’s Daughter\, a novel. \n  \n  \n  \n \nJaz is a Performance Poet\, Singer\, Actress\, Author\, Award-Winning Poet & ASCAP songwriter\, who has performed at venues including Freedom Theater\, Temple University\, and Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church. Jaz is interested being of service to those considered to be castaways and forgotten people of the world. \n  \n  \n  \n \nAziza Kebe is an Art Activist\, Poet\, Griot\, Public Servant\, and Citizen of the World who utilizes her art form to uplift her culture\, promote Black Womanhood in a positive light\, and cultivate a consciousness  receptive to social and political change. \n  \n  \n  \nKia Knight is a poet\, singer\, songwriter\, dancer and percussionist. She has been performing in the Philadelphia area and surround area as a guest artist with In The Company of Poets and as a member of For Women Collective. \n  \n  \n  \nNish Pugh is a founding member of In The Company of Poets and The Free-Though Collective performance ensembles\, she is also founder and facilitator of spoken word venues Word4Word\, Moods in Mocha\, and TOPS–Taste of Philly S.O.U.L. \n  \n  \n  \n \nOni Lasana (Desirable Poet of The People)\, a descendant of African San peoples with roots in Barbados\, is a life-long spirit-driven poet\, storyteller\, musician\, performance and teaching artist.  As “Auntie Oni” she can be heard telling stories on ABF Creative podcast. \n  \n  \n  \n \nPat McLean-Smith is a poet and teaching artist\, author of Poetry Pulls Pain and Healing Her Hurts\, author and illustrator of her children’s book Reggie Rascal. In addition\, Pat is the Founder and Director of the Tomorrow’s Girls Mentoring Program. \n  \n  \n  \n \n Alida L. Padilla aka Poetic Ali\, is a Puerto Rican woman who has loved poetry\, music and art since a young age. Poetic Ali contributes an inspired work influenced by Nina Simone’s music and voice for this collection. \n  \n  \n  \n \nDebra Powell-Wright serves as lead strategist of social justice artist advocacy collective\, SistahWrites!\, founder of the multi-genre performance ensemble\, For Women Collective\,  and a founding member of Philly’s first female spoken word ensemble\, In The Company of Poets. Her work can be found in Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees\, Imaging the Black Female Body: Reconciling Image in Print and Visual Culture\, Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander\, The Pierian: Albany State University Literary Journal. \n  \n \nRahnda Rize is a singer/songwriter\, actor dancer and poet as well as an arts facilitator\, event organizer/host\, and an art for social change agent who advocates for the self esteem\, well-being and representation of Black women and girls. \n  \n  \n  \n \nSandra Turner-Barnes is a Poet\, Author\, Historian\, and Workshop Presenter\, author of Beyond the Back of the Bus\, But\, Mostly Love\, and a CD\, September Will Never Be the Same. She is a Trustee of the Camden County Historical Society; founding member of the New Jersey Black Cultural & Heritage Initiative Foundation; and the first African American woman appointed Executive Director of the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission. \n  \n  \nKimmika Williams Witherspoon is an Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement at Temple University. She is the author of Through Smiles and Tears: The History of African American Theater (From Kemet to the Americas); The Secret Messages in African American Theater: Hidden Meaning Embedded in Public Discourse. Her scholarly work centers around pedagogy\, women’s issues\, the African diaspora\, performance rituals and community engagement. \n  \n  \nHost: Ewuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, publisher\, international social justice activist and anti-oppression educator.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-philly-jawns-for-women-revisited-poetry-anthology-tribute-to-nina-simone/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets\, Rose-Marie Athiley\, Colby Bellman\, Wes Mathews\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815   Passcode: 838862 \nNew Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. \n \nRose-Marie Athiley (she/hers) is a senior at Hamline University in Saint Paul\, MN\, where she studies English and Communications. She moved to the United States in 2006 and through learning her third language found the art of the pen and word. Her love for poetry has found itself in her academic essays and newspaper articles. Rose-Marie uses her poems and essays to foster empathy and understanding. Her most recent publication was in 22 Under 22: Young People Speak!\, an anthology of fiction\, essay\, and poetry by 22 people under the age of 22. \n  \n  \n  \n \nColby Bellman is more than just your typical “average person.” His whacky personality always shines amongst the crowd\, and he tries to incorporate that “shine” in all of his projects. He’s perusing a Film & Media Arts degree at Temple University while also obtaining an English minor and an acting certificate. Colby enjoys writing of all kinds and aims to entertain his readers by taking them on a journey into his bizarre (but creative) mind. \n  \n  \n  \n \nWes Mathews is currently at the University of Pennsylvania. As Philadelphia’s Youth Poet Laureate (2018/2019) he held workshops for elementary–school students across the city in hopes of fostering that same foundation he had. “Having a foundation in poetry as a child will sustain you for life…you experience so much internal freedom\, and it’s kind of hard to let go of that feeling.” Without forcing any definitions on students\, he gave them the opportunity to think more about how they personally experienced their world. Matthews\, a two-time Brave New Voices competitor\, was a speaker at the 2016 TEDx in Detroit. A winner of the 2018 Philly Slam League All-Star Poetry Slam\, he has published in the Detroit Free Press\, Eunoia Review\, Dreginald Magazine\, and elsewhere. “Poetry is an open field\, It allows you to exercise your imagination and creative freedom and intuition…” \nLarry Robin\, Host. Open Reading Follows.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-for-new-voices-emerging-poets-rose-marie-athiley-colby-bellman-wes-mathews-with-larry-robin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Samantha Barrow\, Lisa Grunberger\, Jane Ellen Ibur\, with Aaren Perry
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737   Passcode: 678146   Phone: 1-646 876 9923 US (New York) \n \nSamantha Barrow is director of the Humanities in Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York\, and teaching in the Program of Narrative Medicine at Columbia. Spoken word poet\, performance artist and educator. Author of ‘GRIT’\, ‘tender membrane’\, ‘Jelly’ and ‘Chap’. Her poetry\, prose\, reviews and interviews have been published in places such as Off Our Backs\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, The Philadelphia City Paper\, Lesbian Nation and Feminist Review. \n  \n  \nLisa Grunberger is the author of three books: Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins\, 2009) and two poetry books: Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) and I am dirty (Moonstone Press\, First Prize Winner). A Pushcart nominee and Temple University Professor\, her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York Times\, Hanging Loose Press\, Crab Orchard Review\, Krytyka Literacka and The Mom Egg Review.   She teaches Narrative Medicine and Yoga and Writing at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.  Her play about motherhood\, infertility\, and assisted reproductive technologies\, Almost Pregnant\, is currently under artistic development at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre company in NYC.  When she’s not being a mom\, a professor and a poet\, she teaches Yoga and Writing Workshops at The Healing Arts Center in Philadelphia. \n  \n \nJane Ellen Ibur\, Poet Laureate of St Louis\, Missouri\, an established arts educator\, received a Visionary Award for Outstanding Arts Educator; recognized as a Warrior Poet from Word in Motion; two awards from the Missouri Scholar’s Academy\, A World of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Honored with an Author Recognition Award by the Missouri Center for the Book\, she is published in literary journals and anthologies since 1972 garnering numerous additional awards. She is the author of Both Wings Flappin’\, Still Not Flyin’ and The Little Mrs./Misses both published by PenUltimate Press.  For further details\, visit Ibur’s Wikipedia page. \nAaren Perry\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-samantha-barrow-lisa-grunberger-jane-ellen-ibur-with-aaren-perry/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Hermond Palmer\, Cherise A. Pollard\, Leena Taylor\, with Sean Hanahan
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737   Passcode: 678146   Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \n \nHermond Palmer is a poet\, author and song writer who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem\, Philadelphia\, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. He has a Chapbook of Love poems entitled Aquarian Love Poems forthcoming from Moonstone Publishing in 2021 and he is currently wrapping up his first book of fiction\, entitled Road Kings. \n  \n  \n \nCherise A. Pollard\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at West Chester University of PA.  A Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow\, Pollard was awarded a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work has a in several journals including 5 AM\, Affilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work\, African American Review\, Connotations Press\, The Healing Muse\, The Mom Egg\, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, PoemMemoirStory\, and Rattle. Her poem\, “Sugar Babe” was a Finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Outsiders\, was chosen by C.M. Burroughs as the winner of the 2015 Susan K. Collins/Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Midwest Writing Center. \n  \n \nLeena Taylor spent her formative years in northeast Philadelphia. Leena exists at the crossroads of multiple sometimes conflicting cultures. Her poetry is an expression of a women that is often overlooked in America she is black she is Muslim she is women in a place that can hardly understand the nuances of one of those identities. As a caregiver\, Leena loves amplifying the voice of those othered by society and writes with the intention of giving a home to women who are often omitted from the narrative of America. Her debut chapbook is available at https://www.tohopub.com/product-page/they-shot-anyway. \n  \n  \nSean Hanahan\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-hermond-palmer-cherise-a-pollard-leena-taylor-with-sean-hanahan/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210206T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with Serotonin: Lexi Locket\, Warren Longmire\, Basil Wright\, with Sean Lynch
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815  Passcode: 838862 – Phone:  1-646 876 9923 US (New York) \nLexi Locket is a creative in Phoenix\, AZ. She enjoys the art of storytelling through poetry\, prose\, music\, and performance art. When not creating\, Lexi works as a music therapist in the mental health field. Lexi also enjoys playing roller derby\, spending time with her family and friends\, and raising her fur babies. She self-published her first chapbook\, ‘The After Life’\, in the fall of 2019\, and has been featured in Tealight Press and has work forthcoming in the All Female Menu Zine. She can be found on Twitter @punkiepie394 and on Instagram @poetrywithlexi \n  \n  \nWarren Longmire is the co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective and the former Director of Poetry Events for Blue Stoop. He’s been published in journals including American Poetry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Graviton and The Painted Bride Quarterly. He is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology and will release his first full collection with Radiator Press this fall. You can find his writings\, musings and selfies on instagram @alongmirewriter. \n  \n  \nBasil Wright is a Black and Indigenous autistic queer writer that lives in Florida with their sibling. Their work has appeared in Perhappened Mag\, The Daily Drunk Mag\, and Disability Madison’s Black and Disabled Virtual Showcase. \n  \n  \n  \n                                                Sean Lynch\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-in-collaboration-with-serotonin-lexi-locket-warren-longmire-basil-wright-with-sean-lynch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210203T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: James Feichthaler\, Anthony Palma\, Mbarek Sryfi\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 – Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \nJames Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in One Art\, Sortes\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE\, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times\, was recently published by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk\, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia. “With its controversial take on politics\, recent events\, and all things Americana\, James Feichthaler’s epic poem The Rise of the COVFEFE addresses the seriousness of these divided times with a brutal honesty and sharp humor\, and the dark undertones that haunt its stanzas speak to the frail uncertainty of a society unhinged.” \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while addressing issues of social justice\, identity\, and existence. His work has appeared in publications such as Rue Scribe\, Oddball Magazine\, and the Show Us Your Papers Anthology. His debut collection of poetry\, flashes of light from the deep (Parnilis Media)\, is now available on Amazon. Be sure to look him up on social media at anthonypalmapoetry \nMbarek Sryfi is a lecturer in foreign languages and Arabic language Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been widely published in many journals and magazines\, and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya\, Banipal\, CEELAN Review\, Metamorphoses\, Middle Eastern Literatures\, The Journal of North African Studies\, Translation Review\, World Literature Today\, and has contributed to A New Divan— a lyrical dialogue between East & West\, among others. Sryfi has co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film\, co-translated four books\, The Monarch of the Square\, The Arabs and the Art of Storytelling\, The Elusive Fox\, The Blueness of the Evening\, and published two poetry collections\, The Trace of a Smile and City Poems. \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-james-feichthaler-anthony-palma-mbarek-sryfi-with-larry-robin/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Norma Ketzis Bernstock\, Sean Hanrahan\, and Elaine Terranova\, with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia.\n  \n2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \nWriting During the Pandemic \nHow have writers coped? Have they producd more or less? How has it effected what they write about? Their insights\, observations\, fears\, hopes. \n  \nNorma 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.) \nSean 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 \n  \nElaine 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. \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-norma-ketzis-bernstock-sean-hanrahan-and-elaine-terranova-with-charles-s-carr/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210131T140000
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SUMMARY:It Can't Happen Here Reading
DESCRIPTION:Reflections on January 6\, 2021\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956  Passcode: 704102 – Phone +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \nOn 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. \n$15 – Not All Contributors Will Be Reading
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CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: F. X. Baird & Liz Chang\, with Alina McNeal and Jennifer Hook
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737  Passcode: 678146 Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \nF. 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. \nLiz 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. \nBaird and Chang were inaugural members of the Lansdale Workshop Group\, founded in 2010 and sponsored by the Montgomery County Poet Laureate program. \nAlina McNeal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts \nOpen reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-f-x-baird-liz-chang-with-alina-mcneal-and-jennifer-hook/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210124T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 2020 Featured Poets
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09\nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956  Passcode: 704102  Phone: +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \nEach 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\nwith 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. 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: F. X. Baird\, Steve Burke\, and Charles S. Carr\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737  Passcode: 678146  Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \nF. 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. \nSteve 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.” \nCharles 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. \nLarry Robin\, Host \nOpen reading follows
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