BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Moonstone Arts Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Moonstone Arts Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Moonstone Arts Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190423T175540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190514T150729Z UID:13669-1558274400-1558274400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Remembering Walt Whitman DESCRIPTION:Event Cancelled URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-walt-whitman/ LOCATION:McGillin’s Olde Ale House\, 1310 Drury st. second floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190416T182630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190416T182630Z UID:13609-1557946800-1557946800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Poetry and Humor DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 15\, 2019 – 7pm\nPoetry and Humor\nWith Eileen D’Angelo  & James Feichthaler \n  \nEileen D’Angelo\, a paralegal by day and a mad poet at night\, has been nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts and was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Eileen has been the Director of the Mad Poets Society since 1987 and has coordinated over 1\,500 special events\, including poetry readings\, ongoing monthly series\, competitions\, workshops\, festivals\, conferences\, student events and more\, approximately 70 to 80 poetry readings per year since 1990.  She has served as Editor of the Mad Poets Review since the first issue in 1990\, and was a Contributing Editor for the literary journal\, HELLAS\, A Journal of Arts and Humanities. \n  \nJames Feichthaler’s poetry has appeared in print and online journals in both the US and UK. His poems are truthful odes to his imagination\, which he calls “the lunatic disciple of his existence.” The self-proclaimed “forrealist poet” is the host of an open mic reading series called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia\, which is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk\, PA.  You can follow James’s poetic exploits on Twitter at @forrealist_poet and keep up with the The Dead Bards of Philadelphia on Facebook and Instagram \n  \nAaren Perry Host\, Open Reading follows \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-and-humor/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190416T182025Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190416T182025Z UID:13601-1557342000-1557342000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Sojourner Ahebee\, Michele Belluomini & Elizabeth Bodien DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 8\, 2019 – 7pm\nSojourner Ahebee\,\nMichele Belluomini\n& Elizabeth Bodien \nSojourner Ahebee is the author of Reporting from the Belly of the Night\, writes stories about African diaspora identities and the eternal question of home and belonging. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic\, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day)\, Muzzle Magazine\, For Harriet\, Winter Tangerine Review\, Apiary Magazine and elsewhere.  In 2013 she served as a National Student Poet\, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. Sojourner was invited to the White House by former First Lady\, Michelle Obama\, to garner her award. Sojourner believes not in the boat that floated her here but what she’ll do with the water.   \n  \nMichele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry\, Philadelphia Poets\, Beltway\, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appearedin various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers\, also published by Plan B Press. She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia \n  \n  \nElizabeth Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood\, Metal\, Fiber\, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours as well as four chapbooks\, all written since she retired from teaching at Northampton Community College. She is also the author of the spiritual memoir Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology\, consciousness studies\, religions\, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan\, an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon\, a childbirth instructor in West Africa\, and as a professor of anthropology. Her poems\, essays\, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals including: Cimarron Review\, Crannóg\, and Parabola  Bodien grew up in the “burned-over” district of western New York but now lives near Hawk Mountain\, Pennsylvania. \nPhoto by Elaine Zelker\, LLC URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/sojourner-ahebee-michele-belluomini-elizabeth-bodien/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190416T181039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190416T181039Z UID:13593-1557253800-1557253800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n699 Ranstead Street\nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967\nor Verizon FIOS 29/30\nin Philadelphia.\n  \n2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM \nThere are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form\, ethnic background\, age\, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. \n  \nTuesday May 7\, 2019 -6:30pm\nWhitman at 200: Art and Democracy \n  \nMay 31\, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman\, who spent the last decades of his life in Camden\, NJ\, a short ferry ride from Philadelphia. Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy is being planned as an exploration of the relevance of the poet’s life and words for a contemporary audience through a region-wide program of cultural events. One vital component of Whitman’s writings\, his poetics of nature\, views man on a continuum with the natural world: both of it and able to appreciate it for itself and for its spiritual dimension. For Whitman\, the “Nature-element” is essential to our Democracy and “really underlie[s] the whole politics\, sanity\, religion and art of the New World.” \n  \nPartners & Performers \nHomer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia whose work is presented as installation\, performance art\, public art\, video and audio. Mr. Jackson has received support for his work from the Rockefeller Foundation\, Pew Fellowships in the Arts\, Civitella Rainieri Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, National Endowment for the Arts\, The Playwrights Center and Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art. Homer Jackson serves as the director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. \n  \n  \nJarboe (she/he) is a cabaret artist\, director\, writer\, historian\, and host serving you revolution\, herstory\, queer community making\, and a whole lot of glitter.  Going back to the interdisciplinary roots of cabaret\, Jarboe is transforming opera\, and live performance from her home in Philadelphia\, making work that is insistent on its liveness and interactivity\, work that will make you sing\, dance\, clap and question.  Jarboe has created work with and for Opera Philadelphia\, The Philadelphia Museum of Art\, The Barnes Foundation\, The Wilma Theater\, The Kimmel Center\, FringeArts among others. \n  \nAndrew Nurkin is the Deputy Director for Enrichment and Civic Engagement at the Free Library of Philadelphia\, where he directs humanities and civic programs across the library’s fifty-four locations. His poems have appeared in The Believer\, Cimarron Review\, North American Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, FIELD\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, and elsewhere. He was a 2016 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and holds his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. \nHost: Charles S. Carr \nMoonstone Arts Center Office \n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, \n(215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/whitman-at-200-art-and-democracy/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190423T173302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190423T173406Z UID:13665-1557075600-1557075600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Voices: Philadelphia's Emerging Poets under 25 DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre at the Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street.\nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect. Krisann Janowitz\, Host – Open Reading follows. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-philadelphias-emerging-poets-under-25/ LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190505T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190423T174043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190423T174043Z UID:13667-1557064800-1557064800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Tina Barr and Elaine Terranova DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\, Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sanson Street.\nTina Barr is author of Green Target\, Kaleidoscope\, The Gathering Eye\, and 3 chapbooks\, all winners of chapbook contests. She lives in a cabin on the side of a mountain\, in Black Mountain\, North Carolina. Elaine Terranova has published seven collections of poetry\, most recently\, Perdido. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, her prose and prose poems have appeared in Boulevard\, Hotel Amerika\, South Loop Review\, Storm Cellar\, Mom Egg Review\, and Per Contra. Awards include a Pushcart Prize\, an NEA\, and a Pew Fellowship. Larry Robin\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-tina-barr-and-elaine-terranova/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190416T175127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T200738Z UID:13587-1556737200-1556737200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Labor Day with Octavia McBride-Ahebee & Anthony Palma DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 1\, 2019 – 7pm\nLabor Day\nwith Octavia McBride-Ahebee\n& Anthony Palma\n  \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee’s poetry is informed by the convergence of cultures and the many ways people move throughout the world. Her work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Rigorous\, For Harriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\,  Yellow Medicine\, Badilisha Poetry Exchange\,  South Philly Fiction\, Blackberry Magazine\,  International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas and the Beloit Poetry Journal.  McBride-Ahebee’s poetry collections include Assuming and Where My Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers. \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while dealing with topics of social justice. His readings blend poetry with elements of performance and music. His work has appeared in Whirlwind Magazine\, Oddball Magazine\, and Harbinger Asylum\, among others. He teaches writing at several universities in the Greater Philadelphia area and resides in West Chester PA with his wife and family.\n \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host\, Open Reading follows \n  \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nfollow/like us on facebook URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/13587/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190328T175630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T175630Z UID:13483-1556470800-1556470800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Voices Volume One: Book Release DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 28\, 2019 – 5pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre\nat the Drake\,\n302 S. Hicks Street \nNew Voices VolumeOne: Philadelphia Emerging Poets\nunder 25 – Book Release\nReadings by emerging poets who have been published in Moonstone’s latest book. \nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect \nKrisann Janowitz\, Host – Open Reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-volume-one-book-release/ LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190328T174027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T174059Z UID:13480-1556132400-1556132400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Human Animals with Grady Chambers & David Ebenbach DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s\, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor)\nWednesday April 24\, 2019 – 7pm\nHuman Animals:\nPoems of body\, praise\, and place\nwith\nGrady Chambers & David Ebenbach\n  \nGrady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions\, 2018) selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories are forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online\, Boulevard\, Joyland\, and Quarterly West\, and recent work has appeared in The Paris Review; The Iowa Review; Nashville Review; The Adroit Journal\, and elsewhere. Grady was born and raised in Chicago. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, and lives in Philadelphia. \n  \n  \n \n  \nDavid Ebenbach\, born and raised in West Philadelphia\, is the author of seven books of poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction\, including his new poetry collection Some Unimaginable Animal. His books have won such awards as the Juniper Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize\, among others. He now lives with his family in Washington\, DC\, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com. \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-human-animals-with-grady-chambers-david-ebenbach/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190328T173420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T173420Z UID:13478-1555527600-1555527600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Ditta Baron Hoeber\, Louisa Schnaithmann DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday April 17\, 2019 – 7pm\n\nDitta Baron Hoeber\,\nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach\,\nLouisa Schnsaithmann\n  \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother\, winner of the Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, Sept. 2019) as well as the chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press\, 2014). Her poems appear in POETRY\, Nashville Review\, TriQuarterly\, and Waxwing\, among others. Julia is the Editor of Construction Magazine (www.constructionlitmag.com) and writes a blog about motherhood (https://otherwomendonttellyou.wordpress.com/). \n  \n \nDitta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her recent poetry publications have been in Contemporary American Voices\, the American Journal of Poetry\, the American Poetry Review\, Construction Magazine\, New American Writing\, Window Cat and Per Contra along with a suite of her photographs.  In 2018 she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nLouisa Schnaithmann is a poet living and writing in Philadelphia\, PA. Her work has been or will be published in Menacing Hedge\, Projector Magazine\, and Rogue Agent. She generally writes about nature\, memories from her childhood\, and women who deserved\n \n \n  \n  \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach-ditta-baron-hoeber-louisa-schnaithmann/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190328T172751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T172751Z UID:13474-1555250400-1555250400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Moonstone Chapbooks Release Event DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nSunday April 14\, 2019 – 2pm\nNew Moonstone Chapbooks\nRelease Event\n  \nChidi Ezeobi – Remind the World: Poems from Prison \nChidi E.O. Ezeobi was born in Nigeria. He obtained early education in Negeria. He attended Augata High School\, Augata\, Anambra State\, Nigeria. Chidi Ezeobi migrated to the United States in 1996. He later obtained his AAS in business administration at Kingsborough Community College\, New York\, and his BSC in professional law at Medgar Evers College in New York. Chidi Ezeobi is currently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Insistution in Fairtown\, New Jersey. $10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-16-5 \n  \nJack Isreal – Sorry for Fire \nJack Israel has published poems in various places over the years\, including American Poetry Review\, the Beloit Poetry Journal\, Cortland Review\, Cleaver\, River City and others. He’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received a grant from the PA Council on the Arts and is half the blogging team of Yaakov Murchadha. He lives in Berwyn\, PA with his wife\, Lynn. \n$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-17-2 \n  \n  \nZack Marshall – City Valhalla \nCity Valhalla is an exploration not just of Philadelphia City Hall’s outside appearance\, but an excavation of the staggering memories that breathe within its history. \n“The narrative structure lulls the reader into a false sense of security before yanking them down the rabbit hole of poetic surrealism.” – Jay Rollins \n$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-18-9 \n  \n  \nJacob Russell – A Serial Poem \nJacob Russell is a visual artist\, poet\, novelist\, street medic/activist\, who prefers they/them for pronouns. They have published three chapbooks and have four MSS books of poetry currently in circulation. Jacob’s novel\, Ari Figue’s Cat\, was published by Deep Sett Press. \nPhotos of Jacob’s art are posted on their blog\, Jacob Russell’s Magic Names. \n$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-19-6 \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-moonstone-chapbooks-release-event/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190328T171242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T171242Z UID:13471-1554922800-1554922800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Susan Gerardi Bello & Kathleen Mulholland DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday April 10\, 2019 – 7pm\n\nSusan Gerardi Bello &\nKathleen Mullholland\n  \nSusan Gerardi Bello lives with her husband and son in Bucks County\, PA.  She is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative in Princeton\, NJ\, and\, for three years\, served as selecting editor for their journal U.S. 1 Worksheets. She currently co-hosts with Kathleen Mullholland the Bucks County Bards monthly poetry series at The Newtown Library Company.  She has been published in numerous journals in print and online\, including Mom Egg Review\, New Verse News\, Patterson Literary Review\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Susan’s first full-length poetry manuscript “Through the Oak Tree” is under contract with Kelsay Books. \n  \nKathleen Mulholland writes to understand her place in this world. Under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Bursk\, she placed runner-up four times in the Bucks County Poet Laureate search. She’s been published in The Bucks County Writer\, MadPoets Review\, and US1 Worksheets. She won an honorable mention in the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize (2008)\, and won the 2016 Bucks County Muse Award. Kathleen founded/hosts the Newtown Library Poetry Series.  She considers herself blessed to have so many talented writers in the community who inspire and shape her poetry. \n \n \n  \nDave Worrell\, Host\, Open Reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-susan-gerardi-bello-kathleen-mulholland/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190312T201837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190328T163927Z UID:13410-1554656400-1554656400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Veronica Nocella & Katbug Stanshine: New Voices DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street \n\n  \n\nNew Voices:\nPhiladelphia’s Emerging Poets \nSunday April 7\, 2019 – 5pm\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nVeronica Nocella is a short poet with a big mouth hailing from Philadelphia\, PA. They have been writing poetry since their freshman year of high school and was a member of Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) since they were 15. In 2015\, they represented PYPM at Brave New Voices\, taking the international championship\, in2018\, they were a member of Temple University’s CUPSI team. Their work can be found in Apiary’s 9th Issue\, Sanctuary\, and in Bryn Mawr’s Literary Magazine Nimbus. Veronica is an events coordinator for BABEL\, Temple’s only spoken word poetry collective\, and is the Youth Editor and Ambassador for Apiary’s Tenth Issue\, Apiary X. Their work focuses primarily on queerness and mental health. In their free time they can be found starting trouble\, telling their mom they love her\, and forgetting to practice piano. \n  \nKatbug Stanshine is a trans woman studying creative writing at Temple University. Through poetry she explores the spaces where trauma and mental illness meet the body\, and how to find agency within them. She is the co-event coordinator for Babel Poetry Collective and owns three swords. Her work has previously been featured on Punch Drunk Press\, and she can be found posting too much on twitter: @mydadisold or instagram: @wheelyshoes \n  \nJoin us each month for readings on the third Sunday \nby emerging poets with a focus on poets between 18 and 25 \nWe also host a program that focuses on poets under 18 on the fourth Tuesday at 4pm \nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect with Other Writers \n  \nHost: Krisann Janowitz\, an open reading follows the featured poets \n  \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/veronica-nocella-katbug-stanshine-new-voices/ LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190321T185623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T185623Z UID:13457-1554645600-1554645600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Philadelphia Says Black Lives Have Always Mattered Book Release ($10) DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 7\, 2019 – 2pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nPhiladelphia Says: Black Lives Have Always Mattered\nBook Release\n“Black Lives Matter is not a new revelation but a continuation of the black social gospel proclaimed by Ricahrd Allen\, Adam Powell Sr.\, Marcus Garvey\, Malcolm X\, Martin Luther King Jr\, and many others. To value black life is part of our legacy\, in a very real sense the reason we will never be defeated is that at the very core of our existence is the firm belief and understanding that Black Lives Have Always Mattered.” -Bob Law \nBook – $10 URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philadelphia-says-black-lives-have-always-mattered-book-release-10/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190325T183918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190327T161732Z UID:13463-1554318000-1554325200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave\, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee DESCRIPTION:Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia\, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit\, a literary magazine about class\, work\, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows\, Apiary\, and Mad House magazines. \nFae Aspen Gehringer is the author of “I Love You It Looks Like Rain” (Be About It Press 2017) and “I Don’t Write About Race” the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms’s 2017 Mainline contest\, an Entropy Best Poetry Book of 2018\, and debuted as the number one LGBT new release on Amazon. \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee’s poetry is informed by the convergence of cultures and the many ways people move throughout the world. Her work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Rigorous\, For Harriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\,  Yellow Medicine\, Badilisha Poetry Exchange\,  South Philly Fiction\, Blackberry Magazine\,  International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas and the Beloit Poetry Journal.  McBride-Ahebee’s poetry collections include Assuming Voices (Lit Pot Press) and Where My Birthmark Dances (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry chapbook\, Praise Songfor the Gravediggers\, was released in January 2019.  https://omcbrideahebee.squarespace.com/ \nSean Lynch\, Host\, Open Reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-patrick-belgrave-fae-aspen-gehringer-octavia-mcbride-ahebee/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190321T182830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T182830Z UID:13453-1554229800-1554229800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Walt Whitman @ 200: Art and Democracy - the organizers DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n699 Ranstead Street\nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30\nin Philadelphia.\n\n2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM\nThere are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form\, ethnic background\, age\, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. \n \nTuesday April 2\, 2019 -6:30pm\nWalt Whitman – Part 1\n\n \nSince 1995\, Lynne Farrington has been a curator in Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library\, now part of the Kislak Center\, where she works closely with faculty\, students\, and other researchers\, makes acquisitions\, stewards donors\, curates exhibitions\, organizes symposia and conferences\, develops projects\, fields reference queries\, and gives presentations on the collections to classes and other interested groups.  \n  \n  \nLeonard Gontarek is the author of five books of poems\, including\, Déjà Vu Diner and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, Verse\, Poetry Northwest and The Best American Poetry\, among others. He is host of the Green Line Café Reading and Interview Series and conducts poetry workshops throughout the Philadelphia area. \n  \n  \nFrom 1986 to 2000\, Judith Tannenbaum served as Curator\, Associate Director\, and Interim Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia. In 2000\, she became the first Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum\, Providence. Since returning to Philadelphia in 2013\, she has used her broad knowledge of the visual arts\, the performing arts\, and interdisciplinary art forms to curate exhibitions and events at area institutions. \nHost\, Charles S. Carr \n  \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\,\n(215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/walt-whitman-200-art-and-democracy-the-organizers/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190312T200932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T200932Z UID:13401-1553713200-1553713200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:“Passages” with Steve Burke & Warren Longmire DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nTime\, 1315 Sansom Street (second floor)\nWednesday March 27\, 2019 – 7pm\n“Passages” with\nSteve Burke & Warren Longmire\n  \nSteve Burke is the author of After The Harvest\, published by Moonstone Press\, has read at many venues in & about Philadelphia; but is still not the master of his fate. But\,he has lived long enough to take publication & exposure over that. He worked as an obstetrical nurse for over 25 years; lives in the Mount Airy section of the city. \n  \n  \nWarren Longmire is a poet\, a performer\, an educator and expert level whistler. He is the co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective\, and is a former poetry editor for Apiary Magazine. He’s been published including Metropolary\, Eleven Eleven\, and The New Purlieu Review and in three chapbooks: Ripped Winters (Seventh Tangent 2006)\, Do.Until.True. (Two Pens and Lint 2012) and the Wyoming default (Moonstone Press 2018).\nHis first full length collection An Angry High Note Attempted and Missed: An Erased History of Bebop is due for release in the spring of 2019 through Empty Set Press. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts \n  \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nfollow/like us on facebook URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/passages-with-steve-burke-warren-longmire/ LOCATION:Time\, 1315 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190324T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190324T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190312T200341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T200341Z UID:13393-1553436000-1553436000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Thom Nickels @ Fergie's DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nSunday March 24\, 2019 – 2pm\nThom Nickels \n\nPhiladelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls ($21.95\, History Press)\nThe inside story on Woodmont Mansion\, home of Mother and Father Divine. Hear how Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple tried to take over the mansion and give Mother Divine the boot after Father Divine’s death. Listen to the sad story of Philly architect Thomas Nevell who designed Mount Pleasant\, one of the city’s most famous historic house. There’s also the story of art collector Henry P. McIIhenny and his Rittenhouse Square mansion\,  scene of many international parties with guests like Warhol and Tennessee Williams  Learn what McIIhenny had to do to win the goodwill of Philadelphia society.  \n\nLearn to Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt ($24.95 Amazon) \nThom Nickels was an intimate friend of Johnny Bobbitt’s\, the homeless guy involved in the 400k GoFundMe scam. He recorded Bobbitt’s exploits and the exploits of Bobbitt’s homeless friends over a period of one and a half years. Through newspaper columns\, interviews and diary entries\, this book provides a fast moving and gritty picture of how the heroin addicted homeless survive on the streets of Philadelphia \n \n  \n  \nThom Nickels is the author of 13 books\, including Philadelphia Architecture\, Out in History\, Two Novellas and Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love. His poetry has been published in Van Gogh’s Ear\, an anthology of new voices in prose and poetry published in Paris. He was awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1990 for his book\, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This.  He has been published by The Huffington Post\, The New Oxford Review\, Philadelphia Magazine\, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Broad Street Review. He is a columnist for PJ Media in Los Angeles\, and a weekly columnist for the Philadelphia Free Press and The Irish Edition. His essay on Agnes Repplier was the cover feature essay in the Winter issue of The American Catholic Studies Journal (Villanova University)\, 2015. \n  \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nfollow/like us on facebook URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/thom-nickels-fergies/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190312T192613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T192613Z UID:13373-1553108400-1553108400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Irish Poetry with Fergus Carey\, Sean Lynch & Mary Madec DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday March 20\, 2019 – 7pm\nIrish Poetry with\nFergus Carey\, Sean Lynch & Mary Madec\n  \nFergus Carey crawled into a bottle of whisky in the 1980s\nAnd came out in the mid 90’s smelling like roses\nFergus is a person in your neighborhood\nHe plays the role of Fergie in the city of Philadelphia \n  \n  \nSean Lynch is a working class writer and editor who lives in South Philly and survives by working in a bar. Lynch’s poetry has appeared in Chrysanthemum\, Poetry Quarterly\, (parenthetical)\, and in many other obscure journals around the world. Find out more at swlynch.com \n  \n  \nMary Madec is the author of three books of poetry\,  and editor of an award- winning anthology of poetry from people with intellectual disabilities.  She is widely published in Ireland and in 2008 won the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry. She has read at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, and at the Festival International de Poésie\, Marrakech (Spring\, 2017). She read her poem Puppet On A String as part of an interview on autism on the Ryan Turbidy Morning Show (RTÉ 1).  Mary has a wide and varied experience teaching at University level having taught literature\, linguistics and creative writing at NUI\, Galway\, Villanova\, University of Pennsylvania and The Open University in Britain.  She was twice the recipient of an Irish Arts Council participation bursary which allowed her to develop a ground-breaking program with the renowned disability program \nLarry Robin Host\, Open Reading follows \nMoonstone Arts Center Office \n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nfollow/like us on facebook URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/irish-poetry-with-fergus-carey-sean-lynch-mary-madec/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190317T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190312T194045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T194511Z UID:13386-1552842000-1552842000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Voices:Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ InterAct Theatre Company\, 302 S. Hicks Street (@ The Drake)\nNew Voices:\nPhiladelphia’s Emerging Poets\nA Voice for Everyone\nListen\, Share\, Connect with Other Writers\n\nSunday March 17\, 2019 5 pm\n\n\nJoin us each month for readings on the third Sunday by emerging poets with a focus on poets between 18 and 25\nWe also host a program that focuses on poets under 18 on the fourth Tuesday at 4pm\nHost: Krisann Janowitz\, an open reading follows the featured poets\nMoonstone Arts Center Office \n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/13386/ LOCATION:InterAct Theatre Company\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190312T191253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T191344Z UID:13375-1552503600-1552503600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Fran Baird @ Fergie's DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday March 13\, 2019 – 7pm\nFran Baird \nFran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers\, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his poem “Neshaminy\,” published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal. He currently studies with poet Leonard Gontarek as a member of the Osage Avenue Poets. As an adjunct professor he has taught social work and psychology at LaSalle University and criminal justice at West Chester University. He has been conducting a weekly and on-going poetry workshop at Phoenix (formerly Graterford) Prison for the last 2 years with long-term\, incarcerated men\, co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Literacy Project and Lifers\, Inc. In the winter edition 2017\, the Schuylkill Valley Journal published 10 poems by 5 individuals from the workshop. His first chapbook\, Painting With My Father\, has been published by Finishing Line Press. \nDave Worrell\, Host\, Open Reading follows \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, (215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nfollow/like us on facebook URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/13375/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190305T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190219T211440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T211552Z UID:13278-1551810600-1551810600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Nathalie Anderson & Cassie MacDonald: Irish Poetry DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAm  \nTuesday March 5\, 2019 -6:30pm\nIrish Poetry with Nathalie Anderson & Cassie MacDonald\n699 Ranstead Street \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM \nThere are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form\, ethnic background\, age\, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. \n  \n \nNathalie Anderson’s first book\, Following Fred Astaire\, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works; her second\, Crawlers\, received the 2005 McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; and her third\, Quiver\, was published in 2011 by Penstroke Press. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, and The Recorder. She has authored  libretti for three operas – The Black Swan; Sukey in the Dark; and an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia – all in collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman and Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia. A 1993 Pew Fellow\, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library\, and she teaches at Swarthmore College\, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in Creative Writing. \n \nCassie MacDonald serves as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House in Camden\, New Jersey where facilitates a twice-monthly writing circle\, organizes readings\, workshops and other writing arts events\, and creates neighborhood murals as part of the Poetry Liberation Front (“Poetry to the People!”) She has been a featured reader at Fergie’s\, Big Blue Marble Bookstore and Eleven One Gallery in Camden and is always game for an open mic\, even an unscheduled one on a moving train. Her chapbook\, Use Your Words\, is currently looking for a home. \nHost: Charles S. Carr \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/nathalie-anderson-cassie-macdonald-irish-poetry/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190122T185751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T184250Z UID:13175-1551294000-1551294000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem's For You\, Open Reading to follow DESCRIPTION:THIS POEM’S FOR YOU \nfeaturing…\n \n  \nSimone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today\, as a way to keep herself sane. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nDeborah Turner writes fiction and poetry\, the valve through which she allows anger\, compassion\, advice and sanity to escape into the modern world. Her early works appear in the Lavender Reader as well as in anthologies including the Body Eclectic and Letters to My Sister. \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading follows – Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/simone-allender-and-deborah-turner-this-poems-for-you/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gifts.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190225T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190219T190022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T192432Z UID:13259-1551117600-1551117600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Dagmawe Berhanu\, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices\, Open Reading to follow DESCRIPTION:Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library \n1700 S. Broad Street \nNew Voices:\nPhiladelphia’s Emerging Poets\nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect\nJoin us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25.\n\nMonday February 25\, 2019 – 6pm\n\n  \n \nDagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus\, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since 2011. He was a member of Temple University’s Babel Poetry Collective\, a student run organization that aims to support and facilitate the progression of writing and performance art\, hosting monthly writer and music workshops\, as well as showcases several times year. In August 2018\, he was a member of Philadelphia’s team at the National Poetry Slam. Some of his works can be found on YouTube via Slamfind\, as well as on Wus Good and Voicemail Poems. \n  \n  \n \nWilquan Dorsey\, also known as QUE\, is a poet from Chester\, Pennsylvania who attends Widener University studying finance. Not only does he want to help communities financially and bring financial literacy to schools\, he uses spoken word as a platform for expression and to start conversations. \n  \n  \n  \n \nTaylar Enlow is a Black creator and Philadelphia native. For her\, the act of creating is a bodily function\, as natural as breathing or bleeding; poetry is the transfiguration of blood to ink and flesh to page. The art of poetry has always been her primary medium of self expression\, and she considers words to be the extension of both her physical and spiritual beings. More than anything\, Enlow believes in the power and significance of community construction and preservation. That belief is the primary influence of all her works and endeavors. \n  \nKrisann Janowitz\, Host – Open Reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/dagmawe-berhanu-wilquan-davis-taylar-enlow-new-voices-open-reading-to-follow/ LOCATION:South Philadelphia Free Library\, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19145\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190224T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190219T201202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T201532Z UID:13269-1551016800-1551016800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:2018 Moonstone Featured Poets Book Release & Poetry Reading *See Above* DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub \n2018 Moonstone Featured Poets Anthology Book Release and Poetry Reading\nSunday\, February 24\, 2019 — 2pm \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for an afternoon of poetry and camaraderie. The 2018 Anthology of Featured Poets includes over 30 of the featured poets who read for Moonstone in 2018\, many of whom will read on February 24. Poets included in this year’s anthology are: \n\n\n Steve Burke\nJoe Costal\nLiz Chang\nAaron Graham\nBill Van Buskirk\nPeter Baroth\nAhmad Almallah\nJoe Roarty\nJohn Wojtowicz\nRyan Eckes\nW.D. Ehrhart\nAngel Hogan\nBrandon Blake \n\n\nCharlie O’Hay\nLevi Bentley\nEileen D’Angelo\nSilvino Alexander\nSydney Coffin\nSteve Nolan\nJames Feichthaler\nCatherine Bancroft\nSean Hanrahan\nChad Frame\nAntoinette Libro\nHayden Saunier\nDon Riggs \n\n\n\n\nMike Miller\nCandida Rodriguez\nThom Nichols\nJoan Roberta Ryan\nBela Aznar\nDonna Wolf-Palacio\nLamont Steptoe\nJoel Dias-Porter \nMbarek Syfri\nCharles Carr—host\nJennifer Hook—host\nSean Lynch—host\nAlina Macneal-host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/2018-moonstone-featured-poets-anthology-book-release-and-poetry-reading/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190122T184635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190219T183949Z UID:13168-1550689200-1550689200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Michelle Belluomini & Ditta Baron Hoeber Poetry\, Open Reading to follow DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nMichele Belluomini is author of Crazy Mary and Signposts for Sleepwalkers\, her poetry has been published in American Poetry\, Philadelphia Poets\, Beltway\, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary.  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nDitta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices\, the American Journal of Poetry\, the American Poetry Review\, Construction Magazine\, New American Writing\, Window Cat and Per Contra along with a suite of her photographs.  In 2018 she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading follows – Larry Robin\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-belluomini-baron-hoeber-poetry-open-reading-to-follow/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/birdo.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190122T183231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T183231Z UID:13165-1550084400-1550084400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Bondhus & Evans Poetry\, Open Reading to follow DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nCharlie Bondhus is author Divining Bones and All the Heat We Could Carry\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Missouri Review\, Columbia Journal\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Nimrod\, and Copper Nickel.  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nR.G. Evans is the author of Overtipping the Ferryman\, his poems\, fiction\, and reviews have appeared in Rattle\, The Literary Review\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Lips\, MARGIE\, The Best of Pif Magazine (Offline)\, ​and Weird Tales\, among other publications. \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading follows – Dave Worrell\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-bondhus-evans-poetry-open-reading-to-follow/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/budding.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190122T181808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T181946Z UID:13160-1549479600-1549479600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Rodriguez & Dr. Williams-Witherspoon Poetry\, Open Reading to follow DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nEdythe Rodriguez is a senior at Temple University studying Creative Writing and Africology. She will be anthologized this year in The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King\, Jr. and Anne Frank and FEMME: Literati Mixtape. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nDr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon\, PhD (Cultural Anthropology)\, MA (Anthropology)\, MFA (Theater)\, Graduate Certificate) Women’s Studies\, BA (Journalism); is an Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement. She has had over twenty-three of her plays produced. Her stage credits include thirteen productions and she is a contributing poet to twenty-six poetry anthologies. \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading follows – Sean Lynch\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-rodriguez-dr-williams-witherspoon-poetry-open-reading-to-follow/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/phillyart.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190205T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190122T180213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T180344Z UID:13154-1549391400-1549391400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Philly Loves Poetry - Interviews and Readings DESCRIPTION:2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM \nJoin us as the poets who Moonstone has published discus poetry and read their poems \n“From Across the Waters: Jewish Refugees from the Former Soviet Union.” \n\nIn the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting\, three Jewish refugee poets from the former Soviet Union read and discuss their work. They spotlight the enduring lives of their community\, as well as complexities of their identity. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of The Many Names for Mother\, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry prize\, and The Bear Who Ate the Stars. Her poems appear in POETRY\, Best New Poets\, American Poetry Review\, others. \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nOlga Livshin’s poetry\, essays\, and translations from Russian appear in Writers Resist\, the Kenyon Review\, Poetry International\, Jacket\, and others. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nNatalie Lyalin is the author of Blood Makes Me Faint\, but I Go for It\, Pink & Hot Pink Habitat\, and Try A Little Time Travel. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nHost: Charles S. Carr \n  \nTo be Broadcast Live: Comcast 66/966 & Verizon 29/30 URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-philly-loves-poetry-interviews-and-readings/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/jewish.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T090505 CREATED:20190117T204741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190122T203752Z UID:13133-1549202400-1549202400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Cuba\, 2019 - Poetry & Information DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nPresenters include:\n \n  \nSteve Halpern was a member of the UAW and has been working as a housekeeper in Philadelphia area hospitals. \n  \n  \n \n  \nEnrique Sacerio-Garí\, born in Cuba\, professor at Bryn Mawr College known for his work on Jorge Luis Borges\, and is author of Comunión (a concrete poem)\, Poemas interreales\, Para llegar a La Habana and El mercado de la memoria. \n  \n \n  \nJohn Staggs\, Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Philadelphia City Council\, a Walmart worker\, Staggs participated in the “Dairy Farm Crisis Hearing” and joined the teacher’s picket lines in West Virginia. \n  \n  \n\nInternational Volunteer Work Brigade to Cuba 2019 will take place April 21 – May 5.\nBrigade members will participate in the May Day celebration in Havana. These tours are sponsored by the Cuban organization ICAP. \nFor more information: ICanGoToCuba@nnoc.info. \nApplications are due by March 29. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-cuba-2019/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cuba.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR