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:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181118T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20181025T183135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T183135Z UID:13014-1542549600-1542560400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Krisann Janowitz & Thom Nickels DESCRIPTION:Homeless in Philadelphia \nKrisann Janowitz\, author of Home(less) began writing poetry at an early age (elementary school– if you count all the song lyrics about bubblegum). Her love for music and words has further driven her passion for poetry. \n  \n  \nThom Nickels is the author Learn To Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt and 13 other books the latest of which is Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-krisann-janowitz-thom-nickels/ 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:20181114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20181025T182615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T182615Z UID:13010-1542222000-1542232800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Barbara Siegel Carlson & Micellina & Joe McCullough DESCRIPTION:Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of two poetry collections Fire Road and Once in Every Language. She is co-translator of Look Back\, Look Ahead\, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel and is co-editor of A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives.   \n  \n  \nMicellina & Joe McCullough are a dynamic duo in the garden of mystic lovers. Their poetry is an open invitation to all creative spirits who wish to wander amongst the flowers of hope\, healing\, and joy-filled creative expression. This couple and their words are far from ordinary. Micellina and Joe’s writings have been published in Moonstone Press\, Whirlwind Magazine\, Soapbox Publishing as well as in artist Peter Kinney’s poetry art books. \n  \nDave Worrell \, host – An open mic will follow the featured readers. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-barbara-siegel-carlson-micellina-joe-mccullough/ 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:20181110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181110T230000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20181025T182228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T184408Z UID:13007-1541872800-1541890800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Sounds & Words: A Fundraiser for The Moonstone Arts Center DESCRIPTION:Sounds & Words: A Fundraiser for the Moonstone Arts Center\nwith Music\, Poetry\, Food\, Cash Bar\, Exhibits\, Book Sales \nFor 35 years\, Moonstone Arts Center has brought Philadelphia the best in the performance and publication of poetry. To support this Philadelphia treasure\, 11 poets and 2 bands will come together on one evening to remind you of why Moonstone is at the epicenter of the City’s literary scene. \nMusic with Bobby Zankel’s Wonderful Sound 4\, featuring Sumi Tonooka and Richard Hill and Elliot Levin & Friends \nPoetry by: Siduri Beckman\, Jamar Hall\, Ryan Eckes\, Jeffrey Ethan Lee\, Michelle Myers\, Joe Roarty\, Bethlehem Robertson\, Sonia Sanchez\, Kirwyn Sutherland\, Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon\, Sekai Afua Zankel \nEmcees Warren Longmire & Elijah Pringle URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/sounds-words-a-fundraiser-for-the-moonstone-arts-center/ LOCATION:1199C Hospital Workers Union Headquarters\, 1319 Locust Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Fundraiser,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181107T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20181025T181713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T181753Z UID:13002-1541617200-1541628000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Candida Rodriguez & BJ Schwartz DESCRIPTION:Candida Rodriguez grew up in Puerto Rico where she developed a passion for reading and writing. When she turned 16 years old\, she moved to Camden\, where she joined her parents and two siblings. Her passion is in writing fantasy and science fiction\, but has found a home in the lyricism of poetry and is a happy member of Brigid’s Writers House in Camden. \n  \n  \nBJ Swartz\, a retired science and medical librarian\, has been writing since elementary school in Haddonfield\, NJ.  Her first published poem\, “Mystery in the Swamp”\, appeared in a 1966 thirty years later “Ode to My Gall Bladder”\, her excuse for missing a writing class\, was published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humor. \n  \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host\, An open mic will follow the featured readers. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/13002/ 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:20181106T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181106T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20181025T181300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181025T181300Z UID:12997-1541530800-1541541600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: John Baky\, Tom Garvey & Michael Miller DESCRIPTION:John Baky (Army\, 1969-1971\, in Vietnam from 1970-1971) Baky spearheaded The Vietnam War Collection at La Salle and was specifically interested in how the trauma of the war played out in literature. \n  \n  \n  \nTom Garvey\, an Airborne\, Ranger and Special Forces qualified officer\, served as an A-Team Leader in Viet Nam in 1968 and returned home to mixed reviews about his stability and state of mind\, he authored Many Beaucoups Magics\, a novel. \n  \n  \n  \nMichael Miller is a Chester\, PA native who served 15 years in the military. A poet himself\, he wanted to focus on his diverse community and create change through the arts\, he has performed around Philadelphia and new Jersey and at the Dodge Poetry Festival. \n  \n  \n  \nHost: Charles S. Carr URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-john-baky-tom-garvey-michael-miller/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180916T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180719T202507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180719T202507Z UID:12958-1537101000-1537117200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:A Tribute to Sonia Sanchez DESCRIPTION:Sonia Sanchez is a poet\, activist\, scholar; the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University; recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and Langston Hughes Poetry Award; one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement; the author of sixteen books. We invite you to submit to this event. Submissions open from July 15\, 2018 to September 2\, 2018. Book Release Party and Reading will take place on Sunday September 16\, 2018. Submissions for the book will be open until August 17\, 2018. \n  \n12:30pm – Showing of the film BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez \n2pm – Interview with Nzadi Keita \n2:30pm – Reading by Sonia Sanchez \n2:45 – Book contributors read \n4:00pm – Book signing URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/a-tribute-to-sonia-sanchez/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180801T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180801T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180719T210438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180719T210542Z UID:12968-1533150000-1533160800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Readings by WARREN C. LONGMIRE and LEVI BENTLEY DESCRIPTION:Levi Bentley organizes the reading series Housework and edits the journal Boneless Skinless\, featuring work by Housework participants. A chapbook of poems “Bucolic Eclogue” was released from Lamehouse Press in July 2016. Levi has worked in publishing for a variety of clients including Copper Canyon\, Ugly Duckling Presse\, LUMA Foundation\, and Jacket2 reissues at Kelly Writers House. They live in Philadelphia. Chapbooks “Obstacle\, Particle\, Spectacle”\, “&parts”\, and “Stub Wilderness” were released from 89plus Luma Foundation\, Damask Press\, and Well Greased Press\, respectively. Vitrine released a tape of sounds labeled “Red Green Blue”. Poems have appeared in 491\, Apiary\, Bedfellows\, BlazeVOX\, Boog City\, Elective Affinities\, Fact-Simile\, Gigantic Sequins\, No Infinite\, Maestra Vida\, Magic Pictures\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Small Po[r]tions\, Stillwater Review\, Tinge and Truck. \nWarren C. Longmire is a Philly native\, expert level whistler\, pushcart nominee\, former poetry editor at Apiary Magazine. He’s been published in Painted Bride Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven and two chapbooks: Ripped Winters and Do.Until.True. He is currently splits his time between web programming\, midi drumming and writing tumblr poems about the limit of 1/x. You can find his writings\, essays\, videos and sounds at dountiltrue.tumblr.com and soundcloud.com/wclongmire. Follow him on Instagram. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/readings-ft-warren-c-longmire-levi-bentley/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180725T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180725T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180713T194805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T194805Z UID:12949-1532545200-1532556000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Readings by CLINTON SMITH and ELIJAH PRYOR DESCRIPTION:Elijah Pryor is a spoken word poet born and raised in Philadelphia. He feels blessed to be part of such a thriving and diverse arts scene in his home city and loves seeing people use creative expression to affect their world. \nClinton Smith is a poet\, prose writer\, and musician. As a guitarist\, he has led various jazz music configurations that play widely in the tri-state area\, and also worked with tabla player Bill Buchen in a group that focused on combining improvisational elements with various types of world music\, particularly Arabic and Indian classical music. More recently\, he has become interested in recording and performing ambient music through the layering of multiple levels of guitars\, percussion instruments\, and “field recordings”/sounds from found objects. A prolific poet\, Clint has learned his craft through extensive reading and revision and workshops with poets such as Leonard Gontarek and Peter Balakian. His work has appeared most recently in Razor Lit and Confrontation. \nHosted by Dave Worrel \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/readings-by-clinton-smith-and-elijah-pryor/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180718T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180718T220000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180713T195118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180713T195118Z UID:12951-1531940400-1531951200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:THE FUZE POETRY SLAM DESCRIPTION:Established in the Germantown neighborhood in 2008\, the Fuze poetry slam is the longest running poetry slam in Philadelphia and currently the only venue participating as a part of NPS\, the national poetry slam association of America. Over the course of the 10 years since\, the Fuze served as host and home for a litany of performance poets across Philadelphia.\n\nJoin us for an interview with venue founder Sherrod Smallman and a performance by current team members David Gaines\, Cynthia Jones\, Talia Mingley. \n\nAll proceeds go towards supplementing the teams trip to this year’s national poetry slam in Chicago\, IL. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-fuze-poetry-slam/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180624T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180624T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180615T181556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180615T181556Z UID:12929-1529848800-1529848800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:A Shadow on Our Hearts: Solider-Poetry\, Morality\, and the American War in Vietnam DESCRIPTION:The American War in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century\, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored\, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts\, Adam Gilbert rectifies these oversights by utilizing the vast body of soldier-poetry to examine the war’s core moral issues. \n“This is the real deal – the big book on soldier-poetry of the Vietnam War that we have waited a half a century to get written.” – Phillip Beidler\, author of American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam \nFive veterans who lived through the war will be doing readings of their contributions to A Shadow on Our Hearts. From  firsthand experiences\, these pieces reflect on what it meant to be witnesses\, victims\, and perpetrators of the war’s violence. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/a-shadow-on-our-hearts-solider-poetry-morality-and-the-american-war-in-vietnam/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180617T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180617T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180611T201541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180611T201652Z UID:12921-1529244000-1529254800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Philadelphia Says: Haiku DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Moonstone Arts Center & The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association \nat Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nSunday June 17\, 2018 – 2pm\nPhiladelphia Says Haiku\nCelebrating the release of \nPhiladelphia Says Haiku\,\n an Anthology of Haiku by Philadelphia Area Poets\n ($10\, The Moonstone Press) with a reading by contributors. \nPhiladelphia is home to Sonia Sanchez\, who writes a Haiku every morning and worked with Mural Arts on the Peace is a Haiku song mural\, exploring haiku as a vehicle for peace and transformation. Sonia gives herself over with deep pleasure to the exacting beauty of haiku\, a form she has cherished her entire writing life. Their brevity seems built for speed\, but their lyricism and warmth inspire lingering\, savoring\, reading\, and rereading\, perhaps aloud. African-American novelist Richard Wright\, in his final years\, composed some 4\,000 haiku\, 817 of which are collected in the volume Haiku: This Other World. Wright hewed to a 5-7-5 syllabic structure for most of these pieces. In current English language haiku\, most successful poems have fewer than fourteen syllables. \n  \nThe Nick Virgilio Writers House opened in Camden on April 28\, 2018\, in honor of the city’s second best-known poet. Virgilio was one of America’s pre-eminent writers of haiku\, known for his prolific work in the traditional Japanese short-poetry format and admired for upsetting its stringent rules. The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association was founded in 1990 to keep alive Nick Virgilio’s artistic legacy and to promote literacy and self-expression among young people through all forms of writing\, especially haiku. \nMr. Virgilio is one of the acknowledged masters who in the 60’s\, 70’s and 80’s brought the delicate art of Japanese haiku into the English language. He died January 3\, l989\, while taping a segment of Nightwatch.  At that time\, according to Cor van den Heuvel\, a Newsweek poetry editor and author of The Haiku Anthology\, Virgilio “…. was on the verge of becoming American haiku’s first celebrity.” \nA haiku in English is a very short poem\, following to a greater or lesser extent the form and style of the Japanese haiku. A typical haiku is a three-line observation about a fleeting moment involving nature. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philadelphia-says-haiku/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Philly-Haiku.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T191332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192946Z UID:12905-1527706800-1527714000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Hive Night: Open Mic\, Featured Reading DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 30\, 2018 – 7pm\nHive Night @ Fergie’s Pub\nHIVE NIGHT is Apiary Magazine’s showcase and open mic celebrating every stripe of literary artist the city has to offer. Come to hear voices from Philadelphia writing tribes old and new\, spanning Apiary’s decade-long history. Stay to share your own work in a laidback\, inclusive space\, whatever the form\, genre or mood\, to a crowd hungry for diverse voices. \nMeg Pendoley (Apiary 9) is a writer living in West Philadelphia. She is interested in queer homes (bodies\, housers\, neighborhoods)\, the boundaries they share\, and how what happens here might be recorded\, kept. Her work appears in Cleaver Magazine and on Tin House’s Open Bar. \nAlex Smith (Apiary 8) is a queer black activist\, poet\, dj\, actor\, musician\, afro punk/afro-futurist chronicler of the naughty universe. Smith’s work speaks to the edge\, to the post-fringe dystopia slowly creeping upon us. Too cantankerous and flamboyant for the Saul Williams wanna-be/def poetry set\, too tribal for academia\, Smith paints viral inscriptions for an audience of armed pixie insurrectionists. He is the founder and curator of the queer-empowered Laser Life sci-fi reading series\, where he met his co-conspirators in Metropolarity\, a sci-fi/speculative arts collective that uses the genre’s tropes for activism and transformative\, visionary art. It’s Alex’s flash fiction collection\, “Gang Stalk Oprah“\, with its lines hashed like an SAT-word injected SEPTA bus graffiti\, and self-published sci-fi zine “Ark Dust” that will kidnap you\, convert you\, shoot you in the leg and then set you free. \nLamont B. Steptoe (Apiary 4) was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is the author of fourteen collections of poetry while also serving as editor for two books by the late South African poet\, Dennis Brutus. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He’s the founder and publisher of Whirlwind Press. His latest book of poetry\, Beyond the White Stone Lions\, was published by Radical Paper Press in the summer of 2017. \n“There are places we dream\, and places\, often mass grave sits\, that dream through us- if\, like Lamont Steptoe\, we are open to the restless spirits who abide there\, denied voice in their time\, and wishing now to catch history’s ear. “Turn up the silence loud\,” he says\, and the whispering dead are heard\, as lost ancestors “call this place out of its name\,” and Philly’s Washington Square Park becomes Congo Square\, a restitution and a requiem.” Eleanor Wilner \nHosted by Warren C. Longmire and Alex Smith URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/hive-night-open-mic-featured-reading/ 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:20180523T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180523T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T185848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192850Z UID:12901-1527102000-1527109200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Featured Readers: Angel Hogan & David Kertis DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 23\, 2018 – 7pm\nAngel Hogan & David Kertis\nAngel Hogan has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival\, Literary Death Match\, Moonstone Presents\, First Person Arts and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Angel worked with ArtWell\, was a Contributing Editor to Philadelphia Stories\, and a review panelist for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. As a teaching artist\, Angel is most interested in initiatives that use storytelling as a vehicle for tolerance\, peace\, and community building. See more at: www.angelhogan.com\nPhoto by Anne Saint Peter \nDavid Kertis was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied creative writing with David Young\, and has lived in Philadelphia since 1978. He is married and works as a claims adjuster. In Philadelphia\, he has studied with Leonard Gontarek and Eleanor Wilner. He has been published on line in Frigate and Apiary and given a number of readings in the Philadelphia area. His book\, Word of the Day\, has recently been published. \nHosts\, Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\nOpen Reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/featured-readers-angel-hogan-david-kertis/ 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:20180520T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180520T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T185005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192819Z UID:12898-1526824800-1526832000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Remembering Lili Bita DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nSunday May 20\, 2018\, 2pm\nRemembering Lili Bita\nLili Bita\, of Bala Cynwyd\, author\, actress\, and pianist\, died February 12\, 2018. An artist of international acclaim and a figure in Philadelphia cultural life for more than thirty years. \nBorn Angeliki Euterpe Bita in Zakynthos\, Greece but universally known as Lili\, she published the first of her twenty-one books of poetry\, fiction\, memoir\, and translation at the age of nineteen\, a work praised by the celebrated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis for its “power and compassion.” Later admirers included Anais Nin\, who said in her preface to Lili’s verse collection\, Furies: “Her words are strong\, body and soul in balance. Her vision is direct\, unifying and complete.” Nin also noted Lili as “a full blossomed woman of beauty\,” a beauty equally evident within and without to all who knew her. \nLili received degrees from the Greek Conservatory of Music and the Athens School of Drama. She also held a Master of Arts Degree in drama\, summa cum laude\, from the University of Miami. She taught at Villanova among several American universities\, and was Artist in Residence and Cultural Affairs Coordinator at Drexel University. Lili began her stage career with leading roles from ancient drama\, Shakespeare\, Ibsen\, O’Neill\, and others. She emigrated to the United States in 1959 with her late son\, Philip Rethis. In America\, she toured with her one-woman shows\, “The Greek Woman Through the Ages\,” “Body Light\,” and “Freedom or Death\,” as well as adaptations from several of her books. With her husband and collaborator\, Robert Zaller\, she founded the Theater Cooperative in 1973\, which for nearly two decades was a fixture of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She was for three decades the cultural affairs correspondent of the Hellenic News of America\, was a longtime member of the Greek Writers Association\, and in 2014 was inducted into the oldest and most prestigious literary organization in Greece\, the Hellenic Authors Society\, in recognition of her lifetime achievements as an author\, actress\, and cultural ambassador. Her local honors included a Leeway Foundation grant\, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts award for fiction\, and the Amy Tritsch Needle and Gemini awards from Philadelphia Poets. \nAmong Lili’s score of books and half dozen plays\, her love poetry\, collected in Fleshfire\, is best known\, but she was also deeply imbued with a tragic sense of life that ran through much of her work in verse and fiction and in her two memoirs\, Sister of Darkness and The Storm Rider. Notwithstanding this\, she embraced life in all its dimensions. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-lili-bita/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Memorial,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T183840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192622Z UID:12893-1526497200-1526504400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Thinking Green with Jacob Russell\, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 16\, 2018 – 7pm\nThinking Green with \nJacob Russell\, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight\nJacob\, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name\, Jacob Russell\, they have published three chapbooks\, many poems\, and have four books of poetry searching for publishers. He is also author of the novel Ari Figue’s Cat. Since 2012\, they have been making visual art\, signed with the name on their birth certificate—Willard. In recent years\, Jacob\, Willard and Goby (their most recent go-to name) have been writing serial poems\, interconnected\, but in no particular order\, or rather—ordered to the mood of the occasion—as will be the case at this reading. \nPaul Siegell is the author of Take Out Delivery (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2018)\, as well as wild life rifle fire\, jambandbootleg and Poemergency Room. He is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly and has contributed to American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Rattle\, and many other fine journals. Kindly find more of his work – and concrete poetry t-shirts – at ReVeLeR @ eYeLeVeL (http://paulsiegell.blogspot.com) and @paulsiegell. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of The Age of Greenhouses (2016)\, Opera House Arterial (2013)\, and Sidestep Catapult (2011)\, all from BlazeVOX. Her work has appeared in diverse publications including American Writing\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, Fairies in America\, Jupiter 88\, Luna Luna\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Bedfellows. Anne-Adele’s work has received awards from Philadelphia Poets Magazine\, the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference\, and the Sandy Crimmins Poetry Competition. \nHost\, Suzan Jivan \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/thinking-green-with-jacob-russell-paul-siegell-anne-adele-wight/ 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:20180513T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180513T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T174846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192654Z UID:12881-1526220000-1526227200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Soldier Poets--W.D. Ehrhart\, Bill Wunder\, & Members of Warrior Writers DESCRIPTION:South Philadelphia Free Library\n1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\nSunday May 13\, 2018 – 2pm\nW.D. Ehrhart\, Bill Wunder\, &\nMembers of Warrior Writers \nW. D. Ehrhart joined the US Marines in 1966 at the age of 17\, serving three years including 13 months in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat\, and earned the rank of sergeant and an honorable discharge. He is also a veteran of Vietnam Veterans Against the War\, and has received awards from both Vietnam Veterans of America and Veterans for Peace. A 1983 Bucks County Poet Laureate and a 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts\, he teaches English and history at the Haverford School in suburb Philadelphia. His most recent books are Praying at the Altar (Adastra Press) and W. D. Ehrhart in Conversation: Vietnam\, America\, and the Written Word (McFarland)\, both published in 2017. \nBill Wunder is the author of Pointing at the Moon\, Hands Turning the Earth\, and Kingdom of Heaven. In 2004\, he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. His poems have been widely published\, and he has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry. Bill has been a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. In 2010\, he was nominated for a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He has read and lectured in local schools\, colleges\, festivals\, book stores\, libraries\, and on public television. Bill\, a Vietnam veteran\, serves as Poetry Editor of The Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and lives with his two black labs in the wilds of Bucks County. \nWarrior Writers is a national non-profit. Our mission is to create a culture that articulates veterans’ experiences\, build a collaborative community for artistic expression\, and bear witness to war and the full range of military experiences. We value Respect for ourselves\, each other\, our experiences\, and our creative community; Honesty; Transformation; and Pride in our work and our experiences. Our goals include providing opportunities for veterans to engage in artistic expression\, creating visibility for veteran artists and their work\, supporting veterans in the discovery of the arts as a transformative tool\, and tell the truths about veterans’ experiences. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/soldier-poets-w-d-ehrhart-bill-wunder-members-of-warrior-writers/ LOCATION:South Philadelphia Free Library\, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street)\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19145\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180509T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180509T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T181209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T192726Z UID:12886-1525892400-1525899600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Featured Readers: Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 9\, 2018 – 7pm\nJulia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid\nJulia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry. She is a founding member of 6ix: a literary journal devoted to cutting edge work\, edited by six Philadelphia area women. She was a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. She has read her work in various venues including the University of Pennsylvania\, Brown University\, and Muse House in Philadelphia. In 2012\, she collaborated with the visual artist\, Wendy Osterweil\, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/ sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Four of her poems have been set to music composed by Kyle Smith and were performed as part of “Lyric Fest” in 2014. Her recent work has been published in “The Whirlwind Review\, “Philadelphia Stories\,” and in “An Anthology of Philadelphia Poets\,” edited by Valerie Fox and translated into Romanian by Daniel Dragomirescu. She has published three chapbooks: Meeting Tessie and Artificial Memory and most recently\, Blue Angel of a Day. \nTherése Halscheid’s latest poetry collection Frozen Latitudes (Press 53) received an Eric Hoffer Book Award. Other collections include Uncommon Geography\, Without Home\, Powertalk\, and a chapbook award by Pudding House Publications. Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in such magazines as Gettysburg Review\, Tampa Review\, Sou’wester\, Natural Bridge. Recent contest awards include Welcome Table Press’s Essaying the Body contest. She is an itinerant writer by way of house-sitting. Her photography chronicles her nomadic lifestyle. She teaches for Atlantic Cape Community College and also in unusual locales\, such as Eskimo village in northern Alaska\, and the Ural Mountains of Russia. www.ThereseHalscheid.com \nDave Worrell \, Host\nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/featured-readers-julia-blumenreich-therese-halscheid/ 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:20180506T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180506T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180502T165901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180502T170437Z UID:12870-1525615200-1525622400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:The Atheist in the Attic DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry  @ the Pub \nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nSunday May 6\, 2018\, 2pm \nSamuel R. Delany\n \nThe Atheist in the Attic\n$14.00\, Books will be available to purchase and autographed \n  \n “A talent very close to time travel—or magic.” —Locus \n“The most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American science fiction.” —William Gibson \n“I consider Delany not only one of the most important science fiction writ- ers of the present generation\, but a fascinating writer in general who has invented a new style.” —Umberto Eco \n  \nThe title novella\, “The Atheist in the Attic\,” appearing here in book form    for the first time\, is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative\, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and the brilliant “big bang” of the Enlightenment. \nPlus: equal parts history\, confession\, complaint\, gossip\, and personal tri- umph\, Delany’s “Racism and Science Fiction” combines scholarly research and personal experience in the unique true story of the first major African American author in the genre. And featuring: a bibliography\, an author biography\, and our candid\, uncompromising\, and customary Outspoken Interview. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn into a distinguished Harlem family\, Samuel R. Delany was a success at nineteen\, changing the tone\, the content\, and the very shape of modern science fiction with his acclaimed novels and stories that bridged the ap- parent gap between science and fantasy to explore gay sexuality\, racial and class consciousness\, and the limits of imagination and memory. His vast body of work includes memoir\, comics\, space adventure\, mainstream novels\, homosexual erotica\, and literary criticism of a high order. Until     his recent retirement he was a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/12870/ 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:20180429T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180429T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180420T163225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T163225Z UID:12834-1525003200-1525024800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:The 22nd Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading DESCRIPTION:Welcome to The 22nd Annual Poetry Ink: \n100 Poets Reading \nSunday April 29\, 2018 \n1199C Hospital Workers Union Headquarters\, 1319 Locust Street \nAll Reading Times are Approximate  \nCome to hear your favorite poet\, stay to hear others – Conversation & Comradery Galore \nThis is a pot luck affair\, so bring something good to eat or drink to share \n12:00\nRichard Bank\nPeter Baroth\nBenjamin Bass\nAdriann Bautista\nHerman Beaver\nMichele Belluomini\nBrandon Blake\n12:30\nJulia Blumenreich\nEugene Brown\nSteve Burke\nEliza Callard\nCharles Carr\nRonald Carter\nJose Cedillos\n1:00\nMarion Cohen\nLaDeva Davis\nAshini Desai\nPheralyn Dove\nRuNett Ebo\nGreg Francis\nMichael Franz\nDeborah Fries\n1:30\nLinda Goss\nSandy Green\nhanoch guy\nSean Hanrahan\nNate Henty\nAlison Hicks\nDitta Baron Hoeber\n2:00\nJennifer Hook\nLeah “Lyric” Jackson\nKrisann Janowitz\nH. Alonso Jennings\nIrving Jones\nBea Joyner\nK.I.R.A.A.T.\n2:30\nB.E. Kahn\nChris Kaiser\nAziza Kebe\nM. Nzadi Keita\nJustin Kohn\nCatherine Kuzma\nCynthia Lee\n3:00\nHazel Lee\nElliott Levin\nWarren Longmire\nSean Lynch\nLynette\nAlina MacNeal\nAngel Martinez\n3:30\nJohn Mason\nLia Mastropolo\nOctavia McBride-Ahebee\nJerri McDermott\nDavid Mayers\nMaryAnn Miller\nGail Mitchell\n4:00\nAmanda Nies\nStu O’Connor\nClaire Owen\nGeorge Park IV\nAaren Perry\nPrabha Prabhu\nElijah Pringle\n4:30\nDon Riggs\nStuart Roberts\nKat Robertson\nGloria Rohlfs\nJuanita Maria Blanding\nPamela Lynn Blanding-Godbolt\nTyrone Maurice Roosevelt\nColleen Winn\n5:00\nTonya Ryva\nFereshteh Sholevar\nMbarek Sryfi\nLamont B. Steptoe\nJeanne Sutton\nIra Tucker\nSandra Turner-Barnes\n5:30\nLenore Uddyback-Fortson\nBill VanBuskirk\nKimmika Williams-Witherspoon\nEleanor Wilner\nDonna Wolf-Palacio\nMartin Woodside\nDavid Worrell\nRobert Zaller URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-22nd-annual-poetry-ink-100-poets-reading/ LOCATION:1199C Hospital Workers Union Headquarters\, 1319 Locust Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180328T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180328T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180307T000638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T190929Z UID:12652-1522263600-1522270800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Readings by Xander Fraum\, Marryann Helferty\, John Oliver Mason\, and Joe Roarty DESCRIPTION:Xander Fraum is a new poet to Philadelphia’s circles.\n\n\nMaryann Helferty explores the natural world and reports out her findings in poems and photography.\n\n\nJohn Oliver Mason has written for newspapers\, magazines\, and blogs about community and national issues for over 25 years.\n\n\nJoe Roarty\, author of Moritat (2015 Moonstone Chapbook winner) is poetry of high octane energy\, passionate intelligence\, supercharged\, insistent blues\, jazz and heightened speech rhythms.\nOpen Reading Follows\nHosts: Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-8/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180321T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180307T000403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T190428Z UID:12649-1521658800-1521666000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Readings by Jacob Russell\, Paul Siegell\, and Anne-Adele Wight DESCRIPTION: Jacob\, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name Jacob Russell\, they have published three chapbooks\, many poems\, and have four books of poetry searching for publishers. In recent years\, their collective has been writing serial poems\, interconnected\, but in no particular order\, or rather—ordered to the mood of the occasion—as will be the case at this reading.\n\n Paul Siegell is the author of Take Out Delivery\, as well as wild life rifle fire\, jambandbootleg and Poemergency Room. He is a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly and has contributed to American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Rattle\, and many other fine journals.\n\n Anne-Adele Wight is the author of The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult (2011)\, all from BlazeVOX. Her work has appeared in American Writing\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, Fairies in America\, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.\nHost: Suzan Jivan URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-7/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180314T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180307T000013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180312T190159Z UID:12647-1521054000-1521061200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Readings by Autumn Konopka and Lorraine Henrie Lins DESCRIPTION: Autumn Konopka\, born and raised in the Philadelphia area\, has an M.F.A. in creative writing from Antioch University and a B.A. in English writing and communications from the University of Pittsburgh. Autumn has published work in several journals\, and she is deeply interested in the relationship between the arts and socioeconomic class. Autumn has hosted the Mad Poets monthly reading series in Bryn Mawr\, PA\, for about five years and has read her poetry at World Café Live and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.\n\n Lorraine Henrie Lins is a Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate and the author of four books of poetry. She serves as the Director of New and Emerging Poets with Tekpoet and has had her work appear in numerous publications. Born and raised in the suburbs of Central New Jersey\, the self-professed Jersey Girl now resides outside of Philadelphia with her family and several dogs where she has learned to pump her own gas.\n\nHost: Dave Worrell URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-6/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180311T140000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180306T235716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T000417Z UID:12645-1520776800-1520776800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street DESCRIPTION: #MeToo spread virally in October 2017 and has been used on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. Social activist and community organizer Tarana Burke created the phrase “Me Too” on Myspace in 2006 as part of a grassroots campaign to promote “empowerment through empathy” among women of color who have experienced sexual abuse\, particularly within underprivileged communities. Burke—who is creating a documentary titled Me Too—has said she was inspired to use the phrase after being unable to respond to a 13-year-old girl who confided in her that she had been sexually assaulted.  She later wished she had simply told the girl\, “me too.”\nHost: Larry Robin URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-11/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180228T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180129T223658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T223658Z UID:12600-1519844400-1519844400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Wednesday February 28th\, 2018 - 7pm DESCRIPTION:Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem\, Palestine and moved to the U.S. when he was 18 years old. He is a poet\, scholar\, and translator of Arabic literature. His set of poems “Recourse\,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Jacket 2\, Track//Four\, All Roads Will Lead You Home\, Apiary and forthcoming in Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by Refugees and Supplement. \n  \n \nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. A three-time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review\, Guernica\, Black Renaissance Noire\, The Massachusetts Review\, and elsewhere. She has served as a Poetry Mentor for the Blueshift Journal’s Speakeasy Project\, and is the creator of Sanctuary: A Migrant Poetry Workshop for immigrant poets in Philadelphia. \nAn open reading will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHosts: Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-wednesday-february-28th-2018-7pm/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180129T220924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T220924Z UID:12593-1519239600-1519239600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Cafe\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Wednesday February 21st\, 2018 - 7pm DESCRIPTION:Romance\, with Courtney K. Bambrick. She is poetry editor of Philadelphia Stories and her work has appeared in print or online in Apiary\, Certain Circuits\, Dirty Napkin\, Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Courtney has taught composition\, creative writing\, and literature at a number of colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area. \n  \n \nPeter Baroth is a writer\, visual artist\, musician\, and sometimes editor. He’s recently published his first full-length book of poetry\, Lost Autographs\, with Moonstone Press. His poetry\, short stories\, and artwork have appeared in a variety of print and online journals including Philadelphia Poets\, Mad Poets Review\, Apiary\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and elsewhere. \n  \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHost: Suzan Jivan URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-1201-spruce-street-wednesday-february-21st-2018-7pm/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180214T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180129T215543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T215649Z UID:12583-1518634800-1518634800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Wednesday February 14th\, 2018 - 7pm DESCRIPTION:Savannah Cooper-Ramsey is a poet and a member of Philly’s Art Dept Collective. Her conceptual chapbook projects\, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles and The Self and Other Jokes\, will be released by Waterhouse Ltd Press in Spring 2018. Her poems have appeared in Whirlwind Magazine\, the 2017 Moonstone Anthology\, and elsewhere. She is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University and teaches at Drexel. \n  \nLynn Hoffmn is a master of moments\, stacking them together like photographs to make a coherent statement about the need for sex and love to cohere. He writes\, “Sometimes the lack is half the joy.” He’s a lyrical poet\, creating music through the repetition of lines. The language has a rock and roll bounce; I see him as a modern Yeats\, taking on the discordance of love and sex\, transforming them into poetry that remains breath-taking and heart-wrenching. —Hal Sirowitz\, Author of Mother Said\, Former Poet Laureate of Queens\, Winner of the Nebraska Book Award. \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHost: Dave Worrel URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-wednesday-february-14th-2018-7pm/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180129T205624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T205823Z UID:12576-1518030000-1518030000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Wednesday February 7th\, 2018 - 7pm DESCRIPTION:Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet\, activist\, Vietnam Veteran\, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. Steptoe has a clear\, direct and matter-of-fact approach and his language is rich and revealing to his socio-cultural subject matter. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry\, has performed his work at the Library of Congress\, the National Library of Nicaragua\, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival\, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris\, the Knitting Factory\, the Schomburg Center for Black Culture\, and various colleges. An open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free and 21+. \nHost: Sean Lynch URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-wednesday-february-7th-7pm/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Lamont-Steptoe.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180206T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20180129T203812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T205937Z UID:12573-1517941800-1517941800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Tuesday February 6th\, 2018 - 6:30pm DESCRIPTION:Poetry as a Home for the Homeless: Host: Charles S. Carr\, Poetry from One Step Away\, featuring Richard “Ram” Ramson*\, Tammy Mitchell* and Joseph Albater* \nThere are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia are. They represent every form of poetry\, ethnic background\, age\, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities 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 over Comcast Cable 66/966 HD/967 and Verizon FIOS 29/30. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us! \nOne Step Away\, a nonprofit organization that produces a monthly street paper\, raises awareness while creating jobs for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. \n“One Step Away is a fantastic organization giving real opportunities to the homeless or those on the verge of being homeless. The program gives its vendors the opportunity to earn an income with a low barrier to entry. The work is by no means easy. The vendors are on their feet all day and have to learn a surprisingly large amount about entrepreneurship–budgeting\, inventory management\, customer service\, and business planning to name a few. One Step Away makes a real in hard working peoples’ lives as they climb out of the troubles any of us could one day face. Please consider helping to expand the program and be sure to visit your local vendors!” – Erik Hudzik\, October 4\, 2016 \n*One Step Away Vendors and poets URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-699-ranstead-street-tuesday-february-6th-630pm/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180131T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20171205T210707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T210707Z UID:12559-1517425200-1517432400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub DESCRIPTION:Continuing our Wednesday night readings at Fergie’s and sending us into the second month of 2018 will be a few familiar faces in Nathelie Anderson\, Alicia Askenase\, and Herman Beavers! \nMore details tba URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-5/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180128T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180128T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T084922 CREATED:20171205T210412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T210412Z UID:12557-1517148000-1517158800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:No River Twice: Improvisational Poetry "ImproPo" DESCRIPTION:A new addition to our stable of poetry events\, join us for Improvisational Poetry at Fergie’s for what is certain to be a one-of-a-kind afternoon! \nMore details tba URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/no-river-twice-improvisational-poetry-impropo/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR