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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
DESCRIPTION:Deborah Burnham has been at the University of Pennsylvania longer than some of the ivy. She has worked as an undergraduate advisor\, directed the academic writing program\, and is currently the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English department. She has published two books of poetry\, and has another in circulation. Candida Rodriguez was born in Brooklyn\, N.Y\, and was raised both in Cayey\, Puerto Rico and Camden\, New Jersey. She has found a home in the lyricism of poetry and is a happy member of Brigid’s Writers House in Camden. Jerry Morgan is a practicing pharmacist who grew up in rural Western Maryland. He has always enjoyed creating things and expressing himself through words\, and uses his writing to explore connections between people and the day-to-day experiences that make up one’s life. Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-11/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
DESCRIPTION:Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street and three other full-length poetry collections: Blue Ruby\, Resurrection Papers\, and Practicing Amnesia. Her honors include a Rita Dove Poetry Prize Honorable Mention\, a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry\, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency\, and a term as Berks Poet Laureate. She is Emerita Professor of English at Kutztown University and teaches creative writing at Cedar Crest College. J. C. Todd is author of The Damages of Morning\, What Space This Body\, chapbooks and collaborative artist books. Her awards include the Rita Dove Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\, Leeway Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She facilitates poetry gatherings for the Dodge Poetry Program.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-10/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190619T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190619T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
DESCRIPTION:Bernard Block has read at all the major spoken-word venues in NYC\, Philadelphia\, South Carolina and South Wales. He has also hosted the “From Whitman to Ginsberg” series at Cornelia Street Café. Charles Carr has two published books of poetry: paradise\, Pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub\, and since 2016 he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator\, writer\, poet\, translator\, architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary\, Poems for the Writing\, The World to Come\, and Poetry 24. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize. \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-9/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190616T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190616T170000
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SUMMARY:New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Pendleton is a graduating senior at Saint Joseph’s University and has had work appear in Crimson and Gray 2016-2019\, as well as New Voices: Emerging Poets Vol #1. Mariah Rose is a music journalist for WXPN\, and the creator of a Philly-based art zine\, Boy Tears Mag. Luvonda Fuller is a graduating senior at Franklin Learning Center with honors. She plans to attend college in the fall of 2019\, majoring in Psychology. She enjoys writing\, reading\, dancing\, and volunteering. Join us each month for readings by emerging poets. A Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect with Other Writers – Host: Krisann Janowitz\, Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-philadelphias-emerging-poets/
LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190612T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Herman Beavers\, Steve Burke\, Jim Cory\, Alfred Encarnacion\, and and Stella Guillory
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the work of five wonderful poets as the Moonstone Press releases their books: Herman Beavers is a Professor of English and African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as an advisory editor for The African American Review\, The Black Scholar\, The Journal of Black Studies\, and Modern Fiction Studies. Steve Burke is the author of After The Harvest\, published by Moonstone Press\, and has read at many venues in and around Philadelphia. Jim Cory’s poetry and stories have appeared in many publications. He has published seven chapbooks and been a recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council and Yaddo. Alfred Encarnacion’s poems\, short stories\, essays and reviews have appeared in national journals. His poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Stella Guillory moved to Washougal\, Washington six years ago from Honolulu\, Hawaii. Her poetry has appeared in Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writers’ Quarterly\, and Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women. Each author will read from their book. Larry Robin\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-herman-beavers-steve-burke-jim-cory-alfred-encarnacion-and-and-stella-guillory/
LOCATION:Shakespeare and Co.\, 1632 Walnut St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare and Co.
DESCRIPTION:Often thinking about human behavior on the commute to his 9-5\, Sirron Carrector has been writing consistently in the notes app of an iPhone since 2016. He holds a masters in public displays of affection. He enjoys reading\, video editing\, and recording himself while intoxicated. Check out carrextion.com or @carrextion on Instagram for his ramblings\, and you have to call him Jago (Jay-Go). Phil has been published in Spiral Poetry and most recently in the first edition of the ToHo Journal. He has self-published 4 chapbooks and is currently working on his first full-length collection. Sean Lynch\, Host Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-shakespeare-and-co/
LOCATION:Shakespeare and Co.\, 1632 Walnut St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM\nJoin us as the poets who Moonstone has published discuss poetry and read their poems. Ahmad Almallah’s first book of poems\, Bitter English will be published in 2019. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing\, and his set of poems “Recourse\,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. Huda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition: From Modernists to Muhdathūn and co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning. Fatemeh Shams’ When They Broke Down the Door won the 2017 Latifeh Yarshater Annual Book Award. She received Jaleh Esfahani poetry award as the best young Persian poet in 2012. Her forthcoming poems will appear in the World of Literature Today\, New Divan and Mirror of my Heart: 1000 years of Persian Women Poetry in 2019. Charles Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-2/
LOCATION:699 Ranstead Street\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190602T120000
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SUMMARY:23rd Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading
DESCRIPTION:Sunday June 2\, 2019 – noon\nMoonstone at 1199C Headquarters\, 1319 Locust Street \nHello! We are hosting our 23rd annual Poetry Ink release event which will be commemorated by readings from 84 (not quite 100 this year!) poets. Join us in enjoying the work of academic poets\, famous poets\, free form poets\, street poets\, unknown poets\, spoken word poets\, published poets\, unpublished poets- you name it! Poetry Ink was created with the goal of generating conversation between poets of different ages\, backgrounds\, ethnicities\, and stylings in order to celebrate Philadelphia’s historically diverse literary community.  \nAccordingly\, the 100 Poets Reading aims to provide a platform for poets from all different walks of life so that the audience and readers alike may enjoy new poetic experiences- nowhere else in Philadelphia is there such a unique congregation of poets and poetry. Food contributions are encouraged\, as this will be a potluck community event for all ages. Whether you stop by for hours or just a few minutes\, an enjoyable time is guaranteed for all attendees. \n Purchase the Anthology\nNot all contributors will be reading.\nAll Reading Times are Approximate\n12:00\nSekai’afua Zankel\nDavid Worrell\nShanyah Womack\nDonna Wolf-Palacio\nRocky Wilson\nEleanor Wilner12:30\nAnthony Williams\nNotus Williams\nSharon Wellons\nMercedes Weathers\nBill Van Buskirk\nJonathon Todd1:00\nJohn Timpane\nElaine Terranova\nLamont Steptoe\nMbarek Sryfi\nFereshteh Sholevar\nGeorge Schaefer\nTonya Ryva \n1:30\nAyo Rosier\nTyrone “Marcy” Roosevelt\nStuart Roberts\nDon Riggs\nElizabeth Quigley\nElijah Pringle\nPrabha Prabhu \n\n2:00\nAaren Perry\nHermond Palmer\nClaire Owen\nEwuare Osayande\nDaniel O’Hara\nStu O’Connor\nMichael Miller2:30\nJohn Mason\nAlina Macneal\nSean Lynch\nCynthia Lee\nHazel Lee\nJeffrey Lee\nKinard Lang3:00\nLynette\nLisa Konigsberg\nMichelle Keita\nAnne Kaier\nBetti Kahn\nBea Joyner\nIrving Jones \n3:30\nChristina Jones\nLeah Jackson\nAnn Huang\nJennifer Hook\nAlison Hicks\nLaura Hawley\nJanelle Harvey\nSean Hanrahan \n\n4:00\nSteven Halpern\nHanoch Guy\nLinda Goss\nBeulah Gordon-Skinner\nGreg Francis\nWilliam Foster\nPeggy Fisher4:30\nAlfred Encarnacion\nRunett Ebo\nPheralyn Dove\nAshini Desai\nNicole Davis\nTiffany Cooper\nCathleen Cohen5:00\nMarion Cohen\nJose Cedillos\nSteve Burke\nEugene Brown\nElizabeth Bodien\nLynn Blue\nPamela Blanding \n5:30\nBrandon Blake\nMichele Belluomini\nPeter Baroth\nCatherine Bancroft\nKwame Bakari\nMeredith Avakian\nSilvino Alexander\nLiz Abrams-Morley
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/23rd-poetry-ink-100-poets-reading/
LOCATION:1199C Headquarters\, 1319 Locust st.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190529T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: G Emil Reuter\, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri & Dave Worrell
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nG Emil Reuter is a writer of poems and stories. Ten collections of his poetry and fiction have been published\, most recently\, Stale Bread and Coffee. \nDiane Sahms-Guarnieri is a Philadelphia Poet with four collections of poetry\, most recently\, The Handheld Mirror of the Mind. \nDave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and Close to Home\, his poems have appeared in journals including Slant\, Canary\, Heroin Chic. Larry Robin\, Host – Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-g-emil-reuter-and-dave-worell/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190522T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190522T190000
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SUMMARY:May is for Mothers
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ 1199 \nThe District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund \n100 South Broad Street\, 10th floor (Land Title Building) \nWednesday May 22\, 2019 – 7pm \n \n Catherine Bancroft is the mother of three grown children and appreciates that a critical skill of motherhood is keeping your mouth shut.  Poetry and art are good outlets. \nShevaun Brannigan’s work is forthcoming in AGNI and has appeared in Best New Poets and Slice. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant and holds an MFA from Bennington College. \nVernyce Dannells is the author of Temporarily Abated and has been published in places you know and others you’ve never heard of. \nJanet Fishman created and toured two adaptations\, The Olive Lake A Chinese Fairy Tale\, and Three Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Her first full length play\, At Home in the World has had two readings at The University of the Arts\, where she currently teaches. \nCourtney Gambrell is a 27-year-old who enjoys writing and reciting poetry in the Greater Philadelphia region. As a poet\, she is most concerned with self-healing\, which is her catalyst for writing.  \nOna Gritz books include the poetry collections Geode\, and Border Songs: A Conversation in poems\, written with Daniel Simpson. Her poems and essays have appeared widely. \nLisa Grunberger\, Temple University Professor\, is author of three books and her play Almost Pregnant\, about motherhood\, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is under development.  \nDonna Wolf-Palacio is author of What I Don’t Know\, The Other Side\, and Step Lightly. She taught a poetry workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was editor/consultant for the UARTS Poetry Review.  \nSekai’afua Zankel defines herself as a “Performance Poet\, combining her experience in theatre and her “visceral and active poetry”. Her underlying credo is a great revolution in the life of a single individual can change the world.  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/may-is-for-mothers/
LOCATION:The District 1199C Training and Upgrading Fund\, 100 Broad st.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19110\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T140000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T190000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T190000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
CREATED:20190416T175127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T200738Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
CREATED:20190328T175630Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
CREATED:20190328T174027Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190414T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
CREATED:20190321T185623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T185623Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
CREATED:20190325T183918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190327T161732Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190402T183000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
CREATED:20190321T182830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T182830Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190327T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190324T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190324T140000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190312T200341Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190317T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190317T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T095016
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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
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