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:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170611T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170611T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170526T185257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170609T164519Z UID:12135-1497189600-1497200400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:A Tribute to Leonard Gontarek DESCRIPTION:For some strange reason\, we tend to wait until someone dies before we express our gratitude for what they have done. Why Wait? Join us in honoring Leonard Gontarek through a reading of praise poems as well as his own work. \n50 Poets have responded with poems and comments to honor Leonard Gontarek \n20 of them will be reading at the event on Sunday \nA Chapbook with the 50 poems will be available for purchase ($10\, The Moonstone Press) \nLeonard Gontarek is the author of Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket\, Shiva (2016) and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs (2013)\, both published by Hanging Loose Press. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, Verse\, Blackbird\, The Awl\, Spinning Jenny\, and The Best American Poetry\, among others. He teaches workshops throughout the Philadelphia area\, including the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership\, and a weekly Saturday workshop from his home in West Philadelphia. He has been Mad Poet-in-Residence since 2008. He coordinates Peace/Works\, Philly Poetry Day\, The Philadelphia Poetry Festival\, and hosts The Green Line Reading & Interview Series. Gontarek has received Poetry fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, the Philadelphia Writers Conference Community Service Award\, and was a Literary Death Match Champion. His poem\, 37 Photos From The Bridge\, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges MotionPoems project and the basis for the award-winning film by Lori Ersolmaz sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis: http://movingpoems.com/poet/leonard-gontarek/ URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-leonardtribute/ LOCATION:Brandywine Workshop\, 728 S. Broad Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19146\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170607T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170607T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170526T185131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170526T185219Z UID:12132-1496862000-1496869200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street DESCRIPTION:Andrew Keller has been active in the DIY music scene since 2007. He has toured with the bands Hermit Thrushes\, Snow Caps\, Jonagold\, Folklore\, Evil Sword\, and Glover. Keller also spent around ten years as Senior Editor of local lit mag Painted Bride Quarterly before leaving last year. \n\n\n\nHarmon Butcher was born in rural East Virginia to mother and father. After a strange problem and accident\, Butcher set out traveling the great America West on foot in search of truth and innocence. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-2/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170606T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170606T200000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170526T185050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170526T185050Z UID:12117-1496773800-1496779200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Sanctuary Poets - Part 1 DESCRIPTION:Participants of the Asian Arts Initiative workshopped on belonging\, safety\, and identity for (im)migrants in the aftermath of election 2016 and the resurgence of racist\, misogynist\, and xenophobic forces in the United\nStates. \n\nCynthia Dewi Oka is a poet\, immigrant\, and author of Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket\, 2016). A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, her poetry has appeared in publications such as Guernica\, Dusie\, Black Renaissance Noire\, The Blueshift Journal\, Kweli\, Apogee\, As Us\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and others. She has received the Fifth Wednesday Journal Editor’s Prize in Poetry\, scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and Voices of Our Nations (VONA)\, and the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. Her next book of poems\, Salvage\, is forthcoming in 2017 from Northwestern University Press. \n\nKatherine Sarwopeni Antarikso was born in Jakarta\, Indonesia\, moved to Pennsylvania\, which motivated her to explore ideas of home and identity for displaced people. \n\n\n\n\nRommy Driks\, although better known as a math and science nerd\, has always loved words and been fascinated by the art of crafting them. \n\n\n\n\nMeera Jayaraman is a queer South Asian femme dedicated to living in radically vulnerable ways. She writes because she reads\, and reading has shaped her into being. \n\n\n\n\n\nKarla Maria is an afrolatiñx writer from the south. She pulls from all of her lives and emotions to make poetry pour out. \n\nQuinha is a mixed kid living in South Philly who likes to dance and play soccer. She also works in the ER and is a member of Put People First! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/sanctuary-poets-part-1/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T162941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T162122Z UID:12082-1496343600-1496350800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street DESCRIPTION:Mike Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store. \n  \nEileen D’Angelo has been nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts and twice for the Pushcart Prize\, judged Philadelphia-area poets for Def Poetry Jam. \n \nHiram Larew’s work has appeared in several journals and books\nincluding the Washington review\, Rhino\, Rue Bella\, The Cosmos Club Journal\, Frantic Egg\, Not Just Air\, and Echoes. Nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize\, his poems have been recognized for awards by\, among others\, Louisiana Literature\, Verve\, the Allen Ginsberg Awards\, and S. S. Calliope.  \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-1201-spruce-street-2/ LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/moonstone_trans_logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170601T150000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T181620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T181620Z UID:12103-1496322000-1496329200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:1917: The Year That Changed History - Immigration Film & Discussion DESCRIPTION:Featuring Liliana Velásquez\, author of Dreams and Nightmares/ Sueños y Pesadillas\, a remarkable memoir by a teenager who at fourteen years old fled horrific violence and poverty in Guatemala and headed out alone for the United States. On her trip through Mexico she was robbed by narcos\, rode the boxcars of La Bestia\, and organized thirty of her fellow Central American bus passengers to convince the Federales who had arrested them to allow them to continue on their way. Finally\, she made it to the US border\, and headed out across the Sonoran Desert\, where she encountered death and was caught by US Immigration. She spent a year in a horrendous foster situation and eventually landed on her feet with a family that loves and protects her. She is now in high school\, while she works to support her family back home and makes plans to go on to nursing school. Edited & Translated by Mark Lyons who met with Liliana over forty-five times. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/1917-the-year-that-changed-history-immigration-film-discussion/ LOCATION:National Museum of American Jewish History\, 101 South Independence Mall East\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106-2517\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170531T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170531T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T153819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T161904Z UID:12051-1496257200-1496264400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street DESCRIPTION:D TED TARNOVSKI Lives in Philadelphia\, where he hosts Poems Night\, a monthly reading series and open mic\, at Little Berlin in Fishtown. \n  \n  \nSHY WATSON is a poet & painter living in philadelphia\, pa. she is the author of AWAY STATUS & my parents were going to give me your name if i were born a boy. \nANGELO COLAVITA is author of Heroines\, lives and writes in Philadelphia\, where he hosts Oxford Coma\, a nihilist poetry reading series. His work has appeared in Apiary Magazine\, The Philadelphia Citizen\, Mad House\, and elsewhere URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170601T160421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170601T160421Z UID:12138-1495738800-1495746000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street DESCRIPTION:Grace Bauer’s full-length collections of poetry include The Women at The Well\, Beholding Eye\, and Retreats and Recognitions. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Nebraska Arts Council. \n \nLynn Levin is a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry and the author of Birds on the Kiswar Tree\, a translation of a collection of poems by the Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales. Levin’s poems and translations have appeared in Ploughshares\, Boulevard\, and The Hopkins Review. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-1214-sansom-street-5/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170525T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T160726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T160726Z UID:12064-1495737000-1495744200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Publication Celebration of DREAMS and NIGHTMARES/ SUEÑOS y PESADILLAS by Liliana Velásquez DESCRIPTION:Featuring Liliana Velásquez\, author of Dreams and Nightmares/ Sueños y Pesadillas\, a remarkable memoir by a teenager who at fourteen years old fled horrific violence and poverty in Guatemala and headed out alone for the United States. On her trip through Mexico\, she was robbed by narcos\, rode the boxcars of La Bestia\, and \norganized thirty of her fellow Central American bus\npassengers to convince the Federales who had arrested them to allow them to continue on their way. Finally\, she made it to the US border and headed out across the Sonoran Desert\, where she encountered death and was caught by US Immigration. She spent a year in a horrendous foster situation and eventually landed on her feet with a family that loves and protects her. She is now in high school\, while she works to support her family back home and makes plans to go on to nursing school. Edited & Translated by Mark Lyons who met with Liliana over forty-five times.  \n$5 Parking at the corner of 7th and Ranstead Refreshments will be served URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/publication-celebration-of-dreams-and-nightmares-suenos-y-pesadillas-by-liliana-velasquez/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM Community Room\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170524T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170524T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T152333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T161847Z UID:12045-1495652400-1495659600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street DESCRIPTION:Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars\, as well as The Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Best New Poets\, Rhino\, Redivider\, and Crab Orchard Review. \nIrène Mathieu is a pediatrician\, poet\, and public health researcher. She is the winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize and Yemassee Journal’s Poetry Prize\, and she has received fellowships from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Fulbright Program. Irène is the author of the poetry book orogeny and chapbook the galaxy of origins. \nOpen Reading Follows\, Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal Hosts URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-toast-cafe-1201-spruce-street/ LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170521T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170521T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T151151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T173809Z UID:12032-1495375200-1495386000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Gold Series - Gerald Stern and Anne Marie Macari DESCRIPTION:Gerald Stern has been called an “American original\,” “a sometimes comic\, sometimes tragic visionary.” Over dozens of books\, and decades of teaching and activism\, Stern has emerged as one of America’s most celebrated and irascible poets. Stern’s poetry frequently references his all-American\, working-class upbringing as well as his Jewish and Eastern European heritage. He was Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2000–2002. His new book is Galaxy Love: POEMS ($25.95 Norton.)  \nAnne Marie Macari is author of Red Deer\, She Heads into Wilderness\, Gloryland and Ivory Cradle; and a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board. Macari founded and teaches in the Drew MFA Program for Poetry & Poetry in Translation and has taught on the faculty of the Prague Summer Seminars. Interview by Elaine Terranova\, author of six books of poems and two chapbooks\, her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-gold-series-gerald-stern-and-anne-marie-macari/ LOCATION:Arch Enemy Gallery\, 109 Arch Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T230909 CREATED:20170519T182251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T182251Z UID:12107-1495180800-1495213200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:The Poetry of Places in Philly DESCRIPTION:2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM \nRegarding Poetry in Philly someone wrote: “If Philadelphia and environs were a garden of poetry\, it would be quite a garden. It’d be huge. This is a poetry town which is lush and fertile.” There are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area-poetry readings\, workshops; special events\, as well as publish poetry journals and books of poems. They represent every poetry form\, every ethnic background\, every age\, gender\, and community. This series will consist of a panel of guest poets discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poetry in Philly. The program will also focus on the wide variety of themes and issues which influence the creation of poetry. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month with Charles S. Carr as host. It is free and open to everyone. Please join us in the studio for this live broadcast. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-poetry-of-places-in-philly/ LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR