Moonstone Arts Center

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street
2017-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Mike Cohen hosts Poetry Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia’s Big Blue Marble Book Store.

Eileen 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.

Hiram Larew’s work has appeared in several journals and books
including 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.
An open mic will follow the featured readers. The event is free.

1917: The Year That Changed History - Immigration Film & Discussion
2017-06-01 13:00 - 15:00 | National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 South Independence Mall East, Philadelphia, PA, 19106-2517, United States
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.

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
2017-05-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
D TED TARNOVSKI Lives in Philadelphia, where he hosts Poems Night, a monthly reading series and open mic, at Little Berlin in Fishtown.

SHY 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.
ANGELO 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

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
2017-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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.

Lynn 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.

Publication Celebration of DREAMS and NIGHTMARES/ SUEÑOS y PESADILLAS by Liliana Velásquez
2017-05-25 18:30 - 20:30 | PhillyCAM Community Room, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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.
$5 Parking at the corner of 7th and Ranstead Refreshments will be served

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street
2017-05-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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.
Irène 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.
Open Reading Follows, Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal Hosts

Moonstone Gold Series - Gerald Stern and Anne Marie Macari
2017-05-21 14:00 - 17:00 | Arch Enemy Gallery, 109 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
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.)
Anne 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.

The Poetry of Places in Philly
2017-05-19 08:00 - 17:00 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM
Regarding 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.
