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SUMMARY:World Press Freedom Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 4\, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day \nThe United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day\, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration\, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in Windhoek in 1991. Send us a poem.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/world-press-freedom-day/
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Thomas Devaney\, Sean Lynch\, and Kim Gek Lin Short
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 23\, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nThomas Devaney is a poet\, facilitator\, educator and author of Getting to Philadelphia and You Are the Battery. His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. \nSean Lynch\, author of five\, has been the editor of various magazines\, journals\, anthologies\, and books\, and is the Founding Editor of Serotonin Press. \nKim Gek Lin Short is the author of China Cowboy and The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits. Her poems and stories appear in numerous anthologies. With Ryan Eckes\, she runs Radiator Press. \nAnne-Adele Wight Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-thomas-devaney-sean-lynch-and-kim-gek-lin-short/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:International Haiku Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 20\, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0vQ-qLRCTqaki87Hoxes8A \nInternational Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month (April). According to The Haiku Foundation\, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic\, it is three lines\, the first with five syllables\, the second with seven and the third with five.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/international-haiku-poetry-day/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander\, Peter Baroth\, Julia Gwiazdowski\, and George Schaefer
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 16\, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nE. Lynn Alexander is an artist\, poet\, and “crazy cat lady” from the Lehigh Valley. She is a partnering artist and writer in the Perspectives: Art on Environment project at the Nurture Nature Center. \nPeter Baroth\, author of Long Green and Lost Autograph is a writer\, artist\, and musician. He has been published in Philadelphia Poets\, Red Fez\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Apiary\, and others. \nJulia Gwiazdowski is a poet\, musician\, zine maker\, and the resident Sappho of Philadelphia\, author of 31 Days of Venus Aphrodite\, illustrated and formatted by dear friend and collaborator\, Jesse Arbor. \nGeorge Schaefer is a Philly born poet\, philosopher and prankster.  He started writing over 4 decades ago in an attempt to make some sense of this crazy world.  All these years later\, he’s as confused as ever but still clinging to the belief that the word can lead to wisdom. \nSean Hanrahan Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-e-lynn-alexander-peter-baroth-julia-gwiazdowski-and-george-schaefer/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky's PARALLAX
DESCRIPTION:April 12\, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE \nLive at Fleisher Art Memorial\, 719 Catharine Street \nJoin us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX \nJulia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine\, the poet’s birthplace. As her child expresses a fascination with death and violence\, Kolchinsky struggles to process the war unfolding far away\, on the same soil where so many of her ancestors perished during the Holocaust. Julia Kolchinsky is the author of PARALLAX\, 40\, Don’t Touch the Bones\, and The Many Names for Mother. \nJulia will be joined by these terrific poets: Sarah Browning\, Steven Kleinman\, Olgq Livshin\, and Artress Bethany White
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-julia-kolchinskys-parallax/
LOCATION:Fleisher Art Memorial\, 719 Catharine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19147\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella\, Krystle Griffin\, and Anne-Adele Wight
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 9\, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nJoin us for the Book Launch of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (Serotonin Press) \nJane-Rebecca Cannarella edits HOOT Review\, a magazine published on postcards\, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit\, a broadside press\, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket. She will be joined by: \nKrystle Griffin is a writer\, actor\, artist\, and Swiss army knife of all trades\, trying to spin brain bees and nightmares into something shiny. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author four books of poetry. Her work has appeared in American Writing\, Philadelphia Poets\, Tabula Rasa\, Shrike\, Mad Poets Review\, Philadelphia Writers’ Conference Anthology\, and The Dariens. \nSean Lynch Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jane-rebecca-cannarella-krystle-griffin-and-anne-adele-wight/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Broadcast: Grady Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday April 8\, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 In Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nGrady Chambers is the author of the novel Great Disasters and the poetry collection North American Stadiums\, selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories can be found in The Atlantic\, The Paris Review\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry Magazine\, The Sun\, Joyland\, Image\, The Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-broadcast-grady-chambers/
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SUMMARY:Virtual: Featured Poets 2024
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 7th — 2pm \nVIRTUAL – 2024 Featured Poets \nOn Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/lfcdsIFeTdGAdAm0v0FnkQ \nIn 2024\, Moonstone Arts Center hosted almost 100 events with nearly 200 poets\, both local and international. 75 of those featured poets contributed to this anthology and will read with us again. \nBuy the Featured Poets 2024 anthology here. \nFeatured Poets 2024 \n(not all poets will be reading\, some will also read at the live event) \n\n\n\nLiz Abrams-MorleyNathalie Anderson \nKatherine Antarikso \nCynthia Arrieu-King \nMadeline Artenberg \nSubhaga Crystal Bacon \nFran Baird \nElliott batTzedek \nHerman Beavers \nSarah Browning \nChris Bullard \nSteve Burke \nL.M. Camiolo \nJane-Rebecca Cannarella \nCharles S. Carr\nSydney CoffinCathleen Cohen \nBernard Collins \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey \nJessica Cuello \nRaheem Curry \nEileen D’Angelo \nGuy D’Annolfo \nThomas Devaney \nJohn DiMenna \nSusan DIPronio \nDavid Eberhardt \nWD Ehrhart \nMichael Franz \nLeonard Gontarek \n \nSean HanrahanFaleeha Hassan \nWilliam Hazard \nDitta Baron Hoeber \nRandi Hoffman \nRachael Ikins \nJack Israel \nStephen Jones \nLinda Kleinbub \nJonathan Koven \nMatt Lake \nLynn Levin \nElliott Levin \nM.J. Liebler \nOlga Livshin \n \nJennifer MaloneyEmiliano Martin \nJulianna May \nChris McCreary \nMatt McGarvey \nAlexandra McIntosh \nPat McLean-Smith \nDiane McManus \nC.O. MOED \nMarjorie Moorhead \nMichelle Myers \nAllayna Nofs \nAm(i)lia Pikovsky \ng emil reutter \nPatrick Rodgers \n \nZack RogowLauren Russell \nDiane Sahms-Guarnieri \nHayden Saunier \nClinton Smith \nJuniper Sweeney \nMary Tarantini \nAlan Toltzis \nPeter Webb \nTheresa Werba \nDaniel Williams \nKimmika Williams-Witherspoon \nSamantha Wright \nMonika Wysong \nRobert Zaller \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-featured-poets-2024/
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: Featured Poets 2024
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 6\, 2025 – 2pm EDT \nLIVE – 2024 Featured Poets  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nOn Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_t25rgq-TDyw9s-2xGxuCw \nIn 2024\, Moonstone Arts Center hosted almost 100 events with nearly 200 poets\, both local and international. 75 of those featured poets contributed to this anthology and will read with us again. \nBuy the Featured Poets 2024 anthology here. \nFeatured Poets 2024 \n(not all poets will be reading\, some will also read at the virtual event) \n\n\n\nLiz Abrams-Morley \nNathalie Anderson \nKatherine Antarikso \nCynthia Arrieu-King \nMadeline Artenberg \nSubhaga Crystal Bacon \nFran Baird \nElliott batTzedek \nHerman Beavers \nSarah Browning \nChris Bullard \nSteve Burke \nL.M. Camiolo \nJane-Rebecca Cannarella \nCharles S. Carr \n \nSydney Coffin \nCathleen Cohen \nBernard Collins \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey \nJessica Cuello \nRaheem Curry \nEileen D’Angelo \nGuy D’Annolfo \nThomas Devaney \nJohn DiMenna \nSusan DIPronio \nDavid Eberhardt \nWD Ehrhart \nMichael Franz \nLeonard Gontarek \n \nSean Hanrahan \nFaleeha Hassan \nWilliam Hazard \nDitta Baron Hoeber \nRandi Hoffman \nRachael Ikins \nJack Israel \nStephen Jones \nLinda Kleinbub \nJonathan Koven \nMatt Lake \nLynn Levin \nElliott Levin \nM.J. Liebler \nOlga Livshin \n \nJennifer Maloney \nEmiliano Martin \nJulianna May \nChris McCreary \nMatt McGarvey \nAlexandra McIntosh \nPat McLean-Smith \nDiane McManus \nC.O. MOED \nMarjorie Moorhead \nMichelle Myers \nAllayna Nofs \nAm(i)lia Pikovsky \ng emil reutter \nPatrick Rodgers \n \nZack Rogow \nLauren Russell \nDiane Sahms-Guarnieri \nHayden Saunier \nClinton Smith \nJuniper Sweeney \nMary Tarantini \nAlan Toltzis \nPeter Webb \nTheresa Werba \nDaniel Williams \nKimmika Williams-Witherspoon \nSamantha Wright \nMonika Wysong \nRobert Zaller \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-reading-featured-poets-2024/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Courtney Bambrick\, Caroline M. Mar\, Hayden Saunier\, and Robert Zaller
DESCRIPTION:   Wednesday April 2\, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nOn Zoom – Register here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMJG5oarQqGAkXCjjv6H6A \nCourtney Bambrick\, author of World Without\,   teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls\, was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nCaroline M. Mar\, author of Water Guest\, Special Education\, and Dream of the Lake\, a member of Rabble Collective\, and serves on the board of Friends of Writers. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nHayden Saunier is the author of six poetry collections including her new book\, Wheel\, awards include a Pushcart Prize\, Pablo Neruda Award\, and Rattle Poetry Prize. \n  \n  \n  \nRobert Zaller is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Drexel University.  Poet\, critic\, and historian\, his books of verse include Speaking to Power and The Dresden Zoo.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-courtney-bambrick-caroline-m-mar-hayden-saunier-and-robert-zaller/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anthology Reading: Chaos\, Crises\, Conflict
DESCRIPTION:Monday March 31\, 2025 – 7pmEST – Chaos\, Crises\, Conflict Anthology Reading – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/o5aORNAuQH6qAzaYCOI-Yg \nIn a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict\, how can we reframe\, heal\, and continue to live in the midst of destruction\, chaos\, and loss?  We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is our empathy? How do we reconcile? How do we survive? Poets Respond
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SUMMARY:Conflict & Poetry: An Interactive Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Conflict & Poetry: An Interactive Workshop\nSunday\, March 30th at 2PM EST\nLive at The Rotunda\, 4014 Walnut St.\, Philadelphia\, PA 19104 \nRegister for the live event \n\n\n\nIn a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict\, how can we reframe\, heal\, and continue to live in the midst of destruction\, chaos\, and loss? We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is our empathy? How do we reconcile? How do we survive? In an effort to inspire people embroiled in conflict (all of us)\, to meet and create dialogue across differences for the sake of resolving heartbreak\, damage and personal or cultural loss. \nAustralian authors\, David B. Moore and Alike Vernon\, writers of Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice\, have provided the backgrounds and the methods for humane ways to make peace. They will share knowledge on the possibilities occasioned by people seeking repair and resolution. \n\n\n\n\nRestorative practice uses deliberative decision-making processes to: \n\nrespond to harm with healing in justice system programs;\nmanage relationships in educational\, workplace\, and other communities; &\nlink individual healing with institutional reform in redress schemes.\n\nDr David Moore and Dr Alikki Vernon are Australian ‘pracademics’\, who remain actively engaged with fellow educators and researchers while working as facilitators in each of these applications. \nIn their 2024 book Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice\, they explain how: \n\nrestorative processes support people to learn\, heal\, and work together to improve their circumstances;\ntechniques from restorative practice can also assist citizens’ assemblies to develop socially acceptable and appropriately complex policies for government.\n\nThe reforming potential of restorative practice is great. The need for further restorative reform urgent. Practical skills are essential for that reform. \nDr Moore and Dr Vernon will describe: \n\ncore skills for facilitating different restorative processes;\nprograms that apply these skills\, to work with people to set relations right.\n\nThe audience and poets will participate with Moore and Vernon to consider pathways out of the impasses that inhibit our creativity as humans. \n\n\nRegister for the interactive workshop.\n\n\nSubmit to our Chaos/Crises/Conflict anthology here by March 9th. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/conflict-poetry-an-interactive-workshop/
LOCATION:The Rotunda\, 14014 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: The Hosts of Other Series Read
DESCRIPTION:  \nWednesday March 26\, 2025 – 7:00pm – The Hosts of Other Series Read  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RcZsDsGjRYmxq7LxQ_YDkQ \nSibelan Forrester is a poet\, translator\, and host since 2016 of the Mad Poets Society First Wednesday poetry reading series. \nRaina J. León\, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry Reading Series\, is s a founding editor of The Acentos Review. \nBill Van Buskirk’s\, host of Mad Poets Society 4th Friday series\, latest book is The Poet’s Pocket Guide to Steady Employment. \nNoah David Roberts is a non-binary poet\, the author of Mutable\, GUNK\, and SWARM\, an organizer of the World’s End Writing Retreat\, & was an editor for Graphic Violence Lit. \nBJ Ward\, host of Warren Community College Visiting Authors Series\, is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-the-hosts-of-other-series-read/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:World Poetry Day Reading
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 23\, 2025 – 2pmEST – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LqG9LovqQnCdUxVCaQ1PHg3/26/2025 \nWorld Poetry Day Reading – The United Nations Educational\, Scientific\, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and imagery to elicit emotion and the imagination of the reader. Poetry can rhyme\, using what are called meters of long and short syllables. Some poetry\, written in what’s called ‘free verse\,’ doesn’t employ rhyme or meters. Poems are broken into stanzas\, which are like paragraphs\, and can be up to 12 lines long. We believe the first known poem appeared 4\,000 years ago in Babylon. Today\, countless types of poems are available to enjoy\, including haikus\, limericks\, sonnets\, and ballads.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/world-poetry-day-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: C.M. Crockford\, R.G. Evans\, Shannon Frost Greenstein\, and Von Wise
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday March 19\, 2025 – 7:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1AkTaeNSISE_wCCV7KJSg \nC.M. Crockford is a neurodivergent writer and editor. His works been published in dozens of magazines\, anthologies\, and websites\, and his first book Birdsongs was released in 2024 with Alien Buddha Press. You can always find him doting on his cat Wally or seeing movies in actual theaters like a nerd. \nR.G. Evans’s books include Overtipping the Ferryman\, The Holy Both\, and Imagine Sisyphus Happy. His work has appeared in Rattle\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and Weird Tales\, among other publications. His collections of original songs\, Sweet Old Life and Kid Yesterday Calling Tomorrow Man\, are available on most streaming platforms. He received a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. \nShannon Frost Greenstein (She/They) resides near Philadelphia with her family and cats. She is the author of “Through the Lens of Time” (2026)\, a fiction collection with Thirty West Publishing\, and “These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things” (2022)\, a book of poetry from Really Serious Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her passions include Friedrich Nietzsche\, anti-racism\, ballet\, the Seven Summits\, the Hamilton Soundtrack\, motherhood\, and acquiring more cats. \nVon Wise is the author of Grow a Cowboy\, winner of the 2025 Beyond Words Poetry Chapbook Awards. His poetry and prose have been published and anthologized by Lucky Jefferson\, Inverted Syntax\, Gulf Stream Literary Magazine\, Red Ogre Review\, and elsewhere. He teaches English and Creative Writing in Philadelphia\, where he lives. \nSean Hanrahan Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-c-m-crockford-r-g-evans-shannon-frost-greenstein-and-von-wise/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 18\, 2025 – 5:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q3BIKrZhRjOSQ_BFscJ85A \nNathalie Anderson\, author of Rough\, Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated with Susan Hagen and Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America.  Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, Nimrod\, and Plume and authored libretti for five operas.  She has recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where she taught as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Literature\, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing. \nJoseph Lennon is Emily C. Riley Director of the Center for Irish Studies at Villanova University\, where he also is Associate Dean\, Professor of English\, and Co-Director of Villanova’s Strategic Initiative for Climate\, Justice and Sustainability.  His forthcoming book\, Marion Wallace-Dunlop and the Origins of the Hunger Strike will be published in 2026.  He writes poetry\, essays\, and scholarship on Irish and transnational literature and culture\, focusing on histories of the hunger strike in the United Kingdom\, Ireland\, Russia\, and India.  He has published poetry in New Hibernia Review\, Poetry Ireland\, Natural Bridge\, Denver Quarterly\, and Salmon Poetry published his Fell Hunger in 2011; he is editing a forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Irish Studies on “Sustainability in Irish Culture.” \nStephen Sexton’s first book\, If All the World and Love Were Young was the winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2019 and the Shine / Strong Award for Best First Collection. He was awarded the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2020. He was the winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2016 and the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. Cheryl’s Destinies was published in 2021\, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Wake Forest University Press reissued both collections in North America in 2024. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-happy-saint-patricks-day/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250312T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Catch Breath\, Amanda Giordano Herrera\, and Matthew Sekellick
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday March 12\, 2025 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zgOiWqUUT6OxURZIbzujjw \ncatch breath is the founder of reunion poetry\, a literary festival held in Philadelphia. \nAmanda Giordano Herrera is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in Philadelphia. She is an editor for Poet’s Row. Her personal work examines surrealism\, death\, rebirth and religion. \nMatthew Sekellick is a writer\, artist and performer from Upstate New York living in Philadelphia. A poet\, playwright\, essayist and critic\, their writing has appeared in Protean\, Prolit\, Peach Mag\, Jacobin\, and Theatre Journal\, among others. His plays include Picnic Among Tall Grasses\, The Life (and Afterlife) of Uncle Sam\, and an adaptation of the film noir Detour. He writes about theater in his newsletter\, Plays Unpleasant. sekellick.net \nAmy Saul-Zerby Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-catch-breath-amanda-giordano-herrera-and-matthew-sekellick/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Broadcast: Nathalie Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 11th\, 2025 at 6:30pm – Live Broadcast \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCam \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nNathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated in 2021 with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America\, and her new book\, Rough\, is forthcoming in 2024 from The Word Works.  Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, Nimrod\, and Plume.  She has also authored libretti for five operas\, in collaboration with Philadelphia composer Thomas Whitman.  Anderson manages the list-serv Lit-Philly that informs about 500 members about literary events in the Philadelphia area.  She has recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where she taught as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English Literature\, and served as Director of the Program in Creative Writing. \nCharles S. Carr hosts. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-broadcast-nathalie-anderson/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Sarah Browning\, W. D. Ehrhart\, and Jack Miller
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday March 5th\, 2025 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vLVubHweQumhe0GM3rq9nA \nSarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes (forthcoming)\, Killing Summer\, and others\, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry\, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. \nW.D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam\, Patriotism\, and American Life\, and At Smedley Butler’s Grave (a Moonstone Arts poetry chapbook). \n Jack Miller is a former English teacher who retired after a long career at Ocean City High School.  The author of a recently published autobiographical poetry book called Habit: Seven Decades of Poems\, his first collection\, he is a lover of nature who enjoys birds\, butterflies\, woods and swamps. \nOpen Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-sarah-browning-w-d-ehrhart-and-jack-miller/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250226T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Samantha Medina\, Amanda Nicole Meadeis\, and Skyler Norbury
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Samantha Medina\, Amanda Nicole Meadeis\, and Skyler Norbury\nWednesday\, February 26\, 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d9r8978JQ-CQKRC4mzSTbA \nSamantha Medina is a writer based in South Philadelphia. Her poetry touches on feminism and how to explore the cracks. \nAmanda Nicole Meadeis a poet\, artist\, tarot card reader\, and actress from Limerick\, PA. With a penchant for cute things – and a knack for making up amalgam-words – her work is a reflection of herself and how she interprets the energy of the world around her\, you are invited to look and listen to her works as you wish. \n‘Just be forewarned of the juxtapositional nature of their existence’. \nSkyler Norbury is a versatile visual artist who explores the interconnectedness of human experience through a range of different mediums. Drawing inspiration from personal encounters and spiritual reflections\, she creates work that invites viewers to connect on a deeper\, universal level. With a penchant for collaging found objects and other eclectic elements\, the result often offers a blend of nostalgia and contemporary expression. Skyler’s pieces offer both playfulness and profound intuition\, offering a unique perspective on the human journey. \nMac Chandler Hosts \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-samantha-medina-amanda-nicole-meadeis-and-skyler-norbury/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Remembering Gerald Stern
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, February 23\, 2025 \n2pm Eastern virtual \nRegister for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/P35CdROtSy2NBi1XJHF3lg \nGerald Daniel Stern (February 22\, 1925 – October 27\, 2022) was an American poet\, essayist\, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays\, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University\, Indiana University of Pennsylvania\, Raritan Valley Community College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. From 2009 until his death\, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence and faculty member of Drew University’s graduate program for a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry. \nStern was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and attended the University of Paris for post-graduate study. He received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1998 for This Time: New and Selected Poems and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1991 for Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems. In 2000\, Governor Christine Todd Whitman appointed him the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey. \nSubmit to the Remembering Gerald Stern anthology here by February 16th to be included in our anthology. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-gerald-stern/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Memorial,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Kat Giordano\, Carol Moog\, Lester Mobley\, and Tara Tamburello
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 19 at 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1lCXplISbCpSTMX_DE2UQ \nKat Giordano was born in Philadelphia and it’s been downhill ever since. Their latest poetry collection\, Thumbsucker\, is out via Malarkey Books. Kat tweets at @giordkat and lives on the internet at katgiordano.com. Kat is very cool. You like them.\n\n\nCarol Moog will read from her debut poetry collection She Sat But Not Still (Tell Tell Poetry).  She is a practicing psychologist\, professional musician (harmonica) and author of “Are They Selling Her Lips?” (William Morrow) and The Autism Playbook for Teens (New Harbinger).  She can also be found improvising with Tongue and Groove Spontaneous Theater\, and voicing vintage radio plays. She has never understood why people tell children to sit still. \nLester Mobley was born on Long Island New York before moving to Philadelphia at the age of 18 where he has remained ever since. He is a retired union building tradesmen who has dabbled on and off with poetry since elementary school. His favorite poets whom he reveres and attempts to emulate are Charles Bukowski’s who he describes as being urban\, seamy and modern\, and the innovative groundbreaking mid-19th century stylings of Walt Whitman. Everyone else as he always maintains\, remain respectfully peripheral. \nTara Tamburello was the 2023 Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. Her short fiction and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Ghost City Review\, Bone Parade\, Rust + Moth\, and other journals and anthologies. She is a past winner of the Bucks County Short Fiction Contest and received Eastern University’s Dorothy McCollum Siebert Award for creative writing. She lives in the Philly suburbs with her husband\, two children\, and cat.\n\n\n\nSean Hanrahan Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-kat-giordano-carol-moog-lester-mobley-and-tara-tamburello/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Robert Coles\, Alison Hicks\, and Roland Leander Williams
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Robert Coles\, Alison Hicks\, and Roland Leander Williams\nWednesday February 12\, 2025 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nFor Zoom\, register here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4vYhPZXETFGJrideJAk8-Q#/registration \nRobert Coles has published over one hundred poems in various journals\, anthologies\, and magazines. \nAlison Hicks was finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartis Pace\, and Editor’s Choice selection for the 2024 Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Prize\, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nMassimo Lavelle will read on behalf of Roland Leander Williams is a professor and chair of the English department at Temple University\, where he teaches courses on African-American culture and American society. He is the author of three books and has published fiction and poetry inspired by his life in the city. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-robert-coles-alison-hicks-and-roland-leander-williams/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250209T160000
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SUMMARY:Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe\nSunday\, February 9th\, 2025 \n2pm Eastern Virtual \nRegister for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1fJ5daTdS8elCUBV79ucyg \nLamont B. Steptoe is a poet / photographer / publisher born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is author of eight books of poetry including In the Kitchens of the Master\, Mad Minute\, Uncle’s South Sea China Blue Nightmare\, Cat Fish and Neckbone Jazz\, Dusty Road\, Common Salt and Trinkets and Beads. Steptoe is a father\, Vietnam veteran\, and founder of Whirlwind Press In 2005\, he was awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for A Long Movie of Shadows. \nContributors form our Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe anthology will read their works\, in community with Lamont and his legacy.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/tribute-to-lamont-b-steptoe/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250205T210000
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SUMMARY:The Moonstone Hosts 2024 Read
DESCRIPTION:The Moonstone Hosts 2024 Read: Live Poetry @ Fergies Pub \nAnd on Zoom\, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlfuCurDksGdR2-uQW3lE4O8D8JI2H4c4P#/registration \nMoonstone presents about 100 poetry readings and publishes 35 books a year. \nWe have numerous hosts representing various communities in a attempt to get you to listen to someone you never heard of. Nothing gives me more pleasure than “discovering” someone I don’t know read something I really like. This is the Art of Inclusion. \nCharles Carr\, author of paradise\, pennsylvania and Haitian Mud Pies And Other Poemhost of Philly Loves Poetry a live monthly broadcast on PhillyCAM. \nMac Chandler has been published in some places and has done like a lot of cool literary things you’ve probably never heard of. \nMassimo Elijah is a spoken word artist and Philadelphia native. He is thankful to be among so many people doing beautiful and positive things. \nAaron Gadbury is a poet & co-producer of @housepoetphilly. Known as a nightlife legend and dance icon. \nLindsay Hargrave reads poems with the improvised music group Oarsman and the indie pop band Mỹ Tâm and serves as managing editor for Rejection Letters. \nSean Hanrahan\, author of several books and is included in several anthologies and journals\, he is host of Moonstone third Wednesday at Fergie’s Pub. \nJennifer Hook\, author of This is How He Left Me\, chose poetry as an entry into the territory of loss and self-reinvention. \nWarren C. Longmire’s latest book is Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop]. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. \nAlina Macneal has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years\, is a educator/writer/poet/translator/architect whose poems have in numerous journals. \nAmy Saul-Zerby\, author of several books\, edits Voicemail Poems\, her poems have appeared in various journals. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of four books\, she curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket. Her work has been published internationally in print and online.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-moonstone-hosts-2024-read/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Broadcast: Alison Hicks
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 4th at 6:30pm \nMoonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM \nCan be viewed for free on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nAlison Hicks was awarded the 2021 Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press for Knowing Is a Branching Trail. Previous collections are You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss\, a chapbook Falling Dreams\, and a novella Love: A Story of Images. Her work has appeared in Eclipse\, Gargoyle\, Permafrost\, and Poet Lore. She was finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartish Pace\, an Editor’s Choice selection for the 2024 Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Prize\, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills Literary Lantern\, Quartet Journal\, and Nude Bruce Review. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio\, which offers community-based writing workshops.\n\nCharles S. Carr hosts
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-broadcast-alison-hicks/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250129T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Ernest Hilbert\, Dennis Hinrichsen\, and Sheleen McElhinney
DESCRIPTION:For Zoom\, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdumgqDsuGdAWcqR8ZcE1s8-QCdemDt6n \nErnest Hilbert it the author of the poetry collections Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—Last One Out\, and Storm Swimmer\, selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com \nDennis Hinrichsen is the author is eleven books of poetry. His most recent is Dominion + Selected Poems (Green Linden\, 2024). Previous books have won the Akron\, Field\, Tampa\, Michael Waters\, Grid and Wishing Jewel Poetry Prizes. New work can be found in The Indianapolis Review\, Midwest Review\, South Florida Poetry Journal\, Swing and Third Coast. \nSheleen McElhinney is the author of Every Little Vanishing\, the winner of the 2021 Write Bloody Publishing book award. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Lily Poetry Review\, Bayou Magazine\, Slant\, Free State Review\, and elsewhere. She currently teaches poetry to adults in recovery from substance abuse. She lives in Bucks County\, Pa\, where she was born and raised. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-ernest-hilbert-dennis-hinrichsen-and-sheleen-mcelhinney/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Terri Lyons\, Debrah Morkun\, and J. C. Todd
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Terri Lyons\, Debrah Morkun\, and J. C. Todd\nWednesday January 22\, 2025 – 7:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nFor Zoom\, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuirpzwsG9x38xszu1yyCB6qJwrpYsAr \nTerri Lyons is a Philadelphia based poet and playwright who has collaborated with a variety of urban initiatives to support cultural and historical enrichment. Her latest book is Light of the August Moon\, highlighting the black excursion through the 20th century. She instigates joy and savors truth with her spoken word collection while inspiring our youth to understand the value of history and recognize their own potential. Terri has received numerous awards including citations from the City of Philadelphia\, the State of Pennsylvania\, and the 14th and 35th District of Philadelphia Police Department. She has had several successful performances of her play\, When the Truth Comes Out\, highlighting the silent architects of the modern civil rights movement. (Photo credit Cleo Townsend) \nDebrah Morkun believes in near death experiences and prays to the old gods.  She practices magic and the coin toss\, hoping to synthesize the two into holy orders.  She is the author of The Ida Pingala and Projection Machine\, as well as several chapbooks. \nJ. C. Todd’s most recent books include a bilingual (English/Lithuanian collection\, What Kept Me Awake?/Kas neleido uzmigti?\, Beyond Repair\, and The Damages of Morning\,. She is a co-editor of the anthology Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War\, forthcoming from Scarlet Tanager Press in 2025. Winner of the Rita Dove Prize and twice a finalist for Poetry Society of America awards\, JC holds fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Poems have appeared in the Beloit Poetry Journal\, The Paris Review\, The Night Heron Barks and other journals. \nAnne-Adele Wight Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-terri-lyons-debrah-morkun-and-j-c-todd/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jon Lawrence\, MJ McGinn\, VA Smith\, and Amy Beth Sission
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry with Jon Lawrence\, MJ McGinn\, VA Smith\, and Amy Beth Sission\nWednesday January 15\, 2025 – 7:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nOr register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscOiprj4vHN0alIAMAjPkfzE1D9sbPaZe \nJon Lawrence currently teaches high school English and Creative Writing in his hometown of Bethlehem\, Pennsylvania. He received an MFA in Creative Writing at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. He is the author of the chapbook A Phrase Which Becomes Us (Bottlecap Press\, 2024) and his poetry and reviews have been published in Newfound\, American Writers Review\, The Bangalore Review\, Wild Roof Journal\, and others. \nMJ McGinn received his MFA from Adelphi University and was a VCCA resident in 2019. His work has been included in the Wigleaf 50 best very short stories and has previously appeared in the Guernica/PEN Flash Series\, Necessary Fiction\, Lost Balloon\, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine\, LIT Magazine\, and elsewhere. He lives and teaches middle school in Philadelphia. \nVA Smith\, author of Biking Through the Stone Age and American Daughters\, is a frequent Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and in dozens of literary journals\, among them: Southern Review\, Calyx\, Crab Creek Review\, West Trade Review and Burningword Literary Journal. A former Liberal Arts Teaching Excellence awardee at Penn State University as a Professor of Teaching in The Department of English\, VA gigs now as Poetry Editor at River Heron Review. \nAmy Beth Sisson lives near the skunk cabbages in a town outside of Philly. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver Magazine\, The Night Heron Barks\, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon\, Philadelphia Stories\, The Shoutflower\, Hot Pink Magazine\, and others. She received her MFA in poetry from Rutgers University Camden in 2023 and was a 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow with the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops. She is an Associate Artist with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and is an Editorial and Special Projects Assistant for Fence Publishers. \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jon-lawrence-mj-mcginn-va-smith-and-amy-beth-sission/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: House Poet with Mike Bagwell and Michael Ivory
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: House Poet with Mike Bagwell and Michael Ivory\nWednesday January 8\, 2025 – 7:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nOn Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdu-spzsiEtHWlYze5LmC-S7s1MFjVGdK \nHouse Poet @ Fergie’s Pub – Since March 2022\, House Poet has strived to bring together writers\, dancers\, DJs\, and musicians. Join us as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergies\, which features an open reading\, featured readers\, live music\, and a soundtrack you can dance to. \nMike Bagwell is a debris language and a writer in Philly. He’s deep into a multimedia Gilgamesh translation that’ll be hundreds of thousands of pages and take 200 years to complete. Recent work appears in Action Spectacle\, ITERANT\, Sprung Formal\, Annulet\, Tyger Quarterly\, THRUSH\, and others. He runs the Ghost Harmonics reading series. Find him at mikebagwell.me\, @low_gh0st\, or playing dragons with his daughters \nMichael Ivory is a Miami\, FL native whose journeys have led him to Philadelphia. A preacher’s kid by birth and a magician in his daydreams\, his writing has been an unending journey to share the magic he feels in the everyday with others. Whether it’s the wonder of water\, the anointing that is queerness\, or the way-making power of Black folks\, he wants to help people marvel at it. His work can be read in Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering and heard in the forthcoming Audio-Anthology: Who We Are is Made\, both published with O\, Miami. Michael holds an MFA in Fiction from North Carolina State University and can be found using his spare time becoming a Pokemon master or laughing way too loudly. \nLindsay Hargrave\, Warren Longmire – Hosts – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-house-poet-with-mike-bagwell-and-michael-ivory/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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