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Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest: Live Reading

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone celebrates the winners of our 2022 Chapbook Contest with a dedicated live reading. Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book and Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. Leonard Kress author of Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems, Walk Like Bo Diddley, The Orpheus Complex, Sappho’s Apples Thirteens, Braids & Other Sestinas, and The Centralia Mine Fire. Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect whose poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24. John Timpane is former Commentary Page Editor and Books Editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. His work has appeared in Sequoia, The Fox Chase Review, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere.

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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia’s birthplace.

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Poetry From the Ukraine: Live Reading

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

In collaboration with Ukrainian poets, we’re supporting the continued struggle in Ukraine with a special night of poetry featuring David Acosta, Sibelan Forrester, Sean Hanrahan, Olga Livshin, Lynn Levin, and Warren C. Longmire. Poets will read from the featured books (Today is a Different War by Lyu
dmyla Khersonska, In the Hour of War edited by Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky, and A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails by Halyna Kruk) and their own work. Book bundles will be sold at the event on online, with all profits donated to Ukraine TrustChain.

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Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Mikey Franz, & Faith Paulsen

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Mac Chandler is a recent graduate of The University Of The Arts. She has been published in HASH magazine, Rappahannock Review, and High Shelf Press. Mikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook, Terrestrial Sanctuaries was published by Moonstone. Faith Paulsen’s work has appeared in venues including Philadelphia Stories, Apiary, Ghost City Press, One Art, Literary Mama and Mantis. She is the author of three chapbooks, including We Marry We Bury We Sing or We Weep with Moonstone Press.

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Remembering Charles Bukowski

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A reading from our Remembering anthology series. Charles Bukowski was a prolific underground writer whose work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and eventually publishing over sixty books. Join us as poets continue his tradition.

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Live Poetry: Marion Deutsche Cohen, Paige Menton, & Aaron Poochigian

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for poetry and memoir on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She is the author of 33 books; her newest poetry collection is Disturbing Shapes. Paige Menton, author of Wrim and Twenty Miles to April lives outside of Philadelphia where she runs a land restoration organization and cares for the land of a Quaker meeting. She is a poet, gardener, and teacher of writing and environmental education. Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the thrillers-in-verse, Mr. Either/Or. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.

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Virtual: Winners of 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest

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Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Sunday, August 27 @ 2pm Virtual on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh Chad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry […]

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Live Poetry: Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Poetry with Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, and Nicole Steinberg with an open reading. Lauren Holguin is a writer, educator & dancer, she teaches K-12 neurodivergent students and is the Co-creator of Spit Poetry reading series, assistant poetry editor at Barrelhouse Magazine. Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx writer, performer and educator. Gabriel has been featured in Huffington Post, VIBE Magazine, The Flama, Remezcla, and others. Nicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress, Getting Lucky, and multiple chapbooks. Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic. She was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA.

Which Side Are You On? – Labor Day 2023 Anthology Reading

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Labor is increasingly militant after years of inaction. Moonstone’s Labor Day Anthology for 2023 builds on this momentum with over 70 poets sharing their experiences, memories, and hopes for the labor movement. The accompanying anthology includes photos taken by Frank Espada and poetry written by his son, the author and people’s attorney, Martín Espada.

Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading

Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is author of six poetry collections, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia), 2022, with her latest chapbook, Luna, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press, 2023. Winner of several poetry awards, including the Partisan Press Award, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford.