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SUMMARY:Nathalie Anderson & Cassie MacDonald: Irish Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAm  \nTuesday March 5\, 2019 -6:30pm\nIrish Poetry with Nathalie Anderson & Cassie MacDonald\n699 Ranstead Street \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n2019 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  \n \nNathalie Anderson’s first book\, Following Fred Astaire\, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works; her second\, Crawlers\, received the 2005 McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; and her third\, Quiver\, was published in 2011 by Penstroke Press. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, and The Recorder. She has authored  libretti for three operas – The Black Swan; Sukey in the Dark; and an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia – all in collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman and Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia. A 1993 Pew Fellow\, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library\, and she teaches at Swarthmore College\, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in Creative Writing. \n \nCassie MacDonald serves as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House in Camden\, New Jersey where facilitates a twice-monthly writing circle\, organizes readings\, workshops and other writing arts events\, and creates neighborhood murals as part of the Poetry Liberation Front (“Poetry to the People!”) She has been a featured reader at Fergie’s\, Big Blue Marble Bookstore and Eleven One Gallery in Camden and is always game for an open mic\, even an unscheduled one on a moving train. Her chapbook\, Use Your Words\, is currently looking for a home. \nHost: Charles S. Carr \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/nathalie-anderson-cassie-macdonald-irish-poetry/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fran Baird @ Fergie's
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday March 13\, 2019 – 7pm\nFran Baird \nFran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers\, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his poem “Neshaminy\,” published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal. He currently studies with poet Leonard Gontarek as a member of the Osage Avenue Poets. As an adjunct professor he has taught social work and psychology at LaSalle University and criminal justice at West Chester University. He has been conducting a weekly and on-going poetry workshop at Phoenix (formerly Graterford) Prison for the last 2 years with long-term\, incarcerated men\, co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Literacy Project and Lifers\, Inc. In the winter edition 2017\, the Schuylkill Valley Journal published 10 poems by 5 individuals from the workshop. His first chapbook\, Painting With My Father\, has been published by Finishing Line Press. \nDave Worrell\, Host\, Open Reading follows \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/13375/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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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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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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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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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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