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SUMMARY:Walt Whitman @ 200: Art and Democracy - the organizers
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n699 Ranstead Street\nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30\nin Philadelphia.\n\n2017 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 \nTuesday April 2\, 2019 -6:30pm\nWalt Whitman – Part 1\n\n \nSince 1995\, Lynne Farrington has been a curator in Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library\, now part of the Kislak Center\, where she works closely with faculty\, students\, and other researchers\, makes acquisitions\, stewards donors\, curates exhibitions\, organizes symposia and conferences\, develops projects\, fields reference queries\, and gives presentations on the collections to classes and other interested groups.  \n  \n  \nLeonard Gontarek is the author of five books of poems\, including\, Déjà Vu Diner and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, Verse\, Poetry Northwest and The Best American Poetry\, among others. He is host of the Green Line Café Reading and Interview Series and conducts poetry workshops throughout the Philadelphia area. \n  \n  \nFrom 1986 to 2000\, Judith Tannenbaum served as Curator\, Associate Director\, and Interim Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia. In 2000\, she became the first Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum\, Providence. Since returning to Philadelphia in 2013\, she has used her broad knowledge of the visual arts\, the performing arts\, and interdisciplinary art forms to curate exhibitions and events at area institutions. \nHost\, Charles S. Carr \n  \nMoonstone Arts Center Office\n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\,\n(215) 735-9600;\nlarry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/walt-whitman-200-art-and-democracy-the-organizers/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave\, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia\, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit\, a literary magazine about class\, work\, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows\, Apiary\, and Mad House magazines. \nFae Aspen Gehringer is the author of “I Love You It Looks Like Rain” (Be About It Press 2017) and “I Don’t Write About Race” the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms’s 2017 Mainline contest\, an Entropy Best Poetry Book of 2018\, and debuted as the number one LGBT new release on Amazon. \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee’s poetry is informed by the convergence of cultures and the many ways people move throughout the world. Her work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Rigorous\, For Harriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\,  Yellow Medicine\, Badilisha Poetry Exchange\,  South Philly Fiction\, Blackberry Magazine\,  International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas and the Beloit Poetry Journal.  McBride-Ahebee’s poetry collections include Assuming Voices (Lit Pot Press) and Where My Birthmark Dances (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry chapbook\, Praise Songfor the Gravediggers\, was released in January 2019.  https://omcbrideahebee.squarespace.com/ \nSean Lynch\, Host\, Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-patrick-belgrave-fae-aspen-gehringer-octavia-mcbride-ahebee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190407T140000
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SUMMARY:Philadelphia Says Black Lives Have Always Mattered Book Release ($10)
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 7\, 2019 – 2pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nPhiladelphia Says: Black Lives Have Always Mattered\nBook Release\n“Black Lives Matter is not a new revelation but a continuation of the black social gospel proclaimed by Ricahrd Allen\, Adam Powell Sr.\, Marcus Garvey\, Malcolm X\, Martin Luther King Jr\, and many others. To value black life is part of our legacy\, in a very real sense the reason we will never be defeated is that at the very core of our existence is the firm belief and understanding that Black Lives Have Always Mattered.” -Bob Law \nBook – $10
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philadelphia-says-black-lives-have-always-mattered-book-release-10/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veronica Nocella & Katbug Stanshine: New Voices
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street \n\n  \n\nNew Voices:\nPhiladelphia’s Emerging Poets \nSunday April 7\, 2019 – 5pm\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nVeronica Nocella is a short poet with a big mouth hailing from Philadelphia\, PA. They have been writing poetry since their freshman year of high school and was a member of Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) since they were 15. In 2015\, they represented PYPM at Brave New Voices\, taking the international championship\, in2018\, they were a member of Temple University’s CUPSI team. Their work can be found in Apiary’s 9th Issue\, Sanctuary\, and in Bryn Mawr’s Literary Magazine Nimbus. Veronica is an events coordinator for BABEL\, Temple’s only spoken word poetry collective\, and is the Youth Editor and Ambassador for Apiary’s Tenth Issue\, Apiary X. Their work focuses primarily on queerness and mental health. In their free time they can be found starting trouble\, telling their mom they love her\, and forgetting to practice piano. \n  \nKatbug Stanshine is a trans woman studying creative writing at Temple University. Through poetry she explores the spaces where trauma and mental illness meet the body\, and how to find agency within them. She is the co-event coordinator for Babel Poetry Collective and owns three swords. Her work has previously been featured on Punch Drunk Press\, and she can be found posting too much on twitter: @mydadisold or instagram: @wheelyshoes \n  \nJoin us each month for readings on the third Sunday  \nby 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 \nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect with Other Writers \n  \nHost: Krisann Janowitz\, an open reading follows the featured poets \n  \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/veronica-nocella-katbug-stanshine-new-voices/
LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Susan Gerardi Bello & Kathleen Mulholland
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday April 10\, 2019 – 7pm\n\nSusan Gerardi Bello &\nKathleen Mullholland\n  \nSusan Gerardi Bello lives with her husband and son in Bucks County\, PA.  She is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative in Princeton\, NJ\, and\, for three years\, served as selecting editor for their journal U.S. 1 Worksheets. She currently co-hosts with Kathleen Mullholland the Bucks County Bards monthly poetry series at The Newtown Library Company.  She has been published in numerous journals in print and online\, including Mom Egg Review\, New Verse News\, Patterson Literary Review\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Susan’s first full-length poetry manuscript “Through the Oak Tree” is under contract with Kelsay Books. \n  \nKathleen Mulholland writes to understand her place in this world. Under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Bursk\, she placed runner-up four times in the Bucks County Poet Laureate search. She’s been published in The Bucks County Writer\, MadPoets Review\, and US1 Worksheets. She won an honorable mention in the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize (2008)\, and won the 2016 Bucks County Muse Award. Kathleen founded/hosts the Newtown Library Poetry Series.  She considers herself blessed to have so many talented writers in the community who inspire and shape her poetry. \n \n \n  \nDave Worrell\, Host\, Open Reading follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Moonstone Chapbooks Release Event
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nSunday April 14\, 2019 – 2pm\nNew Moonstone Chapbooks\nRelease Event\n  \nChidi Ezeobi – Remind the World: Poems from Prison \nChidi E.O. Ezeobi was born in Nigeria. He obtained early education in Negeria. He attended Augata High School\, Augata\, Anambra State\, Nigeria. Chidi Ezeobi migrated to the United States in 1996. He later obtained his AAS in business administration at Kingsborough Community College\, New York\, and his BSC in professional law at Medgar Evers College in New York. Chidi Ezeobi is currently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Insistution in Fairtown\, New Jersey. $10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-16-5 \n  \nJack Isreal – Sorry for Fire \nJack Israel has published poems in various places over the years\, including American Poetry Review\, the Beloit Poetry Journal\, Cortland Review\, Cleaver\, River City and others. He’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received a grant from the PA Council on the Arts and is half the blogging team of Yaakov Murchadha. He lives in Berwyn\, PA with his wife\, Lynn. \n$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-17-2 \n  \n  \nZack Marshall – City Valhalla \nCity Valhalla is an exploration not just of Philadelphia City Hall’s outside appearance\, but an excavation of the staggering memories that breathe within its history. \n“The narrative structure lulls the reader into a false sense of security before yanking them down the rabbit hole of poetic surrealism.” – Jay Rollins \n$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-18-9 \n  \n  \nJacob Russell – A Serial Poem \nJacob Russell is a visual artist\, poet\, novelist\, street medic/activist\, who prefers they/them for pronouns. They have published three chapbooks and have four MSS books of poetry currently in circulation. Jacob’s novel\, Ari Figue’s Cat\, was published by Deep Sett Press. \nPhotos of Jacob’s art are posted on their blog\, Jacob Russell’s Magic Names. \n$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-19-6 \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Ditta Baron Hoeber\, Louisa Schnaithmann
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday April 17\, 2019 – 7pm\n\nDitta Baron Hoeber\,\nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach\,\nLouisa Schnsaithmann\n  \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother\, winner of the Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, Sept. 2019) as well as the chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press\, 2014). Her poems appear in POETRY\, Nashville Review\, TriQuarterly\, and Waxwing\, among others. Julia is the Editor of Construction Magazine (www.constructionlitmag.com) and writes a blog about motherhood (https://otherwomendonttellyou.wordpress.com/). \n  \n \nDitta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her recent poetry publications have been in Contemporary American Voices\, the American Journal of Poetry\, the American Poetry Review\, Construction Magazine\, New American Writing\, Window Cat and Per Contra along with a suite of her photographs.  In 2018 she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize. \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \nLouisa Schnaithmann is a poet living and writing in Philadelphia\, PA. Her work has been or will be published in Menacing Hedge\, Projector Magazine\, and Rogue Agent. She generally writes about nature\, memories from her childhood\, and women who deserved\n \n \n  \n  \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-julia-kolchinsky-dasbach-ditta-baron-hoeber-louisa-schnaithmann/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T190000
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Human Animals with Grady Chambers & David Ebenbach
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s\, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor)\nWednesday April 24\, 2019 – 7pm\nHuman Animals:\nPoems of body\, praise\, and place\nwith\nGrady Chambers & David Ebenbach\n  \nGrady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions\, 2018) selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories are forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online\, Boulevard\, Joyland\, and Quarterly West\, and recent work has appeared in The Paris Review; The Iowa Review; Nashville Review; The Adroit Journal\, and elsewhere. Grady was born and raised in Chicago. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, and lives in Philadelphia. \n  \n  \n \n  \nDavid Ebenbach\, born and raised in West Philadelphia\, is the author of seven books of poetry\, fiction\, and non-fiction\, including his new poetry collection Some Unimaginable Animal. His books have won such awards as the Juniper Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize\, among others. He now lives with his family in Washington\, DC\, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com. \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-human-animals-with-grady-chambers-david-ebenbach/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Voices Volume One: Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Sunday April 28\, 2019 – 5pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre\nat the Drake\,\n302 S. Hicks Street \nNew Voices VolumeOne: Philadelphia Emerging Poets\nunder 25 – Book Release\nReadings by emerging poets who have been published in Moonstone’s latest book. \nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect \nKrisann Janowitz\, Host – Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-volume-one-book-release/
LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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