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SUMMARY:Labor Day with Octavia McBride-Ahebee & Anthony Palma
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 1\, 2019 – 7pm\nLabor Day\nwith Octavia McBride-Ahebee\n& Anthony Palma\n  \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 and Where My Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers. \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while dealing with topics of social justice. His readings blend poetry with elements of performance and music. His work has appeared in Whirlwind Magazine\, Oddball Magazine\, and Harbinger Asylum\, among others. He teaches writing at several universities in the Greater Philadelphia area and resides in West Chester PA with his wife and family.\n \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host\, Open Reading follows \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
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Tina Barr and Elaine Terranova
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\, Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sanson Street.\nTina Barr is author of Green Target\, Kaleidoscope\, The Gathering Eye\, and 3 chapbooks\, all winners of chapbook contests. She lives in a cabin on the side of a mountain\, in Black Mountain\, North Carolina.  Elaine Terranova has published seven collections of poetry\, most recently\, Perdido. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, her prose and prose poems have appeared in Boulevard\, Hotel Amerika\, South Loop Review\, Storm Cellar\, Mom Egg Review\, and Per Contra. Awards include a Pushcart Prize\, an NEA\, and a Pew Fellowship. Larry Robin\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-tina-barr-and-elaine-terranova/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Voices: Philadelphia's Emerging Poets under 25
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre at the Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street.\nA Voice for Everyone – Listen\, Share\, Connect. Krisann Janowitz\, Host – Open Reading follows.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-philadelphias-emerging-poets-under-25/
LOCATION:Proscenium Theatre at The Drake\, 302 S. Hicks Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T183000
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SUMMARY:Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\n699 Ranstead Street\nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967\nor 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 May 7\, 2019 -6:30pm\nWhitman at 200: Art and Democracy \n  \nMay 31\, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman\, who spent the last decades of his life in Camden\, NJ\, a short ferry ride from Philadelphia. Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy is being planned as an exploration of the relevance of the poet’s life and words for a contemporary audience through a region-wide program of cultural events. One vital component of Whitman’s writings\, his poetics of nature\, views man on a continuum with the natural world: both of it and able to appreciate it for itself and for its spiritual dimension. For Whitman\, the “Nature-element” is essential to our Democracy and “really underlie[s] the whole politics\, sanity\, religion and art of the New World.” \n  \nPartners & Performers \nHomer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia whose work is presented as installation\, performance art\, public art\, video and audio. Mr. Jackson has received support for his work from the Rockefeller Foundation\, Pew Fellowships in the Arts\, Civitella Rainieri Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, National Endowment for the Arts\, The Playwrights Center and Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art. Homer Jackson serves as the director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project. \n  \n  \nJarboe (she/he) is a cabaret artist\, director\, writer\, historian\, and host serving you revolution\, herstory\, queer community making\, and a whole lot of glitter.  Going back to the interdisciplinary roots of cabaret\, Jarboe is transforming opera\, and live performance from her home in Philadelphia\, making work that is insistent on its liveness and interactivity\, work that will make you sing\, dance\, clap and question.  Jarboe has created work with and for Opera Philadelphia\, The Philadelphia Museum of Art\, The Barnes Foundation\, The Wilma Theater\, The Kimmel Center\, FringeArts among others. \n  \nAndrew Nurkin is the Deputy Director for Enrichment and Civic Engagement at the Free Library of Philadelphia\, where he directs humanities and civic programs across the library’s fifty-four locations. His poems have appeared in The Believer\, Cimarron Review\, North American Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, FIELD\, Iron Horse Literary Review\, and elsewhere. He was a 2016 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and holds his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. \nHost: Charles S. Carr \nMoonstone Arts Center Office \n110A S. 13th Street\, Philadelphia\, PA 19107\, \n(215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com \n 
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LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sojourner Ahebee\, Michele Belluomini & Elizabeth Bodien
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 8\, 2019 – 7pm\nSojourner Ahebee\,\nMichele Belluomini\n& Elizabeth Bodien \nSojourner Ahebee is the author of Reporting from the Belly of the Night\, writes stories about African diaspora identities and the eternal question of home and belonging. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic\, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day)\, Muzzle Magazine\, For Harriet\, Winter Tangerine Review\, Apiary Magazine and elsewhere.  In 2013 she served as a National Student Poet\, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. Sojourner was invited to the White House by former First Lady\, Michelle Obama\, to garner her award. Sojourner believes not in the boat that floated her here but what she’ll do with the water.   \n  \nMichele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry\, Philadelphia Poets\, Beltway\, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appearedin various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers\, also published by Plan B Press. She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia \n  \n  \nElizabeth Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood\, Metal\, Fiber\, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours as well as four chapbooks\, all written since she retired from teaching at Northampton Community College. She is also the author of the spiritual memoir Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology\, consciousness studies\, religions\, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan\, an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon\, a childbirth instructor in West Africa\, and as a professor of anthropology. Her poems\, essays\, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals including: Cimarron Review\, Crannóg\, and Parabola  Bodien grew up in the “burned-over” district of western New York but now lives near Hawk Mountain\, Pennsylvania. \nPhoto by Elaine Zelker\, LLC
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry and Humor
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nWednesday May 15\, 2019 – 7pm\nPoetry and Humor\nWith Eileen D’Angelo  & James Feichthaler \n  \nEileen D’Angelo\, a paralegal by day and a mad poet at night\, has been nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts and was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Eileen has been the Director of the Mad Poets Society since 1987 and has coordinated over 1\,500 special events\, including poetry readings\, ongoing monthly series\, competitions\, workshops\, festivals\, conferences\, student events and more\, approximately 70 to 80 poetry readings per year since 1990.  She has served as Editor of the Mad Poets Review since the first issue in 1990\, and was a Contributing Editor for the literary journal\, HELLAS\, A Journal of Arts and Humanities. \n  \nJames Feichthaler’s poetry has appeared in print and online journals in both the US and UK. His poems are truthful odes to his imagination\, which he calls “the lunatic disciple of his existence.” The self-proclaimed “forrealist poet” is the host of an open mic reading series called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia\, which is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk\, PA.  You can follow James’s poetic exploits on Twitter at @forrealist_poet and keep up with the The Dead Bards of Philadelphia on Facebook and Instagram \n  \nAaren Perry Host\, Open Reading follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/poetry-and-humor/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Remembering Walt Whitman
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LOCATION:McGillin’s Olde Ale House\, 1310 Drury st. second floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19107\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190522T190000
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SUMMARY:May is for Mothers
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ 1199 \nThe District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund \n100 South Broad Street\, 10th floor (Land Title Building) \nWednesday May 22\, 2019 – 7pm \n \n Catherine Bancroft is the mother of three grown children and appreciates that a critical skill of motherhood is keeping your mouth shut.  Poetry and art are good outlets. \nShevaun Brannigan’s work is forthcoming in AGNI and has appeared in Best New Poets and Slice. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant and holds an MFA from Bennington College. \nVernyce Dannells is the author of Temporarily Abated and has been published in places you know and others you’ve never heard of. \nJanet Fishman created and toured two adaptations\, The Olive Lake A Chinese Fairy Tale\, and Three Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer.  Her first full length play\, At Home in the World has had two readings at The University of the Arts\, where she currently teaches. \nCourtney Gambrell is a 27-year-old who enjoys writing and reciting poetry in the Greater Philadelphia region. As a poet\, she is most concerned with self-healing\, which is her catalyst for writing.  \nOna Gritz books include the poetry collections Geode\, and Border Songs: A Conversation in poems\, written with Daniel Simpson. Her poems and essays have appeared widely. \nLisa Grunberger\, Temple University Professor\, is author of three books and her play Almost Pregnant\, about motherhood\, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is under development.  \nDonna Wolf-Palacio is author of What I Don’t Know\, The Other Side\, and Step Lightly. She taught a poetry workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was editor/consultant for the UARTS Poetry Review.  \nSekai’afua Zankel defines herself as a “Performance Poet\, combining her experience in theatre and her “visceral and active poetry”. Her underlying credo is a great revolution in the life of a single individual can change the world.  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/may-is-for-mothers/
LOCATION:The District 1199C Training and Upgrading Fund\, 100 Broad st.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19110\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: G Emil Reuter\, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri & Dave Worrell
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nG Emil Reuter is a writer of poems and stories. Ten collections of his poetry and fiction have been published\, most recently\, Stale Bread and Coffee. \nDiane Sahms-Guarnieri is a Philadelphia Poet with four collections of poetry\, most recently\, The Handheld Mirror of the Mind. \nDave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and Close to Home\, his poems have appeared in journals including Slant\, Canary\, Heroin Chic. Larry Robin\, Host – Open Reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-g-emil-reuter-and-dave-worell/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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