BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Moonstone Arts Center - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Moonstone Arts Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Moonstone Arts Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190703T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190703T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T182949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190626T182949Z UID:13807-1562180400-1562180400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub DESCRIPTION:Joseph Rathgeber is an author\, poet\, high school English teacher\, and adjunct professor from New Jersey. He is the author of Mixedbloods\, The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories\, and MJ. He has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts.  Mixedbloods is a story of identity\, of a cultural history under attack\, and of destructive—often violent—behavior. It documents a class struggle between the rich and poor\, but also between the organic and the inorganic\, and thus between the forces of life and the forces of death. \nSean Lynch\, Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-12/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190710T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190710T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T183217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190709T145338Z UID:13809-1562785200-1562785200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Haiku DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nHAIKU\nBring your Haiku to share with us! \nWhat is Haiku? \nRenowned for its small size and precise syllabic makeup\, Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry composed of three unrhymed lines of five\, seven\, and five moras (a unit of sound that determines syllable weight in some languages). Haiku typically contain a kigo (seasonal reference)\, and a kireji (cutting word). In Japanese\, Haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line and tend to adopt aspects of nature as their subject matter\, while Haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese Haiku and may deal with any subject matter. \nHaiku traditionally consist of five\, seven\, and five syllables\, like this translation by Alan Watts of the Haiku master Basho: \nThe old pond \nA frog jumps in: \nPlop! \nSteve Clark puts a hometown twist on this format\, inventing the Philadelphia Haiku: two\, one\, and five syllables based on our area code: \nBread\, Cheez- \nWhiz\, \nSteak. Revolution! \nWhat can you do with this? Show us your Haiku creativity!\nHaiku enthusiasts Steve Clark\, Hannah McDonald\, and Scott Sigl: Expected Readers  \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading Follows  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-13/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T140000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T183359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190709T143815Z UID:13811-1563112800-1563112800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Voices: Jennifer Nessel\, Bee Fanty\, & Ian Palmer DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co \n1632 Walnut St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19103 \nNew Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets (under the age of 25). \n Jennifer Nessel is a graduate from Saint Joe’s\, received the Best Short Story award from her university’s literary magazine\, and has received funding for a novella entitled\, ‘The Cage\,’ through which she explored trauma and story-telling in the age of the ‘Me Too’ movement. Bianca “Bee” Fanty is graduate from UARTS\, writes about trauma\, hallucinations\, and the mundane. These are also reflected in her illustrations\, prose\, music\, and filmmaking. She served as an editor for UArts’ literary magazine\, Underground Pool. Ian Palmer has lived in nine countries and tries to contend gently with everything he sees\, he is 21 years old and a senior at Swarthmore College studying political science\, religion\, and poetry. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-shakespeare-and-co-2/ LOCATION:Shakespeare and Co.\, 1632 Walnut St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19103\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190714T140000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T184105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190709T182454Z UID:13813-1563112800-1563112800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Philadelphia Says: Struggle for Freedom DESCRIPTION:Chapbook release party & reading event\nSunday July 14\, 2019 – 2pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nJuly 4 is Independence Day in the US \nJuly 14 is Bastille Day in France \nEvery country has an Independence Day \nEvery person wants to be FREE \nHear what Philadelphia poets have to say about this. \nBook release with the contributors reading \n  \n  \n  \nNot all contributors will be reading. \nLiz Abrams-Morley                             Linda Goss                             Carol Moog \nAhmad Almallah                                Steven Halpern                     Peter Murphy \nGeorgina Bard                                    Suzán Jivàn                          Leonard Neufeldt \nMargaret Chew Barringer                  Leonard Kress                         Gloria Nixon-John \nMary Brownell                                    Cynthia Lee                           Hermond Palmer \nMary Calloway                                    Hazel Lee                             Jaz \nJose Cedillos                                        Lynette                                Julie Rainbow \nPhilip Dykhouse                                  John Mason                          George Schaefer \nDeborah Fries                                      Kate McGourty                    Mbarek Sryfi \n                                                                                                        John Timpane \nChapbook will be available for purchase online if you are unable to attend the event! URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philadelphia-says-struggle-for-freedom/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190717T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190717T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T184438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190709T144139Z UID:13816-1563390000-1563390000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Meredith Z. Avakian\, Hanoch Guy\, & Hermond Palmer DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 17\, 2019 – 7pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub\, Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nMeredith Z. Avakian is a writer\, poet\, and the author of Propaganda Begins with PR: Poetry for the Soul and PRhyme Time: Power of Poetry. Her poetry has also been published in The Armenian Mirror-Spectator\, The Literary Groong\, and elsewhere\, where she focuses on self-reflection\, transformation\, history\, justice\, and humanity. Hanoch Guy spent his childhood in Israel\, is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English\, emeritus professor of Jewish and Hebrew literature at Temple University. Hanoch is the author of seven English and a Hebrew poetry collection\, His newest books are Nokaddish: Wrestlng with God. Springtime in Moldova: Poems of fantasy and dreams and Back to Terezin: Holocaust poems. Hermond Palmer is author of Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. He has performed his work at spoken-word venues in Harlem\, Philadelphia\, Washington and at the National Black Arts Festival. A founding member of the Westchester based writing group ‘Nuff Said\, he is a regular contributor to The Washington Informer. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-14/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190724T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190724T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T185113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190718T171120Z UID:13818-1563994800-1563994800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Celebrating Jawdat Fakhreddine's "The Sky That Denied Me" DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub\, Fergie’s\, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor) \nCelebrating Jawdat Fakhreddine’s The Sky That Denied Me \nTranslated & Presented by Huda Fakhreddine & Roger Allen  \nJawdat Fakhreddine belongs to the second generation of Arab modernists. In Lebanon\, he is sometimes included under the label “Poets of the South” (shu‘arā al-janūb) which circulated in the late 1970s and early 1980sThe Sky That Denied Me\, includes poetry about familial love\, displacement\, memory\, and grief. \nHuda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition and Zaman Saghir taht shams thaniya (A Small Time under a Different Sun). Her translations of modern Arabic poems have appeared in  Nimrod\, ArabLit Quarterly and Middle Eastern Literatures.  Roger Allen was the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania\, where he also served Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. Among his studies on Arabic literature are: The Arabic Novel: an historical and critical introduction\, and The Arabic Literary Heritage . Huda J. Fakhreddine will also read her own poetry in both Arabic and English \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Following URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-15/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190731T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190731T190000 DTSTAMP:20260509T051904 CREATED:20190626T185537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190711T174935Z UID:13820-1564599600-1564599600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Marion Bell and Kyle Brown-Watson @ Fergie's Pub DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 31th\, 2019 – 7pm \nMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub\, Fergie’s\, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor) \nPoetry & Politics with Ryan Eckes \nMarion Bell is a poet\, social work student and mental health worker living in Philadelphia. She has been shaped by Philly poetry communities over the last decade. She is the author of AUSTERITY (Radiator Press 2019).  \nKyle Brown-Watson is a bookseller based in Philadelphia. He has read poetry and fiction on stage for Empty Set Press and the Breweytown Social. Before that\, he worked in advertising\, software development\, and heaven forgive him\, television. \nRyan Eckes\, host\, open reading follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fergies-pub-16/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR