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:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T210818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T173336Z UID:17096-1646247600-1646254800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes DESCRIPTION:Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes\n  \nWednesday March 2\, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom\, Registration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpfumtqTgjG9wjtw-r78pDDvf43obI0URl \n  \nJoin us for a memorial open mic poetry reading for Sandra Turner-Barnes \n \nSandra Turner-Barnes of Lawnside — writer\, arts administrator\, and well-known poet — died Friday January 10\, 2022 at the age of 74. \nTurner-Barnes was former director of the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission. At the time of her passing\, she served on the board of the Camden County Historical Society\, often speaking publicly to adults and students about the history of enslaved peoples of the region. \nA well-known poet\, Turner-Barnes also led several poetry series in the area. For many years\, she hosted a popular Poetry in the Park series at Hopkins House in Cooper River Park\, which helped nurture the writing careers of numerous aspiring poets. Up until last month\, she also hosted A Place in Time open-mic series at the historical society and The Poet’s House series at the IDEA Center for the Arts in Camden. \nTogether with her friend and protégé Brother Daoud Bey of Camden\, Turner-Barnes for many years administered the Arts for Teens program at Rutgers-Camden\, through her role as county cultural & heritage director. \nHer poetry community often referred to her as the Cadillac Lady\, a reference to one of her early poems and her love for the car. \nFrom Tammy Paolino\, Cherry Hill Courier-Post \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host – Open Reading \n  \n  \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/memorial-open-mic-for-sandra-turner-barnes/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Memorial,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/March-2nd_Square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220306T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T211324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T142706Z UID:17109-1646575200-1646582400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022 DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022\nSunday March 6\, 2022 – 2pm EST \nRegistration Required-Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOGhrzMpH9w44h0epioF-_rK2dcB0-iI \nReadings from our new anthology\, International Women’s Day 2022 \n“Another world is not only possible\, \nshe is on her way. \nOn a quiet day\, \nI can hear her breathing.” \nArundhati Roy \n  \nImagine a gender equal world. \nA world free of bias\, stereotypes\, and discrimination. \nA world that is diverse\, equitable\, and inclusive. \nA world where difference is valued and celebrated. \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-international-womens-day-2022/ CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/March-6th_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220309T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T211717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T173942Z UID:17111-1646852400-1646859600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann\, Nicole Liu\, George Schaefer DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann\, Nicole Liu\, George Schaefer\nWednesday March 9\, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsfuurqDktGNK1pjW8ei1mSqsPb1VFpMOd \n  \n \nLucia Herrmann is an artist and educator originally from Miami\, FL who thinks a lot about her sinking city. She now lives in Philadelphia where she teaches 5th and 6th grade. Lucia has been published by APIARY\, Defunkt Magazine\, Impostor Poetry\, Toho Journal\, and has two elegies in O\, Miami’s collection Waterproof: Evidence of a Miami Worth Remembering. Poetry and performance are her passion and she believes art is the most effective means of initiating social change. \n  \n  \n  \n\n \nNicole Liu (she/her) was born in Hong Kong\, raised in Shenzhen\, and came of age in Boston. In her poems and essays\, she gravitates towards topics of miscommunication and censorship. She also likes to write about pesky suburban critters\, like badgers and opossums. Nicole graduated magna cum laude from Swarthmore College with a B.A. in English and Chinese. She is currently applying to graduate school while working as a writer\, writing instructor\, and translator. \n  \n  \n \n  \nGeorge Schaefer is a Philly born poet who started writing as a lonely teenager hoping to impress girls.  It didn’t work but it left him plenty of time to hone his craft. 4 decades later\, he still clings to the muse.  He has recently published Thru Peripheral Vision\, a collection of poems and Cannibalized Haibun\, a collection of haibun. \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading Follows \n  URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-lucia-herrmann-nicole-liu-george-schaefer/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/March-9th_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220316T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220316T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T212110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T174155Z UID:17113-1647414000-1647464400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey\, Philip Dykhouse\, Massimo Elijah DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey\, Philip Dykhouse\, Massimo Elijah\nWednesday March 16\, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street – and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdumqqz0qH9JKbFehlZlazFvB9TqUx2rx \n  \n \nKate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings are hard.  Through deeply personal poetry and creative nonfiction\, she touches on issues relating to trauma\, fat liberation\, mental illness and sexuality. You can find more about her at https://www.katemcarey.com/ \n  \n  \n  \n \nPhilip Dykhouse released his debut chapbook Bury Me Here in 2020. His work has appeared in Moonstone Press\, Soup Can Magazine\, everseradio.com\, Toho Journal\, and Spiral Poetry. He was the featured reader for the Dead Bards of Philadelphia at the 2018 Philadelphia Poetry Festival. Find him on Facebook at Philip Dykhouse Poetry and on Instagram @philip_dykhouse_poetry \n  \n  \n  \n \nMassimo Elijah is a spoken word poet born and raised in Philadelphia. He loves how the arts can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-kate-carey-philip-dykhouse-massimo-elijah/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/March-16th_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220319T160000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T215244Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T142237Z UID:17119-1647698400-1647705600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:New Voices: Aya Borish\, Cydney Brown\, Nikole Hood DESCRIPTION:New Voices: Emerging Poets\nSaturday March 19\, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL –  \nRegistration Required- Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudumhqTkqG9ZH4Mw6iNZnZRsITbFmHWo \nNew Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience. \n \n  \nAya Borish is 14\, in the 9th grade\, and from Philadelphia. She has always been passionate about civil rights\, feminism\, and climate change and feel we can all change the world we just need to find our voice. \n  \n  \nCydney Brown (2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate)\, author of Daydreaming\, is a Senior at Abington Friends School and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. She loves that there are no limitations to writing\, her poetry explores the topics of social justice\, self-image\, love\, and nature and she won first place in The National Hip Hop poetry competition and loves to perform spoken word. Cydney has been featured in The New York Times and Philadelphia Inquirer\, has recited her poetry at The Philadelphia Museum of Art\, Benjamin Franklin Hall\, Lincoln University and The Kelly’s Writers house. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world. \n  \n \nNikole Hood is a 24-year-old English Creative Writing major at Arcadia University. It is her goal to tell her story through poetry and inspire others to share their stories in order to make the world a better place. She has been writing most of her life\, but has chosen the concentration of poetry and cannot wait to build a strong voice behind her words. \nLarry Robin\, Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/new-voices-aya-borish-cydney-brown-nikole-hood/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Event-Wordpress-Post-date-tbd-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220322T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T220625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T214803Z UID:17126-1647973800-1647981000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: Paul Muldoon DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nTuesday March 22\, 2022\, 6:30pm – VIRTUAL – Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM \n699 Ranstead Street\, Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nPaul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951) is an Irish poet. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. At Princeton University he is currently both the Howard G. B. Clark ’21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 to 2004 and has also served as president of the Poetry Society (UK) and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Paul Muldoon was given an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature for 1996. Other recent awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize\, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize\, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize\, the 2003 Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry\, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award\, the 2004 Shakespeare Prize\, the 2005 Aspen Prize for Poetry\, and the 2006 European Prize for Poetry. He has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as “the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War.” \nCharles S. Carr\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-readings-series-paul-muldoon/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Event-Wordpress-Post-date-tbd-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220323T203000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T221723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T182857Z UID:17132-1648060200-1648067400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Welcome To Philadelphia 2022 DESCRIPTION:Welcome To Philadelphia 2022\nWednesday March 23\, 2022 – 7pm – Live at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceqhqzgqGNf-ubdBlSr-KjldISeXsuRI \nMarathon Poetry Reading from the Moonstone Anthology  celebrating the 2022 AWP Conference \nHours of Poetry\, Food & Drink at Fergie’s Pub \nA Welcoming\, TV-Free\, Philly-inspired Irish Pub in the heart of Center City \nPoetry from some of the many poets in Philadelphia for the AWP conference \nPresented alphabetical order by last name – Remember that plans change and not everyone who signed up will be available to read URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/welcome-to-philadelphia-2022/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Title.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220220T222634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T231442Z UID:17136-1648580400-1648587600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Book Release for Shelter in Place by Ben Hyland\nTuesday March 29\, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL \nRegistration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdqorD4qGd0ZSypQGzm70h7Zx6x9e5Ki \nBen Hyland\, author of Shelter in Place\, has poetry is collected in three chapbooks\, all under his birth name (Ben Heins): The Empathy Thief\, Cut Me Free\, and Greatest Hits & B-Sides. Ben’s individual poems have appeared in journals such as Hawai’i-Pacific Review\, Penumbra\, and The Meadow. As a career coach\, Ben has helped hundreds of jobseekers find employment. Connect with Ben and follow his work at benhylandlives.com. \n  \nDeborah Bayer is a retired Infectious Disease doctor and former cancer patient from Atlantic City\, NJ. Her chapbook\, Rope Made of Bandages\, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in March 2023. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications. She is pursuing a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. \n  \n  \nShelley Cohen has been writing poetry since her retirement from the world of work when she exchanged a career in grant writing for the craft of poetry.  Along with the other featured readers\, she has ties to the South Jersey poetry scene and frequently uses images from the Shore to inspire her work. \n  \n  \nBarbara Daniels’ Talk to the Lioness was published by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. Her poetry has recently been accepted by Permafrost\, Westchester Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, and Coachella Review. She received four fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, the most recent in 2020. \n  \n  \n  \nCole Eubanks is a retired teacher from the Philadelphia and Atlantic City School Districts. Cole has conducted three workshops for Stockton University’s Teen Arts Festival and has been the featured poet for the Sovereign Avenue Black History Jazz Celebration. In 2010\, he won the Literacy Volunteers of America in Atlantic County’s Poet of the Year contest. Cole’s work can be found in Poet’s against War\, Inferno No Boundaries\, Apiary\, Stray Cat\, and E Pluribus Unum. \n  \nJacalyn Shelley has been published in several journals including Sugar House Review\, Dunes Review\, Main Street Rag\, and Barely South. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies most recently including Moonstone’s anthologies The Virus and Protest 2021. She is the recipient of three Pushcart nominations. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/17136/ CATEGORIES:Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Readings-from-Ben-Hyland-author-of-Shelter-in-Place-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T210000 DTSTAMP:20260430T000513 CREATED:20220308T224920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220309T164640Z UID:17215-1648666800-1648674000@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Mac Chandler\, Jules Hostetter\, Z Murphy DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Mac Chandler\, Jules Hostetter\, Z Murphy\n  \nWednesday March 30\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-GgqTwsHtR1CaWU3y2Sqixd4Z7BQtqK \n  \nMac Chandler is a junior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review\, HASH Magazine\, and High Shelf Press issue XXXIX. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can find more of her work on her instagram\, @frillysox \n  \n \nJules Hostetter is a poet who is studying creative writing at The University of the Arts. She will be published in the school literary magazine\, Underground Pool\, in Spring 2022.” \n  \n  \n \nZ Murphy aka “The Zany Thing” is a multiracial multimedia artist from central Jersey. Z identifies as a storyteller\, sharing her art in whatever medium she dims fit. So whether it be performance\, the written word\, visual art\, etc\, she takes it upon herself to share the stories she needs to tell. She is currently a Creative Writing Major at the University of the Arts and has been published in different literary magazines. She co-hosts the  country’s longest-running queer open mic Out of the Box. Z can be reached at zmurphy@uarts.edu for information regarding her work and information regarding her open mic. \n  \nJohn Wall Barger Host – Open Reading URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-mac-chandler-jules-hostetter-z-murphy/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/March-30th_square-1-1.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR