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SUMMARY:The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading\n  \nRegistration Required – Registration Link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduCsrjwiEtMrMCgeWMUJulqmM7ujVoJv \n \nStruggle for Liberty – Everyone Struggles for Freedom \nIndependence Day in the US (July 4th) – Bastille Day in France (July 14th) \nThe continuing struggle for liberty is prevalent all over the world\, but there are contradictions and complexities in words like “freedom” and “liberty.” Freedom for who? Liberty to do what? Can these words even truly be defined? Readings by contributors to the Moonstone anthology
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-struggle-for-freedom-virtual-moonstone-anthology-poetry-reading/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic\n  \nRegistration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdeyrrzkvE9a5XaxS_M-lkBnESlr3EBOI  \n  \nKen Holland has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has had work published in such journals as Rattle\, Tulane Review\, Southwest Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, The American Journal of Poetry and Tar River among others.  He’s won/placed in a number of contests\, including those sponsored by Naugatuck River Review and the Stephen DiBiase competition.  One of his poems\, adapted for stage\, was selected for performance in NYC in July.  He lives and breathes in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York.  And has recently launched his website: www.kenhollandpoet.com \n  \nMike Jurkovic is published widely: full length collections include mooncussers\, AmericanMental\, and Blue Fan Whirring; anthologies include Calling All Poets 20th Anniversary Anthology\, Reflecting Pool: Poets & the Creative Process\, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose\,  and others. Now in its 23rd year\, Mike serves as President of Calling All Poets. A 2016 Pushcart nominee\, online CD reviews at All About Jazz and Lightwood. Chairman\, Music Fan Film Series\, Rosendale Theater. Host\, New Jazz Excursions\, WIOX 91.3FM\, Roxbury\, NY. Streaming at wioxradio.org. Regional features Van Wyck Gazette\, 2013-2020. The Rock n Roll Curmudgeon appeared in Rhythm and News Magazine\, 1996-2003. He loves Emily most of all.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-ken-holland-and-mike-jurkovic/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Reading at PhillyCAM: J.C. Todd
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Author Reading at PhillyCAM: J.C. Todd\n  \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series \n699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \n  \nJ.C. Todd’s most recent book of poetry are Beyond Repair\, a special selection for the 202 Able Muse Book award\, and The Damages of Morning\, a 2019 Eric Hoffer Award finalist. A winner of a Poetry Society of the UK award and the Rita Dove Prize in Poetry\, she has received fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, and residency programs including the Bemis Center. Her poems and interviews have appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, The Night Heron Barks\, Paris Review\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She lives in Philadelphia. Charles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-author-reading-at-phillycam-j-c-todd/
LOCATION:699 Ranstead Street\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Summer J. Hart\, and Osimiri Sprowal
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey\, Summer J. Hart\, and Osimiri Sprowal\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdOioqj0uHNJ8-6wjUL4y4IxNsU2xMOZ- \nSavannah Cooper-Ramsey holds a BA in History from Bard College\, an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Italian from Columbia University. She is the author of the artist’s book Not Fit for Print\, winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award\, her poems can be found in publications like BOMB\, Dream Pop Journal\, Bedfellows\, and Whirlwind Magazine. Savannah works for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association in Camden\, NJ\, and teaches Creative Writing at UArts and with the Arts Alliance of Philadelphia’s Writers’ Workshop. \nSummer J. Hart is an interdisciplinary artist from Maine\, living in the Hudson Valley\, New York. Her written and visual artworks are influenced by folklore\, superstition\, divination\, and forgotten territories reclaimed by nature. She is the author of Boomhouse and Augury of Ash. Her poetry can be found in Waxwing\, The Massachusetts Review\, Northern New England Review\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. Summer is a member of the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation. \n  \nOsimiri Sprowal (they/them) is an Afro-Indigenous\, Trans\, Queercrip poet\, homeless rights activist\, and sibling. Their poetry has been featured at Bowery Poetry\, The University of Wisconsin-Madison\, Gettysburg University\, The University of Arizona-Tuscon\, among other locations. They were the 2015 Philly Youth Grand Slam Champion\, 2018 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) Semi-Finalist\, where they received the Best Love Poem Award. They were a 2018 Till Arts Emerging Artist Fellow\, 2019 Feminine Empowerment Slam Champion\, and a 2020 CoLab Arts Fellow. They were a winner of the 2019 Shockwire Micro Chapbook Contest for their book Gemini: Duality of Self\, a chapbook chronicling their experiences as a genderfluid person. They were the founder and President of deadname.arts\, Philly’s only gender-expansive collective in its time. Most recently\, they recieved the Marshall Scholarship\, and are preparing to relocate to the U.K to write Black Queer plays.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-savannah-cooper-ramsey-summer-j-hart-and-osimiri-sprowal/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: High-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review: Best of The Sucks\n  \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-qtrTsrG9SWC8UP_dlV9CJFR2nNVIYW \n  \nBest of the Sucks: \nHigh-Octane Poetix from the Legendary Toad Suck Review\nEdited by Mark Spitzer ($21.95\, MadHat Press) \nFor fans of the legendary Toad Suck Review\, and for anyone who missed that boat but would have an appreciation for innovative literature that’s quirky\, edgy\, and International Avant-Garde\, this revival publication is your ticket to get on board. This publication will reestablish Toad Suck Editions as MadHat takes it into the future\, so consider this your time to catch up with the class! Digging back to its Exquisite Corpse roots\, the transitional period to the inception of Toad Suck\, and pummeling chronologically through the issues. \nPresenters include: Marc Vincenz\, publisher\, reading from CD Wright\, Mark Spitzer\, editor\, reading from preface\, Scotty Lewis\, assistant editor\, reading from Rimbaud\, Brenda Mann Hammack\, “Gargoyles & Phantoms”\, Tyrone Jaeger\, “From The Runaway Note”\, Elva Maxine Beach\, “Raised by Mobsters & Born Agains”\, Robert Archambeau\, “The Sproks”\, Lea Graham\, “From The Hotel Vernon”\, Ken Waldman\, “Where the Ink Is Self and the Sex Burns”
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-high-octane-poetix-from-the-legendary-toad-suck-review/
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry Reading & New Book Publications: Steven Dale Davison\, Beth Brown Preston\, John Gallagher\, and Amber Renee
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading & New Book Publications: Steven Dale Davison\, Beth Brown Preston\, John Gallagher\, and Amber Renee\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuiqrjwsH91tx7Gj9d9t222hmUeUvUvx \n  \nNew Books from the Moonstone Press \n  Steven Dale Davison\, author of O My Heart (Moonstone Press)\, Dancing Mockingbird\, and The Road to Continental Heart. worked for twenty years as a journalist and professional writer and has written both short and long fiction and has published non-fiction essays. \n  \n  \nBeth Brown Preston\, author of Oxygen II (Moonstone Press)\, is a poet and novelist with two collections of poetry from the Broadside Lotus Press and a poetry chapbook. She has been published in numerous journals including African American Review\, The Black Scholar\, Callaloo\, Obsidian and other literary and scholarly journals. \n  \nJohn Gallagher\, author of Undaunted Light (Moonstone Press). is the son of working class immigrants from Donegal\, Ireland\, and grew up on the other side of the tracks in Bryn Mawr\, PA. These two settings are the backdrops that formed him and provide the core of this collection. \n  \n  \nAmber Renee\, author of In memory\, energy (Moonstone Press)\, is a chronic writer\, author of Thoughts on This Most Recent Episode and i feel like i’m nothing. During the pandemic Amber created what she calls “Poetry Songs” and was an editor for Serotonin Poetry. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-reading-new-book-publications-steven-dale-davison-beth-brown-preston-john-gallagher-and-amber-renee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220724T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading and New Book Publications: R. Bremner\, Rosemary Capello\, Albert Tacconelli\, Daniel Williams\, and James Redfern
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading and New Publications: R. Bremner\, Rosemary Capello\, Albert Tacconelli\, Daniel Williams\, and James Redfern\n  \nRegistration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdO2grjgpHNduJWSeJ9za5ZyJqHblU-w6 \n  \nNew Books from the Moonstone Press \n  R. Bremner\, author of Erasing Influences (Moonstone Press) and seven other books\, has been writing of incense\, peppermints\, and the color of time since the 1960s. His work has appeared in International Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Sigmund Freud in Poetry\, and many more journals. \n  \nRosemary Cappello\, author of Suitcase Poems (Moonstone Press) is passionate about many things\, poetry heads the list\, and she spent a large portion of my life reading poetry\, writing it\, and presenting it to the public. She is passionate about editing and puts a great deal of thought into the publication of “Philadelphia Poets”. \n  \nAlbert Tacconelli\, author of Such Things (Moonstone Press)\, is a Poet and artist whose poems and art have appeared in Paterson Literary Review\, Philadelphia Poets\, VIA\, Mad Poets Review\, and Endicott Review. Tacconelli read at Hofstra University\, Calandra Institute\, Free Library of Philadelphia\, and the American Italian Historical Association Annual Conference. \n  \nDaniel Williams\, author of Lost Language of Mars (Moonstone Press) is primarily a poet of the Sierra Nevada range in central California\, his work encompasses a wide variety of material.  He has also been a community college instructor\, a park ranger\, and a stand-in and actor in Back to the Future III. \n  \n  \nJames Redfern\, author of Baker (Moonstone Press) is a teacher\, editor\, printmaker\, artist\, writer\, and poet: Redfern has built up a long rap sheet of artistic creation.  Recently\, his poetry has appeared in High Shelf\, Beatific Magazine\, The Raw Art Review\, Transcend\, We Are Antifa (Into the Void)\, 2020: Good Writing/Bad Year (Dutch Kills Press)\,  and elsewhere
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-moonstone-poetry-reading-and-new-book-publications-r-bremner-rosemary-capello-albert-tacconelli-daniel-williams-and-james-redfern/
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Aaren Perry and Lamont B. Steptoe
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry with Aaren Perry & Lamont B. Steptoe \nWednesday July 27\, 2022 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub  \n1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – \nRegistration Required for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsduurqzwiHtCYbzMsMPYIsGE7cAX8Oinl \n  \nAaren Perry’s new book is Shipping and Receiving\, published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College\, he recently edited a forthcoming collection of new poems by Lamont B. Steptoe. He co-edited with Dr. James Villarreal\, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row\, by Anthony Reid\, an ebook out now on Amazon. Perry runs Yeatts Perry Consulting\, grants and donor management for health equity and social change nonprofits. \n  \nLamont B. Steptoe was born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania.  Steptoe is a father\, grandfather\, and Vietnam veteran. A graduate of Temple University majoring in Radio\, Television and Film\, Steptoe is the author of sixteen collections of poetry among which include\, Crimson River\, Mad Minute\, Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare\, A Long Movie of Shadows\, Crowns and Halos\, and Meditations in Congo Square. Steptoe’s work appears in over one hundred anthologies among which are the Oxford University Press Anthology of African American Literature. Steptoe is the winner of an American Book Award\, Pew Fellow in the Arts\, and two Pennsylvania Council on Arts Awards. His forthcoming collection is Woke! Soon to be published by Whirlwind Press. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\,  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-aaren-perry-and-lamont-b-steptoe/
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