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SUMMARY:Remembering Pablo Neruda On the 50th Anniversary of His Death
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Pablo Neruda On the 50th Anniversary of His Death\n Virtually on Sunday October 1\, 2023 – 2pm – EDT\nRegistration Required \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdOqvrD8vEtIQEWRBwuRPNJom-LEUtNnh \nPablo Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old\, and wrote in a variety of styles\, including surrealist poems\, historical epics\, political manifestos\, a prose autobiography\, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair. Neruda occupied many diplomatic positions in various countries during his lifetime and served a term as a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party. He was a close advisor to Chile’s socialist President Salvador Allende\, and\, when he got back to Chile after accepting his Nobel Prize in Stockholm\, Allende invited him to read at the Estadio Nacional before 70\,000 people. Join us as poets remember and praise him.
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION: \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Featuring Doris Ferleger\, PhD\nTuesday October 3\, 2023 – 6:30pm  VIRTUAL\nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia.\n  \nDoris Ferleger\, PhD\, is the author of Big Silences in a Year of Rain\, As the Moon Has Breath\, Leavened\, and When You Become Snow. Among many accolades about Ferleger’s work\, Aliki Barnestone writes: These memorable poems keep singing with their insistent beauty. Her work has been published in numerous journals including Cimarron Review\, L.A. Review\, and South Carolina Review\, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. \nFerleger has attended esteemed writers conferences nationally and internationally including Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont and Sicily\, Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference\, Summer Literary Seminars in Lithuania\, Polish Poetry Conference in Krakow\, Poland\, and Vermont College of Fine Arts Poetry Manuscript Conference. She holds an MFA in Poetry and a PhD in psychology and maintains a mindfulness based therapy practice in Wyncote PA. Ferleger uses poetry and mindfulness approaches in her practice as a way to help clients feel a sense of belonging\, acceptance and compassion for all challenges. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Lisa Grunberger\, Diane Sahms\, Dr Patrick James Errington\, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Grunberger\, Diane Sahms\, Dr Patrick James Errington\, and Joseph Thomas Makoviecki\nWednesday October 4 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street\nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpc-ivqTovGdfkOKx4qhufU6xfFHUmLv_p \nLisa Grunberger has published two books – a collection of poetry\, Born Knowing and Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position\, which she is adapting as a stage performance called Yiddish Yoga: The Musical. She is a widely published poet in such journals as Mudfish\, The Drunken Boat\, Bridges\, Philadelphia Poets\, Paroles des Jours\, and Dialogi. Her poems have also been translated into Russian and Yiddish. Her one-woman show\, A Prayer Collector\, premiered at the Makor Center for the Arts/92 St Y. \nDiane Sahms\, a native Philadelphian\, is the author of  six poetry collections: Images of Being (Stone Garden Publishing\, 2011)\, Lights Battered Edge (Anaphora Literary Press\, 2015)\, and Night Sweat (Red Dashboard Press\, 2016)\, Handheld Mirror of the Mind\, (Kelsay Books\, 2018); Covid 19 2020 – A Poetic Journal (Moonstone Press\, 2021); most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia) – Alien Buddha Press. Her poems have appeared in a number of online and print publications.   Diane is the Poetry Editor at North of Oxford and works as a purchasing agent. \nDr Patrick James Errington is a poet\, translator\, critic\, editor\, and academic from the prairies of Alberta\, Canada. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks Glean (ignitionpress\, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press\, 2019) and the poetry collection the swailing (McGill-Queens University Press). He is a Lecturer in the School of Literatures\, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh\, where he teaches literature and creative writing and is also the primary and co-investigator on several interdisciplinary research projects. \nJoseph Thomas Makoviecki is a poet and the singer-songwriter in the indie folk band Jackson Pines. Born in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey\, Joseph has lived in New York City and Philadelphia while traveling America\, the UK\, and Ireland performing as a musician. hornpipe & other poems was written as a recipient of the 2021 Tory Dent Research Scholarship at New York University. His work has appeared in The Rational Creature\, Soupcan Magazine\, Oddball Magazine\, and more.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-lisa-grunberger-diane-sahms-dr-patrick-james-errington-and-joseph-thomas-makoviecki/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jared Harél\, Vasiliki Katsarou\, and Martin Wiley
DESCRIPTION:Jared Harél\, Vasiliki Katsarou\, and Martin Wiley\nWednesday October 11\, 2023 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street\nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocOutqzwqE9w5cBXchawlmvcizTnhmYqD \nJared Harél is the author of Let Our Bodies Change the Subject\, winner of the 2022 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in and Go Because I Love You. He’s been awarded the ‘Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize’ from American Poetry Review\, as well as the ‘William Matthews Poetry Prize’ from Asheville Poetry Review. Harél’s poems have recently appeared in such journals as 32 Poems\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, Electric Literature\, Ploughshares\, Poem-a-Day\, The Southern Review and The Sun. He teaches writing\, plays drums\, and lives in Westchester\, NY with his wife and two kids. \n  \nVasiliki Katsarou is a Greek and American poet\, editor\, independent curator\, and sometime filmmaker. She is the author of Memento Tsunami\, Three Sea Stones\, and The Second Home. Her award-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843 was screened at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, the Harvard Film Archive\, and the Drama International Film Festival in Greece. She is a Teaching Artist at Hunterdon Art Museum and has collaborated with many arts organizations in New Jersey including the Dodge Poetry Festival\, Hopewell Theater\, ArtYard\, Panoply Books\, Ellarslie Museum\, and the Princeton Humanities Council. \n  \nMartin Wiley author of Just/More and When Did We Stop Being Cute?\, grew up confronting and embracing a world as mixed and confused as he was\, surrounded by beautiful words one minute and screamed at with hate the next. A long- time activist\, spoken-word artist\, and slam poet\, he had begun to see himself as a “recovering poet” but his children’s growing love of words dragged him\, mostly happily\, off the wagon. His work has appeared in journals like Apiary\, Philadelphia Stories\, The Northern Virginia Review\, The Northridge Review\, Conspire\, and others. \nLarry Robin Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: elijah b pringle\, III\, joe roarty\, and George Schaefer
DESCRIPTION:elijah b pringle\, III\, joe roarty\, and George Schaefer\nWednesday October 18\, 2023 @ 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdumqpjMsEt3XU14E0f2jxu84yhbF5pW9 \nelijah b pringle\, III is an internationally published American poet from Philadelphia\, PA.  His works appears in several international anthology: Compagnia de’ Colombari’s Whitman on Walls\, 99 Poets for the 99 Percent\, Selfhood\, Moonstone Poetry Ink 25th Anniversary Anthology\, and Aquarius Press critical acclaimed anthology on the continuation of the Black Arts Movement – Black Fire This Time. Overall\, he has appeared in nearly 40 anthologies and journals since the turn of this century.  Constantly evolving and exploring\, he has maintained a voice that consistently reveals his keen insight into the “human experiment”\, as he would say \njoe roarty written & read poetry in Chgo\, New York & Philadelphia-he has 2 chapbooks including MORITAT published by Moonstone Press-this year his first full length collection SHOWTUNES was brought out by Iniquity/Vendetta Press \nGeorge Schaefer is a Philly born poet\, philosopher and prankster\,  He started writing poetry in high school in a ill fated attempt to impress girls.  It didn’t work so he kept writing and trying to hone the craft.  Over 4 decades later\, he’s still writing and trying to make sense of the world \nSean Hanrahan Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Poet's Story: House Party
DESCRIPTION:The Poet’s Story: House Party\, with Ernest Hill and poet Lynn Levin\nWednesday October 25\, 2023 @ 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom \nOn Zoom (Registration required): \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rduuvpzIoH9BGVWgfaei8XDxUJdsqmt27 \nThe Poet’s Story: Ernest Hilbert in conversation with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories\, House Parties \nWhat’s it like to turn from writing poems to writing short stories? Poet and critic Ernest Hilbert speaks with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories House Parties ($20.00\, Spuyten Duyvil\, 2023)\, named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine. How is the fiction writing process different from the poetry writing process? What new themes and moods emerge in the House Parties stories? A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation. \nCalled one of the most “poignantly witty voices of our time” (Bucks County Community College)\, Lynn Levin is a poet\, writer\, longtime professor of English at Drexel University\, and\, for many years\, was a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Magazine’s June 2023 issue named Levin’s debut collection of short stories House Parties one of the best books of summer\, calling the stories “vivid\, funny\, and quietly powerful…House Parties may break your heart\, but it’ll never do it the same way twice.” Levin is the author of five previous collections of poems. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com. \nErnest Hilbert is the author Sixty Sonnets\, All of You on the Good Earth\, Caligulan (selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize) and Last One Out. Storm Swimmer\, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize. He works as a rare book dealer and book critic for The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Fine Books and Collections. His poem “Mars Ultor” was included in Best American Poetry 2018\, and his poems appear in Yale Review\, American Poetry Review\, BOMB\, Harvard Review\, Parnassus\, Sewanee Review\, Hudson Review\, Boston Review\, The New Republic\, American Scholar\, and the London Review. In 2023 he was awarded the Meringoff Writing Award for Poetry from the Association of Literary Scholars\, Critics\, and Writers. Visit him at www.ernesthilbert.com
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Remembering Sylvia Plath on the 80th Anniversary of Her Death\, VIRTUAL
DESCRIPTION:Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965)\, as well as The Bell Jar\, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. The Collected Poems was published in 1981\, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982\, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously. \nJoin us as poets remember and praise her. \nZoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfumoqj0tHdaENGdEFTMOKcVXcP-utDIH
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