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SUMMARY:Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6th
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, March 3\, 2024 \nVirtual -2pm EST\nJoin us on Zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn \nTraitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6\, 2021\nMoonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets\, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter called Traitor (you can read the poem on our website) on the January 6 insurrection which made me realize that this was an issue we have not responded to yet. \nMore than 2\,000 rioters entered the Capitol building on January 6\, 2021\, many of whom vandalized and looted the building. Rioters assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters and attempted to locate lawmakers to capture and harm. A gallows was erected west of the Capitol. Some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” after he rejected false claims by Trump and others that the vice president could overturn the election results. Five people died\, more people were injured\, including 174 police officers. As of July 7\, 2022\, monetary damages caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. More than 1\,230 people have been charged over the course of three years\, with many trials still pending. Join us as poets reflect. \n 
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday MARCH 5\, 2024 \n6:30pm – VIRTUAL\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\nCan be viewed on the PhillyCAM website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series\nElliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue\, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award for her translations\, and a residency at Norcroft: A Writing Retreat for Women. Her poems\, essays\, and translations have been published in the journals including  American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Sakura Review\, Apiary\, Cahoodaloodaling\, Naugatuck River Review\, Poemeleon\, Poetica\, Philadelphia Stories\, Sinister Wisdom\, Trivia\, The Lesbian Review of Books\, Lambda Literary Online\, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Reconstructionism Today\, DoubleSpeak\, Menacing Hedge. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies: Beside Still Waters\, Who by Plague: High Holy Days Sermons from COVID19 Times\, Passageways: The 2012 Two Lines Translation Anthology\, Overplay/Underdone\, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence\, the English edition of the 2013 Hebrew anthology Israeli Women’s Protest Poetry ed. by Dorit Weisman\, and the Oxford University Press textbook Gender Through the Prism of Difference. \n\nFor her day jobs\, Elliott works multiple roles within the bookselling industry: as an event manager at a bookstore\, as the Member Manager for a Regional Indie Bookstore Trade Association; as the administrator for the Professional Booksellers School; and as the dean of that school’s course in Event Management. Photo Credit: Darla Himeles \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T190000
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello\, Airea D. Matthews\, and Artress Bethany White
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday March 6\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGrrTgiHNJ7uriRBEe6MkL9clKCpLu1 \nJessica Cuello author of Yours\, Creature\, Liar\, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize\, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize\, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt and Pricking. Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize\, two CNY Book Awards\, The 2016 Washington Prize\, The New Letters Poetry Prize\, a Saltonstall Fellowship\, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition\, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015)\, By Fire (2013)\, and Curie (2011). She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY. \nAirea D. Matthews is the author of Bread and Circus  and Simulacra\, winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. New Yorker critic Dan Chiasson describes Matthews’s experimental forms in Simulacra as “Fugues\, text messages to the dead\, imagined outtakes from Wittgenstein\, tart mini-operas\, fairy tales: Matthews is virtuosic\, frantic\, and darkly\, very darkly\, funny.” Matthews’s work has appeared in Callaloo\, Best American Poets 2015\, Harvard Review\, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2016 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award\, the 2016 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts award\, fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the James Merrill House.  She associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and was Philadelphia’s sixth poet laureate. \nArtress Bethany White is a poet\, essayist\, and literary critic\, author of My Afmerica\, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such journals as Pleiades\, Solstice\, Poet Lore\, Ecotone\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, Tupelo Quarterly\, and the Hopkins Review. White has received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction\, the Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in Poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and writing residencies at the Writer’s Hotel and the Tupelo Press/MASS MoCA studios. She is associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University and teaches poetry and nonfiction workshops for Rosemont College Summer Writer’s Retreat in Pennsylvania.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jessica-cuello-airea-d-matthews-and-artress-bethany-white/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: International Women's Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 10\, 2024\n2pm EST – VIRIUAL \nJoin us on Zoom – Use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-mgpzovG9bdKnadMSczNTW-YMqGyTKa \nInternational Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions\, whether national\, ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, economic or political. \nIn 1848\, indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention\, Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregated a few hundred people at their nation’s first women’s rights convention in New York. Together they demand civil\, social\, political and religious rights for women in a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. \nThe first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States on 28 February. The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York\, where women protested against working conditions \nOfficially recognized by the United Nations in 1977\, International Women’s Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe. Join us as poets reflect
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly\, Airea D. Matthews\, Matthew Buckley Smith
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\nWednesday March 13\, 2024 – 7pm \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 \nTimothy Donnelly’s most recent book\, Chariot\, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many\, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize\, and The Cloud Corporation\, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A Guggenheim Fellow\, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his family. \n  \n Airea D. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra\, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus\, a memoir-in-verse that combines poetry\, prose\, and imagery to explore the realities of economic necessity\, marginal poverty\, and commodification\, through a personal lens. Matthews received a 2020 Pew Fellowship\, a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, and was awarded the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry \nfrom the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. From 2022-2023 she served as Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College where she directs the poetry program.  \n Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife\, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award\, and Dirge for an Imaginary World\, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry\, Best American Poetry\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. He is the Associate Editor of Literary Matters\, and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS. \n  \nOpen mic hosted by Luke Stromberg
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: World Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday March 17\, 2024\n2pm EST – VIRITUAL \nJoin us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 \n“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that on World Poetry Day\, on March 21. The United Nations Educational\, Scientific\, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and imagery to elicit emotion and the imagination of the reader. Poetry can rhyme\, using what are called meters of long and short syllables. Some poetry\, written in what’s called ‘free verse\,’ doesn’t employ rhyme or meters. Poems are broken into stanzas\, which are like paragraphs\, and can be up to 12 lines long. We believe the first known poem appeared 4\,000 years ago in Babylon. Today\, countless types of poems are available to enjoy\, including haikus\, limericks\, sonnets\, and ballads.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Robert Frost
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading honoring Robert Frost! \nRobert Lee Frost (March 26\, 1874 – January 29\, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech\, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century\, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. Frequently honored during his lifetime\, Frost is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He became one of America’s rare “public literary figures\, almost an artistic institution”. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his poetic works. Frost was 86 when he performed a reading at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy on January 20\, 1961. On July 22\, 1961\, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Nathalie Anderson\, Steve Burke\, Cassie MacDonald
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! \nNathalie Anderson\, author of Rough\, Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and Held and Firmly Bound\, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals\, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia; worked for many years as a labor & delivery nurse. He’s read in many venues around the Philly area; has two Moonstone-published chapbooks – After the Harvest & For Now – plus another\, Small Answers\, forthcoming. Cassie MacDonald served as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House\, where she welcomed writers and other artists with wide-open creative space and loving encouragement. Cassie was also a founder and the first Director of Camden FireWorks\, an arts destination serving the community with gallery space\, studios\, and workshops. Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows.  \nRegister for Zoom
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-nathalie-anderson-steve-burke-cassie-macdonald/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hearing Women's Voices: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Michelle Myers\, & Kimmika L.H Williams-Witherspoon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Live Poetry at Barnes and Noble! \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS\, Don’t Touch the Bones\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize\, and The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays\, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine\, Julia’s birthplace. Her poems have appeared in POETRY\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, The Nation\, and AGNI\, among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Denison University. Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. Appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam as a founding member of Yellow Rage\, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Title Magazine\, Brevity\, and USA Today. Michelle received a 2024 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts\, awards from the Leeway Foundation\, Loft Literary Center\, Asian Arts Initiative\, Japanese American National Museum\, and Dodge Poetry Program. Michelle’s CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys.  Michelle’s poetry was featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now as well as My Life: Growing Up Asian in America. Michelle’s TEDx Talk Let Hearts Love. Let Hearts Live (TEDx YouTube Channel\, December 2023) and she hosts a podcast called Mind Your Margins\, which is produced by her daughter\, Myong. Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon has been a force in the spoken word/poetry scene for decades. This new release (You Gotta Have Game) from Boyer College of Music and Dance is Williams-Witherspoon at her best. The poet tells us: “I am the crack of morning\, Light in the shadow of dark” – In this beautiful collection of poetic text with instrumental accompaniment Williams-Witherspoon brings us through the struggle of life\, always the light in the shadow of dark. No matter how hard the journey\, no matter the roadblocks placed\, Williams-Witherspoon offers hope in endurance. The poem” By g emil reutter. “Life is a journey—not just a trip with destinations and an expiration date! Traveling is an action AND a process. These are the pieces that fill my heart and remind me to greet each day glad to be alive.” —Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/hearing-womens-voices-julia-kolchinsky-dashbach-michelle-myers-kimmika-l-h-williams-witherspoon/
LOCATION:Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St.\, 1708 Chesnut Street.\, Phildelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States
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