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:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240806T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240806T193000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240717T144340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T183803Z UID:19692-1722969000-1722972600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry: Interview and Readings Series Live Broadcast DESCRIPTION:Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 In Philadelphia. \nJames Feichthaler is a poet with roots in the Philadelphia-area residing in Trenton\, NJ\, where he watches the skies for UFOs\, sings Irish folk songs on his porch\, and drinks beers. He was the host of an open mic reading series called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia for over ten years. His new book From the Back Porch of a War pulls no punches in its assessment of a politically-divided America seemingly at war with itself\, searching for moral integrity in a hashtag-hardened\, spiritually-bankrupt world. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-interview-and-readings-series-live-broadcast/ LOCATION:PA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240807T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240807T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240717T141512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T141512Z UID:19689-1723057200-1723060800@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Sojourner Ahebee\, Mac Chandler & Mikey Franz DESCRIPTION:Live at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Register here:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlfuuorz0jHd3WfQPtz1CyOTxW_SzKHruq \nSojourner Ahebee\, author of Belly of the Night\, was born in Cote d’Ivoire to an American mother and Ivoirien father\, Sojourner Ahebee writes stories about African diaspora identities and the eternal question of home and belonging. Her poems have been published in The Atlantic\, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day)\, Muzzle Magazine\, For Harriet\, Apiary Magazine and elsewhere. In 2013 she served as a National Student Poet\, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work.\nMac Chandler is a graduate of The University of the Arts and a proud West Philly resident. She has been published in some places and has done like a lot of cool literary things you’ve probably never heard of. Mostly\, she loves to write poetry and fiction\, and involve herself in the beautiful Philly writing scene.\nMikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook\, Terrestrial Sanctuaries was published by Moonstone last year & you can typically find him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-sojourner-ahebee-mac-chandler-mikey-franz/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240730T165936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240730T165936Z UID:19746-1723662000-1723665600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Z Murphy\, Knox Peache\, China Rain DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 14\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrce-grDopGdCFgMprDkuh3a7PuUlbvGTb \nZ Murphy\, also known as the drag entertainer The ZanyThing\, is a queer multiracial multimedia storyteller  who did this silly goofy thing where she\, like\, lived with nazis for 5 months and then wrote a poetry collection about it. “Homegirl” first drafts are available for sale. She currently writes for an online magazine and is looking for work. Follow their artistic journey @thezanything \nKnox Peache In addition to award nominated text/multimedia\, ‘Aftermath’\, Peters has been published by Thirty West\, Red Noise Collective\, Wingless Dreamer and Naked Cat Lit. Peters works extensively as a visual artist and writer. She made her debut in the Philadelphia writing scene a little over a year ago having previously made work in the swamps of New Orleans. She enjoys poetry that squirms\, questions and jokes. \nChina Rain is a University Of The Arts graduate focused on written and multimedia work. They have worked in mediums such as collage\, theater\, illustration\, and online interactive media. \n Mac Chandler Host – Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-z-murphy-knox-peache-china-rain/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T203000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240724T153202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T183916Z UID:19708-1723662000-1723667400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry: Fatal Force: Poetic Justice DESCRIPTION:LIVE at Taller Puertorriqueño\n2600 N 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19133 \nPolice killed 1\,352 victims the U.S. 2023 (mappingpoliceviolence.org). \nOn August 14\, 2023 Police officer\, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry. Philadelphia police told the media that the incident began when officers pulled over a car that was “driving erratically” and that “officers approached” the car\, that Irizarry “stepped out” of the car “with a knife” and that the “officers gave multiple commands for him to drop the knife\, and that Irizarry “lunged at the officers”\, prompting the shooting. On August 15th\, Philadelphia police changed their story\, stating that Irizarry was actually in the car when he was shot six times. Retracting the cover up\, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw stated that officers’ body-worn camera footage “made it very clear that what we initially reported was not actually what happened.” Martín Espada recently wrote a poem to elegize the innocent young man whose alleged murder this past August is an outrage. \nThis initiative is co-sponsored by Casa de Duende as well as Taller Puertorriqueño and Moonstone. On the anniversary of Eddie Irizarry’s death\, the anthology will commemorate the book’s publication. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-fatal-force-poetic-justice/ LOCATION:2600 N 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA 19133\, 2600 N 5th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19133\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240821T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240821T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240724T163038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T163038Z UID:19721-1724266800-1724270400@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Katherine Antarikso\, Erme Maula\, Peter Webb & John Wojtowicz DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 21\, 2024 – 7pm \n\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegister for Zoom at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtd-6opzgrHdWVr29C4W2g85ceaxtW_qMo \nKatherine Sarwopeni Antarikso (she/her) is an architect\, writer and performer. She was born in Jakarta\, on the island of Java\, Indonesia\, and moved to the United States at the age of 10. Her unique upbringing is a driver of her many talents and expressions. As an architect\, she is interested in issues of equity regarding the design of urban spaces. As a creative\, she performs in a traditional Indonesian dance group\, gamelan ensemble and writes poetry and essays centered on themes of home\, migration\, and displacement.\nErme Maula is a Community Advocate\, Educator\, Doula\, Facilitator and Nurse. Her most recent writing can be found in In the Future\, There are No Hospitals – an abolitionist-focused collection of work by Queer and Asian care workers. Erme is part of the Grind Council that manages The Grind – a daily writing project that brings together poetry and prose writers in communities of accountability\nPeter Webb is a Philadelphia based poet who is largely interested in irreverence\, direct language\, violence\, addiction\, depravity\, evil\, scatology\, trauma\, crime\, internet writing\, post-irony\, mumblecore\, etc. @thepeterpoems\nJohn Wojtowicz grew up working on his family’s azalea and rhododendron nursery and still lives in the backwoods of what Ginsberg dubbed “nowhere Zen New Jersey.” Currently\, he teaches social work at Stockton University. He has been featured on Rowan University’s Writer’s Roundtable on 89.7 WGLS-FM and several of his poems were showcased in Princeton University’s 2021 Unique Minds: Creative Voices art exhibition. Recent or forthcoming publications include: Rattle\, Split Rock Review\, Soundings East\, Ekphrastic Review\, and the South Florida Poetry Journal. He is the author of the coffee table-style chapbook\, Roadside Attractions: a Poetic Guide to American Oddities. Find out more at: www.johnwojtowicz.com\nSean Hanahan Host\, Open Reading Follows URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-katherine-antarikso-erme-maula-peter-webb-john-wojtowicz/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240824T173000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240724T170232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240724T183706Z UID:19723-1724513400-1724520600@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Moonstone Presents: Independence Day of Ukraine Poetry Reading DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 24\, 2024 – 3:30pm \n \nLive at at Barnes & Noble\, 1708 Chestnut Street\nJulia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of 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.\nKateryna Derysheva is a Ukrainian poet from Kharkiv\, co-founder and organizer of the kntxt literary project. Her poems and translations have been published in the journals: Plume\, Zerkalo\, Tlen Literacki\, Literatur in Bayern\, Literaturportal Bayern\, Visions\, Volga\, SoFloPoJo\, The Colon\, Literature\, Articulation\, New Coast\, Arion\, Homo legens\, Kreshchatik\, and others. She is the author of the books Starting Point\, There Will Be No Installation; co-author of the book Earth time. She was long-listed for the Arkadiy Dragomoshchenko Prize (2019) and is laureate of the Europa Mai Prize. Her poems and essays have been translated into 11 languages.)\nOlena Jennings is the author of the poetry collection The Age of Secrets\, the chapbook Memory Project\, and the novel Temporary Shelter. She is a translator of collections by Ukrainian poets\, Kateryna Kalytko\, together with Oksana Lutsyshyna\, Iryna Shuvalova\, together with the author\, and Vasyl Makhno. Her translation\, together with the author\, of Yuliya Musakovska’s The God of Freedom was released in May 2024 from Arrowsmith Press. She founded and curates the Poets of Queens reading series and press.\nOlga Livshin’s poetry and translations appear in the New York Times\, Ploughshares\, the Kenyon Review\, and other journals. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman. Livshin co-translated A Man Only Needs a Room\, a volume of Vladimir Gandelsman’s poetry and Today is a Different War by the Ukrainian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska\,. She is a private creative writing teacher\, working with children. URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-presents-independence-day-of-ukraine-poetry-reading/ LOCATION:Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St.\, 1708 Chesnut Street.\, Phildelphia\, PA\, 19122\, United States CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240828T200000 DTSTAMP:20260425T165741 CREATED:20240730T171934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240730T171934Z UID:19750-1724871600-1724875200@moonstoneartscenter.com SUMMARY:Live Poetry: The Osage Poets DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 28\, 2024 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom\nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudO-vqjouGNxLFi7snrqCmBG6MbFrG96_ \nThe Osage Poets are a long-standing\, informal collective\, meeting in workshops led by poet Leonard Gontarek: Making Poems That Last and Gentle Warriors. With humor\, insight\, and a Zen teaching style\, Leonard seeds a dynamic and varied poetic response. In pursuit of an authentic voice\, spirituality of the ordinary\, and an honest grappling with the world’s edges\, the results are always relevant and surprising. \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-the-osage-poets/ LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States CATEGORIES:Poetry Events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR