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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: Our State of the Union
DESCRIPTION:DID YOU VOTE?  The State of The Nation – Get Out The Vote\nSunday November 3\, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfuuhrz0vE9NAdRMQxqD0VzHTSKiDCQts \nTHIS ELECTION IS IMPORTANT \nThings you can do to increase participation: • Remind those in your life to vote and invite them to voter education events like debates.  • Ask them to visit www.VOTE411.org to find their polling place and learn what will be on their ballot.  • Ask about their voting plan for Election Day. Research shows that by asking voters whether they have an Election Day plan (how will they get to the polls? At what time?)\, you will increase their chances of participating. • Keep it brief and friendly!  • Be helpful. Have election dates\, polling locations\, and other information at your fingertips so that you can help address any questions.  \nJoin us as poets reflect on the election\, voting\, and raising the voices of the people. 
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SUMMARY:Post-Election Opening Reading
DESCRIPTION:Post-Election Open Reading\nWednesday November 6\, 2024 – 7pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nand on Zoom \nRegister for Zoom access: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOivqzwpE9Y9pjEDMm49e2mnxwyCipMH    \nElection 2024 Open Reading \nWhatever happened yesterday \npoets will have something to say \nJoin us to cheer or moan.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/post-election-opening-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Remembering Jim Cory
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Jim Cory\nMoonstone’s Remembering Jim Cory event has been cancelled to support another memorial from Jim’s friends and family. The memorial and informal reading will be hosted at the Philadelphia Ethical Society on November 9th at 11:30am. \nMore information about the event is available on Facebook here. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/remembering-jim-cory/
LOCATION:PA
CATEGORIES:Memorial
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241112T183000
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry: Eileen D'Angelo
DESCRIPTION:Philly Loves Poetry: Eileen M. D’Angelo\nTuesday November 12\, 2024 – 6:30pm – VIRTUAL \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM – Watch on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 – In Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nEileen M. D’Angelo\, twice nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts\, she received two Pushcart Prize / Best of the Small Press nominations from Verse Magazine and Schuylkill Valley Journal.  Her poetry\, essays and book reviews have been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer\, the News of Delaware County\, Rattle: Poetry for the 21st Century\, Manhattan Poetry Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Drexel Online Journal\, Wild River Review\, Philadelphia Stories\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Independent Review\, Negative Capability\, One Trick Pony\, Odessa Poetry Journal\, The Aurealean\, Bookends\, and others.   Charles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/philly-loves-poetry-eileen-dangelo/
LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Thomas Devaney\, Joanna Fuhrman\, & Lauren Russell
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry with Thomas Devaney\, Joanna Fuhrman\, & Lauren Russell\nWednesday November 13\, 2024 – 7:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlcuygqTIjHdP11BPGj4EeBp6GLWDFSkDJ \n Thomas Devaney is a poet\, facilitator\, and educator based in Philadelphia. He is a Pew Fellow in the Arts with a focus on city building and community engagement. He wrote and co-director the film Bicentennial City with Green House Media (2020). Devaney is the author of Getting to Philadelphia (Hanging Loose Press\, 2019) and You Are the Battery (Black Square Editions\, 2019). His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. He teaches creative writing at Haverford College  and also works for the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation at Drexel University. \nJoanna Fuhrman is the author of Freud in Brooklyn; Ugh Ugh Ocean; Moraine; Pageant\, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Prize from Alice James Books; The Year of Yellow Butterflies; and To a New Era. Her poetry is humorous and surreal\, mining references from pop and high culture. Writing about Fuhrman’s work for BOMBLOG\, Susie DeFord observed that Fuhrman “takes the best of the surrealist and narrative poetry\, weaving social and personal stories with extreme wit\, imagination.” She has been poetry editor for Boog City and curator of the reading series for the Saint Mark’s Church Poetry Project in New York. \n  \n \nLauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close; Descent\, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award; and What’s Hanging on the Hush. Russell has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Cave Canem\, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and residencies from Millay Arts\, Ucross\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell\, among others. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day\, the New York Times Magazine\, Brooklyn Rail\, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins and lives in Baltimore with her cats\, Cat Jeoffry and Lady Day.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-thomas-devaney-joanna-fuhrman-lauren-russell/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024\nSunday November 17\, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL\nRegister to access Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6tpzotGNe7ciI7XVSoht8wYC9CkeMW\nNew Voices Anthology – Fall 2024 – A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. \nA monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from\nvarious communities. We tend to gather in our own communities. There is nothing wrong with that\nexcept we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. New Voices is our attempt to expand everyone’s\nexperience\, to introduce other ways of everything and to give a platform to the young writers of this\ngeneration. \nWe will also host a live\, in-person reading on November 21st.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Anisha Bhat\, Jiordan Castle\, & Alison Lubar
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry with Anisha Bhat\, Jiordan Castle\, & Alison Lubar\nWednesday November 20\, 2024 – 7:00pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia \nAnd on Zoom: Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lduGsrjgrHNCcGHTb5NF348kiwGXgbFsk \n  Anisha Bhat\, originally from Chicago\, Illinois\, is a writer and staff member at Temple University where she directs research and creative programs for undergraduates. She has an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge and an MA in History from Northwestern University. In her free time she can be found buying too many books at used book stores\, eating at the same five restaurants in South Philly\, or working on her first poetry chapbook. \nJiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act\, a memoir in verse. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. Her poetry and nonfiction are forthcoming in the anthologies Best New Poets (2024) and What My Father and I Don’t Talk About (2025). She received her MFA in poetry from Hunter College and currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their dog. \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary\, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices\, and sometimes even poetry\, to young people.  Their work has been nominated for both the Pushcart & Best of the Net\, and they’re the author four chapbooks: Philosophers Know Nothing About Love (Thirty West Publishing House\, 2022)\, queer feast (Bottlecap Press\, 2022)\, sweet euphemism (CLASH!\, Spring 2023)\, and it skips a generation (Stanchion\, Fall 2023). You can find out more at http://www.alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison. \nSean Hanrahan\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-anisha-bhat-jiordan-castle-alison-lubar/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Remembering Louis McKee
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Louis McKee (July 31\, 1951– November 21\, 2011) \nSunday November 24\, 2024@ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL \nOn Zoom\, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceChqzgjGdayBxHLCQaGDjDwjYHv85Xm \nLouis McKee was an American poet and a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene from the early 1970s. He was the author of Schuylkill County\, The True Speed of Things\, and fourteen other collections. More recently\, he published River Architecture: Poems from Here & There 1973-1993\, Loose Change\, and a volume in the Pudding House Greatest Hits series. Gerald Stern called his work “heart-breaking” and “necessary\,” while William Stafford has written\, “Louis McKee makes me think of how much fun it was to put your hand out a car window and make the air carry you into quick adventures and curlicues. He is so adept at turning all kinds of sudden glimpses into good patterns.” Naomi Shihab Nye says\, “Louis McKee is one of the truest hearts and voices in poetry we will ever be lucky to know.”
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Raheem Curry\, Ryan Eckes\, & Anne-Adele Wight
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry with Raheem Curry\, Ryan Eckes\, & Anne-Adele Wight\nWednesday November 27\, 2024 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia \nAnd on Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtfuCorz8vHt28FDDrKEX9WwircLjanJS4 \n  Raheem Curry is a writer and photographer from Kensington\, Philadelphia. He was inspired to write during his 9th grade year in high school by his English teacher after his father’s sudden death. Raheem published his first chapbook of poems in 2020\, Infinite Views of A Ghetto Boy. He has published various singular poems in a multitude of different anthologies. His recent poem (Brothers Raising Brothers to be Men) was published in the national anthology titled Black Fire-This Time\, Volume 2. \nRyan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. He is the author of Wrong Heaven Again\, General Motors\, Valu-Plus and Old News\, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit\, Protean Magazine\, Tripwire\, Wax Nine Journal\, The New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short\, he runs Radiator Press. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment\, The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult. \n“It is exciting watching a new Anne-Adele Wight poetry fan holding her latest book\, their faces beaming until they look up with Wow! Her poetry is a hidden American treasure no longer as more and more poets are sharing her books. It is a privilege to read a poet who has dedicated years to her craft\, giving the world some of the best poems we will ever read. The Age of Greenhouses made me say Wow over and over! Let the celebration begin!”  –CA Conrad \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-raheem-curry-ryan-eckes-anne-adele-wight/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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