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SUMMARY:Remembering Ezra Pound - Sunday November 2nd - 2pm - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Pound was an American poet and critic\, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement\, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912)\, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920)\, and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). \nPound’s contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with developing Imagism\, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as a foreign editor of several American literary magazines\, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as H. D.\, Robert Frost\, T. S. Eliot\, Ernest Hemingway\, and James Joyce. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that\, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century\, not to be influenced by Pound would be “like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling its cold”. \nPound blamed the war on finance capitalism\, he moved to Italy in 1924\, embraced Mussolini’s fascism\, and expressed support for Hitler. Ruled mentally unfit to stand trial\, Pound was incarcerated for over 12 years at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington\, D.C.\, whose doctors viewed Pound as a narcissist and a psychopath\, but otherwise completely sane.\nWhile in custody in Italy\, Pound began work on sections of The Cantos\, which were published as The Pisan Cantos (1948)\, for which he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949 by the Library of Congress\, causing enormous controversy. Reflections on Ezra Pound.
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SUMMARY:"Headless" Book Release - Wednesday November 5 - 7:00 PM - LIVE
DESCRIPTION:“In Headless\, poet Sean Hanrahan takes us on a winding road that twists through desire\, intellectual curiosity\, and various explored icons—pop culture\, mythic\, historic\, political\, sexual—traveling with a speaker always seeking to understand who and what society expects him to be. If art is a conversation with everything before and after\, then so is identity\, moving from “paper silhouette of a boy” to reveling in the middle-aged body\, declaring “we are all of us orchids.” The self is multifaceted\, multitalented\, and—belying the title—multiheaded. Hanrahan\, at the height of his poetic power\, has learned to navigate this hydralike path and “choose the sacramental in-between.” In these pages\, we are blessed to be invited to walk beside him.” – Chad Frame\, author of Little Black Book. \nSean Hanrahan is the author of Headless\, Safer Behind Popcorn and Ghost Signs\, Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake . His work has also been included in various anthologies and journals\, he has taught classes titled “A Chapbook in 49 Days\,” “Ekphrastic Poetry\,” “Poetry Embodied\,” and has hosted and read at poetry events throughout Philadelphia. \nAdam Gianforcaro is the author of the poetry collection Every Living Day and Poems to Stage Dive to. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, his work can be found in Ninth Letter\, The Offing\, Poet Lore\, Third Coast\, Northwest Review\, and elsewhere. \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary\, biracial Nikkei femme whose life work has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices to young people. They’re the author of The Other Tree\, and METAMOURPHOSIS\, as well as four chapbooks and is a board member for Philadelphia’s Blue Stoop. \nAmy Saul-Zerby is the author of Paper Flowers\, Imaginary Birds\, Deep Camouflage\, and Choose Your Own Beginning\, her poems have appeared in various journals and she is the Director of Marketing and Development for The Free Books Project and Editor-in-Chief of Voicemail Poems. \nAaren Perry Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/headless-book-release-wednesday-november-5-700-pm-live/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:"Without You" Book Release - Sunday November 9 - 5pm - LIVE
DESCRIPTION:“In flashes of recollection\, in flares of supposition and speculation\, the fragments and fables of Ditta Baron Hoeber’s Without You trace the aftermath of a childhood trauma\,  with its attendant guilts and resentments and mystifications. Terse\, taut\, gnomic\, wrenching\, and subtly evocative\, Without You offers a compelling demonstration of a reality at once irrecoverable and irrevocable.” — Nathalie Anderson\, Professor Emerita\, Swarthmore College\, author of Stain \nDitta Baron Hoeber’s first book\, Without You is just out\, her poems have been published in magazines including Gargoyle\, Burningword Literary Review\, Noon\, Pank\, the American Poetry Review and the American Journal of Poetry. Her photographs\, drawings and book works have been exhibited nationally and have been acquired by several collections in the US and in the UK. \nLisa Isaacson has published poems in antiphony\, New American Writing\, Colorado Review\, Fence and Denver Quarterly among others. She has recently returned to the United States after 22 years teaching World Humanities and World Poetry in Abu Dhabi\, UAE and now lives in Milwaukee.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/without-you-book-release-sunday-november-9-5pm-live/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peace like War is Waged: Reading with Jan Barry and W.D. Ehrhart
DESCRIPTION:Peace like War is Waged\nA Discussion and Reading with Jan Barry and W.D. Ehrhart\nThursday\, November 13th @ 5:30pm\nLive Poetry @ Central Free Library\, 1901 Vine Street\, History Department on 2nd Floor\n“One Jan Barry’s most characteristic beliefs comes from a poem called “The Peacemaker” by Walker Knight: “Peace\, like war\, is waged.” Jan Barry has been actively and energetically waging peace since he turned away from an appointment to the US Military Academy and chose a very different path into his own future. \nAll through the book\, I encounter over and over again Jan’s refusal to give in to despair\, his unwavering belief that good will eventually come of good-willed people acting together. He challenges Americans to protest and resist the agenda of the “tyrannical head of state” now occupying the White House. He urges all of us to vigorously and actively support federal employees\, LGBTQ rights\, immigrant rights\, Palestinian self-determination\, and a free and independent Ukraine. \nHere\, in a few words\, is what Jan Barry taught me: take that rage and pain and frustration and do something constructive with it.” – W. D. Ehrhart \nWaging Peace: From Vietnam to Volgograd ($30.00 – 2025) is a collection of essays\, poetry and art by Jan Barry\, a Veterans For Peace Poet Laureate and cofounder of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The memoir conveys memorable stories about the transformation of soldiers in war zones into communities of peace activists. Jan Barry is the author of Waging Art: Tackling Grief and Trauma with Creative Arts\, among other works. \nSmart Fish Don’t Bite ($22.00 – 2025) by W. D. Ehrhart\, a Marine Corps veteran of both the Vietnam War and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The author of multiple books of both prose and poetry\, including Vietnam-Perkasie: a Combat Marine Memoir\, and Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems. As the poems in this most recent collection demonstrate\, he is a writer who fought in Vietnam\, not a Vietnam writer.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/peace-like-war-is-waged-reading-with-jan-barry-and-w-d-ehrhart/
LOCATION:The Free Library of Philadelphia\, 1901 Vine Street\, 1901 Vine Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Magnus Mateo\, Jane Edna Mohler\, & Louisa Schnaithmann
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Magnus Mateo\, Jane Edna Mohler\, & Louisa Schnaithmann\nLive @ Fergies Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nMagnus Mateo is a genderfluid\, neurodivergent poet\, performer\, and event organizer based in the Lehigh Valley. In addition to their debut chapbook\, She’s Jealous of my Purple Sky\, Magnus has been published in various literary magazines and poetry anthologies. When he’s not writing and performing\, Magnus is the main host and event organizer of Noble Quills in Easton and of IceHouse Literary Arts Committee in Bethlehem. \nJane Edna Mohler is a Bucks County Poet Laureate (PA) emeritus\, and winner of the Main Street Voices. She was nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and once for Best of the Net. Recent publications include Gargoyle\, One Art\, and Verse Virtual. Her collections\, Broken Umbrellas and Autumn Clears  are both from Kelsay Books. She is Poetry Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. www.janeednamohler.com \nLouisa Schnaithmann is the author of the poetry chapbook Plague Love and the consulting editor for ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Her poems have appeared in Cultural Daily\, Gargoyle\, The Mantle\, SWWIM\, and the Summerset Review. She lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. \nSean Hanrahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-magnus-mateo-jane-edna-mohler-louisa-schnaithmann/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury
DESCRIPTION:Book Release: And If You Saw Me by Craig Czury\nFeaturing: Craig Czury\, J. C. Todd\, and Olga Livshin\nLive at Fergies Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nCraig Czury has been conducting innovative life-writing and poetry workshops in schools\, shelters\, prisons\, psych wards\, community centers\, and universities for over 30 years. A native of the Wilkes-Barre area of Pennsylvania\, Craig is also an editor\, publisher\, and tireless arts advocate. He has authored over 20 books of poetry\, many of which are translated into other languages\, and he has been featured in poetry festivals all over the world. Craig lives\, writes\, and teaches in northern Italy and in northeastern Pennsylvania. \nYou can purchase copies at the event or online on Square here. \nJ. C. Todd explores the traumatic effects of war on women and the environment. Author of six books of poetry\, most recently Beyond Repair (Able Muse Press\, 2021) and a bilingual new and selected What Kept Me Awake? / Kas neleido užmigti? (PDR\, 2024)\, she is a co-editor of Convergence: Poetry on the Environmental Impacts of War\, a ground-breaking anthology addressing war’s damage to the natural world (Scarlet Tanager Press\, 2026). Awards include fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She has taught Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College and in the Rosemont MFA Program. \nOlga Livshin’s poetry and translations recently appear in Poetry magazine\, the Southern Review\, the New York Times\, and Ploughshares. She is the author of A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman (Poets & Traitors Press\, 2019). Livshin co-translated Lyudmyla Khersonska’s Today is a Different War (Arrowsmith Press\, 2023) and Vladimir Gandelsman’s A Man Only Needs a Room (New Meridian Arts\, 2022). She lives just outside Philadelphia. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/book-release-and-if-you-saw-me-by-craig-czury/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Barb Gonzalez & c.r. hooker
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Barb Gonzalez & c.r. hooker\nLive @ Fergies Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nBarb Gonzalez (they/he) is a Philadelphia based poet just here to prove that there is something charming\, or maybe a lesson to be learned in the mundane. as a haunter of dreams\, naturally they write about nightmares and woes of their own. \nc.r. hooker (they/them) is a nonbinary\, bisexual poet and artist born and raised in the unforgiving heat of the Arizona desert. They are the photographer for Scribes on South and currently call the concrete jungle of Philadelphia their home \nMac Chandler Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-barb-gonzalez-c-r-hooker/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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