https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: The American War Against Herself Anthology Poems about guns, violence, and the wars within America for Memorial Day May 31 Memorial Day, as Decoration Day gradually came to be known, originally honored only those lost while fighting in the Civil War. But during […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” Anthology https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Purhcase the Anthology “liberty, equality, fraternity” the national motto of France A legacy of the Age of Enlightenment, the motto “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” first appeared during the French Revolution. It was written into the 1958 constitution and is nowadays […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Protest 2021 Anthology with 100 Thousand Poets for Change https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Moonstone Arts Center celebrates 11 years of 100 Thousand Poets for Change with readings from our new anthology Protest 2021 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100 TPC) has organized over 5000 poetry, art and […]
Readings from Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102 Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest Edited by Ona Gritz & Taylor Carmen Savath From the introduction by Ona Gritz: “It is difficult to get the news from poems,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote, “yet […]
Virtual Poetry Reading Remembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement Sunday October 10, 2021 – 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102 Léopold Sédar Senghor (10/9/1906 – 12/20/2001) and the Négritude Movement In May 1935, the word ‘Négritude’ appeared for the first time in the only issue of the […]
Virtual Poetry Reading from The Disasters of War: An Anthology for Veterans Day Event Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 The Disasters of War: An Anthology for Veterans Day So much of what is presented on Veterans Day is the pomp and circumstance of the military, the parades and speeches extolling patriotism and bravery. All governments claim […]
Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar Sunday June 26, 2022 – 2 pm Virtual Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-2vqzsqG9ds6zRdZ9c866kl-iVbrBix Join us for Paul Laurence Dunbar’s two hundredth birthday (born June 27, 1872) “Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery […]
Hiroshima Day Anthology Poetry Reading: Virtual Event 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtc-2rqDgjHtz9oNarNqMUl-Dwoy__6-FT Hiroshima Day Anthology On August 6th, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Japan, and another three days later in Nagasaki Japan. The possibility of nuclear war is no longer a distant memory, but […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday April 30, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual Join us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 Ekphrastic Poetry Ekphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis, the poet engages with a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and […]
Woody Guthrie was one of the most significant figures in American folk music whose work focused on themes of socialism and anti-fascism. Join us as poets continue this tradition.
