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SUMMARY:Sunday\, May 3 - LIVE AND VIRTUAL - 3pm
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Hal Sirowitz\nSunday May 3\, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub AND Virtual\nHal Sirowitz (March 6\, 1949- October 17\, 2025) was an American and internationally known poet\, who first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team and competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam along with his Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep\, Tracie Morris\, and Regie Cabico. \nHe would later perform his poetry on stages across the country\, and on television programs such as MTV’s Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS’s The United States of Poetry. He wrote five books of poetry: Mother Said\, My Therapist Said\, Father Said\, During and After\, and Stray Cat Blues. He was the best-selling translated poet in Norway\, where Mother Said has been adapted for the stage and turned into a series of animated cartoons. He has been translated into thirteen languages. \nSirowitz was a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and was the Poet Laureate of Queens. He worked as a special education teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years and was married to the writer Minter Krotzer\, who will be attending. \nTom Devaney and Jeff Lee as Hosts \n  \nPurchase the anthology featuring over 30 poets honoring Hal and his legacy.  \nRegister Here for Virtual
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wednesday May 6\, 2026 - 7pm – LIVE
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 6\, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub\nFeaturing: Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed\, Barbara Siegel Carlson\, Raina J. León\, ariel rosé \nDilruba (Ruba) Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry)\, with poems featured in New York Times Magazine\, The Slowdown\, and Poetry Unbound. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, and Virginia Quarterly Review.  Her work has also been anthologized in Best American Poetry; Halal If You Hear Me; New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims; They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets; and elsewhere. \nBarbara Siegel Carlson is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently Current published by Lily Poetry Review Books\, 2026. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Verse Daily\, Cortland Review\, Mid-American Review\, Salamander\, 2River\, The Poetry Porch and others. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Carlson is a Poetry in Translation Editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices. \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, 2026-2027 Philadelphia Poet Laureate\, is a Black\, Afro-Boricua poet\, writer\, and educator from southwest Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). Her work is grounded in collective action and community engagement\, centering storytelling\, memory\, and the liberatory practice of humanizing education across poetry\, visual art\, and archival practice. She is the author of black god mother this body\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra : (dis)locate\, and several chapbooks\, and is the founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an international journal dedicated to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. \nariel rosé is a trans gender / androgynous / queer poet\, essayist\, and illustrator originally from Poland\, resident of Norway\, a nomad. Ariel is coming to the United States to read from Both Sides Face East. Durable Words\,  that they edited: well as their latest poetry collection\, morze nocą jest mięśniem serca (the sea at night is a muscle of the heart) nominated for the Orfeusz Award\, and Północ. They were for the Most Beautiful Book Award for their illustrations for Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Kocia Książka (Cat Book).
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/wednesday-may-6-2026-7pm-live/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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