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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Mama Poets From Eastern Europe: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach\, Luisa Muradyan\, Alina Stefanescu\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85477352895?pwd=UitzbDI1akc5eEN6Y3BNNE5CVTJIdz09 \nMeeting ID: 854 7735 2895    Passcode: 019747 \nMama Poets From Eastern Europe\, Celebrate International Women’s Day \n \nJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach (www.juliakolchinskydasbach.com) is the author of three poetry collections: The Many Names for Mother\, winner the Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press\, 2019) and finalist for the Jewish Book Award; Don’t Touch the Bones (Lost Horse Press\, 2020)\, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize; and 40 WEEKS\, forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2023. Her recent poems appear in POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, and The Nation\, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and just defended her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philly with her two kids\, two cats\, one dog\, and one husband. Books@https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GblDW6X0ARL1NLSsHTYhNQ_FrUqIZax86fw1GXR9YoI/edit \nLuisa Muradyan is originally from the Ukraine and holds a Ph.D. in Poetry from the University of Houston. She is the author of American Radiance and was the Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts from 2016-2018. She was also the recipient of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the 2016 Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Additionally\, Muradyan is a member of the Cheburashka Collective\, a group of women and non-binary writers from the former Soviet Union. Previous poems have appeared in Poetry International\, the Los Angeles Review\, West Branch\, Blackbird\, and Ninth Letter among others. \n  \n  \n \nAlina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham\, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook\, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series\, Nov. 2020). Her poetry collection\, dor\, won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize and is forthcoming in July 2021. Alina’s writing can be found in diverse journals\, including Prairie Schooner\, North American Review\, FLOCK\, Southern Humanities Review\, Crab Creek Review\, World Literature Review\, and others. She serves as Poetry Editor for Pidgeonholes\, Poetry Editor for Random Sample Review\, Poetry Reviewer for Up the Staircase Quarterly\, and Co-Director of PEN America’s Birmingham Chapter.  A finalist for the 2019 Kurt Brown AWP Prize\, Alina won the 2019 River Heron Poetry Prize. She still can’t believe (or deserve) any of this. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com. \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follow
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Lisa Alexander Baron\, Rodger Lowenthal\, Abbey J. Porter\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81679636780?pwd=S3ZQQkxqcFRPU0Y2b01HelVkemFLZz09 \nMeeting ID: 816 7963 6780  Passcode: 788513 \n \nLisa Alexander Baron is the author of four poetry collections\, including While She Poses\, poems prompted by visual art. Her poems appear in Chautauqua\, Confrontation\, Fourth River\, and Philadelphia Stories. She teaches writing and public speaking at two Philadelphia-area colleges. She hosts “Modern Plays Read Aloud” on Meetup\, which offers Open Poetry and Monologue Readings for poets and actors.  \n  \n  \n  \n \nRodger Lowenthal’s new chapbook\, fourteen\, has just be released by the Moonstone Press. He has this to say: \n“I started writing poetry when I was a freshman at Penn State. I had a pattern of finding a girlfriend and writing poetry\, until we broke up. Then I started again with a new girlfriend. \nI have been with my current “girlfriend” for 46 years\, so lots of poetry. \nTrivia: I have 5 grandchildren. More trivia: the historian Bernard Bailyn wrote about the “logic of rebellion.” Think about it.” \n  \n  \n \nAbbey J. Porter writes poetry and memoir about people and relationships\, life and loss. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte\, an MA in liberal studies from Villanova University\, and a BA in English from Gettysburg College. Abbey works in communications and lives in Cheltenham\, Pa.\, with her two beloved dogs—who help her remember to smile\, particularly during these challenging times. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Love & the Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956    Passcode: 704102 \n  \n \nLove & the Pandemic \nHow are you coping? \nHas isolation made you crazy? \nDo you have a love life? \nIf you have a family – Are you fighting with your love ones? \nIf you are single – what have you done for the last year? \nHow do you survive? \n69 Poets Respond \n$15 – Not All Contributors Will Be Reading \nContributors in anthology include: \nFran Abrams \nCarolyn Adams \nPrincess Ameenah \nBarbara Arzt \nJohn Balaban \nElisabeth Bass \nVincent Bell \nByron Beynon \nErica Blatt \nJulia Blumenreich \nMatilda Bray \nR. Bremner \nLawrence Bridges \nJoseph Chelius \nChristine Chesire \nPhebe Ciemny \nCraig Czury \nPheralyn Dove \nRunett Ebo \nCole Eubanks \nHugh Findlay \nEli Goldblatt \nLinda Goss \nRebecca Hartz \nChristine Higgins \nAlan Hill \nBrenda Hodges \nHalsey Hyer \nSuzan Jivan \nIrving Jones \nBea Joyner \nChris Kaiser \nDavid Kozinski \nKyle Laws \nMichael Levin \nWarren Longmire \nMarjorie Maddox \nJim McDade \nKindra McDonald \nMichael Miller \nDrew Miller \nRyan Mimna \nMarjorie Moorhead \nBonnie Neubauer \nGloria Nixon-John \nDaniel O’Hara \nKaleigh O’Keefe \nStephen Page \nRandall Potts \nGouri Prakash \nPeter Prizel \nDavid Radavich \nCharles Rammelkamp \nPaul Rousseau \nGeorge Schaefer \nJennifer Schneider \nKatherine Shehadeh \nJacalyn Shelley \nBob Small \nAshley Stahmer \nRichard Stimac \nLois Villemaire \nSkyler Walker \nKelley White \nLinda Whittenberg \nFlorence Woods \nHan Yang \nBrendan Yukins \nSarah Zale \nLarry Robin\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson\, Thomas Devaney\, Mary Madec\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \nNathalie Anderson is a poet\, librettist\, and educator based in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Her books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire\, Crawlers\, Quiver\, Stain\, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review\, DoubleTake\, Natural Bridge\, The New Yorker\, Nimrod\, and Plume; and she has authored libretti for five operas.  She also manages the list-serv Lit-Philly.  A 1993 Pew Fellow\, she has taught for 39 years at Swarthmore College\, where she serves as Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor in the Department of English Literature\, and directs the Program in Creative Writing. \n  \nThomas Devaney is a poet and educator based in Philadelphia. 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 and he is 2014 Pew Fellow. He is on the Advisory Board of Blue Stoop: A Home for Philly Writers and he teaches at Haverford College. \n  \n  \n  \nMary Madec’s most recent book The Egret Lands with News From Other Parts has been described by Medbh McGuckian as\, “extraordinary\, celebrating the\, “crazy mystery of good agony\,” in a solemn mixture of the banal and the prophetic; these are poems about poems and poets\, birds and the bible\, war and married life\, children and childhood\, insects and parents. Deeply rooted in Irish myth they explore female territories explicitly\, culminating in moving dirges for the mother figure. She has a PhD\, in Linguistics\, from the University of Pennsylvania\, a Master’s in Old English Poetry from NUI\, Galway) and two other collection from Salmon Poetry In Other Words\, 2010\, and Demeter Does Not Remember 2014\, She won the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry in 2008. \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Five New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press: Carey Hunter Davis\, Peter F. Murphy\, Leonard Neufeldt\, Monika Wysong\, Seki'afua Zankel\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n5 New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press \nCarey Hunter Davis began writing poetry as a day dreaming fourth grader once she realized words could enhance day dreaming. Her days are spent in writing and reading poetry. Recently dancingirlpress published a collection of her poems\, “THE A POEMS.”  Her work has also been published by the journals: Poeming Pidgeon\, Echoes\, Black Panda Press and the collections: Island of Geese and Stars\, The Weird World Rolls On\, Sarasvati Takes Pegasus As Her Mount\, as well as other venues. It’s The Way We Live $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-946150-75-2) https://square.online/app/store/users/129102844/sites/541329794836208511/#/store/products/245 \n  \n  \n  \nPeter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay\, NY\, the Heart of the Thousand Islands\, where he learned to shoot pool and ice fish. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review\, New Madrid\, and The Café Review. His critical work includes three books on men and masculinity: Studs\, Tools\, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By; Fictions of Masculinity; and Feminism and Masculinities. Maps of Three Continents\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-94615077-6) https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/murphy-peter-f-maps-of-three-continents/250?cs=true&cst=custom \n  \n  \n  \nLeonard Neufeldt “The philosopher George Santayana defined life as the fixation of significant points of interest in the flux of experience. In our interactions with our human world\, certain moments in our relationships offer more than just a transient happening and a brush stroke of memory; they take on a kind of “life meaning” deeply implicated in our own lives. The poems focus on particular tensions and burdens of a strong interaction with the human community.  Figures in Time\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-946150-76-9) https://square.online/app/store/users/129102844/sites/541329794836208511/#/store/products/243 \n  \n  \n  \nMonika Wysong is a Philadelphia based poet\, playwright and psychotherapist. Her play\, Laundromat\, appeared on Philadelphia’s PBS station\, and she has been a semi-finalist in the Louisville Actors’ Theater playwriting competition. Her poems have appeared in American Writing. “ Monika Wysong has given us poems of the body othered by trauma and reclaimed through identification with the natural world.” J .C. Todd\, author of The Damages of Morning. Poems for The Rest of Us\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-1-946150-78-3 https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/wysong-monika-poems-for-the-rest-of-us/253?cs=true&cst=custom \n  \n  \n  \nSekai’afua Zankel\, actor\, writer\, and poet\, She is the author of Behind These Eyes/Optical Poems\, and a winner of the Leeway Foundation\, Art and Change Grant for her Poetry Play\, Miss Pearl’s Spirit: In the Mysteries of Mirrors. Her poems have been published In the CAP literary magazine\, “Poetry Ink”\, several Anthologies\, and in “Apiary”\, 7 Power Issue. Sekai lives in Philadelphia with her husband\, musician Bobby Zankel. What I Heard\, $10.00 (ISBN 978-946150-66-0) https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/zankel-sekai-afua-what-i-heard/248?cs=true&cst=custom
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