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SUMMARY:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann "justthepen" Toombs Bautista\, Chukwuma Ndulue\, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan
DESCRIPTION:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Adriann “justthepen” Toombs Bautista\, Chukwuma Ndulue\, & Anthony Palma with Host Sean Hanrahan\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqd-mppjgrG9VAJ0fzl1MRGnhDhjt3notB \n  \nAdriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista is a mother\, Grant Administrator\, Playwright\, Poet\, Workshop Facilitator\, Founder and CEO of Just The Pen\, LLC\, Founder of Just The Pen Foundation\, Founder & Facilitator of The SisterStrength Symposium and Creator and host of “Talks with Just The Pen”. Adriann’s published works include Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King\, Sanctuary of Snow and SisterStrength:She/Her/We/Me\, and over 15 anthologies. “When my pen no longer touches paper upon the earth\, I pray to be remembered for the faith I tried to share with everyone I came in contact with\, for the light I tried to share\, my concern for humanity\, the connections I have established and how I tried to give space without leaving\,  for how I gave love in large doses without borders or judgement and for the desire I carried to have my words leave a warm impact in a cold world.” \nChukwuma Ndulue is a writer and teacher. He is the author of the chapbook Boys Quarter (Ugly Duckling Presse) and is co-founder of the Aftermath Arts Cooperative. His poetry collection Holding Rain is forthcoming from Word Galaxy Press. \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while addressing issues of social justice\, identity\, and existence. He has 2 books\, a full-length collection entitled flashes of light from the deep\, and a new chapbook\, Horror. An organizer and connector\, he is president of the Mad Poets Society\, and works to live the ideal that poetry is for everybody.  Be sure to look him up on social media at anthonypalmapoetry. \n  \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-moonstone-poetry-reading-adriann-justthepen-toombs-bautista-chukwuma-ndulue-anthony-palma-with-host-sean-hanrahan/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect\, Octavia Clarkson\, Rabivatu Jalloh\, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook
DESCRIPTION:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect\, Octavia Clarkson\, Rabivatu Jalloh\, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook\n  \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqc-qtrzgsGdVtQUJh45wStOVKvBHx2TQ- \n  \nEducator-Poets \nPresented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Writing Project \nLyrispect is an award-winning lyricist\, author\,activist\, educator and voiceover artist. She is an advocate for Black Folx\, women\, girls\, people of color and marginalized communities. She is the Director of Programming for the African American Museum in Philadelphia and has held sustained leadership roles in Black Girls Rock\, her work has appeared at the NAACP National Convention\, The Toni Cade Bambara Conference\, on two murals. Whether curating teaching\, organizing or performing\, she infuses in all her work the belief that honest expression with layered execution can disrupt\, heal\, liberate and transform. \nOctavia Clarkson is blessed with the gift to write poetry\, music and narratives. She has been an educator for over 15 years demonstrating her love of learning and sharing it with the community. Currently a Temple University doctoral student\, she examines the importance of African women’s narratives as a ritual for cultural empowerment and identity. She began writing more poetry after being introduced to the great poets of The Black Arts Movement which she now teaches at Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP). \n \nRabivatu Jalloh is an English Language Arts and Social Justice Educator and Poet from Philadelphia and New York City. \n  \n \nBarrett Rosser is currently a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education at UPENN after over a decade of facilitating student\, teacher\, and adult learning as a literacy teacher\, adjunct professor\, teacher coach\, and diversity\, equity\, and inclusion specialist. She is the Philadelphia Writing Project Scholar\, a practitioner-scholar involved in the practice of education in schools\, school districts\, colleges\, and universities\, a dreamer\, lover\, and poet. She is a huge reader\, and she loves giving back to her community. \nAlina   Macneal  & Jennifer Hook Hosts – Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220828T190000
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SUMMARY:August 28th Poetry Reading with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, Nora Hikari and Topaz Winters
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – Registration Link\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcO-rrTgrGN2rrMno2LEP59ULoh3-7_Bf \nSunday August 28\, 2022 – 7pm \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is the author of the poetry books\, My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday\, and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley) and three chapbooks of which Revolute was published in 2021 by Albion Books. Dhompa’s first non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet was published in the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016. She was born in India and raised in the Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Dhompa teaches in the English Department at Villanova University \nNora Hikari (she/her) is an Asian American transgender poet and artist based in Philadelphia. She is a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow\, and her work is published or forthcoming in Ploughshares\, Washington Square Review\, Palette Poetry\, Foglifter\, The Journal\, and others. Her chapbook\, GIRL 2.0\, was a Robin Becker Series winner and is available at Seven Kitchens Press. She was a finalist for the Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award\, and can be found at her website norahikari.com. (photo by Cassi Segulin) \nTopaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of three poetry collections (most recently So\, Stranger\, Button Poetry\, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief of the independent publishing house & literary journal Half Mystic. Her peer-reviewed scholarly work is published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Her creative work is published in diode\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, The Puritan\, & Hobart\, & has been featured by The Straits Times\, American Banker\, the National University of Singapore\, the Boston Poetry Slam\, the Center for Fiction\, & the Academy of American Poets. Topaz is 22 years old & studies Creative Writing\, Italian\, & Visual Art at Princeton University. You can find more of her work at topazwinters.com. \n\n\n\n  \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:August 31st Live Poetry Reading Feat. Sean Hanrahan\, Faith Paulsen and Pat Rodgers
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center — LIVE Poetry Reading\n  \nWednesday August 31\, 2022 – 7pm \nFergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. \nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom – Registration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOqvrD4vHtNB2awQCLhQHukjrYqWx6IU \nSean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City\, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collection Safer Behind Popcorn (2019 Cajun Mutt) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (2018 Moonstone) and Gay Cake (2020 Toho). His\nwork has also been included in several anthologies\, including Moonstone Featured Poets\, Queer Around the World\, and Stonewall’s Legacy\, and several journals\, including Impossible Archetype\, Poetica Review\, and Voicemail Poems. He has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days and Ekphrastic Poetry and hosted poetry events throughout Philadelphia. \nFaith Paulsen’s most recent chapbook is Cyanometer (Finishing Line Press 2021). Her chapbook “We Marry\, We Bury\, We Sing\, or We Weep” was a runner-up in Moonstone Arts’ Chapbook Contest in 2021 (Moonstone Press).  Her poetry and prose have appeared in many venues including Philadelphia Stories\, Ghost City Press\, Book of Matches\, Thimble\, Evansville Review\, One Art\, The Curator\, and Mantis.  Faith lives and writes just outside Philadelphia. Please check out her website at https://www.faithpaulsenpoet.com/ \nPat Rodgers is a former science teacher\, current dental student\, and poet based in West Philadelphia. His published work can be found in The Juggler\, Neptune\, and Moonstone’s haiku anthology. He is currently working on his first chapbook.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/august-31st-live-poetry-reading-feat-sean-hanrahan-faith-paulsen-and-pat-rodgers/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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