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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Norma Ketzis Bernstock\, Sean Hanrahan\, and Elaine Terranova\, with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia.\n  \n2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \nWriting During the Pandemic \nHow have writers coped? Have they producd more or less? How has it effected what they write about? Their insights\, observations\, fears\, hopes. \n  \nNorma Ketzis Bernstock – After retiring from a 34-year career in education in New York City and Northern New Jersey\, Norma moved to Milford\, Pennsylvania where she became a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective. She now works full-time writing and publishing her poetry which has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Stillwater Review\, Exit 13\, Connecticut River Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Lips\, Meta-Land—Poets of the Palisades II\, Pennsylvania Seasons and the International Bilingual Anthology\, Bridging the Waters\, II. Norma is author of Don’t Write a Poem About Me After I’m Dead (Big Table Publishing.) \nSean Hanrahan is the author of the full-length poetry collection Safer Behind Popcorn (Cajun Mutt 2019) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (Moonstone Press 2018) and Gay Cake (Toho 2020). He is head poetry editor for Toho\, serves on the Moonstone Press Editorial Board and as an instructor for Green Street Poetry\, writes poetry reviews for Mad Poets\, and hosts a poetry series at Moonstone and Art with Spirits. photo credit to Reed Gustow \n  \nElaine Terranova grew up in a working-class neighborhood and has held a variety of jobs: factory worker\, office temp\, preschool teacher\, and editor. She taught at the Community College of Philadelphia\, Temple University\, the University of Delaware\, and in the Rutgers\, Camden MFA program. She is author of seven collections of poetry and two chapbooks. Terranova’s first book\, The Cult of the Right Hand won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award\, Perdido\, 2018\, is her most recent book. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, Pleiades\, Ploughshares\, and other magazines and anthologies. Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize\, the Margaret Banister residency at Sweet Briar\, the Judah L. Magnes Gold Medal\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Center. Her memoir\, The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter will be out this spring. \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: James Feichthaler\, Anthony Palma\, Mbarek Sryfi\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 – Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \nJames Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in One Art\, Sortes\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE\, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times\, was recently published by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk\, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia. “With its controversial take on politics\, recent events\, and all things Americana\, James Feichthaler’s epic poem The Rise of the COVFEFE addresses the seriousness of these divided times with a brutal honesty and sharp humor\, and the dark undertones that haunt its stanzas speak to the frail uncertainty of a society unhinged.” \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while addressing issues of social justice\, identity\, and existence. His work has appeared in publications such as Rue Scribe\, Oddball Magazine\, and the Show Us Your Papers Anthology. His debut collection of poetry\, flashes of light from the deep (Parnilis Media)\, is now available on Amazon. Be sure to look him up on social media at anthonypalmapoetry \nMbarek Sryfi is a lecturer in foreign languages and Arabic language Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania. His work has been widely published in many journals and magazines\, and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya\, Banipal\, CEELAN Review\, Metamorphoses\, Middle Eastern Literatures\, The Journal of North African Studies\, Translation Review\, World Literature Today\, and has contributed to A New Divan— a lyrical dialogue between East & West\, among others. Sryfi has co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film\, co-translated four books\, The Monarch of the Square\, The Arabs and the Art of Storytelling\, The Elusive Fox\, The Blueness of the Evening\, and published two poetry collections\, The Trace of a Smile and City Poems. \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ahmad Almallah\, Grant Clauser\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n \nAhmad Almallah holds a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic Poetry from Indiana University Bloomington. He is currently a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania\, working on writing a book on Arabic love poetry and the ghazal. He held the position of Assistant Professor of Arabic and Arabic Literature at Middlebury College and left that position to move to Philadelphia with his wife and daughter in 2014. Since then he has found inspiration in Philadelphia to work on writing poetry and has been involved with the Arab arts and education organization\, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture\, in West Philadelphia. He is currently managing their project “Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.” \n  \n \nGrant Clauser is the author of five books\, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Cortland Review\, The Literary Review\, The Journal\, Rattle\, Southern Poetry Review and others. He was the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate\, has been a presenter at numerous writing conferences and a guest speaker at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He is a senior editor at the New York Times’ Wirecutter and teaches poetry classes at Rosemont College
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