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SUMMARY:Honoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Program
DESCRIPTION:Sunday September 14\, 2025 – 5pm – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YGL0FkWeS5WHQX54GffCZQ \nHonoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Programs \nHost – Joanne Leva is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet\, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Peace Is a Haiku Song\, 50 Over Fifty\, Apiary\, E-Verse Radio\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Rag Queen Periodical\, Bucks County Writer\, Transcendent Visions\, and elsewhere. Honoring 王潇/Evan Wang – the 2025 National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States\, the first male and East Asian individual to hold this title\, and author of Slow Burn\, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize and finalist for the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Prize. His work appears in POETRY Magazine\, The Kenyon Review\, The Journal\, RHINO\, Sixth Finch\, Waxwing\, The Margins\, and elsewhere. He was the Youth Poet Laureate of Mongomery County. \nThe Philadelphia area has a wonderful collection of poets and poetry organizations; we especially like to welcome young people to the poetry community. Moonstone’s New Voices program publishes an anthology twice a year for poets under the age of 25\, including first-time and experienced young poets alike. We’ve featured many exemplary young writers and work closely with the Youth Poet Laureate programs in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties who we are featuring today. \nProfessor Ethel Rackin\, co-ordinates the Bucks County program\, has been teaching language and literature at Bucks County Community College\, also finds time to pursue her passion – writing.. She will introduce Nilüfer Betkas\,  a junior at Harry S. Truman High School in Bristol Township\, has been named the 2025 Bucks County High School Poet of the Year. Bektas rose to the top of more than 120 entries from all over the county\, judged by current Bucks County Poet Laureate Lake Angela and last year’s poet laureate Tara Tamburello. \nCheri Crow co-ordinates the Delco Young Poets Competition and Awards\, the longest running youth poetry competition in the area\, founded by the Mad Poets Society in 1989.  Ms. Crow  is dedicated to providing quality children’s services to families in the library and through outreach services. She will introduce Anika Fernandes\, 11 grade student at Merion Mercy Academy \nJoanne Leva\, founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program will introduce Tina Ramberg-Michael\, a ninth grader at Cheltenham High School\, who took first place in the poetry slam at the Delaware Valley Consortium for Equity and Excellence and has published her poetry with Young Inklings. \nYona Yurwit\, co-ordinates the Philadelphia Youth program. Yona has been serving teens at the Free Library of Philadelphia for 6.5 years. Her favorite poets are Jericho Brown and Anis Mojgani. She will introduce Cydney Brown\, Philadelphia’s 2020 Youth Poet Laureate and 2023’s Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate. “It’s always been the best way for me to express myself\,” says Brown\, who started writing poems in fifth grade\, an age often marked by complicated emotions
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella\, Josh Dale\, Cameron MacKenzie\, Iheoma Nwachukwu
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 17\, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nJane-Rebecca Cannarella\, is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review\, a magazine published on postcards\, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit\, a broadside press\, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Josh Dale lives in Pennsylvania and in the company of cats and nature.. Author of Duality Lies Beneath and The Light to Never Be Snuffed. Cameron MacKenzie’s work has appeared in Blackbird\, Salmagundi\, and The Michigan Quarterly Review\, among other places. His novel\, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career\, chronicles the rise to power of Pancho Villa. Iheoma Nwachukwu won fellowships from the Michener Center\, the Chinua Achebe Center and the Mississippi Arts Commission. Nwachukwu’s fiction interrogates what it means to yearn for a self-inside and outside one’s native landscape. His work centers immigrant narratives that thrive in settings alien to the character \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-jane-rebecca-cannarella-josh-dale-cameron-mackenzie-iheoma-nwachukwu/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Ebs Sanders\, Michael Joseph Walsh
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday September 24\, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nEbs Sanders is the author of Low Ecstasies\, Intimacies that did not destroy us and A Fallow Channel. Their writing has appeared in bæst\, b l u s h\, Discount Guillotine\, Full Stop and Tripwire\, among others. They co-edit the tiny and are one of ten 2025 Convent Arts fellows. Michael Joseph Walsh is the author of A Season\, winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize\, and Innocence\, winner of the Lighthouse Poetry Series. He is co-editor of APARTMENT Poetry\, and his poems\, reviews\, and translations have appeared in various publications. \nAmy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-ebs-sanders-michael-joseph-walsh/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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