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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed\, with Aaren Perry
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 \nMeeting ID: 824 3734 5103\, Passcode: 253385\, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 \nIshmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo\, The Last Days of Louisiana Red\, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher\, television producer\, songwriter\, radio and television commentator\, lecturer\, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition\, or Neo-Hoodooism as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation\, he taught at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, retiring in 2005. In 2003\, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater. His newest book is WHY THE BLACK HOLE SINGS THE BLUES ($15.95\, Dalkey Archive Press). The poems in this new collection from Ishmael Reed were written between 2007 and 2020. They range from poems based on events that occurred around Reed’s house to cataclysmic space events. Some of the poems were commissioned. “Moving Richmond” was part of a public art installation created by Mildred Howard. The poem\, in huge letters forged into weathering steel billboards greets passengers who enter the new Bay Area mass transit hub in Richmond\, California. Other poems were commissioned by musicians. ”Hope Is The Thing With Feathers” was performed by Gregory Porter. “Red Summer\, 2015” appeared in print first and then was set to music by David Murray. Reed writes\, “The longest poem in the book\, “Jazz Martyrs\,” was begun when Reed learned about the number of black Jazz greats who didn’t live past the age of forty. “I have been fortunate to live beyond the age of 80\,” says Reed. “I’ve found out who my best friends are. The ones who got me there.” \nTennessee Reed is the author of six poetry collections\, a memoir and a novel. She has read her work around the continental United States\, Alaska\, Hawaii\, England\, the Netherlands\, Spain\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Israel and Japan. She is the chairperson of PEN Oakland and the managing editor of Konch Magazine. Her seventh poetry collection\, Calafia Burning\, is new collection of poems produced between the years 2012 and 2019 is Califia Burning: Poems\, 2012-2019 ($17.95) \nAaren Perry\, Host \nOpen reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-ishmael-reed-and-tennessee-reed-with-aaren-perry/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry in Collaboration with Serotonin; C Cimmone\, Barracuda Guarisco\, Rami Obeid\, with Sean Lynch
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85662820989?pwd=VW1NMXZMcm0yMmIwQVh4VmI0WUVzUT09 \nMeeting ID: 856 6282 0989\, Passcode: 613137 \nC Cimmone is a North American author\, comic\, and editor. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Versification and serves as Editor-at-Large for Trampset. Her work has been featured in a menagerie of print and digital publications. To read more visit www.ccimmone.com or follow her on Twitter @diefunnier.   \n  \nBarracuda Guarisco / C. C. Hannett / Kris Hall is a cheesesteak obsessed\, bisexual crybaby who enjoys absurdity at varying levels. Barry is the author of several books in the Spuyten Duyvil Publishing universe\, as well as Uncomfortable Music (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press\, 2021) and The Gold Boys are back in Gold Town (Really Serious Literature) co-authored with Joshua Robert Long. The Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Really Serious Literature\, his work has been placed with giallo lit\, Maudlin House\, Meow Meow Pow Pow\, Silent Auctions\, and various others found under Entropy Mag’s ‘Where to Submit’ list. He lives with his wife\, Pilar\, and doesn’t know what day it is. You can find him if you want to. \nRami Obeid is a poet from Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada. He is a staff member for Versification Zine and has been published in Stone of Madness Press\, Trampset\, Serotonin Poetry\, and Lucky Pierre Zine\, among others. His chapbook Marooned on the Shores of Malaise is forthcoming from Whispering Wick Follow him on twitter: @obeid_ro \nSean Lynch\, Host \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-in-collaboration-with-serotonin-c-cimmone-barracuda-guarisco-rami-obeid-with-sean-lynch/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Black Lives Matter 2020
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 \nMeeting ID: 839 4481 8819\, Passcode: 717435 \n 400 years in the making \nIs America finally ready to confront the past\, present and future of systemic racism? What do you think? \nPoets Respond \nPeople in the street demanding the end of systemic racism\, recognizing that it is embedded as normal practice\, leading to discrimination in criminal justice\, employment\, housing\, health care\, political power\, education\, and other issues. On May 25\, 2020\, George Floyd was killed\, sparking demonstrations around the world which continue today and brought BlackLivesMatter to the forefront. Join us as contributors to our new anthology read. \nNot all of the poets will be reading\, but they are in the anthology: \nJoy Alford\, Dee Allen\, Matilida Bray\, Kamaria Delaney\, Yves Marie Desir\, Minna Duchovnay\, Runett Ebo\, William Foster\, Shannon Frost Greenstein\, Linda Goss\, Steven Halpern\, MaryAnn Miller\, Stephen Page\, Hermond Palmer\, Susana Praver-Perez\, George Schaefer\, Jordan Webber\, Kelley White\, & Florence Woods.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Adriann "Just The Pen" Bautista\, Aileen Cassinetto\, Joanne Leva\, with Elijah Pringle
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 \nMeeting ID: 824 3734 5103\, Passcode: 253385\, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 \nAdriann “Just The Pen” Bautista is a Mother\, Research Grant Manager at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia\, Playwright\, Poet \, Founder and CEO of Just the Pen\, LLC\,  Founder of Just The Pen Foundation\, Founder & Facilitator of Inspired & Empowered to Move for Women Who Lead and Host of the new project Talks with Just The Pen. As an established Poet\, Adriann is author of “Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King”\, “Sister Strength” and “Sanctuary of Snow”.  She is published in various anthologies including Poetry Ink\, P.E.A.S. Magazine and Thomas Jefferson University’s Literary magazine\,  Inside Out\, and Standing our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander . \n Aileen Cassinetto is the Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, California. Widely anthologized\, she is also the author of the poetry collections\, Traje de Boda and The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems\, as well as three chapbooks through Moria Books’ acclaimed Locofo series. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asahi Shimbun\, The Banyan Review\, Moss Trill\, The Nonconformist Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and Vox Populi\, among others. Organizer of “POWER TO THE POETS reading series\, Aileen’s work is also featured in the curated “Wall + Response” project on social\, political\, racial and justice narratives in Clarion Alley\, San Francisco. \nJoanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know and an advocate for creative writing and community service. She is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet\, an online poetry manuscript services company. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Peace Is a Haiku Song\, 50 Over Fifty\, Apiary\, E-Verse Radio\, The Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Rag Queen Periodical\, Bucks County Writer\, and Transcendent Visions\, among others. Her poem\, “God Walks into a Bar\,” was featured in a Philadelphia Calligraphers’ Society Poetry Reading & Exhibit and companion publication entitled\, Scripta. \nElijah Pringle\, Host \nOpen reading follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-adriann-just-the-pen-bautista-aileen-cassinetto-joanne-leva-with-elijah-pringle/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Queer Poetics\, Gala Mukomolova\, Alina Pleskova\, Galina Rymbu
DESCRIPTION:Queer Poetics\nFrom the former Soviet Union \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 \nMeeting ID: 839 4481 8819\, Passcode: 717435 \nGala Mukomolova is a Moscow-born\, Brooklyn-raised\, poet and essayist. Her full length poetry collection\, Without Protection\, is available through Coffee House Press. Her chapbook\, One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations\, is available with YesYes Books. She is a recipient of the 2016 Discovery Prize from 92nd St Y & Boston Review and has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Pink Door\, and ASYLUM Arts. Gala currently writes astrology articles for NYLON Magazine \, cohosts Big Dyke Energy Podcast\, and is one of the creators of QueerHealers.com. She is a founder and a part of The Cheburashka Collective. \nAlina Pleskova is a poet\, editor\, and Russian immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. Her work has been featured in American Poetry Review\, Thrush\, Entropy\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Peach Mag\, Meduza\, the Poetry Project\, and elsewhere. Her chapbook\, What Urge Will Save Us\, was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press in 2017. She is co-editor of bedfellows magazine and a 2020 Leeway Foundation Art & Change grant awardee. \nGalina Rymbu was born in 1990 in the city of Omsk (Siberia\, Russia) and lives in Lviv\, Ukraine. She edits F-Pis’mo\, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory\, as well as Gryoza\, a website for contemporary poetry. She is the co-founder and co-curator of the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for emerging Russian-language poets. She has published three books of poems in Russia: Moving Space of the Revolution\, Time of the Earth\, and Life in Space. Her essays on cinema\, literature\, and sexuality have appeared on Séance\, Colta\, Your Art\, and other journals. English translations of her work have appeared in The White Review\, Arc Poetry\, Berlin Quarterly\, Music & Literature\, n+1\, Asymptote\, Powder Keg\, and Cosmonauts Avenue\, as well as in the chapbook White. Her poetry has been translated into thirteen languages and stand-alone collections of her work have been published in Latvian\, Dutch\, Swedish\, and Romanian. Her new book\, Life in Space\, is translated by Joan Brooks\, and includes additional material translated by Helena Kernan\, Charles Bernstein and others and is a co-production with After Hours Editions\, who published Rymbu’s first English-language chapbook\, White Bread and Ugly Duckling Presse. “ Daring and surprising in every poem\, Life in Space is the arrival of a new major poet.” Valzhyna Mort
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