2019 Philly Loves Poetry and New Voices @ PhillyCAM (Watch Live on Cable!)
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Moonstone Presents:
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Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie’s Pub
Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows
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Poetry & Humor: Hannah McDonald, Scott Sigl, & Jonathon Todd @ Fergie’s Pub
Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Poetry & Humor with Hannah McDonald, who has performed at The Bechdel Test fest, the National Poetry Slam, etc Scott Sigl is a musician, poet, and teacher who has performed poems, as well as haikus in Boston, Charlotte, Oakland, New York, Jonathon Todd is […]
New Voices: Matilda Bray, Elisha Gibson, & Bella Randazzo @ Shakespeare & Co.
Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMoonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. – 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets Matilda Bray (14) “Matilda’s ability to focus on one or two unifying images and mine them metaphorically is extraordinary. Matilda is a brave and gifted poet.” – Joanne Leva, executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate […]
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‘Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting’ Anthology Release & Reading @ Fergie’s Pub
Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting For the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment (the right of women to vote) Moonstone asks: What is the condition of women’s lives today? Women’s right to vote was passed in 1919, What did it accomplish? What […]
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Chapbook Release Party: 5 Featured Authors @ Fergie’s Pub
Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United StatesMoonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Chapbook Release Party & Reading Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review among others. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Walk like Bo Diddley, Living in the Candy Store, and Other […]
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Virtual Poetry Reading + Interview: Lynn Levin and Barbara Sabol, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair […]
The Virus: Poets Respond
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435 Coronaviruses are a group of RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the common cold (which is also caused by other […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Phillip Berryman
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86344964528?pwd=d1BUUlN3N20yVk9WcU5LWHNsY2dGdz09 Meeting ID: 863 4496 4528, Passcode: 462706, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 El Salvador’s crisis of poverty and violence has remained the primal scene for liberation theology’s political assertion that the most vulnerable people pose a moral opportunity for organized religions. This year, we are remembering November 16th, the iconic anniversary of the 1989 massacre of […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 5
MoonstoneVirtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 5 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for […]