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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading - Sean Lynch\, Warren Longmire\, Rocky Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Nick Virgilio Haiku Association Anthology Reading\nFeaturing Sean Lynch\, Warren Longmire and Rocky Wilson\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146 \n  \nCelebrate the release of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association’s Haiku in Action anthology ($20.00\, A Year in Poems: Haiku in Action Volume 2\, 2020)! Featuring haiku from around the world\, the new anthology continues the tradition of haiku in the modern age. \n  \n \nSean Lynch\, he/him\, is a poet and editor who lives in South Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in journal\, s including Hobart\, Meow Meow Pow Pow\, and Drunk Monkeys. He’s on the editorial board of Moonstone Arts Center and serves as the Program Director of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. His Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor of choice is Citalopram. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWarren Longmire is the co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective and the former Director of Poetry Events for Blue Stoop. He’s been published in journals including American Poetry Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Graviton and The Painted Bride Quarterly. He is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology and will release his first full collection with Radiator Press this fall. You can find his writings\, musings and selfies on Instagram @alongmirewriter. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nRocky Wilson is a poet\, performance artist and substitute teacher who lives along the Delaware River in Camden\, NJ with his little puppet friend bongo. \n“Rocky Wilson is not just the muse of Camden\, New Jersey\, the poorest city in these rich\, un-united states\, he is its soul. Camden is where he finds redemption for a lifetime of loss\, “What saves our lives” HE WRITES\, “a 6th grade girl\, a little cloth monkey\, a dull knife\, an angel’s wings brushing through the ghetto night.” There’s no doubt in my mind\, that if Walt Whitman were alive\, he would be rocky Wilson’s biggest fan.” — Peter E. Murphy\, Stockton College \n  \nSean Lynch\, Host \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-sean-lynch-warren-longmire-rocky-wilson/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Charles Carr\, Cathleen Cohen\, Faith Paulsen
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading with Charles Carr\, Cathleen Cohen and Faith Paulsen\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n \nCharles Carr is author of paradise\, pennsylvania\, and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems (Moonstone Arts 2012). A Philadelphian\, he was educated at LaSalle and Bryn Mawr College and worked in social and community development services for 45 years. Charles has been active in raising funds for various missions and organizations serving the poorest of the poor In Haiti. In 2007\, Charles was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North.” For five years Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub. Since 2016 he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. He has read poems in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin Ireland as part of international 100\,000 Poets For Peace. \n  \nCathleen Cohen\, author of Camera Obscura (Moonstone Press\, 2017) and Etching the Ghost (forthcoming). She was the 2019 Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, PA. A painter and teacher\, she founded the We the Poets program at ArtWell\, an arts education non-profit in Philadelphia. Her poems appear in Apiary\, Baltimore Review\, Cagibi\, East Coast Ink\, 6ix\, North of Oxford\, Passager\, Philadelphia Stories\, Rockvale Review\, Rogue Agent\, She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her artwork is on view at Cerulean Arts Gallery. \n  \n \nFaith Paulsen is author of A Color Called Harvest\, We Marry\, We Bury\, We Sing or We Weep (runner-up in Moonstone’s 2020 chapbook contest)\, and forthcoming\, Cyanometer. Her poetry and prose have appeared in many venues including One Art\, Ghost City Press\, Seaborne\, Book of Matches\, Thimble Literary Magazine\, Evansville Review\, Mantis\, Psaltery and Lyre\, and Terra Preta. Her work has also been anthologized in collections such as 50/50: Poems & Translations by Womxn over 50 (QuillsEdge). She has been nominated for a Pushcart. For more information\, please check her website at https://www.faithpaulsenpoet.com/. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-charles-carr-cathleen-cohen-faith-paulsen/
CATEGORIES:Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Reading: Samuel R. Delany
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Book Reading with Samuel R. Delany\n  \nStarting with this event\, Moonstone is requiring registration for Zoom readings. To access the reading\, you must register in advance.  \nRegister for the reading here.  \n  \nSamuel R. Delany’s newest book is Of Solids and Surds: Notes for Noël Sturgeon\, Marilyn Hacker\, Josh Lukin\, Mia Wolff\, Bill Stribling\, and Bob White. \n \nHis work includes fiction (especially science fiction)\, memoir\, criticism and essays on science fiction\, literature\, sexuality\, and society. After winning four Nebula awards and two Hugo Awards over the course of his career\, Delany was inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002. From January 1975 until his retirement in May 2015\, he was a professor of English\, Comparative Literature\, and/or Creative Writing at SUNY Buffalo\, SUNY Albany\, the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and Temple University. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him its 30th SFWA Grand Master in 2013\, and in 2016\, he was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Delany received the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. \n  \n  \n“Delany’s prismatic output is among the most significant\, immense and innovative in American letters.”—Jordy Rosenberg\, New York Times \n“A fascinating glimpse into the creative life of novelist and critic Delany …. He dispenses wisdom about craft—including the demanding revision process his dyslexia requires—but most moving are the moments when he sheds light on connections he has made with other readers and writers …. Delany’s fans are in for a treat.”—Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \n  \n Register for our reading with Delany\n  \n Buy an Autographed Copy!\n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-book-reading-samuel-r-delany/
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Sydney Hunt Coffin\, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe\, Alina Macneal
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading with Sydney Hunt Coffin\, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile\, and Alina Macneal\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n  \nSydney Hunt Coffin has been with the Philadelphia Writing Project since 2011\, when he was working as an English teacher at University City High School. He has taught English\, Poetry\, and Art for 20 years in Philadelphia\, spending summers working and studying at Yale University and has served on the Teacher Advisory Council of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As a poet he has been published in Mad House Press\, Apiary magazine\, and Yale University Press\, and is currently an MFA student at New York University in Paris. \n  \n \nNaa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe (After the Queen\, Precious\, One Who Controls Her Destiny) is a Multimedia Artist\, Activist\, Griot\, Public Servant\, and Citizen of the World who utilizes her artform to uplift her culture\, promote Black Womanhood in a positive light\, and cultivate a consciousness receptive to social and political change. Her poetry has also been included in Hair Stories\, Now Anthology\, Poetry Ink\, Howard University’s Amistad Literary Journal\, Poetry Ink Tenth Anniversary\, The Apiary\, Versadelphia\, E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices\, For Women: In Tribute to Nina Simone\, and Philly Jawns\, For Women Revisited as well as\, other publications worldwide \n  \n \nAlina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary\, Poems for the Writing\, The World to Come\, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet\, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said\, History doesn’t repeat itself\, but it often rhymes.   \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-sydney-hunt-coffin-naa-koikoi-aziza-zenzile-kebe-alina-macneal/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: R.G. Evans\, Michael Storm Miller\, and Rocky Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading with R.G. Evans\, Michael Storm Miller\, and Rocky Wilson\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n  \n \nR.G. Evans’s books include Overtipping the Ferryman (Aldrich Press Poetry Prize)\, The Holy Both\, and Imagine Sisyphus Happy. His poems and prose have appeared in RATTLE\, Philadelphia Stories\, and Weird Tales among other publications. Evans’s first album of original songs\, Sweet Old Life\, is available on most streaming platforms\, and he is currently recording a follow up album. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n\nMichael Storm Miller is a poet/ spoken word artist from Chester who served in the military for 15 and uses spoken word as a median to bridge the gap in understanding between veterans and civilians so that together we all can find healing. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nRocky Wilson is a poet\, performance artist and substitute teacher who lives along the Delaware River in Camden\, NJ with his little puppet friend bongo. \n“Rocky Wilson is not just the muse of Camden\, New Jersey\, the poorest city in these rich\, un-united states\, he is its soul. Camden is where he finds redemption for a lifetime of loss\, “What saves our lives” HE WRITES\, “a 6th grade girl\, a little cloth monkey\, a dull knife\, an angel’s wings brushing through the ghetto night.” There’s no doubt in my mind\, that if Walt Whitman were alive\, he would be rocky Wilson’s biggest fan.” -Peter E. Murphy\, Stockton College \n  \nOpen Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-r-g-evans-rocky-wilson/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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