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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker's Day
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day\nSunday May 1\, 2022 – 2 pm -VIRTUAL – International Workers’ Day (Labor Day\, May 1) \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf–qrT0pGtX7GFWtGu2R5kGRSju8bauy \n  \nInternational Workers’ Day\, also known as Labor Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day\, is a celebration of laborers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labor movement and occurs every year on May Day (1 May). Though it’s celebrated internationally\, Labor Day originated in the United States and has its roots in the rise of trade unions in 19th century Chicago\, their hard-fought battle for workers’ rights\, and the fight for the eight-hour workday. International Workers’ Day was officially recognized in 1889 at the first International Socialist Congress in Paris to commemorate the Haymarket Affair—a bloody confrontation between striking union workers and Chicago police in 1886.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho\, Gina Myers\, Ryan Eckes
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Jacob L. Camacho\, Gina Myers\, Ryan Eckes\nWednesday May 4\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrf-uorzosHdZJNPRXR3kPUT25I8ohQknW \n  \nJacob L. Camacho is a CHamoru writer\, educator\, and activist born and raised in Guahan (Guam)\, of Islas Marianas. He received his Creative Writing MFA from Rutgers University\, Camden. He is an alumni of The University of Guam and UCLA’s Extension Writers Program. Currently\, he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stockton University\, a writer for Philadelphia’s TrailOff and co-founder of the Move Mountains Project 501(c)(3) in San Luis\, Colorado. His stories and poems have been featured in University of Guam’s Storyboard\, University of Hawai’i’s Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia and Philadelphia’s MadHouse Magazine. \n  \n \nGina Myers‘ latest book\, Some of the Times\, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections\, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013)\, as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry\, she has published essays\, reviews\, and articles for a variety of publications\, including Hyperallergic\, Frontier Psychiatrist\, Fanzine\, The Rumpus\, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Originally from Saginaw\, MI\, she lives in Philadelphia\, PA\, where she co-edits the tiny with Emma Brown Sanders. \n  \n  \n \nRyan Eckes is a poet from Philadelphia. His most recent books\, General Motors\, Fine Nothing and Wet Money\, are out of print but can be downloaded for free from Internet Archive. His work can also be read in Protean Magazine\, Prolit\, Wax Nine Journal and elsewhere. He edits Radiator Press. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-jacob-l-camacho-gina-myers-ryan-eckes/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Remembering Thomas Kinsella
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Thomas Kinsella\nSunday May 8\, 2022 – 2pm \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-GpqTwpE9QBzsJ92os8X53FdKo3E0zv \n  \nThomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet\, translator\, editor\, and publisher. \nHe began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and\, around the same time\, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the 1960s\, he moved to the United States to teach English at universities including Temple University\, where he started Temple’s Irish studies program. \nHis sensitive lyrics deal with primal aspects of the human experience\, often in a specifically Irish context. He began serving in the Irish civil service in 1946\, and in the early 1950s he met Liam Miller\, the founder of the Doleman Press\, which published much of Kinsella’s poetry beginning in 1952. In 1965 he left the Irish civil service and took a position as a writer in residence at Southern Illinois University in 1965 and at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1970. \nKinsella founded his own publishing company\, the Peppercanister Press\, in Dublin in 1972\, which allowed him to publish pamphlets and individual poems in limited editions without relying on submissions to journals or magazines. Kinsella’s first poem to be published through his press was Butcher’s Dozen about Bloody Sunday\, in which 13 demonstrators were killed by British troops in Londonderry (Derry)\, Northern Ireland\, and the ensuing tribunal. Numerous collections of Kinsella’s poems were released\, including Collected Poems\, 1956–2000)\, Selected Poems\, Fat Master\, and Late Poems; the latter was published by Carcanet Press\, which released several of his works in the early 21st century.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin\, Sibelan Forrester\, Alison Lubar
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin\, Sibelan Forrester\, Alison Lubar\nWednesday May 18\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudOCrpjovE9JWt5KotUx73STwYpTOT0og \n \nTonita Austin also known as “Toni Love” is a gifted poet\, singer\, activist\, and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University\, Tonita was a student of Amiri Baraka and performed in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls” as the Lady in Orange. Her writing is influenced by both experiences. She is a contributor to the anthology The Black Body and featured poet in the 2018 and 2020 Winter/Fall edition of the Philadelphia Arts and Urban Literary magazine. The Restoration EP is her first published recording; Toni’s Room is her first published book. Toni currently resides in Media\, PA with her two children James and Janai. \n \nSibelan Forrester is a poet and translator who grew up in Colorado but now lives in the Philadelphia suburbs. She has published translations of fiction\, poetry and scholarly prose from Croatian\, Russian and Serbian\, and of poetry from Ukrainian\, and her book of poetry SECOND HAND FATE was published in 2016 by Parnilis Media. She is the host of the Mad Poets Society’s First Wednesday reading series. In her day job she teaches at Swarthmore College. \n  \n \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary femme of color whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices\, and sometimes even poetry\, to young people. Their debut chapbook\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, is forthcoming with Thirty \nWest Publishing in May 2022. Most recently\, their work has been published by or is forthcoming with Moonstone Press\, New York Quarterly\, and Sinister Wisdom.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022\nSaturday May 21\, 2022– 2pm EST \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcuitqTooGdwfpzt7nCg8xrIqo7F7spOJ \n  \nNew Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wider audience. \nUs humans tend to narrow our audience and present to others in our schools or poetry groups. Moonstone’s objective is to expand your audience\, introduce you to others who share your interest in poetry but live in different communities and go to different schools. Each month we present three poets from different communities followed by an open reading. We are still virtual on zoom. In addition to monthly readings we publish a New Voices anthology twice a year\, once in spring and once in fall\, and have a reading from the anthology. This is an on-going project so please send us your poems. \n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander\,  Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III)\, Shakeema Smalls
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander\, Shakeema Smalls\nSunday May 22\, 2022 – 2pm \nRegistration Required – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-2trT4vGN0OaXwq5nWShZLwqTdgLBnJ \n Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse\, patriarch of the Alexander clan\, leader\, organizer\, Raceman\, and Maude Anna\, Griot\, visionary artist\, poet\, muse\, teacher\, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in Maryland. “We are a stolen but thriving people\, living on stolen land.” His poetry has won second place in the First Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Zero Hunger in the First World Food Day 2018 Contest\, and placed as a finalist in the 1999 Paterson Literary Review’s Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest. He has been featured at Grace Cavalieri’s The Poet and the Poem 2020-21 Series\, Words out Loud Virtual Reading\, Evil Grin\, the Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church’s Annual Poetry Service\, The Knitting Factory\, Groove Drops\, and the Sumei Multidisciplinary Center. His work has appeared in Remembering Amiri Baraka\, Free Black Space: Content and Code for those Living in the Black\, Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora\, Sojourners Magazine\, The Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic Poetry\, and Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary\, Cultural & Vision Arts. \n  \n \nBro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) is a poet and non-fiction writer\, author of One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven\, published in Crab Orchard Review\, African-American Review\, Ploughshares\, Beltway Quarterly\, and other journals.  He teaches at Bowie State University. \n  \n  \n \nShakeema Smalls is from Georgetown\, South Carolina. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Blackberry: A Magazine\, Tidal Basin Review\, The Fem\, Radius Lit\, Free Black Space\, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Rigorous\, among others.
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