Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology Nonsense Verse, a perfect way to look at today’s world. It is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, establishing a new reality separate from this one. Creative use of distortion, fantasy, surrealism, the impossible, opposites, made-up language form tensions between […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners – Kyle Laws, Faith Paulsen, Paul Siegell

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners First Prize: Kyle Laws – author of the sea is woman Kyle Laws is based out of Steel City Art Works in Pueblo, CO where she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. She was born in Philadelphia and […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87197922839?pwd=QTJyUXFGcHFLdXVQMDAzOWgzczRXUT09 Meeting ID: 871 9792 2839 – Passcode: 991684 Virtual Poetry Reading: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium “Traditional and radical, secular and holy, the poems in 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium come to us just as we need them. The poets here celebrate a culture and caution against hatred, all the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sonia Sanchez

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: Sonia Sanchez Sonia Sanchez, poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. One […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: The Poet’s Memoir – Elaine Terranova, Natasha Sajé, Spencer Reece, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84569818367?pwd=VzdNcGQ5Z1BpL3BVVWQ0UW5ZVWxEQT09 Meeting ID: 845 6981 8367 – Passcode: 472875 Virtual Poetry Reading: The Poet’s Memoir Elaine Terranova’s memoir The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter is due in May. Elaine grew up in a working-class neighborhood, worked as a factory worker, office temp, preschool teacher, and editor. She taught at Community College of Philadelphia, Temple University, University of […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells, Anis Mojgani, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells and Anis Mojgani Vernyce Dannells shares, with Anis, the world view of her jumbled origins and a disarmingly unvarnished response to the world. A graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course, she especially loved the years she reported for National Public Radio. […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sean Hanrahan, Michael Angelo Abreu, Valerie Little, and Valerie Nies with Elijah Pringle

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sean Hanrahan, Michael Angelo Abreu, Valerie Little, and Valerie Nies with Elijah Pringle https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Sean Hanrahan A Chapbook in 49 Days Workshop Facilitator, Sean Hanrahan, is the author of the full-length poetry collection Safer Behind Popcorn (Cajun Mutt 2019) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Angel Hogan and Stephanie Durann with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook

Virtual Poetry Reading: Angel Hogan and Stephanie Durann with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Angel Hogan Angel Hogan is an activist, poet and filmmaker pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Drexel University. She has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival, Literary Death Match, Moonstone […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including The Paris Poems Of Jim Morrison (Moonstone Press); Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; He Looked […]

Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: Research and Poetic Practice with Jena Osman, Orchid Tierney, and Host Charles S. Carr

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Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: Research and Poetic Practice with Jena Osman, Orchid Tierney, and Host Charles S. Carr Watch the live broadcast: Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch Documents in the Archive: Research and Poetic Practice How and why do poets conduct research? In what ways do poets use […]