https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 Passcode: 838862 The New Voices program consists of monthly readings by poets under the age of 25, plus a bi-annual publication. Moonstone’s objective is to expand your audience, introduce you to others who share your interest in poetry but are in different communities or go to different schools. […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 Passcode: 704102 March 8th is National Be Nasty Day and International Women’s Day. It reminded me of an event we did 2017 when “Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse” edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane came out. It is an excellent anthology, and the […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti On February 22, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. In the 1950s, Ferlinghetti’s San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the center of the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti published many of the writers whose goal was to “write in an authentic, unfettered style.” Ferlinghetti was arrested […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146 5 New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press Carey Hunter Davis began writing poetry as a day dreaming fourth grader once she realized words could enhance day dreaming. Her days are spent in writing and reading poetry. Recently dancingirlpress published a collection of her poems, “THE A […]
Watch the live broadcast: Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch 2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: The Spiritual in Poetry with Leonard Gontarek In many ways, writing poems and the reading of poems are spiritual acts. The poem resembles a prayer. It can be an invocation […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Elizabeth Catanese, Darla Himeles, and Ysabel Y. Gonzalez Elizabeth Catanese is a writer and artist whose poems have appeared in The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Stillwater Review, OVS, Anomalous Press, Referential Magazine, and Calyx. Her most recent books include A Student’s Companion for […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82768729107?pwd=ZzJmSkp0S1g0SU1ab2N6Nm5WcDByUT09 Meeting ID: 827 6872 9107 – Passcode: 896169 Virtual Poetry Reading: Terry M. Dugan, Isabella Piacentino, and Rob Wright Terry M. Dugan writes poetry and prose about the collateral damage people suffer from wars, gun violence and the AIDS/addiction epidemic. Her work has appeared in Alimentum, Bellevue Literary Review, Womens’ Studies Quarterly, A&U Magazine, […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets, Isabel Acosta, David Jones, and Han Yang New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. Isabel Acosta is a twenty-year-old aspiring poet who hopes to one day touch the hearts of many […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Virtual Poetry Reading: Moonstone International – From France in Association with Alliance Française de Philadelphia Jamika Ajalon is the author of “Take back the Narrative” and a novel “SKY PAPERS” coming out via The Feminist Press in NY in June. Ajalon is also a musician whose […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Miriam N. Kotzin, Michelle Taransky, and Kevin Varrone Miriam N. Kotzin is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Debris Field and The Body’s Bride. Her poetry and fiction have been published in anthologies and in journals including Shenandoah, Boulevard, SmokeLong […]
