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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Norma Ketzis Bernstock\, Sean Hanrahan\, and Elaine Terranova\, with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia.\n  \n2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \nWriting During the Pandemic \nHow have writers coped? Have they producd more or less? How has it effected what they write about? Their insights\, observations\, fears\, hopes. \n  \nNorma Ketzis Bernstock – After retiring from a 34-year career in education in New York City and Northern New Jersey\, Norma moved to Milford\, Pennsylvania where she became a member of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective. She now works full-time writing and publishing her poetry which has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Stillwater Review\, Exit 13\, Connecticut River Review\, Paterson Literary Review\, Lips\, Meta-Land—Poets of the Palisades II\, Pennsylvania Seasons and the International Bilingual Anthology\, Bridging the Waters\, II. Norma is author of Don’t Write a Poem About Me After I’m Dead (Big Table Publishing.) \nSean Hanrahan is the author of the full-length poetry collection Safer Behind Popcorn (Cajun Mutt 2019) and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (Moonstone Press 2018) and Gay Cake (Toho 2020). He is head poetry editor for Toho\, serves on the Moonstone Press Editorial Board and as an instructor for Green Street Poetry\, writes poetry reviews for Mad Poets\, and hosts a poetry series at Moonstone and Art with Spirits. photo credit to Reed Gustow \n  \nElaine Terranova grew up in a working-class neighborhood and has held a variety of jobs: factory worker\, office temp\, preschool teacher\, and editor. She taught at the Community College of Philadelphia\, Temple University\, the University of Delaware\, and in the Rutgers\, Camden MFA program. She is author of seven collections of poetry and two chapbooks. Terranova’s first book\, The Cult of the Right Hand won the 1990 Walt Whitman Award\, Perdido\, 2018\, is her most recent book. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, Pleiades\, Ploughshares\, and other magazines and anthologies. Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize\, the Margaret Banister residency at Sweet Briar\, the Judah L. Magnes Gold Medal\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Center. Her memoir\, The Diamond Cutter’s Daughter will be out this spring. \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading in Collaboration with Serotonin: Lexi Locket\, Warren Longmire\, Basil Wright\, with Sean Lynch
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815  Passcode: 838862 – Phone:  1-646 876 9923 US (New York) \nLexi Locket is a creative in Phoenix\, AZ. She enjoys the art of storytelling through poetry\, prose\, music\, and performance art. When not creating\, Lexi works as a music therapist in the mental health field. Lexi also enjoys playing roller derby\, spending time with her family and friends\, and raising her fur babies. She self-published her first chapbook\, ‘The After Life’\, in the fall of 2019\, and has been featured in Tealight Press and has work forthcoming in the All Female Menu Zine. She can be found on Twitter @punkiepie394 and on Instagram @poetrywithlexi \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  \nBasil Wright is a Black and Indigenous autistic queer writer that lives in Florida with their sibling. Their work has appeared in Perhappened Mag\, The Daily Drunk Mag\, and Disability Madison’s Black and Disabled Virtual Showcase. \n  \n  \n  \n                                                Sean Lynch\, Host
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Hermond Palmer\, Cherise A. Pollard\, Leena Taylor\, with Sean Hanahan
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737   Passcode: 678146   Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) \n \nHermond Palmer is a poet\, author and song writer who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem\, Philadelphia\, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. He has a Chapbook of Love poems entitled Aquarian Love Poems forthcoming from Moonstone Publishing in 2021 and he is currently wrapping up his first book of fiction\, entitled Road Kings. \n  \n  \n \nCherise A. Pollard\, Ph.D.\, is Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at West Chester University of PA.  A Cave Canem and Callaloo Fellow\, Pollard was awarded a grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. Her work has a in several journals including 5 AM\, Affilia: The Journal of Women in Social Work\, African American Review\, Connotations Press\, The Healing Muse\, The Mom Egg\, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review\, PoemMemoirStory\, and Rattle. Her poem\, “Sugar Babe” was a Finalist for the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Outsiders\, was chosen by C.M. Burroughs as the winner of the 2015 Susan K. Collins/Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Midwest Writing Center. \n  \n \nLeena Taylor spent her formative years in northeast Philadelphia. Leena exists at the crossroads of multiple sometimes conflicting cultures. Her poetry is an expression of a women that is often overlooked in America she is black she is Muslim she is women in a place that can hardly understand the nuances of one of those identities. As a caregiver\, Leena loves amplifying the voice of those othered by society and writes with the intention of giving a home to women who are often omitted from the narrative of America. Her debut chapbook is available at https://www.tohopub.com/product-page/they-shot-anyway. \n  \n  \nSean Hanahan\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Samantha Barrow\, Lisa Grunberger\, Jane Ellen Ibur\, with Aaren Perry
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737   Passcode: 678146   Phone: 1-646 876 9923 US (New York) \n \nSamantha Barrow is director of the Humanities in Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at The City College of New York\, and teaching in the Program of Narrative Medicine at Columbia. Spoken word poet\, performance artist and educator. Author of ‘GRIT’\, ‘tender membrane’\, ‘Jelly’ and ‘Chap’. Her poetry\, prose\, reviews and interviews have been published in places such as Off Our Backs\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, The Philadelphia City Paper\, Lesbian Nation and Feminist Review. \n  \n  \nLisa Grunberger is the author of three books: Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins\, 2009) and two poetry books: Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) and I am dirty (Moonstone Press\, First Prize Winner). A Pushcart nominee and Temple University Professor\, her work has appeared in a wide variety of publications including The New York Times\, Hanging Loose Press\, Crab Orchard Review\, Krytyka Literacka and The Mom Egg Review.   She teaches Narrative Medicine and Yoga and Writing at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.  Her play about motherhood\, infertility\, and assisted reproductive technologies\, Almost Pregnant\, is currently under artistic development at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre company in NYC.  When she’s not being a mom\, a professor and a poet\, she teaches Yoga and Writing Workshops at The Healing Arts Center in Philadelphia. \n  \n \nJane Ellen Ibur\, Poet Laureate of St Louis\, Missouri\, an established arts educator\, received a Visionary Award for Outstanding Arts Educator; recognized as a Warrior Poet from Word in Motion; two awards from the Missouri Scholar’s Academy\, A World of Difference Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Honored with an Author Recognition Award by the Missouri Center for the Book\, she is published in literary journals and anthologies since 1972 garnering numerous additional awards. She is the author of Both Wings Flappin’\, Still Not Flyin’ and The Little Mrs./Misses both published by PenUltimate Press.  For further details\, visit Ibur’s Wikipedia page. \nAaren Perry\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets\, Rose-Marie Athiley\, Colby Bellman\, Wes Mathews\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815   Passcode: 838862 \nNew Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. \n \nRose-Marie Athiley (she/hers) is a senior at Hamline University in Saint Paul\, MN\, where she studies English and Communications. She moved to the United States in 2006 and through learning her third language found the art of the pen and word. Her love for poetry has found itself in her academic essays and newspaper articles. Rose-Marie uses her poems and essays to foster empathy and understanding. Her most recent publication was in 22 Under 22: Young People Speak!\, an anthology of fiction\, essay\, and poetry by 22 people under the age of 22. \n  \n  \n  \n \nColby Bellman is more than just your typical “average person.” His whacky personality always shines amongst the crowd\, and he tries to incorporate that “shine” in all of his projects. He’s perusing a Film & Media Arts degree at Temple University while also obtaining an English minor and an acting certificate. Colby enjoys writing of all kinds and aims to entertain his readers by taking them on a journey into his bizarre (but creative) mind. \n  \n  \n  \n \nWes Mathews is currently at the University of Pennsylvania. As Philadelphia’s Youth Poet Laureate (2018/2019) he held workshops for elementary–school students across the city in hopes of fostering that same foundation he had. “Having a foundation in poetry as a child will sustain you for life…you experience so much internal freedom\, and it’s kind of hard to let go of that feeling.” Without forcing any definitions on students\, he gave them the opportunity to think more about how they personally experienced their world. Matthews\, a two-time Brave New Voices competitor\, was a speaker at the 2016 TEDx in Detroit. A winner of the 2018 Philly Slam League All-Star Poetry Slam\, he has published in the Detroit Free Press\, Eunoia Review\, Dreginald Magazine\, and elsewhere. “Poetry is an open field\, It allows you to exercise your imagination and creative freedom and intuition…” \nLarry Robin\, Host. Open Reading Follows.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Ahmad Almallah\, Grant Clauser\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 \n \nAhmad Almallah holds a Ph.D. in Classical Arabic Poetry from Indiana University Bloomington. He is currently a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania\, working on writing a book on Arabic love poetry and the ghazal. He held the position of Assistant Professor of Arabic and Arabic Literature at Middlebury College and left that position to move to Philadelphia with his wife and daughter in 2014. Since then he has found inspiration in Philadelphia to work on writing poetry and has been involved with the Arab arts and education organization\, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture\, in West Philadelphia. He is currently managing their project “Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.” \n  \n \nGrant Clauser is the author of five books\, most recently Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award). Poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Cortland Review\, The Literary Review\, The Journal\, Rattle\, Southern Poetry Review and others. He was the 2010 Montgomery County Poet Laureate\, has been a presenter at numerous writing conferences and a guest speaker at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates. He received his MFA from Bowling Green State University where he was a Richard Devine Fellow. He is a senior editor at the New York Times’ Wirecutter and teaches poetry classes at Rosemont College
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Martín Espada\, Afaa Weaver\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815    Passcode: 838862 \nMartín Espada\nCelebrating his new book Floaters: Poems\nAutographed copies for $26.95 available at our website www.moonstoneartscenter.com \nMartín Espada is celebrating his new book Floaters: Poems ($26.95\, W. W. Norton & Company\, 978-0393541038). \n“Vintage Espada―essential\, topical\, political\, irrepressible; in his poems\, mercy acquires muscle and close attention confers value―reminding us that protest and praise rise from the same source. Such eloquence in comradeship\, elegy and homage to those who lit the path\, and\, oh\, a fresh bounty of love poems\, written ‘not in lust but in astonishment.'” — Eleanor Wilner \nFloaters takes its title from a term used by certain Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over. The title poem responds to the viral photograph of Óscar and Valeria\, a Salvadoran father and daughter who drowned in the Río Grande\, and allegations posted in the “I’m 10-15” Border Patrol Facebook group that the photo was faked.  \nEspada bears eloquent witness to confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago\, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents kicking soccer balls over a barbed wire fence in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love―even in the voice of a cantankerous Galápagos tortoise. \nMartín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas to Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer finalist The Republic of Poetry. His many honors include the Ruth Lilly Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Born in Brooklyn\, he now lives in western Massachusetts. \n \n  \nAfaa M. Weaver (尉雅風) \n“Afaa Michael Weaver reaffirms the value and necessity of a worker’s poetics in his latest collection\, Spirit Boxing. Here\, work is not celebrated for its own sake or merely derided as drudgery but is considered as a primary source of hardship\, solidarity\, pain\, pride\, and joy.”  —the Literary Review \nBorn in 1951 in Baltimore\, Maryland\, he spent fifteen years (1970-85) working in factories and developing himself as a poet\, editor\, and free-lance journalist. Near the end of that period\, he received a 1985 NEA in poetry. He has published fifteen books of poetry\, the most recent of which is Spirit Boxing. From 1997 to 2001\, he was the editor of Obsidian III. His awards include the 1993 PDI playwriting award\, multiple Pushcarts\, a 2002 Fulbright at National Taiwan University\, the Beijing Writers’ Gold Friendship medal in 2005\, the 2014 Kingsley Tufts\, the 2015 Phyllis Wheatley award\, and a 2017 Guggenheim. In 2019\, Afaa was given two lifetime achievement awards\, from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston and in Taiwan the 96th National Medal in Art & Literature. His poetry has been translated into Arabic and Chinese. Afaa is a lifelong student of Chinese language and culture. In 2017\, he retired from Simmons U\, after twenty years holding the Alumnae Endowed Chair. He now teaches at Sarah Lawrence.
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