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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: International Workers' Day Anthology
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 \nMeeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: International Workers’ Day Anthology \n \nMay 1st is International Workers’ Day\, a time of celebration and opposition throughout the world\, except in the United States where it began. May Day commemorates the May 1st\, 1886 nationwide protest for the eight-hour day and the following “Haymarket Affair\,” a pivotal event in the history of workers’ and anarchist movements in which four labor organizers were hanged by the State in Chicago. May Day is also the ancient celebration of Spring and rebirth – the traditional time for planting new seeds in old ground. \nPoets have long reflected on work. What is it to you? Is it a burden\, a salve\, a joy? \nDonald Hall wrote a wonderful memoir called Life Work\, not what you do for money but what you do with your life. The Poetry Foundation has a terrific article\, Work Poems – Poetry about looking for jobs and working for a living. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69799/work-poems. \nRead What Work Is by Philip Levine; Brass Spittoons by Langston Hughes; Shirt by Robert Pinsky. \nWe asked poets to send us a poem on work for a Moonstone anthology. \nJoin us as we celebrate International Workers Day with poetry and bring a poem. \nContributors (Not all will be reading): \nMichele Belluomini \nMiriam Ben-Yoseph \nByron Beynon \nSarah Bowden \nMatilda Bray \nR. Bremner \nGrace Cavalieri \nTerence Culleton \nSteven Davison \nTerry Dugan \nChristine Ferrari \nStrickland \nMaria Gillan \nlinda goss \nBeejay Grob \nSteven Halpern \nBarbara Hobbie \nJoan Huffman \njack israel \nIrving Jones \nChris Kaiser \nMichael Levin \nKaren Mandell \nEmily Rose Miller \nLiz Minette \nDennis Moritz \nAnthony Palma \nJohn Polier \nDavid Radavich \nEsther Ramos \njoe roarty \nGeorge Schaefer \nJennifer Schneider \nBob Small \nSarah Trembath \nKelley White \nSamantha Wright
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Medicine Poetry - John Fox\, Sean Lynch\, Elizabeth Gordon McKim\, with Aaren Perry
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09  \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Medicine Poetry – John Fox\, Sean Lynch\, Elizabeth Gordon McKim \nJohn Fox\, founder of The Institute for Poetic Medicine\, began work with poetry & healing in 1981\, he is the author of Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making and Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making. In 2012 he started a training program for people to learn the art and practice of poetry-as-healer.  His work has made a significant impact on professionals in medicine\, psychology\, education\, pastoral care\, Veterans\, cancer support\, hospice\, drug and alcohol counseling\, immigrant and refugee concerns and elder care.  John taught poetry therapy for many years within the Expressive Therapy Department at the California Institute for Integral Studies\, The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology/Sofia University and within the Arts & Consciousness Department at John F. Kennedy University. \nSean Lynch\, he/him\, is a poet and editor who lives in South Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in journals 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  \nElizabeth Gordon McKim’s latest book is Lovers In The Free Fall. The Jazz Poet of Lynn and poet laureate of the European School\, she offers the reader rich and diverse forms and shapes. Spoken word artist\, editor\, and teacher\, she is the author of eight collections of poetry\, and one teaching guide Beyond Words co-authored with Judith Steinbergh poet laureate of Brookline. McKim is a pioneer member of the Arts Institute for Expressive Therapy at Lesley University since 1974 under the direction of Shaun McNiff.  She has read and performed her poetry in countless venues\, locally and abroad. She loves to work improvisationally with musicians\, dancers\, visual artists\, and she teaches from a multi-arts trans-cultural perspective. \n  \nAaren Perry\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Quintin Collins\, Meg Kearney\, Iain Haley Pollock\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Quintin Collins\, Meg Kearney\, Iain Haley Pollock \nQuintin Collins (he/him) is a writer\, editor\, and Solstice MFA Program assistant director. His work appears in many print and online publications\, and his first full-length collection of poems is The Dandelion Speaks of Survival (Cherry Castle Publishing\, 2021). His second collection of poems\, Claim Tickets for Stolen People\, selected by Marcus Jackson as winner of The Journal’s 2020 Charles B. Wheeler Prize\, is forthcoming from The Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books in 2022. See more of his work on qcollinswriter.com. \n  \n  \nMeg Kearney’s All Morning the Crows\, winner of the Washington Prize\, is just out with The Word Works press. Meg is also author of An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now\, winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award; a heroic crown\, The Ice Storm\, published as a chapbook in 2020; and three verse novels for teens. Her award-winning picture book\, Trouper\, is illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Meg’s poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series\, and included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology (Natasha Tretheway\, guest editor). She lives in New Hampshire and directs the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program in Massachusetts. Visit www.megkearney.com. \nIain Haley Pollock is the author of two poetry collections\, Ghost\, Like a Place (Alice James Books\, 2018)\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award\, and Spit Back a Boy\, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, The Baffler\, and The New York Times Magazine. Pollock teaches English at Rye Country Day School in Rye\, NY\, and is a member of the poetry faculty at the Solstice MFA program of Pine Manor College. \n  \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210512T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Regie Cabico\, Israel Colon\, Lucia Herrmann\, with Sean Hanrahan
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Regie Cabico\, Israel Colon\, Lucia Herrmann \nRegie Cabico is the first Asian American and queer poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, TEDx Talk and NPR’s Snap Judgement. He received a New York Innovative Theater Award for his work with the New York Neo-Futurists’ Production of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. He produces Capturing Fire Festival and Press. He has been on faculty at Kundiman\, Banff Spoken Word Arts & NYU’s Asian Pacific Studies Artist in Residence. Cabico is a founding Board Member of Split This Rock and a 2019 Le Maison Baldwin Fellowship Recipient. \n  \n  \nIsrael Colon\, author of Icarus ($12.00\, Toho Publishing) With inspired rhyme schemes and use of poetic forms\, Icarus confronts Israel Colon’s struggles with trauma\, religion\, and relationships. Through a mercilessly honest approach to writing\, Colon shines a light on the experiences of a man barely keeping it together. A Philadelphia-based father\, poet\, and business operations professional\, Colon has a bachelor’s from Temple University and a master’s in industrial and organizational psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. His debut poetry chapbook chronicles his early life as an at-risk youth. “Icarus will send shivers down your spine. It will remind you of the power of poetry and leave you wanting to read it again.”? Andrs Cruciani\, author of The Father and editor-in-chief of Toho Journal. \n  \nLucia Herrmann is a Miami-raised and Philly-based artist and educator. She has been published by Apiary\, Toho Journal\, Defunkt Mag\, and has two pieces forthcoming in Jai-Alai Books’ Waterproof collection. In 2019\, Lucia was featured in two Philly FringeArts productions\, and she is very much looking forward to when theaters and performance spaces can safely reopen. She is a workshop leader for Green Street Poetry\, and a former poetry editor for Toho Journal. In the classroom and in her community\, Lucia is dedicated to the transformative and unifying power of creative expression. \n  \nSean Hanrahan\, Host – Open Reading Follows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210516T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Nonsense Verse Anthology \nNonsense Verse\, a perfect way to look at today’s world. \nIt 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 illusion and truth\, dreams\, and logic\, meant to test the meaning of language itself. All of us love language\, what it says\, what it doesn’t say\, how can we get to the essence of the story we want to tell. Sometimes you need to go so deep that you come out the other side.  From ‘Jabberwocky’ to ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ nonsense verse is not just for children. These poems can appeal to all age groups in their outlandish settings\, invented words\, and otherworldly characters. Personification\, song\, consistent rhyme schemes and metrical patterns\, as well as aspects of storytelling\, are all part of this genre of poetry. Lewis Carrol\, Edward Lear\, Spike Milligan\, Mervyn Peake\, Shel Silverstein\, A.A. Milne\, Ogden Nash. Moonstone celebrates Edward Lear’s birthday (May 12\, 1812) with an anthology of Nonsense Poems written by poets today. Moonstone’s Nonsense Anthology ($10.00). \nJoin us as poets read their Nonsense Verse and bring your own.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners - Kyle Laws\, Faith Paulsen\, Paul Siegell
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: 2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners \nFirst Prize:  \nKyle Laws – author of the sea is woman \nKyle 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 her family maintains a home there. Collections include Uncorseted (Kung Fu Treachery Press\, 2020)\, Ride the Pink Horse (Stubborn Mule Press\, 2019)\, Faces of Fishing Creek (Middle Creek Publishing\, 2018)\, This Town: Poems of Correspondence coauthored with Jared Smith (Liquid Light Press\, 2017)\, So Bright to Blind (Five Oaks Press\, 2015)\, and Wildwood (Lummox Press\, 2014). With eight nominations for a Pushcart Prize and one for Best of the Net\, her poems and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies in the U.S.\, U.K.\, Canada\, and Germany. She is editor and publisher of Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. \n  \nRunner’s Up: \nFaith Paulsen – author of we marry we bury we sing or we weep \nFaith Paulsen’s work has appeared in One Art\, Ghost City Press\, Seaborne\, and Book of Matches\, as well as Thimble Literary Magazine\, Evansville Review\, Mantis\, Psaltery and Lyre\, and Terra Preta\, among others. Her work also appears in the anthologies Is it Hot in Here or Is It Just Me? and 50/50: Poems & Translations by Womxn over 50. She has been nominated for a Pushcart\, and her chapbook A Color Called Harvest was published in 2016. A second chapbook\, Cyanometer\, is expected in 2021. She lives just outside Philadelphia. She and her husband Barton Sacks are the proud parents of three sons\, Paz\, Seth and Gideon. \n  \nPaul Siegell – author of The Tongue They Shared \nPaul Siegell is the 2021 Montgomery County Poet Laureate and author of Take Out Delivery\, wild life rifle fire\, jambandbootleg\, and Poemergency Room. He’s an award-winning creative director at The Philadelphia Inquirer and was a senior editor at Painted Bride Quarterly from 2007-2019. In 2015\, his work was selected for the Pennsylvania’s Center for the Book’s Public Poetry Project. A Pushcart nominee\, Paul has contributed to American Poetry Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Rattle\, and many other fine journals.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-2021-moonstone-chapbook-contest-winners-kyle-laws-faith-paulsen-paul-siegell/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87197922839?pwd=QTJyUXFGcHFLdXVQMDAzOWgzczRXUT09 \nMeeting ID: 871 9792 2839 – Passcode: 991684 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium \n“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 while making incredible art. Silverman and Carlson have gathered a stellar and diverse group of poets and poetic visions.”–Denise Duhamel\, author \nWith editors Nancy Naomi Carlson\, a poet\, translator\, essayist\, editor\, & Matthew E. Silverman who teaches at Gordon State College and is editor of Blue Lyra Press. Plus Contributors:   \nAliki Barnstone is the author of eight books of poetry\, the most recent of which is Dwelling and the translator of The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy. Her awards include a Fulbright Fellowship in Greece and she served as poet laureate of Missouri . \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDan Bellm (Berkeley\, California) has published four books of poems\, most recently Deep Well (Lavender Ink\, 2017). He teaches literary translation and poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles. Visit www.danbellm.com. \n  \n  \n  \nNancy Naomi Carlson\, poet and translator\, has authored eleven titles (seven translated). An Infusion of Violets (Seagull\, 2019) was named “New & Noteworthy” by The New York Times. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nErika Dreifus is the author of Birthright: Poems and Quiet Americans: Stories. An adjunct associate professor at Baruch College and a fellow in the Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute\, she lives in New York. Visit her online at ErikaDreifus.com. \n  \n  \n  \nJoy Gaines-Friedler is the author of three books of poetry including Capture Theory (Finalist for the Eric Hopper Book Award). Joy teaches Creative Writing for non-profits in the Detroit area. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDiane Frank is author of poetry\, fiction\, and a photo memoir of her 400 mile trek in the Himalayas. While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems\, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJanlori Goldman’s book\, “Bread from a Stranger’s Oven\,” was chosen by Laure-Anne Bosselaar for the 2016 White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, “My Antarctica\,” is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJeffrey Levine’s most recent book is At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered. He is the Founder\, Artistic Director and Publisher of Tupelo Press. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOlga Livshin is a poet\, essayist\, and translator with publications in the Kenyon Review\, Poetry International\, and other journals. Her book A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman came out in 2019. She lives outside Philadelphia. \n  \n  \n  \nAlicia Ostriker has published nineteen collections of poetry\, most recently The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems\, 2002-2019. She received the National Jewish Book Award in 2010 and again in 2017. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nE. Silverman is the author of The Floating Door (Glass Lyre Press) and The Breath before Birds Fly (ELJ Press) and edited 3 anthologies\, including 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium with Nancy Naomi Carlson. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMelanie H.D. Sirof is a proud Bread Loaf alum and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets University Prize. Her work appears on Poets.org\, and in Iron Horse Literary Review \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAmy Small-McKinney is the author of two full-length books of poetry and two chapbooks. This year\, she was nominated by a member of The Pushcart Prize Board of Contributing Editors. Visit. www.amysmallmckinney.com
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Sonia Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Sonia Sanchez \nSonia 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 of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement\, Sanchez is the author of sixteen books. \nA representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement\, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry\, this compilation is sure to inspire love and community engagement among her legions of fans. Beginning with her earliest work\, including poems from her first volume\, Homecoming (1969)\, through to 2019\, the poet has collected her favorite work in all forms of verse\, from Haiku to excerpts from book-length narratives. Her lifelong dedication to the causes of Black liberation\, social equality\, and women’s rights is evident throughout\, as is her special attention to youth in poems addressed to children and young adults. \nAs Maya Angelou so aptly put it: “Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. When she writes she roars\, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.” \n“You have spoken for us . . . Written for us . . . Sung to us . . . How much in your debt we are.” —Toni Morrison \n“This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: more livable\, more laughable\, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry.” \n “Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.” —Isabel Allende \n “The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts\, felt those emotions\, and\, above all\, expressed them so effortlessly and so well.” —Chinua Achebe \n“Her songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century.” – —Joy Harjo
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-sonia-sanchez/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: The Poet's Memoir - Elaine Terranova\, Natasha Sajé\, Spencer Reece\, with Larry Robin
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84569818367?pwd=VzdNcGQ5Z1BpL3BVVWQ0UW5ZVWxEQT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 6981 8367 – Passcode: 472875 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: The Poet’s Memoir \nElaine 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 Delaware\, and in the Rutgers 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\, is her most recent book. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, Pleiades\, Ploughshares\, and other magazines and anthologies. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize\, the Margaret Banister residency\, the Judah L. Magnes Gold Medal\, and fellowships from the NEA and the Pew Center. (photo by Millie L. Berg) \nNatasha Sajé is author of Red Under the Skin\, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize; Bend\, awarded the Utah Book Award in Poetry; Vivarium and her post-modern poetry handbook\, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory. Her most recent book is a memoir-in-essays\, Terroir: Love\, Out of Place\, a finalist for Pen\, Lambda\, and Foreword awards. Honors include the Bannister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College\, Alice Fay di Castagnola and Robert Winner Awards from the Poetry Society of America\, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize\, a Fulbright Scholarship to Slovenia\, a Camargo Fellowship in France\, a Hermitage artist residency\, and a 2020 Pushcart prize. Sajé teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Westminster College in Salt Lake City\, where she directs the Weeks Poetry Series. \nSpencer Reece’s first published book of poetry\, The Clerk’s Tale\, was selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Prize. The titular poem was adapted into a short film by James Franco in 2010. Reece is also the author of the poetry collection The Road to Emmaus\, a finalist for the Griffin Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. For several years he lived in Madrid\, where he was the national secretary to the Episcopal bishop of Spain. He currently lives in Jackson Heights\, “the world’s most diverse neighborhood” according to The New York Times\, where he is the interim priest in charge at St Mark’s. \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-the-poets-memoir-elaine-terranova-natasha-saje-spencer-reece-with-larry-robin/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells\, Anis Mojgani\, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
DESCRIPTION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \nVirtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells and Anis Mojgani \nVernyce 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. Vernyce’s work has been featured in national & international literary publications\, and her storytelling is sought around the world. Cadenza Press published her chapbook Temporarily Abated. \n  \n  \nAnis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam\, Anis has performed at hundreds of universities across the US\, and festivals around the globe such as the Sydney Writer’s Festival\, Jamaica’s Calabash festival\, and Seoul’s Young Writer’s Festival. His work has appeared on HBO\, National Public Radio\, and as part of the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series; and in the pages of the NYTimes\, Rattle\, Platypus\, Winter Tangerine\, Forklift Ohio\, and Bat City Review\, amongst others. The author of five books of poetry and the opera libretto\, Sanctuaries\, his first children’s book is forthcoming from Chronicle Books. Originally from New Orleans\, Anis currently lives in Portland Oregon. Visit his website thepianofarm.com. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Follows
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