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SUMMARY:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Cleveland Wall
DESCRIPTION:  \nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM – \n2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \nTuesday\, October 4th\, 2022 6:30 PM \n699 Ranstead Street\,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nCleveland Wall is a poet\, editor\, and teaching artist living in Bethlehem\, PA. She was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first full-length collection\, Let X=X was released by Kelsay Books in 2019. Current obsessions include dream life\, embodied poetics\, ephemeral art\, and the power of persistent\, incremental change. \nAs an artist\, Ms. Wall enjoys experimenting with form and performance—appropriated forms\, predictive text\, erasure\, devised theater\, and extemporaneous poetry. She performs with poetry improv troupe No River Twice\, of which she is a founding member. and with The Starry Eyes\, a poetry/guitar duo whose debut album\, The Garden of Terrors and Delights dropped in January 2020. \nAs a teaching artist\, she enjoys working with both children and adults\, often incorporating visual and performing arts elements in her workshops. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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LOCATION:699 Ranstead Street\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Arts Live Poetry Reading Featuring Mac Chandler\, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Mac Chandler\, Mikey Franz and Jim Mancinelli \nWednesday October 5\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub \n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrfu-prD4tEtbmdOJHBlNYnIkTkqA-YPyZ \nMac Chandler is a senior creative writing major at The University Of The Arts in Philadelphia. You can find her published work in The Rappahannock Review\, HASH Magazine\, and High Shelf Press. She currently edits for University Of The Arts’ Annual Zine ‘Underground Pool’. She hopes to continue her writing career in Philadelphia until the world inevitably implodes and the aliens that come after find her little poems about being sad. You can stay extra up to date with her work and publications on her instagram\, @frillysox. \n \n  \nMikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook\, Terrestrial Sanctuaries (Moonstone 2022)\, was released in June & you can typically find him performing at various open mics throughout the Philadelphia area. \n  \n  \n \nJim Mancinelli is author of Primer\, In Deep\, The Bartimeus Poems for which he also did the drawings and is currently developing a collection around coming of age as a gay boy in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review\, Vice-Versa\, Philadelphia Poets\, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts\, Mad Poets Review\, Fox Chase Review\, and issues of Poetry Ink. He was a finalist in the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival\, judged by Mark Doty.  He is the founder/moderator of the Moveable Beats Reading Series (MBRS) which now has a new format: UpClose with MBRS. \n  \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-arts-live-poetry-reading-featuring-mac-chandler-mikey-franz-and-jim-mancinelli/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading feat/ Eight of Moonstone's Former Chapbook Winners
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Virtual Poetry  \nTuesday October 11\, 2022 – 7pm Eastern \nRegistration Required – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkcOyqpjovGdO2icZAh6MDWK7NmFH-gjmZ \nA Reading by the Previous Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners  \n \n  \nLisa Grunberger is author of I am dirty and Born Knowing which are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Shoah survivors.  She is also author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position. \n  \n \nVernita Hall is author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color\, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians. Her poems have appeared in Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, African American Review\, Barrow Street\, and others. \n  \nGeorge McDermott is a Philadelphia poet who lives in Florida (that’s not impossible\, not even particularly uncommon). He’s also been an English teacher\, a speechwriter\, and a screenwriter (those are not mutually exclusive\, not even especially different). He is author of  Pictures\, Some of Them Moving. \n  \n \nCharles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis\, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park with Wolverine Farm Publishing. He coordinates writing programs in the community for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. \n  \n \nKenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections\, including Bend of Quiet\, Loplop in a Red City\, and Lilac And Sawdust and The Book of Micah. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly\, Asheville Literary Review\, Nimrod\, Washington Square Review\, and elsewhere. \n  \n \nJoe Roarty won the first Moonstone Chapbook Contest in 2015 for Moritat (German for “street ballad”)\, poetry of high octane energy\, passionate intelligence\, supercharged\, insistent blues\, jazz and heightened speech rhythms\, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease. \n  \nMbarek Sryfi\, poet and translator\, is author of The Trace of a Smile and City Poems\, co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film. His work appears in many journals and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya\, Banipal\, Middle Eastern Literatures\, The Journal of North African Studies\, and others. \n  \n \n  \nEmma Wynn is author of  Help Me to Fall\, her poetry has appeared in Sky Island Journal\, West Trade Review\, peculiar magazine\, apricity press\, The Raw Art Review\, Delmavra Review and others Most recently\, she was a finalist for the Subnivean magazine 2021 poetry award. \nNathalie F Anderson\, Moonstone’s 2022 Judge\, will Host.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-feat-eight-of-moonstones-former-chapbook-winners/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading with Eli C. Goldblatt\, Vernita Hall\, and Peter F. Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nWednesday October 12\, 2022 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkde-hrjosHtxdLBv1ygNzirA8cimx2HW2 \nEli C. Goldblatt is author of Wissahickon Creek: Walks & Dreams\, and seven other books. He is Professor Emeritus at Temple University\, former director of writing directed New City Writing\, the community outreach arm of the writing program. Goldblatt also taught science\, math and English for six years in an urban alternative high school in Philadelphia. He earned a master’s in education and certificate in biology from Temple.His master’s in literature and doctorate in composition studies came from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published work includes “Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum” and “Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography\,” as well as three collections of poetry and two children’s books. \nVernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color\, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians\, winner of the 2016 Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, African American Review\, Barrow Street\, The Common\, River Styx\, The Hopkins Review\, and Arts & Letters. With fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Ucross\, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College and serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories. \nPeter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay\, NY\, the Heart of the Thousand Islands\, where he learned to ice fish and shoot pool. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review\, New Madrid\, The Café Review\, and Neologism Poetry Journal\, among others. His chapbook\, A Map of Three Continents\, was published by Moonstone Press (2020). Underwater\, his new book of poems\, came out in 2021 from Human Error Publishing.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: E. Lynn Alexander & Amy Saul-Zerby 
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading With E. Lynn Alexander and Amy Saul-Zerby\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday October 19 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sce6trj4sG9eyy70A1V-FCiCov-2UCDqN \n  \nE. Lynn Alexander is a poet\, artist\, mother\, and maker of new things from old. She has been involved in the small press for many years\, producing both online and print projects. She has organized and hosted performance and open mic events locally\, and currently cohosts two monthly readings online. Right now\, she is working on programming for the Easton Book Festival which takes place each year in October. She has recently released a collection of poetry\, “Find Me in the Iris”\, available now.  \n  \nAmy Saul-Zerby is the author of the poetry collections Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds (Be About It Press 2017) and Deep Camouflage (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018). Her third collection\, Choose Your Own Beginning\, is forthcoming from Be About It Press. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, The Chicago Review of Books\, American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.  \n  \nSean Hanahan Host\, Open Reading Follows 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Amy Barone & David Ebenbach
DESCRIPTION:Live Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Amy Barone and David Ebenbach\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday October 26 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuc-CuqzosEtSSxhjrmzE5OLcjFGbqhZWu \n  \nAmy Barone’s new poetry collection\, Defying Extinction\, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection\, We Became Summer\, in 2018.  She wrote chapbooks\, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge\, New Verse News\, Paterson Literary Review\, Sensitive Skin\, and Standpoint (UK)\, among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr\, Pennsylvania\, she lives in New York City.  \nDavid Ebenbach is the author of three books of poems\, including his new collection What’s Left to Us by Evening\, and four books of fiction and non-fiction\, winners of such awards as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Juniper Prize\, among others. A West Philly native\, he lives with his family in Washington\, DC\, where he teaches at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.  \n  \nAlina  Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221030T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: Byron Beynon\, Philip Brady\, Jones Irwin\, & Steven Kleinman
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading with Byron Beynon\, Philip Brady\, Jones Irwin\, & Steven Kleinman\n\nSunday October 30 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-moqDsiHdZ-8fulshSjDrRRGm4piBqC \n  \nByron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including The Galway Review\, Cyphers\, Poetry Pacific\, London Magazine\, The Tower Journal and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets).  His most recent collection is The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).  \n  \n  \nPhilip Brady has taught at University College Cork in Ireland\, as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the National University of Zaire\, in the Semester at Sea Program\, in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MFA Program\, at the Chautauqua Institute\, at San Francisco State University\, the University of Delaware\, and SUNY Binghamton. Currently he is a distinguished professor of English at Youngstown State University\, where he teaches creative writing and literature.  \n  \nJones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin\, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics\, including texts on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis\, and his poetry and fiction have been published widely in independent journals and magazines. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist\, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic. This chapbook is his first collection of poems.  \n  \nSteven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle Of A Bear\, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His work is available from the American Poetry Review\, Beloit Poetry Review\, Copper Nickel\, the Iowa Review\, the Gettysburg Review\, Oversound\, as well as others. Steven is a contributing manager at the American Poetry Review\, where he co-hosts the APR podcast. He is the interim director of Creative Writing at the University of the Arts\, where he also serves as the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop.   \n  \nJohn Lavin Host  
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-byron-beynon-philip-brady-jones-irwin-steven-kleinman/
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