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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Interview & Reading
DESCRIPTION:2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series With Zina Bethea Dawson\, Jenny Pacanowski & J. C. Todd\n\nTuesday November 1 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\n  \nZina Bethea Dawson a served as a combat medic. She spent the majority of her adult life caring for others; fellow service members while on active duty and family upon separation from duty. From as early as she can recall\, creativity was interwoven into her life’s journey. Every form of textile artistry piques her interest to the point of formal training and execution. Whether it’s a quilt\, hand tooled leather accessory\, or a custom piece of jewelry\, seeing a smile is the elixir that energizes her passions. Give her a needle and thread; magic will happen. Joy is a mission for Zina as she uses humor in her written work with Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving\, where experiential expression is the medium of camaraderie and healing.   \nJenny Pacanowski is the Founder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving; a reintegration program that utilizes writing and performance to empower veterans to thrive in their daily life. She is also the program director of Poetic Theater Productions NYC Veteran Voices and the Associate Director of Lucid Body’s Impact theatre. Jenny believes that partnerships\, collaborations and empowerment through community and ritual storytelling are the key to reintegration for veterans and their families. She travels all over the country performing\, speaking\, facilitating workshops and inviting people to empower themselves from within their experiences.  \nJ. C. Todd was a Blue Star Mother between 2002-2012\, when three of her family members were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and she began to write her book of poems\, Beyond Repair\, (2021) a selection for the Able Muse Press Book Award. Other poetry collections include The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press\, 2018)\, a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award\, and What Space This Body (Wind Publications\, 2008). Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize and a ‘commended’ winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition: Poetry Society of the UK\, she holds fellowships from the Pew Foundation\, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, and Bemis Center. Poems and interviews have appeared in the Baltimore Review\, The Night Heron Barks\, One Art\, The Paris Review\, and other journals. In 2023\, PDR Press will publish a collection of her new and selected poems in a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) edition. www.jc-todd.com  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-poetry-phillycam-jenny-pacanowski-j-c-todd/
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: Gina Myers\, Alina Pleskova\, Warren Longmire
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Gina Myers\, Alina Pleskova\, and Warren Longmire\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 2 @ 7:30PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceqvqTIsGtHtpjemioTAOXaz6B_ZzVn6 \n  \n Gina Myers’s latest book\, Some of the Times\, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections\, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013)\, as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry\, she has published essays\, reviews\, and articles for a variety of publications. She lives in Philadelphia\, PA\, where she works in communications and co-edits the tiny with ebs and Cul-de-sac of Blood with Jeff T. Johnson.  \n  \nAlina Pleskova is fixing to become poet-in-residence of the astral realm. She is a Moscow-born\, Philadelphia-based poet & editor\, author of What Urge Will Save Us\, Toska. Alina is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change and Window of Opportunity grants; has hosted workshops\, events\, & panels\, is founder of the Cheburashka Collective (women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora)\, and co-edits bedfellows\, a literary magazine topically focused on sex\, desire\, & intimacy.   \n  \nWarren Longmire is a writer\, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine\, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He’s been published in journals including Prolit\, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication\, Open Source\, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press. His second\, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop is set to release in the winter of 2022 through Fonograf Editions.  \n  \nebs Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-gina-myers-alina-pleskova-warren-longmire/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event: The Future of America
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Presents:\nThe Future of America– VOTE\n\nSunday November 6 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsc-urrTwjG92Ddk8jG1I7lqkWuqO8ehGj \n  \n \nWhat is our future? Will we take the effort to vote on November 8?  Do we believe in Democracy or will we become an authoritarian state? 4 million students graduate high school each year and do not vote until they are 25. We would live in a different world if they voted. This may be the most important election in our lifetime. VOTE and urge other to VOTE. Do it with poetry\, Join us as poets reflect on the Future of America. \nJoin us a poets read their submissions. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-the-future-of-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Alexander Khan\, Claire Palmer\, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Alexander Khan\, Claire Palmer\, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 9 @ 7:30PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvcOurqT8tEtfqB8TkrAAoNrx3q7OUGbv8 \n  \nAlexander Khan is a creative writing student at the University of the Arts. As a queer person\, his writing focuses on the link between queerness\, mental health\, and family. He was first published in 3rd grade in a national book focused on poems about bullying.  \n  \n  \nClaire Palmer is a 21-year-old writer\, poet\, & philosopher based in Philadelphia. Born in Doylestown\, Pennsylvania\, she currently attends The University of the Arts as a senior in the Creative Writing program. Drawing from magical realism & pagan folklore\, her artistic style also sources inspiration from political history & dialogic language. Motifs of ancestry\, karma\, & free will often can be found in her work. Find Claire on Instagram @cklayre.  \n  \nJohn Tom Raczkowski is the Senior Editor and Coordinator for University of the Art’s annual magazine Underground Pool\, responsible for publishing student driven works as well as hosting events and open mics for students. He is also a consistent Review Writer for Publisher’s Weekly. He reads and writes poetry in his spare time. \n  \n  \nChina Rain is a writer and mixed media artist living in Philadelphia\, inhabiting a 24-year-old body in its last year at the Universtiy of the Arts.  \nShe likes long walks and feeding birds\, you can find their work in the newest issue of Prolit Magazine\, Prose online\, and elsewhere at @china_rainnn on instagram.  \n  \n  \nJohn Wall Barger\, Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-alexander-khan-claire-palmer-john-tom-raczkowski-china-rain/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event Featuring Five Poets
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with Millicent Borges Accardi\, Margaret R. Sáraco\, MM Wittle\, Anne Harding Woodworth & R.G Ziemer\n\nThursday November 10 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lduGsqzkiHdeZ-LzSwvwEPghc5xYPGBgI \n  \nMillicent Borges Accardi\, a Portuguese-American poet\, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA)\, the California Arts Council\, Barbara Deming Foundation\, Canto Mundo and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle). \n  \nMargaret R. Sáraco grew up in an Italian-American extended family\, was awarded master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and in Mathematics\, which inform her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals\, has been featured at The Art and Poetry of Teaching\, Havdalah Café\, Gallery U\, Welcome the Sabbath Bride\, and others and has conducted workshops at Stockton Tour of Poetry\, Save our Schools\, Hudson Valley Writing Project\, the American Italian Historical Association\, Montclair State and New York Universities on writing\, teaching\, activism and music.   \nMM Wittle\, author of Reconstruction\, is a writer of all genres who is a high school and middle school teacher during the day\, a college professor at night\, and a book worm and writer on the weekends. Wittle’s play Family Guidance was selected for honorable mention at the 5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Workshop’s Playwriting Competition. The Education of Allie Rose was shortlisted in the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her work has appeared in Transient\, The Bond Street Review\, Free Flash Fiction\, The Fox Chase Review\, The Four Quarters\, Decades Review\, Emerging Literary Journal and others.   \nAnne Harding Woodworth is the author of eight books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her most recent book is Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (October 2022)\, a Literary Titan Silver Award book. Her book\, Trouble\, received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry. An excerpt from her chapbook\, The Last Gun\, won the 2016 COG Poetry Award\, judged by A. Van Jordan\, and was subsequently animated (https://vimeo.com/193842252). Anne is a member of the Poetry Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum.  \nR.G Ziemer was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago\, worked in the construction trades\, practiced genealogy and presently teaches writing at the College of DuPage. He is active with several writing groups and enjoys sharing prose and poetry at local reading venues and open mics. Ziemer’s novel the Ghost of Jamie McVay was published in 2019.  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-featuring-five-poets/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emerging Poets
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with New Voices: Emerging Poets\n\nSaturday November 12 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required – Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuduGqqzIiGdMlWS6MiZcP2t8f1F0h-zaD \n  \n Avik Belenje\, age 15\, has studied poetry at Poetry Power\, he has received the Silver Key from Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards and four First Place Awards from California Federation of Chaparral Poets\, Inc. \n  \n  \n  \nCydney Brown was the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. A Freshman at Northwestern University she has been writing poetry since 5th grade. She has been featured in The New York Times\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, 6abc\, Philadelphia Citizen\, and Fox29 and loves that there are no limitations to writing. Her poetry explore social justice\, self-image\, love\, and nature. Cydney won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop competition\, is the Recipient of The Romero Scholarship For Excellence In Spoken Word and is a Gold Award Lifetime Member Girl Scout who is active in improving her community and is the recipient of The Good Citizenship Award. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world. \nJules Hostetter is a poet from Pennsylvania. She currently studies creative writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her poems explore depression/anxiety\, love\, and sexuality. She loves collecting records\, roller skating\, and playing guitar. \n  \n  \n王潇/Evan Wang is the inaugural Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate from Pennsylvania. His work is forthcoming or has been published in VIBE\, Philadelphia Stories\, National Poetry Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. His work has been recognized by or featured at Wawa Welcome America\, the ruth weiss foundation\, Bleeding Soul Poetry\, and Society of Poetry.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T160000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event with Cheryl J. Fish\, Lisa Grunberger & Alison Lubar
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Presents\nStretching Forms: Poetry to Prose\n\nSunday November 13 @ 4PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration is Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucOusrjwqGdQvZiF1EPQIBDccZrOP4A_C \n  \nCheryl J. Fish is author of the debut novel Off the Yoga Mat\, the story of three characters coming of middle age. She is also the author of recent poetry collections\, Crater & Tower\, and The Sauna is Full of Maids. She is co-editor of the collection A Stranger in the Village :Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review\, Cheap Pop\, Spank the Carp\, Liars League\, Boog City and KGB Bar Lit. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Hanging Loose\, Maintenant\, Terrain\, Mom Egg Review\, New American Writing\, Reed\, Postcard poems\, Santa Monica Review\, ISLE and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World.  Fish has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com.  \nPushcart nominee\, Temple University Professor\, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her poetry books  I am dirty (Moonstone Press) and Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman\, a mother\, and a daughter of Shoah survivors. Her book\, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love\, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins) is currently being adapted as a musical. Her work is widely published and translated from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review. Almost Pregnant\, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies\, is published by Smith Scripts. Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre and will soon be a short film.    \nAlison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer\, nonbinary\, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices\, and sometimes even poetry\, to young people.  Their debut chapbook\, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love\, is out now with Thirty West (May 2022); their second\, sweet euphemism\, is forthcoming with CLASH!\, an imprint of Mouthfeel Press\, in 2023. You can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison. 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-with-cheryl-j-fish-lisa-grunberger-alison-lubar/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221123T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Event: David Acosta\, Chris Bullard\, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading with David Acosta\, Chris Bullard\, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 23 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdOyhrD8vHdFWcWTkXfzrI94iaoui6QyV \n  \nDavid Acosta\, author of Miscellany\, is a well-known poet\, writer\, and activist whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He has served on a variety of committees and boards\, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The AIDS Law Project. As a founding member of both the Art Emergency Coalition and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (which went on to successfully sue the National Endowment for the Arts during the 90s culture wars.)  As a Latinx\, racially mixed\, indigenous\, gay man\, he continues to blend art and activism as he collaborates on countless projects throughout the city while producing his own art and writing. \nChris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia\, is author of Continued\, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y.  He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler\, Muse/A Journal\, The Woven Tale\, Nimrod\, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.   \n  \nColin Morgan (known as Marc Moore in some literary circles) is the CEO of Night City Publishing\, a record label based in Philadelphia\, PA. Additionally\, they are the lead editor and founder of Parquet Poetry magazine\, a small literary and art journal also based in Philadelphia. Colin plays bass in the band Queen Mob and has been published worldwide in many elite verse and art journals\, but their most important work is the unseen text of whatever they are currently writing. Follow Night City Publishing on IG: @nightcitypublishing – Submit to Parquet Poetry on IG: @parquet.poetry \nMolly Russakoff has been living and writing in Philadelphia since 1979.  She was a poetics student and teaching assistant in the early days of Naropa University in Boulder Co.\, studying with many of the Beat\, Black Mountain and New York School poets.  She won a Pew Fellowship in 1993. Molly currently owns Molly’s Books & Records with her husband\, Joe Ankenbrand.  She will be reading from her recently completed novel manuscript\, Red Tape.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-event-david-acosta-chris-bullard-colin-morgan-molly-russakoff/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221130T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Event with Elliott batTzedek\, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers 
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading with Elliott batTzedek\, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday November 30 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdu-srjstH9bN8iOr3xoQ7a_AzzwN6Nbd \n  \nElliott batTzedek’s translation manuscript of “Dance of the Lunatic” by the Israeli Jewish lesbian writer Shez won the 2012 Robert Bly Translation prize. She is the events coordinator for Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, cofounder of QuillsEdge Press\, and founder of Poetry Business Manager. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals: American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Naugatuck River Review\, Lambda Literary Online\, and Sinister Wisdom. She blogs about poetry and translation at thisfrenzy.com. \nGlen A. Mazis taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg\, retiring in 2020. He has more than 90 poems in literary journals\, including Rosebud\, The North American Review\, Sou’wester\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Willow Review\, Atlanta Review\, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review\, and the collection\, The River Bends\, a chapbook\, The Body Is a Dancing Star\, and Bodies of Space and Time oks. He has published five philosophy books with the most recent being\, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence\, Ethics\, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize. \nMichelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. Appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam as a founding member of Yellow Rage\, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Title Magazine\, Brevity\, and USA Today. Her work also has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation\, Loft Literary Center\, Asian Arts Initiative\, and Dodge Poetry Program. Michelle currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Berrie Center\, and her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys. Michelle’s poetry is featured in the NY Times bestseller Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now as well as My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-with-elliott-battzedek-glen-a-mazis-michelle-myers/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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