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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Event with International Poets
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Event with Anuradha Bhowmik\, Fiona Bolger\, Rosaleen McDonagh\, Michelle Myers & Ewuare X. Osayande\n\nSunday December 4 @ 2PM EST — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-moqDsiHdZ-8fulshSjDrRRGm4piBqC \n  \nAnuradha Bhowmik\, Bangladeshi American\, Kundiman Fellow and AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Her work has appeared in POETRY\, the Sun\, Copper Nickel\, Pleiades\, Indiana Review\, and elsewhere. Brown Girl Chromatography: Poems – “Anuradha Bhowmik speaks for all the brown girls who ‘couldn’t have/crushes in fourth grade\,’ all of us who weren’t ‘white women/wearing lingerie in the glossy Macy’s ad.’ The speaker’s journey through the minefield of popular culture\, family responsibility\, and maturation into an unmapped womanhood is handled with deft precision.” —Allison Joseph\, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman  \nFiona Bolger is author of Love in the Original Language from Salmon Poetry\, 2022. She works as a mentor and creative facilitator between Ireland and India. Her other publications include A Compound of Words\, All the Worlds Between: An Anthology from Yoda Press Delhi and Geometry of Love Between the Elements and Triptych: Three Poets\, from Poetry Bus\, Arklow\, Ireland. She also works with Outlandish Theatre Platform.   \n  \nRosaleen McDonagh is a playwright\, performer\, columnist for The Irish Times and a member of Aosdána. Her plays include The Baby Doll Project\, She’s Not Mine\, Rings\, The Prettiest Proud Boy and Mainstream. Recent commissions were Walls and Windows for the Abbey Theatre and Contentious Spaces for the Project Arts Centre. Rosaleen holds a BA\, two MPhils from Trinity College and a PhD from Northumbria University. A board member of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner. Unsettled is her first book\, a collection of essays exploring racism\, ableism\, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community\, family and friendship.  \nMichelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. 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\, has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation\, Loft Literary Center\, Asian Arts Initiative\, and Dodge Poetry Program. Her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys and her poetry is featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.  \nEwuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, activist\, and publisher. The author of several books including\, Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka\, Osayande’s latest book of poems is entitled Black Phoenix Uprising. In 2013\, Osayande edited and published Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander\, a global anthology of social justice poetry that raised thousands of dollars for both justice campaigns. Osayande is the founding editor of The Poetariat\, an international journal of working-class poetry. Learn more about his work at Osayande.org.  \nJohn Lavin Host 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-event-with-international-poets/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Ona Gritz
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with Ona Gritz\n\nTuesday December 6 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\nOna Gritz is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, children’s author\, and creative writing instructor. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Utne Reader\, Ploughshares\, Brevity\, and River Teeth\, and has been widely anthologized. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in Best American Essays\, a Best Life Story in Salon\, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project. Ona’s middle grade novel\, August Or Forever\, is forthcoming from Fitzroy Books in February.  \n  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-phillycam-with-ona-gritz/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221208T190000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event Featuring Five Poets
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event with Chris Bullard\, Cynthia Dewi Oka\, Raya Tuffaha\, Donna Wolf-Palacio & Katie Sarah Zale \n\nThursday December 8 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Below! \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUoc-yhrTkrGtVASsuWFKKJOHohW82TroZM \n  \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  \nCynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press\, 2021)\, Salvage (Northwestern University Press\, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press\, 2016). She is a member of the Sanctuary Advocate Coalition\, which works to expand sanctuary in vision and practice through the framework of black-brown unity.   \n  \n \nRaya Tuffaha is a Palestinian artist from Seattle\, WA. Her first collection\, To All the Yellow Flowers\, was published in March 2020 with Golden Antelope Press. Her first chapbook\, apocalypse blues\, was published with Plan B Press this August. Raya is a current senior at Swarthmore College\, where she studies Theatre and Peace & Conflict Studies. She specializes in solo performance and fight direction\, and will move to the east coast after graduation. She hopes her work on the page & the stage serves her communities with integrity. \nDonna Wolf-Palacio is author of The Architect of Elsewhere\, What I Don’t Know\, The Other Side\, and Step Lightly.  She taught an ongoing poetry workshop at the University of the Arts and was editor/consultant of the UARTS Poetry Review.  She has published her writing in Poetry\, The Pennsylvania Gazette\, the Musehouse Journal\, Intro\, The Interpreter\, Poems from the Heart: Poems about Adoption\, and Voices.  She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities\, The Leeway Foundation\, and the PCA.    \nKatie Sarah Zale teaches writing and works on Art for Justice programs in Arizona. Her first book\, The Art of Folding\, was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine. The collection Sometimes You Do Things (Aquarius Press\, Living Detroit Series) highlights the history of Detroit and celebrates its rebuilding. She lives in Tucson.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221211T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Remembering The Waste Land
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event Remembering The Waste Land\n\nSunday December 11 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudeGsqDwiHNGbIKB3XwIbDO4_P-84tFgv \n100th Anniversary of The Waste Land\n \nSeptember 26th marked T.S. Eliot’s 134th birthday \nEliot’s groundbreaking poem The Waste Land was published in 1922\, 100 years ago\n\nWritten in the wake of World War I\, a war which turned the battlefield into a waste land\, and wasted a generation of combatants and civilians — 20 million dead\, 21 million wounded — the poem might be read as a civilian’s post-traumatic stress\, or as ecological disaster\, or emotional devastation\, or spiritual drought. \n\nEliot’s style in the poem — fragmented\, allusive\, difficult\, obscure…\nwas startling at the time\, so much so that William Carlos Williams considered it a “great catastrophe” for American Poetry; and the notes Eliot appended have led many readers to think of the poem more as an exam than a lyric. Yet even as Eliot’s influence has faded\, even as we question his conservatism\, his attitudes toward race\, his uneasiness with women\, his personal demons\, The Waste Land continues to signify to our own waste land\, and many of us write under its shadow. \nMoonstone Invites You  \nto “come in under the shadow of this red rock” and speak to The Waste Land\, or within The Waste Land\, or after The Waste Land\, or against The Waste Land.  \nNathalie Anderson\, Host
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SUMMARY:Live Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St\nWednesday December 14 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. The registration link will be posted shortly! \n  \nSunil Iyengar is the author of a new chapbook of poems\, A Call from the Shallows (Finishing Line Press). His poems and book reviews appear in such publications as the Washington Post\, The American Scholar\,The New Criterion\, Literary Matters\, The Hopkins Review\, Essays in Criticism\, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He works as an arts research director in Washington\, D.C. \n  \n  \nHugh Sheehy is the author of two short story collections\, Design Flaw (Acre\, forthcoming in November) and The Invisibles (Flannery O’Connor Award\, University of Georgia Press). Some of his recent stories have appeared in Fence\, swamp pink (as Crazyhorse)\, failbetter\, and the final issue of The Rupture. He also reviews books\, mostly novels\, from time to time. He teaches writing at Ramapo College. \n  \n  \nLuke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace\, The Hopkins Review\, The New Criterion\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Think Journal\, ONE ART\, Cleaver\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years\, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference\, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University and lives in Upper Darby\, PA.  \n  \nJohn Wall Barger Host – Open Reading Follows 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-e-verse-equinox-reading-series/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221217T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: New Voices Anthology 2022
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s New Voices Anthology 2022\n\nSaturday December 17 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdOGrqTovGdbz4UDH0b52ubiHSHRj8aIh \n  \n \n  \nA series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. We tend to gather in our own communities\, there is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike\, look alike\, think alike. Our attempt to expand everyone’s experience\, to introduce other ways of everything. Join us as contributors read their poems.  \n  \n  \n  \nNot All Contributors Will Be Reading \nKyla Artwell  \nTesana Aurora  \nTaylor  Baker  \nIjhana Bayes  \nAvik Belenje  \nNina Braum  \nDomenica Brunetti  \nYakov Burton  \nChristina Campanaro  \nConnor Campbell  \nAnnie Chian  \nLillien Cirino  \nTori D’Amico  \nEzana Demissie  \nMark Doraszelski  \nMaura  Gallagher  \nEthan Garrity  \nAmy Goodman  \nRasheeda Graham  \nEmma  Heaton  \nElijah Johnson  \nJulian Kennedy  \nZoe Khan  \nMatthew Klauber  \nJane Lee  \nAaron Madison   \nAlana Maguire  \nTyreea McBride  \nCampbell McCormack  \nRyland McGinniss  \nSonja Meijer  \nYves-Melsein Metellus   \nFrancisco Mojica  \nJoy Olree  \nLindsay Pelliccia  \nTheo Robinson  \nShawn Sandman  \nBlaithin Simpson  \nDrop Spam  \nMilli Straub  \nCharlotte Suttee  \nJacob Swenson   \nSebastian Trainer-Oneill  \nDionna  Vereen  \nKevin Wallner 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-new-voices-anthology-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221221T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Enoch\, Maria Masington & LindoYes
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Enoch\, Maria Masington & LindoYes\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday December 21 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudOmtqjMpGNxRsoAGpcUEeIs1nyqctIhI \n  \nEnoch is a poet\, author\, trauma-informed teaching artist and manga writer born and raised on the Northside of Wilmington\, DE. As a mental health advocate and someone living with bi-polar disorder\, his work examines the process of healing and the ways that trauma and mental health move through a family\, as well as the outside forces that affect or have affected these developments. His goal is to create written works\, curriculum\, and platforms that deepen our emotional understanding and its cyclical relation to the conditions acting on the Black mind\, body\, and spirit. Enoch is the 2017 Philadelphia Fuze Grand Slam Champion and the author of two poetry collections\, “The Guide to Drowning” released in 2017 and “Burned at the Roots” released in 2020.   \nMaria Masington is a poet\, author\, and spoken word artist from Wilmington\, Delaware. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen publications including The News Journal\, Gargoyle\, The Broadkill Review\, Adanna\,  Earth’s Daughters\, Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11\, and by the University of Colorado. Parnilis Media released Masington’s first chapbook\, Mouth Like a Sailor\, in 2021. It was awarded first place by both Delaware Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. Her work and upcoming events can be found at “Maria Masington Amazon.”   \nLindoYes is a spoken word artist\, creator of LindoYes! clothing line\, and an event host who was born and raised in Uptown Philadelphia\, PA. He is an unapologetically Black fusion of theatrical poetics and visual art whose work addresses the constructs of love\, masculinity and social injustice. Lindo’s work has led him to opportunities across the east coast from appearing on Def Poetry Jam to featuring at various colleges such as Bucknell University\, Haverford College\, and UPENN as well as venues including Busboys and Poets\, Spit Dat\, The Drunken Retort\, Urban Grind\, just to name a few. His work has been featured in on the well-known poetry youtube channel\, Button Poetry.  \n  \nSean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-enoch-maria-masington-lindoyes/
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:20221228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221228T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Anthony Cappo\, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Anthony Cappo\, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday December 28 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctceCppz8iE9HhItlupBaoL-TCdkVXAuhL \n  \nAnthony Cappo\, author of When You’re Deep In A Thing and My Bedside Radio\, poems and other writings have appeared in THRUSH\, Prelude\, Entropy\, The Rumpus\, and other publications. “Cappo’s voice is intimate\, but the arc is visceral: ‘come with me and I will show you/fissures of men.’ His poems aren’t looking for alchemy\, only for what’s real\, this world in which a child might ‘endure/like an Arctic explorer.’ They are true\, meaning: wholehearted and ambivalent. Cappo won’t show you prefabricated emotions\, rather the contraries we wrestle as we try to conjure our destinies ‘under God’s random jackhammer.’ He charts an America of absent fathers and thrift shop hand grenades\, an era in which the line between common sense and paranoia is fading. When You’re Deep in a Thing isn’t just beautiful-it’s courageous and necessary.” – D. Nurkse  \nMaria James-Thiaw\, author of Count Each Breath\, is an award-winning poet\, performer\, and playwright. She is the author of four poetry collections and her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Black Lives Have Always Mattered\, and Essential Voices: A Covid19 Anthology. Poems from her play\, Reclaiming My Time: An American Griot Project won the Art of Protest Award from Penn State University’s Center for American Literary Studies in 2018. Maria James-Thiaw is the founder of Reclaim Artist Collective\, an organization that brings her American Griot Project programming to marginalized communities.  \nAnn E. Michael\, author of Strange Ladies\, Water-Rites\, More than Shelter\, The Minor Fauna\, Small Things Rise & Go\, and The Capable Heart\, poems and essays have been widely published in many journals\, including Poem\, Natural Bridge\, Ninth Letter\, Runes\, The Comstock Review\, Diner\, Sentence\, Slant\, ISLE\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts and others\, as well as in numerous literary anthologies. She maintains a long-running blog\, garden\, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-anthony-cappo-maria-james-thiaw-ann-e-michael/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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