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SUMMARY:Live Event: Hosts of Other Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Elliott batTzedek\, Eileen M. D’Angelo\, James Feichthaler\, Joanne Leva & Robert Zell\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 4 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required. Register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfumgrTIjHdLPYnBWIkzwDwM2mU-lNZGy \n  \nElliott batTzedek holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. For 10 years she organized readings\, writing workshops\, and a poetry book group at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy. Since 2021\, she’s organized poetry at Main Point Books in Wayne\, PA.  Her work appears in: Sakura Review\, American Poetry Review\, Massachusetts Review\, Cahoodaloodaling\, Naugatuck River Review\, and Poemeleon. \n  \n  \nEileen M. D’Angelo is Founder of the Mad Poets Society and Mad Poets Review. Since 1987\, she produced over 1\,500 special events\, including performances\, slams\, readings\, conferences\, workshops\, bonfires and literary festivals in the Delaware Valley.  Twice nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts\, D’Angelo also received two Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press nominations. \n  \nJames Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has most recently appeared in One Art\, Sortes\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE\, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times\, was published in late 2020 by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk\, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia. \n  \nJoanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know\, founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet\, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Peace Is a Haiku Song\, 50 Over Fifty\, Apiary\, E-Verse Radio\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Rag Queen Periodical\, Bucks County Writer\, Transcendent Visions\, and elsewhere. \n  \nRobert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine\, North of Oxford\, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the First Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-hosts-of-other-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Events: Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone’s Virtual Annual Poetry Ink Events\n  \nIn addition to Moonstone’s live Poetry Ink Event on January 8\, there will be TWO VIRTUAL EVENTS: January 9 & January 10\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nTimes and Dates\nMonday\, January 9 @ 7PM\nRegistration Link: click here! \nTuesday January 10 @ 7PM\nRegistration Link: click here! \n  \nJanuary 9 Featured Contributors:\nAlyson Shore Adler  \nE. Lynn Alexander \nNathalie Anderson  \nTonita Austin  \nFloi Baker  \nAmy Barone  \nElliott batTzedek  \nDeborah Bayer  \nMiriam Ben-Yoseph  \nCarole Bernstein  \nAnuradha Bhowmik  \nCelia Bland  \nPamela Lynn Blanding-Godbolt  \nJulia Bluemenreich  \nFiona Bolger  \nVeronica Bowlan  \nR. Bremner \nCydney Brown  \nKristen Holt Browning   \nAnthony Cappo  \nAnnie Chian  \nCathleen Cohen  \nAlejandro Cortes  \nLynda V.E. Crawford  \nTerence Culleton  \nLiz Cunningham  \nCarlos Raul Dufflar  \nDavid Ebenbach  \nDavid Eberhardt  \nSophia Falco  \nMaria Fama  \nCheryl J. Fish  \nGloria Fredkove  \nHal Freedman  \nCaroline Furr  \nShotsie Gorman   \nMarjorie Gowdy  \nNeal Grace  \nShannon Frost Greenstein  \nJen Heller  \nJennifer Hook  \nJones Irwin  \nMaria James-Thiaw  \nJanuary 10 Featured Contributors:\nCharles Jenkins  \nMike Jurkovic   \nSusan Justiniano  \nChris Kaiser  \nLisa Naomi Konigsberg  \nJonathan Koven  \nLeonard Kress  \nEelka Lampe  \nHiram Larew   \nDavid Lawton   \nJosephine LoRe  \nDeirdre Maher  \nAngel L. Martinez  \nMichael McCarthy   \nDiane McManus  \nMatt Mitchell  \nD. Nurkse \nHermond Palmer  \nFaith Paulsen  \nAaren Yeats Perry  \nKenneth Pobo  \nPrabha  Nayak Prabhu  \nAnna Prader  \nHalle Preneta  \nBarrett Rosser  \nMolly Russakoff  \nMargaret Saraco  \nGeorge Schaefer  \nCarla S. Schick   \nLynne Shapiro  \nBeth SKMorris  \nFereshteh Sholevar   \nMegha Sood  \nRenée Szostek  \nElaine Terranova  \nTerry Tierney   \nJohn Timpane  \nJ.C. Todd  \nAlan Toltzis  \nCatherine Trapani  \nRaya Tuffaha   \nLois Villemaire  \nKen Waldman  \nDan Williams   \nAnne Harding Woodworth 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-events-annual-poetry-ink-anthology/
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Steve Burke
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone @ PhillyCAM: Interview and Reading with Steve Burke\n\nTuesday January 10 @ 6:30PM — VIRTUAL\nTo Attend\, Visit https://phillycam.org/\nAnd Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox\n\n  \n \nSteve Burke’s poems have been published in numerous journals & magazines; has had two chapbooks – After The Harvest & For Now – published by Moonstone Press. He has been a featured reader read at the original Painted Bride Arts Center\, Moore College of Art\, the Free Library’s Monday Night Series\, Fergie’s Pub\, the Green Line Café\, the Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, and the Philadelphia Poetry Festival. He worked for 25 years as a labor and delivery nurse; lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia with his wife Giselle.  \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-phillycam-with-steve-burke/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Peter Baroth\, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Peter Baroth\, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 11 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required– register here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-qtrT0rGNUpSm6pNoX_JoJ016NR2VAU \n  \nPeter Baroth\, writer\, artist\, and musician\, is a graduate of Washington University and Temple Law School. His novel is Long Green (iUniverse) and his book of poetry\, Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press). He has been published in Philadelphia Poets\, Red Fez\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Apiary\, Legal Studies Forum\, Poetry Ink\, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Amy Tritsch Needle Award\, a 2016 Petracca Family Award\, was a finalist for the Joie de Vivre book prize\, has been nominated for Best of the Net\, and is on Philadelphia Stories’ editorial board. He lives in Media\, PA. \n  \nMassimo Elijah is a spoken word poet and Philly native who is proud to be a part of such a thriving arts scene in his home city. He loves how art can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together…where artist and audience remind each other how human beings are healers who are also healed by healing others. \n  \nGlen A. Mazis 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 in Time\, a chapbook\, The Body Is a Dancing Star\, and Bodies of Space and Time. He taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg\, 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. \nOpen Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-peter-baroth-massimo-elijah-glen-a-mazis/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Liz Chang\, Chad Frame & Mary Jo LoBello Jerome
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Liz Chang\, Chad Frame\, and Mary Jo LoBello Jerome\n\nWednesday January 18 @ 7PM\nLive at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom Street\n\nEvent will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu-trzIqHdBee3AuTkKCu3tGXaMoi1cJ \n  \nLiz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily\, Exit 7\, Rock & Sling\, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal\, among others. Her fourth collection\, a chapbook called Museum of Things\, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her creative nonfiction recently appeared in Oyster River Pages\, and her flash fiction has been published internationally. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company. Liz lives en les environs de Philadelphia with her family\, dog\, cat\, and a hive of honeybees. She is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University.  \nPhoto credit: Adrianne Matiowetz   \nChad Frame is the author of Little Black Book (2022\, Finishing Line Press)\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award\, and a chapbook\, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo\, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe\, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, and elsewhere\, on iTunes from the Library of Congress\, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.  \n  \nMary Jo LoBello Jerome has a new book out\, Torch the Empty Fields\, which was a finalist in the Women’s Voices Competition at Finishing Line\, and released in December. She is one of the Poetry Co-Editors of Schuylkill Valley Journal and a Poet Laureate of Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems\, an anthology of writing prompts for teachers\, published in 2021. Her poems and short stories have been published widely. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, has taught writing at all levels\, and has written for The New York Times\, Scholastic Inc.\, and many other publications.    \nSean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-liz-chang-chad-frame-mary-jo-lobello-jerome/
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:20230121T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Telicia Darius & 王潇/Evan Wang
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Event with New Voices\n\nSaturday January 21 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL\n\nRegistration Required. Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-igqjgqHNESm_1z3fGzzgKz5Y4BBrb3 \n  \nTelicia Darius\, 2022-2023 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate\, is a senior at Hardy Williams Mastery Charter School in a dual enrollment program at Community College of Philadelphia. Telicia has participated in the Young Writer’s Workshop at Bard College and the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. Telicia writes and performs in both English and French and is a member of the Hardy Williams Philly Slam League team. Telicia loves a good challenge and believes in the words of poetry. On poetry and the Poet Laureate position\, Telicia says “Poetry is the writer’s ink and the laureate is the platform\, giving the inaudible text a chance to speak.” \n王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Violet Indigo Blue\, Etc.\, Philadelphia Stories\, National Poetry Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. Evan has performed his work at various venues such as the Oval XP\, ArtWRKD\, and The Rotunda at The University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry\, Philadelphia Contemporary\, and Wawa Welcome America.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-event-telicia-darius-%e7%8e%8b%e6%bd%87-evan-wang/
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SUMMARY:Live Event: Alexa Smith & Joseph Earl Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Event with Alexa Smith and Joseph Earl Thomas\n\nLIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.\nWednesday January 25 @ 7PM\n\nEvent will also be streamed. Registration Required– Register Here: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqurjojHtLlYIEefDTD2M2u1XpBGvZS \n  \nAlexa Smith is a poet and essayist from Washington D.C. She lives in West Philadelphia\, where she works in publishing and serves as Editorial Director of Apiary\, a free literary magazine centering Philly-area authors and artists of all genres and backgrounds in print and online. She received her MFA from Temple University and teaches workshops in poetry\, creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary writing. Her work can be found in Interim\, Entropy\, Memoir Mixtapes\, Peach Mag\, Philadelphia Stories\, and elsewhere\, as well as streaming on STELLA Radio and Spotify. \n  \nJoseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared in VQR\, N+1\, Gulf Coast\, The Offing\, and The Kenyon Review. An excerpt of his memoir\, Sink\, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright\, VONA\, Tin House\, Kimbilio\, & Breadloaf\, though he is now the Anisfield-Wolf Fellow at the CSU Poetry Center. He’s writing the novel God Bless You\, Otis Spunkmeyer\, and a collection of stories: Leviathan Beach\, among other oddities. He is also an associate faculty member at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research\, as well as Director of Programs at Blue Stoop\, a literary hub for Philly writers. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-event-alexa-smith-joseph-earl-thomas/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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