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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger\, Charles S. Carr\, Sean Hanrahan\, Jennifer Hook\, Sean Lynch\, and Alina Macneal\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-yvrzwqH9Cg_QQzT4paZiiDOh1XucDH \n  \n \nJohn Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, ZYZZYVA\, The Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems\, Smog Mother\, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. \nCharles S. Carr\, author of paradise\, pennsylvania\, and & Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems\, was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem Waiting To Come North For five years Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub and is the host of Philly Loves Poetry\, a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. He has read poems in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin Ireland as part of international 100\,000 Poets for Peace. \nSean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City\, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collection Safer Behind Popcorn and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work is included in several anthologies and journals including Moonstone Featured Poets\, Queer Around the World\, Stonewall’s Legacy\, Impossible Archetype\, and Voicemail Poems. He has taught classes  A Chapbook in 49 Days and Ekphrastic Poetry and hosted poetry events throughout Philadelphia. \nJennifer Hook is a California native who came to Philadelphia for the grit. Following the death of her husband and creative partner of thirty-five years\, she chose poetry as an entry into the territory of loss and self-reinvention. She has read her work at 100\,000 Poets for Change\, Poetic Feats of Strength\, The Osage Poets at the Green Line Café\, Philadelphia Poetry Day\, and Why Are They Called The Poetry Liberation Front?. She author of This is How He Left Me and co-host of Moonstone’s fourth Wednesday at Fergie’s. \nSean Lynch is a writer and editor who lives in South Philly. He has worked with Moonstone Arts Center since 2016. His fourth chapbook\, On Violence\, was published by Radical Paper Press in 2019. Poems have appeared in journals such as Hobart\, Poetry Quarterly\, and Apiary Magazine. \n  \nAlina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary\, Poems for the Writing\, The World to Come\, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election Alina has been translating the 1930’s political poems of the Polish poet\, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said\, History doesn’t repeat itself\, but it often rhymes \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading and Interview: Catherine Bancroft with Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading and Interview: Catherine Bancroft with Charles S. Carr\nMoonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM\nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website \nOr Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 \nIn Philadelphia \n  \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series  \n Catherine Bancroft\, artist and writer\, has shown at FireWorks Gallery\, St Asaph’s Gallery\, Fackenthal-Pethick Gallery\, Muse Gallery\, Third Street Gallery\, Off the Wall Gallery\, and elsewhere. She works in collage\, altered books\, acrylic\, and mixed media. Her current Ellis Island Series in conte crayon and acrylic was inspired by photographs of early 20th century immigrants. She has written book reviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer\, co-written two children’s books — Felix’s Hat and That’s Philomena — and has read her poetry at Green Line Cafe\, PAFA\, Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, Fergie’s Pub\, and other venues. The Square Where Ariadne Sleeps: Poems by Catherine Bancroft was recently selected as Number 1 in the A.V. Christie Chapbook Series from Seven Kitchens Press. \nYou can see her Ellis Island images at www.catherinebancroft.cullina.com. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: For the Publication of  Smog Mother by John Wall Barger
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: For the Publication of Smog Mother by John Wall Barger\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofu-sqDwqGtX7EDkZbTxSB21412j2TIl_ \n  \nWhat a joy to have another book by John Wall Barger. Restless\, passionate\, and ambitious\, Smog Mother is an ecstatic travelogue whose narrator is always on the move\, full of yearning and curiosity\, even as he remains an outsider in each country that he visits. The poems in Smog Mother ask probing questions about love and empathy\, and about what it means to be a spectator to other people’s pain. Barger is introspective and self-critical\, yet far more interested in others than in himself; his eye is continually drawn to the margins of society\, and to those whose lives are most in danger of being forgotten or erased. A powerful collection. – —   James Arthur\, author of The Suicide’s Son \n  \nThis is deadly serious and absolutely precise poetry about the world in upheaval\, in desire and its excess\, in love and pornography\, in political protest and ecological catastrophe\, in the affirming flame sought but not found. Uncompromising\, riveting\, a kick in the conscience and the unconscious\, a wake up call even at this late point in the evening\, the world about to go dark\, Barger writing with an infinitely bitter\, sad and unforgettable pen. \n—   Indran Amirthanayagam\, author of Ten Thousand Steps against the Tyrant \n  John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, ZYZZYVA\, The Cincinnati Review\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems\, Smog Mother (Palimpsest Press)\, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House\, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Pete Dennis (they/he) is a musician\, improviser\, composer\, visual artist\, and teacher. Living in West Philadelphia\, Dennis is inspired by their beautiful community and the future. Other ever present inspirations include William Parker\, the works of Octavia E. Butler\, their partner Abigail\, and the knowledge that all vibrations carry to potential to transmit the truths of life and death. Dennis’s recorded creations are released using the project name Search for the Infinite Light and include but are not limited to Killing a Dixie Hummingbird (2019)\, World’s End Welcoming Committee (2021)\, and pastē (2022). Their most current projects and collaborations include 99 Futures\, Oarsman\, Mitamu\, St. John’s Wort\, and an ongoing poetry/bass duet performance with Abigail Swoboda. They believe that sound is the foundation of healing and would like to acknowledge all master improvisers of the past\, present\, and future. The ZanyThing\, also known as Z Murphy\, is a multiracial multimedia Creative Writing Major at UArts and one of Philly’s rising stars in the drag scene. She is a reigning pageant winner\, a show producer\, and regularly hosts drag shows and the country’s longest running queer open mic Out Of The Box. John Wall Barger is one of her professors and she was THRILLED and honored when he asked her to be part of his book launch for Smog Mother. She’s been a fan of his since their first class together\, and is grateful for everything he’s taught and every opportunity he’s afforded her.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of BIRD/DIZ
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Celebrating the Publication of BIRD/DIZ\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-yuqTMrGNSy3JtKXrfrsfF4WkPD1f2p \nCelebrating the publication of BIRD/DIZ by Warren C. Longmire  \nWhat becomes of a history overwritten\, sampled\, celebrated and smeared? How do we find creation past erasure? Part new media archive\, part visual poetry project\, BIRD/DIZ [AN ERASED HISTORY OF BEBOP] is a journey into highs and lows of Black America’s first global music export. Taking biographies of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie as a jumping off point\, BIRD/DIZ jumps between actual erasures of the written/oral history of Bebop\, redacted poems taken from those words\, and reflections on historic performances from some of jazz’s chief characters. From St. Louis heroin dins to Copenhagen sound stages\, it strives to find\, in the continued disappearance of Black American contributions to world art\, the seed of innovation that never dies. \nElliott Levin is a Philadelphia jazz legend. Whatever it is jazz performers do when they blow into their horns Levin does a lot of it\, on tenor saxophone and flute. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances\, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience and to the chagrin of hipsters who insist jazz poetry is a form of torture\, worse than cold showers. Other listeners might find the entire free jazz experience itself torture\, in which case it’s back to the beginning as far as advice regarding Levin: there is nothing watered-down or weak about his performances\, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible to the novices\, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy. \nWarren C. Longmire is a poet\, 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. \nScott Sigl is a musician\, poet\, and teacher based in the South Jersey/Philadelphia area. He has been writing\, coaching\, and performing wild and unhinged poetry for over ten years. As a musician\, Scott teaches 5 instruments and is part of a successful band that performs weddings and events. Currently studying Jazz Piano under Temple University Professor Tim Brey\, he creates original soundscape music under the name Pitch Drop Experiment\, and has decided he has given up trying to be “normal.”
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Shevaun Brannigan and Amy Saul-Zerby\, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Shevaun Brannigan and Amy Saul-Zerby\, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: Here \n  \nShevaun Brannigan’s work has appeared in such journals as Best New Poets\, AGNI\, Slice\, and Bat City Review. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant\, and holds an MFA from Bennington College. In 2022\, she was selected for the Giacomo Leopardi Scholarship to attend The Leopardi Writing Conference in Recanati\, Italy\, and also pursued independent study in Killeagh\, Ireland at Greywood Arts Residency.  \nAmy Saul-Zerby is the author of Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds\, Deep Camouflage\, and Choose Your Own Beginning. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, The Chicago Review of Books\, American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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