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SUMMARY:Moonstone Live Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading\nWednesday May 3\, 2023 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpce6vrzsjGd0lKdmttrpxCM9RPs8seGAo \nEleventh-grade student\, Matilda Bray\, is author of When You Wanted Blue\, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry\, Under the Moon as My Sun at the age of twelve.  The full-length collection was featured on PhillyCam’s Poetry Interview and Reading Series\, and in February of 2023\, she was the high-school winner of the Phillip’s Mill Play With Words Youth Playwriting Challenge. Her work has appeared in Rattle\, Tipton Poetry Journal\, Sad Girls Club\, OpenDoor Magazine\, Schuylkill Valley Journal\, River Poets Journal\, and the Moonstone Poets Anthology. Matilda competes regularly at open poetry competitions and is a voracious reader and cross-country runner who resides in a suburb of Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania with her family and beloved dog\, Tuck. \nMatthew Thorburn’s new book of poems is String (LSU Press\, 2023). He’s also the author of seven previous collections of poetry\, including The Grace of Distance\, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize\, and Dear Almost\, which received the Lascaux Prize. His work has been recognized with a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, as well as fellowships from the Bronx and New Jersey arts councils. Originally from Michigan and for many years a New Yorker\, he lives with his family just up the road in Kingston\, New Jersey. \nKimmika Williams-Witherspoon  – PhD (Cultural Anthropology)\, MA (Anthropology)\, MFA (Theater)\, Graduate Certificate) Women’s Studies\, BA (Journalism); is an Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement. Recipient of a 2003 Provost’s Arts Commission Grant; a 2001 Independence Foundation Theater Communications Group Grant\, the 2000 winner of the PEW Charitable Trust fellowship in scriptwriting\, and the 1999\, winner of the DaimlerChrysler “Spirit of the Word” National Poetry Competition. Author of Through Smiles and Tears: The History of African American Theater (From Kemet to the Americas); The Secret Messages in African American Theater: Hidden Meaning Embedded in Public Discourse. She has had over twenty-three of her plays produced. Her stage credits include thirteen productions and she is a contributing poet to twenty-six poetry anthologies. \nLarry Robin Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-live-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Virtual Event: Poems From Your Psyche
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings \nSunday May 7\, 2023 – 2:00pm \nVirtual  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOmrrDsjHtd4OlL4eORzQZETeuwo5oB9 \nPoems From Your Psyche\nis a type of poetic expression which addresses the multiple psychological aspects of the human existence. April 24 is the 100th anniversary of The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud\, an analytical study of the human psyche outlining Freud’s theories. It develops a groundwork for explaining various psychological conditions which result from powerful internal tensions. In honored of this by inviting poets to write a poem illustrating these tensions. \n  \nJoin us as poets explore their Psyche  \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/moonstone-virtual-event-poems-from-your-psyche/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230510T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading\nWednesday May 10\, 2023 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqduygpjMuHd0HPcfGrZY8yNfOp-0L4ixR \nCourtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody\, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She loves nail polish\, tattoos and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet’s father. Love and hunger intertwine and become inseparable as the poet grapples to find\, and listen\, to both. With a distinct and feminist voice\, this collection delves into a life now lived without a beloved parent\, while trying to survive a pandemic\, and battling demons that have lived inside her for most of her life. With both fierceness and tenderness\, we see a woman trying to find her place within her own body and within an ever-changing world. This collection of poems is both an elegy and an anthem – praising both those who’ve been lost and those who remain. \n  \nLauren Ray is a Junior Creative writing major with an Art history minor at the University of the arts. She writes poetry and stories from the lens of the black woman experience. She is excited to share her work to an audience for the first time in a couple of years. \n  \nRuth Rouff is a freelance educational writer living in Collingswood\, NJ. Her poetry and prose have been published in various literary journals\, including Parhelion\, New World Writing\, the International Quarterly\, Philadelphia Poets\, and Philadelphia Stories. In 2016\, Bedazzled Ink published her collection of poetry and prose entitled Pagan Heaven. Her novel Lone Star\, which is based on the life of famed athlete\, Babe Didrikson Zaharias\, was published by Bedazzled Ink in 2022 and is available on Amazon.com\, BN.com\, and BedazzledInk.com. \nLarry Robin Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-7/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230517T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading\nWednesday May 17\, 2023 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdu-trjIvGd2Q9NK9mK9MtZzQ3PmYhVIt \ndev kiyota is an editor; they got an MFA in Creative Writing from Temple University. \n  \n  \nLynda Gene Rymond author of The Village of Basketeers and Oscar and the Mooncats\, attended Bucks County Community College\, received a B.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts\, and was a member of Dr. Chris Bursk’s Master Poetry Workshop. A runner-up or finalist for Bucks County Poet Laureate for the past four years\, her poems and short stories have been published in multiple journals and the anthology\, Carry Us to the Next Well. She lives on Goblin Farm in Applebachsville\, Pa\, where she and her husband tend goats\, chickens\, honeybees\, cats\, and an enormous fruit and vegetable garden. \nCleveland Wall is a poet\, teaching artist\, and librarian. She is the author of Let X=X and many homemade chapbooks and zines. She performs with interactive poetry troupe No River Twice & with musical combo The Starry Eyes and hosts an experiential poetry series called Poetry Lab at the Ice House in Bethlehem\, PA. She is falling deeply in love with antiproductivity. More info at clevelandwall.com. \nLauren Yates is a writer\, visual artist\, & burlesque performer from Philadelphia by way of San Diego. Lauren has represented Philly at the National Poetry Slam and the Women of the World Poetry Slam. Her work has been featured in bedfellows\, Voicemail Poems\, GLITTERBRAIN\, Bettering American Poetry\, and more. Lauren is also a teaching artist and is currently developing a workshop that marries poetry and burlesque. \nSean Hanahan Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-8/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230521T140000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL Poetry Reading: World Laughter Day
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday May 21\, 2023 – 2:00pm\nVirtual\nRegister for the event HERE: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rd-yuqj4oGdQ1vLBDn31qkpzuQMtjqjM9 \nWorld Laughter Day  \n(May 7) is an annual event celebrated is a celebration that raises awareness about all the benefits of laughing and promotes world peace through laughter. \nIt raises awareness about laughter and its many healing benefits\, as well as about thousands of community groups around the world who regularly practice comedy that promote wellness. \nAfter dealing with Freud and your internal conflict\, write something we can laugh at. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-world-laughter-day/
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230524T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nWednesday May 24\, 2023 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\n1214 Sansom Street and on zoom \nRegistration Required for zoom – use this link: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscO6rrj8iHtb48QlmLMmqMWfM5uAm1lHv  \nKelly McQuain is a painter and poet\, and the author of Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers (2023)\, a collection chosen by Texas Review Press for the Southern Breakthrough Award. He has also authored two chapbooks\, and his prose\, poetry and illustrations have appeared in Best American Poetry Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, The Philadelphia Inquirer\, Rattle and Superstition Review\, as well as such anthologies as: Best New Poets 2020; LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia; and Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. A native of WV\, he now lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Community College of Philadelphia. \nLucy Bell Sellers\, a retired drama teacher\, is a longtime resident of Germantown. Her book of poems. Don’t Drop Me God\, came out last summer.  \n  \n  \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-9/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Poetry Events
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DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Readings\nSunday May 28\, 2023 – 2:00pm\nVirtual  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 \nMother’s Day (May 14) \nThis is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For\, in a time like ours\, mothers have no room to be sentimental. Inspired by Julia Kilchinsky Dasbach books 40 Weeks and The Many Names for Mother. \n 
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