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SUMMARY:Live Broadcast: Alison Hicks
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 4th at 6:30pm \nMoonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM \nCan be viewed for free on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 in Philadelphia. \nAlison Hicks was awarded the 2021 Birdy Prize from Meadowlark Press for Knowing Is a Branching Trail. Previous collections are You Who Took the Boat Out and Kiss\, a chapbook Falling Dreams\, and a novella Love: A Story of Images. Her work has appeared in Eclipse\, Gargoyle\, Permafrost\, and Poet Lore. She was finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartish Pace\, an Editor’s Choice selection for the 2024 Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Prize\, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Green Hills Literary Lantern\, Quartet Journal\, and Nude Bruce Review. She is founder of Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio\, which offers community-based writing workshops.\n\nCharles S. Carr hosts
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LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:The Moonstone Hosts 2024 Read
DESCRIPTION:The Moonstone Hosts 2024 Read: Live Poetry @ Fergies Pub \nAnd on Zoom\, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlfuCurDksGdR2-uQW3lE4O8D8JI2H4c4P#/registration \nMoonstone presents about 100 poetry readings and publishes 35 books a year. \nWe have numerous hosts representing various communities in a attempt to get you to listen to someone you never heard of. Nothing gives me more pleasure than “discovering” someone I don’t know read something I really like. This is the Art of Inclusion. \nCharles Carr\, author of paradise\, pennsylvania and Haitian Mud Pies And Other Poemhost of Philly Loves Poetry a live monthly broadcast on PhillyCAM. \nMac Chandler has been published in some places and has done like a lot of cool literary things you’ve probably never heard of. \nMassimo Elijah is a spoken word artist and Philadelphia native. He is thankful to be among so many people doing beautiful and positive things. \nAaron Gadbury is a poet & co-producer of @housepoetphilly. Known as a nightlife legend and dance icon. \nLindsay Hargrave reads poems with the improvised music group Oarsman and the indie pop band Mỹ Tâm and serves as managing editor for Rejection Letters. \nSean Hanrahan\, author of several books and is included in several anthologies and journals\, he is host of Moonstone third Wednesday at Fergie’s Pub. \nJennifer Hook\, author of This is How He Left Me\, chose poetry as an entry into the territory of loss and self-reinvention. \nWarren C. Longmire’s latest book is Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop]. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. \nAlina Macneal has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years\, is a educator/writer/poet/translator/architect whose poems have in numerous journals. \nAmy Saul-Zerby\, author of several books\, edits Voicemail Poems\, her poems have appeared in various journals. \nAnne-Adele Wight is the author of four books\, she curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket. Her work has been published internationally in print and online.
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/the-moonstone-hosts-2024-read/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Reading: Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe\nSunday\, February 9th\, 2025 \n2pm Eastern Virtual \nRegister for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1fJ5daTdS8elCUBV79ucyg \nLamont B. Steptoe is a poet / photographer / publisher born and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. He is author of eight books of poetry including In the Kitchens of the Master\, Mad Minute\, Uncle’s South Sea China Blue Nightmare\, Cat Fish and Neckbone Jazz\, Dusty Road\, Common Salt and Trinkets and Beads. Steptoe is a father\, Vietnam veteran\, and founder of Whirlwind Press In 2005\, he was awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for A Long Movie of Shadows. \nContributors form our Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe anthology will read their works\, in community with Lamont and his legacy.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Robert Coles\, Alison Hicks\, and Roland Leander Williams
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Robert Coles\, Alison Hicks\, and Roland Leander Williams\nWednesday February 12\, 2025 – 7:00pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\,1214 Sansom Street \nFor Zoom\, register here: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4vYhPZXETFGJrideJAk8-Q#/registration \nRobert Coles has published over one hundred poems in various journals\, anthologies\, and magazines. \nAlison Hicks was finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartis Pace\, and Editor’s Choice selection for the 2024 Philadelphia Stories National Poetry Prize\, and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. \nMassimo Lavelle will read on behalf of Roland Leander Williams is a professor and chair of the English department at Temple University\, where he teaches courses on African-American culture and American society. He is the author of three books and has published fiction and poetry inspired by his life in the city. \nOpen Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Kat Giordano\, Carol Moog\, Lester Mobley\, and Tara Tamburello
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday February 19 at 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1lCXplISbCpSTMX_DE2UQ \nKat Giordano was born in Philadelphia and it’s been downhill ever since. Their latest poetry collection\, Thumbsucker\, is out via Malarkey Books. Kat tweets at @giordkat and lives on the internet at katgiordano.com. Kat is very cool. You like them.\n\n\nCarol Moog will read from her debut poetry collection She Sat But Not Still (Tell Tell Poetry).  She is a practicing psychologist\, professional musician (harmonica) and author of “Are They Selling Her Lips?” (William Morrow) and The Autism Playbook for Teens (New Harbinger).  She can also be found improvising with Tongue and Groove Spontaneous Theater\, and voicing vintage radio plays. She has never understood why people tell children to sit still. \nLester Mobley was born on Long Island New York before moving to Philadelphia at the age of 18 where he has remained ever since. He is a retired union building tradesmen who has dabbled on and off with poetry since elementary school. His favorite poets whom he reveres and attempts to emulate are Charles Bukowski’s who he describes as being urban\, seamy and modern\, and the innovative groundbreaking mid-19th century stylings of Walt Whitman. Everyone else as he always maintains\, remain respectfully peripheral. \nTara Tamburello was the 2023 Poet Laureate of Bucks County\, Pennsylvania. Her short fiction and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Schuylkill Valley Journal\, Ghost City Review\, Bone Parade\, Rust + Moth\, and other journals and anthologies. She is a past winner of the Bucks County Short Fiction Contest and received Eastern University’s Dorothy McCollum Siebert Award for creative writing. She lives in the Philly suburbs with her husband\, two children\, and cat.\n\n\n\nSean Hanrahan Hosts – Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Remembering Gerald Stern
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, February 23\, 2025 \n2pm Eastern virtual \nRegister for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/P35CdROtSy2NBi1XJHF3lg \nGerald Daniel Stern (February 22\, 1925 – October 27\, 2022) was an American poet\, essayist\, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays\, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University\, Indiana University of Pennsylvania\, Raritan Valley Community College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. From 2009 until his death\, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence and faculty member of Drew University’s graduate program for a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry. \nStern was a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and attended the University of Paris for post-graduate study. He received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1998 for This Time: New and Selected Poems and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1991 for Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems. In 2000\, Governor Christine Todd Whitman appointed him the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey. \nSubmit to the Remembering Gerald Stern anthology here by February 16th to be included in our anthology. 
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Samantha Medina\, Amanda Nicole Meadeis\, and Skyler Norbury
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Samantha Medina\, Amanda Nicole Meadeis\, and Skyler Norbury\nWednesday\, February 26\, 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nAnd on Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d9r8978JQ-CQKRC4mzSTbA \nSamantha Medina is a writer based in South Philadelphia. Her poetry touches on feminism and how to explore the cracks. \nAmanda Nicole Meadeis a poet\, artist\, tarot card reader\, and actress from Limerick\, PA. With a penchant for cute things – and a knack for making up amalgam-words – her work is a reflection of herself and how she interprets the energy of the world around her\, you are invited to look and listen to her works as you wish. \n‘Just be forewarned of the juxtapositional nature of their existence’. \nSkyler Norbury is a versatile visual artist who explores the interconnectedness of human experience through a range of different mediums. Drawing inspiration from personal encounters and spiritual reflections\, she creates work that invites viewers to connect on a deeper\, universal level. With a penchant for collaging found objects and other eclectic elements\, the result often offers a blend of nostalgia and contemporary expression. Skyler’s pieces offer both playfulness and profound intuition\, offering a unique perspective on the human journey. \nMac Chandler Hosts \nOpen Reading Follows
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