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SUMMARY:World Press Freedom Day
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 4\, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day \nThe United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day\, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to freedom of expression enshrined under Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and marking the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration\, a statement of free press principles put together by African newspaper journalists in Windhoek in 1991. Send us a poem.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Grace Bauer\, Majorie Maddox\, Amy Small-McKinney
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 7\, 2025 — 7:00 pm – LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nGrace Bauer is a Philadelphia-based poet who has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). \nMarjorie Maddox is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University as well as an author who has published 17 collections of poetry among other works. \nAmy Small-McKinney is the author of two full-length books and three chapbooks. Her newest chapbook\, One Day I Am A Field\, was published by Glass Lyre Press (April\,2022). She resides in Philadelphia. \nLarry Robin\, Host – Open Reading Follows \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners
DESCRIPTION:Sunday May 11\, 2025 – 2:00 pm – VIRTUAL On Zoom – 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VJprZxhkRxGtL6tgxl7bkA \nFirst Prize – Partridge Boswell\, author of Heckler\, poems appear in Poetry\, American Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival\, he troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas \nHonorable Mentions \nShaina Clingempeel\, author of in the homes that house my history\, is a Philadelphia-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). \nDayle Olson\, author of From the Dead Letter Department\, was a Northwest Voices guest writer at Lower Columbia College and winner of the Oregon Poetry Association’s first prize for prose in 2024. \nMartha Brenckle\, author of Inside a Snow Globe is Professor at the University of Central Florida in the Writing and Rhetoric Department and an affiliated faculty in Women and Gender Studies and Text and Technologies\, a transdisciplinary PhD Program. \nJacqueline Jewell\, author of Lady Arab\, is a poet\, college professor\, EMMY Award-winning journalist\, mother\, and activist. A Philadelphia area native and proud daughter of an immigrant\, Jacqueline uses her poetry to amplify underrepresented and discounted voices. \nHost & Judge – Nathalie Anderson is a poet and librettist\, who manages the lit-philly listserv for literary events in the Philadelphia area.  She has recently retired from Swarthmore College\, where she served as a Professor of English Literature\, and directed the Program in Creative Writing     \n 
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Sarah Browning\, W.D. Ehrhart\, Jack Miller
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes\, Killing Summer\, and others\, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry\, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam\, Patriotism\, and American Life\, and At Smedley Butler’s Grave. Jack Miller\, author of Habit: Seven Decades of Poems is a former English teacher who retired after a long career at Ocean City High School. Open Reading Follows
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:29th Annual Poetry Ink: Virtual Reading
DESCRIPTION:29th Annual Poetry Ink\nWe want everyone: published poets\, unpublished poets\, academic poets\, street poets\, poets\nwho write Sonnet\, Villanelle\, Haiku\, Ekphrastic Poems\, Concrete Poems\, Epitaph\, Elegy\,\nEpigram\, Limerick\, Ballad\, Ode\, Free Verse.\nJoin us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order\nMonday May 19\, 2025 – No matter where you live\, please join us virtually\nVIRTUAL at 7:00pm EDT on Zoom
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