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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Tyler Dunston\, Maria James-Thiaw\, Miho Kinnas\, E. Ethelbert Miller\, and Terra Oliveira
DESCRIPTION:Sunday August 3\, 2025 – 2pmEDT – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q7Xq5kmfTySArIh_8ejLtg \nTyler Dunston\, author of Octaves\, is a writer and visual artist\, whose poems have appeared in Atlanta Review\, Hawaiʻi Pacific Review\, Narrative Magazine\, Raleigh Review\, and other journals. \nMaria James-Thiaw is an award-winning poet\, performer\, and playwright.  She is the author of three poetry books\, has been published in numerous journals and anthologies\, and is the founder of Reclaim Artist Collective. \nMiho Kinnas is a Japanese writer\, translator and poet\, author of three poetry collections\, and teaches Poems of All Sizes: Japanese Poetic Forms at Writers.com and New York Writers Workshop. \nE. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of several poetry collections. He was given a 2020 congressional award in recognition of his literary activism\, awarded the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award\, named a Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album and was awarded the Furious Flower Lifetime Achievement Award. \nTerra Oliveira is the author of Itinerant Songs\, and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry\, her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Bamboo Ridge\, The Common\, Puerto del Sol\, Protean Magazine\, and more.
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SUMMARY:Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series: David Ebenbach
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 5\, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast \nCan be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS\, 29/30 In Philadelphia. \nPhilly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nDavid Ebenbach\, the author of collections of fiction (Between Camelots; Into the Wilderness)\, poetry (We Were the People Who Moved; Autogeography) and essays (The Artist’s Torah) was born and raised in the great city of Philadelphia\, home of America’s first library\, first art museum\, first public school\, and first zoo\, along with David’s very first stories and poems\, though those early efforts went on to become (deservedly) less famous than\, for example\, the zoo. Since those days he’s lived in Ohio\, Wisconsin\, Philadelphia again\, New York\, New Jersey\, Indiana\, and Ohio again\, picking up some education (formal and otherwise) along the way\, and he now lives very happily in Washington\, DC. \nCharles S. Carr\, Host
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Phoebe Brown\, Courtney LeBlanc\, and Sean W. Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 6\, 2025  7pm- LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nPhoebe Brown is a poet recently published by Anthropocene Poetry\, in “Impossible Task” with Another New Calligraphy\, Hog River Press\, and Moonstone Arts Center. \nCourtney LeBlanc is the Arlington County Poet Laureate\, founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat\, an independent poetry press and founder of the Poetry Coven\, a monthly generative workshop. \nSean W. Lynch is author of five books of\, has been the editor of various magazines\, journals\, anthologies\, and books\, and worked for non-profit organizations such as Moonstone Arts Center and the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. \n Aaren Yeatts Perry Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-phoebe-brown-courtney-leblanc-and-sean-w-lynch/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Shaina Clingempeel\, Jacqueline Jewell\, Warren C. Longmire\, and Lynda Gene Rymond
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 13\, 2025  7pm- LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \n Shaina Clingempeel\, author of in the homes that house my history\, is a Philly-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell\, The Passionfruit Review\, The Rupture\, and many other places. She has a poetry MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Follow @cypresseditorial (IG\, TikTok) for updates on her work and more. \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. She has won the first-ever “Share Your Voices” award\, a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Contest\, in honor of Black History Month at Rosemont College. Jacqueline’s poetry collection\, Lady Arab\, is based on a true story of her grandmother surviving genocide\, her mother escaping war\, and Jacqueline’s own experience with racism and misogyny as a young woman of color. The three Arab women represented in Jacqueline’s collection is more than just her family’s story\, it’s the story of every Arab woman stripped of their rights\, suffering from a world that has forsaken them. \nWarren C. Longmire is a writer\, performer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is author of Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop and you can find his work in journals including Action\, Spectacle\, R&R\, and the American Poetry Review as well as in the anthologies Best American Poetry 2021 Anthology and A Black Philadelphia Reader. He is the former contributing editor for Apiary Magazine\, the host of House Poet: Spoken Word Dance Party and the founder of _mixlit\, has been a CUPSI grand slam and NPS group piece finalist\, coached the Philly Pigeon and Fuze Slam Team\, and has performed in venues including the Kimmel Center\, The Nuyorican Poetry Cafe. Warren is currently attending the Iowa Writer’s Workshop pursuing a master’s degree in Poetry. \nLynda Gene Rymond\, author of Spellbook\, a member of Dr. Christopher Bursk’s Masters Poetry Workshop and is a multi-year finalist/runner-up for Bucks County Poet Laureate. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies\, she authored the children’s books The Village of Basketeers and Oscar & the Mooncats . Lynda Gene lives and works on Goblin Farm in Applebachsville\, Pa\, and is the creator of the online Words Come Easy writing workshops. \nOpen reading follows
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry: Julia Bouwsma\, Hiram Larew\, Peter E. Murphy\, and Scott W. Williams
DESCRIPTION:Sunday August 17\, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s2XRWbF_Q2C7hQaK6Bf0PQ \nJulia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine where she works as a poet\, homesteader\, editor\, teacher\, and small-town librarian. She is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate and is the author of Death Fluorescence\, Midden\, and Work by Bloodlight. Bouwsma’s honors include a 2024 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets and two Maine Literary Awards. Her work can be found in Ecotone\, Green Mountains Review\, Kenyon Review\, Plume\, Poetry Daily\, and others. She has taught in the Creative Writing the University of Maine (Farmington)\, serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance\, and works as the Library Director for Webster Library. \nHiram Larew’s poems have received the Louisiana Literature Prize\, the Washington review poetry blue ribbon\, and have been nominated for four Pushcarts.  His work has appeared in Poetry Scotland\, Poetry South\, The Brown Critique\, Contemporary American Voices\, Honest Ulsterman\, Amsterdam Quarterly and others.  He’s received an artists’ grants from Arts Councils as well as the United Nations for his Poetry X Hunger initiative which encourages poets to contribute to anti-hunger efforts\, founded the Voices of Woodlawn\, a powerful program of poetry\, music and art that explores America’s tragic history of slavery\, is a Courtesy Faculty at five U. S. universities. \nPeter E. Murphy has published a dozen books of nonfiction and poetry\, has appeared in hundreds of journals\, anthologies and textbooks including The Sun\, The Shakespeare Quarterly\, Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass\, The Michigan Quarterly Review\, Guernica\, Harpur Palate\, The Literary Review and The New Welsh Reader. For more than forty years Peter has led workshops for thousands of writers in the United States and abroad. He has been a consultant to The Corporation for Public Broadcasting\, Educational Testing Service\, Arts Horizons\, AtlantiCare Health System\, The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation\, The New Jersey Councils for the Arts and the Humanities\, The New Jersey Department of Education\, and countless school districts from coast to coast. \nScott W. Williams (University of Buffalo Mathematics Professor Emeritus) is a traveling poet and author of short stories. He is author of The Gamblers Woods: Poetry from Baltimore’s Wilson Park\, (Moonstone Press) and six other books. Scott edits the syfy poetry&flash-fiction anthology series\, A Flash of Dark and A Flash of Dark vol 2\, and hosts workshops of the poetic forms Ghazal\, Haiku and Senryu and co-hosts the series Second Stage Writers and Poets Soup).
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Sydney Coffin\, Raina J. León\, and Genevieve Rand
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 20\, 2025  7pm- LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nSydney Coffin is halfway done an MFA with NYU in Paris\, and taught poetry\, English\, journalism\, wrestling and experiential arts in Philadelphia’s public schools for 20 years\, English Language Learning at Job Corps\, and recently became the night manager of facilities for the Fleisher Memorial Art School on Catherine Street in the Italian Market area; he has been published by Moonstone Press\, Mad House Press\, Yale University Press\, Lobo Press\, and a few other locations. \nRaina J. León\, PhD is Black\, Afro-Boricua\, and from Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). She is a mother\, daughter\, sister\, madrina\, comadre\, partner\, poet\, writer\, and teacher educator. She believes in collective action and community work\, the profound power of holding space for the telling of our stories\, and the liberatory practice of humanizing education. She seeks out communities of care and craft and is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Macondo. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is a recipient of a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Grant. \nGenevieve Rand is a variety artist whose work blends poetry\, stand-up\, song\, and immersive art into performances that feel like sacred chaos. Her debut one-woman show iParty—part ceremony\, part spectacle—will premiere this September at Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Tickets are on sale now\, and this is your official invitation to enter the iParty portal. \nSean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: George Marshall and Sophia Tempest
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 27\, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nGeorge Marshall is a writer out of Omaha\, Nebraska. He went to school for Nonfiction and works as a freelance writer and bartender. Poetry was where he found his love for writing. Outside of writing he spends time taking toilets apart to rebuild them stronger or standing in the middle of the street trying to achieve photosynthesis. \nSophia Tempest is the author of three poetry collections\, INFINITE LIGHT (Bottlecap Press\, 2025)\, WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN (Another New Calligraphy\, 2022) and a lamb hangs by its own foot (Ghost City Press\, 2019). She is also a coeditor for the press and journal Discount Guillotine. \nMac Chandler Host – Open Reading Follows
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