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SUMMARY:Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts
DESCRIPTION:Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts\nWednesday\, January 7th at 7pm\nLive at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom Street\nFeatured readers for this live event are all of Moonstone’s poetry reading hosts. We hope you join us in the new year to meet our hosts\, hear their latest work\, and gather in community. \nFeatured Moonstone Poetry Hosts \nLiz  Allen  \nCharles Carr is author of 3 collections\, and his poetry has been published widely in the small press. He is the host of Philly Loves Poetry on Philly Cam and is active with the Moonstone Arts Center. \nMac Chandler is a writer. They have been published in some places and not in others. You can find them hosting for Moonstone\, as well as reading\, bartending\, and\, i don’t know\, just kinda waiting around. \nJulianna Forlano\, writer\, radio host\, and educator\, whose work weaves personal narrative with politics\, culture\, and Italian-American history\,  her writing explores cultural memory\, and family. \nSean Hanrahan\, author of Headless\, Safer Behind Popcorn and Ghost Signs\, Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work has also been included in various anthologies and journals.. \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet\, first mate at Scribes on South\, a coproducer at House Poet\, half of the experimental group Kelpius\, the author of two chapbooks and a copywriter for Temple University. \nWarren C. Longmire\, Black poet\, performer\, and technologist from North Philadelphia\, whose poetry and hybrid media work investigate race\, surveillance\, and digital embodiment through generative literature\, interactive design\, and live performance. \nS.W. Lynch is a writer and editor\, author of five books of poetry and a novel entitled The Beast in the Pines. He has worked with Moonstone Arts Center for over a decade as an editor and poetry reading host \nAaren Perry\, author of Shipping and Receiving and Open Fire\, is a grant writer and editor. He co-edited Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row; and The Art Of Inclusion. \nAmy Saul-Zerby\, author of three poetry collections\, her poems have appeared in The Rumpus\, The Chicago Review of Books\, American Poetry Review\, \, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems. \nAnne-Adele Wight\, author of An Internet of Containment\, The Age of Greenhouses\, Opera House Arterial\, and Sidestep Catapult. Her work has appeared in Poets and Writers\, Luna Luna\, and other publications. \nLarry Robin is the director of the Moonstone Arts Center.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events,Poetry Events
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Herman Beavers\, Anisha Bhat\, Steve Burke\, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Herman Beavers\, Anisha Bhat\, Steve Burke\, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee\nWednesday January 14\, 2026 – 7pm  \nFergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nHerman Beavers is an African American writer and the author of The Vernell Poems and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Beavers’s honors include the Charles Ludwig Distinguished Teaching Award. He is currently a professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Burlington Township\, New Jersey. \nAnisha Bhat\, originally from Chicago\, Illinois\, is a writer and staff member at Temple University where she directs research and creative programs for undergraduates. She has an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge and an MA in History from Northwestern University. In her free time she can be found buying too many books at used book stores\, eating at the same five restaurants in South Philly\, or working on her first poetry chapbook. \nSteve Burke’s poems have been published in numerous journals & magazines; has three chapbooks – After The Harvest\, For Now\, & Small Answers – published by Moonstone Press. He has been a featured reader at the Painted Bride Arts Center\, Moore College of Art\, the Free Library\, the Philadelphia Poetry Festival\, the Big Blue Marble Bookstore\, the Mad Poets’ Festival\, the Green Line Café\, along with Fergie’s Pub. He worked for 25 years as a labor and delivery nurse; lives with wife Giselle in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. \nOctavia McBride-Ahebee’s work is influenced by the convergence of cultures and the many ways in which people move throughout the world\, she explores relationships within the broader framework of global inequality and contributes to The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series (exploring African and diasporic migration through poetry and is involved with Forced Migration and The Arts.) Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including For Harriet\, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace\,  Yellow Medicine\,  South Philly Fiction\, Damazine; A Literary Journal of the Muslim World\, Fingernails Across The Chalkboard: Poetry And Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora\, Under Our Skin: Literature of Breast Cancer\, The Journal of the National Medical Association\, Art in Medicine Section\, International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas\, the Beloit Poetry Journal.  Her poetry collections include Assuming Voices\, Where My Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers. \nLiz Allen Host – Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-herman-beavers-anisha-bhat-steve-burke-and-octavia-mcbride-ahebee/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reading: ICE Immigration and Murder
DESCRIPTION:ICE: Immigration and Murder\nIn immediate response\, Moonstone is hosting a virtual reading on Sunday\, January 25th at 2pm EST via Zoom for all to attend and read. You can register for the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FoHS3q61SQy1zuoz9aIJZA \nWe are also organizing a poetry anthology in response to ICE’s violence\, the murder of Renee Nicole Good\, and many others who have been killed by ICE. We hope the reading on January 25th will serve as inspiration. \nAnthology Deadline: February 1st\, 2026 \nSubmit to the anthology here.  \nBelow we’ve included snippets of more information on the catalyst for this anthology through the murder of Renee Nicole Good. Many have been \nExcerpt from ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder\nby David Dayden\, the executive editor of The American Prospect \nOn Wednesday afternoon\, ICE agents carrying out an operation in south Minneapolis were briefly obstructed by a car blocking traffic. ICE agents approached the female driver\, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good\, yelling\, “Get out of the fucking car\,” and one of them attempted to open the driver’s-side door. After the driver backed up to turn around and move\, another agent drew his gun and unloaded three shots into the car. The car barreled into a light pole about 100 feet down the road\, and the driver was quickly pronounced dead. \nThis is confirmed by eyewitness accounts and videos from multiple angles. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\, while confirming the broad details\, claims that the ICE agent acted in self-defense to avoid being run over by the vehicle. \nRead the full article here.  \nRenee Nicole Good\, murdered by ICE\, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.\nexcerpt from Jonny Diamond\, January 7\, 2026 \nRenee Nicole Good\, 37\, mother to a six-year-old boy\, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis\, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: \n[An ICE agent] shot and killed a woman in south Minneapolis during a morning confrontation between community members and federal officers […] Several residents of the area who witnessed the scene said agents were ordering the woman out of the vehicle. A video showed agents around the vehicle as the driver reversed and then pulled forward. One agent appeared to fire multiple rounds into the car. \nThe bio from a now-private Instagram account belonging to Good describes her as a “Poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado; experiencing Minneapolis\, MN.” \nIn 2020\, when she went by Renée Nicole Macklin\, she won the prestigious Academy of American Poets Prize for a poem called “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs\,” which begins: \ni want back my rocking chairs\, solipsist sunsets\, & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches. \ni’ve donated bibles to thrift stores (mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp— the post-baptism bibles\, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots\, the dumbed-down\, easy-to-read\, parasitic kind): \nremember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils\, \n& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms. \n[READ THE FULL POEM HERE] – https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs \nThis is murder in broad daylight by the Trump administration\, obvious and brutal. And though each senseless act of violence committed by the state upon its citizens echoes the thousands that have gone before\, we cannot become numb to the particular (and intensifying) depravities of this administration. \nSo if the violence of the deportations\, and the crackdowns\, and the cuts\, and the raids\, and the air strikes\, haven’t been enough for you\, let something so simple and evil as the daytime execution of a poet move you to action.
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry: Anne Kaier\, Massimo Lavelle\, and Aaren Perry
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry: Anne Kaier\, Massimo Lavelle\, and Aaren Perry\nWednesday\, January 28\, 2026 – 7pm\nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\nAnne Kaier a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and has served on a Fulbright screening committee for creative writers.  Her poetry collection\, How Can I Say It Was Not Enough? won the Propel Poetry Award and was published by Nine Mile Press and the University of Syracuse in Spring 2025. Her essays have appeared widely in venues such as The New York Times\, The Kenyon Review\, 1966 journal\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and the anthology About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of The New York Times for which she appeared on NPR’s Radio Times. “Maple Lane” was mentioned on the list of notables in an edition of Best American Essays. \nMassimo Lavelle is a spoken word poet. He performs throughout Philadelphia and has also featured at Yale University African American Studies Department and O’bheal in Ireland. He has hosted different events in the city and has collaborated with musicians\, dancers and videographers on a diverse range of projects. He loves seeing people sharing positive and creative work and hopes his poetry encourages that. \nAaren Perry’s most recent book Shipping and Receiving is published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College\, Perry is a grant writer and editor. He edited a forthcoming collection of new poems by Lamont B. Steptoe; co-edited with James Villarreal\, Under Lock and Key: 100 Poems From Death Row\, by Anthony Reid; and co-edited The Art Of Inclusion with John Lavin and Eleanor Wilner. \nAnne-Adele Wight Host\, Open Reading Follows
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-anne-kaier-massimo-lavelle-and-aaren-perry/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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