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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
DESCRIPTION:2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM \nThere are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form\, ethnic background\, age\, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. \n  \nTuesday November 7\, 2017 -6:30pm  \nOn January 15\, 2017\, Alicia Askenase joined writers Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin in curating Philadelphia’s iteration of the Pen America Writers Resist international day of readings of resistance.  Writers Resist Philadelphia was a standing room only event held at the National Museum of American Jewish History. The group continues with meetings of Philadelphia area writers in their efforts to affect change and resistance through writing.  WRPHL also has a Facebook page as a forum for writers\, and will hold another reading in the near future.  On November 7\, Ms. Askenase\, along with fellow poets of resistance\, Ahmad Almallah\, Herman Beavers\, and Alina MacNeal\, will continue on this path\, discussing what writing and resistance mean to them and their writing practices\, and read from their own work. \nAlicia Askenase is an educator who has taught English and creative writing\, co-organizer of  Philadelphia Writers Resist\, founding co-editor of the poetry journal 6ix\, and Director of Literary Programs at the Walt Whitman Center in New Jersey for many years. She is the author of the chapbooks Cover\, Suspect\, The Luxury of Pathos\, and Shirley Shirley.  Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Feminist Studies\, Review Revista Inter- Americana\, 5trope\, sonaweb\, texture\, Chain\, Black Mountain Review II\, aerial\, The World\, 100 Days\, and New Works by Philadelphia Poets.   \nAhmad Almallah is a poet\, scholar and translator of Arabic literature with a PhD in Arabic literature and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in Bethlehem\, Palestine and moved to the U.S. when he was 18. His set of poems “Recourse\,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship from Hunter College. His poems have appeared in Jacket2\, Track//Four\, All Roads will lead You Home\, and forthcoming in Apiary\, Supplement and Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by Refugees. \nHerman Beavers is Professor of English and Africana Studies at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. His most recent poems have either appeared in The Langston Hughes Colloquy\, MELUS\, and Versadelphia\, Cleaver Magazine\, The American Arts Quarterly\, and Supplement.  Herman is author of Obsidian Blues and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. He serves as an advisory editor for The African American Review\, The Black Scholar\, The Journal of Black Studies\, and Modern Fiction Studies. \nAlina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s. Her poems have appeared in Apiary\, Poems for the Writing\, and The World to Come\, and in 2015 she was a finalists for the Raynes poetry prize. This August two of her political poems were published in Poetry24. She has been a faculty member at Drexel University for 19 years. \n  \n  \nHost: Charles S. Carr
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LOCATION:PhillyCAM\, 699 Ranstead Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nBrandon H. Blake has been an artist throughout his life\, eventually studying Fine Arts at Millersville University. Primarily\, he has been writing haikus as well as exploring other traditional forms of poetry throughout the last ten to fifteen years. \n  \n \n  \nPoet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival\, the Women’s Writing and Spoken Word Series\, the Black Women’s Art Festival and Lady Fest Philly. Her poetry has appeared in small press poetry journals and the Chesapeake Bay Poets Anthology. An open mic will follow the featured readers. \n  \nAn open mic will follow the featured readers. Suzan Jivan\, host \n 
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street
DESCRIPTION:John Oliver Mason\, author of All of the Above \n“Like every writer\, I have tried to find a place to publish my material-what better motivation to write than to find some place to write for? I read an article in The Writer which had an essay about how writers should have their own e-mail newsletter; so I started one. Now\, ten years later\, The Mason Missile still goes on as my platform for my beliefs and causes\, as well as the milestones and incidents of my life. All of the Above is a collection of my poems and of the Mason Missile.
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LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street
DESCRIPTION:April Lynn James & Madison Hatta \nDr. April Lynn James\, award-winning performer\, scholar\, and Librarian-in-Training rolls in with her muse/guardian angel Madison Hatta\, Sonneteer. Madison\, a Mirth-Maker Extraordinaire\, composes and declaims whimsical sonnets on such themes as madness\, Time\, career & family dysFUNction\, and the importance of drinking tea. The wordplay and imagery are drawn from daily life\, from Alice in Wonderland\, and from Other Sources Unknowable. Extra-Ordinary Poetic Fun!
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LOCATION:Toast Café\, 1201 Spruce Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Gold @ Fergie’s Pub Presents Afaa M. Weaver Interviewed by Earnest Hilbert
DESCRIPTION:Tickets $15.00\, Students with ID – $7.50 – available at Square.com \nIn 2014\, Weaver completed his Plum Flower Trilogy with the publication of his 14th collection of poetry\, City of Eternal Spring. A Los Angeles Times review of the trilogy echoed previous critical evaluations of his oeuvre to date: “Compared to Whitman by the poet Michael Harper and critic Arnold Rampersad\, Weaver brings in new voices and experiences to American poetry\, and like Whitman he sings and celebrates himself. … poems written in the black vernacular … with their short\, crisp lines\, and with great attention to detail and with great compassion\, take us to inner city Baltimore\, to his mother’s kitchen and his grandmother’s bedside\, to the basketball court\, the factory\, and the front stoop to show the different experiences\, voices\, histories that are part of his own unique development.” \nIn Spirit Boxing ($15.95\, Pitt Poetry Series)\, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore\, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working class. He writes with an intimacy that is unique in American poetry\, and echoes previous comparisons of his oeuvre to that of Walt Whitman. The singularity of his voice resonates here through the prism of his realization of self through a lifelong project of the integration of American and Chinese culture. The work is Daoist in influence and structure as it echoes both a harmonic realization of context and the intuitive and transcendent dance of body\, mind\, and spirit. Books will be available for purchase and to be autographed.
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LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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