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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Welcome to the Resistance\, Poetry as Protest
DESCRIPTION:Readings from Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956\, Passcode: 704102 \n  \nWelcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest \nEdited by Ona Gritz & Taylor Carmen Savath \nFrom the introduction by Ona Gritz: \n“It is difficult to get the news from poems\,” William Carlos Williams famously wrote\, “yet men die miserably every day for the lack of what is found there.” \nNews comes to us in swaths. Poetry considers moments. New comes to us raw. Poetry distills and\, in both senses of the word\, reflects. Taylor and I began assembling this collection in the spring of 2019\, the airwaves filled with divisiveness and hate speech\, the supposed leader of the free world governing through a Twitter feed in gibberish and lies. In resistance\, we chose to seek out and off that which is found in poetry. Welcome to these pages. Welcome to eloquence and truth. \nWe expect over 20 of the contributors to present. Click here for a full list of poets in the anthology.
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SUMMARY:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Leonard Gontarek with host Charles S. Carr
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: 2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series \nWatch the live broadcast: \nComcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch \n  \nCharles S. Carr talks with Leonard Gontarek \nCharles S. Carr talks with Leonard Gontarek\, who will also read from is new book\, The Long Way Home ($26.00 BlazeVOX) \nLeonard Gontarek is the author of seven books of poems\, including Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket\, Shiva. His poems have appeared in Field\, Poet Lore\, Verse Daily\, Fence\, Poetry Northwest\, American Poetry Review\, Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry\, and The Best American Poetry (edited by Paul Muldoon). He coordinates Peace/Works\, Poetry In Common\, Philly Poetry Day\, hosts The Green Line Reading & Interview Series\, and is Poetry Consultant for Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy. He conducts the poetry workshop: Making Poems That Last. His poem\, 37 Photos From The Bridge\, selected by Alice Quinn\, was a Poetry winner for the Big Bridges MotionPoems project and the basis for the award-winning film sponsored by the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. He also has two chapbooks from Moonstone Press: The Paris Poems of Jim Morrison\, and Contact. \n  \n“Leonard Gontarek is a Whitmanic visionary: in one moment he’s chanting incantations; in the next\, he’s out in the street making sense of his American moment. No matter his angle of approach\, in his vision Gontarek sees us with devastating clarity. Yet\, we are drawn toward this seering vision because he expresses it with disarming sincerity. Which is to say\, he tells it like it is and we can’t help but agree. With The Long Way Home\, this poet’s poet has crafted a tour de force.” – Iain Haley Pollock\, author of Ghost\, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy \n “What is it with Leonard Gontarek and cats?  What is it with coats\, car parts\, with parties across the river?  What is it with Katy Perry\, what is it with Donald Barthleme\, with Breughel snapping at us? What is it with fathers? With mothers?  With house-painters\, their ladders\, what is it with the American light dropping like lumber?  I say let it be and let it be praise.  Let it be a song\, or a moan\, or a two-foot walkie-talkie ch-ch-ch-ing into the night.  And let it be\, all ye who enter\, your face given back by this shining cup of darkness.” –Kate Northrop\, author of cuntstruck and Things Are Disappearing Here
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SUMMARY:LIVE Poetry Reading: C. M. Crockford and Anthony Palma
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Poetry Reading: C. M. Crockford and Anthony Palma\n\nWednesday October 6\, 2021 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \nOn Zoom: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n  \nC.M. Crockford is a neurodivergent poet whose work has been featured in Wilde Boy\, Serotonin\, Toho Journal\, Neologism Poetry Journal\, and Wingless Dreamer among others. His second chapbook Mark The Place recently sold out it’s second print run with Thirty West Publishing. Crockford currently lives in West Philadelphia with his partner and their cats. You can find more about him and his writing on cmcrockford.com or via his twitter\, @cm_crockford \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while addressing issues of social justice\, identity\, and existence. His work has appeared in publications such as Rue Scribe\, Oddball Magazine\, and the Show Us Your Papers Anthology. His debut collection of poetry\, flashes of light from the deep (Parnilis Media)\, is now available on Amazon. Be sure to look him up on social media at anthonypalmapoetry. \n  \n  \n  \nSean Lynch Host\, Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-c-m-crockford-and-anthony-palma/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading\nRemembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement\nSunday October 10\, 2021 – 2pm EST\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956\, Passcode: 704102 \n  \nLéopold Sédar Senghor (10/9/1906 – 12/20/2001) and the Négritude Movement \nIn May 1935\, the word ‘Négritude’ appeared for the first time in the only issue of the literary magazine L’Etudiant noir\, edited by Léopold Sédar Senghor\, Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas. Négritude was defined it as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black” and transcended the borders of the black Francophone literary world. \nNobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka countered the idea with his famous quote\, “A tiger does not shout its tigritude\, it pounces.” \nLéopold Sédar Senghor was president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981 and Africa’s most famous poet. His poetry\, alive with sensual imagery\, contrasts the lushness and wonder of Africa’s past with the alienation and loss associated with assimilation into European culture. Ideologically an African socialist\, he was the major theoretician of Négritude and the founder of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc party\, was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française and won the 1985 International Nonino Prize in Italy. \nNégritude is a framework of critique and literary theory developed during the 1930s\, aimed at raising and cultivating “Black consciousness”. Drawing on a surrealist style their work often explored the experience of diasporic being\, asserting ones’ self and identity\, and ideas of home\, home-going and belonging and inspired the birth of many movements across the Afro-Diasporic world\, including Afro-Surrealism\, Creolite in the Caribbean\, and black is beautiful in the United States. \nThis is a dual language anthology in collaboration with the Alliance Francaise de Philadelphie. \nJoin us as contributors to this new Moonstone Anthology read their work. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-remembering-leopold-sedar-senghor-and-the-negritude-movement/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2020 to 2015
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading\nMoonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2020 to 2015\nHosted by J. C. Todd\, our 2021 judge \n  \nSunday October 17\, 2021 – 2pm – Virtual\n  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 Passcode: 704102 \n  \n \n  \n  \nKyle Laws won in 2020 for The Sea Is Woman\, author of Uncorseted\, Ride the Pink Horse and Faces of Fishing Creek\, she has 8 nominations for a Pushcart Prize. she directs Line/Circle: Women Poets in Performance. \n  \nFaith Paulsen was a runner up in 2020 for We Marry\, We Bury\, We Sing or We Weep. Her work has appeared in venues including Ghost City Press\, Book of Matches\, Panoply\, Thimble\, Evansville Review\, and Mantis. \n  \nKenneth Pobo won the 2019 contest for Book of Micah. He is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet\, Uneven Steven\, and Lavender Fire\, Lavender Rose. \n  \nEmma Wynn was runner up in 2019 for Help Me to Fall. Her poetry has appeared in Sky Island\, West Trade Review\, The Raw Art Review\, and Delmavra Review. She was a finalist for the Subvinean magazine 2021 poetry award. \n  \nMbarek Styfi shared first prize in 2018 for The Trace of a Smile. Poet and translator\, teaches at the University of Pennsylvania\, his work has appeared in CELAAN Review\, World Literature Today\, Banipal\, and many other journals. \n  \nLisa Grunberger shared first prize in 2018 for i am dirty. She is also the author of Yiddish Yoga\, Born Knowing\, and her play\, Almost Pregnant. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Hanging Loose Press\, Crab Orchard Review. \n  \nBevil Townsend was a runner-up in 2018 with One Hell of a Woman. She is a poet\, feminist\, and political junkie—sometimes in reverse order. She currently lives in Washington\, DC and teaches storytelling to campaign activists. \n  \nGeorge McDermott won the 2017 contest for Pictures\, Some of Them Moving. He is a Philadelphia poet\, who has been an English teacher\, a speechwriter\, and a screenwriter (those are not mutually exclusive\, not even especially different). \n  \nVernita Hall won the 2016 contest for Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians. She is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color. \n  \nJoe Roarty won our first chapbook contest in 2015 for Moritat\, German for “street ballad”. Poetry of high-octane energy\, passionate intelligence\, supercharged\, insistent blues\, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. \n  \nAll books are available at our Online Store.\n \n  \nThere’s still time for you to join this list of winners! Our annual chapbook contest is open for submissions until November 5th\, 2021. \nSubmit to the 2021 Moonstone Poetry Chapbook Contest: deadline 11/5/2021 \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-moonstone-chapbook-contest-winners-2020-to-2015/
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Music and Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Moonstone Live Poetry Reading\nMusic and Poetry\n  \nWednesday October 20\, 2021 – 7pm  \nLive at Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street \non Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n  \nLindsay Hargrave is a poet with recent publications in giallo\, Button Eye Review\, Maudlin House\, Wrongdoing\, Rust + Moth and more. They perform in the Philly area with improvised music collective Oarsman and indie pop band Mitamu and have a weekly tarot poetry column in the Philly Plain Dealer. Twitter: @notporkroll. \n  \n  \nElliott Levin is a Philadelphia jazz legend plays the saxophone and the flute and he’s also an abstract poet and often combines poetry and music during his performances. He has has toured and recorded with Cecil Taylor and The Arkestra’s Tyrone Hill and Marshal Allen\, to name a few. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances\, much to the delight of the growing live poetry audience and to the chagrin of hipsters who insist jazz poetry is a form of torture\, worse than cold showers. There is nothing watered-down or weak about his performances\, no attempt to make the music a bit more accessible\, tender-hearted or just plain wimpy. He also doesn’t seem to play music as if it was connected to some kind of career strategy\, other than to just play all the time. \n  \nJoe Roarty was born in 1953 in Cincinnati\, Ohio. He has lived in Pittsburgh\, Pa.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, Boston\, Mass.\, and Chicago\, IL. and Philadelphia. He won the Moonstone Chapbook Contest in 2015 for Moritat (German for “street ballad”)\, poetry of high octane energy\, passionate intelligence\, supercharged\, insistent blues\, jazz and heightened speech rhythms\, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease–at home on the street and in the stratosphere\, a colloquial invention that uses texting’s phonetic spelling\, omitting vowels in a way that drives the lines\, while his images mix references in our polyglot way: “I hav hrd/ americn wrds”. \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/16504/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger \nFeaturing readers from an e-Collection of Poems from Around the World\n  \nSaturday October 23\, 2021 – 2pm EST\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956\, Passcode: 704102 \n  \nJoin us as we mark the publication of a ground-breaking collection of poems that Speak Back to Hunger.  Several poets from near and far will read their work from the collection.  And notable anti-hunger advocates will speak about the role that poetry can and should play in fighting hunger.  We’ll also have time for questions and discussion. \nHunger needs an audience. This anthology is giving it one. A poet’s job is to speak the\ntruth:  Teri Cross Davis says\, “Shoo away the vulture\, whose crime is hers too\, hunger…”;\nHenry Crawford says\, “On those nights I made an apple out of sand / and watched it blow\naway.”This truthful book speaks about “being gripped by hunger like a fist in his belly”; \nListen hard to the hungry people. Let the poets speak.\n– Mary Ann Larkin\, Poet\, Maryland\, USA \nPoetry X Hunger thanks the following supporters and partners: The Maryland State Arts Council\, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Liaison Office for North America\, the Capital Area Food Bank\, AaronR\, Rebecca Roach and Diane Wilbon Parks\, and Drs. Susan Schram and Tatiana LeGrand. \n  \n Host Hiram Larew \nFollowed by Q&A and Discussion \n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: Gregory Djanikian and Daniel Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: Gregory Djanikian and Daniel Simpson\n\n  \nTuesday October 26\, 2021 – 7pm  \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n  \n \nGregory Djanikian is the author of seven collections of poetry\, The Man in the Middle\, Falling Deeply into America\, About Distance\, Years Later\, So I Will Till the Ground\, Dear Gravity\, and most recently\, Sojourners of the In-Between (February\, 2020)\, all appearing from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems have appeared in such places as The Adroit Journal\, The American Poetry Review\, Boulevard\, crazyhorse\, The Florida Review\, The Iowa Review\, New Ohio Review\, Poetry\, Poetry Northwest\, TriQuarterly\, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies including Best American Poetry\, Good Poems\, American Places (Viking)\, Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem (Knopf)\, Becoming Americas: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing (Library of America)\, Poem in Your Pocket (The Academy of American Poets)\, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia & Beyond (Norton)\, 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Random House)\, among others. He was for many years Director of the Creative Writing Program at Penn until his retirement in 2015. He lives outside of Philadelphia. \n  \nIn 2017\, Daniel Simpson and his wife\, Ona Gritz\, collaborated on two books\, as co-authors of Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems and as co-editors of More Challenges for the Delusional\, an anthology of prose\, poetry\, and writing prompts. School for the Blind\, his first collection of poems\, came out in 2014. His work has been anthologized in Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest\, About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times\, and Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability\, and has appeared in Prairie Schooner\, The Cortland Review\, and many other journals. “Let’s Walk Together\,” a composition for bass soloist and choir\, based on a text he wrote\, received its premiere performance by Voces8 in London last December. Voces8 and four other choirs also performed “A Song Everyone Can Sing\, for which he served as lyricist in March\, 2019. The recipient of a Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, he tends a blog\, Inside the Invisible\, which can be found at insidetheinvisible.wordpress.com. \n  \nAlina Macneal & Jennifer Hook\, Hosts – Open Reading Follows \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/virtual-poetry-reading-gregory-djanikian-and-daniel-simpson/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211027T190000
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SUMMARY:Live Poetry Reading: Michele Belluomini\, Ronald Carter\, and Charlie O'Hay
DESCRIPTION:Live Poetry Reading: Michele Belluomini\, Ronald Carter\, and Charlie O’Hay\n  \nWednesday October 27\, 2021 – 7pm \nLive at Fergie’s Pub  \nAnd on Zoom \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146 \n  \nMichele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry\, Philadelphia Poets\, Beltway\, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appeared in various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers\, also published by Plan B Press (Alexandria\, VA). She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia \n  \nRonald Carter is a native of Philadelphia. He started wring poetry at an early age of twelve. His love of poetry was influenced by the writings of Edgard Allen Poe\, Niki Giovani\, Richard Wright\, Ralph Ellison\, and Alex Hailey. Since 1995 to the present Ronald has participated in many poetry\, historical reenactment\, and storytelling events with such organizations as Mad poets Societ5y\, La unique Book Store and Cultural Center’s Poets Den\, Poets and Prophets\, Philadelphia Poetry and Literary Forum\, \,Moonstone Arts Center\, Pen and Pencil Club\, Historic Philadelphia\, Keepers of the Culture\, National Association of Black Storytellers\, Patchwork Storytelling Guild\, October Gallery AAMP. Rob is also published in the Mad Poets’ and Philadelphia Poetry and Literary forum’s \n  \nCharlie O’Hay is author of Far from Luck and Smoking In Elevators. Charlie’s poems have appeared in over 100 journals\, including Mudfish\, West Branch\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, Cortland Review\, Gargoyle and The New York Quarterly. He is the recipient of a 1995 Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Since 2010\, Charlie’s ongoing photo series “Everyone Has a Name” has shared images and stories of the homeless in Center City Philadelphia to promote understanding\, dignity\, and an end to homelessness in America. \n  \n Followed by an open reading\n \n 
URL:https://moonstoneartscenter.com/event/live-poetry-reading-michele-belluomini-ronald-carter-and-charlie-ohay/
LOCATION:Fergie’s Pub\, 1214 Sansom Street\, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211031T140000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: David R. Slavitt and Julie Swarstad Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: David R. Slavitt and Julie Swarstad Johnson\n\n  \nSunday October 31\, 2021 – 2pm EST\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956\, Passcode: 704102 \n  \nDavid R. Slavitt’s new book is Opus Posthumous and Other Poems ($19.95\, LSU Press\, 978-0807175668). He is a poet\, novelist\, critic\, and author of more than 130 works of literature\, in styles ranging from dramatic translations to pulp fiction. Despite the diversity of his literary endeavors\, however\, poetry remains his primary occupation. He has said\, “There is almost always a longish project to which I can repair for entertainment and occupation. But I will put that aside\, whatever it is\, if a poem presents itself to me.” Like the rest of his work\, Slavitt’s poetry is full of wit\, though it balances satire with a sense of gravity. His new book\, Slavitt traverses Africa\, India\, Israel\, and the America in which he finds himself\, complete with visits to zoos\, casinos\, baseball fields\, and cemeteries\, as he searches for clues from which he might learn at least a little. He translates verse from Yiddish and Provençal and offers commentaries on received wisdom\, everyday events\, and the vagaries of existence. Slavitt’s awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for translation\, an award for literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters\, and a Rockefeller Foundation artist’s residency. He currently lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts. \n“The power of narrative to transform the events it recounts is among the most rewarding mysteries by which we can be absorbed. David Slavitt is among the most accomplished living practitioners of that art\, in both prose and verse; his poems give us a pleasurable\, beautiful way of meditating on a bad time. We can’t ask much more of literature\, and usually we get far less.”—Henry Taylor in Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets \n“[Slavitt’s] range in forms\, tones of voice\, and subject matter is wide and various. He shows that he can handle all kinds of tough\, tricky forms\, and that he likes forms. He is perfectly at home in many rhythms\, formal and syncopated. The language is brilliant\, the range almost complete (from Ronald Firbank to Lenny Bruce and Dave Gardner). He can be witty or can crack wise as the occasion demands. Above all\, he can think in verse\, thus inviting the reader to use his intelligence\, too.”—George Garrett in The Hollins Critic \n  \nJulie Swarstad Johnson is the author of Pennsylvania Furnace (2019)\, editor’s choice selection for the Unicorn Press first book series\, and co-editor of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight (University of Arizona Press\, 2020). She has served as Artist in Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park\, which led to the chapbook Orchard Light (Seven Kitchens Press\, 2020). She lives in Tucson and works at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. \n“In poems quietly fierce\, meticulously observed\, faithfully rendered\, musically tempered; in the uncanny ability to evoke both the presence of the past\, its once molten iron\, and its abandonment by time\, Julie Swarstad Johnson raises a ‘host of silent voices praising every shadow.’ In these graceful poems\, Claudia Emerson has found an heir. Pennsylvania Furnace is fired by the haunting beauty and revelation of its resonant images\, ‘finding use / not in the thing itself\, but in what / it opened…’” —Eleanor Wilner\, Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems\, 1975-2017 \n 
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