Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti On February 22, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. In the 1950s, Ferlinghetti’s San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the center of the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti published many of the writers whose goal was to “write in an authentic, unfettered style.” Ferlinghetti was arrested […]

Remembering Woody Guthrie

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Woody Guthrie was one of the most significant figures in American folk music whose work focused on themes of socialism and anti-fascism. Join us as poets continue this tradition.

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Remembering Charles Bukowski

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A reading from our Remembering anthology series. Charles Bukowski was a prolific underground writer whose work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and eventually publishing over sixty books. Join us as poets continue his tradition.

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Virtual Reading: Remembering Dylan Thomas

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Virtual Reading: Remembering Dylan Thomas Sunday October 27, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdu6hqDMsGdZRzlthm1ZEK-xUGy30g20b  Remembering Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death […]

Virtual Poetry: Remembering Louis McKee

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Remembering Louis McKee (July 31, 1951– November 21, 2011) Sunday November 24, 2024@ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceChqzgjGdayBxHLCQaGDjDwjYHv85Xm Louis McKee was an American poet and a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene from the early 1970s. He was the author of Schuylkill County, The True Speed of Things, and fourteen other […]

Virtual Reading: Remembering Dennis Brutus

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Sunday December 1, 2024 @ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Remembering Dennis Brutus (1924 – 2009) On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu-prjIiE9eezsl16I2_NXEdA45fkVSb Born in Zimbabwe, poet and human rights activist Dennis Brutus grew up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and was educated at Fort Hare University College. He taught high school for 14 years until he was […]

Virtual Poetry: Remembering T. S. Eliot

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Remembering T. S. Eliot Sunday January 5, 2025 2pm EST virtual Register for the Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItdOuopzkpHtZMtMmL-wsKMt33Qh3uvIr- (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright, a leading figure in English-language Modernist poetry where he reinvigorated the art through the use of language, writing style, and verse structure. Also noted for his […]