Moonstone Presents:

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Virtual Poetry Reading

Zoom Meeting ID: 821 6127 0135 – Zoom Passcode: 960363 – Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82161270135?pwd=aDVLWlcxWmFsMTNwNjR1L3lEZXV1QT09 Sandra Turner-Barnes is an author, poet, and jazz lover and vocalist. Her first book of poetry Always A Lady has sold over 7,000 copies. In 1996, Sandra won the EBONY MAGAZINE Literary Competition for Short Fiction, and in 1997, Sandra re-created […]

M. Nzadi Keita, JC Todd, Alina Macneal, Jennifer Hook

Zoom Meeting ID: 849 0497 4839, Passcode: 570429, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904974839?pwd=U0lZb3JuOFlvRlUya1VjSlRTblBWdz09 Nzadi Keita, a Philly-born writer, editor, and scholar, is a 2017 Pew Fellow for the Arts in Poetry. Her book of persona poems, BRIEF EVIDENCE OF HEAVEN, gives voice to abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass. Cited by Yale historian […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Antonio Lopez, Chukwuma Ndulue, Ewuare Osayande, with Elijah Pringle

Zoom Meeting ID: 836 1745 1559, Passcode: 749356, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83617451559?pwd=TGliZFF4dXZzamZOaGJreHVQbzBJdz09 Antonio López received a double B.A. in Global Cultural Studies and African & African-American studies from Duke University, scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the […]

Take Five: Laura Baird, Deborah Brown, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Richard Jackson, Susan Thomas, with Dave Worrell

Zoom Meeting ID: 828 6011 8796 Passcode: 045261 Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82860118796?pwd=L3V5OUwwMDd3SzdZVk9IUlRMaXN4UT09 Generous, empathetic, and deftly observant, these poems leave an afterglow, each one small candle guiding us through the forest of so much we don’t know. – Leslie Ullman, author of Library Of Small Happiness and Progress on the Subject of Immensity Laura (Behr) Baird has […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sarah Browning, Kathleen O’Toole, with Larry Robin

Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and for 10 years was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness. She is recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service […]