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  • Debs of December – Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

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    Deborah Burnham, author of Anna and the Steel Mill, Still and  a volume ofpoetry, is the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department and teaches poetry and poetry writing, with a particular interest in formal poems and in the history of women’s poetry at UPENN. Deborah Fox found her love for poetry as a result of a…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

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     Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming, based…

  • Philly Loves Poet Laureates @PhillyCAM

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    2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM           Sonia Sanchez, Philadelphia’s First Poet Laureate, Yolanda Wisher is the 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Husnaa Hashim is the current Youth PoetLaureate,  David Jones is a former Youth Poet Laureate. Host: Charles S. Carr

  • Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café

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    Angel Murray-Kelly is a singer/songwriter, LGBTQ+ youth advocate, vegetarian, & local Philly youth poet. David Jones is a Philadelphia native, poet, writer, performer, Temple University student, and Youth Poet Laureate Emeritus of Philadelphia. Christian Warrick is a Philadelphia-born Maori-American poet and story writer. He’s a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in English and…

  • Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street

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    April Lynn James & Madison Hatta Dr. 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…

  • Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street

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    John Oliver Mason, author of All of the Above “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;…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

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        Brandon 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.     Poet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival,…

  • Release Party for Home(less) @ Brandywine Workshop, 728 S Broad Street

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      Poetry by Krisann Janowitz, Photography by Harvey Finkle     Krisann Janowitz – “I wanted to show my readers that those we label as “bums”, “hobos”, “beggars”, etc are just people, like you and me. That is what I have experienced through befriending members of a tent city in Bucks County and that is…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

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    2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM There 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…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Panio Gianopoulos, Henry Israeli, Eugenia Leigh & Megan Staffel

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    Panio Gianopoulos is the author of the story collection, How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money and the novella, A Familiar Beast. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Big Fiction, and elsewhere. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for nonfiction literature,…