Tag: moonstone series
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Whitman and Sexuality – 2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCam
The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. David Acosta is the Artistic Director of Casa De Duende. His poetry has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies. Among the most notable are…
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Brother Jahi, Kyu & Barrett Rosser @ Fergie’s Pub
The Philadelphia Writing Project Presents: Silvino J. Alexander Jr., “Brother Jahi” is an educator, poet, author, and mentor/consultant currently residing in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. His poetry reflects the uncompromising reality of this world. Sydney Hunt Coffin has taught English, Poetry, and Art in Philadelphia, worked with the Advisory Council of the…
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Chapbook Release Party: 5 Featured Authors @ Fergie’s Pub
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Chapbook Release Party & Reading Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review among others. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Walk like Bo Diddley, Living in the Candy Store, and Other…
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New Voices: Matilda Bray, Elisha Gibson, & Bella Randazzo @ Shakespeare & Co.
Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. – 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets Matilda Bray (14) “Matilda’s ability to focus on one or two unifying images and mine them metaphorically is extraordinary. Matilda is a brave and gifted poet.” – Joanne Leva, executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate…
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Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie’s Pub
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows
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2019 Philly Loves Poetry and New Voices @ PhillyCAM (Watch Live on Cable!)
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia
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Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee
Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House…
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Fran Baird @ Fergie’s
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his…
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Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow
Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since…
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Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow
THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring… Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane. Deborah Turner writes fiction…