Tag: open mic
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Moonstone Presents: Barbara Siegel Carlson & Micellina & Joe McCullough
Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of two poetry collections Fire Road and Once in Every Language. She is co-translator of Look Back, Look Ahead, Selected Poems of Srečko Kosovel and is co-editor of A Bridge of Voices: Contemporary Slovene Poetry and Perspectives. Micellina & Joe McCullough are a dynamic duo in…
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Moonstone Presents: Candida Rodriguez & BJ Schwartz
Candida Rodriguez grew up in Puerto Rico where she developed a passion for reading and writing. When she turned 16 years old, she moved to Camden, where she joined her parents and two siblings. Her passion is in writing fantasy and science fiction, but has found a home in the lyricism of poetry and is a…
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Moonstone Presents: John Baky, Tom Garvey & Michael Miller
John Baky (Army, 1969-1971, in Vietnam from 1970-1971) Baky spearheaded The Vietnam War Collection at La Salle and was specifically interested in how the trauma of the war played out in literature. Tom Garvey, an Airborne, Ranger and Special Forces qualified officer, served as an A-Team Leader in Viet Nam in 1968 and returned…
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Readings by CLINTON SMITH and ELIJAH PRYOR
Elijah Pryor is a spoken word poet born and raised in Philadelphia. He feels blessed to be part of such a thriving and diverse arts scene in his home city and loves seeing people use creative expression to affect their world. Clinton Smith is a poet, prose writer, and musician. As a guitarist, he has…
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Thinking Green with Jacob Russell, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 16, 2018 – 7pm Thinking Green with Jacob Russell, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight Jacob, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name, Jacob Russell, they have published three chapbooks, many poems, and have four books of poetry searching for…
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Featured Readers: Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 9, 2018 – 7pm Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid Julia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry. She is a founding member of 6ix: a literary journal devoted to cutting edge work, edited by six Philadelphia area women. She…
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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Wednesday February 14th, 2018 – 7pm
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey is a poet and a member of Philly’s Art Dept Collective. Her conceptual chapbook projects, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles and The Self and Other Jokes, will be released by Waterhouse Ltd Press in Spring 2018. Her poems have appeared in Whirlwind Magazine, the 2017 Moonstone Anthology, and elsewhere. She is a…
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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Wednesday February 7th, 2018 – 7pm
Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet, activist, Vietnam Veteran, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. Steptoe has a clear, direct and matter-of-fact approach and his language is rich and revealing to his socio-cultural subject matter. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, has performed his work at the Library of Congress, the National Library…
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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
Continuing our Wednesday night readings at Fergie’s and sending us into the second month of 2018 will be a few familiar faces in Nathelie Anderson, Alicia Askenase, and Herman Beavers! More details tba