Tag: open mic
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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Richard Bank, Ryan Eckes, and Al Tacconelli
Richard Bank’s poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals. He has conducted a poetry reading series for the Mad Poets Society in the Philadelphia area. Bank has conducted Continuing Legal Education courses on jury techniques, and serves as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School. Ryan Eckes’ narrative-driven poetry is, in his words, “a possible form…
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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson
Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson ($14.99, August 2017) The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they’re conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you’ve stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul. –Stephen Kuusisto Ona Gritz’s first…
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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring M. Nzadi Keita, Cassie Macdonald, and Lamont B. Steptoe
M. Nzadi Keita is a Philly-born writer, editor, scholar and teacher, author of Brief History of Heaven, She has received grants from the PCA and the Leeway Foundation, is an alumna of Cave Canem and has been a Yaddo fellow. She has also worked on projects with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and WHYY. Cassie MacDonald serves…
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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday June 14, 2017 – 7pm
Grace Bauer’s most recent book of poems is MEAN/TIME, just published by the University of New Mexico Press. A 20th anniversary re-issue of her ground-breaking collection The Women At The Well was published in 2016 by SFASU Press. Other books include: Nowhere All At Once (winner of the Society of Midland Authors Book of the…
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21st Annual Poetry Ink
100 Poets Reading Sunday, April 30, 2017 12 noon WE WANT YOU ALL: Academic Poets, Famous Poets, Free Form Poets, Street Poets, Unknown Poets, Spoken Word Poets, Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, and more Poetry Ink is an open, festive, and participatory community event. Please invite your friends and feel free to pass this information…
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Poetic Quid Pro Quo
Wednesday August 5, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Poetic Quid Pro Quo – Another poet reads your poem, then you read it. How does it sound, does it say what you wanted it to say? Then you read someone else’s poem – Elijah B. Pringle, III host
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Andrew Keller, Jacob Russell & Anne-Adele Wight
Wednesday July 22, 2015, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street. Andrew Keller is a poet and musician , Senior Editor at Painted Bride. He recently performed in Donna Oblongata’s adaptation of the Wizard of Oz. He likes eating, sleeping, reading, and drinking coffee.Jacob Russell is a visual artist, poet, novelist and street…
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RuNett Nia Ebo & Victoria Huggins Peurifoy
Wednesday July 15, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street RuNett Nia Ebo, Poet of Purpose has been writing since age 10 (over 5 decades). She is published in several anthologies including Stand our Ground and Seniors Rockin’ the Pen and has 8 chapbooks, 3 books of poetry, one CD…
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Kathy Barham, Beth Feldman Brandt, Julia Lopez & Janice McDermott
Wednesday July 8, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Kathy Barham is author of From the Familiar and her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,The Drunken Boat, Spillway, Mad Poets Review, Poetry Ink and other journals.Beth Feldman Brandt is the author of Sage, a work with visual artist…
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Laynie Browne & Pattie McCarthy
Wednesday May 27, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Laynie Browne is the author of eleven collections of poetry and two novels including Scorpyn Odes and Lost Parkour Ps(alms) in English and French, she is a Pew Fellow (2014). She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College. Author photo…