Tag: open reading
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Frolic and Detour – Book Release
A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C.…
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A Conversation Between Theodore Harris and Warren Longmire
Theodore A. Harris is a collagist, poet, and has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka, Our Flesh of Flames, and Malcolm X as Ideology, with Fred Moten, i ran from it and was still in it and TRIPTYCH: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Our Flesh of Flames “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky,”…
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Cynthia Dewi Oka and Eleanor Wilner
Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Her work has appeared in ESPNW, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Scoundrel Time, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Eleanor Wilner will be reading from her new collection, Before Our Eyes:…
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Philadelphia Says: On War and Peace
This Anthology centers its focus on the aspects of War and Peace, and how it has evolved alongside technology and ideology. Contributors will be reading their poems.The anthology will be for sale to the public. In Tandem With: Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War Featuring: Kenneth Campbell, Marine combat…
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New Voices 2: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
Our second anthology of poets under 25 drawn from the readers at our monthly poetry reading and submissions to the book. Contributors will be reading their poems and the book will be for sale to the public. Krissan, Host – Open Reading Follows
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Moonstone Presents: Julia Blumenreich, Charles Carr
Julia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry and was a finalist for the 2016 Brittany Noakes Poetry Award. In 2012, she collaborated with the visual artist, Wendy Osterweil, on ‘Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott’ a poetry/sculptural installation/print show at The Painted Bride Art Center. Charles Carr…
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Moonstone Presents: Michael R. Brown, W. D. Ehrhart
Michael R. Brown has five books of poetry and has performed poetry, taught classes, and lectured in various world venues from the Stockholm to South Korea. Instrumental in bringing the poetry slam to New England, he created both the Cantab weekly series and the theatrical show Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Circus. W. D. Ehrhart…
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Moonstone Presents: Sean Lynch, Joseph Rathgeber, Lamont B. Steptoe
Sean Lynch is a leftist poet and editor who lives in South Philly. His poems have been published in various journals and he is the author of four chapbooks. Joseph Rathgeber is an author and poet from New Jersey. He is author of Mixedbloods and The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories. …
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New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry collaborative and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience. Hazel The Aura is a Poetic Artist born and…
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Politics and Poetry: Patrick Rosal and Sami Miranda
Patrick Rosal, is the author of four books of poetry and the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Research Scholar Program. Sami Miranda is a teacher, poet and visual artist. He…