Tag: Philadelphia
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OPEN READING OF New Voices 2: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
Spencer Nitkey poems and prose have appeared in Short Editions, The Gateway Review, Critical Read, and more. He is an Educator, Communicator, Writer, Researcher, and Storyteller. Doris Zheku is a first generation Albanian-American, who moved to France, was active in Paris’ anglophone open mic scene and returned to Philadelphia. She is…
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John Wall Barger & Ernest Hilbert
John Wall Barger is the author of The Mean Game, The Book of Festus, Hummingbird and Pain-proof Men, Dying in Dharamsala, Samovar / Dukkha, and The Vnfortunate Report & Tragicall Tidings of Leslie Barger. Barger has been shortlisted for the Montreal Poetry Prize twice, has appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and Best of the Best…
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Poetry And Humor
Herman Beavers is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the U of P, where he teaches courses in African American literature and Creative Writing. He is the author of two scholarly monographs: Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James A. McPherson and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of…
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Poetry From The Moonstone Hosts
Charles S. Carr is author of paradise, pennsylvania, and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. He has worked in social and community development services for 45 years. Charles was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North”. Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub and…
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PhillyCAM – Generations of Poetry
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. 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…
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PassThePen Fundraiser Deadline
The Moonstone Arts Center is attempting to raise a $10,000 scholarship fund. Aptly named “Pass The Pen,” This scholarship fund aims to give two high-school junior/senior students to go to a writing workshop of their choice. This allows further encouragement of growth as both a writer and a person through gaining experience in writing and…
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Amanda Auerbach, Adrienne Raphael, Bridget Talone
Amanda Auerbach is author of What Need Have We For Such as We, her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals. In What Need Have We For Such as We, the speaker quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet to being a person infected by a poetic voice that, like…
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Moonstone Press: Mass Chapbook Releases
Hail to the Symptom Gloria Heffernan is the author of the poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books), and the chapbook, Some of Our Parts, (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and Hail to the Symptom. Her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Chautauqua Literary…
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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,”…