Tag: poetry
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Live Poetry: Anuradha Bhowmik, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Jess Yuan
Join us for a poetry reading, live at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Anuradha Bhowmik is a Bangladeshi-American poet and writer from South Jersey, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first collection Brown Girl Chromatography, a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a…
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Live Poetry: Nathalie Anderson, Steve Burke, Cassie MacDonald
Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke…
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Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Robert Frost
Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading honoring Robert Frost! Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech,…
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Virtual Poetry: World Poetry Day
Sunday March 17, 2024 2pm EST – VIRITUAL Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that…
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LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello, Airea D. Matthews, and Artress Bethany White
Wednesday March 6, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGrrTgiHNJ7uriRBEe6MkL9clKCpLu1 Jessica Cuello author of Yours, Creature, Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of…
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Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
Tuesday MARCH 5, 2024 6:30pm – VIRTUAL Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Elliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award…
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Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6th
Sunday, March 3, 2024 Virtual -2pm EST Join us on Zoom – Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6, 2021 Moonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter…
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Live Poetry: Liz Abrams-Morley & Amy Small-Mckinney
Wednesday February 28, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucOqgpj4tGN3csD4gaXLwnIJKTVj80_Qr Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of the forthcoming Because Time, as well as of Beholder, Inventory, and Necessary Turns, which won an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press Publishing. In 2020 she was named the Passager Poet…
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Virtual Poetry – Fatal Force: Poetic Justice
Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Saturday February 17, 2024 – 7pm EST Virtual Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D As of December 4, 2023, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14, 2023. On August 15th, Philadelphia police…
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Virtual Poetry: Remembering Audre Lorde
Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Sunday February 18, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdeipqTsoHdwqmC1q3s_Nx34bh3KSabHn The Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples…