Tag: poetry
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Fran Baird @ Fergie’s
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his…
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Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow
Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since…
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Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow
THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring… Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane. Deborah Turner writes fiction…
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Michelle Belluomini & Ditta Baron Hoeber Poetry, Open Reading to follow
Michele Belluomini is author of Crazy Mary and Signposts for Sleepwalkers, her poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet. Her work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, the American Journal of Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Construction…
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Moonstone Presents: Bondhus & Evans Poetry, Open Reading to follow
Charlie Bondhus is author Divining Bones and All the Heat We Could Carry, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel. R.G. Evans is the author of Overtipping the Ferryman, his poems, fiction, and reviews…
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Moonstone Presents: Rodriguez & Dr. Williams-Witherspoon Poetry, Open Reading to follow
Edythe Rodriguez is a senior at Temple University studying Creative Writing and Africology. She will be anthologized this year in The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank and FEMME: Literati Mixtape. Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, PhD (Cultural Anthropology), MA (Anthropology), MFA (Theater), Graduate…
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Moonstone Presents: Philly Loves Poetry – Interviews and Readings
2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discus poetry and read their poems “From Across the Waters: Jewish Refugees from the Former Soviet Union.” In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, three Jewish refugee poets from the former Soviet Union read and…
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Moonstone Presents: Relationships and Other Conflicts, Poetry Reading
Jennifer Anolik is an educator and writer. Her poetry has appeared in Infinite Rust, Apiary Online, BlazeVox, The Prompt Literary Magazine. When she is not writing poetry, she writes curriculum. Amy Barone is author of We Became Summer, Kamikaze Dance and Views from the Driveway. Her poetry has appeared in Café Review, Standpoint…
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Moonstone Presents: A Tribute to J.C. Todd, Chapbook Release Party
For some strange reason we tend to wait until someone dies before we express our gratitude for what they have done. We have memorials where people get up and say how important the person was to them and what they had accomplished. Why wait? Why not have a party honoring the person with praise poems…
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Moonstone Presents: Cuba, 2019 – Poetry & Information
Presenters include: Steve Halpern was a member of the UAW and has been working as a housekeeper in Philadelphia area hospitals. Enrique Sacerio-Garí, born in Cuba, professor at Bryn Mawr College known for his work on Jorge Luis Borges, and is author of Comunión (a concrete poem), Poemas interreales, Para…