Tag: poetry
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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM: Featuring Lillian Dunn, Peter Krok, Paul Siegell
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 the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that…
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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ryan Eckes, Melissa DeGezelle, and Sean Lynch
Ryan Eckes is a poet who lives in South Philadelphia and recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Melissa DeGezelle has worked as an adjunct in the Intellectual Heritage Program since 2010. Beyond teaching, she is a poet, a birth doula, an activist,…
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Devin Cohen & Marion Deutsche Cohen
Alien Architect/Cohen Asher/Devin A. Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist, working with music, visual arts, and poetry. He has published the experimental hip hop album Arteriaand and All Praises, the first part of his seven part book journey entitled Remnants, which chronicles his words from his records, poems, and else wheres Marion Deutsche Cohen’s latest…
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“HOME”
RuNett Nia Ebo, Poet of Purpose, has been writing poetry since age 10 and she is five decades past that now. Best known for her signature poems, What Did You Make Roaches Fo,’ raps called Look What We Did, Part 1 and 2 and the infamous Lord Why Did You Make Me Black. …
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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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2016 Chapbook Contest Winners
The Moonstone 2016 Chapbook Contest Winner Vernita Hall “In a broad display of approaches in craft, the poet visits the history of Philadelphia in a manner reminiscent of steampunk aesthetics. Jules Verne meets W.E.B. DuBois in a time traveling romp back and forth from The Souls of Black Folk to today’s evening news. This is…
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2016 Poetry Ink Reading Schedule
12 NOON Bob Zell Sekai’afua Zankel Robert Zaller Dave Worrell Donna Wolf-Palacio Bill Van Buskirk Lesley Valdes JC Todd John Timpane Elaine Terranova 12:30 pm Susie Taichman-Robins Jeanne Sutton Lamont B. Steptoe Dave Steel Catherine Staples Elizabeth Stanley Mbarek Sryfi Christopher Sohnly 1:00 pm Amy Small McKinney Eric Sellin Nina Schafer Sally Love Saunders Tonya…
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The Last Bus to Camden
Rocky Wilson author of The Last Bus to Camden “Rocky Wilson’s the real thing: not another rubber stamped MFA poet but a writer whose work begins from feeling & builds its case for what is felt in sure, solid lines…” Jim Cory “Rocky Wilson is not just the muse of Camden, New Jersey, the poorest…
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A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe
Moonstone’s Latest Publication A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe “The Moonstone Arts Center hosted a celebration and reception for Philadelphia poet, photographer, and publisher Lamont B. Steptoe entitled A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe, on February 6, 2016 at the Brandywine Workshop. Put together by Larry…