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  • 21st Annual Poetry Ink

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    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ALL: Academic Poets, Famous Poets, Free Form Poets, Street Poets, Unknown Poets, Spoken Word Poets, Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, and more   Poetry Ink is an open, festive, and participatory community event.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…

  • 2016 Chapbook Contest Winners

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    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…

  • 2016 Poetry Ink Reading Schedule

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    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…

  • The Last Bus to Camden

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    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…

  • A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe

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    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…

  • Myth & Mystery by Greg Francis

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    Myth & Mystery   A resident of Southeastern Pennsylvania since 1976, Greg Francis has served his community as a classroom teacher, courtroom lawyer, and congressional aide. Listed in both the Internet Speculative Fiction Database and the Locus Index to Science Fiction, his work has appeared in Mad Poets Review, Eldritch Tales, and Golden Isis.   …

  • Madison Hatta’s Book of Unreasonable Poems

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    Madison Hatta, Sonneteer, delights in writing and reciting original, whimsical sonnets about madness, Time, career & family dysfunction and the importance of drinking tea. Madison has appeared at NYC’s Boundless Tales Poetry Reading Series, Cornelia Street Café & La MaMa Experimental Theatre, and at Philadelphia’s Mt. AiryArt Garage. A “Madisonnet” or two have appeared in…

  • 25 Short Poems by Jim Cory

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    Jim Cory is a poet and a fiction writer interested in history, ornithology and architecture. He has reviewed books, written essays for various publications, authored eight books or chapbooks of poetry (most recently No Brainer Variations, 2011, from Rain Mountain Press, NYC), established a poetry publishing cooperative (1990s) in Philadelphia and has been the editor…

  • Moritat by Joe Roarty

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    Moritat The 2015 Moonstone Chapbook Contest winner, Moritat(German for “street ballad”) is poetry of high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease- at home on the street and in the stratosphere, a colloquial invention that uses texting’s phonetic spelling, omitting vowels in…

  • Color Schemes By Jeffrey E. Lee

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    Color Schemes   One of Moonstone’s 2015 Chapbook Contest Honorable Mentions. His first novel is forthcoming from White Pine Press in 2016. His dramatic poetry book, identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006), was a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist. His towards euphoria was the co-winner of the  editor’s poetry chapbook prize from Seven Kitchens Press (2012),…