Tag: poetry
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Myth & Mystery by Greg Francis
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. …
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Madison Hatta’s Book of Unreasonable Poems
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…
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25 Short Poems by Jim Cory
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…
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Moritat by Joe Roarty
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…
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Color Schemes By Jeffrey E. Lee
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),…
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Poetic Quid Pro Quo
Wednesday August 5, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Poetic Quid Pro Quo – Another poet reads your poem, then you read it. How does it sound, does it say what you wanted it to say? Then you read someone else’s poem – Elijah B. Pringle, III host
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Who Do You Love? Charles Bukowski
Tuesday August 4, 2015, 6:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm) Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM – 699 Ranstead Who Do You Love? Charles Bukowski – Broadcast Live: Comcast 66/966 & Verizon 29/30- A live poetry talk show and cover open mic, broadcast live at 6:30 on the first Tuesday of each month. It is a discussion/presentation on…
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Leonard Gontarek and the Osage Poets
Wednesday August 12, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Leonard Gontarek and the Osage Poets “I have nothing but admiration and awe for The Osage Poets. There is not a more committed, talented, hard-working, supportive, interesting, exploring group of poets, anywhere.” Catherine Bancroft writes poetry and makes art and…
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Philadelphia’s Haiku Slam
Wednesday July 29, 2015, 7:00pm Moonstone @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia’s Haiku Slam! – $5 to enter Philadelphia poets go head to head at Philadelphia’s Haiku Slam. Hosted by Warren C. Longmire
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Andrew Keller, Jacob Russell & Anne-Adele Wight
Wednesday July 22, 2015, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street. Andrew Keller is a poet and musician , Senior Editor at Painted Bride. He recently performed in Donna Oblongata’s adaptation of the Wizard of Oz. He likes eating, sleeping, reading, and drinking coffee.Jacob Russell is a visual artist, poet, novelist and street…