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Join us for an afternoon of poetry and camaraderie. The 2018 Anthology of Featured Poets includes over 30 of the featured poets who read for Moonstone in 2018, many of whom will read on February 24. Poets included in this year’s anthology are: Steve BurkeJoe CostalLiz ChangAaron GrahamBill Van BuskirkPeter BarothAhmad AlmallahJoe RoartyJohn WojtowiczRyan EckesW.D. …
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Sunday April 29, 2018 – 12pm 1199C, Hospital Workers Union Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street 22nd Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading “Nowhere else in Philly do we get such a wonderful mix of people, voices, and generations. It is an experience in the varieties of personalities as much as in poetry and poetics – …
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Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored – Sonia Sanchez with Siduri Beckman & Jaya Montague Tuesday April 9, 7pm – At PhillyCAM Studios 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (between Chestnut and Market Streets ) An intergenerational poetry series that presents both the mentor and the mentored: how does poetry travel from generation to …
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Tuesday March 12, 2013, 7pm Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones Moonstone Mentor & Mentored Series @ PhillyCAM Studio – 699 Ranstead Street (between Chestnut and Market) Lamont B. Steptoe,author of Meditations in “Congo Square”, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author and/or editor of fifteen poetry …
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Tuesday March 12, 7pm Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones Lamont B. Steptoe author of Meditations in “Congo Square” ($11.95 Whirlwind Press) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author and/r editor of fifteen poetry collections, the latest of which is …
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March 27, 2013 at 7pm “Ladies Night” Stephanie B, Courtney K. Bambrick, Carol Ann Bond Fourth Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by Suzan Jivan, poet, photographer, fiber artist and avid blogger, she will feature themed poetry readings followed by open readings. While fairly new to Philadelphia Suzan has enjoyed attending the …
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March 20, 2013 at 7 pm Rocky Wilson & Andrea Carlson Open Reading follows. Third Wednesday of the month be coordinated and hosted by Dave Worrell, whose first chapbook titled “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His poems have appeared in U.S. 1 Worksheets, Mad Poets …
March 13, 2013 at 7pm Carlos Trujillo, Roger Santiváñez, Enrique Sacerio-Gari *Reading in Spanish & English Open Reading follows. Second Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by Charles Carr, a native Philadelphian, born and raised in Southwest Germantown. In 2007 Charles was Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting …
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March 6, 2013 at 7pm What is poetic quid pro quo? This is about: fellow poets reading your work! and you reading the works of fellow poets! Bring at least one poem for someone else to read. You read/recite one and read the work of one of the poets in attendance. Then someone else has the …