Moonstone Presents:
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Live Poetry Event: Alicia Askenase and Valerie Fox
September 28, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Alicia Askenase and Valerie Fox
LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday September 28 @ 7PM
Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration is Required. Register Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88019273389?pwd=MjBYZDIxcVBTVnlIME9Yc2hrSHVTdz09
Alicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos and Shirley Shirley and a few chaplettes. She was a co-founder of the literary journal 6ix, and Literary Curator of the Walt Whitman Art Center for many years. Her poetry has appeared in the anthologie New Work by Philadelphia Poets, Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets, Art Through the Eyes of Mad Poets, An Ekphrastic Poetry Collection, among others. Her writing has also appeared in literary journals: Chain, editions #2 and #12, Poetry New York, The World, Feminist Studies, and The Journal of Modern Languages. Recent publications include The Manhattanville Review, The Painted Bride Quarterly. http://pbqmag.org/issue-100/.
Valerie Fox recently won The Phare’s WriteWords contest (for flash). She’s published poetry or brief prose in Juked, Cleaver, Reflex, Okay Donkey, Painted Bride Quarterly, Ellipsis, Hanging Loose, Across the Margin, and other journals. Her poetry books include The Rorschach Factory (Straw Gate) and Insomniatic (PS Books). Much interested in collaboration, she recently published The Real Sky (art/word collaboration), a limited edition, hand-made book, with artist Jacklynn Niemiec. Recent work can be found in MicroLit Almanac: https://www.birchbarkediting.com/microlit-almanac/morgana-humming-fox
