Moonstone Presents:
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Live Poetry: H. Alonzo Jennings and Dave Worrell
September 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
H. Alonzo Jennings and Dave Worrell
Wednesday, September 27th @ 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom Street
On Zoom (Registration required):
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEscO-opz4iHdP1mAGNBQfnceJ-5eKT_Olc
Alonzo Jennings is an artist, photographer, poet, jazz aficionado and raconteur. He is a graduate of Montclair State University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. Alonzo has written four volumes of poetry, the latest titled ON ECHO, JOY AND ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD. His poetry addresses themes of love, social consciousness, individual responsibility and the joy of being. Alonzo is author of THIS WAS JAZZ, a book containing 160 of his photographs of legendary jazz musicians, along with his original jazz poems and commentary on music, art and the creative process. He hosts the award-winning Philadelphia based radio program Jazz From An Eclectic Mind on WPPM. Alonzo is available for presentations of his photography and poetry.
Dave Worrell’s verse memoir “Runnemede Boy” was published by Parnilis Media in 2023. His chapbook “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press. His limited-edition ekphrastic collection “Close to Home” appeared in 2015, featuring paintings by Catherine Kuzma. Dave’s poems have appeared in Slant, Canary, Shot Glass Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Schuylkill Valley Journal, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Exit 13 and elsewhere. He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.
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