Moonstone Presents:
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LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, Airea D. Matthews, Matthew Buckley Smith
March 13 @ 7:00 pm
Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
Wednesday March 13, 2024 – 7pm
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5
Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book, Chariot, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many, winner of the inaugural Big Other Poetry Prize, and The Cloud Corporation, winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with his family.
Airea D. Matthews’ first collection of poems is the critically acclaimed Simulacra, which received the prestigious 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Matthews is also the author of Bread and Circus, a memoir-in-verse that combines poetry, prose, and imagery to explore the realities of economic necessity, marginal poverty, and commodification, through a personal lens. Matthews received a 2020 Pew Fellowship, a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and was awarded the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry
from the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. From 2022-2023 she served as Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate. She is an assistant professor at Bryn Mawr College where she directs the poetry program.
Matthew Buckley Smith is the author of Midlife, winner of the 2021 Richard Wilbur Award, and Dirge for an Imaginary World, winner of the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. His poems have been featured in American Life in Poetry, Best American Poetry, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. He is the Associate Editor of Literary Matters, and he hosts the poetry podcast SLEERICKETS.
Open mic hosted by Luke Stromberg
