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March 2024
Virtual Poetry: International Women’s Day
Sunday March 10, 2024 2pm EST – VIRIUAL Join us on Zoom - Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-mgpzovG9bdKnadMSczNTW-YMqGyTKa International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. In 1848, indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention, Americans Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregated a few hundred people at their nation’s first…
Find out more »LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, Airea D. Matthews, Matthew Buckley Smith
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…
Find out more »Virtual Poetry: World Poetry Day
Sunday March 17, 2024 2pm EST – VIRITUAL Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that on World Poetry Day, on March 21. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and…
Find out more »Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Robert Frost
Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading honoring Robert Frost! Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.…
Find out more »Live Poetry: Nathalie Anderson, Steve Burke, Cassie MacDonald
Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia; worked for many years as a labor & delivery nurse. He's read in many venues around the…
Find out more »Hearing Women’s Voices: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Michelle Myers, & Kimmika L.H Williams-Witherspoon
Join us for Live Poetry at Barnes and Noble! Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don't Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner…
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Poetry Reading: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists
Moonstone Arts Center and the Literature Department of The Free Liberty of Philadelphia Present: Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Finalists The Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate Program is designed to award a young poet (14-18) the title of Youth Poet Laureate who is well versed in poetic expression, exemplifies a deep understanding of poetic language, exhibits uniqueness and newness, and shows appreciation for all art forms. Featuring Sofia Bagarazzi, Maya Brothers, Sophia Hall, Emi Maeda, Samrithaa H.V. Sofia Bagarazzi is…
Find out more »Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with Brain Tierney
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 6/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as Paris Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI, NER, The Adroit Journal, and others. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a graduate of the Bennington College…
Find out more »Live Poetry: Anuradha Bhowmik, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Jess Yuan
Join us for a poetry reading, live at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Anuradha Bhowmik is a Bangladeshi-American poet and writer from South Jersey, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first collection Brown Girl Chromatography, a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a native Philadelphian, is the author 8 books, the latest of which is Blues, Prayers, & Pagan Chant. She has been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer,…
Find out more »Live Poetry: Ona Gritz, Alina Macneal, Zack Rogow
Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom! Ona Gritz writes memoir, essays, and poetry for adults, verse novels for teens, and fiction for children, her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Zack Rogow is an American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Irreverent Litanies; Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music, and My Mother and…
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