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Zoom Meeting ID: 821 6127 0135 – Zoom Passcode: 960363 – Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82161270135?pwd=aDVLWlcxWmFsMTNwNjR1L3lEZXV1QT09 Sandra Turner-Barnes is an author, poet, and jazz lover and vocalist. Her first book of poetry Always A Lady has sold over 7,000 copies. In 1996, Sandra won the EBONY MAGAZINE Literary Competition for Short Fiction, and in 1997, Sandra re-created …
James Arthur, a Canadian-American poet, is the author of The Suicide’s Son and Charms Against Lightning. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. George David Clark’s Reveille received the 2015 Miller Williams Prize, he teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College and lives in western Pennsylvania. Trapeta …
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Moonstone Arts Center presented 85 poetry readings in 2019, including featured poets and large events with many presenting poets. All told over 500 poets read at Moonstone events, over 150 being featured. 82 poets responded to our call for the 2019 featured Poets Anthology and about 30 are expected to read at this event. Please …
Adriann Bautista is author of “Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King”, “Sister Strength” and “Sanctuary of Snow” and is also in various anthologies. Jamarr Hall is an International Poetry Slam Champion of Brave New Voices and he is a singer, composer as well as an accomplished painter. Elijah B Pringle III is a Philadelphia based writer/director/actor/choreographer whose words …
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Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM After Boston, Philly and its immediate suburbs have the largest concentration of Irish Americans. The Irish take great pride in their rich culture of literature and poetry—claiming some of the greatest poets and writers in the world …
Poet and playwright Martin Jude Farawell is the author of Odd Boy and Genesis: A Sequence of Poems.” His work has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies, and his plays have been performed off-off-Broadway and by regional, college and community theaters from South Africa to Los Angeles. He directs the Geraldine R. …
Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event …
Blanche Brown operates a crisis hotline and collaborates with arts and community-based organizations. She is the 2019 winner of the Diagram/New Michigan Press chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared in West Branch, Scalawag, Indy Weekly, Welter, and elsewhere. Terra Oliveira is an after-school program facilitator at the Free Library, an organizer for the Party for Socialism and …
Peter Baroth, an award-winning poet and visual artist, is also a bassist who, along with his band the Party Crashers, has had the original song “Roy Head” streamed on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s Goldie’s Garage. Elliott Levin is a Philadelphia jazz legend plays the saxophone and the flute and he’s also an abstract poet and …
Chidi E. O. Ezeobi, author of Remind the World, was born in Nigeria and migrated to the United States in 1996. Chidi Ezeobi was recently released after serving 11 years in prison. He resides in Newark New Jersey while working on his second book Sean Lynch, Host, Open Reading Follows