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Tuesday December 18, 7pm – Poetry Poets & Prophets Presents Bob Small Bob Small has presented Feature Readings at numerous locations including: Bacchanal, The Clark Park Festivals, Highwire Gallery, The Middle East Restaurant, Nexus Gallery, The Philadelphia Ethical Society, The Painted Bride Arts Center, Robin’s Bookstore, The University of Pennsylvania; and has read at many …
Thursday November 15, 9pm — BYOB — $5 Cover — Jazz Poetry etc Open Reading with Elliott Levin and Friends A set by Elliott Levin and his band followed by an open reading. Elliott Levin has performed with groups including Cecil Taylor’s Ensemble, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Odeon Popes’ Sax Choir, Scram!, New …
Tuesday November 13, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored Featuring Harriet Millan with Dawn McDougall Harriet Millan’s books include The Christmas Show, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and Girl in Cap and Gown, 2009 National Poetry Series …
Tuesday December 4, 7pm Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored Lamont B. Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones Lamont B. Steptoe author of Meditations in “Congo Square” ($11.95 Whirlwind Press) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author and/r editor of fifteen poetry collections, the latest of which …
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Wednesday November 28, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored Lynn Levin with Her Fall 2012 Drexel University Poetry Writing Class Lynn Levin is the author of four poetry collections: Miss Plastique (forthcoming in 2013), Fair Creatures of an Hour, Imaginarium, A Few Questions about Paradise, and a craft-of-poetry book, Poems for …
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Tuesday November 20, 7pm – Poetry Poets & Prophets Presents Shayna Israel Shayna Israel founded the feminist rap collective 3XLADYCREW with Bryn Mawr students Menda Franchise François and Nikki López. Active as both an artist and a social activist, she played a major role in reviving a dormant Bryn Mawr Women’s Center, served as editor-in-chief …
Tuesday November 13, 7pm – Poetry Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored Feat. Harriet Millan w/ Dawn McDougall Harriet Millan’s debut collection, The Christmas Show, was the winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. Her second book, Girl in Cap and Gown, …
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Friday November 9, 7pm Marvin X, also known as Marvin Jackmon and El Muhajir Revolution on the Rocks Book Tour Marvin X was born May 29, 1944 in Fowler, California, near Fresno. Marvin X is well known for his work as a poet, playwright and essayist of the BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT or BAM. He attended …
Thursday November 8, 7pm – Poetry Hanoch Guy Kaner, author of Terra Treblinka In this reading by a third-generation survivor of the holocaust, the author evokes family members who perished as witnesses to the horrors. Through the poems their memories intensify after more than sixty years. Hanoch Guy spent his childhood among cacti and citrus …
Wednesday November 7, 8pm – $5 Cover – Comedy The Moonstone Arts Center Presents Comedy with Phyllis Voren and Friends