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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
Tuesday November 6, 7pm – Poetry The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored Presents Donna Wolf-Palacio w/ Aimee Penna, Ebony Malaika Collier, & Cortney Bambrick Donna Wolf-Palacio’s book of poems, What I Don’t Know, was published in 2011 by Finishing Line Press. She also wrote a book of versions of Chinese poems, The Heart …
Sunday November 4, 6pm – Poetry CAConrad & Aba Kiser CAConrad is the author of TRANSLUCENT SALAMANDER (TROLL THREAD Press, 2012), A BEAUTIFUL MARSUPIAL AFTERNOON: New (Soma)tics (WAVE Books, 2012), The Book of Frank (WAVE Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet …
Friday November 2, 7pm – Poetry S. R. Lavin Born in 1945, S. R. Lavin has been widely published in the U.S. as well as internationally in England, China, Poland, Israel, Japan and The Netherlands. Among his books are LET MYSELF SHINE (Kulchur Press, 1979), THE STONECUTTERS AT WAR WITH THE CLIFF DWELLERS (Heron Press, …
Thursdays in October The Life of The Poet Workshop with Leonard Gontarek $64 for 4 sessions. For more info contact: gontarek9@earthlink.net
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 7:30pm – POETRY – Suggested donation – $3-5 The Moles Not Molar Reading & Performance Series Presents a Crisp Double-Fisted Book Release Celebration and Poetry Spectacula!! Featuring: RACHEL ZOLF (Poet; New York City) SUZANNE HEYD (Poet; Philadelphia) SIMONE WHITE (Poet; New York City) RACHEL ZOLF is a Canadian poet and editor presently …