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Tuesday MARCH 5, 2024 6:30pm – VIRTUAL Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Elliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award …
Sunday, March 3, 2024 Virtual -2pm EST Join us on Zoom – Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6, 2021 Moonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter …
Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Sunday February 18, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdeipqTsoHdwqmC1q3s_Nx34bh3KSabHn The Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples …
Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Saturday February 17, 2024 – 7pm EST Virtual Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D As of December 4, 2023, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14, 2023. On August 15th, Philadelphia police …
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 28, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 Mother’s Day (May 14) This is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For, in a time like ours, mothers have no room to be sentimental. …
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 7, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOmrrDsjHtd4OlL4eORzQZETeuwo5oB9 Poems From Your Psyche is a type of poetic expression which addresses the multiple psychological aspects of the human existence. April 24 is the 100th anniversary of The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, an analytical study of the human psyche outlining Freud’s …
Moonstone Poetry Readings Saturday May 6, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdOuuqT4oGd1uFFtWkFEVA6VJfLSaRQC New Voices: Spring 2023 New Voices: Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to …
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Tuesday May 2, 2023 – 6:30pm VIRTUAL Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Eleventh-grade student, Matilda Bray, is author of When You Wanted Blue, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry, …
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Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday April 30, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual Join us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 Ekphrastic Poetry Ekphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis, the poet engages with a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and …
Moonstone Poetry Readings Haiku 2023 Sunday April 23, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- International Haiku Day The old pond A frog jumps in Plop! Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) Translated by Allan Watts The Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three …
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