Poets & Prophets Alumni Night With Peggy Carrigan, Scott Norman, Elijah Pringle & Bob Small

May 21st, 2013
May
22
7:00 pm

Wednesday May 22, 2013, 7pm

Poets & Prophets Alumni Night With Peggy Carrigan, Scott Norman, Elijah Pringle & Bob Small

Peggy Carrigan, Philadelphia area poet, has been writing and performing since 1981. In 1985 she released the chapbook Beat Girls at the Funk-O-Mart.  She will be reading poetry about House-wifing It, the lunacy and luxury of a stay at home wife and mom.

Scott Norman (Rosenthal) is an activist and Literary & Performing artist. He has read at Bacchanal, the Middle East Restaurant, the Philadelphia Ethical Society, Voices and Visions, Zone One Gallery, and other places.   His activism is especially focused on the victimization, often lethal, of people with Hidden Disabilities. In the Fall of 1977, he studied by invitation, sans tutition, with Stephen Dunn.   Refusing to ignore discrimination based on disability, he agitated politically and in 1998 was granted a venue at the Painted Bride.   In 1987 he formed the formed Phantom Rose Express, an Alternative Volunteer Service project.

Elijah B. Pringle, III is the former on-air host of Panoramic Poetry at October Gallery.com.  He is the author of At the Cornerstone, Feeding the Sparrow, and Second Saturday at Serenity. His work has been in Edison Poetry Review, Fox Chase Review, The God’s Must Be Bored, and The River Poets Journal and he has read at Bread and Cup, Cornerstone Coffeehouse, Gloria’s Cafe, Jose Sebourne Gallery, The Painted Bride Arts Center, and Moonstone. He has been on broadcast and internet radio; Blog Radio with Lynn Blue, Po-Edify with Nia Ebo, and WRTI-FM, among others.

Bob Small is author El Otro Lado (with Maralyn Lois Polak), On Watching America Die, Small Steps and Toes (with Lamont B. Steptoe), and The Unapoet. He has been published in The Bucks County Writer, Dot Dot Dot, Heat Magazine, Philadelphia Poets Magazine, among many and is a Founder and President of Poets and Prophets,(www.poetsandprophets.com). Bob

has presented Readings and has read at many places 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 The Mad Poets Food Festival Readings.

Open Reading follows, Suzan Jivan Host

M&M: Sonia Sanchez with Siduri Beckman & Jaya Montague

March 20th, 2013
Apr
9
7:00 pm

Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored – Sonia Sanchez with Siduri Beckman & Jaya Montague

Tuesday April 9, 7pm – At PhillyCAM Studios

699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 (between Chestnut and Market Streets )

An intergenerational poetry series that presents both the mentor and the mentored: how does poetry travel from generation to generation, what are the themes, the sounds, what changes and what stays the same. Filmed with a live audience at the PhillyCAM Studio, the program will be edited and broadcast at a later date. 

 Sonia Sanchez – poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sanchez is the author of sixteen books, a contributing editor to Black Scholar and The Journal of African Studies, and editor of We Be Word Sorcerers. She is Poet Laureate of the City of Philadelphia, and has taken on the mentorship of two young poets: “I have judged many, many poetry contests and I’ve been known by people who have led those contests that I can’t choose one person. They kept saying, ‘You gotta have one person here.’ Although we have one person, I explained to the runner up that she would be reading her poetry with us around the city. I think that’s important. It’s not one person someplace…We’re gonna have the two of them reading in the city of Philadelphia.”

Sanchez continued: “Hear the sound of these young poets’ rhythm on our teeth this year. Hear the sound of beauty on their breast this year as their poems explode from clouds, and kneecaps, and veins, and eyes. As their tongues embroider us with their pyramids. I want you to understand that I take it seriously, this whole idea of mentoring two young people. They’ll be hanging out with me.”

Siduri Beckman is a student at Julia R. Masterman School who aspires to be a district attorney and eventually a Supreme Court justice. A six-member committee selected two finalists, and the city’s first poet laureate, Sonia Sanchez, made the final decision. “I really think [poetry] can be used to help teens with issues,” said Beckman, who sleeps with a pen and adhesive notes near her bed and spends her free time reading, writing short stories and doing community service. “A lot of grown-ups don’t always understand what teenagers feel. Poetry is this super-raw form of expression [in which] teenagers can talk about the issues that they face.”

Jaya Montague, Philadelphia Young Playwrights Youth Council Member and student at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts has been writing since she was five years old. “I just want to thank everybody who’s ever supported my writing because I’ve been writing since probably kindergarten. My Aunt Sandy who’s not here who, in the summer time, would sit down and make me write for three hours, which I hated, but then I grew to love writing. I’d like to thank my mother who’s always been there for me — through everything; my grandmother, without the strength that she had I wouldn’t be where I am today.”

Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones

February 25th, 2013
Mar
12
7:00 pm

Tuesday March 12, 2013, 7pm
Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones

Moonstone Mentor & Mentored Series @ PhillyCAM Studio – 699 Ranstead Street (between Chestnut and Market)

Lamont B. Steptoe,author of Meditations in “Congo Square”, was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author and/or editor of fifteen poetry collections, the latest of which is Meditations in Congo Square, and publish/founder of Whirlwind Press. He is the winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Aaren Yeatts Perry has performed his poems at the Nuyorican, Kimmel Center, World Café, Fringe Festival, Kelly Writers House and the Philadelphia Writers Conference along with countless stages and classrooms across America. Quincy Scott Jones earned his Bachelor’s degree from Brown University, Master’s degree from Temple University, and $100 once working as supermarket clown. His work has appeared in such anthologies as Heroics, From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth and Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75.

Lamont Steptoe with Aaren Yeatts Perry and Quincy Scott Jones

February 18th, 2013
Mar
12
7:00 pm

Tuesday March 12, 7pm

Moonstone Poetry Series Presents Mentor and Mentored

Lamont 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 is Meditations in Congo Square, and publish/founder of Whirlwind Press. He is the winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

“Most poets are simply that. Sonia Sanchez and Lamont B. Steptoe answer to a higher calling: Prophecy! In Meditations… Steptoe is the Necromancer, translating the
language of the dead to the living, whether they be the recently departed or Ante-Bellum spirits. While our age of obesity, self-gratification, and credit cards whistles past the graveyard, Lamont reads this burial ground like an Alufaa would read cowrie shells. Yes, there is the Philadelphia of Brotherly love, the old Quaker City that infuriated George Washington by offering refuge to fugitive slaves, but there is the other Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly death, whose atrocities are still being unearthed. Lamont B. Steptoe is the
poet of this hidden Philadelphia. His brother – Philadelphia poet of death, Edgar Allen Poe – would be proud.” – Ishmael Reed

Quincy Scott Jones earned his Bachelor’s degree from Brown University, Master’s degree from Temple University, and $100 once working as supermarket clown. His work has appeared in such anthologies as Heroics, From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth and Let Loose on the World: Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75. He is involved with Arcadia University’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Concentration and M.F.A. program. With Nina Sharma Jones he co-created the Nor’easter Exchange:  a multicultural, multi-city reading series.   His first book, The T-Bone Series, was published by Whirlwind Press in 2009.

Aaren Yeatts Perry has performed his poems t the Nuyorican, Kimmel Center, World Café, Fringe Festival, Kelly Writers House and the Philadelphia Writers Conference along with countless stages and classrooms across America. With his consulting firm, Education Action Resources, he taught nonviolence and writing workshops to all ages at schools and colleges on the East Coast and in the Midwest for 20 years. Since 2004, he is a global organizational development consultant. Perry is published in various literary magazines. His work appeared on NPR and regional television. He produced and directed Page2Stage, a long-running all-poetry TV show on Cable. Student, Husband, Father, Capoerista, Shambhala warrior — his work spans genres and decades. Bilingual and with an MFA from Vermont College, he received a PA Council on the Arts Grant. His collections include Open Fire, Poetry Across the Curriculum: An Action Guide for Elementary Teachers, and a spokenword CD, Mercury  Calling, available at the reading.

An intergenerational poetry series that presents both the mentor and the mentored: how does poetry travel from
generation to generation, what are the themes, the sounds, what changes and what stays the same.

 

“Ladies Night” Stephanie B, Courtney K. Bambrick, Carol Ann Bond

February 18th, 2013
Mar
27
7:00 pm

March 27, 2013 at 7pm

“Ladies Night” Stephanie B, Courtney K. Bambrick, Carol Ann Bond

Fourth Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by Suzan Jivan, poet, photographer, fiber artist and avid blogger, she will feature themed poetry readings followed by open readings.  While fairly new to Philadelphia Suzan has enjoyed attending the readings at the many poetry venues and looks forward to adding to the Philadelphia scene.

Rocky Wilson & Andrea Carlson

February 18th, 2013
Mar
20
7:00 pm

March 20, 2013 at 7 pm

Rocky Wilson & Andrea Carlson

Open Reading follows.

Third Wednesday of the month be coordinated and hosted by Dave Worrell, whose first chapbook titled “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.  His poems have appeared in U.S. 1 Worksheets, Mad Poets Review, Exit 13, Wild River Review, Fox Chase Review and Adanna.  He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.

Carlos Trujillo, Roger Santiváñez, Enrique Sacerio-Gari

February 18th, 2013
Mar
13
7:00 pm

March 13, 2013 at 7pm

Carlos Trujillo, Roger Santiváñez, Enrique Sacerio-Gari

*Reading in Spanish & English

Open Reading follows.

Second Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by
Charles Carr
, a native Philadelphian, born and raised in Southwest Germantown. In 2007 Charles

was Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come
North”.  In 2009 Cradle Press of St. Louis published Charles’s first book
of poetry: paradise, pennsylvania. Charles’ poems have been published in
various print and on-line local and national poetry journals.  Charles has
recited his poems at various regional poetry events.  Haitian Mud Pies
will be published in 2013.

Poetic Quid Pro Quo

February 18th, 2013
Mar
6
12:00 am

March 6, 2013  at 7pm

What is poetic quid pro quo?

This is about: fellow poets reading your work! and you reading the works of
fellow poets! Bring at least one poem for someone else to read.  You
read/recite one and read the work of one of the poets in attendance.  Then
someone else has the pleasure of reading your work.  For more information
call Elijah at 267.312.3600

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First Wednesday of the month be coordinated and hosted by Elijah B. Pringle, III, former on-air host of Panoramic Poetry at October Gallery.com, he is the author of At the Cornerstone, Feeding the Sparrow, and Second Saturday at Serenity. His work has been in Edison Poetry Review, Fox Chase Review, The God’s Must Be Bored, and will have a Feature is The River Poets Journal. Come join us for first Wednesdays at Fergie for Poetic Quid Pro Quo.

Moonstone Poetry lives on with weekly series

February 5th, 2013

Moonstone Poetry Lives with a
weekly series of poetry readings at

Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom
Street.

Each week of the month will have a different host. All programs will include an open reading.

First Wednesday of the month be coordinated and hosted by Elijah B. Pringle, III, former on-air host of Panoramic Poetry at October Gallery.com, he is the author of At the Cornerstone, Feeding the Sparrow, and Second Saturday at Serenity. His work has been in Edison Poetry Review, Fox Chase Review, The God’s Must Be Bored, and will have a Feature is The River Poets Journal.

February 6, 2013 – Come join us for first
Wednesdays at Fergie for Poetic Quid Pro Quo. What is poetic quid pro quo ? This is about: fellow poets reading your work! and you reading the works of fellow poets! Bring at least one poem for someene else to read.  You read/recite one and read the work of one of the poets in attendance.  Then someone else has the pleasure of reading your work.  For more information call elijah at 267.312.3600

Second Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by Charles Carr, a native Philadelphian, born and raised in Southwest Germantown. In 2007 Charles was Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North”.  In 2009 Cradle Press of St. Louis published Charles’s first book of poetry: paradise, pennsylvania. Charles’ poems have been published in various print and on-line local and national poetry journals.  Charles has recited his poems at various regional poetry events.  Haitian Mud Pies will be published in
2013.

February 13, 2013 – Katherine Bancroft and Steve Burke

Third Wednesday of the month be coordinated and hosted by Dave Worrell, whose first chapbook titled “We Who Were Bound” was published in August 2012 by Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press.  His poems have appeared in U.S. 1 Worksheets, Mad Poets Review, Exit 13, Wild River Review, Fox Chase Review and Adanna.  He has performed his music-backed poems at Chris’ Jazz Café in Philadelphia and The Cornelia Street Café in New York.

February 20 – no program since Fergie had
already booked an event for this time slot.

Fourth Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by Suzan Jivan, poet, photographer, fiber artist and avid blogger, she will feature themed poetry readings followed by open readings.  While fairly new to Philadelphia Suzan has enjoyed attending the readings at the many poetry venues and looks forward to adding to the Philadelphia scene.

February 27, 2013
– “Animal Lovers” Please join 4 poets 4 all sorts of Philly fauna in alphabetical order:
Mary Brucker, Ryan Eckes, Mytili Jagannathan, & Frank Sherlock as we celebrate all creatures large and small! An open will follow. Suzán Jiván will be the host

Mentor and Mentored Series continues at PhillyCAM
studios,
699 Ranstead Street, (between Chestnut and Market on 7th Street)
Philadelphia, PA 19106, tel: 267-639-5481,
on the second
Tuesday of each month at 7pm.
These programs will be recorded with a live audience at
the PhillyCAM studios, then edited and broadcast at a later date. Mentor and
Mentored is an intergenerational poetry series that presents both the mentor and the mentored:
how does poetry travel from generation to generation, what are the themes, the
sounds; what changes and what stays the same.

Tuesday February
12, 2013 – April Lindner with Angela Canales and Bernadette McBrideApril Lindner is the author This Bed Our Bodies Shaped and Skin ( 2001 Walt MacDonald First Book Prize from Texas Tech University Press). She writes literary criticism, edits poetry anthologies and is a professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Lindner has edited three anthologies: Contemporary American Poetry (2004), with R.S. Gwynn; a bilingual anthology of Spanish and English poetry, Lineas Conectadas: Poesia Nueva de los Estados Unidos (2006); and Contemporary Poetry in the United States (2007), a bilingual anthology in Russian and English. She is also the author of the critical study Dana Gioia (2003), published in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. In 2010, she published a young adult novel, Jane.

Lindner has edited three anthologies: Contemporary American Poetry (2004), with R.S. Gwynn; a bilingual anthology of Spanish and English poetry, Lineas Conectadas: Poesia Nueva de los Estados Unidos (2006); and Contemporary Poetry in the United States (2007), a bilingual anthology in Russian and English. She is also the author of the critical study Dana Gioia (2003), published in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. In 2010, she published a young adult novel, Jane.

Lindner has edited three anthologies: Contemporary American Poetry (2004), with R.S. Gwynn; a bilingual anthology of Spanish and English poetry, Lineas Conectadas: Poesia Nueva de los Estados Unidos (2006); and Contemporary Poetry in the United States (2007), a bilingual anthology in Russian and English. She is also the author of the critical study Dana Gioia (2003), published in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. In 2010, she published a young adult novel, Jane.

Lindner has edited three anthologies: Contemporary American Poetry (2004), with R.S. Gwynn; a bilingual anthology of Spanish and English poetry, Lineas Conectadas: Poesia Nueva de los Estados Unidos (2006); and Contemporary Poetry in the United States (2007), a bilingual anthology in Russian and English. She is also the author of the critical study Dana Gioia (2003), published in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. In 2010, she published a young adult novel, Jane.

Lindner has edited three anthologies: Contemporary American Poetry (2004), with R.S. Gwynn; a bilingual anthology of Spanish and English poetry, Lineas Conectadas: Poesia Nueva de los Estados Unidos (2006); and Contemporary Poetry in the United States (2007), a bilingual anthology in Russian and English. She is also the author of the critical study Dana Gioia (2003), published in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. In 2010, she published a young adult novel, Jane.

Lindner has edited three anthologies: Contemporary American Poetry (2004), with R.S. Gwynn; a bilingual anthology of Spanish and English poetry, Lineas Conectadas: Poesia Nueva de los Estados Unidos (2006); and Contemporary Poetry in the United States (2007), a bilingual anthology in Russian and English. She is also the author of the critical study Dana Gioia (2003), published in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. In 2010, she published a young adult novel, Jane.

Angela Canales is a high school educator, freelance editor, translator and writer who earned her master’s in Writing Studies at St. Joseph’s University. Her story “Out of Nowhere” was included in the 2009 anthology The Best of Philadelphia Stories: Volume 2. Bernadette McBride (Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA in 2009) is a college English professor who also teaches both Poetry and Fiction writing in workshops for adults of all ages, directs the monthly Featured Poet reading series at Farley’s Bookshop in New Hope, PA, and has given readings of her own widely published work in many and varied venues.

2/13 Katherine Bancroft and Steve Burke

February 5th, 2013
Feb
13
7:00 pm

February 13, 2013 – Katherine Bancroft and Steve Burke

Second Wednesday of the month will be coordinated and hosted by Charles Carr, a native Philadelphian, born and raised in Southwest Germantown. In 2007 Charles was Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North”.  In 2009 Cradle Press of St. Louis published Charles’s first book of poetry: paradise, pennsylvania. Charles’ poems have been published in various print and on-line local and national poetry journals.  Charles has recited his poems at various regional poetry events.  Haitian Mud Pies will be published in
2013.