SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 6pm – 8pm – POETRY
Alzheimer’s Poetry Project – Philadelphia

Gary Glazner the Founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) will give an informational and overview of the APP

Poets will learn how to use poetry to connect with people living with dementia. Glazner will give insights into why poetry is so effective in reaching people with memory loss.
Including studies that show increased synaptic activity and a reduction in stress indicators during poetry recitation. Glazner will talk about his recent trip to Germany to start the APP there and how the principles translate into other languages and cultures.

Alzheimer’s Poetry Project – Mission

Our goal is to facilitate the creativity of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. We strive to advocate for cultural change in the healthcare industry and for the daily inclusion of arts in assisted living and adult day care. Further, we do not set boundaries in our beliefs in what possible for people with memory impairment to create.

By saying to people with dementia, we value you; we are saying we value all members of our community. By working with health care professionals and giving them a tool to have fun with and stimulate the people they serve, we are saying we value your work. By working with family members who have a loved one with dementia, we are saying you are not alone in your struggle to treat your loved one with dignity.

BIO
Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, (APP). The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a “best practice” for their Arts and Aging initiative. NBC’s “Today” show, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and Voice of America have featured segments on Glazner’s work. Harper Collins, W.W. Norton and Salon.com have published his work. Glazner is the author and editor of five books including: “Ears on Fire: Snapshot Essays in a World of Poets,” published on La Alameda Press, the book chronicles a year abroad in Asia and Europe meeting poets, working on translations and writing poems; “How to Make a Living as a Poet” on Soft Skull Press, which features essays and interviews on creative ways to bring poetry to the world and “Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry,” on Manic D Press. In 2009, Glazner was invited by a group of poets to launch the APP in Berlin.
In 2010, the U.S. Embassy will fund a pilot project for the APP in Germany. From 2007 to 2010, Glazner was the Managing Director of the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

For more information email Ray Garman: ray@thetastybrains.com

Here’s a flyer about the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project: APP final

Upcoming APP events:
Onsite Training Overview – Monday, 3/15 1pm
A Place Like Home
Category: Adult Day Services
5610 Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131

Onsite Training Overview – Tuesday, March 16th 10am
Harmony Place
8420 Roosevelt Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19152-2064

TUESDAY, MARCH 23 – 7pm – POETRY
The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
AAREN PERRY & NZADI KEITA

Aaren Perry has performed his work with music and in Spanish at venues like the Nuyorican, the Kimmel Center, the World Cafe. He has taught writing workshops to all ages at schools and colleges on the East Coast and in the Midwest for 20 years. Perry has published in Critique Magazine, Mad Poets Review,Tyme Anthology, Xconnect Magazine, Blue Guitar, Painted Bride Quarterly, Long Shot Review, and others. His work has appeared on National Public Radio and on regional television broadcasts. He produced and directed a long-running cable poetry show on DUTV. Bilingual and holding an MFA from Vermont College, he received a PA Council on the Arts Grant. Since 2001 he has worked as an Organizational Development consultant. His books OPEN FIRE (Whirlwind Press, 2004), POETRY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: An Action Guide for Elementary Teachers (Pearson, 1997), as well as his spokenword CD, MERCURY CALLING (MelodyVision, 2000) are available at bookstores and by emailing ayperry@aol.com.

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 7pm – POETRY
The Moonstone Poetry Series & Plan B Press Present
MICHELE BELLUOMINI, DAN MAGUIRE, JIM MANCINELLI

Michele A. Belluomini is a poet, storyteller, and librarian. Her work has been published in many journals, such as Philadelphia Poets, The FoxChase Review among others, as well as in several anthologies –including most recently, COMMONWEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. She has read in many places throughout the area, for the NJ Council on the Arts, and in New York. She helped to coordinate the Monday Poets series at the Free Library of Philadelphia for 15 years.

Dan Maguire’s poetry has won local and national awards. He most recently won the Almeda Boulton Memorial Award sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. He has read at the Library of Congress and led workshops for the NFSPS and the Philadelphia Writers Conference. He has been published in numerous poetry magazines and anthologies and has thrice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His latest publication is a chapbook, Finding the Words, from Plan B Press.

Jim Mancinelli is a living, writing, working Philadelphian. His first chapbook, Primer, was self-published. His second chapbook, In Deep, was published by Plan B Press. His writing is informed by the spirit, the earth, the heavens, and the voices of his Italian heritage. His poems have appeared in various issues of Philadelphia Poets, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, and Poetry Ink, an anthology of Philadelphia poets. He has been a featured reader in various Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware venues and a featured reader on Live from Kelly Writer’s House. Jim teaches in the Speech-Language-Hearing Science Program at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 7pm – POETRY
The Moonstone Poetry Series & Plan B Press Present
MICHELE BELLUOMINI, DAN MAGUIRE, JIM MANCINELLI

Michele A. Belluomini is a poet, storyteller, and librarian. Her work has been published in many journals, such as Philadelphia Poets, The FoxChase Review among others, as well as in several anthologies –including most recently, COMMONWEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. She has read in many places throughout the area, for the NJ Council on the Arts, and in New York. She helped to coordinate the Monday Poets series at the Free Library of Philadelphia for 15 years.

Dan Maguire’s poetry has won local and national awards. He most recently won the Almeda Boulton Memorial Award sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. He has read at the Library of Congress and led workshops for the NFSPS and the Philadelphia Writers Conference. He has been published in numerous poetry magazines and anthologies and has thrice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His latest publication is a chapbook, Finding the Words, from Plan B Press.

Jim Mancinelli is a living, writing, working Philadelphian. His first chapbook, Primer, was self-published. His second chapbook, In Deep, was published by Plan B Press. His writing is informed by the spirit, the earth, the heavens, and the voices of his Italian heritage. His poems have appeared in various issues of Philadelphia Poets, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, and Poetry Ink, an anthology of Philadelphia poets. He has been a featured reader in various Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware venues and a featured reader on Live from Kelly Writer’s House. Jim teaches in the Speech-Language-Hearing Science Program at La Salle University in Philadelphia.

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 7pm – POETRY
The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
MICHELLE TARANSKY & HEATHER CHRISTIE

Michelle Taransky was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1981. She lives in Philadelphia, where she works at Kelly Writers House, is Review Editor for jacket2, and teaches poetry at Temple University. Marjorie Welish selected “Barn Burned, Then,” for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize.

Heather Christie was born in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The Believer, Fence, Octopus, & Slope. Her first book, “The Difficult Farm,” was published by Octopus books this fall. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and teaches poetry at Emory University, where she is a Creative Writing Fellow.

TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 7pm – POETRY
The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
AAREN PERRY & NZADI KEITA

Aaren Perry has performed his work with music and in Spanish at venues like the Nuyorican, the Kimmel Center, the World Cafe. He has taught writing workshops to all ages at schools and colleges on the East Coast and in the Midwest for 20 years. Perry has published in Critique Magazine, Mad Poets Review,Tyme Anthology, Xconnect Magazine, Blue Guitar, Painted Bride Quarterly, Long Shot Review, and others. His work has appeared on National Public Radio and on regional television broadcasts. He produced and directed a long-running cable poetry show on DUTV. Bilingual and holding an MFA from Vermont College, he received a PA Council on the Arts Grant. Since 2001 he has worked as an Organizational Development consultant. His books OPEN FIRE (Whirlwind Press, 2004), POETRY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: An Action Guide for Elementary Teachers (Pearson, 1997), as well as his spokenword CD, MERCURY CALLING (MelodyVision, 2000) are available at bookstores and by emailing ayperry@aol.com