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Take Control of Your Life & VOTE! For 400 years, people have fought for the vote. There have been successes and failures. Laws have been passed. People have been murdered and lunched. We have produced a 20-page graphic history of the Struggle to Vote as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the …
Join us for an afternoon of poetry and camaraderie. The 2018 Anthology of Featured Poets includes over 30 of the featured poets who read for Moonstone in 2018, many of whom will read on February 24. Poets included in this year’s anthology are: Steve BurkeJoe CostalLiz ChangAaron GrahamBill Van BuskirkPeter BarothAhmad AlmallahJoe RoartyJohn WojtowiczRyan EckesW.D. …
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12 NOON Bob Zell Sekai’afua Zankel Robert Zaller Dave Worrell Donna Wolf-Palacio Bill Van Buskirk Lesley Valdes JC Todd John Timpane Elaine Terranova 12:30 pm Susie Taichman-Robins Jeanne Sutton Lamont B. Steptoe Dave Steel Catherine Staples Elizabeth Stanley Mbarek Sryfi Christopher Sohnly 1:00 pm Amy Small McKinney Eric Sellin Nina Schafer Sally Love Saunders Tonya …
Saturday April 16, 2016 Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad Street Poetry as Personal History A Day of Workshops Workshops are 75 minutes with 15 minutes between them “… the relationship between the craft of poetry and memoir and their reliance upon its intuitive nature. Perhaps this ethereal concept can be better understood in Melvillian …
Philly Loves Poetry Festival Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad Street Friday April 15, 2016 – Sonia Sanchez Day “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” Leonardo da Vinci 5:30 PM – Unveiling of an original limited edition print, a creative collaboration between poet Sonia …
Philly Loves Poetry Festival The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts, 732 S. Broad Street Thursday, April 14, 2016 – Women’s Day 6:30pm – Unsilenced: Four Women of Color A multidisciplinary performance piece featuring poetry, songs, storytelling and music in recognition of female artists who are known to have infused their creative expressions …
Philly Loves Poetry Festival Art Sanctuary, 628 S. 16th Street Saturday April 16, 2016 Free Workshops for Students Workshops and Readings by Theme – Free for Students w/Proper ID Runs concurrently with workshops at Brandywine Workshop Panel Discussions and thematic readings – Each discussion will be 75 minutes with 15 minute intermission between them. Each panel …
Rocky Wilson author of The Last Bus to Camden “Rocky Wilson’s the real thing: not another rubber stamped MFA poet but a writer whose work begins from feeling & builds its case for what is felt in sure, solid lines…” Jim Cory “Rocky Wilson is not just the muse of Camden, New Jersey, the poorest …
Moritat The 2015 Moonstone Chapbook Contest winner, Moritat(German for “street ballad”) is poetry of high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease- at home on the street and in the stratosphere, a colloquial invention that uses texting’s phonetic spelling, omitting vowels in …
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