Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)

Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator) https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87881707311?pwd=S0pHK2tnUkp4SzlmajNmV2hCUkFMQT09 Meeting ID: 878 8170 7311 – Passcode: 322627 In America, we like to think we live in a land of liberty, where everyone can say whatever they want. Throughout our history, however, we have also been …

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On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades with Dave Worrell

Zoom Meeting ID: 818 3720 4326, Zoom Passcode: 100371, Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81837204326?pwd=VzBwOVFVZHNjckMrNzVCU1loOVBpZz09 On the Verge: Poets of the Palisades III is an anthology that consists of 80 contributors in the Tri-State who were featured over a four-year period from both series that are sponsored by the North Jersey Literary Community and hosted by Denise La Neve …

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On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind

Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event …

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Moonstone Presents: A Tribute to J.C. Todd, Chapbook Release Party

For some strange reason we tend to wait until someone dies before we express our gratitude for what they have done. We have memorials where people get up and say how important the person was to them and what they had accomplished. Why wait? Why not have a party honoring the person with praise poems …

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Moonstone Presents: Relationships and Other Conflicts, Poetry Reading

Jennifer Anolik is an educator and writer. Her poetry has appeared in Infinite Rust, Apiary Online, BlazeVox, The Prompt Literary Magazine. When she is not writing poetry, she writes curriculum. Amy Barone is author of We Became Summer, Kamikaze Dance and Views from the Driveway. Her poetry has appeared in Café Review, Standpoint …

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A Shadow on Our Hearts: Solider-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam

The American War in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts, Adam …

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Philadelphia Says: Haiku

Presented by the Moonstone Arts Center & The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sunday June 17, 2018 – 2pm Philadelphia Says Haiku Celebrating the release of Philadelphia Says Haiku, an Anthology of Haiku by Philadelphia Area Poets ($10, The Moonstone Press) with a reading by contributors. Philadelphia is home to …

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M. Nzadi Keita

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Sunday January 18, 2015 – 2pm Moonstone @ Brandywine Workshop 728 South Broad Street M. Nzadi Keita – Brief Evidence of Heaven: poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass – Reading and Book Launch Event “These sophisticated poems… “give voice to the voiceless” Anna Murray Douglass, whose famous husband, Frederick Douglass, barely gave …

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Monday at 7pm – An Evening with SONIA SANCHEZ

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MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 7pm – POETRYMoonstone and Art Sanctuary Present:SONIA SANCHEZReading from her new book Morning Haiku ($19.95 Beacon Press) This new volume by the much-loved poet Sonia Sanchez, her first in over a decade, is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the gifts of life and mourns the deaths of …

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