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New Voices: Matilda Bray, Elisha Gibson, & Bella Randazzo @ Shakespeare & Co.

Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. – 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets Matilda Bray (14) “Matilda’s ability to focus on one or two unifying images and mine them metaphorically is extraordinary. Matilda is a brave and gifted poet.” – Joanne Leva, executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate …

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Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie’s Pub

Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Shevaun Brannigan, Jamie J. Brunson, and Joyce Meyers

Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Jamie J. Brunson has brought storytelling to the stage within …

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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub presenting Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse

Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse by Grace Bauer, Editor ($24.00,  Lost Horse Press) Poets reading include Grace Bauer, Kim Bridgeford, Emari DiGiorgio, Corie Feiner, Ona Gritz, Harriet Levin, Lynn Levin, Carolina Morales & Nancy Reddy – Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse is an anthology of poems from women …

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Friday, 2/26 – 7:30pm – Philadelphia Fantastic Presents VICTORIA JANSSEN

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 7:30pm – SCI-FI/FANTASY Philadelphia Fantastic Presents VICTORIA JANSSEN Victoria Janssen’s first novel, The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, was published by Harlequin Spice in December 2008, her second, The Moonlight Mistress, in December 2009; it features the early days of World War One and werewolves. When not writing, Victoria …

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Friday – 8/28 – 7:30pm – Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick

FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 7:30pm – SCI-FIPhiladelphia Fantastic Presents:GARDNER DOZOISMICHAEL SWANWICKThe Year’s Best SF Collection (21.95 St. Martin’s) “Veteran editor Dozois, 15-time Hugo winner, offers 30 stories, several of them Hugo-nominated. The table of contents is dominated by familiar names like Michael Swanwick and Greg Egan, but occasionally leavened with relative newcomers like Hannu Rajaniemi and …

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