Moonstone Poetry Live Readings: New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

13 October, 2021

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Join us for a reading from Moonstone Press's new chapbook releases! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146 F.X Baird is the author of Painting with My Father and Square Peg Round Hole, a Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, Philadelphia Stories, and more. Runnett Nia Ebo is a poet of purpose, author, ghostwriter, blogger, editor, essayist, venue host, and event planner whose new book is Expressing Myself On Purpose. Nina Gadson is 19 and the author of When I Was 16. These poems were written when she was 16 and younger, a time capsule into that period of her life. It’s about growth and a turning point. G. Emil Reutter, author of Poems of the Pennypack and Violence in My City, is a writer of poems and stories, who is currently a contributing editor at North of Oxford and published The Fox Chase Review. Diane Sahms Guarnieri is Poetry Editor of North of Oxford; served as Poetry Editor at The Fox Chase Review, served on the Editorial Board of Philadelphia Stories Magazine, founded, and runs The Tenth Muse Poetry Workshop. Her latest book from Moonstone Press is COVID-19, 2020: A Poetic Journal. Moonstone Arts Center produced 87 poetry programs this year with 411 poets and an audience of 2016. This is about what we do each year. Our growth area has been in our publishing program. This year we published 14 anthologies and 5 poetry books for individual poets (See our Moonstone Press Catalog). Our Philadelphia Says… anthologies present local poets writing on social themes. Our Tribute to… anthologies celebrate living poets who have been important in the Philadelphia poetry scene and our Remembering… anthologies honor dead poets who are still inspiring poets today. We have an anthology scheduled for each month.   Moonstone is a 501C3 member supported not-for-profit arts organization with a mission to support creativity, equality and inclusion through the arts. Our motto is Education Through the Arts from the Cradle to the Grave.