Live Poetry Reading: Michele Belluomini, Ronald Carter, and Charlie O'Hay

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

27 October, 2021

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Join us at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom for readings from Michele Belluomini, Ronald Carter, and Charlie O'Hay! 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146 Michele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appeared in various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers, also published by Plan B Press (Alexandria, VA). She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia Ronald Carter is a native of Philadelphia. He started wring poetry at an early age of twelve. His love of poetry was influenced by the writings of Edgard Allen Poe, Niki Giovani, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Alex Hailey. Since 1995 to the present Ronald has participated in many poetry, historical reenactment, and storytelling events with such organizations as Mad poets Societ5y, La unique Book Store and Cultural Center’s Poets Den, Poets and Prophets, Philadelphia Poetry and Literary Forum, ,Moonstone Arts Center, Pen and Pencil Club, Historic Philadelphia, Keepers of the Culture, National Association of Black Storytellers, Patchwork Storytelling Guild, October Gallery AAMP. Rob is also published in the Mad Poets’ and Philadelphia Poetry and Literary forum’s Charlie O'Hay is author of Far from Luck and Smoking In Elevators. Charlie's poems have appeared in over 100 journals, including Mudfish, West Branch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cortland Review, Gargoyle and The New York Quarterly. He is the recipient of a 1995 Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Since 2010, Charlie's ongoing photo series "Everyone Has a Name" has shared images and stories of the homeless in Center City Philadelphia to promote understanding, dignity, and an end to homelessness in America. 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.