Nick Virgilio Haiku Association Reading: Lynch, Longmire, and Wilson

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

03 November, 2021

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Join us for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association Anthology Reading-featuring Sean Lynch, Warren Longmire, & Rocky Wilson! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146 The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association is releasing their second haiku anthology, Haiku in Action Volume 2. Celebrate the release with readings from the NVHA lead editor and board members! Sean Lynch, he/him, is a poet and editor who lives in South Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in journals including Hobart, Meow Meow Pow Pow, and Drunk Monkeys. He’s on the editorial board of Moonstone Arts Center and serves as the Program Director of the Nick Virgilio Haiku Association. His Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor of choice is Citalopram Warren Longmire is the co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective and the former Director of Poetry Events for Blue Stoop. He's been published in journals including American Poetry Review, Eleven Eleven, Graviton and The Painted Bride Quarterly. He is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology and will release his first full collection with Radiator Press this fall. You can find his writings, musings and selfies on Instagram @alongmirewriter. Rocky Wilson is a poet, performance artist and substitute teacher who lives along the Delaware River in Camden, NJ with his little puppet friend bongo. “Rocky Wilson is not just the muse of Camden, New Jersey, the poorest city in these rich, un-united states, he is its soul. Camden is where he finds redemption for a lifetime of loss, “What saves our lives” HE WRITES, “a 6th grade girl, a little cloth monkey, a dull knife, an angel’s wings brushing through the ghetto night.” There’s no doubt in my mind, that if Walt Whitman were alive, he would be Rocky Wilson’s biggest fan.” Peter E. Murphy, Stockton College 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.