Sydney Hunt Coffin, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe, & Alina Macneal

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

17 November, 2021

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Join us at Fergie's Pub or on Zoom for a live reading from Sydney Hunt Coffin, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe, & Alina Macneal! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 - Passcode: 678146 Sydney Hunt Coffin has been with the Philadelphia Writing Project since 2011 when he was working as an English teacher at University City High School. He has taught English, Poetry, and Art for 20 years in Philadelphia, spending summers working and studying at Yale University, and has served on the Teacher Advisory Council of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As a poet, he has been published in Mad House Press, Apiary magazine, and Yale University Press, and is currently an MFA student at New York University in Paris. Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe (After the Queen, Precious, One Who Controls Her Destiny) is a Multimedia Artist, Activist, Griot, Public Servant, and Citizen of the World who utilizes her artform to uplift her culture, promote Black Womanhood in a positive light, and cultivate a consciousness receptive to social and political change. Her poetry has also been included in Hair Stories, Now Anthology, Poetry Ink, Howard University’s Amistad Literary Journal, Poetry Ink Tenth Anniversary, The Apiary, Versadelphia, E. Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices, For Women: In Tribute to Nina Simone, and Philly Jawns, For Women Revisited as well as, other publications worldwide. Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s.  Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24.  In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.  She has been a member of the faculty at Drexel University for over 20 years.  Since the last presidential election, Alina has been translating the 1930's political poems of the Polish poet, Julian Tuwim.  As Mark Twain said, History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. 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.