Moonstone Poetry Reading: Celebrating the release of "Resurrection Fail"

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

01 December, 2021

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Join us live at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom for our Moonstone Poetry reading, in celebration of the release of "Resurrection Fail"! Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAud-GrrDItGdNCXCQaivx_wJ0DZwOL8yim?_x_zm_rtaid=pdtsubyCS-WlRsiwJccJFA.1637011950287.d98ebebf633e430e6a1bd40dbde2a8a7&_x_zm_rhtaid=283 John Wall Barger is the author of Pain-proof Men; Hummingbird; The Book of Festus; The Mean Game and Resurrection Fail. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House, and teaches at UARTS. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey is the author of the artist book Not Fit for Print, winner of BOMB Magazine's 2018 Biennial Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Award. Ernest Hilbert is the author of Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out, he works as a rare book dealer and book critic for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Warren C Longmire is a writer, software engineer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. His writing has been published in American Poetry Review, Eleven Eleven, The Painted Bride Quarterly and in the upcoming Best American Poetry Anthology of 2021. Glorious Piner teaches Poetry at the University of Maryland and at the University of the Arts, published in Queerbook, The American Poetry Review, The Florida Review, Conduit Magazine, and more. Luke Stromberg’s poetry and criticism have appeared in Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Golidad Review, Think Journal, and others, he is Associate Poetry Editor of E-Verse Radio. HOST: Fayyaz Vellani is a British-Canadian writer who has lived in London, New York, and Philadelphia, where he teaches writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His first novel Tea with Ms. Tanzania will be published by Africa World Press in 2022. 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.