Moonstone Poetry Reading – LIVE with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

08 December, 2021

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Join us at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom for Moonstone Poetry LIVE, in collaboration with the E-Verse Equinox Reading Series! Eduardo C. Corral, author of Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Guillotine. Praised for his seamless blending of English and Spanish, tender treatment of history, and careful exploration of sexuality, Corral has received numerous honors and awards, including the Discovery/The Nation Award, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A CantoMundo Fellow, he has held the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing at Colgate University and was the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. In 2016 he won the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. Corral teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Cameron MacKenzie was born in Virginia and has worked as a dry cleaner, house painter, contractor, editor, and teacher, residing in Santa Barbara, London, Tokyo, Philadelphia, San Francisco and now Virginia once again, where he lives with his wife and two children. Cameron MacKenzie's work has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, Salmagundi, The Rumpus, and J Journal, among other places. His novel, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career and monograph Badiou and American Modernist Poetics were both published in 2018. He teaches English at Ferrum College and writes for The Roanoke Review. Spencer Short collection of poetry, Tremolo, was a winner of the 2000 National Poetry Series, selected by Billy Collins. Emily Nussbaum, reviewing Tremolo for The New York Times, noted "a prickly stir of humor, philosophy and romantic giddiness", and that "this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you'd never met, mid-gesticulation -- a terrific storyteller, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence, mid-phrase, mid-thought". Cal Bedient, reviewing Tremolo in the Boston Review, found "a clawing power of invention".  In 2003, Short was included in the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets festival honoring the "most interesting recent first book poets". His poems have been included in several anthologies. In collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reding Series, John Wall Barger Host, Open Reading Follows Registration Link : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf- mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr 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.