Moonstone Poetry Book Release: OPEN SOURCE WARREN C. LONGMIRE

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

15 December, 2021

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Join us at Fergie's Pub and on Zoom for the release of Warren C. Longmire's new book from Radiator Press, "Open Source"! “OPEN SOURCE is a book we’ve been waiting for in Philly, from a poet who can sing its songs through smog and shame with such tender aplomb that it makes me wanna wander these streets we share in search of myself, in search of us. This book be its own city of errant and ecstatic bodies.” -- Yolanda Wisher, author of Monk Eats an Afro, Philadelphia Poet Laureate 2016-2017 Selected from two decades of work, the poetry in Warren C. Longmire’s OPEN SOURCE chronicles the complexities of language, identity, love and time. Ranging widely in style, with a lyric intensity rooted in the Philly landscape, this book reveals the interconnections between public and private history, a black man’s daily struggle for self-acceptance and joy amidst “disastrous news and the grace/of each of arc of decay.” Longmire addresses work in the tech industry as well as the gentrifying city as it grinds through a pandemic. At times raw, playful, painful and technical, OPEN SOURCE is poetry alert to the particulars an subtle shifts from day to day in uncertain times, unafraid to grapple with the past inside the present. Warren C. Longmire is a writer, educator, software engineer and human from North Philadelphia. He is a two-time Pushcart nominee and the co-founder of the Excellano Project Spoken Word Collective. He is a former contributing editor for Apiary Magazine, Director of Poetry Events for Blue Stoop and Programming Manager for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Society. Poems featured in this collection have been published in Stone Fruit, American Poetry Review, Bedfellows,Prolit, Voicemail Poems and The Best America Poetry 2021. Open Source is his first full-length book. Sean Lynch 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.