Moonstone Poetry Reading- Lynn Levin, Jim Mancinelli, Elijah B Pringle III

1214 Sansom Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

22 December, 2021

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Join us LIVE at Fergie's Oub and on Zoom for readings from Lynn Levin, Jim Mancinelli, and Elijah B. Pringle III! Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues  is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair Creatures of an Hour, and Imaginarium. She is thetranslator, from the Spanish, of Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Odi Gonzales and co-authorof Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. Her poems have appeared in Boulevard, ArtfulDodge, Rattle, on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac, and other places. She teaches atDrexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com Jim Mancinelli is author of Primer, In Deep, and The Bartimeus Poems for which he also did the improvisational drawings. His writing is informed by gazing upwards, wanderingthe depths, and digging in the muddy present. His poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review, Philadelphia Poets, The Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Sea Change, Mad Poets Review, Fox Chase Review, and Poetry Ink. He has been a featured reader in various Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware including Live from Kelly Writer’s House, was selected as a finalist in the 2011 Atlanta Queer Literary Festival,judged by Mark Doty and is the moderator and founder of the Moveable Beats Reading Series. Jim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at La Salle University in Philadelphia with research interests in the sociological aspects of stuttering. Elijah B Pringle III is a Philadelphia based writer/director/actor/choreographer.  He has published several chapbooks and his words have been published on every continent except for South American and Antarctica.  He has lectured and lead workshops on poetry in AZ, CA,IL,MA, MD, MN, NY, PA, SC and DC. His opinions and insights have appeared in the NY Times, Newsweek and the Philadelphia Daily News.  He has recently completed his first full length play entitled "Should Be". His most recent publication is Lamda Lancer a collection of LGBT inspired poetry. Open Reading Follows. Zoom 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.