Event in English with  Moonstone Arts Center.

The poetry in French and English by these accomplished multidisciplinary writers will blow our minds with their unique voices, boost our empathic listening, break down stereotypes, increase international understanding, celebrate linguistic traditions, humanize our multilingual future, and bring us closer to our own inner poetics by challenging the ear of our heart to open to others. No matter what your first language, you carry the global passport of poetry. 

Virtual Poetry Reading: Moonstone International – From France in Association with Alliance Française de Philadelphia

Jamika Ajalon is the author of “Take back the Narrative” and a novel “SKY PAPERS” coming out via The Feminist Press in NY in June. Ajalon is also a musician whose latest album is “rebooted” with Jamika & the Argonauts and will be released this year. Jamika is also known for her insightful filmmaking. Her latest film to do the circuits is “Coffee Pot” 2020.  She has written many academic texts on Afro futurism, Narrative, and Memory. Her web page is: www.jamikaajalon.com.  

Malik Ameer Crumpler is a poet, rapper, composer, editor, producer, P.R. Writer & teacher that’s been involved in over fifty albums, several glitch art films, six poetry books & one book of raps, Beneath The Underground. He’s the co-poetry editor/co-host with Paris Lit Up, editor-at-large of The Opiate, curator for Poets Live & co-founder of Those That This. He currently lives in Paris, France. “The Rest Is Now (a poetry EP)” published with The Isolation Collection Anthology is Malik’s most recent Poetry offering which he toured throughout France, England, Amsterdam, and Washington D.C. thanks to a generous grant from Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities 2020.

Nina Zivancevic’s new book of poetry, ROLLERSKATING NOTES will be published by Cool Grove Press in New York in September of 2021. Her first book was published in 1982. In the two preceding years she worked as a secretary and assistant to Allen Ginsberg. Zivancevic, Serbian born poet, author, critic and correspondent has published more than twenty books – poetry and prose – and has translated numerous works into Serbian. A PhD in Comparative Literature and Slavic Studies, she taught English Language and Literature at the Sorbonne and other European universities. Zivancevic, currently living in Paris, has received three awards and a grant for her outstanding literary achievements. 

Aaren Perry & Sonia Robin, Hosts