Wednesday night …

Moonstone Poetry
@ Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street.

Wednesday January 28, 2015 – 7pm
The Moonstone Press Presents its 2014 Authors
Steve Burke, Charles S. Carr, Leonard Gontarek, Ivan Taub

Steve Burke is the author of After the Harvest (The Moonstone Press, December 2014)
and two full-length unpublished manuscripts; lives in the Mount Airy section of
Philadelphia with wife-Giselle and daughter-Mariah. He has worked many years as a labor
and delivery nurse; has been writing poems for much longer than that.

Charles S. Carr is author of paradise, pennsylvania and Haitian Mud Pies and Other
Poems (The Moonstone Press, February 2014). Charles has worked in social and
community development services for 40 years and has been active in raising funds for
various missions and organizations serving the poorest of the poor In Haiti. In 2007
Charles was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come
North”. Charles’ poems have been published in various print and on-line local and national
poetry journals.

Leonard Gontarek’s poetry collections include contact (The Moonstone Press, April
2014), Déjà Vu Diner and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs. His poems
have been featured in Joyful Noise: American Spiritual Poetry and in Best American
Poetry. He uses juxtaposition to explore themes of transformation and transcendence and
has described his poems as “equal parts political, erotic, and meditations on the world.”
Gontarek’s honors include five Pushcart Prize nominations and two fellowships from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He coordinates Peace/Works: Poets and Writers for
Peace and teaches through the Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership and Musehouse.

Ivan Taub is author of Speed Limit 225 (The Moonstone Press, December 2014) and
The Messenger. He has publication and artistic credits as a writer/editor, playwright,
author, poet, recording artist, record producer, band leader, performer, and as a presenter of
theatre, music, and dance. His play State of Grace was a finalist in the 18th Maxim
Mazumdar International Playwriting Competition, and his newest play The Show was
given a special workshop performance (November 2014) at the Luna Theatre in
Philadelphia. Taub is an assistant professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple
University.

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Moonstone Arts Center
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
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