Moonstone Art Center
Fergie's Pub
1214 Sanson Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
United States
Open to the public.
Join Moonstone Arts Center for Poetry at the Pub with Grady Chambers (North American Stadiums, 2018) and David Ebenbach.
Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions, 2018) selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories are forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online, Boulevard, Joyland, and Quarterly West, and recent work has appeared in The Paris Review; The Iowa Review; Nashville Review; The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Grady was born and raised in Chicago. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and lives in Philadelphia.
David Ebenbach, born and raised in West Philadelphia, is the author of seven books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including his new poetry collection Some Unimaginable Animal. His books have won such awards as the Juniper Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, among others. He now lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.
Grady Chambers
Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
The winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize is an assured debut collection about grace—the places we search for it, and the disjunction between what we seek and where we arrive.