Category: Moonstone Arts Center Events
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22nd Annual Poetry Ink – 2018 (reading schedule)
Sunday April 29, 2018 – 12pm 1199C, Hospital Workers Union Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street 22nd Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading “Nowhere else in Philly do we get such a wonderful mix of people, voices, and generations. It is an experience in the varieties of personalities as much as in poetry and poetics –…
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Tribute to Sam Delany UPDATED
Call for Submissions Submit your Tribute to Samuel R. Delany by April 1, 2017 Moonstone is celebrating Samuel R. Delany with a Tribute Chapbook. If Chip has been important to you, if you love his writing, if he has affected you in some way, write a praise poem or something that reflects your relationship…
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21st Annual Poetry Ink
100 Poets Reading Sunday, April 30, 2017 12 noon WE WANT YOU ALL: Academic Poets, Famous Poets, Free Form Poets, Street Poets, Unknown Poets, Spoken Word Poets, Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, and more Poetry Ink is an open, festive, and participatory community event. Please invite your friends and feel free to pass this information…
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2016 Chapbook Contest Winners
The Moonstone 2016 Chapbook Contest Winner Vernita Hall “In a broad display of approaches in craft, the poet visits the history of Philadelphia in a manner reminiscent of steampunk aesthetics. Jules Verne meets W.E.B. DuBois in a time traveling romp back and forth from The Souls of Black Folk to today’s evening news. This is…
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2016 Poetry Ink Reading Schedule
12 NOON Bob Zell Sekai’afua Zankel Robert Zaller Dave Worrell Donna Wolf-Palacio Bill Van Buskirk Lesley Valdes JC Todd John Timpane Elaine Terranova 12:30 pm Susie Taichman-Robins Jeanne Sutton Lamont B. Steptoe Dave Steel Catherine Staples Elizabeth Stanley Mbarek Sryfi Christopher Sohnly 1:00 pm Amy Small McKinney Eric Sellin Nina Schafer Sally Love Saunders Tonya…
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The Last Bus to Camden
Rocky Wilson author of The Last Bus to Camden “Rocky Wilson’s the real thing: not another rubber stamped MFA poet but a writer whose work begins from feeling & builds its case for what is felt in sure, solid lines…” Jim Cory “Rocky Wilson is not just the muse of Camden, New Jersey, the poorest…
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A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe
Moonstone’s Latest Publication A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe “The Moonstone Arts Center hosted a celebration and reception for Philadelphia poet, photographer, and publisher Lamont B. Steptoe entitled A Roomful of Truth: A Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe, on February 6, 2016 at the Brandywine Workshop. Put together by Larry…
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Poetic Quid Pro Quo
Wednesday August 5, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Poetic Quid Pro Quo – Another poet reads your poem, then you read it. How does it sound, does it say what you wanted it to say? Then you read someone else’s poem – Elijah B. Pringle, III host
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Who Do You Love? Charles Bukowski
Tuesday August 4, 2015, 6:30pm (doors open at 5:30pm) Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM – 699 Ranstead Who Do You Love? Charles Bukowski – Broadcast Live: Comcast 66/966 & Verizon 29/30- A live poetry talk show and cover open mic, broadcast live at 6:30 on the first Tuesday of each month. It is a discussion/presentation on…
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Leonard Gontarek and the Osage Poets
Wednesday August 12, 2015 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street Leonard Gontarek and the Osage Poets “I have nothing but admiration and awe for The Osage Poets. There is not a more committed, talented, hard-working, supportive, interesting, exploring group of poets, anywhere.” Catherine Bancroft writes poetry and makes art and…