Category: Moonstone Arts Center News
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The Struggle to Vote
Take Control of Your Life & VOTE! For 400 years, people have fought for the vote. There have been successes and failures. Laws have been passed. People have been murdered and lunched. We have produced a 20-page graphic history of the Struggle to Vote as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the…
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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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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ALL: Academic Poets, Famous Poets, Free Form Poets, Street Poets, Unknown Poets, Spoken Word Poets, Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, and more Poetry Ink is an open, festive, and participatory community event.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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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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Philadelphia’s Haiku Slam
Wednesday July 29, 2015, 7:00pm Moonstone @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia’s Haiku Slam! – $5 to enter Philadelphia poets go head to head at Philadelphia’s Haiku Slam. Hosted by Warren C. Longmire
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19th Annual Poetry Ink(2015)
19th Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading- Sunday, April 26 2015 @ Noon Please Note Date Change Brandywine Workshop, 728 S. Broad St. Academic Poets, Famous Poets, Free Form Poets, Street Poets, Unknown Poets, Spoken Word Poets, Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, and more Each reader gets 3 minutes – that’s a full day of poetry!…
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Check out Poem of the Day at Moonstone Arts Center!
We have a new twitter page: @podmac which encourages poetic types to share their Poem of the Day! And feel free to leave a poem at the end of this post as a comment!
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Houses for Haiti
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 6pm Music – Refreshments – Silent AuctionTickets: $20.00 Special Appearance by SONIA SANCHEZMusic by THE JONATHAN MICHEL TRIOAnd Speakers just back from Haiti and Habitat for Humanity Co-Sponsored by: The Brothers Network, The Moonstone Arts Center, Scribe Video Center, Traveling Mercies Host Committee: Thomas Paine Cronin, Matt Feldman, Charles Fuller, Aldo Magazzeni,…