Category: Moonstone Press
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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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22nd Annual Poetry Ink
Submissions for the 22nd annual edition of our Poetry Ink anthology open on March 1st, 2018 and run until April 8th. The book release and party will be held at 1199C Headquarters, located on the corner of Juniper and Locust Streets in Center City, Philadelphia. A $20 donation is required to be included in…
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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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Myth & Mystery by Greg Francis
Myth & Mystery A resident of Southeastern Pennsylvania since 1976, Greg Francis has served his community as a classroom teacher, courtroom lawyer, and congressional aide. Listed in both the Internet Speculative Fiction Database and the Locus Index to Science Fiction, his work has appeared in Mad Poets Review, Eldritch Tales, and Golden Isis. …
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Madison Hatta’s Book of Unreasonable Poems
Madison Hatta, Sonneteer, delights in writing and reciting original, whimsical sonnets about madness, Time, career & family dysfunction and the importance of drinking tea. Madison has appeared at NYC’s Boundless Tales Poetry Reading Series, Cornelia Street Café & La MaMa Experimental Theatre, and at Philadelphia’s Mt. AiryArt Garage. A “Madisonnet” or two have appeared in…
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25 Short Poems by Jim Cory
Jim Cory is a poet and a fiction writer interested in history, ornithology and architecture. He has reviewed books, written essays for various publications, authored eight books or chapbooks of poetry (most recently No Brainer Variations, 2011, from Rain Mountain Press, NYC), established a poetry publishing cooperative (1990s) in Philadelphia and has been the editor…
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Color Schemes By Jeffrey E. Lee
Color Schemes One of Moonstone’s 2015 Chapbook Contest Honorable Mentions. His first novel is forthcoming from White Pine Press in 2016. His dramatic poetry book, identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006), was a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist. His towards euphoria was the co-winner of the editor’s poetry chapbook prize from Seven Kitchens Press (2012),…
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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!…