Moonstone Arts Center

Category: Poetry

  • M. Nzadi Zimele Keita, Sean Lynch & Lamont Steptoe

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday May 28, 2014 – 7pm Lamont B Steptoe, Nzadi Keita, Sean Lynch   M. Nzadi Zimele Keita is a Philly-born writer, editor, scholar and teacher. Her first book of poems, Birthmarks, documents a generation of African-Americans who experienced the Great Migration. She has received grants from…

  • MARGENTO & Martin Woodside

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street. Saturday April 5 – 7pm  Athanor & Other Pohems by Romanian poet Gellu Naum,  Translated & Performed by MARGENTO  and Martin Woodside   MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu) is a poet, academic, translator, and poetry performer whose pen-name is also the name of his poetry/action painting/jazz-rock band. Chris…

  • “Mentor & Mentored” Elijah B Pringle, III with Adriann “The Pen” Bautista & Jamarr Hall

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    Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Studios  699 Ranstead Street Tuesday April 8, 2014, 7pm Elijah B Pringle, III with Adriann “The Pen” Bautista & Jamarr Hall Elijah B Pringle, III is an artist who continues to express himself in the Visual, Performing and Written Arts. He is a lyric baritone as well as a composer.  He…

  • Lynn Hoffman & Candace Riggs

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday April 9, 2014, 7pm Lynn Hoffman & Candace Riggs   Lynn Hoffman has been a merchant seaman, teacher, chef and cab driver. He’s published three novels, The Bachelor’s Cat, Philadelphia Personal and bang-BANG. He’s also written The New Short Course in Wine and The Short Course…

  • J.C. Todd, Elizabeth Catanese, Darla Himeles & Attractive Nuisance

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday April 16, 2014, 7pm J.C. Todd, Elizabeth Catanese,  Darla Himles & Attractive Nuisance   J. C. Todd’s recent work explores war’s infiltration into daily life. The author of What Space This Body, her work has appeared widely in journals such as the Paris Review, The American…

  • Lisa Coffman, Nathalie Anderson and W.D. Ehrhart

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street. Saturday April 19 – 7pm Lisa Coffman, Nathalie Anderson and W.D. Ehrhart   Lisa Coffman grew up in East Tennessee and now lives on California’s Central Coast– a pair of landscapes that color and inspire her writing.  She is the author of two poetry collections, Less Obvious Gods,…

  • Lillian Dunn

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday April 23, 2014, 7pm   Poet Lillian Dunn is co-founder and executive editor APIARY Magazine, coordinates the UNCOMMON GROUNDS for which she was awarded a grant from the Leeway Foundation in 2012. She works at The Mighty Engine, an advertising firm in Old City, managing non-profit…

  • Open Mic with Philadelphia and New York Young Poets

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop  728 S. Broad Street Monday April 28, 2014, 7pm   Open Mic with Philadelphia and New York Young Poets Please welcome students and staff from City-As-School High School, one of New York City’s oldest alternative high schools that offers students the opportunity to earn academic credit and gain real work…

  • Lynn Levin’s University of Pennsylvania MLA Class Poetry Reading

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    Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 6 pm Lynn Levin’s University of Pennsylvania  MLA Class Poetry Reading     Lynn Levin – Poet, writer, and translator Lynn Levin is the author of four collections of poems: Miss Plastique; Fair Creatures of an Hour, a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; Imaginarium, a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s…

  • NATIONAL BLACK ARTS SPOKEN WORD TOUR Celebrates Black Arts Week

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    Wednesday April 30, 2014, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street. NATIONAL BLACK ARTS SPOKEN WORD TOUR Celebrates Black Arts Week Maurice Henderson is a poet, playwright, founder of National Black Arts Spoken Word Tour and National Black Authors Tour. He has appeared on over 25 talk shows and news programs and has…