Moonstone Arts Center

Category: Poetry

  • Mentor & Mentored

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    Tuesday February 11, 2014, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Studios – 699 Ranstead Street   M. Nzadi Keita with Sinnea Douglas & Tracey Ferdinand M. Nzadi Keita is a Philly-born writer, editor, scholar and teacher. Her first book of poems, Birthmarks, documents a generation of African-Americans who migrated from the rural South to the urban…

  • Katie Ford & Dave Livewell

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street.  Wednesday February 12, 2014, 7pm Katie Ford   & Dave Livewell Katie Ford is the author of Deposition, Colosseum, and the forthcoming Blood Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2014). Ford is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Prize. Colosseum was named among the “Best Books…

  • Hayden Saunier & Elliott Levin

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      Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street.  Wednesday February 19, 2014, 7pm Hayden Saunier  & Elliott Levin     Hayden Saunier is the author of two poetry collections, Tips for Domestic Travel, published by Black Lawrence Press and Say Luck, which just won the 2013 Gell Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in…

  • Na Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe

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          Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street.  Wednesday February 26, 2014, 7pm   Na Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe (which means After the Queen, Precious, One Who Controls Her Destiny) is a Poet/Activist, Griot, Author, Vocalist, Educator, and Hair Culturalist, who utilizes her gift to uplift her culture, promote black womanhood in…

  • The Twin Poets and Dan & Dave Simpson

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    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 7pm The Twin Poets (Al & Nnamdi) and Dan & Dave Simpson   Tutors, mentors, big brothers, community activist, leaders, scholars, summa cum laude grads, allies, soldiers, father-figures, artist, camp directors, counselors, historians, master social workers, non- profit administrators, brothers, friends, fathers, sons,…

  • New Year, New Ideas featuring Kelly McQuain, Elizabeth Scanlon and Eric Norris

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    Wednesday January 22, 2014, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. KELLY MCQUAIN’s chapbook, Velvet Rodeo, was recently selected  as winner of Bloom Press’s poetry prize. His poems appear in The Pinch, Painted Bride Quarterly, Assaracus, Kin and Mead, as well as in such anthologies as Poems for the Writing and Rabbit Ears:…

  • The Incredible Sestina Anthology

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    Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Join us for a night of sestinas in celebration of The Incredible Sestina Anthology! Hosted by the anthology’s editor, Daniel Nester, this event will center on an open sestina mic, as well as featured guests: Elizabeth Scanlon Richard O’Brien Ernest Hilbert Sparrow Jill…

  • Christopher Bursk with Pamela Perkins-Frederick & Elizabeth Austin

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    Tuesday January 14, 2013, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Studios 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Presents Mentor and Mentored How does poetry travel from generation to generation, what are the themes, the sounds, what changes and what stays the same. Filmed with a live audience at the PhillyCAM Studio, the program will be edited…

  • Beth Feldman Brandt & Barbara DeCesare

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    Wednesday January 8, 2014, 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop   730 S. Broad Street Beth Feldman Brandt began writing poems on March 18, 2004 at 4:00 am in a hotel in New York City. Since then, her work has explored such divergent themes as ocean habitats, atomic clocks, herbal remedies and the Origin of…

  • Poe-Film Tuesday

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    Tuesday January 7, 2014 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 730 S. Broad Street  Poe-Film Tuesday  ($5/$3 for students)  “Us poets are notoriously bad at math, but this we know: Philly poetry is fun. Movies are fun. Poetry x movies = funner squared. If you’re ready for something a little different in your literary…