Moonstone Presents:

Live Poetry: Grid Books Authors

Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

Tuesday April 29, 2025 – 5:45pm – LIVE – Grid Books Authors Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 JoAnne McFarland is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and independent curator, author of American Graphic, A Domestic Lookbook and Pullman. Lisa Sewell is the author several books of poetry, Flood Plain, Impossible Object and Birds […]

Live Poetry: Bobby Zankel, Sekai’afua Zanel, and kami x

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesday April 30, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Bobby Zankel is a Philadelphia-based saxophonist and composer whose music moves between fire and ritual, freedom and form. Sekai’afua Zankel is a poet, performer, and lifelong artist-activist whose work fuses spoken word, theater, dance, and spiritual revolution. kami x is […]

World Press Freedom Day

Virtual

Sunday May 4, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to […]

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series

Tuesday May 6, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast On the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 – Philly Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series David Kertis, author of Word of the Day. was born in 1955 and grew up in northern New Jersey. He attended Oberlin College where he studied […]

Live Poetry: Grace Bauer, Majorie Maddox, Amy Small-McKinney

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Wednesday May 7, 2025 — 7:00 pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Grace Bauer is a Philadelphia-based poet who has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). Marjorie Maddox is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University as well as an author who […]

2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners

Sunday May 11, 2025 – 2:00 pm – VIRTUAL On Zoom – 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VJprZxhkRxGtL6tgxl7bkA First Prize – Partridge Boswell, author of Heckler, poems appear in Poetry, American Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas Honorable Mentions Shaina Clingempeel, author of in […]