Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Anthony Palma and Brooke Palma 2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series 699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Anthony Palma is the president of the Mad Poets Society and author of flashes of light from the deep. He holds a degree in English from […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, John Lavin, Elijah B. Pringle, III, Fióna Bolger VIRTUAL – Registration Required: Virtual – Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGprT8qGNcj0i5hXzXxbHwMGpIttrri Neal Kosaly-Meyer is a Seattle-based composer and performer. As a member of Moonstone’s aTONEment community, Neal has joined John Lavin to coordinate a Free Jazz performance in Dublin of Finnegans Wake […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings: Lake Angela and DJ Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required for Zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOuppj8jE9NfdGxgpX-dGOEHn2Ahgh0d Lake Angela is a poet, author of Organblooms and Words for the Dead, choreographer, and dancer from Lake Erie who constantly studies and develops her methods […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei Registration Required, Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkceuvrD0pHd1jEUSaAmpY03rRs76cqEjf Lynda V. E. Crawford has lived in the US longer than her childhood home Barbados. Both ‘homes’ sway and punctuate her writing. She writes to sneak behind eyes, blow through ears, stretch voices like others dance words. Her […]
New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press VIRTUAL – Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-6oqTgvHNRG34IB6Bx8gkC-PKeD1n5H RuNett Ebo, author of Expressing Myself on Purpose, has performed all over the country, is contributing writer for Kwee, a Liberian magazine. Nina Gadson, author of When I Was 16, realized that poetry is a part of her purpose, she collected these poems […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Rose-Marie Athiley, Edythe Rodriguez, Basia Wilson Tuesday February 8, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpdeCtpjotHtfBklvFsozr3X6BLxZdJvtv Rose-Marie Athiley, is a published poet and essayist, a recent graduate of Hamline with a degree in English, moved to the U.S. in 2006 and found the art of pen […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Gabrielle Martin, Scott Sigl, Jonathon Todd Wednesday February 9, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqduqgpzIpGNOTTLgVvjw_TLnRMl3boAtS Gabrielle Martin is the author of Gritty City, a poet living and working […]
2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners Sunday February 13, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucuyupjwvH9CGPXzKDk9CvNgFd9FZND-w First Place: Charles Malone, author of After an Eclipse of Moths: the Crewdson Poems Charles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky […]
Tuesday February 15, 2022 – 7pm -VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuf-ugrD8iE9wZ_FJEF6q-hEEi1MohfLyw Deborah Fries is a Philadelphia writer and printmaker whose chapbook, Having Visions Again, was the 2021 Keystone selection from Seven Kitchens Press. Her two full-length books of poetry, Various Modes of Departure, selected by Carolyn Forche, and The Bright Field of […]
Readings from the Penn & Pencil Club Wednesday February 16, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqdOmrqj0sG9I2URaQHbuEETjN8d-gIOhM Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House, Penn & Pencil Club is a creative writing workshop for faculty and […]
Honoring Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Winner of the 2021 Paz Poetry Prize Saturday February 19, 2022 – VIRTUAL 5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific – On Zoom Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdumtqT0sE9Q3x8ulIyfbTTyX6fec3dYR Alejandro Pérez-Cortés is the author of Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed, winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry. Some poems are set in […]
Readings from the 2021 Featured Poets Anthology Sunday February 20, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdOmpqDIqH9B0HU4JTUrRJwRTTLd4J5D6 2021 was Moonstone’s busiest year ever With over 130 live and virtual events Presenting over 300 Poets Please join us Not all poets will be reading
Moonstone Poetry Reading: Nicole Greaves and Amy Small-McKinney Wednesday February 23, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpduisqjkjGtR_CB38zTyfRrxnOYrXoiOt Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Nicole Greaves’ poetry has appeared in numerous literary reviews and was awarded prizes […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe Friday February 25, 2022 – 7pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElfuGurTIvHdEhuhKG-RhSJuelsiJtkkw0 M. Nzadi Keita is the author of Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass. That book, a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Prize, […]
New Voices: Emerging Poets with Avik Belenje, Ryan Hiemenz, Vriddhi Vinay Saturday February 26, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – Registration Required:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlde6urjgiE9afmUo3Ku3FO0NBWLhLZ7C3 New Voices: Emerging Poets – a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger poetry community […]
Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes Wednesday March 2, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom, Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpfumtqTgjG9wjtw-r78pDDvf43obI0URl Join us for a memorial open mic poetry reading for Sandra Turner-Barnes Sandra Turner-Barnes of Lawnside — writer, arts administrator, and […]
