Monday March 31, 2025 – 7pmEST – Chaos, Crises, Conflict Anthology Reading – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/o5aORNAuQH6qAzaYCOI-Yg In a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict, how can we reframe, heal, and continue to live in the midst of destruction, chaos, and loss? We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is […]
Wednesday April 2, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMJG5oarQqGAkXCjjv6H6A Courtney Bambrick, author of World Without, teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls, was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Caroline M. Mar, author of Water Guest, Special Education, and Dream […]
Sunday April 6, 2025 – 2pm EDT LIVE – 2024 Featured Poets Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_t25rgq-TDyw9s-2xGxuCw In 2024, Moonstone Arts Center hosted almost 100 events with nearly 200 poets, both local and international. 75 of those featured poets contributed to this anthology and will read with us again. […]
Tuesday April 8, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Grady Chambers is the author of the novel Great Disasters and the poetry collection North American Stadiums, selected by Henri Cole as the […]
Wednesday April 9, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Join us for the Book Launch of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (Serotonin Press) Jane-Rebecca Cannarella edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch […]
April 12, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE Live at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child […]
Wednesday April 16, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street E. Lynn Alexander is an artist, poet, and “crazy cat lady” from the Lehigh Valley. She is a partnering artist and writer in the Perspectives: Art on Environment project at the Nurture Nature Center. Peter Baroth, author of Long Green and […]
Sunday April 20, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0vQ-qLRCTqaki87Hoxes8A International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month (April). According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, […]
Wednesday April 23, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Thomas Devaney is a poet, facilitator, educator and author of Getting to Philadelphia and You Are the Battery. His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. Sean Lynch, author of five, has been the editor of various magazines, journals, […]
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 […]
