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 […]
