Virtual Poetry Reading feat/ Eight of Moonstone's Former Chapbook Winners
2022-10-11 19:00 (America/New_York) | PA
Moonstone Arts Center’s Virtual Poetry
Tuesday October 11, 2022 – 7pm Eastern
Registration Required – Registration Link
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A Reading by the Previous Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners

Lisa Grunberger is author of I am dirty and Born Knowing which are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman, a mother, and a daughter of Shoah survivors. She is also author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position.

Vernita Hall is author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, and others.

George McDermott is a Philadelphia poet who lives in Florida (that’s not impossible, not even particularly uncommon). He’s also been an English teacher, a speechwriter, and a screenwriter (those are not mutually exclusive, not even especially different). He is author of Pictures, Some of Them Moving.

Charles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park with Wolverine Farm Publishing. He coordinates writing programs in the community for the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University.

Kenneth Pobo is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections, including Bend of Quiet, Loplop in a Red City, and Lilac And Sawdust and The Book of Micah. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Asheville Literary Review, Nimrod, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere.

Joe Roarty won the first Moonstone Chapbook Contest in 2015 for Moritat (German for “street ballad”), poetry of high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms, whose original language mixes dictions with masterful ease.

Mbarek Sryfi, poet and translator, is author of The Trace of a Smile and City Poems, co-authored Perspectives: Arabic Language and Culture in Film. His work appears in many journals and anthologies including Al-Arabiyya, Banipal, Middle Eastern Literatures, The Journal of North African Studies, and others.

Emma Wynn is author of Help Me to Fall, her poetry has appeared in Sky Island Journal, West Trade Review, peculiar magazine, apricity press, The Raw Art Review, Delmavra Review and others Most recently, she was a finalist for the Subnivean magazine 2021 poetry award.
Nathalie F Anderson, Moonstone’s 2022 Judge, will Host.

Live Poetry Reading with Eli C. Goldblatt, Vernita Hall, and Peter F. Murphy
2022-10-12 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Readings
Wednesday October 12, 2022 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub
1214 Sansom Street and on zoom
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Eli C. Goldblatt is author of Wissahickon Creek: Walks & Dreams, and seven other books. He is Professor Emeritus at Temple University, former director of writing directed New City Writing, the community outreach arm of the writing program. Goldblatt also taught science, math and English for six years in an urban alternative high school in Philadelphia. He earned a master’s in education and certificate in biology from Temple.His master’s in literature and doctorate in composition studies came from University of Wisconsin-Madison. His published work includes “Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy beyond the College Curriculum” and “Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography,” as well as three collections of poetry and two children’s books.
Vernita Hall is the author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color, winner of the Willow Books Grand Prize and the Robert Creeley Prize from Marsh Hawk Press; and The Hitchhiking Robot Learns About Philadelphians, winner of the 2016 Moonstone Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, The Common, River Styx, The Hopkins Review, and Arts & Letters. With fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center and Ucross, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rosemont College and serves on the poetry review board of Philadelphia Stories.
Peter F. Murphy grew up on the St. Lawrence River in Alexandria Bay, NY, the Heart of the Thousand Islands, where he learned to ice fish and shoot pool. His poems have appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, New Madrid, The Café Review, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others. His chapbook, A Map of Three Continents, was published by Moonstone Press (2020). Underwater, his new book of poems, came out in 2021 from Human Error Publishing.

Live Poetry Event: E. Lynn Alexander & Amy Saul-Zerby
2022-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading With E. Lynn Alexander and Amy Saul-Zerby

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday October 19 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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E. Lynn Alexander is a poet, artist, mother, and maker of new things from old. She has been involved in the small press for many years, producing both online and print projects. She has organized and hosted performance and open mic events locally, and currently cohosts two monthly readings online. Right now, she is working on programming for the Easton Book Festival which takes place each year in October. She has recently released a collection of poetry, “Find Me in the Iris”, available now.

Amy Saul-Zerby is the author of the poetry collections Paper Flowers Imaginary Birds (Be About It Press 2017) and Deep Camouflage (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018). Her third collection, Choose Your Own Beginning, is forthcoming from Be About It Press. Her poems have appeared in The Rumpus, The Chicago Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She edits Voicemail Poems.

Sean Hanahan Host, Open Reading Follows

Live Poetry Event: Amy Barone & David Ebenbach
2022-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 | PA
Live Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Amy Barone and David Ebenbach

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday October 26 @ 7PM

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Amy Barone’s new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, was published by Broadstone Books in 2022. New York Quarterly Books released her collection, We Became Summer, in 2018. She wrote chapbooks, Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in Local Knowledge, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin, and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. Barone spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community. From Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, she lives in New York City.
David Ebenbach is the author of three books of poems, including his new collection What’s Left to Us by Evening, and four books of fiction and non-fiction, winners of such awards as the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Juniper Prize, among others. A West Philly native, he lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event: Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman
2022-10-30 14:00 | PA
Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading with Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman

Sunday October 30 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

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Byron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including The Galway Review, Cyphers, Poetry Pacific, London Magazine, The Tower Journal and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). His most recent collection is The Echoing Coastline (Agenda Editions).

Philip Brady has taught at University College Cork in Ireland, as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the National University of Zaire, in the Semester at Sea Program, in the Wilkes University Low-Residency MFA Program, at the Chautauqua Institute, at San Francisco State University, the University of Delaware, and SUNY Binghamton. Currently he is a distinguished professor of English at Youngstown State University, where he teaches creative writing and literature.

Jones Irwin teaches Philosophy and Education in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. He has published original monographs on philosophy and aesthetics, including texts on Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and Slavoj Žižek’s Psychoanalysis, and his poetry and fiction have been published widely in independent journals and magazines. His vision is of a postmodern existentialist, with a dash of noir mixed in with a progressivist ethic. This chapbook is his first collection of poems.

Steven Kleinman is the author of Life Cycle Of A Bear, winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. His work is available from the American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, the Iowa Review, the Gettysburg Review, Oversound, as well as others. Steven is a contributing manager at the American Poetry Review, where he co-hosts the APR podcast. He is the interim director of Creative Writing at the University of the Arts, where he also serves as the faculty coordinator of the Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop.

John Lavin Host

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Interview & Reading
2022-11-01 18:30 | PA
2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series With Zina Bethea Dawson, Jenny Pacanowski & J. C. Todd

Tuesday November 1 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL
To Attend, Visit https://phillycam.org/
And Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox

Zina Bethea Dawson a served as a combat medic. She spent the majority of her adult life caring for others; fellow service members while on active duty and family upon separation from duty. From as early as she can recall, creativity was interwoven into her life’s journey. Every form of textile artistry piques her interest to the point of formal training and execution. Whether it’s a quilt, hand tooled leather accessory, or a custom piece of jewelry, seeing a smile is the elixir that energizes her passions. Give her a needle and thread; magic will happen. Joy is a mission for Zina as she uses humor in her written work with Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving, where experiential expression is the medium of camaraderie and healing.
Jenny Pacanowski is the Founder and Director of Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving; a reintegration program that utilizes writing and performance to empower veterans to thrive in their daily life. She is also the program director of Poetic Theater Productions NYC Veteran Voices and the Associate Director of Lucid Body’s Impact theatre. Jenny believes that partnerships, collaborations and empowerment through community and ritual storytelling are the key to reintegration for veterans and their families. She travels all over the country performing, speaking, facilitating workshops and inviting people to empower themselves from within their experiences.
J. C. Todd was a Blue Star Mother between 2002-2012, when three of her family members were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and she began to write her book of poems, Beyond Repair, (2021) a selection for the Able Muse Press Book Award. Other poetry collections include The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press, 2018), a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Award, and What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008). Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize and a ‘commended’ winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition: Poetry Society of the UK, she holds fellowships from the Pew Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bemis Center. Poems and interviews have appeared in the Baltimore Review, The Night Heron Barks, One Art, The Paris Review, and other journals. In 2023, PDR Press will publish a collection of her new and selected poems in a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) edition. www.jc-todd.com

Charles S. Carr, Host

Live Poetry Event: Gina Myers, Alina Pleskova, Warren Longmire
2022-11-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Gina Myers, Alina Pleskova, and Warren Longmire

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 2 @ 7:30PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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Gina Myers’s latest book, Some of the Times, was published by Barrelhouse in October 2020. She is the author of two other full-length poetry collections, A Model Year (2009) and Hold It Down (2013), as well as several chapbooks. In addition to poetry, she has published essays, reviews, and articles for a variety of publications. She lives in Philadelphia, PA, where she works in communications and co-edits the tiny with ebs and Cul-de-sac of Blood with Jeff T. Johnson.

Alina Pleskova is fixing to become poet-in-residence of the astral realm. She is a Moscow-born, Philadelphia-based poet & editor, author of What Urge Will Save Us, Toska. Alina is a recipient of the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change and Window of Opportunity grants; has hosted workshops, events, & panels, is founder of the Cheburashka Collective (women & nonbinary writers who are emigres/first-gen/refugees from the Soviet diaspora), and co-edits bedfellows, a literary magazine topically focused on sex, desire, & intimacy.

Warren Longmire is a writer, technologist and an educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is a former co-editor of Apiary Magazine, a board member for Blue Stoop and has taught at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He’s been published in journals including Prolit, American Poetry Review and The Painted Bride Quarterly and is featured in the Best American Poetry 2021 anthology. His first full length publication, Open Source, was released in 2021 through Radiator Press. His second, Bird/Diz: An Erased History of Bebop is set to release in the winter of 2022 through Fonograf Editions.

ebs Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event: The Future of America
2022-11-06 14:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Presents:
The Future of America– VOTE

Sunday November 6 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

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What is our future? Will we take the effort to vote on November 8? Do we believe in Democracy or will we become an authoritarian state? 4 million students graduate high school each year and do not vote until they are 25. We would live in a different world if they voted. This may be the most important election in our lifetime. VOTE and urge other to VOTE. Do it with poetry, Join us as poets reflect on the Future of America.
Join us a poets read their submissions.

Live Poetry Reading: Alexander Khan, Claire Palmer, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain
2022-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Alexander Khan, Claire Palmer, John Tom Raczkowski & China Rain

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 9 @ 7:30PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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Alexander Khan is a creative writing student at the University of the Arts. As a queer person, his writing focuses on the link between queerness, mental health, and family. He was first published in 3rd grade in a national book focused on poems about bullying.

Claire Palmer is a 21-year-old writer, poet, & philosopher based in Philadelphia. Born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, she currently attends The University of the Arts as a senior in the Creative Writing program. Drawing from magical realism & pagan folklore, her artistic style also sources inspiration from political history & dialogic language. Motifs of ancestry, karma, & free will often can be found in her work. Find Claire on Instagram @cklayre.

John Tom Raczkowski is the Senior Editor and Coordinator for University of the Art’s annual magazine Underground Pool, responsible for publishing student driven works as well as hosting events and open mics for students. He is also a consistent Review Writer for Publisher’s Weekly. He reads and writes poetry in his spare time.

China Rain is a writer and mixed media artist living in Philadelphia, inhabiting a 24-year-old body in its last year at the Universtiy of the Arts.
She likes long walks and feeding birds, you can find their work in the newest issue of Prolit Magazine, Prose online, and elsewhere at @china_rainnn on instagram.

John Wall Barger, Host – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Poetry Event Featuring Five Poets
2022-11-10 19:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Reading with Millicent Borges Accardi, Margaret R. Sáraco, MM Wittle, Anne Harding Woodworth & R.G Ziemer

Thursday November 10 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL

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Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet, is the author of two poetry collections: Injuring Eternity (World Nouveau) and Woman on a Shaky Bridge (Finishing Line Press chapbook). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts (NEA), the California Arts Council, Barbara Deming Foundation, Canto Mundo and Formby at Texas Tech (researching the work of writer-activist Kay Boyle).

Margaret R. Sáraco grew up in an Italian-American extended family, was awarded master’s degrees in Women’s Studies and in Mathematics, which inform her writing. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals, has been featured at The Art and Poetry of Teaching, Havdalah Café, Gallery U, Welcome the Sabbath Bride, and others and has conducted workshops at Stockton Tour of Poetry, Save our Schools, Hudson Valley Writing Project, the American Italian Historical Association, Montclair State and New York Universities on writing, teaching, activism and music.
MM Wittle, author of Reconstruction, is a writer of all genres who is a high school and middle school teacher during the day, a college professor at night, and a book worm and writer on the weekends. Wittle’s play Family Guidance was selected for honorable mention at the 5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Workshop’s Playwriting Competition. The Education of Allie Rose was shortlisted in the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama. Her work has appeared in Transient, The Bond Street Review, Free Flash Fiction, The Fox Chase Review, The Four Quarters, Decades Review, Emerging Literary Journal and others.
Anne Harding Woodworth is the author of eight books of poetry and four chapbooks. Her most recent book is Gender: Two Novellas in Verse (October 2022), a Literary Titan Silver Award book. Her book, Trouble, received the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry. An excerpt from her chapbook, The Last Gun, won the 2016 COG Poetry Award, judged by A. Van Jordan, and was subsequently animated (https://vimeo.com/193842252). Anne is a member of the Poetry Board of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Board of Governors of the Emily Dickinson Museum.
R.G Ziemer was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, worked in the construction trades, practiced genealogy and presently teaches writing at the College of DuPage. He is active with several writing groups and enjoys sharing prose and poetry at local reading venues and open mics. Ziemer’s novel the Ghost of Jamie McVay was published in 2019.

Virtual Event: Emerging Poets
2022-11-12 14:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Reading with New Voices: Emerging Poets

Saturday November 12 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

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Avik Belenje, age 15, has studied poetry at Poetry Power, he has received the Silver Key from Scholastic Arts and Writing Regional Awards and four First Place Awards from California Federation of Chaparral Poets, Inc.

Cydney Brown was the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. A Freshman at Northwestern University she has been writing poetry since 5th grade. She has been featured in The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, 6abc, Philadelphia Citizen, and Fox29 and loves that there are no limitations to writing. Her poetry explore social justice, self-image, love, and nature. Cydney won first place in The National Hip Hop workshop competition, is the Recipient of The Romero Scholarship For Excellence In Spoken Word and is a Gold Award Lifetime Member Girl Scout who is active in improving her community and is the recipient of The Good Citizenship Award. Cydney wishes to inspire people to speak their truth and share her poetry with the world.
Jules Hostetter is a poet from Pennsylvania. She currently studies creative writing at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her poems explore depression/anxiety, love, and sexuality. She loves collecting records, roller skating, and playing guitar.

王潇/Evan Wang is the inaugural Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate from Pennsylvania. His work is forthcoming or has been published in VIBE, Philadelphia Stories, National Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. His work has been recognized by or featured at Wawa Welcome America, the ruth weiss foundation, Bleeding Soul Poetry, and Society of Poetry.

Virtual Poetry Event with Cheryl J. Fish, Lisa Grunberger & Alison Lubar
2022-11-13 16:00 | PA
Moonstone Poetry Presents
Stretching Forms: Poetry to Prose

Sunday November 13 @ 4PM — VIRTUAL

Registration is Required. Register Here:
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Cheryl J. Fish is author of the debut novel Off the Yoga Mat, the story of three characters coming of middle age. She is also the author of recent poetry collections, Crater & Tower, and The Sauna is Full of Maids. She is co-editor of the collection A Stranger in the Village :Two Centuries of African-American Travel Literature. Her short fiction has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, Cheap Pop, Spank the Carp, Liars League, Boog City and KGB Bar Lit. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Hanging Loose, Maintenant, Terrain, Mom Egg Review, New American Writing, Reed, Postcard poems, Santa Monica Review, ISLE and Poetics for the More-than-Human-World.  Fish has been a Fulbright professor in Finland and is professor of English at BMCC/City University of New York and docent lecturer at University of Helsinki. Her website is cheryljfish.com.
Pushcart nominee, Temple University Professor, Lisa Grunberger is a first-generation American writer. Her poetry books I am dirty (Moonstone Press) and Born Knowing (Finishing Line Press) are lyrical reflections on life as a Jewish woman, a mother, and a daughter of Shoah survivors. Her book, Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position (Harper Collins) is currently being adapted as a musical. Her work is widely published and translated from The New York Times to the Crab Orchard Review. Almost Pregnant, her play about infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, is published by Smith Scripts. Alexa Talks to Rebecca won the Audience Choice Award at the Squeaky Bicycle Theatre and will soon be a short film.
Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary, mixed-race femme whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people. Their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, is out now with Thirty West (May 2022); their second, sweet euphemism, is forthcoming with CLASH!, an imprint of Mouthfeel Press, in 2023. You can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.

Live Poetry Event: Luke Stromberg's The Elephant's Mouth
2022-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading Featuring Luke Stromberg’s Debut Poetry Collection

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 16 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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The Elephant’s Mouth, Luke’s Debut Poetry Collection, Years in the Making
“Luke Stromberg is an autobiographical poet, but instead of being confined to the past, his best narratives deliver enough metaphoric lift to transmute them into poetry. I’m remembering his shadow being “a movie on the wall;” tombstones as “baby teeth;” and days that “pile up like dishes in the sink.” The Elephant’s Mouth is a noteworthy debut.” —Billy Collins (Former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling)

Luke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Think Journal, ONE ART, Cleaver, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University.
WITH:

John Wall Barger

Luke Bauerlein

Ernest Hilbert

Z Murphy

Anne-Adele Wight

John Wall Barger’s poems and critical writing have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, ZYZZYVA, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. His sixth book of poems, Smog Mother, just came out. He is a contract editor for Frontenac House, and teaches in the BFA Program for Creative Writing at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Luke Bauerlein grew up in SE PA and first met Luke Stromberg in an undergraduate poetry workshop at West Chester University. He co-founded the now extinct rock n roll band, The Late Greats, and his poems and essays have appeared in the NY Times, Rattle, BODY, Unsplendid, and elsewhere. Ernest Hilbert is the author of four collections of poetry, Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan, winner of the Poets’ Prize, and Last One Out . His fifth book, Storm Swimmer, was selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips as winner of the 2022 Vassar Miller Prize and will appear in 2023. Z Murphy (she/they) is a multiracial multidisciplinary artist studying creative writing at the University of the Arts. Since she was little, she’s valued the art of storytelling and proceeds to tell stories in whatever way she sees fit, whether it be through writing, performance, song – Z remains constantly inspired to make new art. Z writes about race, sex, class, mental health, and about writing itself (how meta of them). She is currently a writer for the online magazine Nicki Swift, a dog dad, and a retired child. Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment, The Age of Greenhouses, Opera House Arterial, and Sidestep Catapult, all from BlazeVOX. For four years she curated the multi-genre performance series Jubilant Thicket. Her work has been published internationally in print and online and includes appearances in Luna Luna, Apiary, Bedfellows, Oz Burp, Have Your Chill, and Read On 2. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.

Live Event: Celebrating Larry Robin's 80th Birthday!
2022-11-20 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Come Join Us As We Celebrate Larry Robin’s 80th Birthday!

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Sunday November 20 @ 2PM

“In my youth in the 60’s the motto was “never trust anyone over 30”, now my grandchildren are over 30. I am extremely lucky to have worked on the things I believe in my entire life. 52 years at Robin’s Book Store, 41 years with Moonstone. Promoting art and education. What else could one wish for? Should you want to do something for me, donate something to the Moonstone Arts Center, www.moonstoneartscenter.com. I hope to see you on the 20th. If you have any questions, please contact me.” – Larry
Picture by Sandy Robin

Join Us for Socializing and Poetry!
2pm – Doors Open
3pm – Ten Minutes of Readings

Lynn Levin
Warren Longmire
Sean Hanahan
Z Murphy
Matilda Bray
Joe Roarty

4pm – Ten Minutes of Readings

C. Todd
Lamont Steptoe
Aaren Perry
Mac Chandler
Evan Wang
Eleanor Wilner

5pm – Open Reading
Elijah Pringle Host

Live Poetry Event: David Acosta, Chris Bullard, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff
2022-11-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry Reading with David Acosta, Chris Bullard, Colin Morgan & Molly Russakoff

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 23 @ 7PM

Event will be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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David Acosta, author of Miscellany, is a well-known poet, writer, and activist whose works have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. He has served on a variety of committees and boards, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and The AIDS Law Project. As a founding member of both the Art Emergency Coalition and the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression (which went on to successfully sue the National Endowment for the Arts during the 90s culture wars.) As a Latinx, racially mixed, indigenous, gay man, he continues to blend art and activism as he collaborates on countless projects throughout the city while producing his own art and writing.
Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, is author of Continued, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.

Colin Morgan (known as Marc Moore in some literary circles) is the CEO of Night City Publishing, a record label based in Philadelphia, PA. Additionally, they are the lead editor and founder of Parquet Poetry magazine, a small literary and art journal also based in Philadelphia. Colin plays bass in the band Queen Mob and has been published worldwide in many elite verse and art journals, but their most important work is the unseen text of whatever they are currently writing. Follow Night City Publishing on IG: @nightcitypublishing – Submit to Parquet Poetry on IG: @parquet.poetry
Molly Russakoff has been living and writing in Philadelphia since 1979. She was a poetics student and teaching assistant in the early days of Naropa University in Boulder Co., studying with many of the Beat, Black Mountain and New York School poets. She won a Pew Fellowship in 1993. Molly currently owns Molly’s Books & Records with her husband, Joe Ankenbrand. She will be reading from her recently completed novel manuscript, Red Tape.

Live Event with Elliott batTzedek, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers
2022-11-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Poetry Reading with Elliott batTzedek, Glen A. Mazis & Michelle Myers

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday November 30 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here:
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Elliott batTzedek’s translation manuscript of “Dance of the Lunatic” by the Israeli Jewish lesbian writer Shez won the 2012 Robert Bly Translation prize. She is the events coordinator for Big Blue Marble Bookstore, cofounder of QuillsEdge Press, and founder of Poetry Business Manager. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the journals: American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Naugatuck River Review, Lambda Literary Online, and Sinister Wisdom. She blogs about poetry and translation at thisfrenzy.com.
Glen A. Mazis taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg, retiring in 2020. He has more than 90 poems in literary journals, including Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou’wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, Atlanta Review, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review, and the collection, The River Bends, a chapbook, The Body Is a Dancing Star, and Bodies of Space and Time oks. He has published five philosophy books with the most recent being, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize.
Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. Appearing on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam as a founding member of Yellow Rage, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Title Magazine, Brevity, and USA Today. Her work also has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation, Loft Literary Center, Asian Arts Initiative, and Dodge Poetry Program. Michelle currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Berrie Center, and her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys. Michelle’s poetry is featured in the NY Times bestseller Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now as well as My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.

Virtual Poetry Event with International Poets
2022-12-04 14:00 | PA
Virtual Event with Anuradha Bhowmik, Fiona Bolger, Rosaleen McDonagh, Michelle Myers & Ewuare X. Osayande

Sunday December 4 @ 2PM EST — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-moqDsiHdZ-8fulshSjDrRRGm4piBqC

Anuradha Bhowmik, Bangladeshi American, Kundiman Fellow and AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Her work has appeared in POETRY, the Sun, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Indiana Review, and elsewhere. Brown Girl Chromatography: Poems – “Anuradha Bhowmik speaks for all the brown girls who ‘couldn’t have/crushes in fourth grade,’ all of us who weren’t ‘white women/wearing lingerie in the glossy Macy’s ad.’ The speaker’s journey through the minefield of popular culture, family responsibility, and maturation into an unmapped womanhood is handled with deft precision.” —Allison Joseph, author of Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
Fiona Bolger is author of Love in the Original Language from Salmon Poetry, 2022. She works as a mentor and creative facilitator between Ireland and India. Her other publications include A Compound of Words, All the Worlds Between: An Anthology from Yoda Press Delhi and Geometry of Love Between the Elements and Triptych: Three Poets, from Poetry Bus, Arklow, Ireland. She also works with Outlandish Theatre Platform.

Rosaleen McDonagh is a playwright, performer, columnist for The Irish Times and a member of Aosdána. Her plays include The Baby Doll Project, She’s Not Mine, Rings, The Prettiest Proud Boy and Mainstream. Recent commissions were Walls and Windows for the Abbey Theatre and Contentious Spaces for the Project Arts Centre. Rosaleen holds a BA, two MPhils from Trinity College and a PhD from Northumbria University. A board member of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner. Unsettled is her first book, a collection of essays exploring racism, ableism, abuse and resistance as well as the bonds of community, family and friendship.
Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet and educator. A founding member of Yellow Rage, Michelle harnesses her experiences as a biracial Korean American woman to create work that raises awareness and builds community. Her writing has been published in Apiary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Title Magazine, Brevity, and USA Today, has received recognition from the Leeway Foundation, Loft Literary Center, Asian Arts Initiative, and Dodge Poetry Program. Her CCPTV show Drop the Mic has been nominated for six Emmys and her poetry is featured in Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now and My Life: Growing Up Asian in America.
Ewuare X. Osayande is an award-winning poet, essayist, activist, and publisher. The author of several books including, Blood Luxury with an introduction by Amiri Baraka, Osayande’s latest book of poems is entitled Black Phoenix Uprising. In 2013, Osayande edited and published Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander, a global anthology of social justice poetry that raised thousands of dollars for both justice campaigns. Osayande is the founding editor of The Poetariat, an international journal of working-class poetry. Learn more about his work at Osayande.org.
John Lavin Host

Moonstone @ PhillyCAM with Ona Gritz
2022-12-06 18:30 | PA
Moonstone @ PhillyCAM: Virtual Interview & Reading with Ona Gritz

Tuesday December 6 @ 6:30 PM — VIRTUAL
To Attend, Visit https://phillycam.org/
And Click ‘Live TV’ Under the Watch Dropbox

Ona Gritz is an award-winning poet, essayist, children’s author, and creative writing instructor. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Utne Reader, Ploughshares, Brevity, and River Teeth, and has been widely anthologized. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project. Ona’s middle grade novel, August Or Forever, is forthcoming from Fitzroy Books in February.

Charles S. Carr, Host

Virtual Event Featuring Five Poets
2022-12-08 19:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Event with Chris Bullard, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Raya Tuffaha, Donna Wolf-Palacio & Katie Sarah Zale

Thursday December 8 @ 7PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Below!
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Chris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia, is author of Continued, Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife and Rainclouds of Y. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler, Muse/A Journal, The Woven Tale, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry and The Offbeat.

Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Fire Is Not a Country (Northwestern University Press, 2021), Salvage (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water (Thread Makes Blanket Press, 2016). She is a member of the Sanctuary Advocate Coalition, which works to expand sanctuary in vision and practice through the framework of black-brown unity.

Raya Tuffaha is a Palestinian artist from Seattle, WA. Her first collection, To All the Yellow Flowers, was published in March 2020 with Golden Antelope Press. Her first chapbook, apocalypse blues, was published with Plan B Press this August. Raya is a current senior at Swarthmore College, where she studies Theatre and Peace & Conflict Studies. She specializes in solo performance and fight direction, and will move to the east coast after graduation. She hopes her work on the page & the stage serves her communities with integrity.
Donna Wolf-Palacio is author of The Architect of Elsewhere, What I Don’t Know, The Other Side, and Step Lightly.  She taught an ongoing poetry workshop at the University of the Arts and was editor/consultant of the UARTS Poetry Review.  She has published her writing in Poetry, The Pennsylvania Gazette, the Musehouse Journal, Intro, The Interpreter, Poems from the Heart: Poems about Adoption, and Voices.  She has received grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, The Leeway Foundation, and the PCA.
Katie Sarah Zale teaches writing and works on Art for Justice programs in Arizona. Her first book, The Art of Folding, was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine. The collection Sometimes You Do Things (Aquarius Press, Living Detroit Series) highlights the history of Detroit and celebrates its rebuilding. She lives in Tucson.

Virtual Event: Remembering The Waste Land
2022-12-11 14:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Event Remembering The Waste Land

Sunday December 11 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:
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100th Anniversary of The Waste Land

September 26th marked T.S. Eliot’s 134th birthday
Eliot’s groundbreaking poem The Waste Land was published in 1922, 100 years ago

Written in the wake of World War I, a war which turned the battlefield into a waste land, and wasted a generation of combatants and civilians — 20 million dead, 21 million wounded — the poem might be read as a civilian’s post-traumatic stress, or as ecological disaster, or emotional devastation, or spiritual drought.

Eliot’s style in the poem — fragmented, allusive, difficult, obscure…
was startling at the time, so much so that William Carlos Williams considered it a “great catastrophe” for American Poetry; and the notes Eliot appended have led many readers to think of the poem more as an exam than a lyric. Yet even as Eliot’s influence has faded, even as we question his conservatism, his attitudes toward race, his uneasiness with women, his personal demons, The Waste Land continues to signify to our own waste land, and many of us write under its shadow.
Moonstone Invites You
to “come in under the shadow of this red rock” and speak to The Waste Land, or within The Waste Land, or after The Waste Land, or against The Waste Land.
Nathalie Anderson, Host

Live Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series
2022-12-14 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Event in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St
Wednesday December 14 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. The registration link will be posted shortly!

Sunil Iyengar is the author of a new chapbook of poems, A Call from the Shallows (Finishing Line Press). His poems and book reviews appear in such publications as the Washington Post, The American Scholar,The New Criterion, Literary Matters, The Hopkins Review, Essays in Criticism, and Los Angeles Review of Books. He works as an arts research director in Washington, D.C.

Hugh Sheehy is the author of two short story collections, Design Flaw (Acre, forthcoming in November) and The Invisibles (Flannery O’Connor Award, University of Georgia Press). Some of his recent stories have appeared in Fence, swamp pink (as Crazyhorse), failbetter, and the final issue of The Rupture. He also reviews books, mostly novels, from time to time. He teaches writing at Ramapo College.

Luke Stromberg’s poetry has appeared in Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, The New Criterion, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Think Journal, ONE ART, Cleaver, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. He also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for E-Verse Radio. For many years, he was involved in organizing the West Chester University Poetry Conference, which is now the West Chester University Poetry and Creative Arts Festival. He works as an adjunct English instructor at Eastern University and St. Joseph’s University and lives in Upper Darby, PA.

John Wall Barger Host – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Event: New Voices Anthology 2022
2022-12-17 14:00 | PA
Moonstone’s New Voices Anthology 2022

Saturday December 17 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

Registration Required. Register Here:
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A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. We tend to gather in our own communities, there is nothing wrong with that except we begin to sound alike, look alike, think alike. Our attempt to expand everyone’s experience, to introduce other ways of everything. Join us as contributors read their poems.

Not All Contributors Will Be Reading
Kyla Artwell
Tesana Aurora
Taylor Baker
Ijhana Bayes
Avik Belenje
Nina Braum
Domenica Brunetti
Yakov Burton
Christina Campanaro
Connor Campbell
Annie Chian
Lillien Cirino
Tori D’Amico
Ezana Demissie
Mark Doraszelski
Maura Gallagher
Ethan Garrity
Amy Goodman
Rasheeda Graham
Emma Heaton
Elijah Johnson
Julian Kennedy
Zoe Khan
Matthew Klauber
Jane Lee
Aaron Madison
Alana Maguire
Tyreea McBride
Campbell McCormack
Ryland McGinniss
Sonja Meijer
Yves-Melsein Metellus
Francisco Mojica
Joy Olree
Lindsay Pelliccia
Theo Robinson
Shawn Sandman
Blaithin Simpson
Drop Spam
Milli Straub
Charlotte Suttee
Jacob Swenson
Sebastian Trainer-Oneill
Dionna Vereen
Kevin Wallner

Live Event: Enoch, Maria Masington & LindoYes
2022-12-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Event with Enoch, Maria Masington & LindoYes

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday December 21 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here:
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Enoch is a poet, author, trauma-informed teaching artist and manga writer born and raised on the Northside of Wilmington, DE. As a mental health advocate and someone living with bi-polar disorder, his work examines the process of healing and the ways that trauma and mental health move through a family, as well as the outside forces that affect or have affected these developments. His goal is to create written works, curriculum, and platforms that deepen our emotional understanding and its cyclical relation to the conditions acting on the Black mind, body, and spirit. Enoch is the 2017 Philadelphia Fuze Grand Slam Champion and the author of two poetry collections, “The Guide to Drowning” released in 2017 and “Burned at the Roots” released in 2020.
Maria Masington is a poet, author, and spoken word artist from Wilmington, Delaware. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen publications including The News Journal, Gargoyle, The Broadkill Review, Adanna, Earth’s Daughters, Never Forgotten: 100 Poets Remember 9/11, and by the University of Colorado. Parnilis Media released Masington’s first chapbook, Mouth Like a Sailor, in 2021. It was awarded first place by both Delaware Press Association and National Federation of Press Women. Her work and upcoming events can be found at “Maria Masington Amazon.”
LindoYes is a spoken word artist, creator of LindoYes! clothing line, and an event host who was born and raised in Uptown Philadelphia, PA. He is an unapologetically Black fusion of theatrical poetics and visual art whose work addresses the constructs of love, masculinity and social injustice. Lindo’s work has led him to opportunities across the east coast from appearing on Def Poetry Jam to featuring at various colleges such as Bucknell University, Haverford College, and UPENN as well as venues including Busboys and Poets, Spit Dat, The Drunken Retort, Urban Grind, just to name a few. His work has been featured in on the well-known poetry youtube channel, Button Poetry.

Sean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows

Live Event: Anthony Cappo, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael
2022-12-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Event with Anthony Cappo, Maria James-Thiaw & Ann E. Michael

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday December 28 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required — Register Here:
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Anthony Cappo, author of When You’re Deep In A Thing and My Bedside Radio, poems and other writings have appeared in THRUSH, Prelude, Entropy, The Rumpus, and other publications. “Cappo’s voice is intimate, but the arc is visceral: ‘come with me and I will show you/fissures of men.’ His poems aren’t looking for alchemy, only for what’s real, this world in which a child might ‘endure/like an Arctic explorer.’ They are true, meaning: wholehearted and ambivalent. Cappo won’t show you prefabricated emotions, rather the contraries we wrestle as we try to conjure our destinies ‘under God’s random jackhammer.’ He charts an America of absent fathers and thrift shop hand grenades, an era in which the line between common sense and paranoia is fading. When You’re Deep in a Thing isn’t just beautiful-it’s courageous and necessary.” – D. Nurkse
Maria James-Thiaw, author of Count Each Breath, is an award-winning poet, performer, and playwright. She is the author of four poetry collections and her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies including Black Lives Have Always Mattered, and Essential Voices: A Covid19 Anthology. Poems from her play, Reclaiming My Time: An American Griot Project won the Art of Protest Award from Penn State University’s Center for American Literary Studies in 2018. Maria James-Thiaw is the founder of Reclaim Artist Collective, an organization that brings her American Griot Project programming to marginalized communities.
Ann E. Michael, author of Strange Ladies, Water-Rites, More than Shelter, The Minor Fauna, Small Things Rise & Go, and The Capable Heart, poems and essays have been widely published in many journals, including Poem, Natural Bridge, Ninth Letter, Runes, The Comstock Review, Diner, Sentence, Slant, ISLE, The Writer’s Chronicle, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts and others, as well as in numerous literary anthologies. She maintains a long-running blog, garden, and relationship with the cosmos. Find her at www.annemichael.wordpress.com

Live Event: Hosts of Other Poetry Series
2023-01-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Event with Elliott batTzedek, Eileen M. D’Angelo, James Feichthaler, Joanne Leva & Robert Zell

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday January 4 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required. Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlfumgrTIjHdLPYnBWIkzwDwM2mU-lNZGy

Elliott batTzedek holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation from Drew University. For 10 years she organized readings, writing workshops, and a poetry book group at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in Mt. Airy. Since 2021, she’s organized poetry at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA. Her work appears in: Sakura Review, American Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Cahoodaloodaling, Naugatuck River Review, and Poemeleon.

Eileen M. D’Angelo is Founder of the Mad Poets Society and Mad Poets Review. Since 1987, she produced over 1,500 special events, including performances, slams, readings, conferences, workshops, bonfires and literary festivals in the Delaware Valley. Twice nominated for a PA Governor’s Award in the Arts, D’Angelo also received two Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press nominations.

James Feichthaler is a poet and essayist whose work has most recently appeared in One Art, Sortes, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and the Mad Poets Society’s Local Lyrics series. His new book The Rise of the COVFEFE, a poetical satire of these divided and uncertain times, was published in late 2020 by Parnilis Media. He is also the host of an open mic reading in Manayunk, PA called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia.

Joanne Leva is the author of Eve Heads Back and Eve Would Know, founder of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Peace Is a Haiku Song, 50 Over Fifty, Apiary, E-Verse Radio, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Rag Queen Periodical, Bucks County Writer, Transcendent Visions, and elsewhere.

Robert Zell has published two chapbooks: One and Reflections. His work has also appeared in Whirlwind magazine, North of Oxford, and several Moonstone Arts anthologies. He is also the host of the First Sunday reading series at the Pen and Pencil Club.

Live Event: 26th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
2023-01-08 12:00 | The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, United States
Moonstone’s
26th Annual Poetry Ink Event

Sunday, January 8 @ 12PM
LIVE at The Rotunda, 14014 Walnut Street

We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnets, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 26th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order.
You can buy the anthology here ($20 USD): https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/26th-poetry-ink-anthology/400

OUR 143 CONTRIBUTORS:
Liz Abrams-Morley
Susan Anmuth
Gregory Ashe
Floi Baker
Amy Barone
Peter Baroth
Elliott batTzedek
Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Carole Bernstein
Pamela Blanding
Julia Blumenreich
Veronica Bowlan
Matilda Bray
Barbara Breitman
R. Bremner
Jamie Brown
Lisa Bruckman
Maryrose Carroll
Annie Chian
Takudzwa Chikepe
A.J. Chilson
Cathleen Cohen
Cathleen Cohen
Tiffany Cooper
Beverly Cottman
Lynda V. E. Crawford
Katharine Cristiani
ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM
Toby Devens
Ann Ellen Dickter
Pheralyn Dove
Tom Driscoll
Carlos Dufflar
David Eberhardt
RUNETT EBO
Bill Ehrhart
Alfred Encarnacion
Richard Epstein
Sophia Falco
Katherine Falk
Maria Fama
Cheryl Fish
Peggy Fisher
Francis Flavin
BRYAN FRANCO
Gloria Fredkove
Hal Freedman
Caroline Furr
Linda Goss
Marjorie Gowdy
Neal Grace
Beejay Grob
Bob Groves
hanoch guy
MARK HAMMERSCHICK
Peggy Hammond
Sean Hanrahan
Jerri Hardesty
Annie Hartford
Faleeha Hassan
Stephen Hattrich
Jen Heller
Ditta Baron Hoeber
Jane Ibur
Jones Irwin
jack israel
Charles Jenkins
Irving Jones
Karl Kadie
Betti Kahn
Chris Kaiser
Louis Kamason
Brian Kerr
lisa konigsberg
Carthornia Kouroupos
Leonard Kress
Ed Krizek
Laurie Kuntz
Eelka Lampe
D Lang
Hiram Larew
Jim LaVilla-Havelin
Jeffrey Lee
Antoinette Libro
Josephine LoRe
Alison Lubar
Nick Lutwyche
George MacMillan
Deirdre Maher
Tawanda Manyati
Angel Martinez
John Mason
Meg McCarney
Diane McManus
Gabre Medhin
Emily Melvin
Gary Metras
Beth Morris
Daniel O’Hara
Charles O’Hay
Claire Owen
Hermond Palmer
Faith Paulsen
Jonathan Pessant
VICTORIA HUGGINS PEURIFOY
Rescue Poetix
Kate Potter
Prabha Prabhu
Dylan Ragas
Don Riggs
Patrick Rodgers
Linda Romanowski
Marco Romeo
George Schaefer
Carla Schick
Jennifer Schneider
Fereshteh Sholevar
Alyson Shore Adler
Amy Beth Sisson
Amy Small-McKinney
Megha Sood
Maggie Stearns
j.c. Sutton
Renee Szostek
Albert Tacconelli
Alexi Terris
Terry Tierney
John Timpane
J. C. Todd
Karen Paul Topham
Jim Trainer
Sebastian Trainer-Oneill
Catherine Trapani
Lois Villemaire
ynotcreations webb
Theresa Werba
DANIEL WILLIAMS
Lauren Wolffe
Nellie Wong
Samantha Wright
Theresa Wyatt
Sekai’afua Zankel
Daniel Zehner

Virtual Events: Annual Poetry Ink Anthology
2023-01-09 19:00 - 2023-01-10 19:00 | PA
Moonstone’s Virtual Annual Poetry Ink Events

In addition to Moonstone’s live Poetry Ink Event on January 8, there will be TWO VIRTUAL EVENTS: January 9 & January 10

Times and Dates
Monday, January 9 @ 7PM
Registration Link: click here!
Tuesday January 10 @ 7PM
Registration Link: click here!

January 9 Featured Contributors:
Alyson Shore Adler
E. Lynn Alexander
Nathalie Anderson
Tonita Austin
Floi Baker
Amy Barone
Elliott batTzedek
Deborah Bayer
Miriam Ben-Yoseph
Carole Bernstein
Anuradha Bhowmik
Celia Bland
Pamela Lynn Blanding-Godbolt
Julia Bluemenreich
Fiona Bolger
Veronica Bowlan
R. Bremner
Cydney Brown
Kristen Holt Browning
Anthony Cappo
Annie Chian
Cathleen Cohen
Alejandro Cortes
Lynda V.E. Crawford
Terence Culleton
Liz Cunningham
Carlos Raul Dufflar
David Ebenbach
David Eberhardt
Sophia Falco
Maria Fama
Cheryl J. Fish
Gloria Fredkove
Hal Freedman
Caroline Furr
Shotsie Gorman
Marjorie Gowdy
Neal Grace
Shannon Frost Greenstein
Jen Heller
Jennifer Hook
Jones Irwin
Maria James-Thiaw
January 10 Featured Contributors:
Charles Jenkins
Mike Jurkovic
Susan Justiniano
Chris Kaiser
Lisa Naomi Konigsberg
Jonathan Koven
Leonard Kress
Eelka Lampe
Hiram Larew
David Lawton
Josephine LoRe
Deirdre Maher
Angel L. Martinez
Michael McCarthy
Diane McManus
Matt Mitchell
D. Nurkse
Hermond Palmer
Faith Paulsen
Aaren Yeats Perry
Kenneth Pobo
Prabha Nayak Prabhu
Anna Prader
Halle Preneta
Barrett Rosser
Molly Russakoff
Margaret Saraco
George Schaefer
Carla S. Schick
Lynne Shapiro
Beth SKMorris
Fereshteh Sholevar
Megha Sood
Renée Szostek
Elaine Terranova
Terry Tierney
John Timpane
J.C. Todd
Alan Toltzis
Catherine Trapani
Raya Tuffaha
Lois Villemaire
Ken Waldman
Dan Williams
Anne Harding Woodworth

Live Event: Peter Baroth, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis
2023-01-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Event with Peter Baroth, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis

LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St.
Wednesday January 11 @ 7PM

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required– register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-qtrT0rGNUpSm6pNoX_JoJ016NR2VAU

Peter Baroth, writer, artist, and musician, is a graduate of Washington University and Temple Law School. His novel is Long Green (iUniverse) and his book of poetry, Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press). He has been published in Philadelphia Poets, Red Fez, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Apiary, Legal Studies Forum, Poetry Ink, and elsewhere. He won the 2009 Amy Tritsch Needle Award, a 2016 Petracca Family Award, was a finalist for the Joie de Vivre book prize, has been nominated for Best of the Net, and is on Philadelphia Stories’ editorial board. He lives in Media, PA.

Massimo Elijah is a spoken word poet and Philly native who is proud to be a part of such a thriving arts scene in his home city. He loves how art can give people freedom of expression as well as a common ground for coming together…where artist and audience remind each other how human beings are healers who are also healed by healing others.

Glen A. Mazis has more than 90 poems in literary journals, including Rosebud, The North American Review, Sou’wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, Willow Review, Atlanta Review, Reed Magazine and Asheville Poetry Review, and the collection, The River Bends in Time, a chapbook, The Body Is a Dancing Star, and Bodies of Space and Time. He taught philosophy for decades at Penn State Harrisburg, has published five philosophy books with the most recent being, Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination and Poetic Ontology. He is the 2019 winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize.
Open Reading Follows

Live Event: Liz Chang, Chad Frame & Mary Jo LoBello Jerome
2023-01-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Live Poetry Event with Liz Chang, Chad Frame, and Mary Jo LoBello Jerome

Wednesday January 18 @ 7PM
Live at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom Street

Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here:
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Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Exit 7, Rock & Sling, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary Journal, among others. Her fourth collection, a chapbook called Museum of Things, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2023. Her creative nonfiction recently appeared in Oyster River Pages, and her flash fiction has been published internationally. Chang’s translation of Claude de Burine’s work is anthologized in Paris in Our View from l’Association des Amis de Shakespeare & Company. Liz lives en les environs de Philadelphia with her family, dog, cat, and a hive of honeybees. She is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Moravian University.
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Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book (2022, Finishing Line Press), nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work appears in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.

Mary Jo LoBello Jerome has a new book out, Torch the Empty Fields, which was a finalist in the Women’s Voices Competition at Finishing Line, and released in December. She is one of the Poetry Co-Editors of Schuylkill Valley Journal and a Poet Laureate of Bucks County. She edited Fire Up the Poems, an anthology of writing prompts for teachers, published in 2021. Her poems and short stories have been published widely. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, has taught writing at all levels, and has written for The New York Times, Scholastic Inc., and many other publications.
Sean Hanahan Host – Open Reading Follows

Virtual Event: Telicia Darius & 王潇/Evan Wang
2023-01-21 14:00 | PA
Virtual Poetry Event with New Voices

Saturday January 21 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL

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Telicia Darius, 2022-2023 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, is a senior at Hardy Williams Mastery Charter School in a dual enrollment program at Community College of Philadelphia. Telicia has participated in the Young Writer’s Workshop at Bard College and the Princeton University Summer Journalism Program. Telicia writes and performs in both English and French and is a member of the Hardy Williams Philly Slam League team. Telicia loves a good challenge and believes in the words of poetry. On poetry and the Poet Laureate position, Telicia says “Poetry is the writer’s ink and the laureate is the platform, giving the inaudible text a chance to speak.”
王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in Violet Indigo Blue, Etc., Philadelphia Stories, National Poetry Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is an alumnus of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio and an Anaphora Fellow. Evan has performed his work at various venues such as the Oval XP, ArtWRKD, and The Rotunda at The University of Pennsylvania. His work has been featured at and recognized by Button Poetry, Philadelphia Contemporary, and Wawa Welcome America.
