Moonstone Presents:

E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff

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

Live poetry reading in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series. Kathleen Ossip’s books include July, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, and The New York Review of Books. She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Open Reading Follows

New Voices Fall 2023: Live Reading

Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 16th at 6pm Hosted: Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street In cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia Celebrate […]

New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading

Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 19th at 2pm Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young […]

Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, & Lawrence Dugan

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

Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub 7PM ET & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and […]

Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis

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

Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr Wednesday January 3, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub Registration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B Charles S. Carr from Philadelphia […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock Tuesday January 9, 2023 @ 6:30pm  VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Autumn […]

Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher

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

Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances. Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Yolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and currently serves as chair of the
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the
anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with
her band Yolanda Wisher; The Afroeaters.

Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven, Pat Rodgers, and Robert Zell

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

Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards,  Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a […]

Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler

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

Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 […]