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Moonstone Presents: Rodriguez & Dr. Williams-Witherspoon Poetry, Open Reading to follow

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

    Edythe Rodriguez is a senior at Temple University studying Creative Writing and Africology. She will be anthologized this year in The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank and FEMME: Literati Mixtape.           Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, PhD (Cultural Anthropology), MA (Anthropology), MFA (Theater), Graduate […]

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Moonstone Presents: Bondhus & Evans Poetry, Open Reading to follow

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

    Charlie Bondhus is author Divining Bones and All the Heat We Could Carry, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel.          R.G. Evans is the author of Overtipping the Ferryman, his poems, fiction, and reviews […]

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Michelle Belluomini & Ditta Baron Hoeber Poetry, Open Reading to follow

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

    Michele Belluomini is author of Crazy Mary and Signposts for Sleepwalkers, her poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary.          Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, the American Journal of Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Construction […]

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2018 Moonstone Featured Poets Book Release & Poetry Reading *See Above*

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

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 2018 Moonstone Featured Poets Anthology Book Release and Poetry Reading Sunday, February 24, 2019 — 2pm         Join us for an afternoon of poetry and camaraderie. The 2018 Anthology of Featured Poets includes over 30 of the featured poets who read for Moonstone in 2018, many of […]

Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow

South Philadelphia Free Library 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street), Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm   Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since […]

Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow

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

THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring…   Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane.         Deborah Turner writes fiction […]

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Fran Baird @ Fergie’s

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

Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his […]

Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee

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

Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House […]

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23rd Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading

1199C Headquarters 1319 Locust st., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Sunday June 2, 2019 – noon Moonstone at 1199C Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street Hello! We are hosting our 23rd annual Poetry Ink release event which will be commemorated by readings from 84 (not quite 100 this year!) poets. Join us in enjoying the work of academic poets, famous poets, free form poets, street poets, unknown […]