Moonstone Presents:

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Shevaun Brannigan, Jamie J. Brunson, and Joyce Meyers

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

Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Jamie J. Brunson has brought storytelling to the stage within […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Eliza Callard, Lucy Bell Sellers, and Fritz Ward

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

Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in.  She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown  Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry […]

Release Party for Home(less) @ Brandywine Workshop, 728 S Broad Street

Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

  Poetry by Krisann Janowitz, Photography by Harvey Finkle     Krisann Janowitz – “I wanted to show my readers that those we label as “bums”, “hobos”, “beggars”, etc are just people, like you and me. That is what I have experienced through befriending members of a tent city in Bucks County and that is […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

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

    Brandon H. Blake has been an artist throughout his life, eventually studying Fine Arts at Millersville University. Primarily, he has been writing haikus as well as exploring other traditional forms of poetry throughout the last ten to fifteen years.     Poet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, […]

Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

John Oliver Mason, author of All of the Above “Like every writer, I have tried to find a place to publish my material-what better motivation to write than to find some place to write for? I read an article in The Writer which had an essay about how writers should have their own e-mail newsletter; […]

Moonstone Gold @ Fergie’s Pub Presents Afaa M. Weaver Interviewed by Earnest Hilbert

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

Tickets $15.00, Students with ID – $7.50 – available at Square.com In 2014, Weaver completed his Plum Flower Trilogy with the publication of his 14th collection of poetry, City of Eternal Spring. A Los Angeles Times review of the trilogy echoed previous critical evaluations of his oeuvre to date: “Compared to Whitman by the poet […]

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Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Angel Murray-Kelly is a singer/songwriter, LGBTQ+ youth advocate, vegetarian, & local Philly youth poet. David Jones is a Philadelphia native, poet, writer, performer, Temple University student, and Youth Poet Laureate Emeritus of Philadelphia. Christian Warrick is a Philadelphia-born Maori-American poet and story writer. He’s a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in English and […]

Philly Loves Poet Laureates @PhillyCAM

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM           Sonia Sanchez, Philadelphia’s First Poet Laureate, Yolanda Wisher is the 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Husnaa Hashim is the current Youth PoetLaureate,  David Jones is a former Youth Poet Laureate. Host: Charles S. Carr

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

 Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming, based […]