Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Poetry: Bree Bailey, Miriam Kramer, and Sheleen McElhinney

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

    Live Poetry: Bree Bailey, Miriam Kramer, and Sheleen McElhinney Sunday July 20, 2025 – 2pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Bree Bailey is a queer Latina poet, a mistress of the music of inflections, pulses, and ironic chuckles. A Jersey native now in Austin, TX, she writes with heart and humor […]

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  • Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania

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    Sunday July 27, 2025  2pm EDT –   VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MV1XXDyjSxm5hcwx5hpxOg  Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania Edited by Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple ( $27.90 Pennsylvania State University Press) Buy the book: https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/keystone-poetry-contemporary-poets-on-pennsylvania/527   From Philadelphia to Erie, and from the shale fields to the coal mines, Keystone Poetry celebrates the varied landscapes and voices of […]

  • Live Poetry: Ryan Eckes and Nycir Keen

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

    Wednesday July 30, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ryan Eckes is the author of Wrong Heaven Again, General Motors, Valu-Plus  and Old News, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short, […]

  • Virtual Poetry: Tyler Dunston, Maria James-Thiaw, Miho Kinnas, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Terra Oliveira

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    Sunday August 3, 2025 – 2pmEDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q7Xq5kmfTySArIh_8ejLtg Tyler Dunston, author of Octaves, is a writer and visual artist, whose poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Hawaiʻi Pacific Review, Narrative Magazine, Raleigh Review, and other journals. Maria James-Thiaw is an award-winning poet, performer, and playwright.  She is the author of three poetry books, has […]

  • Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series: David Ebenbach

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    Tuesday August 5, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series David Ebenbach, the author of collections of fiction (Between Camelots; Into the Wilderness), poetry (We Were the People Who Moved; Autogeography) and essays […]

  • Live Poetry: Phoebe Brown, Courtney LeBlanc, and Sean W. Lynch

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

    Wednesday August 6, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Phoebe Brown is a poet recently published by Anthropocene Poetry, in “Impossible Task” with Another New Calligraphy, Hog River Press, and Moonstone Arts Center. Courtney LeBlanc is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent […]

  • National Book Lovers Day

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    Sunday August 10, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL – National Book Lovers Day https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6vfdhJLjQ_q5lAr_bMgtuQ From clay tablets to today’s eBooks, literature has played a crucial role in preserving cultures, educating the masses, and storytelling. Thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th-century printing press, anyone, not just royalty, monks or landed gentry, could read and own books. […]

  • Live Poetry: Shaina Clingempeel, Jacqueline Jewell, Warren C. Longmire, and Lynda Gene Rymond

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

    Wednesday August 13, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street  Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philly-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell, The Passionfruit Review, […]

  • Virtual Poetry: Julia Bouwsma, Hiram Larew, Peter E. Murphy, and Scott W. Williams

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    Sunday August 17, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s2XRWbF_Q2C7hQaK6Bf0PQ Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine where she works as a poet, homesteader, editor, teacher, and small-town librarian. She is Maine’s sixth Poet Laureate and is the author of Death Fluorescence, Midden, and Work by Bloodlight. Bouwsma’s honors include a 2024 […]

  • Live Poetry: Sydney Coffin, Raina J. León, and Genevieve Rand

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

    Wednesday August 20, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sydney Coffin is halfway done an MFA with NYU in Paris, and taught poetry, English, journalism, wrestling and experiential arts in Philadelphia’s public schools for 20 years, English Language Learning at Job Corps, and recently became the night manager of facilities for […]