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Live Poetry: Joshua Barnes, Sarah Browning, Eileen M. D’Angelo, & Juniper Sweeney

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

Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday February 14, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street OR Join Us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-GrqzwrHNS3jAMLOupFHyUci7eweq4_ Joshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband.  His poetry has previously appeared in &Change, Olney Magazine, Impossible Archetype, Philadelphia Stories, and Moonstone Press. When not writing, he can be […]

Virtual Poetry – Fatal Force: Poetic Justice

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Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Saturday February 17, 2024 – 7pm EST  Virtual Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D As of December 4, 2023, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14, 2023. On August 15th, Philadelphia police […]

Virtual Poetry: Remembering Audre Lorde

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Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Sunday February 18, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdeipqTsoHdwqmC1q3s_Nx34bh3KSabHn The Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples […]

Live Poetry: Chris Bullard, L.M. Camiolo, & Noah David Roberts

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

Wednesday February 21, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO2pqTMrHNbspqMc34fEumC-hinMXbUp Chris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia, PA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a MFA from Wilkes University. He has had thirteen books published, including poetry, short fiction and […]

Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023

The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023 Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 In 2023, Moonstone Arts Center hosted over 100 events with almost 300 poets and an audience of close to 3000. Join us for a reading with our featured poets of 2023. Featured Poets (not all will read): David Acosta Nathalie […]

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Live Poetry: Liz Abrams-Morley & Amy Small-Mckinney

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

Wednesday February 28, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucOqgpj4tGN3csD4gaXLwnIJKTVj80_Qr Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of the forthcoming Because Time, as well as of Beholder, Inventory, and Necessary Turns, which won an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press Publishing.  In 2020 she was named the Passager Poet […]

Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6th

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Sunday, March 3, 2024 Virtual -2pm EST Join us on Zoom –  Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6, 2021 Moonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

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Tuesday MARCH 5, 2024 6:30pm – VIRTUAL Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM 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 Elliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award […]

LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello, Airea D. Matthews, and Artress Bethany White

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

Wednesday March 6, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGrrTgiHNJ7uriRBEe6MkL9clKCpLu1 Jessica Cuello author of Yours, Creature, Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of […]

Virtual Poetry: International Women’s Day

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Sunday March 10, 2024 2pm EST – VIRIUAL Join us on Zoom – Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-mgpzovG9bdKnadMSczNTW-YMqGyTKa International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. In 1848, indignant over […]