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  • Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks

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    African American Museum 701 Arch Sreet, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Free with Reduced Museum Admission of $5.00 Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate, Brook’s poetry, fiction, and social commentary shed light on the beauty of […]

    $5.00

  • 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 […]

    $15.00

  • 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 […]

  • Debs of December – Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

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

    Deborah Burnham, author of Anna and the Steel Mill, Still and  a volume ofpoetry, is the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department and teaches poetry and poetry writing, with a particular interest in formal poems and in the history of women’s poetry at UPENN. Deborah Fox found her love for poetry as a result of a […]

  • Philly Loves Poetry: The Moonstone Chapbooks

    PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The newest Moonstone poets sit down to read their poetry and discuss the context of their writings. This event is also broadcast LIVE on PhillyCAM (Comcast channel 66/966 and Verizon channel 29/30). More details tba.