Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 7, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOmrrDsjHtd4OlL4eORzQZETeuwo5oB9 Poems From Your Psyche is a type of poetic expression which addresses the multiple psychological aspects of the human existence. April 24 is the 100th anniversary of The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, an analytical study of the human psyche outlining Freud’s […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Wednesday May 10, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqduygpjMuHd0HPcfGrZY8yNfOp-0L4ixR Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Wednesday May 17, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdu-trjIvGd2Q9NK9mK9MtZzQ3PmYhVIt dev kiyota is an editor; they got an MFA in Creative Writing from Temple University. Lynda Gene Rymond author of The Village of Basketeers and Oscar and the […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 21, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual Register for the event HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rd-yuqj4oGdQ1vLBDn31qkpzuQMtjqjM9 World Laughter Day (May 7) is an annual event celebrated is a celebration that raises awareness about all the benefits of laughing and promotes world peace through laughter. It raises awareness about laughter and its many healing benefits, as […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday May 24, 2023 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscO6rrj8iHtb48QlmLMmqMWfM5uAm1lHv Kelly McQuain is a painter and poet, and the author of Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers (2023), a collection chosen by Texas Review Press for the […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 28, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 Mother’s Day (May 14) This is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For, in a time like ours, mothers have no room to be sentimental. […]
Debora Kuan is the author of XING, Lunch Portraits, and the forthcoming Women on the Moon. Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of seven books, most recently Thin Ice Olympics. Open Reading Follows.
Woody Guthrie was one of the most significant figures in American folk music whose work focused on themes of socialism and anti-fascism. Join us as poets continue this tradition.
Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia’s birthplace.
In collaboration with Ukrainian poets, we’re supporting the continued struggle in Ukraine with a special night of poetry featuring David Acosta, Sibelan Forrester, Sean Hanrahan, Olga Livshin, Lynn Levin, and Warren C. Longmire. Poets will read from the featured books (Today is a Different War by Lyu
dmyla Khersonska, In the Hour of War edited by Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky, and A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails by Halyna Kruk) and their own work. Book bundles will be sold at the event on online, with all profits donated to Ukraine TrustChain.
