Moonstone Presents:

  • June 25 – LIVE Poetry Reading at Fergie’s Pub

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

    Wednesday June 25, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Christian Bufo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, editor, and poet. He is a member of Poet’s Row, a collective that hosts readings and publishes physical & online poetry journals. Sophia Tempest is a poet who lives in Philadelphia. Her full length […]

  • Virtual Reading: Go Back Where You Came From

    Register @ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85860281960?pwd=xKIFJiznW6BV6Ns5wJ2aymFtqjuomM.1 First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out —because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —because I […]

  • July 2 – Live Poetry Reading at Fergie’s Pub

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

    Wednesday July 2, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Maia Brown-Jackson is a symphony of papercuts, banged-up knees, and stubborn determination. She believes in the altruism of strangers, the power of direct action, and the Oxford comma. Marion Cohen is an American poet and a mathematician, has published 32 […]

  • Virtual Reading: Freedom – for Who, to do What, to Whom

    https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j16zWU86TBajHSEsuQt1Fw Sunday July 6, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Freedom – for Who, to do What, to Whom Freedom has become a rallying cry for those in power who aim to exploit, to lie, and to endanger the less powerful with impunity. They demand Freedom to contaminate the earth, to deny history, to claim […]

  • Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series

    Tuesday July 8, 2025 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Elaine Terranova is the author of eight collections, including most recently Rinse. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. She has received the Walt Whitman Award, […]

  • July 9 – Live at Fergie’s Pub

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

    Wednesday July 9, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ambition Harper, the first fostercare poet in the United States a lecturer, journalist and a poetic theorist and believes that poetry can change people and change perspectives. Emiliano Martín is the author of over a dozen titles of poetry, a former president […]

  • VIRTUAL Reading – From Tupelo Press

    https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2oRlEo-zRZWnrKAQxejwFw Sunday July 13, 2025 – 2pmEDT – VIRTUAL – From Tupelo Press – From Tupelo Press – an independent, literary press devoted to discovering and publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers. Mike Carlson, author of Tips to Help You Do Your Best and Cement Guitar. Jenny […]

  • Honoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Program

    Sunday September 14, 2025 – 5pm – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YGL0FkWeS5WHQX54GffCZQ Honoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Programs Host – Joanne Leva is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, […]

  • Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Josh Dale, Cameron MacKenzie, Iheoma Nwachukwu

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

    Wednesday September 17, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Josh […]

  • Live Poetry: Ebs Sanders, Michael Joseph Walsh

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

    Wednesday September 24, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ebs Sanders is the author of Low Ecstasies, Intimacies that did not destroy us and A Fallow Channel. Their writing has appeared in bæst, b l u s h, Discount Guillotine, Full Stop and Tripwire, among others. They co-edit the […]