Moonstone Presents:

VIRTUAL Poetry Reading: World Laughter Day

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 […]

Live Poetry Reading!

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

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 […]

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. […]

Live Poetry: Debora Kuan & Jeffrey McDaniel

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

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.

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Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, & Lawrence Dugan

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

Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub 7PM ET & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and […]

Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr feat. David Kertis

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

Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr Wednesday January 3, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub Registration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B Charles S. Carr from Philadelphia […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock Tuesday January 9, 2023 @ 6:30pm  VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Autumn […]

Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher

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

Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances. Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Yolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and currently serves as chair of the
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the
anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with
her band Yolanda Wisher; The Afroeaters.

Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven, Pat Rodgers, and Robert Zell

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

Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards,  Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a […]

Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler

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

Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 […]