Moonstone Presents:

Readings from the 2021 Featured Poets Anthology

Readings from the 2021 Featured Poets Anthology Sunday February 20, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdOmpqDIqH9B0HU4JTUrRJwRTTLd4J5D6   2021 was Moonstone’s busiest year ever With over 130 live and virtual events Presenting over 300 Poets Please join us Not all poets will be reading

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Nicole Greaves and Amy Small-McKinney

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

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Nicole Greaves and Amy Small-McKinney Wednesday February 23, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpduisqjkjGtR_CB38zTyfRrxnOYrXoiOt Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Nicole Greaves’ poetry has appeared in numerous literary reviews and was awarded prizes […]

New Voices: Emerging Poets with Avik Belenje, Ryan Hiemenz, Vriddhi Vinay

New Voices: Emerging Poets with Avik Belenje, Ryan Hiemenz, Vriddhi Vinay Saturday February 26, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – Registration Required:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlde6urjgiE9afmUo3Ku3FO0NBWLhLZ7C3 New Voices: Emerging Poets – a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger poetry community […]

Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes

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

Memorial Open Mic for Sandra Turner-Barnes   Wednesday March 2, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom, Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpfumtqTgjG9wjtw-r78pDDvf43obI0URl   Join us for a memorial open mic poetry reading for Sandra Turner-Barnes Sandra Turner-Barnes of Lawnside — writer, arts administrator, and […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022 Sunday March 6, 2022 – 2pm EST Registration Required-Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOGhrzMpH9w44h0epioF-_rK2dcB0-iI Readings from our new anthology, International Women’s Day 2022 “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy   Imagine a gender equal world. […]

Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann, Nicole Liu, George Schaefer

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

Live Poetry Reading: Lucia Herrmann, Nicole Liu, George Schaefer Wednesday March 9, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsfuurqDktGNK1pjW8ei1mSqsPb1VFpMOd   Lucia Herrmann is an artist and educator originally from Miami, FL who thinks a lot about her sinking […]

Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey, Philip Dykhouse, Massimo Elijah

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

Live Poetry Reading: Kate Carey, Philip Dykhouse, Massimo Elijah Wednesday March 16, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street – and streamed on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpdumqqz0qH9JKbFehlZlazFvB9TqUx2rx   Kate Carey (she/her) is a fat queer polyamorous slut who sometimes spends whole days in bed crying because feelings […]

Tribute to Rosemary Cappello

Sunday April 10, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – – registration required at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-CgrD8uH9ZLWJTWV627rAArWkH5IjA0 Tribute to Rosemary Cappello Poet, Writer, Watercolorist, Editor of “Philadelphia Poets” Rosemary Cappello is a poet, painter, prose writer, community organizer, and editor whose work has appeared in such venues as Voices in Italian Americana, Poet Lore, Iconoclast, Avanti Popolo, Sweet […]

Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee

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

Live Poetry Reading: W.D. Ehrhart, Lynn Levin, Amber Renee 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucuCgqzIuH9yFuMAp-FO6iL9rBOqligPl   D. Ehrhart began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing ever since. Eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans […]

New Voices: Maura Gallagher, Isabella Piacentino, Vriddhi Vinay

Saturday April 16, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL – New Voices: Emerging Poets Registration Required, Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcOCrrTgpH9eHzx8FFy7kTWkpF7osbsal New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25.   Maura Gallagher, a freshman at Villa Maria Academy High School, where she contributes to the school literary magazine.         […]