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Virtual Poetry Reading: Christian Andres Alfaro De La Rosa, Paul Buchanan, Reuben Gelley Newman, Nicole Liu, Yi Wei, with Nathalie Anderson

Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets in Their Youth Featuring Christian Andres Alfaro De La Rosa, Paul Buchanan, Reuben Gelley Newman, Nicole Liu, and Yi Wei, hosted by Nathalie Anderson   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102   Christian Andres Alfaro De La Rosa (he/him) is a first generation, Mexican/Chicano writer based out of his […]

Live Poetry Reading: Lynn Levin, Jim Mancinelli, Elijah B. Pringle III

Live Poetry Reading with Lynn Levin, Jim Mancinelli, and Elijah B. Pringle III   1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlf-mgpzwpHdZZB3CAIOVCXQ-8utbL0yWr   Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues  is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Mbarek Sryfi, Octavia McBride-Ahebee

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Mbarek Sryfi, Octavia McBride-Ahebee ON ZOOM Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uduqqqT4tGdxHPamACb5lmRvm5KxM3fY3   Jeffrey Ethan Lee’s first poetry book, invisible sister, was a finalist for the MMM Press Book Prize. His second book, identity papers, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. His novel, The Autobiography of Somebody […]

New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press: RuNett Ebo, Nina Gadson, David Lawton, Charles Rammelkamp, Louisa Schnaithmann

New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press   VIRTUAL – Registration Required:   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-6oqTgvHNRG34IB6Bx8gkC-PKeD1n5H  RuNett Ebo, author of Expressing Myself on Purpose, has performed all over the country, is contributing writer for Kwee, a Liberian magazine.     Nina Gadson, author of When I Was 16, realized that poetry is a part of her purpose, she collected these poems […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Rose-Marie Athiley, Edythe Rodriguez, Basia Wilson

Virtual Poetry Reading: Rose-Marie Athiley, Edythe Rodriguez, Basia Wilson Tuesday February 8, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpdeCtpjotHtfBklvFsozr3X6BLxZdJvtv   Rose-Marie Athiley, is a published poet and essayist, a recent graduate of Hamline with a degree in English, moved to the U.S. in 2006 and found the art of pen […]

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Gabrielle Martin, Scott Sigl, Jonathon Todd

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

Virtual Poetry Reading: Gabrielle Martin, Scott Sigl, Jonathon Todd Wednesday February 9, 2022 – 7pm – LIVE – Proof of Vaccination Required Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link:   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqduqgpzIpGNOTTLgVvjw_TLnRMl3boAtS    Gabrielle Martin is the author of Gritty City, a poet living and working […]

2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners: Charles Malone, Kristen Holt-Browning, Heather Lanier

2021 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners Sunday February 13, 2022 – 2pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucuyupjwvH9CGPXzKDk9CvNgFd9FZND-w   First Place: Charles Malone, author of After an Eclipse of Moths: the Crewdson Poems Charles Malone is the author of Working Hypothesis, Questions About Circulation and he edited the collection A Poetic Inventory of Rocky […]

Virtual Poetry Event: Deborah Fries, Peter F. Murphy, Alan Toltzis

Tuesday February 15, 2022 – 7pm -VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuf-ugrD8iE9wZ_FJEF6q-hEEi1MohfLyw Deborah Fries is a Philadelphia writer and printmaker whose chapbook, Having Visions Again, was the 2021 Keystone selection from Seven Kitchens Press. Her two full-length books of poetry, Various Modes of Departure, selected by Carolyn Forche, and The Bright Field of […]

Readings from the Penn & Pencil Club

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

Readings from the Penn & Pencil Club Wednesday February 16, 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/tZAqdOmrqj0sG9I2URaQHbuEETjN8d-gIOhM     Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House, Penn & Pencil Club is a creative writing workshop for faculty and […]

Honoring Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Winner of the 2021 Paz Poetry Prize: Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Carlos José Pérez Sámano, Dulce Ramirez

Honoring Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, Winner of the 2021 Paz Poetry Prize Saturday February 19, 2022 – VIRTUAL 5pm Eastern, 2pm Pacific – On Zoom  Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdumtqT0sE9Q3x8ulIyfbTTyX6fec3dYR   Alejandro Pérez-Cortés is the author of Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed, winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry. Some poems are set in […]