Moonstone Presents:

LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, Airea D. Matthews, Matthew Buckley Smith

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

Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Wednesday March 13, 2024 – 7pm 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book, Chariot, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many, winner of […]

Virtual Poetry: World Poetry Day

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Sunday March 17, 2024 2pm EST – VIRITUAL Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that […]

Virtual Poetry – May Day 2024 Anthology

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Sunday May 19, 2024 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvcOiqrTIuGtI4ZR23zt_f1C1FDbB5uk6U May Day commemorating the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement, observed in many countries on May 1. In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers, in commemoration […]

Moonstone Presents: Independence Day of Ukraine Poetry Reading

Barnes and Noble 1708 Chesnut St. 1708 Chesnut Street., Phildelphia, PA, United States

Wednesday August 24, 2024 – 3:30pm Live at at Barnes & Noble, 1708 Chestnut Street Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of 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 […]

Live Reading: Justin Ryan, James Milanesi, Alexandra Naughton

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

Live Poetry: Justin Ryan, James Milanesi, Alexandra Naughton Wednesday September 11, 2024 – 7pm  Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Registration Link https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82262171863?pwd=shO59ocZl1I7bpqxl5EGfs0b0wFY3x.1 Justin Ryan Fyfe is a poet in Philly. He just got fired from his job. You can read all his poems online at fromfromfrom.tumblr.com. James Milanesi was born and […]

Live Reading: David Ebenbach, Elayna Mae Darcy, Autumn Konopka, Sean Lynch, and Victoria Mier

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

Moonstone Poetry – Prose Night David Ebenbach, Elayna Mae Darcy, Autumn Konopka, Sean Lynch, and Victoria Mier Wednesday September 18, 2024 – 7pm  Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82017815042?pwd=aLRcZOFnBsBoOfrU6001OawDPCuChe.1 David Ebenbach is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including his new novel Possible Happiness, […]

Banned Books Week 2024

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Banned Books Week 2024 Sunday September 22, 2024 Virtual on Zoom – 2pm Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86935252863?pwd=8GIY87i0AJsTBbQWImX3sOVVUlx1ZO.1 “This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers, particularly students, are losing access to critical information, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs.” – Deborah […]

Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024

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Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024 Sunday November 17, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL Register to access Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6tpzotGNe7ciI7XVSoht8wYC9CkeMW New Voices Anthology – Fall 2024 – A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from […]

Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W.D. Ehrhart, Jack Miller

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

Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley […]

29th Annual Poetry Ink: Virtual Reading

29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Monday May 19, 2025 – No matter where […]