Moonstone’s Virtual Annual Poetry Ink Events In addition to Moonstone’s live Poetry Ink Event on January 8, there will be TWO VIRTUAL EVENTS: January 9 & January 10 Times and Dates Monday, January 9 @ 7PM Registration Link: click here! Tuesday January 10 @ 7PM Registration Link: click here! […]
Live Poetry Event with Peter Baroth, Massimo Elijah & Glen A. Mazis LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. Wednesday January 11 @ 7PM Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration required– register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuc-qtrT0rGNUpSm6pNoX_JoJ016NR2VAU Peter Baroth, writer, artist, and musician, is a graduate of Washington University and Temple Law School. His […]
Live Poetry Event with Liz Chang, Chad Frame, and Mary Jo LoBello Jerome Wednesday January 18 @ 7PM Live at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom Street Event will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration Required– Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpcu-trzIqHdBee3AuTkKCu3tGXaMoi1cJ Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse […]
Virtual Poetry Event with New Voices Saturday January 21 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL Registration Required. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-igqjgqHNESm_1z3fGzzgKz5Y4BBrb3 Telicia Darius, 2022-2023 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate, is a senior at Hardy Williams Mastery Charter School in a dual enrollment program at Community College of Philadelphia. Telicia has participated in the Young Writer’s Workshop at Bard […]
Live Poetry Event with Alexa Smith and Joseph Earl Thomas LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. Wednesday January 25 @ 7PM Event will also be streamed. Registration Required– Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcuqurjojHtLlYIEefDTD2M2u1XpBGvZS Alexa Smith is a poet and essayist from Washington D.C. She lives in West Philadelphia, where she works in publishing and […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 12, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) In poems that celebrate […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 19, 2023 – 7:00pm Live at Finn McCools Corner of 12th & Sansom Street Note the change of venue for this event Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems . […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Haiku 2023 Sunday April 23, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- International Haiku Day The old pond A frog jumps in Plop! Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) Translated by Allan Watts The Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 26, 2023 – 7:30pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ Maya Pindyck’s third poetry collection, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday April 30, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual Join us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 Ekphrastic Poetry Ekphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis, the poet engages with a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and […]
