Moonstone Presents:

New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading

Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 19th at 2pm Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a […]

Live Poetry: Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Pheralyn Dove, & Joseph Farley

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

Wednesday November 22, 2023 – 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/tZ0pf-qsrDgqHddl-HC4vUoC0r-JRYbaeol6 Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist book, Not Fit For Print: Forthcoming Titles (Waterhouse Ltd Press, 2018) and poems in publications like the Moonstone anthologies, Whirlwind Magazine, Bomb Magazine, and Cul-de-sac […]

Live Poetry: Jim Cory, Peter F. Murphy, & Sekai’afua Zankel

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

Wednesday, November 29 — 7PM LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcumpqD4sG9xoEzReApFvVfqvS36PY7KL 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 Recent essays include “What makes a queen a queen?” in the Gay & […]

Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke

Virtual

Sunday, December 3 @ 2PM EDT–VIRTUAL ONLY Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lc-yprD0pGtBXNxHxU9ZE1Z1Zu8CaUbPs Austrian poet and novelist acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, Rainer Maria Rilke’s work has undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, Letters to a Young Poet. The Sonnets […]

Philly Loves Poetry Reading Series: Evan Wang

Virtual

Tuesday, December 5 @ 6:30 PM EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website, Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia   王潇/Evan Wang is the first Youth Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the 2023 Jacklyn Potter Young Poet, and the current editor-in-chief of Hominum Journal. His work has appeared or […]

Poetry Reading: Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo & Alina Pleskova

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

Wednesday December 6, 2023 – 7PM  Live at Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom  Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceisrj4jGdA8Joyup6aFvmbnFCF3ld1e   Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is the author of the chapbook “DUH” and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Cleveland Review of Books, Barrelhouse Magazine, Passages North, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, and The Offing, among others. Alina Pleskova […]

Paul Muldoon, Courtney Sender, & Patricia Davis-Muffet in Equinox Reading Series

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

Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Wednesday, 12/13 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom @ 7PM Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcof-6tpjsqG9XjTAb-Gp1JCqHN2E0OkAAr Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he taught at Princeton University […]

Bill of Rights Day

Virtual

Sunday, 12/17 @ 2P EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuGpqz4rHdBXineZDgxkf1GHD6__eNeO December 15, 1791: Ten amendments protect the most basic rights of Americans, known as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments made to the United States Constitution, and their purpose is to spell out the personal freedoms and rights of the American […]

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 author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an […]

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 graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 […]