Moonstone Presents:

Live Poetry: Robert Coles, Alison Hicks, and Roland Leander Williams

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

Live Poetry: Robert Coles, Alison Hicks, and Roland Leander Williams Wednesday February 12, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street For Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4vYhPZXETFGJrideJAk8-Q#/registration Robert Coles has published over one hundred poems in various journals, anthologies, and magazines. Alison Hicks was finalist for the 2021 Beullah Rose prize from Smartis Pace, and […]

Live Poetry: Kat Giordano, Carol Moog, Lester Mobley, and Tara Tamburello

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

Wednesday February 19 at 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1lCXplISbCpSTMX_DE2UQ Kat Giordano was born in Philadelphia and it’s been downhill ever since. Their latest poetry collection, Thumbsucker, is out via Malarkey Books. Kat tweets at @giordkat and lives on the internet at katgiordano.com. Kat is […]

Remembering Gerald Stern

Virtual

Sunday, February 23, 2025 2pm Eastern virtual Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/P35CdROtSy2NBi1XJHF3lg Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Raritan […]

Live Poetry: Samantha Medina, Amanda Nicole Meadeis, and Skyler Norbury

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

Live Poetry: Samantha Medina, Amanda Nicole Meadeis, and Skyler Norbury Wednesday, February 26, 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/d9r8978JQ-CQKRC4mzSTbA Samantha Medina is a writer based in South Philadelphia. Her poetry touches on feminism and how to explore the cracks. Amanda Nicole Meadeis a poet, artist, tarot […]

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

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

Wednesday March 5th, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/vLVubHweQumhe0GM3rq9nA Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes (forthcoming), 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 […]

Live Broadcast: Nathalie Anderson

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Tuesday March 11th, 2025 at 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCam Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  […]

Live Poetry: Catch Breath, Amanda Giordano Herrera, and Matthew Sekellick

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

Wednesday March 12, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/zgOiWqUUT6OxURZIbzujjw catch breath is the founder of reunion poetry, a literary festival held in Philadelphia. Amanda Giordano Herrera is an interdisciplinary artist and writer born in Philadelphia. She is an editor for Poet’s Row. Her personal […]

Live Poetry: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

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

Tuesday March 18, 2025 – 5:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q3BIKrZhRjOSQ_BFscJ85A Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated with Susan Hagen and Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America.  Anderson’s poems have appeared […]

Live Poetry: C.M. Crockford, R.G. Evans, Shannon Frost Greenstein, and Von Wise

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

Wednesday March 19, 2025 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/s1AkTaeNSISE_wCCV7KJSg C.M. Crockford is a neurodivergent writer and editor. His works been published in dozens of magazines, anthologies, and websites, and his first book Birdsongs was released in 2024 with Alien Buddha Press. You can always […]

World Poetry Day Reading

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Sunday March 23, 2025 – 2pmEST – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LqG9LovqQnCdUxVCaQ1PHg3/26/2025 World Poetry Day Reading – The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded this day in 1999. Poetry uses rhythms and imagery to elicit emotion and the imagination of the reader. Poetry can rhyme, using what are called meters of long and short syllables. Some […]