Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts

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

    Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts Wednesday, January 7th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom Street Featured readers for this live event are all of Moonstone’s poetry reading hosts. We hope you join us in the new year to meet our hosts, hear their latest work, and gather in community. Featured Moonstone Poetry Hosts Liz  […]

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  • Philly Loves Poetry: Reading and Interview with Hayden Saunier

    Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with Hayden Saunier Tuesday January 13, 2026 6:30pm EST – Live Broadcast Can be viewed for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series with Hayden Saunier Hayden Saunier is a poet, actor, and teaching artist living in the Philadelphia […]

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  • Live Poetry: Herman Beavers, Anisha Bhat, Steve Burke, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee

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

    Live Poetry: Herman Beavers, Anisha Bhat, Steve Burke, and Octavia McBride-Ahebee Wednesday January 14, 2026 – 7pm  Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Herman Beavers is an African American writer and the author of The Vernell Poems and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of Toni Morrison. Beavers’s honors include the Charles Ludwig Distinguished […]

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  • Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Holiday Noel Campanella, Shannon Frost Greenstein & C.L. Liedekev

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

    Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Holiday Noel Campanella, Shannon Frost Greenstein & C.L. Liedekev Wednesday, January 21st at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom St. E. Lynn Alexander is an artist, poet, maker of unlikely things from other things, independent publisher, and cemetery walker. She cohosts The Friday Collapse reading series and has a […]

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  • Virtual Reading: ICE Immigration and Murder

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    ICE: Immigration and Murder In immediate response, Moonstone is hosting a virtual reading on Sunday, January 25th at 2pm EST via Zoom for all to attend and read. You can register for the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/FoHS3q61SQy1zuoz9aIJZA We are also organizing a poetry anthology in response to ICE’s violence, the murder of Renee Nicole Good, and many […]

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  • Live Poetry: Anne Kaier, Massimo Lavelle, and Aaren Perry

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

    Live Poetry: Anne Kaier, Massimo Lavelle, and Aaren Perry Wednesday, January 28, 2026 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Anne Kaier a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow and has served on a Fulbright screening committee for creative writers.  Her poetry collection, How Can I Say It Was Not Enough? won […]

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  • Virtual Reading: Remembering Langston Hughes

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    Remembering Langston Hughes Sunday February 1, 2026 – 2pm Eastern Zoom Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/XXf_26_ZRE6a9MzFrJzzRw   Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) During the twenties when most American poets were turning inward, writing obscure and esoteric poetry to an ever-decreasing audience of readers, Hughes was turning outward, using language and themes, attitudes and ideas […]

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  • Live Poetry: Elliott batTzedek, Pheralyn Dove, Mikey Franz, and Alina Macneal

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

    Live Poetry: Elliott batTzedek, Pheralyn Dove, Mikey Franz, and Alina Macneal Wednesday February 4, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Elliott batTzedek is a Pushcart-prize nominated poet, liturgist, and bookseller and was chosen as an attendee for the inaugural conference for Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry. Her poems […]

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  • Philly Loves Poetry with Sean Hanrahan: Interview and Reading

    Philly Loves Poetry with Sean Hanrahan: Interview and Reading Moonstone @ PhillyCAM Watch on the PhillyCAM website or on Cable 66/966 HD or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia Sean Hanrahan (he, him, his) is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City, Virginia. He is the author of Headless (Collapse Press), the full-length collections Safer […]

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  • House Poet: Dead Presidents Club with Von Wise, Blake Melvine & DJ Donald Khaleel Mason

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

    House Poet #27: Dead Presidents Club Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 7 p.m. at Fergie’s Pub. featuring: Von Wise, Blake Melvine and resident DJ Donald Khaleel Mason Von Wise received his MFA for Creative Writing from Florida International University and is the author of Grow a Cowboy, winner of the 2025 Beyond Words Poetry Chapbook Awards. […]

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