Moonstone Presents:

  • Sunday March 22, 2026 – World Poetry Day – Virtual

    Sunday March 22, 2026 World Poetry Day – Virtual Register Here: World Poetry Day – Virtual World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21st, and was declared by UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in 1999, ”with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages […]

  • Wednesday April 1, 2026 – LIVE

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

    Wednesday April 1, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: Peter Baroth, Courtney Bambrick, Emiliano Martin, and Liz Allen as Host Peter Baroth is a writer, artist, and musician based in the Philadelphia area. He has published a novel, Long Green and his most recent chapbook is Ski Oklahoma. , he is on the editorial […]

  • Wednesday April 8 – LIVE

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

    Wednesday April 8, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: John Wall Barger, Mac Chandler, Ernest Hilbert, and Sean Lynch as Host John Wall Barger, author of Praise for Resurrection Pie, is a contract editor for Frontenac House, lives in Vermont, and lectures in the Writing Program at Dartmouth College. Mac Chandler is a […]

  • Sunday April 26, 2026

    Sunday April 26, 2026 – VIRTUAL at 2pm Moonstone Chapbook Contest 2025 – Reading Featuring: The Winning Manuscript: All at Once by Lucia Owen High Honorable Mention: Tarifa Moon by Bill O’Connell Honorable Mention: Bright Clatter by Susan Coppock Honorable Mention: Shadow House by Ada Lowenthal   PLUS These Exceptional Poets Aliyah Cotton, author of […]

  • Sunday April 12 – LIVE

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

    Sunday April 12, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 3pm Featuring: Joseph Chelius, Lee Stockdale, Anne-Adele Wight, and Aaron Perry as Host Joseph Chelius is the author of five collections of poems and is a former Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet. Lee Stockdale has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, Montana Prize for Humor, Sidney Lanier […]

  • Tuesday April 14, 2026 – LIVE on PhillyCam

    Tuesday April 14, 2026 – LIVE BROADCAST on PhillyCam @ 6:30pm Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, Can be viewed on the Phillycam website: PhillyCam Philly Loves Poetry Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment, The Age of […]

  • Wednesday April 15, 2026 – LIVE

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

    Wedsnesday April 15, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: C.M. Crockford, Chris DeMento, John Fadely, Alison Lubar, and Sean Hanrahan as Host C.M. Crockford poems, essays, and stories have been featured in Vastarien, Nobody Magazine, Be About It Press, and The Cleveland Review of Books among many others. Chris DeMento hosts Poetry Night […]

  • Sunday April 19, 2026 – Haiku Poetry Day – Virtual

     Sunday April 19, 2026 – Haiku Poetry Day – Virtual Register Here: Haiku Poetry Day Virtual Reading National Haiku Day, an initiative of the Haiku Foundation, celebrates the art form every April 17th. A haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines with the sentence structure ”five-seven-five”- although this is […]

  • Wednesday April 22 – LIVE

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

    Wednseday April 22, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: Grace Bauer, Sean Hanrahan, Gina Myers, and Anne-Adele Wight as Host Grace Bauer has published six books of poems and co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Sean Hanrahan is author of Headless, has taught classes titled A […]

  • Wednesday April 29 – LIVE

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

    Wednesday April 29, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @7pm Featuring: Shannon Frost Greenstein, Emily Rose Reed. With Hosts Warren Longmire & Lindsay Hargrave Shannon Frost Greenstein resides near Philadelphia with her family and cats. She is the author of Through the Lens of Time, and “These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things. Shannon […]