Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III), Shakeema Smalls

Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Shakeema Smalls Sunday May 22, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-2trT4vGN0OaXwq5nWShZLwqTdgLBnJ Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse, patriarch of the Alexander clan, leader, organizer, Raceman, and Maude Anna, Griot, visionary artist, poet, muse, teacher, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in […]

Live Poetry Reading: Grady Chambers, Lynne Shapiro

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

Live Poetry Reading: Grady Chambers, Lynne Shapiro Wednesday May 25, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdeuopjMiGdy_NWWqt0nufO2NwbPVx Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions, 2018). His poems have recently appeared in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, […]

Live Author Reading: Shannon Frost Greenstein and Michael McCarthy with Sean Lynch

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

Live Author Reading: Shannon Frost Greenstein and Michael McCarthy with Sean Lynch Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81186651710?pwd=Mm8vOXVwSzc2NUxQblRvTFJhaGVQZz09  Shannon Frost Greenstein is the author of These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things and An Oral History of One Day in Guyana. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’sInternet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Iain Haley Pollock with Charles S. Carr

699 Ranstead Street 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM 2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series 699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Phila. Iain Haley Pollock is the author of Ghost, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy, winner of the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, […]

Live Poetry Reading: Mark Danowsky, Jonathan Koven, Louisa Schnaithmann

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

Live Poetry Reading: Mark Danowsky, Jonathan Koven, Louisa Schnaithmann Wednesday June 8, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrceihqz0jH9YoLTUs0yvwj-U4FPFu1a0w     Mark Danowsky is Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry. Mark is Poetry Craft Essays Editor for Cleaver Magazine. His […]

Live Poetry Reading: A Chapbook in 49 Days

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

Moonstone Arts Center’s Live Poetry Reading Sunday June 19, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdu2rrjkrE9PKXtJuraSgJDR63v-5q4eB22-Jun   A Chapbook in 49 Days with Host Sean Hanrahan  This course was designed to aid poets in developing a chapbook manuscript that realized its full […]

Live Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson & Herman Beavers

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

Live Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson & Herman Beavers Wednesday June 22, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdeuvpjIuG9I1jgckykQGy4BbPanE4irb   Nathalie Anderson’s books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  She collaborated in 2021 […]

Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar

Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar Sunday June 26, 2022 – 2 pm Virtual Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-2vqzsqG9ds6zRdZ9c866kl-iVbrBix Join us for Paul Laurence Dunbar’s two hundredth birthday (born June 27, 1872) “Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery […]

Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

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

Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Live at Fergie’s Pub Wednesday June 29, 2022 – 7pm EST 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtc-ippjIjG9wawPtiJPNKdw22fqzjEDIs James Shea is the author of two poetry collections, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye, both from Fence Books. […]

The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading

The Struggle for Freedom: Virtual Moonstone Anthology Poetry Reading   Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduCsrjwiEtMrMCgeWMUJulqmM7ujVoJv Struggle for Liberty – Everyone Struggles for Freedom Independence Day in the US (July 4th) – Bastille Day in France (July 14th) The continuing struggle for liberty is prevalent all over the world, but there are contradictions and complexities […]