Wednesday August 24, 2024 – 3:30pm Live at at Barnes & Noble, 1708 Chestnut Street Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is […]
Wednesday August 28, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudO-vqjouGNxLFi7snrqCmBG6MbFrG96_ The Osage Poets are a long-standing, informal collective, meeting in workshops led by poet Leonard Gontarek: Making Poems That Last and Gentle Warriors. With humor, insight, and a Zen teaching style, Leonard seeds a dynamic and varied […]
Tuesday September 3, 2024 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. “Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon has been a force in the spoken word/poetry scene for decades. This new release (You Gotta Have Game) from Boyer College of Music and Dance is Williams-Witherspoon […]
Live Poetry: Elliott batTzedek, Steve Burke, Mabel Lee & Matt McGarvey Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Register for Zoom at this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMudumurj0rHNXoqS0HzX_7ZJogkgqPa5Sy Elliott batTzedek is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet/translator. Elliott’s work appears in various journals and is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue. Steve Burke has read at many venues […]
Live Poetry: Justin Ryan, James Milanesi, Alexandra Naughton Wednesday September 11, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Registration Link https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82262171863?pwd=shO59ocZl1I7bpqxl5EGfs0b0wFY3x.1 Justin Ryan Fyfe is a poet in Philly. He just got fired from his job. You can read all his poems online at fromfromfrom.tumblr.com. James Milanesi was born and […]
Tribute to Sonia Sanchez Sunday September 15th, 2024 – 2pm VIRTUAL Registration Link https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83627572456?pwd=JE0PCSxPn26WT6hBZ8aSmXHm0PqDxo.1 Happy 90th Birthday, Sonia Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes […]
Moonstone Poetry – Prose Night David Ebenbach, Elayna Mae Darcy, Autumn Konopka, Sean Lynch, and Victoria Mier Wednesday September 18, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82017815042?pwd=aLRcZOFnBsBoOfrU6001OawDPCuChe.1 David Ebenbach is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including his new novel Possible Happiness, […]
Banned Books Week 2024 Sunday September 22, 2024 Virtual on Zoom – 2pm Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/86935252863?pwd=8GIY87i0AJsTBbQWImX3sOVVUlx1ZO.1 “This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers, particularly students, are losing access to critical information, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs.” – Deborah […]
Moonstone Poetry & the Free Library of Philadelphia present Wednesday September 25, 2024, 5:30pm – LIVE Free Library of Philadelphia Central Branch Skyline Room 1901 Vine Street THE ART OF INCLUSION THE STORY OF LARRY ROBIN & MOONSTONE A Celebration of the Arts and Free Speech! Many of us have connections with Larry and […]
Moonstone Poetry & The Rotunda present 28th Annual Poetry Ink Reading LIVE Sunday September 29, 2024, 2pm The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse, and all other […]
