Moonstone Presents:

Banned Books Week 2024

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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 […]

The Art of Inclusion: The Story of Larry Robin and Moonstone

The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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 […]

28th Poetry Ink: LIVE

The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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Ink Reading LIVE Sunday September 29, 2024, 2pm The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, 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 […]

28th Poetry Ink: VIRTUAL

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Moonstone Poetry presents 28th Annual Poetry Ink Reading VIRTUAL Monday, September 30th, 2024, 7pm Online via Zoom, register here: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88202311343?pwd=02AJS9GK5vIYcvL5dLXwwa7mJARNDc.1  We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, 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 forms. Join […]

Live Poetry: Mia Kang, Allayna Nofs, and Herman Beavers

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

Moonstone Live Poetry Wednesday October 9, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Register for Zoom access: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpceivqTIpHNL2TDUW4c3-ZEqlzjU3eIE9 Mia Kang is the author of City Poems, Apparent Signs and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must. She lives in Philadelphia with two cats, is the […]

Live Poetry: Courtney Bambrick, Hayden Saunier, and Jevon Simeon

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

Moonstone Poetry Wednesday October 16, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Register here for Zoom access: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkcOqgrj0qEtf2cVm92zWRaL5QhY1ri2if  Courtney Bambrick teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. She was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories until 2024.  Her own poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, […]

Live Poetry: Doris Ferleger & Lisa Grunberger

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

Moonstone Poetry Wednesday October 23, 2 024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Register for Zoom access here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf-6grzMoGNPJ5xjAbNU3zuz66tQya37z Doris Ferleger, poet laureate emeritus of Montgomery County PA, and winner of the New Millennium Poetry Prize, New Letters Poetry, Songs of Eretz Prize, and AROHO CNF Prize, among others, is […]

Virtual Reading: Remembering Dylan Thomas

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Virtual Reading: Remembering Dylan Thomas Sunday October 27, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdu6hqDMsGdZRzlthm1ZEK-xUGy30g20b  Remembering Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death […]

Live Poetry: William Hazard & Ari Villeda-Martinez

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

Moonstone Poetry Wednesday October 30, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlceyhrj4uGdcKVBmb7dFEdUot8n6Ea8AL  William Hazard makes poems with computers. Recent work can be found in Voicemail Poems, Bring a Blanket Zine, Ghost Proposal, Beloved Radio, Audio Flare Gun, and on GitHub. He teaches at Temple University. He […]

Virtual Reading: Our State of the Union

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DID YOU VOTE?  The State of The Nation – Get Out The Vote Sunday November 3, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqfuuhrz0vE9NAdRMQxqD0VzHTSKiDCQts THIS ELECTION IS IMPORTANT Things you can do to increase participation: • Remind those in your life to vote and invite them to voter education events like debates.  • Ask them to […]