Welcome to The 22nd Annual Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading Sunday April 29, 2018 1199C Hospital Workers Union Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street All Reading Times are Approximate Come to hear your favorite poet, stay to hear others – Conversation & Comradery Galore This is a pot luck affair, so bring something good to eat or […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sunday May 6, 2018, 2pm Samuel R. Delany The Atheist in the Attic $14.00, Books will be available to purchase and autographed “A talent very close to time travel—or magic.” —Locus “The most remarkable prose stylist to have emerged from the culture of American […]
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 9, 2018 – 7pm Julia Blumenreich & Therése Halscheid Julia Blumenreich is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council grant for her poetry. She is a founding member of 6ix: a literary journal devoted to cutting edge work, edited by six Philadelphia area women. She […]
South Philadelphia Free Library 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street) Sunday May 13, 2018 – 2pm W.D. Ehrhart, Bill Wunder, & Members of Warrior Writers W. D. Ehrhart joined the US Marines in 1966 at the age of 17, serving three years including 13 months in Vietnam. He was wounded in combat, and earned the […]
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 16, 2018 – 7pm Thinking Green with Jacob Russell, Paul Siegell & Anne-Adele Wight Jacob, Willard and Goby work together as a creative collective. Writing under the name, Jacob Russell, they have published three chapbooks, many poems, and have four books of poetry searching for […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sunday May 20, 2018, 2pm Remembering Lili Bita Lili Bita, of Bala Cynwyd, author, actress, and pianist, died February 12, 2018. An artist of international acclaim and a figure in Philadelphia cultural life for more than thirty years. Born Angeliki Euterpe Bita in Zakynthos, Greece […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 23, 2018 – 7pm Angel Hogan & David Kertis Angel Hogan has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival, Literary Death Match, Moonstone Presents, First Person Arts and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Angel worked with ArtWell, was a Contributing Editor to […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 30, 2018 – 7pm Hive Night @ Fergie’s Pub HIVE NIGHT is Apiary Magazine’s showcase and open mic celebrating every stripe of literary artist the city has to offer. Come to hear voices from Philadelphia writing tribes old and new, spanning Apiary’s decade-long […]
Presented by the Moonstone Arts Center & The Nick Virgilio Haiku Association at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sunday June 17, 2018 – 2pm Philadelphia Says Haiku Celebrating the release of Philadelphia Says Haiku, an Anthology of Haiku by Philadelphia Area Poets ($10, The Moonstone Press) with a reading by contributors. Philadelphia is home to […]
The American War in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts, Adam […]
