Wednesday December 6, 2023 – 7PM Live at Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArceisrj4jGdA8Joyup6aFvmbnFCF3ld1e Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo is the author of the chapbook “DUH” and her work appears or is forthcoming in The Cleveland Review of Books, Barrelhouse Magazine, Passages North, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, and The Offing, among others. Alina Pleskova […]
Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Wednesday, 12/13 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub & on Zoom @ 7PM Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcof-6tpjsqG9XjTAb-Gp1JCqHN2E0OkAAr Paul Muldoon was born in County Armagh in 1951. He now lives in New York. A former radio and television producer for the BBC in Belfast, he taught at Princeton University […]
Sunday, 12/17 @ 2P EDT; VIRTUAL ONLY Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkfuGpqz4rHdBXineZDgxkf1GHD6__eNeO December 15, 1791: Ten amendments protect the most basic rights of Americans, known as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments made to the United States Constitution, and their purpose is to spell out the personal freedoms and rights of the American […]
Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub 7PM ET & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an […]
Book Release: Eat This Poem by Charles S. Carr Wednesday January 3, 2023 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub Registration Required for zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rcu2spz4sGtRH0yB2BbQ5PnqJd-96A05B Charles S. Carr from Philadelphia graduated from LaSalle College and has an M.A. in American History from Bryn Mawr College. Charles worked in Social and Community Development services for 45 […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock Tuesday January 9, 2023 @ 6:30pm VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Autumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook, Dirt Bird, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press, and poems of […]
Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances. Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Yolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and currently serves as chair of the
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the
anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with
her band Yolanda Wisher; The Afroeaters.
Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards, Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University, works as a technical writer, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with […]
Poe-sers – The Raven Thursday January 18, 2024 – 6pm Central Free Library, 1901 Vine Street In collaboration with The Literature Department of Free Library of Philadelphia Poe-sers is an autobiographical performance piece. The stories of four personas: child, victim, woman and The Raven – the overseer of them all. They are a keeper of […]
Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work, a poem about Swarthmore College, appeared seven years later […]
