Sunday March 15, 2026 - Latinx Voices in Poetry: Poetry Without Borders - VIRTUAL
2026-03-15 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Sunday March 15, 2026 – Latinx Voices in Poetry: Poetry Without Borders
Register Here: Latinx Voices in Poetry: Virtual Poetry Reading
This anthology will include three sections: Remembering Marjorie Agosin, Remembering Ernesto Cardenzal, and Latinx Voices in Poetry: Poetry Without Borders – Poetry by Latin American Poets both in the US and Latin America

Wednesday March 18, 2026 - LIVE at Fergie's Pub
2026-03-18 19:00 - 2026-03-29 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday March 18, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s
Featuring: Vincent Bush, Demetra De’Vine, William E. Heston, Matthew Klauber, and Sean Hanrahan as Host
Vincent Bush is a Philadelphia-based mixed media artist and poet. Through his chosen mediums, Vincent explores healing, identity, and the power of love, often using the heart as a universal symbol that transcends culture, religion, and background.
Demetra De’Vine moved on to poetry in middle school. Not published yet but she’s currently working on her first book. She’s performed for open mics and other events in the city. She writes about her experiences as a black queer person born and raised in the lovely city of Philadelphia.
William E. Heston is a poet, painter, musician, and filmmaker whose art focuses on the personal drama of working class life-whether it’s through the lens of gritty realism, low fantasy, or surrealism.
Matthew Klauber is a writer and educator based in the Philadelphia area. A longtime devotee of the Moonstone Arts Center, his work has been published in The Literary Hatchet, Orchards, Calliope, and elsewhere.
Sean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows

Sunday March 22, 2026 - World Poetry Day - Virtual
2026-03-22 14:00 - 16:00
Sunday March 22, 2026 World Poetry Day – Virtual
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World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21st, and was declared by UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) in 1999, ”with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”. Its purpose is to promote the reading, writing, publishing, and teaching of poetry throughout the world, and as the original UNESCO declaration says, ”to give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional, and international poetry movements”.

Wednesday April 1, 2026 - LIVE
2026-04-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 1, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm
Featuring: Peter Baroth, Courtney Bambrick, Emiliano Martin, and Liz Allen as Host
Peter Baroth is a writer, artist, and musician based in the Philadelphia area. He has published a novel, Long Green and his most recent chapbook is Ski Oklahoma. , he is on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories magazine.
Courtney Bambrick was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories, her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Spotlong, Mom Egg Review, Landlocked, Clockhouse, Pinhole, Thimble, SWWIM Everyday, New York Quarterly, Invisible City, and more.
Emiliano Martin is a bilingual poet originally from Spain. Martín served as President of “Círculo Español”, was the founding director of the “Philadelphia Poetry Forum”, Executive Director of the Latin American Guild for the Arts in Philadelphia and President of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society.
Liz Allen Host – Open Reading Follows

Wednesday April 8 - LIVE
2026-04-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 8, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm
Featuring: John Wall Barger, Mac Chandler, Ernest Hilbert, and Sean Lynch as Host
John Wall Barger, author of Praise for Resurrection Pie, is a contract editor for Frontenac House, lives in Vermont, and lectures in the Writing Program at Dartmouth College.
Mac Chandler is a writer from West Philly who has been published in some places and not in others. They currently host quarterly shows for Moonstone Arts, and recently self-published their first collection of poetry, There Is A Thing Haunting Me I Could Grow To Love.
Ernest Hilbert founded the Oxford Quarterly and E-Verse Radio. He has also served as editor of both the Contemporary Poetry Review and Random House’s magazine Bold Type.
Sean Lynch as Host – Open Reading Follows

Sunday April 26, 2026
2026-04-11 08:00 - 17:00
Sunday April 26, 2026 – VIRTUAL at 2pm
Moonstone Chapbook Contest 2025 – Reading Featuring:
The Winning Manuscript: All at Once by Lucia Owen
High Honorable Mention: Tarifa Moon by Bill O’Connell
Honorable Mention: Bright Clatter by Susan Coppock
Honorable Mention: Shadow House by Ada Lowenthal

PLUS These Exceptional Poets
Aliyah Cotton, author of The Lungs Remember Breath
Anne Greenhaigh, author of Half sun, half shade: a sequence of sestinas
Vincent Hostak, author of The Strangest Fire
Stacie Kiner, author of Abby Road
Brandy Reinke, author of Remnants of the Injury of Finding the Known
Meri Tumanyan, author of Why I Pray in Armenian
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Sunday April 12 - LIVE
2026-04-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Sunday April 12, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 3pm
Featuring: Joseph Chelius, Lee Stockdale, Anne-Adele Wight, and Aaron Perry as Host
Joseph Chelius is the author of five collections of poems and is a former Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet.
Lee Stockdale has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, Montana Prize for Humor, Sidney Lanier Poetry Prize, and others.
Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment, The Age of Greenhouses, Opera House Arterial, and Sidestep Catapult, all from BlazeVOX.
Aaron Perry Host – Open Reading Follows

Tuesday April 14, 2026 - LIVE on PhillyCam
2026-04-14 18:30 - 19:00
Tuesday April 14, 2026 – LIVE BROADCAST on PhillyCam @ 6:30pm
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, Can be viewed on the
Phillycam website: PhillyCam Philly Loves Poetry
Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia.
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Anne-Adele Wight is the author of An Internet of Containment, The Age of Greenhouses, Opera House Arterial, and Sidestep Catapult, all from BlazeVOX. Her work has appeared in Poets and Writers, Luna Luna, Adroit Journal, and other publications. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Wednesday April 15, 2026 - LIVE
2026-04-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wedsnesday April 15, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm
Featuring: C.M. Crockford, Chris DeMento, John Fadely, Alison Lubar, and Sean Hanrahan as Host
C.M. Crockford poems, essays, and stories have been featured in Vastarien, Nobody Magazine, Be About It Press, and The Cleveland Review of Books among many others.
Chris DeMento hosts Poetry Night in collaboration with the cafe Char & Stave, featuring some of the most impressive voices from the PHL region and beyond.
John Fadely won the 2025 Trail to Table Book Award in Poetry for his debut collection, Before Leaving the Island, which will be published on April 21.
Alison Lubar is a Nikkei poet and educator who teaches literature to teenagers, writing to adults, and yoga to all ages. Alison writes about biracial identity, queer love, transgenerational healing, and common moths; they are also a board member for Philadelphia’s Blue Stoop.
Sean Hanrahan Host – Open Reading Follows

Sunday April 19, 2026 - Haiku Poetry Day - Virtual
2026-04-19 14:00 - 16:00
Sunday April 19, 2026 – Haiku Poetry Day – Virtual
Register Here: Haiku Poetry Day Virtual Reading
National Haiku Day, an initiative of the Haiku Foundation, celebrates the art form every April 17th. A haiku is an ancient form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines with the sentence structure ”five-seven-five”- although this is contested for being a western way of teaching the haiku. Japanese haikus also count sounds, not only syllables. Haikus typically revolve around nature, the passing of seasons, or ephemeral beauty. At the risk of sounding like your high school English teacher, they rely more on images than metaphors. They’re also very concise, due to their short length.

Wednesday April 22 - LIVE
2026-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednseday April 22, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm
Featuring: Grace Bauer, Sean Hanrahan, Gina Myers, and Anne-Adele Wight as Host
Grace Bauer has published six books of poems and co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse.
Sean Hanrahan is author of Headless, has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days, Ekphrastic Poetry, Poetry Embodied and has hosted and read at poetry events throughout Philadelphia.
Gina Myers is the author A Model Year and Hold It Down, she coedits the tiny with Gabriella Torres andruns the Accidental Player reading series.
Anne-Adele Wight Host, Open Reading Follows

Virtual: Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2025
2026-04-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2025
Sunday April 26, 2026 @ 2pm ET – VIRTUAL
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/NOIi7-_lSja6fp2YjqQPgw
The Winning Manuscript: All at Once by Lucia Owen
Unsentimental yet open hearted, these poems capture a married couple’s long and loyal love. The voice is older. The voice is precise, wise, stoic, and self-reliant. It confronts old age with toughness, compassion, and moral strength. I cherish these poems and the spirit behind them more and more each time I read them.

High Honorable Mention: Tarifa Moon by William O’Connell
A collection of many profound delights, these elegant and precise poems take us on a magnificent journey with a husband and wife through Southern Europe. He shares precise reflections on the places visited including the coastal town of Tarifa. The speaker’s voice is learned, observant, open to awe and discovery of self and place.
Honorable Mention: Bright Clatter by Susan Coppock
These are unforgettable, precise, and stoic poems of a girl’s coming of age and her relationship with her beautiful, cold, and often rejecting actress mother. We get glimpses of her free-spirited dating life during the 1950s and 1960s. These are stirring and compelling poems.

Honorable Mention: Shadow House by Ada Lowenthal
These poems captivate with their witty and playful wordplay, their allusions to all manner of things, and their occasional enthusiastic moments of absurdity. I marvel at this poet’s mind and the way in which she darts here and there as she weaves eclectic images and observations together.

PLUS These Exceptional Poets
Aliyah Cotton, author of The Lungs Remember Breath, her work appears in Adroit, Cortland Review, Emerson Review, Grub Street Literary Journal, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Redivider, Rust & Moth, Salamander, Southern Humanities Review, and South Carolina Review.
Anne Greenhaigh, author of Half sun, half shade: a sequence of sestinas, Her debut chapbook, Now that mother is dead, all quilts unravel in the end, published by Moonstone Press, features a double crown of sonnets that explore themes of time, memory, and loss.
Vincent Hostak, author of The Strangest Fire poems have been featured in literary journals including The Dewdrop, Sonder Midwest (Iowa), The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and more. He writes & produces a podcast, the Phantom Script, examining the evolution of the world’s most accessible form of literature and how it reaches others.
Stacie Kiner, author of Abby Road Her poems have appeared in Calyx, The Charlotte Poetry Review, Madison Review, Comstock Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Apalachee Quarterly, The Ekphrastic Review, Lavender Review, Panoply, Plainsong, Rhino, and more.
Brandy Reinke, author of Remnants of the Injury of Finding the Known, published pieces in: The Redrock Review, Esthetic Apostle, Tulane Review, Glassworks, Big Muddy Review, Microfiction Monday Magazine, Moonstone Arts, Unleash Press, Hare’s Paw Journal, and the HCE Review.
Meri Tumanyan, author of Why I Pray in Armenian, a first-generation Armenian-American, earned a B.A. in English and Comparative Literary Studies from Occidental College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from CSUN. For her, writing is an exploration—a journey toward reconciliation, hope, fresh perspectives, and a deeper self-awareness.

Wednesday April 29 - LIVE
2026-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday April 29, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @7pm
Featuring: Shannon Frost Greenstein, Emily Rose Reed. With Hosts Warren Longmire & Lindsay Hargrave
Shannon Frost Greenstein resides near Philadelphia with her family and cats. She is the author of Through the Lens of Time, and “These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize and BOTN nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, Nimrod Journal, Bending Genres, Parentheses Journal, Litro Mag, Philadelphia Stories, and elsewhere. Shannon’s passions include Friedrich Nietzsche, anti-racism, the Seven Summits, the Hamilton Soundtrack, motherhood, and acquiring more cats.
Emily Rose Reed is a queer trans chaotic mess of a DIY musician, writer, and all around sweetie from Philly/South Jersey who makes music under the name How I Became Invisible. If you have a band she’s probably in it, and she might also be your girlfriend. Find her music at howibecameinvisible.com, and everywhere except Spotify because they’re a garbage company.
Warren Longmire & Lindsay Hargrave Hosts – Open Reading Follows

Sunday, May 3 - LIVE AND VIRTUAL - 3pm
2026-05-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Remembering Hal Sirowitz
Sunday May 3, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub AND Virtual
Hal Sirowitz (March 6, 1949- October 17, 2025) was an American and internationally known poet, who first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team and competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam along with his Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Tracie Morris, and Regie Cabico.
He would later perform his poetry on stages across the country, and on television programs such as MTV’s Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS’s The United States of Poetry. He wrote five books of poetry: Mother Said, My Therapist Said, Father Said, During and After, and Stray Cat Blues. He was the best-selling translated poet in Norway, where Mother Said has been adapted for the stage and turned into a series of animated cartoons. He has been translated into thirteen languages.
Sirowitz was a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and was the Poet Laureate of Queens. He worked as a special education teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years and was married to the writer Minter Krotzer, who will be attending.
Tom Devaney and Jeff Lee as Hosts

Purchase the anthology featuring over 30 poets honoring Hal and his legacy.
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Wednesday May 6, 2026 - 7pm – LIVE
2026-05-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday May 6, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
Featuring: Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Raina J. León, ariel rosé
Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Her work has also been anthologized in Best American Poetry; Halal If You Hear Me; New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims; They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets; and elsewhere.
Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Current published by Lily Poetry Review Books, 2026. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Verse Daily, Cortland Review, Mid-American Review, Salamander, 2River, The Poetry Porch and others. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Carlson is a Poetry in Translation Editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
Raina J. León, PhD, 2026-2027 Philadelphia Poet Laureate, is a Black, Afro-Boricua poet, writer, and educator from southwest Philadelphia (Lenni Lenape ancestral lands). Her work is grounded in collective action and community engagement, centering storytelling, memory, and the liberatory practice of humanizing education across poetry, visual art, and archival practice. She is the author of black god mother this body, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, sombra : (dis)locate, and several chapbooks, and is the founding editor of The Acentos Review, an international journal dedicated to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.
ariel rosé is a trans gender / androgynous / queer poet, essayist, and illustrator originally from Poland, resident of Norway, a nomad. Ariel is coming to the United States to read from Both Sides Face East. Durable Words, that they edited: well as their latest poetry collection, morze nocą jest mięśniem serca (the sea at night is a muscle of the heart) nominated for the Orfeusz Award, and Północ. They were for the Most Beautiful Book Award for their illustrations for Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s Kocia Książka (Cat Book).

Sunday May 10, 2026 - Tribute to Joy Harjo
2026-05-10 14:00 - 16:00
Sunday May 10, 2026 – Tribute to Joy Harjo
Virtual @ 2pm
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms (after Robert Pinsky). Harjo is a seventh-generation Monahwee daughter (also known as “Menawa”). Additionally, Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation (Este Mvskokvlke) and belongs to Oce Vpofv (Hickory Ground). She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
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Tuesday May 12 - PhillyCAM - Philly Loves Poetry
2026-05-12 18:30 - 19:30
Tuesday May 12, 2026 @ 6:30pm – LIVE BROADCAST
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
Can be viewed on the Phillycam website
Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30
In Philadelphia.
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series
Sean Hanrahan (he, him, his) is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City, Virginia. He is the author of Headless (Collapse Press), the full-length collections Safer Behind Popcorn (2019 Cajun Mutt) and Ghost Signs (2023 Alien Buddha), and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan (2018 Moonstone) and Gay Cake (2020 Toho). His work has also been included in various anthologies and journals. He has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days, Ekphrastic Poetry, Poetry Embodied, and has hosted and read at poetry events throughout Philadelphia. He can be found on Instagram as gaycakepoet. Sean Hanrahan, author of Headless, Safer Behind Popcorn and Ghost Signs, Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work has also been included in various anthologies and journals..
Charles S. Carr, Host

Wednesday May 13, 2026 - LIVE @ 7pm
2026-05-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday May 13, 2026 – 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom
Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War
Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War offers a groundbreaking and vital perspective on war’s destruction of the natural world—the creatures, plants, soil, water, and atmosphere of Earth. In poems and contextual comments, 61 contemporary poets focus on military damages to the ecosystems on six continents and the moon. This compelling anthology alerts readers to environmental degradation of our planet while affirming nature’s resilience and regeneration.
Contributors: Ninety poems, each paired with an Author’s Note, by U. S. and international poets, including John Balaban, Gillian Clarke, Camille T. Dungy, Ferida Duraković, W.D. Ehrhart, Willian Heyen, Cynthia Hogue, Denise Low, Craig Santos Perez, Eric Paul Shaffer, Jillian Sullivan, Brian Turner, Pamela Uschuk, and Mai Der Vang.
“Bringing light to a dark place, these geographically and historically wide-reaching poems illuminate how war pulls, from under our feet, the earth on which we stand and pollutes even the air we breathe. Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War is unique in its scope and its focus on how war’s intolerable human cost is inseparable from the devastation of nature and its non-human animals—war against life itself. Though, like green shoots from a charred root, here, too, are poems of eloquent witness to nature’s humbling power of resilience and restoration.” —Eleanor Wilner – Chancellor, Academy of American Poets

C. Todd, co-editor of Convergence: Poetry on the Environmental Impacts of War. Her most recent books are Beyond Repair and the bilingual English–Lithuanian What Kept Me Awake? / Kas neleido užmigti?. A former Pew Fellow, she has poems in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Pedestal.

D. Ehrhart is a Marine Corps veteran of both the American War in Vietnam and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. His most recent books are Smart Fish Don’t Bite and Getting Shot At: Essays on War, Conflict, and Culture Clash.
Vernita Hall, author of Where William Walked: Poems About Philadelphia and Its People of Color. Poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, African American Review, Barrow Street, and elsewhere.
Rick Kearns is a writer of Puerto Rican and European heritage. His poems have appeared in over 70 publications and six anthologies in the US and Argentina. He was Poet Laureate of Harrisburg. Rick and the Con Alma Quartet blended his poetry with established jazz tunes. A freelance journalist for over 35 years, he writes mostly about Latin American and Indigenous issues.
MaryAnn L. Miller is a poet, printmaker, and book artist. Miller has been thrice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Illness as a Form of Existence, Welcome to the Resistance, and Stained.
Michelle Servellon is a Salvadoran-American writer and graduate of Stockton University. She lives in South Jersey with her family—whose joy, grief, and anger often become the subject of her pieces. She now dedicates her time at the Long Branch Free Public Library working as a Technology Assistant.
