Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Josh Dale, Cameron MacKenzie, Iheoma Nwachukwu

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

    Wednesday September 17, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Josh […]

  • Live Poetry: Ebs Sanders, Michael Joseph Walsh

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

    Wednesday September 24, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ebs Sanders is the author of Low Ecstasies, Intimacies that did not destroy us and A Fallow Channel. Their writing has appeared in bæst, b l u s h, Discount Guillotine, Full Stop and Tripwire, among others. They co-edit the […]

  • Live Poetry: Camille Llawella Ralphs, Ernest Hilbert

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

    Sunday September 28, 2025 – 5pmEDT – LIVE Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Camille Llawella Ralphs is an English poet, critic and editor. Ralphs’ first collection of poems After You Were, I Am was a book of the year in The Telegraph and The Guardian, and was widely reviewed elsewhere.Since 2020, Ralphs has been poetry […]

  • Live Poetry and Music

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

    Wednesday October 1, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE – Poetry & Music Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Launch of A Little Music For the Soft War by Mark Svenvold Poet, songwriter, and nonfiction writer, Mark Svenvold’s book of poems, Soul Data, won the Vassar Miller Award, selected by Heather McHugh; Empire Burlesque, won The […]

  • Poesía sin Fronteras: Poetry in Spanish in the United States

    Kimmel Center 300 S Broad St

    Poesía sin Fronteras ¿Escribes poesía en español y te gustaría publicar uno de tus poemas? ¡Este llamado es para ti! ¡Esperamos tu voz! La convocatoria a la primera edición de Poesía sin Fronteras (2025-2026) busca nuevas voces para promover la paz, la concordia y la armonía a través de la poesía. Da rienda suelta a […]

  • Live Poetry: Alicia Askenase, Cassie MacDonald & Aaren Yeatts Perry

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

    Wednesday October 8, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Sueno Restaurant, 114 S. 12th Street Alicia Askenase is the author of several books, was a founding co-editor of the literary journal 6ix, and director of the Walt Whitman Art Center Literary programs for many years. Her poetry has appeared in various journals. Cassie MacDonald […]

  • Virtual Reading: Indigenous Peoples Day

    Virtual

    Indigenous Peoples Day Sunday October 12, 2025 – 2pm  VIRTUAL Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ITiexC3URACn-4yLkowizw Submit to be a part of the anthology before Oct. 5th: https://moonstoneartscenter.submittable.com/projects/edit/3d76a3e1-a9d1-403b-b835-d63e8c9d4b51 Indigenous Peoples Day will be celebrated on Monday, October 13th. The date falls on the same day as Columbus Day, giving us a chance to shift the focus […]

  • Wednesday October 15, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE

    Sueño Restaurant 114 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Heather Bowlan, author of Highlights and Blackouts and co-director of Philadelphia Small Works, an art gallery and performance space.     Christopher K.P. Brown aka KP ULTRA is the founder of Pecola Breedlove & The Freedom Party, ran 2 Pens & Lint, under which he published chapbooks for over 400 runs Poetry215.com. His newest poetry […]

  • House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve

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

    House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve Wednesday, October 29th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom St. Nicole Coladonato @fouronefivetwo began performing in her youth and quickly developed an affection for the spotlight. She quit being a failed visual artist to become a writer, embracing this new path with […]

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  • Remembering Ezra Pound – Sunday November 2nd – 2pm – Virtual

    Virtual

    Pound was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound’s contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with developing […]