Moonstone Presents:

  • 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 […]

  • “Headless” Book Release – Wednesday November 5 – 7:00 PM – LIVE

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

    “In Headless, poet Sean Hanrahan takes us on a winding road that twists through desire, intellectual curiosity, and various explored icons—pop culture, mythic, historic, political, sexual—traveling with a speaker always seeking to understand who and what society expects him to be. If art is a conversation with everything before and after, then so is identity, […]

  • “Without You” Book Release – Sunday November 9 – 5pm – LIVE

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

    “In flashes of recollection, in flares of supposition and speculation, the fragments and fables of Ditta Baron Hoeber’s Without You trace the aftermath of a childhood trauma,  with its attendant guilts and resentments and mystifications. Terse, taut, gnomic, wrenching, and subtly evocative, Without You offers a compelling demonstration of a reality at once irrecoverable and […]