Moonstone Presents:

elijah b pringle, III, Jonathan Koven, joe roarty, and George Schaefer
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @ 7pm
Live at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. 

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

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elijah b pringle, III is an internationally published American poet from Philadelphia, PA.  His works appears in several international anthology: Compagnia de’ Colombari’s Whitman on Walls, 99 Poets for the 99 Percent, Selfhood, Moonstone Poetry Ink 25th Anniversary Anthology, and Aquarius Press critical acclaimed anthology on the continuation of the Black Arts Movement – Black Fire This Time. Overall, he has appeared in nearly 40 anthologies and journals since the turn of this century.  Constantly evolving and exploring, he has maintained a voice that consistently reveals his keen insight into the “human experiment”, as he would say

Jonathan Koven 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 his wife Delana, and their cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. He has had both fiction and poetry published, by Assure Press, Animal Heart Press, Thirty

West Publishing, and more. Jonathan’s poetry chapbook Palm Lines (Toho) released in 2020. His fiction debut Below Torrential Hill (EE) released in 2021, a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize. His forthcoming poetry collection Mystic Orchards releases this fall from Kelsay Books.

joe roarty written & read poetry in Chgo, New York & Philadelphia-he has 2 chapbooks including MORITAT published by Moonstone Press-this year his first full length collection SHOWTUNES was brought out by Iniquity/Vendetta Press

George Schaefer is a Philly born poet, philosopher and prankster,  He started writing poetry in high school in a ill fated attempt to impress girls.  It didn’t work so he kept writing and trying to hone the craft.  Over 4 decades later, he’s still writing and trying to make sense of the world

Sean Hanrahan Hosts, Open Reading Follows

The Poet’s Story: House Party, with Ernest Hill and poet Lynn Levin

Wednesday October 25, 2023 @ 7pm

Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom

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The Poet’s Story: Ernest Hilbert in conversation with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories, House Parties

What’s it like to turn from writing poems to writing short stories? Poet and critic Ernest Hilbert speaks with poet Lynn Levin about her debut collection of short stories House Parties ($20.00, Spuyten Duyvil, 2023), named one of the best books of summer by Philadelphia Magazine. How is the fiction writing process different from the poetry writing process? What new themes and moods emerge in the House Parties stories? A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.

Sylvia Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell […]

No River Twice creates interactive poetry readings where audiences and a group of poets actively determine the direction of the reading, poem by poem, beginning to end, creating readings that are never the same twice. And then we make a poem of it. Jump in!  More information about us at www.norivertwice.org

Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book, Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, and founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. His work has appeared in Rattle, Pedestal, Barrelhouse, Rust+Moth, and elsewhere, including on iTunes from the Library of Congress, and was sent to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex Project.

Joanne Leva, an advocate for creative writing and community service, is the founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program (MCPL) and author of the poetry collections Eve Would Know  and Eve Heads Back.

Hayden Saunier is the author of five books of poetry and her most recent is A Cartography of Home.  Her work has won a Pushcart Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, and Pablo Neruda Award and has been published in journals such as Plume, 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pedestal, Thrush, and Virginia Quarterly Review. She is the founder and director of No River Twice. 

Special Guests:

Charles Carr of Philadelphia has two published books of poems, paradise,pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles has been active in the Philadelphia poetry community for 20 years and he hosted a Moonstone Arts Center Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub for 5 years and is currently the host of a live monthly broadcast Philly Loves Poetry now in its seventh season.  Eat This Poem, a Chapbook of Charles’s poems published by Moonstone Arts, will be released in November.  Proceeds from the sales of the chapbook will go to Ukraine Trust Chain.

Ona Gritz’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, Catamaran Literary Reader, One Art, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Everywhere I Look, Ona’s memoir, will be on March 12, 2024. She also has two verse novels for teens forthcoming. Recent honors include two Notable mentions in The Best American Essays, a Best Life Story in Salon, and a winning entry in The Poetry Archive Now: Wordview 2020 project.

Anna Prader and Jonathan Todd
Wednesday November 8, 2023
Live at Fergie’s Pub @1214 Sansom St. 

1214 Sansom Street and on zoom

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Anna Prader lives and writes in Philadelphia with her three children. She believes in poetry that betrays codes of social decency and tells the truth instead. She works in harm reduction and peer support, and she would like to take a nap.

Jonathan Todd is a poet/musician/Buddhist/anarchist and generally confused individual. His poems attempt to find moments between and within labor, fusing ideas about emptiness, collectivity, and absurdity. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others.

Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Tuesday, November 14, 6:30 PM EDT VIRTUAL: Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia  […]

Erica Abbott, Adriann “Justthepen” Toombs Bautista, Kate Carey, Anne-Adele Wight, & John Wojtowicz Wednesday, November 15 @ 7PM Live @ Fergie’s Pub: 1214 Sansom St. & on Zoom Zoom Registration: […]

Wednesday November 22, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-qsrDgqHddl-HC4vUoC0r-JRYbaeol6 Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an artist […]