Moonstone Arts Center

Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie's Pub
2019-08-07 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia.
Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms.
Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows

2019 Philly Loves Poetry and New Voices @ PhillyCAM (Watch Live on Cable!)
2019-08-06 18:30 - 19:30 | 699 Ranstead Street, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM
A Discussion with New Voices host Krisann Janowitz and readings by New Voices participants. New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets program
The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month, it is free and open to everyone. Please join us and Watch live on Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia!
Krisann Janowitz, host of New Voices, is a poet. Wife. Dog owner. Philadelphian. Adventurer. Learner. Believer. Part-time political commentator. & music appreciator.
Matilda Bray (14) “Matilda’s ability to focus on one or two unifying images and mine them metaphorically is extraordinary. Matilda is a brave and gifted poet.”
– Joanne Leva, executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program.
Elisha Gibson is a Poet, illustrator, and musician and a Lancaster resident with a passion to revel in the abstract and poetic aspects of life. He is author of Prospectives.
Spencer Nitkey (22) is an Educator, Communicator, Writer, Researcher, and Storyteller.
Jennifer Nessel (22) graduated Saint Joe’s where she received the Best Short Story award from Crimson and Gray. She explores trauma and storytelling in the age of the ‘Me Too’ movement.
Charles S. Carr, Host

Marion Bell and Kyle Brown-Watson @ Fergie's Pub
2019-07-31 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday, July 31th, 2019 – 7pm
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor)
Poetry & Politics with Ryan Eckes
Marion Bell is a poet, social work student and mental health worker living in Philadelphia. She has been shaped by Philly poetry communities over the last decade. She is the author of AUSTERITY (Radiator Press 2019).
Kyle Brown-Watson is a bookseller based in Philadelphia. He has read poetry and fiction on stage for Empty Set Press and the Breweytown Social. Before that, he worked in advertising, software development, and heaven forgive him, television.
Ryan Eckes, host, open reading follows

Celebrating Jawdat Fakhreddine's "The Sky That Denied Me"
2019-07-24 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor)
Celebrating Jawdat Fakhreddine’s The Sky That Denied Me
Translated & Presented by Huda Fakhreddine & Roger Allen
Jawdat Fakhreddine belongs to the second generation of Arab modernists. In Lebanon, he is sometimes included under the label “Poets of the South” (shu‘arā al-janūb) which circulated in the late 1970s and early 1980sThe Sky That Denied Me, includes poetry about familial love, displacement, memory, and grief.
Huda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition and Zaman Saghir taht shams thaniya (A Small Time under a Different Sun). Her translations of modern Arabic poems have appeared in Nimrod, ArabLit Quarterly and Middle Eastern Literatures. Roger Allen was the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. Among his studies on Arabic literature are: The Arabic Novel: an historical and critical introduction, and The Arabic Literary Heritage . Huda J. Fakhreddine will also read her own poetry in both Arabic and English
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts – Open Reading Following

Meredith Z. Avakian, Hanoch Guy, & Hermond Palmer
2019-07-17 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Wednesday July 17, 2019 – 7pm
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Meredith Z. Avakian is a writer, poet, and the author of Propaganda Begins with PR: Poetry for the Soul and PRhyme Time: Power of Poetry. Her poetry has also been published in The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, The Literary Groong, and elsewhere, where she focuses on self-reflection, transformation, history, justice, and humanity. Hanoch Guy spent his childhood in Israel, is a bilingual poet in Hebrew and English, emeritus professor of Jewish and Hebrew literature at Temple University. Hanoch is the author of seven English and a Hebrew poetry collection, His newest books are Nokaddish: Wrestlng with God. Springtime in Moldova: Poems of fantasy and dreams and Back to Terezin: Holocaust poems. Hermond Palmer is author of Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep, Words to Fill the Light in You, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. He has performed his work at spoken-word venues in Harlem, Philadelphia, Washington and at the National Black Arts Festival. A founding member of the Westchester based writing group ‘Nuff Said, he is a regular contributor to The Washington Informer.

Philadelphia Says: Struggle for Freedom
2019-07-14 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Chapbook release party & reading event
Sunday July 14, 2019 – 2pm
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
July 4 is Independence Day in the US
July 14 is Bastille Day in France
Every country has an Independence Day
Every person wants to be FREE
Hear what Philadelphia poets have to say about this.
Book release with the contributors reading

Not all contributors will be reading.
Liz Abrams-Morley Linda Goss Carol Moog
Ahmad Almallah Steven Halpern Peter Murphy
Georgina Bard Suzán Jivàn Leonard Neufeldt
Margaret Chew Barringer Leonard Kress Gloria Nixon-John
Mary Brownell Cynthia Lee Hermond Palmer
Mary Calloway Hazel Lee Jaz
Jose Cedillos Lynette Julie Rainbow
Philip Dykhouse John Mason George Schaefer
Deborah Fries Kate McGourty Mbarek Sryfi
John Timpane
Chapbook will be available for purchase online if you are unable to attend the event!

New Voices: Jennifer Nessel, Bee Fanty, & Ian Palmer
2019-07-14 14:00 | Shakespeare and Co., 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co
1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103
New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets (under the age of 25).
Jennifer Nessel is a graduate from Saint Joe’s, received the Best Short Story award from her university’s literary magazine, and has received funding for a novella entitled, ‘The Cage,’ through which she explored trauma and story-telling in the age of the ‘Me Too’ movement. Bianca “Bee” Fanty is graduate from UARTS, writes about trauma, hallucinations, and the mundane. These are also reflected in her illustrations, prose, music, and filmmaking. She served as an editor for UArts’ literary magazine, Underground Pool. Ian Palmer has lived in nine countries and tries to contend gently with everything he sees, he is 21 years old and a senior at Swarthmore College studying political science, religion, and poetry.

Moonstone Presents: Haiku
2019-07-10 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
HAIKU
Bring your Haiku to share with us!
What is Haiku?
Renowned for its small size and precise syllabic makeup, Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five moras (a unit of sound that determines syllable weight in some languages). Haiku typically contain a kigo (seasonal reference), and a kireji (cutting word). In Japanese, Haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line and tend to adopt aspects of nature as their subject matter, while Haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese Haiku and may deal with any subject matter.
Haiku traditionally consist of five, seven, and five syllables, like this translation by Alan Watts of the Haiku master Basho:
The old pond
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
Steve Clark puts a hometown twist on this format, inventing the Philadelphia Haiku: two, one, and five syllables based on our area code:
Bread, Cheez-
Whiz,
Steak. Revolution!
What can you do with this? Show us your Haiku creativity!
Haiku enthusiasts Steve Clark, Hannah McDonald, and Scott Sigl: Expected Readers
Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie's Pub
2019-07-03 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Joseph Rathgeber is an author, poet, high school English teacher, and adjunct professor from New Jersey. He is the author of Mixedbloods, The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories, and MJ. He has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts. Mixedbloods is a story of identity, of a cultural history under attack, and of destructive—often violent—behavior. It documents a class struggle between the rich and poor, but also between the organic and the inorganic, and thus between the forces of life and the forces of death.
Sean Lynch, Host, Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
2019-06-26 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Deborah Burnham has been at the University of Pennsylvania longer than some of the ivy. She has worked as an undergraduate advisor, directed the academic writing program, and is currently the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English department. She has published two books of poetry, and has another in circulation. Candida Rodriguez was born in Brooklyn, N.Y, and was raised both in Cayey, Puerto Rico and Camden, New Jersey. She has found a home in the lyricism of poetry and is a happy member of Brigid’s Writers House in Camden. Jerry Morgan is a practicing pharmacist who grew up in rural Western Maryland. He has always enjoyed creating things and expressing himself through words, and uses his writing to explore connections between people and the day-to-day experiences that make up one’s life. Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook Hosts, Open Reading follows

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
2019-06-23 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street and three other full-length poetry collections: Blue Ruby, Resurrection Papers, and Practicing Amnesia. Her honors include a Rita Dove Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, and a term as Berks Poet Laureate. She is Emerita Professor of English at Kutztown University and teaches creative writing at Cedar Crest College. J. C. Todd is author of The Damages of Morning, What Space This Body, chapbooks and collaborative artist books. Her awards include the Rita Dove Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Leeway Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She facilitates poetry gatherings for the Dodge Poetry Program.

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
2019-06-19 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Bernard Block has read at all the major spoken-word venues in NYC, Philadelphia, South Carolina and South Wales. He has also hosted the “From Whitman to Ginsberg” series at Cornelia Street Café. Charles Carr has two published books of poetry: paradise, Pennsylvania and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub, and since 2016 he has been the host of Philly Loves Poetry a monthly broadcast on Philly Cam. Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator, writer, poet, translator, architect and co-host of the Fourth Wednesday Moonstone poetry series at Fergie’s. Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24. In 2015 she was a finalist for the Raynes poetry prize.
Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading follows

New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
2019-06-16 17:00 | Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Christopher Pendleton is a graduating senior at Saint Joseph’s University and has had work appear in Crimson and Gray 2016-2019, as well as New Voices: Emerging Poets Vol #1. Mariah Rose is a music journalist for WXPN, and the creator of a Philly-based art zine, Boy Tears Mag. Luvonda Fuller is a graduating senior at Franklin Learning Center with honors. She plans to attend college in the fall of 2019, majoring in Psychology. She enjoys writing, reading, dancing, and volunteering. Join us each month for readings by emerging poets. A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect with Other Writers – Host: Krisann Janowitz, Open Reading follows

Moonstone Presents: Herman Beavers, Steve Burke, Jim Cory, Alfred Encarnacion, and and Stella Guillory
2019-06-12 19:00 | Shakespeare and Co., 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Join us in celebrating the work of five wonderful poets as the Moonstone Press releases their books: Herman Beavers is a Professor of English and African Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as an advisory editor for The African American Review, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, and Modern Fiction Studies. Steve Burke is the author of After The Harvest, published by Moonstone Press, and has read at many venues in and around Philadelphia. Jim Cory’s poetry and stories have appeared in many publications. He has published seven chapbooks and been a recipient of fellowships from the Pennsylvania Arts Council and Yaddo. Alfred Encarnacion’s poems, short stories, essays and reviews have appeared in national journals. His poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Stella Guillory moved to Washougal, Washington six years ago from Honolulu, Hawaii. Her poetry has appeared in Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writers’ Quarterly, and Sister Stew: Fiction and Poetry by Women. Each author will read from their book. Larry Robin, Host

Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare and Co.
2019-06-05 19:00 | Shakespeare and Co., 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Often thinking about human behavior on the commute to his 9-5, Sirron Carrector has been writing consistently in the notes app of an iPhone since 2016. He holds a masters in public displays of affection. He enjoys reading, video editing, and recording himself while intoxicated. Check out carrextion.com or @carrextion on Instagram for his ramblings, and you have to call him Jago (Jay-Go). Phil has been published in Spiral Poetry and most recently in the first edition of the ToHo Journal. He has self-published 4 chapbooks and is currently working on his first full-length collection. Sean Lynch, Host Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
2019-06-04 19:00 | 699 Ranstead Street, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM
Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discuss poetry and read their poems. Ahmad Almallah’s first book of poems, Bitter English will be published in 2019. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. Huda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition: From Modernists to Muhdathūn and co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning. Fatemeh Shams’ When They Broke Down the Door won the 2017 Latifeh Yarshater Annual Book Award. She received Jaleh Esfahani poetry award as the best young Persian poet in 2012. Her forthcoming poems will appear in the World of Literature Today, New Divan and Mirror of my Heart: 1000 years of Persian Women Poetry in 2019. Charles Carr, Host

23rd Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading
2019-06-02 12:00 | 1199C Headquarters, 1319 Locust st., Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Sunday June 2, 2019 – noon
Moonstone at 1199C Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street
Hello! We are hosting our 23rd annual Poetry Ink release event which will be commemorated by readings from 84 (not quite 100 this year!) poets. Join us in enjoying the work of academic poets, famous poets, free form poets, street poets, unknown poets, spoken word poets, published poets, unpublished poets- you name it! Poetry Ink was created with the goal of generating conversation between poets of different ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, and stylings in order to celebrate Philadelphia’s historically diverse literary community.
Accordingly, the 100 Poets Reading aims to provide a platform for poets from all different walks of life so that the audience and readers alike may enjoy new poetic experiences- nowhere else in Philadelphia is there such a unique congregation of poets and poetry. Food contributions are encouraged, as this will be a potluck community event for all ages. Whether you stop by for hours or just a few minutes, an enjoyable time is guaranteed for all attendees.
Purchase the Anthology
Not all contributors will be reading.
All Reading Times are Approximate
12:00
Sekai’afua Zankel
David Worrell
Shanyah Womack
Donna Wolf-Palacio
Rocky Wilson
Eleanor Wilner12:30
Anthony Williams
Notus Williams
Sharon Wellons
Mercedes Weathers
Bill Van Buskirk
Jonathon Todd1:00
John Timpane
Elaine Terranova
Lamont Steptoe
Mbarek Sryfi
Fereshteh Sholevar
George Schaefer
Tonya Ryva
1:30
Ayo Rosier
Tyrone “Marcy” Roosevelt
Stuart Roberts
Don Riggs
Elizabeth Quigley
Elijah Pringle
Prabha Prabhu

2:00
Aaren Perry
Hermond Palmer
Claire Owen
Ewuare Osayande
Daniel O’Hara
Stu O’Connor
Michael Miller2:30
John Mason
Alina Macneal
Sean Lynch
Cynthia Lee
Hazel Lee
Jeffrey Lee
Kinard Lang3:00
Lynette
Lisa Konigsberg
Michelle Keita
Anne Kaier
Betti Kahn
Bea Joyner
Irving Jones
3:30
Christina Jones
Leah Jackson
Ann Huang
Jennifer Hook
Alison Hicks
Laura Hawley
Janelle Harvey
Sean Hanrahan

4:00
Steven Halpern
Hanoch Guy
Linda Goss
Beulah Gordon-Skinner
Greg Francis
William Foster
Peggy Fisher4:30
Alfred Encarnacion
Runett Ebo
Pheralyn Dove
Ashini Desai
Nicole Davis
Tiffany Cooper
Cathleen Cohen5:00
Marion Cohen
Jose Cedillos
Steve Burke
Eugene Brown
Elizabeth Bodien
Lynn Blue
Pamela Blanding
5:30
Brandon Blake
Michele Belluomini
Peter Baroth
Catherine Bancroft
Kwame Bakari
Meredith Avakian
Silvino Alexander
Liz Abrams-Morley

Moonstone Presents: G Emil Reuter, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri & Dave Worrell
2019-05-29 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
G Emil Reuter is a writer of poems and stories. Ten collections of his poetry and fiction have been published, most recently, Stale Bread and Coffee.
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri is a Philadelphia Poet with four collections of poetry, most recently, The Handheld Mirror of the Mind.
Dave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and Close to Home, his poems have appeared in journals including Slant, Canary, Heroin Chic. Larry Robin, Host – Open Reading follows

May is for Mothers
2019-05-22 19:00 | The District 1199C Training and Upgrading Fund, 100 Broad st., Philadelphia, PA, 19110, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ 1199
The District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
100 South Broad Street, 10th floor (Land Title Building)
Wednesday May 22, 2019 – 7pm

Catherine Bancroft is the mother of three grown children and appreciates that a critical skill of motherhood is keeping your mouth shut. Poetry and art are good outlets.
Shevaun Brannigan’s work is forthcoming in AGNI and has appeared in Best New Poets and Slice. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant and holds an MFA from Bennington College.
Vernyce Dannells is the author of Temporarily Abated and has been published in places you know and others you’ve never heard of.
Janet Fishman created and toured two adaptations, The Olive Lake A Chinese Fairy Tale, and Three Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Her first full length play, At Home in the World has had two readings at The University of the Arts, where she currently teaches.
Courtney Gambrell is a 27-year-old who enjoys writing and reciting poetry in the Greater Philadelphia region. As a poet, she is most concerned with self-healing, which is her catalyst for writing.
Ona Gritz books include the poetry collections Geode, and Border Songs: A Conversation in poems, written with Daniel Simpson. Her poems and essays have appeared widely.
Lisa Grunberger, Temple University Professor, is author of three books and her play Almost Pregnant, about motherhood, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, is under development.
Donna Wolf-Palacio is author of What I Don’t Know, The Other Side, and Step Lightly. She taught a poetry workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was editor/consultant for the UARTS Poetry Review.
Sekai’afua Zankel defines herself as a “Performance Poet, combining her experience in theatre and her “visceral and active poetry”. Her underlying credo is a great revolution in the life of a single individual can change the world.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

Remembering Walt Whitman
2019-05-19 14:00 | McGillin’s Olde Ale House, 1310 Drury st. second floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Event Cancelled

Poetry and Humor
2019-05-15 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday May 15, 2019 – 7pm
Poetry and Humor
With Eileen D’Angelo & James Feichthaler

Eileen D’Angelo, a paralegal by day and a mad poet at night, has been nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts and was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Eileen has been the Director of the Mad Poets Society since 1987 and has coordinated over 1,500 special events, including poetry readings, ongoing monthly series, competitions, workshops, festivals, conferences, student events and more, approximately 70 to 80 poetry readings per year since 1990. She has served as Editor of the Mad Poets Review since the first issue in 1990, and was a Contributing Editor for the literary journal, HELLAS, A Journal of Arts and Humanities.

James Feichthaler’s poetry has appeared in print and online journals in both the US and UK. His poems are truthful odes to his imagination, which he calls “the lunatic disciple of his existence.” The self-proclaimed “forrealist poet” is the host of an open mic reading series called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia, which is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk, PA. You can follow James’s poetic exploits on Twitter at @forrealist_poet and keep up with the The Dead Bards of Philadelphia on Facebook and Instagram

Aaren Perry Host, Open Reading follows

Sojourner Ahebee, Michele Belluomini & Elizabeth Bodien
2019-05-08 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday May 8, 2019 – 7pm
Sojourner Ahebee,
Michele Belluomini
& Elizabeth Bodien
Sojourner Ahebee is the author of Reporting from the Belly of the Night, writes stories about African diaspora identities and the eternal question of home and belonging. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day), Muzzle Magazine, For Harriet, Winter Tangerine Review, Apiary Magazine and elsewhere. In 2013 she served as a National Student Poet, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. Sojourner was invited to the White House by former First Lady, Michelle Obama, to garner her award. Sojourner believes not in the boat that floated her here but what she’ll do with the water.

Michele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appearedin various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers, also published by Plan B Press. She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia

Elizabeth Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours as well as four chapbooks, all written since she retired from teaching at Northampton Community College. She is also the author of the spiritual memoir Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology, consciousness studies, religions, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan, an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon, a childbirth instructor in West Africa, and as a professor of anthropology. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals including: Cimarron Review, Crannóg, and Parabola Bodien grew up in the “burned-over” district of western New York but now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania.
Photo by Elaine Zelker, LLC

Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
2019-05-07 18:30 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
699 Ranstead Street
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967
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in Philadelphia.

2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM
There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing the opportunities which their group or organization provides for poets in Philly as well as the themes that influence them. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us.

Tuesday May 7, 2019 -6:30pm
Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy

May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, who spent the last decades of his life in Camden, NJ, a short ferry ride from Philadelphia. Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy is being planned as an exploration of the relevance of the poet’s life and words for a contemporary audience through a region-wide program of cultural events. One vital component of Whitman’s writings, his poetics of nature, views man on a continuum with the natural world: both of it and able to appreciate it for itself and for its spiritual dimension. For Whitman, the “Nature-element” is essential to our Democracy and “really underlie[s] the whole politics, sanity, religion and art of the New World.”

Partners & Performers
Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia whose work is presented as installation, performance art, public art, video and audio. Mr. Jackson has received support for his work from the Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Civitella Rainieri Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Playwrights Center and Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art. Homer Jackson serves as the director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project.

Jarboe (she/he) is a cabaret artist, director, writer, historian, and host serving you revolution, herstory, queer community making, and a whole lot of glitter. Going back to the interdisciplinary roots of cabaret, Jarboe is transforming opera, and live performance from her home in Philadelphia, making work that is insistent on its liveness and interactivity, work that will make you sing, dance, clap and question. Jarboe has created work with and for Opera Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Barnes Foundation, The Wilma Theater, The Kimmel Center, FringeArts among others.

Andrew Nurkin is the Deputy Director for Enrichment and Civic Engagement at the Free Library of Philadelphia, where he directs humanities and civic programs across the library’s fifty-four locations. His poems have appeared in The Believer, Cimarron Review, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. He was a 2016 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and holds his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Host: Charles S. Carr
Moonstone Arts Center Office
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107,
(215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com

New Voices: Philadelphia's Emerging Poets under 25
2019-05-05 17:00 | Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre at the Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street.
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect. Krisann Janowitz, Host – Open Reading follows.

Moonstone Presents: Tina Barr and Elaine Terranova
2019-05-05 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sanson Street.
Tina Barr is author of Green Target, Kaleidoscope, The Gathering Eye, and 3 chapbooks, all winners of chapbook contests. She lives in a cabin on the side of a mountain, in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Elaine Terranova has published seven collections of poetry, most recently, Perdido. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, her prose and prose poems have appeared in Boulevard, Hotel Amerika, South Loop Review, Storm Cellar, Mom Egg Review, and Per Contra. Awards include a Pushcart Prize, an NEA, and a Pew Fellowship. Larry Robin, Host

Labor Day with Octavia McBride-Ahebee & Anthony Palma
2019-05-01 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday May 1, 2019 – 7pm
Labor Day
with Octavia McBride-Ahebee
& Anthony Palma

Octavia McBride-Ahebee’s poetry is informed by the convergence of cultures and the many ways people move throughout the world. Her work presents human relationships within the context of global inequality. Her poetry and short fiction have appeared in Rigorous, For Harriet, Raising Lilly Ledbetter; Women Poets Occupy the Workplace, Yellow Medicine, Badilisha Poetry Exchange, South Philly Fiction, Blackberry Magazine, International Quarterly; Faces of the Americas and the Beloit Poetry Journal. McBride-Ahebee’s poetry collections include Assuming and Where My Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers.
Anthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while dealing with topics of social justice. His readings blend poetry with elements of performance and music. His work has appeared in Whirlwind Magazine, Oddball Magazine, and Harbinger Asylum, among others. He teaches writing at several universities in the Greater Philadelphia area and resides in West Chester PA with his wife and family.

Sean Lynch, Host, Open Reading follows

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New Voices Volume One: Book Release
2019-04-28 17:00 | Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Sunday April 28, 2019 – 5pm
Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre
at the Drake,
302 S. Hicks Street
New Voices VolumeOne: Philadelphia Emerging Poets
under 25 – Book Release
Readings by emerging poets who have been published in Moonstone’s latest book.
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect
Krisann Janowitz, Host – Open Reading follows

Moonstone Presents: Human Animals with Grady Chambers & David Ebenbach
2019-04-24 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor)
Wednesday April 24, 2019 – 7pm
Human Animals:
Poems of body, praise, and place
with
Grady Chambers & David Ebenbach

Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions, 2018) selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories are forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online, Boulevard, Joyland, and Quarterly West, and recent work has appeared in The Paris Review; The Iowa Review; Nashville Review; The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Grady was born and raised in Chicago. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and lives in Philadelphia.

David Ebenbach, born and raised in West Philadelphia, is the author of seven books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including his new poetry collection Some Unimaginable Animal. His books have won such awards as the Juniper Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, among others. He now lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

Moonstone Presents: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Louisa Schnaithmann
2019-04-17 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday April 17, 2019 – 7pm

Ditta Baron Hoeber,
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach,
Louisa Schnsaithmann

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach emigrated from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee when she was six. She is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press, Sept. 2019) as well as the chapbook The Bear Who Ate the Stars (Split Lip Press, 2014). Her poems appear in POETRY, Nashville Review, TriQuarterly, and Waxwing, among others. Julia is the Editor of Construction Magazine (www.constructionlitmag.com) and writes a blog about motherhood (https://otherwomendonttellyou.wordpress.com/).

Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet. Her recent poetry publications have been in Contemporary American Voices, the American Journal of Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Construction Magazine, New American Writing, Window Cat and Per Contra along with a suite of her photographs. In 2018 she received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize.

Louisa Schnaithmann is a poet living and writing in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been or will be published in Menacing Hedge, Projector Magazine, and Rogue Agent. She generally writes about nature, memories from her childhood, and women who deserved

Larry Robin, Host, Open Reading follows

New Moonstone Chapbooks Release Event
2019-04-14 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Sunday April 14, 2019 – 2pm
New Moonstone Chapbooks
Release Event

Chidi Ezeobi – Remind the World: Poems from Prison
Chidi E.O. Ezeobi was born in Nigeria. He obtained early education in Negeria. He attended Augata High School, Augata, Anambra State, Nigeria. Chidi Ezeobi migrated to the United States in 1996. He later obtained his AAS in business administration at Kingsborough Community College, New York, and his BSC in professional law at Medgar Evers College in New York. Chidi Ezeobi is currently incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Insistution in Fairtown, New Jersey. $10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-16-5

Jack Isreal – Sorry for Fire
Jack Israel has published poems in various places over the years, including American Poetry Review, the Beloit Poetry Journal, Cortland Review, Cleaver, River City and others. He’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received a grant from the PA Council on the Arts and is half the blogging team of Yaakov Murchadha. He lives in Berwyn, PA with his wife, Lynn.
$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-17-2

Zack Marshall – City Valhalla
City Valhalla is an exploration not just of Philadelphia City Hall’s outside appearance, but an excavation of the staggering memories that breathe within its history.
“The narrative structure lulls the reader into a false sense of security before yanking them down the rabbit hole of poetic surrealism.” – Jay Rollins
$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-18-9

Jacob Russell – A Serial Poem
Jacob Russell is a visual artist, poet, novelist, street medic/activist, who prefers they/them for pronouns. They have published three chapbooks and have four MSS books of poetry currently in circulation. Jacob’s novel, Ari Figue’s Cat, was published by Deep Sett Press.
Photos of Jacob’s art are posted on their blog, Jacob Russell’s Magic Names.
$10 – Chapbook – ISBN 978-1-946150-19-6
