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Virtual Poetry Reading: Nathalie Anderson, Thomas Devaney, Mary Madec, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 Nathalie Anderson is a poet, librettist, and educator based in the Philadelphia suburbs.  Her books of poetry include Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and the chapbook Held and Firmly Bound.  Her poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815    Passcode: 838862 The New Voices program consists of monthly readings by poets under the age of 25, plus a bi-annual publication. Moonstone’s objective is to expand your audience, introduce you to others who share your interest in poetry but are in different communities or go to different schools. […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: National Be Nasty Day & International Women’s Day

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956    Passcode: 704102 March 8th is National Be Nasty Day and International Women’s Day. It reminded me of an event we did 2017 when “Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse” edited by Grace Bauer & Julie Kane came out. It is an excellent anthology, and the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Kirwyn Sutherland, Sekai’afua Zankel, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737     Passcode: 678146 Kirwyn Sutherland is author of Jump Ship, a Clinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow, has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem, Winter Tangerine, Poets House, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, and Pearlstein Art Gallery, was […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti On February 22, 2021 Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at 101. In the 1950s, Ferlinghetti’s San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, was the center of the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti published many of the writers whose goal was to “write in an authentic, unfettered style.” Ferlinghetti was arrested […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Five New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press: Carey Hunter Davis, Peter F. Murphy, Leonard Neufeldt, Monika Wysong, Seki’afua Zankel, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737    Passcode: 678146 5 New Chapbooks from the Moonstone Press Carey Hunter Davis began writing poetry as a day dreaming fourth grader once she realized words could enhance day dreaming. Her days are spent in writing and reading poetry. Recently dancingirlpress published a collection of her poems, “THE A […]

Moonstone Poetry @PhillyCAM: The Spiritual in Poetry with Leonard Gontarek and Charles S. Carr

Watch the live broadcast: Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV:  https://phillycam.org/watch 2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series: The Spiritual in Poetry with Leonard Gontarek In many ways, writing poems and the reading of poems are spiritual acts. The poem resembles a prayer. It can be an invocation […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Elizabeth Catanese, Darla Himeles, Ysabel Y. Gonzalez with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Elizabeth Catanese, Darla Himeles, and Ysabel Y. Gonzalez Elizabeth Catanese is a writer and artist whose poems have appeared in The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Stillwater Review, OVS, Anomalous Press, Referential Magazine, and Calyx. Her most recent books include A Student’s Companion for […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Terry M. Dugan, Isabella Piacentino, Rob Wright, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82768729107?pwd=ZzJmSkp0S1g0SU1ab2N6Nm5WcDByUT09 Meeting ID: 827 6872 9107 – Passcode: 896169 Virtual Poetry Reading: Terry M. Dugan, Isabella Piacentino, and Rob Wright Terry M. Dugan writes poetry and prose about the collateral damage people suffer from wars, gun violence and the AIDS/addiction epidemic. Her work has appeared in Alimentum, Bellevue Literary Review, Womens’ Studies  Quarterly, A&U Magazine,  […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets, Isabel Acosta, David Jones, Han Yang, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets, Isabel Acosta, David Jones, and Han Yang New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. Isabel Acosta is a twenty-year-old aspiring poet who hopes to one day touch the hearts of many […]