Moonstone Presents:

  • Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series: Alicia Askenase

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    Tuesday September 9, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Alicia Askenase is the author of several books, was a founding co-editor of the literary journal 6ix and director of the Walt Whitman […]

  • Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Tim Lynch, and Amy Saul-Zerby

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

    Wednesday September 10, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Mac Chandler is a writer from West Philly who has been published in some places and not in others, host quarterly shows for Moonstone Arts, and is author of There Is A Thing Haunting Me I Could Grow To Love. Tim […]

  • Honoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Program

    Sunday September 14, 2025 – 5pm – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YGL0FkWeS5WHQX54GffCZQ Honoring Evan Wang and the Youth Poet Laureate Programs Host – Joanne Leva is founder and executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and founder and editor-in-chief of Tekpoet, an online poetry manuscript services company. Leva’s poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, […]

  • 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

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    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 […]