Moonstone Arts Center

Moonstone Presents: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Louisa Schnaithmann
2019-04-17 19:00 (America/New_York) | 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

Moonstone Presents: Susan Gerardi Bello & Kathleen Mulholland
2019-04-10 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday April 10, 2019 – 7pm

Susan Gerardi Bello &
Kathleen Mullholland

Susan Gerardi Bello lives with her husband and son in Bucks County, PA. She is a member of the U.S. 1 Poets Cooperative in Princeton, NJ, and, for three years, served as selecting editor for their journal U.S. 1 Worksheets. She currently co-hosts with Kathleen Mullholland the Bucks County Bards monthly poetry series at The Newtown Library Company. She has been published in numerous journals in print and online, including Mom Egg Review, New Verse News, Patterson Literary Review, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Susan’s first full-length poetry manuscript “Through the Oak Tree” is under contract with Kelsay Books.

Kathleen Mulholland writes to understand her place in this world. Under the guidance of Dr. Christopher Bursk, she placed runner-up four times in the Bucks County Poet Laureate search. She’s been published in The Bucks County Writer, MadPoets Review, and US1 Worksheets. She won an honorable mention in the Milton Dorfman Poetry Prize (2008), and won the 2016 Bucks County Muse Award. Kathleen founded/hosts the Newtown Library Poetry Series. She considers herself blessed to have so many talented writers in the community who inspire and shape her poetry.

Dave Worrell, Host, Open Reading follows

Veronica Nocella & Katbug Stanshine: New Voices
2019-04-07 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

New Voices:
Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
Sunday April 7, 2019 – 5pm

Veronica Nocella is a short poet with a big mouth hailing from Philadelphia, PA. They have been writing poetry since their freshman year of high school and was a member of Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) since they were 15. In 2015, they represented PYPM at Brave New Voices, taking the international championship, in2018, they were a member of Temple University’s CUPSI team. Their work can be found in Apiary’s 9th Issue, Sanctuary, and in Bryn Mawr’s Literary Magazine Nimbus. Veronica is an events coordinator for BABEL, Temple’s only spoken word poetry collective, and is the Youth Editor and Ambassador for Apiary’s Tenth Issue, Apiary X. Their work focuses primarily on queerness and mental health. In their free time they can be found starting trouble, telling their mom they love her, and forgetting to practice piano.

Katbug Stanshine is a trans woman studying creative writing at Temple University. Through poetry she explores the spaces where trauma and mental illness meet the body, and how to find agency within them. She is the co-event coordinator for Babel Poetry Collective and owns three swords. Her work has previously been featured on Punch Drunk Press, and she can be found posting too much on twitter: @mydadisold or instagram: @wheelyshoes

Join us each month for readings on the third Sunday
by emerging poets with a focus on poets between 18 and 25
We also host a program that focuses on poets under 18 on the fourth Tuesday at 4pm
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect with Other Writers

Host: Krisann Janowitz, an open reading follows the featured poets

Moonstone Arts Center Office
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 735-9600;
larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com

Philadelphia Says Black Lives Have Always Mattered Book Release ($10)
2019-04-07 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Sunday April 7, 2019 – 2pm
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Philadelphia Says: Black Lives Have Always Mattered
Book Release
“Black Lives Matter is not a new revelation but a continuation of the black social gospel proclaimed by Ricahrd Allen, Adam Powell Sr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others. To value black life is part of our legacy, in a very real sense the reason we will never be defeated is that at the very core of our existence is the firm belief and understanding that Black Lives Have Always Mattered.” -Bob Law
Book – $10

Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee
2019-04-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House magazines.
Fae Aspen Gehringer is the author of “I Love You It Looks Like Rain” (Be About It Press 2017) and “I Don’t Write About Race” the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms’s 2017 Mainline contest, an Entropy Best Poetry Book of 2018, and debuted as the number one LGBT new release on Amazon.
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 Voices (Lit Pot Press) and Where My Birthmark Dances (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry chapbook, Praise Songfor the Gravediggers, was released in January 2019. https://omcbrideahebee.squarespace.com/
Sean Lynch, Host, Open Reading follows

Walt Whitman @ 200: Art and Democracy - the organizers
2019-04-02 18:30 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
699 Ranstead Street
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30
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 April 2, 2019 -6:30pm
Walt Whitman – Part 1

Since 1995, Lynne Farrington has been a curator in Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, now part of the Kislak Center, where she works closely with faculty, students, and other researchers, makes acquisitions, stewards donors, curates exhibitions, organizes symposia and conferences, develops projects, fields reference queries, and gives presentations on the collections to classes and other interested groups.

Leonard Gontarek is the author of five books of poems, including, Déjà Vu Diner and He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Needs. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Verse, Poetry Northwest and The Best American Poetry, among others. He is host of the Green Line Café Reading and Interview Series and conducts poetry workshops throughout the Philadelphia area.

From 1986 to 2000, Judith Tannenbaum served as Curator, Associate Director, and Interim Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. In 2000, she became the first Curator of Contemporary Art at the RISD Museum, Providence. Since returning to Philadelphia in 2013, she has used her broad knowledge of the visual arts, the performing arts, and interdisciplinary art forms to curate exhibitions and events at area institutions.
Host, Charles S. Carr

Moonstone Arts Center Office
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“Passages” with Steve Burke & Warren Longmire
2019-03-27 19:00 | Time, 1315 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Time, 1315 Sansom Street (second floor)
Wednesday March 27, 2019 – 7pm
“Passages” with
Steve Burke & Warren Longmire

Steve Burke is the author of After The Harvest, published by Moonstone Press, has read at many venues in & about Philadelphia; but is still not the master of his fate. But,he has lived long enough to take publication & exposure over that. He worked as an obstetrical nurse for over 25 years; lives in the Mount Airy section of the city.

Warren Longmire is a poet, a performer, an educator and expert level whistler. He is the co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective, and is a former poetry editor for Apiary Magazine. He’s been published including Metropolary, Eleven Eleven, and The New Purlieu Review and in three chapbooks: Ripped Winters (Seventh Tangent 2006), Do.Until.True. (Two Pens and Lint 2012) and the Wyoming default (Moonstone Press 2018).
His first full length collection An Angry High Note Attempted and Missed: An Erased History of Bebop is due for release in the spring of 2019 through Empty Set Press.
Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

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Thom Nickels @ Fergie's
2019-03-24 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Sunday March 24, 2019 – 2pm
Thom Nickels

Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls ($21.95, History Press)
The inside story on Woodmont Mansion, home of Mother and Father Divine. Hear how Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple tried to take over the mansion and give Mother Divine the boot after Father Divine’s death. Listen to the sad story of Philly architect Thomas Nevell who designed Mount Pleasant, one of the city’s most famous historic house. There’s also the story of art collector Henry P. McIIhenny and his Rittenhouse Square mansion, scene of many international parties with guests like Warhol and Tennessee Williams Learn what McIIhenny had to do to win the goodwill of Philadelphia society.

Learn to Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt ($24.95 Amazon)
Thom Nickels was an intimate friend of Johnny Bobbitt’s, the homeless guy involved in the 400k GoFundMe scam. He recorded Bobbitt’s exploits and the exploits of Bobbitt’s homeless friends over a period of one and a half years. Through newspaper columns, interviews and diary entries, this book provides a fast moving and gritty picture of how the heroin addicted homeless survive on the streets of Philadelphia

Thom Nickels is the author of 13 books, including Philadelphia Architecture, Out in History, Two Novellas and Literary Philadelphia: A History of Prose & Poetry in the City of Brotherly Love. His poetry has been published in Van Gogh’s Ear, an anthology of new voices in prose and poetry published in Paris. He was awarded the Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism in 2005. He was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 1990 for his book, Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This. He has been published by The Huffington Post, The New Oxford Review, Philadelphia Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Broad Street Review. He is a columnist for PJ Media in Los Angeles, and a weekly columnist for the Philadelphia Free Press and The Irish Edition. His essay on Agnes Repplier was the cover feature essay in the Winter issue of The American Catholic Studies Journal (Villanova University), 2015.

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Irish Poetry with Fergus Carey, Sean Lynch & Mary Madec
2019-03-20 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday March 20, 2019 – 7pm
Irish Poetry with
Fergus Carey, Sean Lynch & Mary Madec

Fergus Carey crawled into a bottle of whisky in the 1980s
And came out in the mid 90’s smelling like roses
Fergus is a person in your neighborhood
He plays the role of Fergie in the city of Philadelphia

Sean Lynch is a working class writer and editor who lives in South Philly and survives by working in a bar. Lynch’s poetry has appeared in Chrysanthemum, Poetry Quarterly, (parenthetical), and in many other obscure journals around the world. Find out more at swlynch.com

Mary Madec is the author of three books of poetry, and editor of an award- winning anthology of poetry from people with intellectual disabilities. She is widely published in Ireland and in 2008 won the Hennessy XO Prize for Emerging Poetry. She has read at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and at the Festival International de Poésie, Marrakech (Spring, 2017). She read her poem Puppet On A String as part of an interview on autism on the Ryan Turbidy Morning Show (RTÉ 1). Mary has a wide and varied experience teaching at University level having taught literature, linguistics and creative writing at NUI, Galway, Villanova, University of Pennsylvania and The Open University in Britain. She was twice the recipient of an Irish Arts Council participation bursary which allowed her to develop a ground-breaking program with the renowned disability program
Larry Robin Host, Open Reading follows
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New Voices:Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
2019-03-17 17:00 | InterAct Theatre Company, 302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ InterAct Theatre Company, 302 S. Hicks Street (@ The Drake)
New Voices:
Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
A Voice for Everyone
Listen, Share, Connect with Other Writers

Sunday March 17, 2019 5 pm

Join us each month for readings on the third Sunday by emerging poets with a focus on poets between 18 and 25
We also host a program that focuses on poets under 18 on the fourth Tuesday at 4pm
Host: Krisann Janowitz, an open reading follows the featured poets
Moonstone Arts Center Office
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 735-9600;
larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com

Fran Baird @ Fergie's
2019-03-13 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm
Fran Baird
Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his poem “Neshaminy,” published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal. He currently studies with poet Leonard Gontarek as a member of the Osage Avenue Poets. As an adjunct professor he has taught social work and psychology at LaSalle University and criminal justice at West Chester University. He has been conducting a weekly and on-going poetry workshop at Phoenix (formerly Graterford) Prison for the last 2 years with long-term, incarcerated men, co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Prison Literacy Project and Lifers, Inc. In the winter edition 2017, the Schuylkill Valley Journal published 10 poems by 5 individuals from the workshop. His first chapbook, Painting With My Father, has been published by Finishing Line Press.
Dave Worrell, Host, Open Reading follows
Moonstone Arts Center Office
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, (215) 735-9600;
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Nathalie Anderson & Cassie MacDonald: Irish Poetry
2019-03-05 18:30 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAm
Tuesday March 5, 2019 -6:30pm
Irish Poetry with Nathalie Anderson & Cassie MacDonald
699 Ranstead Street
Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.
2019 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.

Nathalie Anderson’s first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the 1998 Washington Prize from The Word Works; her second, Crawlers, received the 2005 McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; and her third, Quiver, was published in 2011 by Penstroke Press. Anderson’s poems have appeared in such journals as Atlanta Review, DoubleTake, Natural Bridge, The New Yorker, and The Recorder. She has authored libretti for three operas – The Black Swan; Sukey in the Dark; and an operatic version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia – all in collaboration with the composer Thomas Whitman and Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia. A 1993 Pew Fellow, she serves currently as Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, and she teaches at Swarthmore College, where she is a Professor in the Department of English Literature and directs the Program in Creative Writing.

Cassie MacDonald serves as Hearthkeeper of Brigid’s House in Camden, New Jersey where facilitates a twice-monthly writing circle, organizes readings, workshops and other writing arts events, and creates neighborhood murals as part of the Poetry Liberation Front (“Poetry to the People!”) She has been a featured reader at Fergie’s, Big Blue Marble Bookstore and Eleven One Gallery in Camden and is always game for an open mic, even an unscheduled one on a moving train. Her chapbook, Use Your Words, is currently looking for a home.
Host: Charles S. Carr

Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem's For You, Open Reading to follow
2019-02-27 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
THIS POEM’S FOR YOU
featuring…

Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane.

Deborah Turner writes fiction and poetry, the valve through which she allows anger, compassion, advice and sanity to escape into the modern world. Her early works appear in the Lavender Reader as well as in anthologies including the Body Eclectic and Letters to My Sister.

Open Reading follows – Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow
2019-02-25 18:00 | South Philadelphia Free Library, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street), Philadelphia, PA, 19145, United States
Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library
1700 S. Broad Street
New Voices:
Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect
Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25.

Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm

Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since 2011. He was a member of Temple University’s Babel Poetry Collective, a student run organization that aims to support and facilitate the progression of writing and performance art, hosting monthly writer and music workshops, as well as showcases several times year. In August 2018, he was a member of Philadelphia’s team at the National Poetry Slam. Some of his works can be found on YouTube via Slamfind, as well as on Wus Good and Voicemail Poems.

Wilquan Dorsey, also known as QUE, is a poet from Chester, Pennsylvania who attends Widener University studying finance. Not only does he want to help communities financially and bring financial literacy to schools, he uses spoken word as a platform for expression and to start conversations.

Taylar Enlow is a Black creator and Philadelphia native. For her, the act of creating is a bodily function, as natural as breathing or bleeding; poetry is the transfiguration of blood to ink and flesh to page. The art of poetry has always been her primary medium of self expression, and she considers words to be the extension of both her physical and spiritual beings. More than anything, Enlow believes in the power and significance of community construction and preservation. That belief is the primary influence of all her works and endeavors.

Krisann Janowitz, Host – Open Reading follows

2018 Moonstone Featured Poets Book Release & Poetry Reading *See Above*
2019-02-24 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
2018 Moonstone Featured Poets Anthology Book Release and Poetry Reading
Sunday, February 24, 2019 — 2pm

Join us for an afternoon of poetry and camaraderie. The 2018 Anthology of Featured Poets includes over 30 of the featured poets who read for Moonstone in 2018, many of whom will read on February 24. Poets included in this year’s anthology are:

Steve Burke
Joe Costal
Liz Chang
Aaron Graham
Bill Van Buskirk
Peter Baroth
Ahmad Almallah
Joe Roarty
John Wojtowicz
Ryan Eckes
W.D. Ehrhart
Angel Hogan
Brandon Blake

Charlie O’Hay
Levi Bentley
Eileen D’Angelo
Silvino Alexander
Sydney Coffin
Steve Nolan
James Feichthaler
Catherine Bancroft
Sean Hanrahan
Chad Frame
Antoinette Libro
Hayden Saunier
Don Riggs

Mike Miller
Candida Rodriguez
Thom Nichols
Joan Roberta Ryan
Bela Aznar
Donna Wolf-Palacio
Lamont Steptoe
Joel Dias-Porter
Mbarek Syfri
Charles Carr—host
Jennifer Hook—host
Sean Lynch—host
Alina Macneal-host

Michelle Belluomini & Ditta Baron Hoeber Poetry, Open Reading to follow
2019-02-20 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Michele Belluomini is author of Crazy Mary and Signposts for Sleepwalkers, her poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary.

Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet. Her work has appeared 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.

Open Reading follows – Larry Robin, Host

Moonstone Presents: Bondhus & Evans Poetry, Open Reading to follow
2019-02-13 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Charlie Bondhus is author Divining Bones and All the Heat We Could Carry, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel.

R.G. Evans is the author of Overtipping the Ferryman, his poems, fiction, and reviews have appeared in Rattle, The Literary Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, Lips, MARGIE, The Best of Pif Magazine (Offline), ​and Weird Tales, among other publications.

Open Reading follows – Dave Worrell, Host

Moonstone Presents: Rodriguez & Dr. Williams-Witherspoon Poetry, Open Reading to follow
2019-02-06 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Edythe Rodriguez is a senior at Temple University studying Creative Writing and Africology. She will be anthologized this year in The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank and FEMME: Literati Mixtape.

Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, PhD (Cultural Anthropology), MA (Anthropology), MFA (Theater), Graduate Certificate) Women’s Studies, BA (Journalism); is an Associate Professor of Urban Theater and Community Engagement. She has had over twenty-three of her plays produced. Her stage credits include thirteen productions and she is a contributing poet to twenty-six poetry anthologies.

Open Reading follows – Sean Lynch, Host

Moonstone Presents: Philly Loves Poetry - Interviews and Readings
2019-02-05 18:30 | PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM
Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discus poetry and read their poems
“From Across the Waters: Jewish Refugees from the Former Soviet Union.”

In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, three Jewish refugee poets from the former Soviet Union read and discuss their work. They spotlight the enduring lives of their community, as well as complexities of their identity.

Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach is the author of The Many Names for Mother, winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry prize, and The Bear Who Ate the Stars. Her poems appear in POETRY, Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, others.

Olga Livshin’s poetry, essays, and translations from Russian appear in Writers Resist, the Kenyon Review, Poetry International, Jacket, and others.

Natalie Lyalin is the author of Blood Makes Me Faint, but I Go for It, Pink & Hot Pink Habitat, and Try A Little Time Travel.

Host: Charles S. Carr

To be Broadcast Live: Comcast 66/966 & Verizon 29/30

Moonstone Presents: Cuba, 2019 - Poetry & Information
2019-02-03 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Presenters include:

Steve Halpern was a member of the UAW and has been working as a housekeeper in Philadelphia area hospitals.

Enrique Sacerio-Garí, born in Cuba, professor at Bryn Mawr College known for his work on Jorge Luis Borges, and is author of Comunión (a concrete poem), Poemas interreales, Para llegar a La Habana and El mercado de la memoria.

John Staggs, Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Philadelphia City Council, a Walmart worker, Staggs participated in the “Dairy Farm Crisis Hearing” and joined the teacher’s picket lines in West Virginia.

International Volunteer Work Brigade to Cuba 2019 will take place April 21 – May 5.
Brigade members will participate in the May Day celebration in Havana. These tours are sponsored by the Cuban organization ICAP.
For more information: ICanGoToCuba@nnoc.info.
Applications are due by March 29.

Moonstone & Apiary Magazine Present: HIVE NIGHT
2019-01-30 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
HIVE NIGHT is Apiary Magazine’s showcase and open mic celebrating every stripe of literary artist the city has to offer. Come to hear voices from Philadelphia writing tribes old and new, spanning Apiary’s decade-long history. Stay to share your own work in a laid back, inclusive space, whatever the form, genre or mood, to a crowd hungry for diverse voices.
Featuring:

Michael O’Hara is the author of The Year With No Holidays and The Fine Art of Selling Out.

Nicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress, Getting Lucky, and several chapbooks, including Fat Dreams.

Sekai’afua Zankel is author of Behind These Eyes /Optical Poems, won the Frank Moore Poetry Prize 2008 and the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. Her poems have been published In the CAP literary magazine, Poetry Ink, and in Apiary.

This Reading Includes an Open Mic (Hosted by the staff of Apiary Magazine)

Moonstone Presents: A Tribute to J.C. Todd, Chapbook Release Party
2019-01-27 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
For some strange reason we tend to wait until someone dies before we express our gratitude for what they have done. We have memorials where people get up and say how important the person was to them and what they had accomplished. Why wait? Why not have a party honoring the person with praise poems while they are still alive and can enjoy it? Join us in honoring J.C. Todd.

J.C. Todd is a Fellow of the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and winner of the Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Author of The Damages of Morning, What Space This Body and co-author of the artist books, On Foot/By Hand and FUBAR, she has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, The Hambidge Center, Ragdale, Ucross and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has taught in the MFA Program at Rosemont College and the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Contributors will read their poems from the Chapbook
A Tribute to J. C. Todd
($10, The Moonstone Press)

Moonstone Presents: Relationships and Other Conflicts, Poetry Reading
2019-01-23 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Jennifer Anolik is an educator and writer. Her poetry has appeared in Infinite Rust, Apiary Online, BlazeVox, The Prompt Literary Magazine. When she is not writing poetry, she writes curriculum.

Amy Barone is author of We Became Summer, Kamikaze Dance and Views from the Driveway. Her poetry has appeared in Café Review, Standpoint (UK), Paterson Literary Review, Philadelphia Poets and Sensitive Skin, among other publications.

Open Reading Follows, Jennifer Hook and Alina Macneal Hosts

Moonstone Presents: Aaren Perry, Don Riggs & Lamont Steptoe
2018-12-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Aaren Perry is a Philadelphia-based writer who teaches poetry and writing He is the recipient of a 1990 Writing Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and is Poet-in-Residence at a number of educational institutions.

Don Riggs is author of Bilateral Asymmetry, his poetry has appeared in many publications and he teaches several courses for the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University.

Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet, activist, Vietnam Veteran, photographer and founder/publisher of Whirlwind Press. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry and he has performed his work at the Library of Congress, the National Library of Nicaragua, the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, the Knitting Factory, the Schomburg Center for Black Culture, and various colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Sean Lynch, host – An open mic will follow the featured readers.

Moonstone Presents: New Voices with Bela Azar & Vision
2018-12-04 18:00 - 20:30 | South Philadelphia Free Library, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street), Philadelphia, PA, 19145, United States
Perry “Vision” DiVirgilio is a poet, activist and youth poetry educator. A graduate of Dickinson College, Vision’s work focuses on racial identity, identity politics, healing, and dismantling toxic masculinity. Vision’s poetry and poetry workshops were featured on CNN’s “Black in America 5,” the highest rated documentary in CNN history. He’s performed in over 30 international cities, 40 universities, as well as on TVOne’s Verses and Flow.
He currently co-coaches the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Team and is author of three collections of poetry, “Surviving Saturn’s Return,” “Heal On Purpose,” and “About Her.”

Host: Charles S. Carr

Moonstone Presents: Lynn Levin & Joan Roberta Ryan
2018-11-28 19:00 - 22:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Lynn Levin is a poet, writer, translator, and teacher, author of six books, most recently a poetry collection, Miss Plastique; a translation from the Spanish, Birds on the Kiswar Tree by Peruvian Andean poet Odi Gonzales; and, as co-author, the textbook Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets. The recipient of fourteen Pushcart Prize nominations, Levin has published poems, stories, essays, and translations in Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Hopkins Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Connecticut Review, Rattle, and Verse Daily.

Joan Roberta Ryan lives in Taos New Mexico where she indulges her passions for skiing, mushroom hunting, Mediterranean cooking—and above all—reading and writing poetry. Her work has appeared in Atlanta Review, Calyx, Nimrod, The Sow’s Ear Review, Spillway, Naugatuck River Review, Euphony, Ekphrasis, Crab Orchard Review and other journals. Joan’s poetry collection Dark Ladies & Other Avatars was published 2017.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Host, A open mic will follow the featured readers.

Moonstone Presents: Hanoch Guy & Lisa Grunberger
2018-11-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Hanoch Guy is a bilingual poet who spent his younger years in Israel. An emeritus professor at Temple, he has published poetry in Genre Magazine, Poetry Newsletter, Tracks, the International Journal of Genocide Studies, Poetry Motel, Visions International and Poetica Magazine.

Lisa Grunberger, Temple University Professor and playwright, is also an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in The New York Times and in numerous literary publications. She is the author of Yiddish Yoga: Ruthie’s Adventures in Love, Loss and the Lotus Position and Born Knowing. Her poems have been translated into Hebrew, Slovenian, Russian, Polish, and Yiddish.

Warren Longmire, Host – An open mic will follow the featured readers

Moonstone Presents: New Voices
2018-11-19 18:00 - 20:30 | South Philadelphia Free Library, 1700 S. Broad Street (Morris Street), Philadelphia, PA, 19145, United States
New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets
A Voice for Everyone: Listen, Share, Connect with Other Writers
Join us on the third Monday of each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25.
An open reading follows the featured poets.

Moonstone Presents: Krisann Janowitz & Thom Nickels
2018-11-18 14:00 - 17:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Homeless in Philadelphia
Krisann Janowitz, author of Home(less) began writing poetry at an early age (elementary school– if you count all the song lyrics about bubblegum). Her love for music and words has further driven her passion for poetry.

Thom Nickels is the author Learn To Do a Bad Thing Well: Looking for Johnny Bobbitt and 13 other books the latest of which is Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls.
