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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Poetry & Humor with Hannah McDonald, who has performed at The Bechdel Test fest, the National Poetry Slam, etc Scott Sigl is a musician, poet, and teacher who has performed poems, as well as haikus in Boston, Charlotte, Oakland, New York, Jonathon Todd is […]
Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. – 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets 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 […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting For the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment (the right of women to vote) Moonstone asks: What is the condition of women’s lives today? Women’s right to vote was passed in 1919, What did it accomplish? What […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Chapbook Release Party & Reading Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review among others. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Walk like Bo Diddley, Living in the Candy Store, and Other […]
The Philadelphia Writing Project Presents: Silvino J. Alexander Jr., “Brother Jahi” is an educator, poet, author, and mentor/consultant currently residing in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. His poetry reflects the uncompromising reality of this world. Sydney Hunt Coffin has taught English, Poetry, and Art in Philadelphia, worked with the Advisory Council of the […]
