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 […]
Wednesday September 4, 2019 – 7pm Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Kenny Walker Jr started writing poetry at the age of 10, his main influences are the Last Poets, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone and Prince. At the age of 24, he first started reading in public and at jazz clubs, where he learned his timing […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street 2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month, it is free and open to everyone. Please join us. Remembering A. V. Christie (author of Nine […]
Wednesday September 11, 2019 – 7pm Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Elise Brand is an English teacher, writer, poet, and adviser of Journeys to America and The Maple Legacy. Her poetry has appeared in journals and she served on the board of MCPL for six years. Steve Deutsch writes poetry, […]
Sunday September 15, 2019 – 2pm Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. 1632 Walnut St New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets Joey Iozzi, 17, attends the Performing Arts Academy (NJ). An Acting major, he is influenced by the artists he surrounds himself with. While performing, he found his love of speech and how impactful it can […]
