Moonstone Presents:

Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street and three other full-length poetry collections: Blue Ruby, Resurrection Papers, and Practicing Amnesia. Her honors include a Rita Dove Poetry Prize Honorable Mention, a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts residency, and a term as Berks Poet Laureate. […]

Deborah Burnham has been at the University of Pennsylvania longer than some of the ivy. She has worked as an undergraduate advisor, directed the academic writing program, and is currently the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English department. She has published two books of poetry, and has another in circulation. Candida Rodriguez was born in […]

Joseph Rathgeber is an author, poet, high school English teacher, and adjunct professor from New Jersey. He is the author of Mixedbloods, The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories, and MJ. He has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts.  Mixedbloods is […]

Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street HAIKU Bring your Haiku to share with us! What is Haiku? Renowned for its small size and precise syllabic makeup, Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five moras (a unit of sound that determines […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets (under the age of 25). Jennifer Nessel is a graduate from Saint Joe’s, received the Best Short Story award from her university’s literary magazine, and has received funding for a novella entitled, ‘The Cage,’ through which she explored […]

Chapbook release party & reading event Sunday July 14, 2019 – 2pm Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street July 4 is Independence Day in the US July 14 is Bastille Day in France Every country has an Independence Day Every person wants to be FREE Hear what Philadelphia poets have […]

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 […]