Moonstone Arts Center

Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare and Co.
2019-06-05 19:00 (America/New_York) | Shakespeare and Co., 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, 19103, United States
Often thinking about human behavior on the commute to his 9-5, Sirron Carrector has been writing consistently in the notes app of an iPhone since 2016. He holds a masters in public displays of affection. He enjoys reading, video editing, and recording himself while intoxicated. Check out carrextion.com or @carrextion on Instagram for his ramblings, and you have to call him Jago (Jay-Go). Phil has been published in Spiral Poetry and most recently in the first edition of the ToHo Journal. He has self-published 4 chapbooks and is currently working on his first full-length collection. Sean Lynch, Host Open Reading Follows

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM
2019-06-04 19:00 | 699 Ranstead Street, 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, United States
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM
Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discuss poetry and read their poems. Ahmad Almallah’s first book of poems, Bitter English will be published in 2019. He received the 2018 Edith Goldberg Paulson Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and his set of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. Huda J. Fakhreddine is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition: From Modernists to Muhdathūn and co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning. Fatemeh Shams’ When They Broke Down the Door won the 2017 Latifeh Yarshater Annual Book Award. She received Jaleh Esfahani poetry award as the best young Persian poet in 2012. Her forthcoming poems will appear in the World of Literature Today, New Divan and Mirror of my Heart: 1000 years of Persian Women Poetry in 2019. Charles Carr, Host

23rd Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading
2019-06-02 12:00 | 1199C Headquarters, 1319 Locust st., Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Sunday June 2, 2019 – noon
Moonstone at 1199C Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street
Hello! We are hosting our 23rd annual Poetry Ink release event which will be commemorated by readings from 84 (not quite 100 this year!) poets. Join us in enjoying the work of academic poets, famous poets, free form poets, street poets, unknown poets, spoken word poets, published poets, unpublished poets- you name it! Poetry Ink was created with the goal of generating conversation between poets of different ages, backgrounds, ethnicities, and stylings in order to celebrate Philadelphia’s historically diverse literary community.
Accordingly, the 100 Poets Reading aims to provide a platform for poets from all different walks of life so that the audience and readers alike may enjoy new poetic experiences- nowhere else in Philadelphia is there such a unique congregation of poets and poetry. Food contributions are encouraged, as this will be a potluck community event for all ages. Whether you stop by for hours or just a few minutes, an enjoyable time is guaranteed for all attendees.
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Not all contributors will be reading.
All Reading Times are Approximate
12:00
Sekai’afua Zankel
David Worrell
Shanyah Womack
Donna Wolf-Palacio
Rocky Wilson
Eleanor Wilner12:30
Anthony Williams
Notus Williams
Sharon Wellons
Mercedes Weathers
Bill Van Buskirk
Jonathon Todd1:00
John Timpane
Elaine Terranova
Lamont Steptoe
Mbarek Sryfi
Fereshteh Sholevar
George Schaefer
Tonya Ryva
1:30
Ayo Rosier
Tyrone “Marcy” Roosevelt
Stuart Roberts
Don Riggs
Elizabeth Quigley
Elijah Pringle
Prabha Prabhu

2:00
Aaren Perry
Hermond Palmer
Claire Owen
Ewuare Osayande
Daniel O’Hara
Stu O’Connor
Michael Miller2:30
John Mason
Alina Macneal
Sean Lynch
Cynthia Lee
Hazel Lee
Jeffrey Lee
Kinard Lang3:00
Lynette
Lisa Konigsberg
Michelle Keita
Anne Kaier
Betti Kahn
Bea Joyner
Irving Jones
3:30
Christina Jones
Leah Jackson
Ann Huang
Jennifer Hook
Alison Hicks
Laura Hawley
Janelle Harvey
Sean Hanrahan

4:00
Steven Halpern
Hanoch Guy
Linda Goss
Beulah Gordon-Skinner
Greg Francis
William Foster
Peggy Fisher4:30
Alfred Encarnacion
Runett Ebo
Pheralyn Dove
Ashini Desai
Nicole Davis
Tiffany Cooper
Cathleen Cohen5:00
Marion Cohen
Jose Cedillos
Steve Burke
Eugene Brown
Elizabeth Bodien
Lynn Blue
Pamela Blanding
5:30
Brandon Blake
Michele Belluomini
Peter Baroth
Catherine Bancroft
Kwame Bakari
Meredith Avakian
Silvino Alexander
Liz Abrams-Morley

Moonstone Presents: G Emil Reuter, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri & Dave Worrell
2019-05-29 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
G Emil Reuter is a writer of poems and stories. Ten collections of his poetry and fiction have been published, most recently, Stale Bread and Coffee.
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri is a Philadelphia Poet with four collections of poetry, most recently, The Handheld Mirror of the Mind.
Dave Worrell is author of We Who Were Bound and Close to Home, his poems have appeared in journals including Slant, Canary, Heroin Chic. Larry Robin, Host – Open Reading follows

May is for Mothers
2019-05-22 19:00 | The District 1199C Training and Upgrading Fund, 100 Broad st., Philadelphia, PA, 19110, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ 1199
The District 1199C Training & Upgrading Fund
100 South Broad Street, 10th floor (Land Title Building)
Wednesday May 22, 2019 – 7pm

Catherine Bancroft is the mother of three grown children and appreciates that a critical skill of motherhood is keeping your mouth shut. Poetry and art are good outlets.
Shevaun Brannigan’s work is forthcoming in AGNI and has appeared in Best New Poets and Slice. She is a recipient of a Barbara J. Deming Fund grant and holds an MFA from Bennington College.
Vernyce Dannells is the author of Temporarily Abated and has been published in places you know and others you’ve never heard of.
Janet Fishman created and toured two adaptations, The Olive Lake A Chinese Fairy Tale, and Three Short Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Her first full length play, At Home in the World has had two readings at The University of the Arts, where she currently teaches.
Courtney Gambrell is a 27-year-old who enjoys writing and reciting poetry in the Greater Philadelphia region. As a poet, she is most concerned with self-healing, which is her catalyst for writing.
Ona Gritz books include the poetry collections Geode, and Border Songs: A Conversation in poems, written with Daniel Simpson. Her poems and essays have appeared widely.
Lisa Grunberger, Temple University Professor, is author of three books and her play Almost Pregnant, about motherhood, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies, is under development.
Donna Wolf-Palacio is author of What I Don’t Know, The Other Side, and Step Lightly. She taught a poetry workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and was editor/consultant for the UARTS Poetry Review.
Sekai’afua Zankel defines herself as a “Performance Poet, combining her experience in theatre and her “visceral and active poetry”. Her underlying credo is a great revolution in the life of a single individual can change the world.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

Remembering Walt Whitman
2019-05-19 14:00 | McGillin’s Olde Ale House, 1310 Drury st. second floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, United States
Event Cancelled

Poetry and Humor
2019-05-15 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday May 15, 2019 – 7pm
Poetry and Humor
With Eileen D’Angelo & James Feichthaler

Eileen D’Angelo, a paralegal by day and a mad poet at night, has been nominated for a Pennsylvania Governor’s Award in the Arts and was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Eileen has been the Director of the Mad Poets Society since 1987 and has coordinated over 1,500 special events, including poetry readings, ongoing monthly series, competitions, workshops, festivals, conferences, student events and more, approximately 70 to 80 poetry readings per year since 1990. She has served as Editor of the Mad Poets Review since the first issue in 1990, and was a Contributing Editor for the literary journal, HELLAS, A Journal of Arts and Humanities.

James Feichthaler’s poetry has appeared in print and online journals in both the US and UK. His poems are truthful odes to his imagination, which he calls “the lunatic disciple of his existence.” The self-proclaimed “forrealist poet” is the host of an open mic reading series called The Dead Bards of Philadelphia, which is held on the 4th Thursday of every month at the Venice Island Performing Arts Center in Manayunk, PA. You can follow James’s poetic exploits on Twitter at @forrealist_poet and keep up with the The Dead Bards of Philadelphia on Facebook and Instagram

Aaren Perry Host, Open Reading follows

Sojourner Ahebee, Michele Belluomini & Elizabeth Bodien
2019-05-08 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday May 8, 2019 – 7pm
Sojourner Ahebee,
Michele Belluomini
& Elizabeth Bodien
Sojourner Ahebee is the author of Reporting from the Belly of the Night, writes stories about African diaspora identities and the eternal question of home and belonging. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day), Muzzle Magazine, For Harriet, Winter Tangerine Review, Apiary Magazine and elsewhere. In 2013 she served as a National Student Poet, the nation’s highest honor for young poets presenting original work. Sojourner was invited to the White House by former First Lady, Michelle Obama, to garner her award. Sojourner believes not in the boat that floated her here but what she’ll do with the water.

Michele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appearedin various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: Poets on Pennsylvania. The chapbook Crazy Mary and Others was a winner in the Plan B Press chapbook competition. Her most recent volume of poetry is Signposts for Sleepwalkers, also published by Plan B Press. She works as an Adjunct Library Faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia

Elizabeth Bodien is the author of two books of poetry: Blood, Metal, Fiber, Rock and Oblique Music: A Book of Hours as well as four chapbooks, all written since she retired from teaching at Northampton Community College. She is also the author of the spiritual memoir Journeys with Fortune: A Tale of Other Lives. She holds degrees in cultural anthropology, consciousness studies, religions, and poetry. She has worked as an instructor of English in Japan, an organic farmer in the mountains of Oregon, a childbirth instructor in West Africa, and as a professor of anthropology. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in numerous journals including: Cimarron Review, Crannóg, and Parabola Bodien grew up in the “burned-over” district of western New York but now lives near Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania.
Photo by Elaine Zelker, LLC

Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy
2019-05-07 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 May 7, 2019 -6:30pm
Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy

May 31, 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, who spent the last decades of his life in Camden, NJ, a short ferry ride from Philadelphia. Whitman at 200: Art and Democracy is being planned as an exploration of the relevance of the poet’s life and words for a contemporary audience through a region-wide program of cultural events. One vital component of Whitman’s writings, his poetics of nature, views man on a continuum with the natural world: both of it and able to appreciate it for itself and for its spiritual dimension. For Whitman, the “Nature-element” is essential to our Democracy and “really underlie[s] the whole politics, sanity, religion and art of the New World.”

Partners & Performers
Homer Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from Philadelphia whose work is presented as installation, performance art, public art, video and audio. Mr. Jackson has received support for his work from the Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Civitella Rainieri Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Playwrights Center and Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art. Homer Jackson serves as the director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project.

Jarboe (she/he) is a cabaret artist, director, writer, historian, and host serving you revolution, herstory, queer community making, and a whole lot of glitter. Going back to the interdisciplinary roots of cabaret, Jarboe is transforming opera, and live performance from her home in Philadelphia, making work that is insistent on its liveness and interactivity, work that will make you sing, dance, clap and question. Jarboe has created work with and for Opera Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Barnes Foundation, The Wilma Theater, The Kimmel Center, FringeArts among others.

Andrew Nurkin is the Deputy Director for Enrichment and Civic Engagement at the Free Library of Philadelphia, where he directs humanities and civic programs across the library’s fifty-four locations. His poems have appeared in The Believer, Cimarron Review, North American Review, The Massachusetts Review, FIELD, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. He was a 2016 Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and holds his MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Host: Charles S. Carr
Moonstone Arts Center Office
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107,
(215) 735-9600; larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com

New Voices: Philadelphia's Emerging Poets under 25
2019-05-05 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.
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect. Krisann Janowitz, Host – Open Reading follows.

Moonstone Presents: Tina Barr and Elaine Terranova
2019-05-05 14:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sanson Street.
Tina Barr is author of Green Target, Kaleidoscope, The Gathering Eye, and 3 chapbooks, all winners of chapbook contests. She lives in a cabin on the side of a mountain, in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Elaine Terranova has published seven collections of poetry, most recently, Perdido. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, her prose and prose poems have appeared in Boulevard, Hotel Amerika, South Loop Review, Storm Cellar, Mom Egg Review, and Per Contra. Awards include a Pushcart Prize, an NEA, and a Pew Fellowship. Larry Robin, Host

Labor Day with Octavia McBride-Ahebee & Anthony Palma
2019-05-01 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street
Wednesday May 1, 2019 – 7pm
Labor Day
with Octavia McBride-Ahebee
& Anthony Palma

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 and Where My Birthmark Dances and Praise Song for the Gravediggers.
Anthony Palma’s work attempts to bridge the gap between poetry and other forms while dealing with topics of social justice. His readings blend poetry with elements of performance and music. His work has appeared in Whirlwind Magazine, Oddball Magazine, and Harbinger Asylum, among others. He teaches writing at several universities in the Greater Philadelphia area and resides in West Chester PA with his wife and family.

Sean Lynch, Host, Open Reading follows

Moonstone Arts Center Office
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New Voices Volume One: Book Release
2019-04-28 17:00 | Proscenium Theatre at The Drake, 302 S. Hicks Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, United States
Sunday April 28, 2019 – 5pm
Moonstone Poetry @ Proscenium Theatre
at the Drake,
302 S. Hicks Street
New Voices VolumeOne: Philadelphia Emerging Poets
under 25 – Book Release
Readings by emerging poets who have been published in Moonstone’s latest book.
A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect
Krisann Janowitz, Host – Open Reading follows

Moonstone Presents: Human Animals with Grady Chambers & David Ebenbach
2019-04-24 19:00 | Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub
Fergie’s, 1214 Sansom Street (second floor)
Wednesday April 24, 2019 – 7pm
Human Animals:
Poems of body, praise, and place
with
Grady Chambers & David Ebenbach

Grady Chambers is the author of North American Stadiums (Milkweed Editions, 2018) selected by Henri Cole as the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His poems and stories are forthcoming from Kenyon Review Online, Boulevard, Joyland, and Quarterly West, and recent work has appeared in The Paris Review; The Iowa Review; Nashville Review; The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Grady was born and raised in Chicago. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow, and lives in Philadelphia.

David Ebenbach, born and raised in West Philadelphia, is the author of seven books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including his new poetry collection Some Unimaginable Animal. His books have won such awards as the Juniper Prize and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, among others. He now lives with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing and literature at Georgetown University. You can find out more at davidebenbach.com.

Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook, Hosts

Moonstone Presents: Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Louisa Schnaithmann
2019-04-17 19:00 | 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
110A S. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107,
(215) 735-9600;
larry@moonstoneartscenter.com; www.moonstoneartscenter.com

“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

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

Moonstone Arts Center Office
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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;
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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
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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
