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Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café, 1201 Spruce Street

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

April Lynn James & Madison Hatta Dr. April Lynn James, award-winning performer, scholar, and Librarian-in-Training rolls in with her muse/guardian angel Madison Hatta, Sonneteer. Madison, a Mirth-Maker Extraordinaire, composes and declaims whimsical sonnets on such themes as madness, Time, career & family dysFUNction, and the importance of drinking tea. The wordplay and imagery are drawn […]

Moonstone Gold @ Fergie’s Pub Presents Afaa M. Weaver Interviewed by Earnest Hilbert

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Tickets $15.00, Students with ID – $7.50 – available at Square.com In 2014, Weaver completed his Plum Flower Trilogy with the publication of his 14th collection of poetry, City of Eternal Spring. A Los Angeles Times review of the trilogy echoed previous critical evaluations of his oeuvre to date: “Compared to Whitman by the poet […]

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Moonstone Poetry @Toast Café

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Angel Murray-Kelly is a singer/songwriter, LGBTQ+ youth advocate, vegetarian, & local Philly youth poet. David Jones is a Philadelphia native, poet, writer, performer, Temple University student, and Youth Poet Laureate Emeritus of Philadelphia. Christian Warrick is a Philadelphia-born Maori-American poet and story writer. He’s a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in English and […]

Home(less) @ PhillyCAM

Join our live studio audience for Home(less): An evening of poetry, photography and video on the themes of home and homelessness. Featuring poems by Krisann Janowitz; creative writing by One Step Away vendor and writer, Richard Ramson “Ram”; photos by Harvey Finkle; video by Karen Walker. PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street, (267) 639-5481, info@phillycam.org Doors open at 6:30 […]

Philly Loves Poet Laureates @PhillyCAM

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM           Sonia Sanchez, Philadelphia’s First Poet Laureate, Yolanda Wisher is the 2016-17 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, Husnaa Hashim is the current Youth PoetLaureate,  David Jones is a former Youth Poet Laureate. Host: Charles S. Carr

2017 Anthology of Featured Poets @ Fergie’s Pub

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Join us for an afternoon of poetry and camaraderie. The 2017 Anthology of Featured Poets includes 50 of the over 100 featured poets who read for Moonstone in 2017, many of whom will read on December 10. A listing of the poets included in the anthology is on our website www.moonstoneartscenter.com, which includes some of […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

 Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming, based […]

Debs of December – Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Deborah Burnham, author of Anna and the Steel Mill, Still and  a volume ofpoetry, is the Associate Undergraduate Chair of the English Department and teaches poetry and poetry writing, with a particular interest in formal poems and in the history of women’s poetry at UPENN. Deborah Fox found her love for poetry as a result of a […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub

Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Angelo Colavira, author of Heroines, lives and writes in Philadelphia, where he hosts Oxford Coma, a nihilist poetry reading series. His work has appeared in Apiary Magazine, The Philadelphia Citizen, Mad House, and elsewhere. Penelope Gristelfink’s first novel will be published by Propertius Press in 2017. Her poems and fiction have appeared or will appear […]

Philly Loves Poetry: The Moonstone Chapbooks

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The newest Moonstone poets sit down to read their poetry and discuss the context of their writings. This event is also broadcast LIVE on PhillyCAM (Comcast channel 66/966 and Verizon channel 29/30). More details tba.