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 […]
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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 […]
