Featured Poets 2022 Live and Virtual Readings In 2022, Moonstone featured 235 poets in person and virtually; 113 are in the Featured Poets 2022 Anthology. We will be hosting two events (Live and Virtual) that includes our Featured Poets. LIVE Event – Sunday April 2, @ 2pm EST LIVE at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 […]
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. Liz Chang was 2012 Montgomery County Poet Laureate in Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Exit 7, Rock & Sling, Breakwater Review and Stoneboat Literary […]
Live Poetry Reading Don Riggs, Hannah McDonald, and Aaren Perry Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom. Registration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-ytrDIiHNH_4_I4bus3BP19d5VhA5Ar Don Riggs has been teaching mostly first-year composition at Drexel University for the past quarter century. He writes a sonnet, broadly defined, in the bathtub each morning, […]
Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom St. and on Zoom. Registration required. Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems. Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) “Ernest Hilbert’s Storm Swimmer is a gleaming cornucopia of dreams, nightmares, tenderness, and grace. It is a book […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 12, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) In poems that celebrate […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 19, 2023 – 7:00pm Live at Finn McCools Corner of 12th & Sansom Street Note the change of venue for this event Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems . […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Haiku 2023 Sunday April 23, 2023 – 2:00pm – Virtual Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrc-igrjkpHtMxqEEwiBDf-c1PtVQsC- International Haiku Day The old pond A frog jumps in Plop! Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) Translated by Allan Watts The Old Pond may be the most famous of all haiku The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 26, 2023 – 7:30pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ Maya Pindyck’s third poetry collection, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday April 30, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual Join us for readings from the contributors to Haiku 2023 Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuqrpzgjHdNJLzqJT8pr9WFYBSL_gKT0 Ekphrastic Poetry Ekphrastic poetry explores art. Using a rhetorical device known as ekphrasis, the poet engages with a painting, drawing, sculpture, or other form of visual art. Poetry about music and […]
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Tuesday May 2, 2023 – 6:30pm VIRTUAL Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Eleventh-grade student, Matilda Bray, is author of When You Wanted Blue, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry, […]
