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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
