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Moonstone @ Communally Presents Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy

Communally 1128 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, United States

  Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy by Corey Dolgon ($34.95 -University of Chicago Press) Books will be available to purchase and be autographed “To understand the popularity of Italian Fascism in the ’30s, we needed Antonio Gramsci. To understand the popular malaise among the US middle class in the […]

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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub presenting Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse

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

Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse by Grace Bauer, Editor ($24.00,  Lost Horse Press) Poets reading include Grace Bauer, Kim Bridgeford, Emari DiGiorgio, Corie Feiner, Ona Gritz, Harriet Levin, Lynn Levin, Carolina Morales & Nancy Reddy – Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse is an anthology of poems from women […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café featuring Christopher Bernard and . Luke Stromberg

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

Christopher Bernard is author of A Spy in the Ruins, Voyage to a Phantom City, Dangerous Stories for Boys and others. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction, poetry, essays, plays, and criticism.. He lives in San Francisco. Luke Stromberg has published work in Rotary Dial, Victorian Violet Journal, Tower Journal, Shot Glass […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Shevaun Brannigan, Jamie J. Brunson, and Joyce Meyers

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

Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Jamie J. Brunson has brought storytelling to the stage within […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café featuring John Amen and Amy Small-McKinney

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

John Amen is the author of several collections of poetry, the latest of which is Illusion of an Overwhelm. strange theater was a finalist for the 2016 Brockman-Campbell Award and work from which was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Dana Award. His poetry, fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in journals nationally and […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Eliza Callard, Lucy Bell Sellers, and Fritz Ward

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

Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in.  She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown  Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry […]

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Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks

African American Museum 701 Arch Sreet, Philadelphia, PA, United States

African American Museum in Philadelphia, 701 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Free with Reduced Museum Admission of $5.00 Poet, educator, and social activist Gwendolyn Brooks was a singular force in American culture. The first black woman to be named United States poet laureate, Brook’s poetry, fiction, and social commentary shed light on the beauty of […]

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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub Presents Philadelphia Says: Not Our President

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

This is a reading for our new chapbook, “Philadelphia Says: Not Our President,” which we are still accepting submissions for here, if you would like to participate. Participants will get the opportunity to read their work at the Philadelphia Says: Not Our President event (this event) on November 5, 2017 at 2pm, two days before […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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 […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Emari DiGiorgio & Raena Shirali

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

Emari DiGiorgio is the author of Girl Torpedo (Agape, 2018), the winner of the 2017 Numinous Orison, Luminous Origin Literary Award, and The Things a Body Might Become (Five Oaks Press, 2017). She’s the recipient of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Ellen La Forge Poetry Prize, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Prize, RHINO’s Founder’s Prize, […]