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, […]
Live Poetry Reading Wednesday May 3, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpce6vrzsjGd0lKdmttrpxCM9RPs8seGAo Eleventh-grade student, Matilda Bray, is author of When You Wanted Blue, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry, Under the Moon as My Sun at the age of […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Saturday May 6, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdOuuqT4oGd1uFFtWkFEVA6VJfLSaRQC New Voices: Spring 2023 New Voices: Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 7, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAodOmrrDsjHtd4OlL4eORzQZETeuwo5oB9 Poems From Your Psyche is a type of poetic expression which addresses the multiple psychological aspects of the human existence. April 24 is the 100th anniversary of The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud, an analytical study of the human psyche outlining Freud’s […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Wednesday May 10, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqduygpjMuHd0HPcfGrZY8yNfOp-0L4ixR Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Wednesday May 17, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdu-trjIvGd2Q9NK9mK9MtZzQ3PmYhVIt dev kiyota is an editor; they got an MFA in Creative Writing from Temple University. Lynda Gene Rymond author of The Village of Basketeers and Oscar and the […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 21, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual Register for the event HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rd-yuqj4oGdQ1vLBDn31qkpzuQMtjqjM9 World Laughter Day (May 7) is an annual event celebrated is a celebration that raises awareness about all the benefits of laughing and promotes world peace through laughter. It raises awareness about laughter and its many healing benefits, as […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday May 24, 2023 – 7:00pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscO6rrj8iHtb48QlmLMmqMWfM5uAm1lHv Kelly McQuain is a painter and poet, and the author of Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers (2023), a collection chosen by Texas Review Press for the […]
Sunday June 11, 2pm – virtual – tribute to Nikki Givanni – VIRTUAL Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tc-qprzIjHNCsP-cfEzOvjos_1TSiCYRw Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni Jr (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world’s most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 28, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 Mother’s Day (May 14) This is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For, in a time like ours, mothers have no room to be sentimental. […]
