Live Poetry: Erica Abbott, Elayna Mae Darcy, Thalia Geiger, Diamante “Dimo” Ortiz, and Faith Paulsen Wednesday July 16, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Erica Abbott is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Shō Poetry Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, Midway Journal, and […]
Virtual Reading: Betrayed: Violence Against Women Sunday July 20, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3RqcVPSiSfO6TwlOsIMQmg BETRAYED – Violence Against Women, invites survivors of gender-based violence to share their stories so that we can bring awareness to this issue and challenge the culture surrounding domestic violence—a culture that overwhelmingly encourages silence and shame. The […]
Live Poetry: Bree Bailey, Miriam Kramer, and Sheleen McElhinney Sunday July 20, 2025 – 2pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Bree Bailey is a queer Latina poet, a mistress of the music of inflections, pulses, and ironic chuckles. A Jersey native now in Austin, TX, she writes with heart and humor […]
Sunday July 27, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MV1XXDyjSxm5hcwx5hpxOg Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania Edited by Marjorie Maddox & Jerry Wemple ( $27.90 Pennsylvania State University Press) Buy the book: https://moonstone-arts-center.square.site/product/keystone-poetry-contemporary-poets-on-pennsylvania/527 From Philadelphia to Erie, and from the shale fields to the coal mines, Keystone Poetry celebrates the varied landscapes and voices of […]
Wednesday July 30, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ryan Eckes is the author of Wrong Heaven Again, General Motors, Valu-Plus and Old News, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short, […]
Sunday August 3, 2025 – 2pmEDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Q7Xq5kmfTySArIh_8ejLtg Tyler Dunston, author of Octaves, is a writer and visual artist, whose poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Hawaiʻi Pacific Review, Narrative Magazine, Raleigh Review, and other journals. Maria James-Thiaw is an award-winning poet, performer, and playwright. She is the author of three poetry books, has […]
Tuesday August 5, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series David Ebenbach, the author of collections of fiction (Between Camelots; Into the Wilderness), poetry (We Were the People Who Moved; Autogeography) and essays […]
Wednesday August 6, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Phoebe Brown is a poet recently published by Anthropocene Poetry, in “Impossible Task” with Another New Calligraphy, Hog River Press, and Moonstone Arts Center. Courtney LeBlanc is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent […]
Sunday August 10, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL – National Book Lovers Day https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6vfdhJLjQ_q5lAr_bMgtuQ From clay tablets to today’s eBooks, literature has played a crucial role in preserving cultures, educating the masses, and storytelling. Thanks to Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th-century printing press, anyone, not just royalty, monks or landed gentry, could read and own books. […]
Wednesday August 13, 2025 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philly-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell, The Passionfruit Review, […]
