Moonstone Presents:

Devin Cohen & Marion Deutsche Cohen

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

Alien Architect/Cohen Asher/Devin A. Cohen is a multidisciplinary artist, working with music, visual arts, and poetry. He has published the experimental hip hop album Arteriaand and  All Praises, the first part of his seven part book journey entitled Remnants, which chronicles his words from his records, poems, and else wheres   Marion Deutsche Cohen’s latest […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ryan Eckes, Melissa DeGezelle, and Sean Lynch

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

Ryan Eckes is a poet who lives in South Philadelphia and recently finished writing a book called General Motors about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Melissa DeGezelle has worked as an adjunct in the Intellectual Heritage Program since 2010. Beyond teaching, she is a poet, a birth doula, an activist, […]

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Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM: Featuring Lillian Dunn, Peter Krok, Paul Siegell

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

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 for poets in Philly as well as the themes that […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring M. Nzadi Keita, Cassie Macdonald, and Lamont B. Steptoe

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

M. Nzadi Keita is a Philly-born writer, editor, scholar and teacher, author of Brief History of Heaven, She has received grants from the PCA and the Leeway Foundation,  is an alumna of Cave Canem and has been a Yaddo fellow. She has also worked on projects with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and WHYY. Cassie MacDonald serves […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson

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

Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson ($14.99, August 2017) The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they’re conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you’ve stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul. –Stephen Kuusisto Ona Gritz’s first […]

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2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street

Did you know that there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area? They represent every poetry form, every ethnic background, every age, gender and community. This series will consist of an interview with the directors of these groups followed by a reading by group members. The program will be broadcast live […]

Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Richard Bank, Ryan Eckes, and Al Tacconelli

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

Richard Bank’s poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals. He has conducted a poetry reading series for the Mad Poets Society in the Philadelphia area. Bank has conducted Continuing Legal Education courses on jury techniques, and serves as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School. Ryan Eckes’ narrative-driven poetry is, in his words, “a possible form […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenrich, and Nina Schafer

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

Alicia Askenase is a poet and educator who has taught in Puerto Rico, Spain and the US, is the author of the chapbooks Cover, Suspect, The Luxury of Pathos and Shirley Shirley.  Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Review Revista Americana, 5trope, sonaweb, texture, Chain, Black and New Works by Philadelphia Poets.  She was a founding co-editor of the poetry journal 6ix and Literary Program Director […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Brandywine Workshop and Archive, 728 S. Broad Street

Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Best New Poets, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Tim Lynch has published   with Mead, War, Literature, and the Arts, HEArt Online, Whirlwind, & Radius. He was awarded a 2015 Piper Global […]

PHILLY LOVES HAIKU – Host: Charles S. Carr

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street Did you know that there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area? They represent every poetry form, every ethnic background, every age, gender and community. This series ll consist of an interview with the directors of these groups […]