Moonstone Presents:

  • S/He Speaks 3: Voices of Women and Trans Folx – LIVE

    The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Women, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7, 2025.  The anthology will contain poetry, essays and stories by writers who are either women, trans or non-binary identified.

    Free
  • S/He Speaks 3: Voices of Women and Trans Folx

    The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Women, trans and nonbinary writers are invited to contribute to the 2025 edition of S/He Speaks anthology and to participate in an event at The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania on June 7, 2025.  The anthology will contain poetry, essays and stories by writers who are either women, trans or non-binary identified.  

  • Poetry Readings by Courtney Bambrick, Micheal Angelo Abreu, Aja Beech, Rhianna Searle, and Olga Livshin – LIVE

    Courtney Bambrick author of World Without was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories 2010-2024. She teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls campus in Philadelphia. Her own poems appear in Landlocked Magazine, Pinhole Poetry, Thimble, Invisible City, and more. Michael Angelo Abreu, author of Gemini, is a leaf. He takes frequent walks through the Wissahickon […]

    Free
  • The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel Launch Party

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

    The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel – Launch Party Wednesday June 11, 2025 – 7pm Live at Ferge’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street In October of 2003, a 19 year old named Cody considers joining the Army to fight in the Iraq War so that he can escape the boredom of small town Woodville, […]

  • Virtual Reading: Remembering William Butler Yeats

    Virtual

    Virtual Reading: Remembering William Butler Yeats Sunday, June 15, 2025 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/30Xa0KKUQuqq-mApWGpv7Q  An Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later […]

  • June 25 – LIVE Poetry Reading at Fergie’s Pub

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

    Wednesday June 25, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Christian Bufo is a Philadelphia-based photographer, editor, and poet. He is a member of Poet’s Row, a collective that hosts readings and publishes physical & online poetry journals. Sophia Tempest is a poet who lives in Philadelphia. Her full length […]

  • Virtual Reading: Go Back Where You Came From

    Register @ https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85860281960?pwd=xKIFJiznW6BV6Ns5wJ2aymFtqjuomM.1 First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out —because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out —because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out —because I […]

  • July 2 – Live Poetry Reading at Fergie’s Pub

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

    Wednesday July 2, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Maia Brown-Jackson is a symphony of papercuts, banged-up knees, and stubborn determination. She believes in the altruism of strangers, the power of direct action, and the Oxford comma. Marion Cohen is an American poet and a mathematician, has published 32 […]

  • Virtual Reading: Freedom – for Who, to do What, to Whom

    https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/j16zWU86TBajHSEsuQt1Fw Sunday July 6, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL Freedom – for Who, to do What, to Whom Freedom has become a rallying cry for those in power who aim to exploit, to lie, and to endanger the less powerful with impunity. They demand Freedom to contaminate the earth, to deny history, to claim […]

  • Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series

    Tuesday July 8, 2025 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Elaine Terranova is the author of eight collections, including most recently Rinse. Her work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies. She has received the Walt Whitman Award, […]