Moonstone Presents:

  • 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners

    Sunday May 11, 2025 – 2:00 pm – VIRTUAL On Zoom – 2024 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VJprZxhkRxGtL6tgxl7bkA First Prize – Partridge Boswell, author of Heckler, poems appear in Poetry, American Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review. Co-founder of Bookstock Literary Festival, he troubadours widely with the poetry/music group Los Lorcas Honorable Mentions Shaina Clingempeel, author of in […]

  • Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W.D. Ehrhart, Jack Miller

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

    Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley […]

  • New Voices: Live at Parkway Central Library

    Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

    New Voices: Spring 2025 A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. Join us as contributors read their poems Thursday May 15th, 2025 – If you live near Philadelphia please join us live LIVE at 5:30 EDT – […]

  • New Voices: Virtual Reading on Zoom

    New Voices: Spring 2025 A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. Join us as contributors read their poems Saturday May 17th, 2025 – No matter where you live, please join us virtually VIRTUAL at 2pm EDT on […]

  • 29th Annual Poetry Ink: LIVE at the Rotunda

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

    29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Sunday May 18, 2025 – If you live […]

  • 29th Annual Poetry Ink: Virtual Reading

    29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Monday May 19, 2025 – No matter where […]

  • Support Ukraine

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      Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified over 12,600 civilian deaths as of January 2025. The war has resulted in a humanitarian crisis, as thousands of Ukrainians were internally displaced or fled abroad. From a population of 41 million, about 8 […]

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  • Book launch for Jane-Rebecca Cannarella’s Long Island Sad Poems(Serotonin Press)

    Sueño Restaurant 114 S 12th St, Philadelphia, PA, United States

      Jane-Rebecca Cannarella is a writer and editor living in West Philadelphia. She edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch Ticket from 2015 to 2017. Krystle Griffin is an Aquarian alien who emerged from the depths of the Delaware River. […]

  • Poetry Reading by Love McTiernan, Myles Matunis, Adiah Siler

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

    Love McTiernan feels an obsession with the natural world and thus tends to write about clouds, trees, and Earth’s other unknown beasts. Myles Matunis work has been published by Expat Press and the Bitchin Kitsch, featured on public radio, and nominated for the Best of the Net. Adiah Siler is an east coaster through and […]

  • Philly Lingo: Speaking Our Tongues, Sharp and Sweet Workshop

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

    Come and join us in a plurilingual workshop Where all the languages in your head are welcome. We will listen to each other, share words and ideas, read and make poems. This workshop will explore the crossing of borders both linguistic and political and the spaces between, rooted in a trauma informed, anti-racist pedagogy and […]