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. […]
S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx Poetry Reading and Book Launch Saturday, June 3, 2023 – 2:00pm Live @ The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street in Philadelphia From the people who bring you the annual Black Women’s Arts Festival comes an exciting joint and literary event. We are seeking contributions of writing from life […]
Debora Kuan is the author of XING, Lunch Portraits, and the forthcoming Women on the Moon. Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of seven books, most recently Thin Ice Olympics. Open Reading Follows.
Woody Guthrie was one of the most significant figures in American folk music whose work focused on themes of socialism and anti-fascism. Join us as poets continue this tradition.
Moonstone celebrates the winners of our 2022 Chapbook Contest with a dedicated live reading. Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book and Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, the Poetry Editor of Ovunque Siamo, and Founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival and Retreat. Leonard Kress author of Living in the Candy Store and Other Poems, Walk Like Bo Diddley, The Orpheus Complex, Sappho’s Apples Thirteens, Braids & Other Sestinas, and The Centralia Mine Fire. Alina Macneal is a Philadelphia-based educator/writer/poet/translator/architect whose poems have appeared in Apiary, Poems for the Writing, The World to Come, and Poetry 24. John Timpane is former Commentary Page Editor and Books Editor for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philly.com. His work has appeared in Sequoia, The Fox Chase Review, Apiary, Cleaver, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach is the author of three poetry collections: 40 WEEKS, Don’t Touch the Bones, winner of the 2019 Idaho Poetry Prize, and The Many Names for Mother, winner the Wick Poetry Prize and finalist for the Jewish Book Award. She is currently working on a poetry collection as well as a book of linked lyric essays, both of which grapple with raising a neurodiverse child with a disabled partner under the shadow of the war in Ukraine, Julia’s birthplace.
In collaboration with Ukrainian poets, we’re supporting the continued struggle in Ukraine with a special night of poetry featuring David Acosta, Sibelan Forrester, Sean Hanrahan, Olga Livshin, Lynn Levin, and Warren C. Longmire. Poets will read from the featured books (Today is a Different War by Lyu
dmyla Khersonska, In the Hour of War edited by Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky, and A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails by Halyna Kruk) and their own work. Book bundles will be sold at the event on online, with all profits donated to Ukraine TrustChain.
Mac Chandler is a recent graduate of The University Of The Arts. She has been published in HASH magazine, Rappahannock Review, and High Shelf Press. Mikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook, Terrestrial Sanctuaries was published by Moonstone. Faith Paulsen’s work has appeared in venues including Philadelphia Stories, Apiary, Ghost City Press, One Art, Literary Mama and Mantis. She is the author of three chapbooks, including We Marry We Bury We Sing or We Weep with Moonstone Press.
