Moonstone Presents:

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Kirwyn Sutherland, Sekai’afua Zankel, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737     Passcode: 678146 Kirwyn Sutherland is author of Jump Ship, a Clinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow, has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem, Winter Tangerine, Poets House, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, and Pearlstein Art Gallery, was […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Catherine Bancroft, David Kertis, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Catherine Bancroft and David Kertis Catherine Bancroft writes poetry, makes art, and sometimes combines them.  She has read her poetry at Green Line Café, PAFA, Blue Marble Bookstore, Fergie’s Pub, and other local spots. Her visual art has appeared at Muse Gallery, 3rd […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells, Anis Mojgani, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Vernyce Dannells and Anis Mojgani Vernyce Dannells shares, with Anis, the world view of her jumbled origins and a disarmingly unvarnished response to the world. A graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course, she especially loved the years she reported for National Public Radio. […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Angel Hogan and Stephanie Durann with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Angel Hogan and Stephanie Durann with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Angel Hogan Angel Hogan is an activist, poet and filmmaker pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Drexel University. She has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival, Literary Death Match, Moonstone […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Heather Lanier and Autumn McClintock with Hosts Alina MacNeal and Jennifer Hook

    Moonstone Arts Center

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Heather Lanier and Autumn McClintock with Hosts Alina MacNeal and Jennifer Hook https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Heather Lanier Heather Lanier is the author of the memoir, Raising a Rare Girl, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, as well as two award-winning poetry chapbooks. Her […]

  • Live Poetry Reading: Sydney Hunt Coffin, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile Kebe, Alina Macneal

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

    Live Poetry Reading with Sydney Hunt Coffin, Naa Koikoi Aziza Zenzile, and Alina Macneal https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Sydney Hunt Coffin has been with the Philadelphia Writing Project since 2011, when he was working as an English teacher at University City High School. He has taught English, Poetry, and […]

  • Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect, Octavia Clarkson, Rabivatu Jalloh, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook

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

    Live Moonstone Poetry Reading: Lyrispect, Octavia Clarkson, Rabivatu Jalloh, & Barrett Rosser with Hosts Alina Macneal and Jennifer hook   Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqc-qtrzgsGdVtQUJh45wStOVKvBHx2TQ-   Educator-Poets Presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Writing Project Lyrispect is an award-winning lyricist, author,activist, educator and voiceover artist. She is an advocate for Black […]

  • Live Poetry: Nathalie Anderson, Steve Burke, Cassie MacDonald

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

    Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Nathalie Anderson, author of Rough, Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Stain, and Held and Firmly Bound, collaborated in with artist Susan Hagen and poet Lisa Sewell on Birds of North America. Anderson’s poems have appeared in many journals, manages the list-serv Lit-Philly. Steve Burke […]

  • Live Poetry: Ona Gritz, Alina Macneal, Zack Rogow

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

    Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Ona Gritz writes memoir, essays, and poetry for adults, verse novels for teens, and fiction for children, her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Zack Rogow is an American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He is […]

  • Live Poetry: Alicia Askenase, Cassie MacDonald & Aaren Yeatts Perry

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

    Wednesday October 8, 2025 – 7pm – LIVE Live at Sueno Restaurant, 114 S. 12th Street Alicia Askenase is the author of several books, was a founding co-editor of the literary journal 6ix, and director of the Walt Whitman Art Center Literary programs for many years. Her poetry has appeared in various journals. Cassie MacDonald […]