Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Poetry: The Hosts of Other Series Read

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

      Wednesday March 26, 2025 – 7:00pm – The Hosts of Other Series Read  Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RcZsDsGjRYmxq7LxQ_YDkQ Sibelan Forrester is a poet, translator, and host since 2016 of the Mad Poets Society First Wednesday poetry reading series. Raina J. León, co-host of Wild […]

  • Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Krystle Griffin, and Anne-Adele Wight

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

    Wednesday April 9, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Join us for the Book Launch of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (Serotonin Press) Jane-Rebecca Cannarella edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch […]

  • Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Peter Baroth, Julia Gwiazdowski, and George Schaefer

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

    Wednesday April 16, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street E. Lynn Alexander is an artist, poet, and “crazy cat lady” from the Lehigh Valley. She is a partnering artist and writer in the Perspectives: Art on Environment project at the Nurture Nature Center. Peter Baroth, author of Long Green and […]

  • Live Poetry: Thomas Devaney, Sean Lynch, and Kim Gek Lin Short

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

    Wednesday April 23, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Thomas Devaney is a poet, facilitator, educator and author of Getting to Philadelphia and You Are the Battery. His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. Sean Lynch, author of five, has been the editor of various magazines, journals, […]

  • Live Poetry: Ryan Eckes and Nycir Keen

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

    Wednesday July 30, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Ryan Eckes is the author of Wrong Heaven Again, General Motors, Valu-Plus  and Old News, as well as several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Prolit, Protean Magazine, Tripwire, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. With Kim Gek Lin Short, […]

  • Live Poetry: Phoebe Brown, Courtney LeBlanc, and Sean W. Lynch

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

    Wednesday August 6, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Phoebe Brown is a poet recently published by Anthropocene Poetry, in “Impossible Task” with Another New Calligraphy, Hog River Press, and Moonstone Arts Center. Courtney LeBlanc is the Arlington County Poet Laureate, founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent […]

  • Live Poetry: Shaina Clingempeel, Jacqueline Jewell, Warren C. Longmire, and Lynda Gene Rymond

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

    Wednesday August 13, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street  Shaina Clingempeel, author of in the homes that house my history, is a Philly-based poet and the owner of a small book editing business (Cypress Editorial) and literary magazine (Cypress Review). Her poems can be found in Coffin Bell, The Passionfruit Review, […]

  • Live Poetry: Sydney Coffin, Raina J. León, and Genevieve Rand

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

    Wednesday August 20, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Sydney Coffin is halfway done an MFA with NYU in Paris, and taught poetry, English, journalism, wrestling and experiential arts in Philadelphia’s public schools for 20 years, English Language Learning at Job Corps, and recently became the night manager of facilities for […]

  • Live Poetry: George Marshall and Sophia Tempest

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

    Wednesday August 27, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street George Marshall is a writer out of Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school for Nonfiction and works as a freelance writer and bartender. Poetry was where he found his love for writing. Outside of writing he spends time taking toilets apart […]

  • Live Poetry: W. D. Ehrhart, Nathalie Anderson, and Eileen M. D’Angelo

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

    Wednesday September 3, 2025  7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Book Launch of  Smart Fish Don’t Bite  by W. D. Ehrhart ($22 – Moonstone Press) W. D. Ehrhart, author of Smart Fish Don’t Bite, is a Marine Corps veteran of both the Vietnam War and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. As the […]