Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading + Interview: Lynn Levin and Barbara Sabol, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Lynn Levin’s most recent poetry collection, The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020) is listed as one of Spring 2020’s best books by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Poet Ross Gay calls the book “a lovely honoring of the small, the minor sweetnesses that a life is made of.” Her previous collections include Miss Plastique, Fair […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: F. X. Baird & Liz Chang, with Alina McNeal and Jennifer Hook

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737  Passcode: 678146 Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) F. X. Baird was born in Philadelphia, the youngest of 12 children. He studied with David Ignatow at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in the early 80’s and later at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow […]

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: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including The Paris Poems Of Jim Morrison (Moonstone Press); Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; He Looked […]

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 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 […]