Moonstone Presents:

  • Wednesday April 8 – LIVE

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

    Wednesday April 8, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: John Wall Barger, Mac Chandler, Ernest Hilbert, and Sean Lynch as Host John Wall Barger, author of Praise for Resurrection Pie, is a contract editor for Frontenac House, lives in Vermont, and lectures in the Writing Program at Dartmouth College. Mac Chandler is a […]

  • Sunday April 12 – LIVE

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

    Sunday April 12, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 3pm Featuring: Joseph Chelius, Lee Stockdale, Anne-Adele Wight, and Aaron Perry as Host Joseph Chelius is the author of five collections of poems and is a former Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet. Lee Stockdale has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, Montana Prize for Humor, Sidney Lanier […]

  • Wednesday April 15, 2026 – LIVE

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

    Wedsnesday April 15, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: C.M. Crockford, Chris DeMento, John Fadely, Alison Lubar, and Sean Hanrahan as Host C.M. Crockford poems, essays, and stories have been featured in Vastarien, Nobody Magazine, Be About It Press, and The Cleveland Review of Books among many others. Chris DeMento hosts Poetry Night […]

  • Wednesday April 22 – LIVE

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

    Wednseday April 22, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 7pm Featuring: Grace Bauer, Sean Hanrahan, Gina Myers, and Anne-Adele Wight as Host Grace Bauer has published six books of poems and co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Sean Hanrahan is author of Headless, has taught classes titled A […]

  • Sunday, May 3 – LIVE AND VIRTUAL – 3pm

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

    Remembering Hal Sirowitz Sunday May 3, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub AND Virtual Hal Sirowitz (March 6, 1949- October 17, 2025) was an American and internationally known poet, who first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made […]

  • Wednesday May 6, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE

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

    Wednesday May 6, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub Featuring: Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Raina J. León, ariel rosé Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, […]

  • Wednesday May 27, 2026 – 7pm LIVE

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

    Wednesday May 27, 2026 – 7pm LIVE @ FERGIES Featuring: Alexander Khan, Dustin Wright, and Mac Chandler as host Alexander Khan is a poet, he is also a member of a big family in a small house, and a pharmacy staff for children. His work reflects these places and the different person he becomes in […]

  • Live Poetry: Vasiliki Argyris & William Lessard

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

    Vasiliki Argyris looks for the threads that bind history, poetry, and walking the earth. Her work can be found in Voicemail Poems, Pamphilet, and Works & Days. William Lessard writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, and others, he is the Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review.

  • Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary, & Mike Jurkovic

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

    Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat.  He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento; […]

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  • Painting in the Dark: An Artistic Collaboration

    City Arts Salon 5838 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Saturday, July 11th, 2026 – 4 to 7 pm City Arts Salon, 5838 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Painting in the Dark interrogates the hideousness of war, addiction, and delusion with the consolation concluding poet John Lavin’s final poem, –but that’s all we have is each other. Illustrators Gregorio Torres, III and Janelle Robinson have […]

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