Moonstone Arts Center In collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Live at Fergie’s Pub Register for zoom link here! Zoom Link Courtney Bambrick is poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories. Poems in or forthcoming in Invisible City, New York Quarterly, Beyond Words, The Fanzine, Philadelphia Poets, Apiary, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mad Poets Review, Certain Circuits. She […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 12, 2023 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocuqsqzkuHdOJFz8Z28iwB70Roo7UdsWx Join us for the Philadelphia launch of Ernest Hilbert’s new collection of poems Storm Swimmer (Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry) In poems that celebrate […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 19, 2023 – 7:00pm Live at Finn McCools Corner of 12th & Sansom Street Note the change of venue for this event Jim Cory published his first poem 50 years ago. His most recent publications are Birds & Buildings, Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir and 25 Short Poems . […]
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday April 26, 2023 – 7:30pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsf–urT8rH9Ma3EpIW0N4vf8_f1s99gqJ Maya Pindyck’s third poetry collection, Impossible Belonging (Anhinga Press, 2023) won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. […]
Live Poetry Reading Wednesday May 3, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpce6vrzsjGd0lKdmttrpxCM9RPs8seGAo Eleventh-grade student, Matilda Bray, is author of When You Wanted Blue, just published by Moonstone Press. Her first book of poetry, Under the Moon as My Sun at the age of […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Wednesday May 10, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqduygpjMuHd0HPcfGrZY8yNfOp-0L4ixR Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Poetry Reading Wednesday May 17, 2023 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub – 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdu-trjIvGd2Q9NK9mK9MtZzQ3PmYhVIt dev kiyota is an editor; they got an MFA in Creative Writing from Temple University. Lynda Gene Rymond author of The Village of Basketeers and Oscar and the […]
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 […]
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.
Live poetry reading in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series. Kathleen Ossip’s books include July, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, and The New York Review of Books. She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Open Reading Follows
