Moonstone Presents:

  • 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 […]

  • Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Tim Lynch, and Amy Saul-Zerby

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

    Wednesday September 10, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Mac Chandler is a writer from West Philly who has been published in some places and not in others, host quarterly shows for Moonstone Arts, and is author of There Is A Thing Haunting Me I Could Grow To Love. Tim […]

  • 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 […]

  • House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve

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

    House Poet: Beyond the Grave with Nicole Coladonato & Rachel Eve Wednesday, October 29th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub, 1214 Sansom St. Nicole Coladonato @fouronefivetwo began performing in her youth and quickly developed an affection for the spotlight. She quit being a failed visual artist to become a writer, embracing this new path with […]

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  • “Headless” Book Release – Wednesday November 5 – 7:00 PM – LIVE

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

    “In Headless, poet Sean Hanrahan takes us on a winding road that twists through desire, intellectual curiosity, and various explored icons—pop culture, mythic, historic, political, sexual—traveling with a speaker always seeking to understand who and what society expects him to be. If art is a conversation with everything before and after, then so is identity, […]