Sunday April 6, 2025 – 2pm EDT LIVE – 2024 Featured Poets Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On Zoom – Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_t25rgq-TDyw9s-2xGxuCw In 2024, Moonstone Arts Center hosted almost 100 events with nearly 200 poets, both local and international. 75 of those featured poets contributed to this anthology and will read with us again. […]
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 […]
April 12, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE Live at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child […]
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 […]
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, […]
Sarah Browning is the author of Call Me Yes, Killing Summer, and others, co-host of Wild Indigo Poetry, and teaches online with Writers in Progress. W. D. Ehrhart’s most recent books are Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems; What We Can and Can’t Afford: Essays on Vietnam, Patriotism, and American Life, and At Smedley […]
New Voices: Spring 2025 A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. Join us as contributors read their poems Thursday May 15th, 2025 – If you live near Philadelphia please join us live LIVE at 5:30 EDT – […]
29th Annual Poetry Ink We want everyone: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 29th year of presenting 71 poets reading in alphabetical order Sunday May 18, 2025 – If you live […]
Tuesday July 15, 2025 – 5pm – LIVE – BETRAYED: Violence Against Women Central Free Library, Skyline Room (4th Floor), 901 Vine Street Featuring Meg Groff, author of Not If I Can Help It: A Family Lawyer’s Battles for Justice for Victims of Domestic Violence and the Poor ($22.95, Rivertowns Books) In a rare, starred […]
Live Poetry: Erica Abbott, Elayna Mae Darcy, Thalia Geiger, Diamante “Dimo” Ortiz, and Faith Paulsen Wednesday July 16, 2025 – 7pm- LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Erica Abbott is a Philadelphia-based poet and writer whose work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Shō Poetry Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, Midway Journal, and […]
