Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Poetry: The Hosts of Other Series Read

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

      Wednesday March 26, 2025 – 7:00pm – The Hosts of Other Series Read  Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RcZsDsGjRYmxq7LxQ_YDkQ Sibelan Forrester is a poet, translator, and host since 2016 of the Mad Poets Society First Wednesday poetry reading series. Raina J. León, co-host of Wild […]

  • Live Poetry: Courtney Bambrick, Caroline M. Mar, Hayden Saunier, and Robert Zaller

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

       Wednesday April 2, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On Zoom – Register here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IMJG5oarQqGAkXCjjv6H6A Courtney Bambrick, author of World Without,   teaches writing at Thomas Jefferson University’s East Falls, was poetry editor at Philadelphia Stories.         Caroline M. Mar, author of Water Guest, Special Education, and Dream […]

  • Live Reading: Featured Poets 2024

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

    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. […]

  • Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Krystle Griffin, and Anne-Adele Wight

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

    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 […]

  • Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky’s PARALLAX

    Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    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 […]

  • Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Peter Baroth, Julia Gwiazdowski, and George Schaefer

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

    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 […]

  • Live Poetry: Thomas Devaney, Sean Lynch, and Kim Gek Lin Short

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

    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, […]

  • Live Poetry: Sarah Browning, W.D. Ehrhart, Jack Miller

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

    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: Live at Parkway Central Library

    Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

    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: LIVE at the Rotunda

    The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    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 […]