Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Poetry: Ona Gritz, Alina Macneal, Zack Rogow

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

    Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Ona Gritz writes memoir, essays, and poetry for adults, verse novels for teens, and fiction for children, her poetry collection Geode was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Zack Rogow is an American poet, playwright, translator, and critic. He is […]

  • Live Poetry: zach blackwood, Faye Chevalier, Violet Gehringer

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

    Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! zach blackwood is a poet and culture writer in philadelphia, author of ultra-fine and the apocryphal chapbook sexy unique hollow point. Faye Chevalier is a Philadelphia-based creatur, lurking. She is the author of futur.txt and flesh_wound, her poetry has been featured in bedfellows, The […]

  • Live Poetry: Matt Lake, Jon Lawrence, Hannah McDonald

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

    Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Matt Lake is frankly baffled, he began writing and editing books about folklore, monsters, and dark history–including his best-known book Weird Pennsylvania. Jon Lawrence poetry and reviews have been published in Newfound, American Writers Review, The Bangalore Review, and others. Hannah McDonald is a writer, […]

  • Live Poetry: Warren C. Longmire, Kirwya Sutherland

    Join us for Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Warren C. Longmire, author of Bird/Diz,  is an uncle, writer, performer and educator from the bad part of North Philadelphia. He is the host of House Poet: A Spoken Word Dance Party and mix_lit. Kirwyn Sutherland makes poems centering the black experience in America, […]

  • Live Poetry: Save Chinatown Anthology Reading

    Independence Library 18 S. 7th Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Join us for Live Poetry at Independence Library and on Zoom! For 150 years, Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been the cultural heart of Philly’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and our community is worth fighting for. Chinatown has been the place where we share community, culture, and language. It is where generations of immigrants have […]

  • Book Release – James Feichthaler – Live Poetry

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

    Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom Join us in celebrating the release of poet James Feichthaler’s new book From the Back Porch of a War (Parnilis Media). A short reading will be followed by a book signing. James Feichthaler is a poet with roots in the Philadelphia-area residing in Trenton, NJ, where he […]

  • Live Poetry – New Voices Spring 2024

    Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

    Live Poetry at Parkway Central Library and on Zoom New Voices Spring 2024: Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with […]

  • Live Poetry – John Amen & Amy Small-McKinney

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

    Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub John Amen is the author of five collections of poetry, including Dark Souvenirs and Illusion of an Overwhelm, recipient of the 2021 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, he founded and is managing editor of Pedestal Magazine. Amy Small-McKinney was the Montgomery County Poet Laureate. She is author of Walking Toward Cranes (won the […]

  • Live Poetry – Pink Trees Press

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

    Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub Pink Trees Press began in 2012 in New York City, publishing small batches of handmade, hand-sewn books. In 2019, Pink Trees Press started producing Origami Books. The simplicity and low cost of these books, allowed Pink Trees Press to reach a larger audience. In 2020, Pink Trees Press began producing […]

  • Live Poetry – Christopher Childers and Ernest Hilbert

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

    Live Poetry at Fergie’s Pub Christopher Childers, author of The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, a book 14 years in the making. He received an NEA Translators’ Fellowship in 2018, and has published in venues including The Kenyon Review, the Yale Review, Agni, Literary Matters, and Smartish Pace. His translations have been […]