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  • Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest: Live Reading

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

    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.

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  • E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff

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

    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

  • Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Josh Dale, Shannon Frost Greenstein, & Christina Rosso-Schneider

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

    Live Poetry reading at Fergie’s Pub. Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (she/her) is a writer, editor, and salt enthusiast living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Josh Dale is a native Pennsylvanian and the author of the novella, The Light to Never Be Snuffed (Alien Buddha Press, 2022,) and the poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West Publishing, 2016.) Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “Pray for Us Sinners,” a fiction collection with Alien Buddha Press, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana,” a chapbook forthcoming from Bullsh*t Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) is a writer, educator, and bookstore owner living outside of Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House, 2021) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications, 2020). Currently, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art and through Rosemont College’s MFA Writer’s Studio.

  • Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven, Pat Rodgers, and Robert Zell

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

    Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards,  Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University, works as a technical writer, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with […]

  • Live Poetry: House Poet @ Fergie’s with Lindsay Hargrave and Noah David Roberts

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

    Wednesday, January 31st – 7PM Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd–tpj4uEtTGjg-a2O9NZBvpHqx9GFyw Welcome to House Poet @ Fergie’s Since March 2022, House Poet has strived to bring together writers, dancers, DJs and musicians alike. Join us in 2024 as we bring that energy to Moonstone’s Poetry Nights at Fergie’s, featuring an […]

  • Live Poetry: Chris Bullard, L.M. Camiolo, & Noah David Roberts

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

    Wednesday February 21, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvcO2pqTMrHNbspqMc34fEumC-hinMXbUp Chris Bullard is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia, PA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a MFA from Wilkes University. He has had thirteen books published, including poetry, short fiction and […]

  • Live Poetry: Liz Abrams-Morley & Amy Small-Mckinney

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

    Wednesday February 28, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcucOqgpj4tGN3csD4gaXLwnIJKTVj80_Qr Liz Abrams-Morley is the author of the forthcoming Because Time, as well as of Beholder, Inventory, and Necessary Turns, which won an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press Publishing.  In 2020 she was named the Passager Poet […]

  • LIVE Poetry: Jessica Cuello, Airea D. Matthews, and Artress Bethany White

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

    Wednesday March 6, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGrrTgiHNJ7uriRBEe6MkL9clKCpLu1 Jessica Cuello author of Yours, Creature, Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award. Cuello is also the author of […]

  • LIVE Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, Airea D. Matthews, Matthew Buckley Smith

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

    Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Wednesday March 13, 2024 – 7pm 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 Timothy Donnelly’s most recent book, Chariot, was published in 2023 by Wave Books. His previous books include The Problem of the Many, winner of […]

  • Live Poetry: Anuradha Bhowmik, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, Jess Yuan

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

    Join us for a poetry reading, live at Fergie’s Pub and on Zoom! Anuradha Bhowmik  is a Bangladeshi-American poet and writer from South Jersey, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her first collection Brown Girl Chromatography, a Kundiman Fellow and a 2018 AWP Intro Journals Project Winner in Poetry. Diane Sahms-Guarnieri, a […]