Moonstone Presents:

  • August 31st Live Poetry Reading Feat. Sean Hanrahan, Faith Paulsen and Pat Rodgers

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

    Moonstone Arts Center — LIVE Poetry Reading   Wednesday August 31, 2022 – 7pm Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. Event will also be streamed via Zoom – Registration is Required. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscOqvrD4vHtNB2awQCLhQHukjrYqWx6IU Sean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City, Virginia. He is the author of the full-length collection Safer […]

  • Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

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

    Moonstone Arts Center in Collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series LIVE at Fergie’s Pub — 1214 Sansom St. Wednesday September 14, 2022 @ 7 PM EST Event will be streamed via Zoom — Registration is Required. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtc-yqqjkvGtyGRINX1T0m1WjMi0zhUr1G   Austin Allen is the author of Pleasures of the Game (Waywiser Press), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. […]

  • Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, & Lawrence Dugan

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

    Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub 7PM ET & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an […]

  • 28th Poetry Ink: LIVE

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

    Moonstone Poetry & The Rotunda present  28th Annual Poetry Ink Reading LIVE Sunday September 29, 2024, 2pm The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, 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, and all other […]

  • Remembering Jim Cory

    Remembering Jim Cory Moonstone’s Remembering Jim Cory event has been cancelled to support another memorial from Jim’s friends and family. The memorial and informal reading will be hosted at the Philadelphia Ethical Society on November 9th at 11:30am. More information about the event is available on Facebook here. 

  • Live Poetry: Serotonin Anthology Release Reading

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

    Serotonin Anthology Release Reading Sunday December 29, 2024 – 2pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street On zoom –  Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdemvrTkoHNCjR-UHD_ESBLD1ayB-_vOL  Cynthia Arrieu-King was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. A former Kundiman Fellow, Arrieu-King is the author of the poetry chapbook The Small Anything City and […]

  • The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel Launch Party

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

    The Beast in the Pines: A Horror Novel – Launch Party Wednesday June 11, 2025 – 7pm Live at Ferge’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street In October of 2003, a 19 year old named Cody considers joining the Army to fight in the Iraq War so that he can escape the boredom of small town Woodville, […]

  • Live Reading: 30th Annual Poetry Ink

    The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    30th Annual Poetry Ink – LIVE READING Saturday, December 13, 2pm Central Free Library, 1901 Vine Street, Literature Dept. 2nd Floor   The 30th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology contains 118 poems by poets from around the world. We want you all: Published Poets, Unpublished Poets, Academic Poets, Street Poets, Poets who write Sonnets, Villanelle, Haiku, […]

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  • Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts

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

    Live Reading: Moonstone Hosts Wednesday, January 7th at 7pm Live at Fergies Pub: 1214 Sansom Street Featured readers for this live event are all of Moonstone’s poetry reading hosts. We hope you join us in the new year to meet our hosts, hear their latest work, and gather in community. Featured Moonstone Poetry Hosts Liz  […]

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  • March 4, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub

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

    Wednesday March 4, 2026 – Live at Fergie’s Pub Featuring: Jo Piazza, Christina Rosso-Schneider, and Julianna Forlano as Host Jo Piazza is an international bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and podcast creator known for 12+ books, including The Sicilian Inheritance and We Are Not Like Them. She hosts the critically acclaimed podcast Under the Influence. Her work […]