Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session Sunday May 15, 2022 – 5 pm Live at Fergie’s Pub & Online 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqceusqj8jHNTEJbA47-4Q57xV7jsy66bq Come witness the Jazz Experiment of the Ages! Horns and Drums and Arms and Lungs will be Jamming the Lyrical, Witty, […]
Live Poetry Event: Tonita Austin, Sibelan Forrester, Alison Lubar Wednesday May 18, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcudOCrpjovE9JWt5KotUx73STwYpTOT0og Tonita Austin also known as “Toni Love” is a gifted poet, singer, activist, and writer born in West Philadelphia. While attending Columbia University, […]
Moonstone Arts Center’s Live Poetry Reading Sunday June 19, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdu2rrjkrE9PKXtJuraSgJDR63v-5q4eB22-Jun A Chapbook in 49 Days with Host Sean Hanrahan This course was designed to aid poets in developing a chapbook manuscript that realized its full […]
Live Poetry with Aaren Perry & Lamont B. Steptoe Wednesday July 27, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsduurqzwiHtCYbzMsMPYIsGE7cAX8Oinl Aaren Perry’s new book is Shipping and Receiving, published by Moonstone. Bilingual with an MFA from Vermont College, he recently edited a forthcoming […]
Live Poetry Reading: Marion Bell, Faye Chevalier, Corey Qureshi and Host Ebs Wednesday August 10, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqfuGgrDkiGt0zp7_kxz13UXQ88RcJFbyT Marion Bell is the author of Austerity (Radiator Press, 2019.) She is a queer writer and Capricorn. She […]
S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx Poetry Reading and Book Launch Saturday, June 3, 2023 – 2:00pm Live @ The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street in Philadelphia From the people who bring you the annual Black Women’s Arts Festival comes an exciting joint and literary event. We are seeking contributions of writing from life […]
Debora Kuan is the author of XING, Lunch Portraits, and the forthcoming Women on the Moon. Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of seven books, most recently Thin Ice Olympics. Open Reading Follows.
In collaboration with Ukrainian poets, we’re supporting the continued struggle in Ukraine with a special night of poetry featuring David Acosta, Sibelan Forrester, Sean Hanrahan, Olga Livshin, Lynn Levin, and Warren C. Longmire. Poets will read from the featured books (Today is a Different War by Lyu
dmyla Khersonska, In the Hour of War edited by Carolyn Forche and Ilya Kaminsky, and A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails by Halyna Kruk) and their own work. Book bundles will be sold at the event on online, with all profits donated to Ukraine TrustChain.
Mac Chandler is a recent graduate of The University Of The Arts. She has been published in HASH magazine, Rappahannock Review, and High Shelf Press. Mikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook, Terrestrial Sanctuaries was published by Moonstone. Faith Paulsen’s work has appeared in venues including Philadelphia Stories, Apiary, Ghost City Press, One Art, Literary Mama and Mantis. She is the author of three chapbooks, including We Marry We Bury We Sing or We Weep with Moonstone Press.
Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for poetry and memoir on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She is the author of 33 books; her newest poetry collection is Disturbing Shapes. Paige Menton, author of Wrim and Twenty Miles to April lives outside of Philadelphia where she runs a land restoration organization and cares for the land of a Quaker meeting. She is a poet, gardener, and teacher of writing and environmental education. Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the thrillers-in-verse, Mr. Either/Or. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.
