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Moonstone Presents: Alicia Askenase, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Heather H. Thomas

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

Alicia Askenase has written four poetry chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (Sonaweb). She was an Editor’s Choice for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins Prize, which appears in Philadelphia Stories. Additionally, her publications include, New Works by Philadelphia Poets, The Manhattanville Review, The Big Muddy, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts […]

Politics and Poetry: Patrick Rosal and Sami Miranda

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

Patrick Rosal, is the author of four books of poetry and the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Research Scholar Program.       Sami Miranda is a teacher, poet and visual artist. He […]

New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry collaborative and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience.   Hazel The Aura is a Poetic Artist born and […]

Remembering Walt Whitman

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

Walt Whitman was born 200 years ago (May 31, 1819), his life coincided with a time of great division in America—the Civil War. Whitman eulogized the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in “O Captain! My Captain!”, a moment in history marked by hatred and bloodshed. His poem “The Wound Dresser” described the job of a first […]

New Voices 2: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Our second anthology of poets under 25 drawn from the readers at our monthly poetry reading and submissions to the book. Contributors will be reading their poems and the book will be for sale to the public. Krissan, Host – Open Reading Follows

Philadelphia Says: On War and Peace

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

This Anthology centers its focus on the aspects of War and Peace, and how it has evolved alongside technology and ideology. Contributors will be reading their poems.The anthology will be for sale to the public. In Tandem With: Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War Featuring: Kenneth Campbell, Marine combat […]

A Conversation Between Theodore Harris and Warren Longmire

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

Theodore A. Harris is a collagist, poet, and has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka, Our Flesh of Flames, and Malcolm X as Ideology, with Fred Moten, i ran from it and was still in it and TRIPTYCH: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Our Flesh of Flames “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky,” […]

Moonstone Press: Mass Chapbook Releases

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

Hail to the Symptom Gloria Heffernan is the author of the poetry collection, What the Gratitude List Said to the Bucket List (forthcoming from New York Quarterly Books), and the chapbook, Some of Our Parts, (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and Hail to the Symptom. Her work has appeared in over fifty journals including Chautauqua Literary […]

OPEN READING OF New Voices 2: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Spencer Nitkey poems and prose have appeared in Short Editions, The Gateway Review, Critical Read, and more. He is an Educator, Communicator, Writer, Researcher, and Storyteller.         Doris Zheku is a first generation Albanian-American, who moved to France, was active in Paris’ anglophone open mic scene and returned to Philadelphia. She is […]

Poetry From The Hosts of Other Series

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

Leah Falk is the author of To Look After and Use. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, FIELD, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Electric Literature, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She’s received support for her writing from […]