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A Shadow on Our Hearts: Solider-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam

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

The American War in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts, Adam […]

THE FUZE POETRY SLAM

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

Established in the Germantown neighborhood in 2008, the Fuze poetry slam is the longest running poetry slam in Philadelphia and currently the only venue participating as a part of NPS, the national poetry slam association of America. Over the course of the 10 years since, the Fuze served as host and home for a litany […]

Readings by CLINTON SMITH and ELIJAH PRYOR

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

Elijah Pryor is a spoken word poet born and raised in Philadelphia. He feels blessed to be part of such a thriving and diverse arts scene in his home city and loves seeing people use creative expression to affect their world. Clinton Smith is a poet, prose writer, and musician. As a guitarist, he has […]

A Tribute to Sonia Sanchez

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

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, scholar; the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University; recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and Langston Hughes Poetry Award; one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement; the author of sixteen books. We […]

Moonstone Presents: Relationships and Other Conflicts, Poetry Reading

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

    Jennifer Anolik is an educator and writer. Her poetry has appeared in Infinite Rust, Apiary Online, BlazeVox, The Prompt Literary Magazine. When she is not writing poetry, she writes curriculum.         Amy Barone is author of We Became Summer, Kamikaze Dance and Views from the Driveway. Her poetry has appeared in Café Review, Standpoint […]

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Moonstone Presents: A Tribute to J.C. Todd, Chapbook Release Party

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

For some strange reason we tend to wait until someone dies before we express our gratitude for what they have done. We have memorials where people get up and say how important the person was to them and what they had accomplished. Why wait? Why not have a party honoring the person with praise poems […]

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Moonstone & Apiary Magazine Present: HIVE NIGHT

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

  HIVE NIGHT is Apiary Magazine’s showcase and open mic celebrating every stripe of literary artist the city has to offer. Come to hear voices from Philadelphia writing tribes old and new, spanning Apiary’s decade-long history. Stay to share your own work in a laid back, inclusive space, whatever the form, genre or mood, to […]

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Moonstone Presents: Philly Loves Poetry – Interviews and Readings

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCAM Join us as the poets who Moonstone has published discus poetry and read their poems “From Across the Waters: Jewish Refugees from the Former Soviet Union.” In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, three Jewish refugee poets from the former Soviet Union read and […]

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Moonstone Presents: Rodriguez & Dr. Williams-Witherspoon Poetry, Open Reading to follow

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

    Edythe Rodriguez is a senior at Temple University studying Creative Writing and Africology. She will be anthologized this year in The Dreamers Anthology: Writing Inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank and FEMME: Literati Mixtape.           Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, PhD (Cultural Anthropology), MA (Anthropology), MFA (Theater), Graduate […]

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Michelle Belluomini & Ditta Baron Hoeber Poetry, Open Reading to follow

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

    Michele Belluomini is author of Crazy Mary and Signposts for Sleepwalkers, her poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary.          Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, the American Journal of Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Construction […]

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