Moonstone Presents:

  • Moonstone Presents: Amy Jannotti, Jay Margraf, Charles Springer

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

    Amy Jannotti lives with several small animals and a multitude of dried flowers. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Calliope magazine, Charge! and Z Publishing House’s Pennsylvania’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction.  Jay Margraf is a poet, educator, grad student, and queer transman currently living and learning in Oaklyn, NJ. His poetry provides commentary on masculinity, […]

  • Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

    Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

    Join us in celebrating the life and work of renowned poet Amiri Baraka on his 85th birthday! A dramatist, novelist, and poet whose career spanned over fifty years, he is one of the most respected and widely published African American writers. Poets will read their contributions to the Moonstone Chapbook, Remembering Amiri Baraka.  (Available for […]

  • 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 […]

  • Moonstone Presents: Marion Cohen, Chanda Rice, Elliot Bat Tzedek

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

    Marion Cohen’s 28th book is “The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems” (Rhythm & Bones Press, 2019), and her 29th is “The Fuss and the Fury” (Alien Buddha Press, NM, 2019.)       Chanda Rice (also known as Muffy) has been a writer all her life, but her half-sister would expose her children […]

  • Moonstone Present: Olga Livshin

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

    Original poetry by the Russian-American poet Olga Livshin, alongside her translations of Russian poetry by Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and Vladimir Gandelsman (b. 1948). Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky. “Olga Livshin has braided her own poems with her superb translations of Akhmatova and Gandelsman, poets she describes as “ecstatic voices.” Livshin’s voice, too, is ecstatic–and unflinching, and […]

  • Moonstone Presents: Michael B. Carroll Jr., Dr. Mbarek Sryfi

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

    Michael B. Carroll Jr. is a graduate of West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Professional Studies (Health Science / Psychology dual minor). He is a native of Philadelphia, PA and has published creative work in The Esthetic Apostle Literary Magazine.   Dr. Mbarek Sryfi is lecturer at the University […]

  • Whitman and Sexuality – 2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series at PhillyCam

    PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.   David Acosta is the Artistic Director of Casa De Duende. His poetry has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies.  Among the most notable are […]

  • Moonstone Presents: Sean Lynch, Joseph Rathgeber, Lamont B. Steptoe

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

    Sean Lynch is a leftist poet and editor who lives in South Philly.  His poems have been published in various journals and he is the author of four chapbooks.     Joseph Rathgeber is an author and poet from New Jersey. He is author of Mixedbloods and The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories.   […]

  • 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 […]

  • Moonstone Presents: Michael R. Brown, W. D. Ehrhart

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

    Michael R. Brown has five books of poetry and has performed poetry, taught classes, and lectured in various world venues from the Stockholm to South Korea. Instrumental in bringing the poetry slam to New England, he created both the Cantab weekly series and the theatrical show Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Circus.   W. D. Ehrhart […]