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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson

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

Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson ($14.99, August 2017) The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they’re conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you’ve stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul. –Stephen Kuusisto Ona Gritz’s first […]

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Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Richard Bank, Ryan Eckes, and Al Tacconelli

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

Richard Bank’s poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals. He has conducted a poetry reading series for the Mad Poets Society in the Philadelphia area. Bank has conducted Continuing Legal Education courses on jury techniques, and serves as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School. Ryan Eckes’ narrative-driven poetry is, in his words, “a possible form […]

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Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub Featuring Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Lillian Dunn, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

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

  Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, a fitful Philadelphian who likes to make things (often poems), is the author of “The Self, it’s nothing personal”, the first of two chapbook projects forthcoming with Waterhouse Ltd. Her work has also been published in Whirlwind Magazine Lillian Dunn studied community literary projects in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar before moving to […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Panio Gianopoulos, Henry Israeli, Eugenia Leigh & Megan Staffel

Panio Gianopoulos is the author of the story collection, How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money and the novella, A Familiar Beast. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Big Fiction, and elsewhere. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for nonfiction literature, […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Megan Gillespie and Aubrey Rehab

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

Megan Gillespie is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, New Delta Review and Cimarron Review. Aubrey Rehab is the founder of South Jersey Poets Collective and hosts ‘World Above: Free Poetry Nights’ at Dante Hall in […]

Moonstone @ Communally Presents Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy

Communally 1128 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, United States

  Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy by Corey Dolgon ($34.95 -University of Chicago Press) Books will be available to purchase and be autographed “To understand the popularity of Italian Fascism in the ’30s, we needed Antonio Gramsci. To understand the popular malaise among the US middle class in the […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Shevaun Brannigan, Jamie J. Brunson, and Joyce Meyers

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

Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House at The University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Best New Poets 2012, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Jamie J. Brunson has brought storytelling to the stage within […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Eliza Callard, Lucy Bell Sellers, and Fritz Ward

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

Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in.  She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown  Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

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

    Brandon H. Blake has been an artist throughout his life, eventually studying Fine Arts at Millersville University. Primarily, he has been writing haikus as well as exploring other traditional forms of poetry throughout the last ten to fifteen years.     Poet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, […]

Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

Toast Café 1201 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

 Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming, based […]