Moonstone Presents:

Blanche Brown & Terra Oliveira

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

Blanche Brown operates a crisis hotline and collaborates with arts and community-based organizations. She is the 2019 winner of the Diagram/New Michigan Press chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared in West Branch, Scalawag, Indy Weekly, Welter, and elsewhere. Terra Oliveira is an after-school program facilitator at the Free Library, an organizer for the Party for Socialism and […]

“The Child I Was” with Martin Jude Farawell

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

Poet and playwright Martin Jude Farawell is the author of Odd Boy and Genesis: A Sequence of Poems.” His work has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies, and his plays have been performed off-off-Broadway and by regional, college and community theaters from South Africa to Los Angeles. He   directs the Geraldine R. […]

PhillyCAM: Irish Poetry

PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM After Boston, Philly and its immediate suburbs have the largest concentration of Irish Americans. The Irish take great pride in their rich culture of literature and poetry—claiming some of the greatest poets and writers in the world […]

Adriann Bautista, Jamarr Hall, Elijah B. Pringle III

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

Adriann Bautista is author of “Ballad of a Beautiful Brown King”, “Sister Strength” and “Sanctuary of Snow” and is also in various anthologies. Jamarr Hall is an International Poetry Slam Champion of Brave New Voices and he is a singer, composer as well as an accomplished painter. Elijah B Pringle III is a Philadelphia based writer/director/actor/choreographer whose words […]

2019 Featured Poets Anthology Reading

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

Moonstone Arts Center presented 85 poetry readings in 2019, including featured poets and large events with many presenting poets. All told over 500 poets read at Moonstone events, over 150 being featured. 82 poets responded to our call for the 2019 featured Poets Anthology and about 30 are expected to read at this event. Please […]

James Arthur, George David Clark, Trapeta B. Mayson

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

James Arthur, a Canadian-American poet, is the author of The Suicide’s Son and Charms Against Lightning. Arthur lives in Baltimore, where he teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. George David Clark’s Reveille received the 2015 Miller Williams Prize, he teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College and lives in western Pennsylvania. Trapeta […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Virtual Poetry Reading: Terence Culleton, Ernest Hilbert, and Don Riggs with Larry Robin   Terence Culleton Terence Culleton’s new book is A Tree and Gone, he is also author of A Communion of Saints and Eternal Life. He publishes in diverse magazines and reviews and reads widely throughout the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets: Nina Gadson, Lindsay Hargrave, and China Rain with Larry Robin

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices – Emerging Poets: Nina Gadson, Lindsay Hargrave, and China Rain with Larry Robin New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862   Nina Gadson Nina Gadson grew up In North Philadelphia where roses grow out of concrete. She […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets with Aimee Schwartz, Taleen Postian, and Host Larry Robin

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Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets with Aimee Schwartz, Taleen Postian, and Host Larry Robin New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Aimee Schwartz Aimee Schwartz is a poet, artist, and performer. Her poetry has been featured in Moonstone […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 5

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Virtual Poetry Reading: 25th Anniversary of Poetry Ink, Day 5 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for […]