Charlie Bondhus is author Divining Bones and All the Heat We Could Carry, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel. R.G. Evans is the author of Overtipping the Ferryman, his poems, fiction, and reviews […]
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 […]
Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since […]
THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring… Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane. Deborah Turner writes fiction […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his […]
Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Poetry & Humor with Hannah McDonald, who has performed at The Bechdel Test fest, the National Poetry Slam, etc Scott Sigl is a musician, poet, and teacher who has performed poems, as well as haikus in Boston, Charlotte, Oakland, New York, Jonathon Todd is […]
Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. – 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets Matilda Bray (14) “Matilda’s ability to focus on one or two unifying images and mine them metaphorically is extraordinary. Matilda is a brave and gifted poet.” – Joanne Leva, executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting For the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment (the right of women to vote) Moonstone asks: What is the condition of women’s lives today? Women’s right to vote was passed in 1919, What did it accomplish? What […]
