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 […]
Alicia Askenase has written four poetry chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (Sonaweb). She was an Editor’s Choice for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins Prize, which appears in Philadelphia Stories. Additionally, her publications include, New Works by Philadelphia Poets, The Manhattanville Review, The Big Muddy, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts […]
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 […]
New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry collaborative and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience. Hazel The Aura is a Poetic Artist born and […]
