Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading: Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed, with Aaren Perry

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Ishmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to […]

Virtual Poetry in Collaboration with Serotonin; C Cimmone, Barracuda Guarisco, Rami Obeid, with Sean Lynch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85662820989?pwd=VW1NMXZMcm0yMmIwQVh4VmI0WUVzUT09 Meeting ID: 856 6282 0989, Passcode: 613137 C Cimmone is a North American author, comic, and editor. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Versification and serves as Editor-at-Large for Trampset. Her work has been featured in a menagerie of print and digital publications. To read more visit www.ccimmone.com or follow her on Twitter […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Black Lives Matter 2020

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435  400 years in the making Is America finally ready to confront the past, present and future of systemic racism? What do you think? Poets Respond People in the street demanding the end of systemic racism, recognizing that it is embedded as normal practice, leading to discrimination in […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Adriann “Just The Pen” Bautista, Aileen Cassinetto, Joanne Leva, with Elijah Pringle

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Adriann “Just The Pen” Bautista is a Mother, Research Grant Manager at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Playwright, Poet , Founder and CEO of Just the Pen, LLC,  Founder of Just The Pen Foundation, Founder & Facilitator of Inspired & Empowered to Move for Women Who Lead and Host […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Queer Poetics, Gala Mukomolova, Alina Pleskova, Galina Rymbu

Queer Poetics From the former Soviet Union https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435 Gala Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised, poet and essayist. Her full length poetry collection, Without Protection, is available through Coffee House Press. Her chapbook, One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations, is available with YesYes Books. She is a recipient of the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, with Valerie Fox & Lynn Levin, and Charles S. Carr

699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.   Celebrate small things, find creative inspiration in your junk drawer, give thanks (sincere or sarcastic), maybe even write an inaugural poem. Valerie Fox and Lynn Levin, both Drexel University creative writing instructors and co-authors of the acclaimed Poems for the Writing: Prompts for […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Peter Baroth, Bob McNeil, Pheralyn Dove, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737  Passcode: 678146 Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Peter Baroth, writer, visual artist, musician, and staff member of Philadelphia Stories Magazine lives in Media, PA with his partner poet and professor Courtney Bambrick. His recent full-length book of poetry is Lost Autographs (Moonstone Press) and his novel […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: In Collaboration with Serotonin, Lindsey Heatherly & Dawn Watts, and Sean Lynch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815  Passcode: 838862  Phone: 1-646 876 9923 US (New York) Lindsey Heatherly is a writer born and raised in Upstate South Carolina. She has words in Emerge Literary Journal, X-R-A-Y, Emrys Journal, Red Fez, Schuylkill Valley Journal and more. She spends her time at home raising a strong, confident daughter. […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Alyson Shore Adler, Katherine Barham, and Cathleen Cohen, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737  Passcode: 678146  Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) Alyson Shore Adler has been a Clinical Social Worker specializing in working with trauma for 40 years. She’s been writing poetry for the past 20 and has workshopped with and been mentored by many brilliant poets including AV Christie […]

Virtual Poetry Reading – New Voices: Emerging Poets, Cydney Brown, Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, and Teyanna Stone, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815  Passcode: 838862  Phone: 1-646 876 9923 US (New York) New Voices: Emerging Poets 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 […]