Moonstone Arts Center

Moonstone Presents:

philly

  1. Events
  2. philly

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM

699 Ranstead Street 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

(Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.) The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. The mission of Philadelphia Stories is to cultivate a community of writers, artists, and readers in the Greater Philadelphia Area through publications, professional […]

Moonstone Presents: Amy Jannotti, Jay Margraf, Charles Springer

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

Amy Jannotti lives with several small animals and a multitude of dried flowers. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Calliope magazine, Charge! and Z Publishing House’s Pennsylvania’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction.  Jay Margraf is a poet, educator, grad student, and queer transman currently living and learning in Oaklyn, NJ. His poetry provides commentary on masculinity, […]

Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

Join us in celebrating the life and work of renowned poet Amiri Baraka on his 85th birthday! A dramatist, novelist, and poet whose career spanned over fifty years, he is one of the most respected and widely published African American writers. Poets will read their contributions to the Moonstone Chapbook, Remembering Amiri Baraka.  (Available for […]

Moonstone Press: Mass Chapbook Release Event

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

Erin Castaldi This book conquers some commonly held beliefs by people of the simplicity and lackluster of the haiku poem. Gregory Loselle has won awards at The University of Michigan, won The Academy of American Poets Prize, the William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting. Frederick Lowe has […]

Moonstone Presents: Alicia Askenase, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Heather H. Thomas

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

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 […]

Politics and Poetry: Patrick Rosal and Sami Miranda

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

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: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

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 […]

Moonstone Presents: Marion Cohen, Chanda Rice, Elliot Bat Tzedek

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

Marion Cohen’s 28th book is “The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems” (Rhythm & Bones Press, 2019), and her 29th is “The Fuss and the Fury” (Alien Buddha Press, NM, 2019.)       Chanda Rice (also known as Muffy) has been a writer all her life, but her half-sister would expose her children […]

Moonstone Present: Olga Livshin

Shakespeare and Co. 1632 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA, United States

Original poetry by the Russian-American poet Olga Livshin, alongside her translations of Russian poetry by Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) and Vladimir Gandelsman (b. 1948). Foreword by Ilya Kaminsky. “Olga Livshin has braided her own poems with her superb translations of Akhmatova and Gandelsman, poets she describes as “ecstatic voices.” Livshin’s voice, too, is ecstatic–and unflinching, and […]