Moonstone Presents:

Displacement – Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, Faleeha Hassan

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

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem is an Indian American poet and artist of Hyderabadi descent. She is the author of City of Pearls and the recipient of the Loft Literary Center’s Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship.     Faleeha Hassan is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, playwriter born in Najaf, Iraq who has published 24 books. Her poems have […]

Poetry From The Hosts of Other Series

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

Leah Falk is the author of To Look After and Use. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, FIELD, Best New Poets, Poetry Daily, Electric Literature, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She’s received support for her writing from […]

Poetry And Music

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

Peter Baroth, an award-winning poet and visual artist, is also a bassist who, along with his band the Party Crashers, has had the original song “Roy Head” streamed on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s Goldie’s Garage. Elliott Levin is a Philadelphia jazz legend plays the saxophone and the flute and he’s also an abstract poet and […]

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 […]

On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind

African American Museum 701 Arch Sreet, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event […]

“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 […]

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 […]

BLACK LIVES MATTER: Virtual Poetry Reading

Zoom Meeting ID: 821 6127 0135 – Zoom Passcode: 960363 – Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82161270135?pwd=aDVLWlcxWmFsMTNwNjR1L3lEZXV1QT09 Sandra Turner-Barnes is an author, poet, and jazz lover and vocalist. Her first book of poetry Always A Lady has sold over 7,000 copies. In 1996, Sandra won the EBONY MAGAZINE Literary Competition for Short Fiction, and in 1997, Sandra re-created […]