Moonstone Presents:

  • Philadelphia Says: On War and Peace

    The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    This Anthology centers its focus on the aspects of War and Peace, and how it has evolved alongside technology and ideology. Contributors will be reading their poems.The anthology will be for sale to the public. In Tandem With: Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War Featuring: Kenneth Campbell, Marine combat […]

  • Cynthia Dewi Oka and Eleanor Wilner

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

    Cynthia Dewi Oka is the author of Salvage: Poems and Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Her work has appeared in ESPNW, Hyperallergic, Guernica, Scoundrel Time, Academy of American Poets, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. Eleanor Wilner will be reading from her new collection, Before Our Eyes: […]

  • A Conversation Between Theodore Harris and Warren Longmire

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

    Theodore A. Harris is a collagist, poet, and has co-authored books with Amiri Baraka, Our Flesh of Flames, and Malcolm X as Ideology, with Fred Moten, i ran from it and was still in it and TRIPTYCH: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Our Flesh of Flames “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky,” […]

  • Frolic and Detour – Book Release

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

    A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Though Frolic and Detour is Paul Muldoon’s thirteenth collection, it shows all the energy and ambition we might generally associate with a first book. Here, the poet brings his characteristic humor and humanity to the chickadee, the house wren, the deaths of Leonard Cohen and C. […]

  • Amanda Auerbach, Adrienne Raphael, Bridget Talone

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

    Amanda Auerbach is author of What Need Have We For Such as We, her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and other journals. In What Need Have We For Such as We, the speaker quickly transitions from being a lyrical poet to being a person infected by a poetic voice that, like […]

  • PhillyCAM – Generations of 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 There are there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area. They represent every poetry form, ethnic background, age, gender and community. This series consists of a panel of guest poets and artists discussing […]

  • Poetry From The Moonstone Hosts

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

    Charles S. Carr is author of paradise, pennsylvania, and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems. He has worked in social and community development services for 45 years. Charles was The Mad Poets Review First Prize Winner for his poem “Waiting To Come North”. Charles was the host of the Moonstone Poetry series at Fergie’s Pub and […]

  • Poetry And Humor

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

    Herman Beavers is Professor of English and Africana Studies at the U of P, where he teaches courses in African American literature and Creative Writing.  He is the author of two scholarly monographs: Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James A. McPherson and Geography and the Political Imaginary in the Novels of […]

  • OPEN READING OF New Voices 2: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets

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

    Spencer Nitkey poems and prose have appeared in Short Editions, The Gateway Review, Critical Read, and more. He is an Educator, Communicator, Writer, Researcher, and Storyteller.         Doris Zheku is a first generation Albanian-American, who moved to France, was active in Paris’ anglophone open mic scene and returned to Philadelphia. She is […]

  • 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 […]