Moonstone Presents:

  • 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 […]

  • PhillyCAM – Generations of Poetry

    PhillyCAM 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    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 the opportunities which their group or organization provides for […]

  • Interview and Reading

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

    Chidi E. O. Ezeobi, author of Remind the World, was born in Nigeria and migrated to the United States in 1996. Chidi Ezeobi was recently released after serving 11 years in prison. He resides in Newark New Jersey while working on his second book Sean Lynch, Host, Open Reading Follows

  • 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 […]

  • “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. […]