Moonstone Presents:

  • Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou

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

    Moonstone Poetry Reading: John Wall Barger and Vasiliki Katsarou Live in Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-CrqDkvHtOlOphDch8WLjBafhP0Fgle   John Wall Barger is the author of four books of poetry: Pain-proof Men (2009); Hummingbird (2012), finalist for the Raymond Souster Award; The Book of Festus (2015), finalist for the […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Serotonin

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Serotonin On Zoom – Registration required – Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0odOygrD8uE9arkIR60UaKGgOipNOokTO_   Serotonin is partnering with Moonstone Arts Center for a mental illness marathon poetry reading over Zoom. Neurodivergent readers from around the world will share their work on how they live with their mental illnesses. Readers include Sean Lynch, Raye Hendrix, Thomas Nuhfer, Kika Man, Cleo, Lemmy Ya’akova, Jerica Taylor, Alexandra Weiss, James […]

  • Moonstone Poetry Readings: Lake Angela and DJ

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

    Moonstone Poetry Readings: Lake Angela and DJ   Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required for Zoom – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOuppj8jE9NfdGxgpX-dGOEHn2Ahgh0d   Lake Angela is a poet, author of Organblooms and Words for the Dead, choreographer, and dancer from Lake Erie who constantly studies and develops her methods […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Lynda V. E. Crawford, Hiram Larew, Yi Wei   Registration Required, Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkceuvrD0pHd1jEUSaAmpY03rRs76cqEjf   Lynda V. E. Crawford has lived in the US longer than her childhood home Barbados. Both ‘homes’ sway and punctuate her writing. She writes to sneak behind eyes, blow through ears, stretch voices like others dance words. Her […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe

    Virtual Poetry Reading: M. Nzadi Keita, Aaren Perry, Lamont B. Steptoe   Friday February 25, 2022 – 7pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZElfuGurTIvHdEhuhKG-RhSJuelsiJtkkw0   M. Nzadi Keita is the author of Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass. That book, a finalist for the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Prize, […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher Thursday April 21, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-usqjwuGteb-36iCgphT76_l9ZkiKT9   Join us for a night celebrating poetry and Quincy Scott Jones’ new-ish book How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, a meditation […]

  • Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenreich

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

    Live Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenreich   Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudOqpqT8oEt0RnjqPfwJgqoS46VZuKs6W Alicia Askenase is the author of The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb) and a few chaplets. She was a co-founding editor of the literary journal 6ix, […]

  • Live Poetry Reading: A Chapbook in 49 Days

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

    Moonstone Arts Center’s Live Poetry Reading Sunday June 19, 2022 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdu2rrjkrE9PKXtJuraSgJDR63v-5q4eB22-Jun   A Chapbook in 49 Days with Host Sean Hanrahan  This course was designed to aid poets in developing a chapbook manuscript that realized its full […]

  • Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar

    Virtual Reading: Remembering Paul Laurence Dunbar Sunday June 26, 2022 – 2 pm Virtual Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwof-2vqzsqG9ds6zRdZ9c866kl-iVbrBix Join us for Paul Laurence Dunbar’s two hundredth birthday (born June 27, 1872) “Paul Laurence Dunbar stands out as the first poet from the Negro race in the United States to show a combined mastery […]

  • Live Poetry Event: E-Verse Equinox Reading Series

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

    Moonstone Arts Center in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series Live at Fergie’s Pub Wednesday June 29, 2022 – 7pm EST 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtc-ippjIjG9wawPtiJPNKdw22fqzjEDIs James Shea is the author of two poetry collections, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye, both from Fence Books. […]