Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading: Hope

Virtual Poetry Reading: Hope   What do you hope for – Send us a poem! DEADLINE – December 31st, 2021 Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdO-rpjkoHN1QpCSC9zQU-VrVqTUCFuem In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first human woman created by the gods. … Nonetheless, Pandora opened the jar (in modern accounts often mistranslated as “Pandora’s box“) releasing all […]

New Voices: Finn Holovacs, Nilah Swan, Evan Wang

New Voices: Finn Holovacs, Nilah Swan, Evan Wang Registration Required, Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuGtpzIoG9dikX3bDiCslAgJT2w7eGZh 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 poetry community and giving them the opportunity to share their work with a wide audience. […]

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Five New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press

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

Moonstone Poetry Reading: Five New Chapbooks from Moonstone Press Live at Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) and on Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uduqqqT4tGdxHPamACb5lmRvm5KxM3fY3   Hal Freedman is the author of Poems of a Classical Musician ($10.00). His opinion is that the line between music and poetry is a thin one, if such a […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Celia Bland, Jonathan Blunk, Cindy Savett

Virtual Poetry Reading: Celia Bland, Jonathan Blunk, Cindy Savett On Zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudOquqjgrG9U9z0J2rR2q63R1SxozL8O3   Celia Bland co-edited Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention with Martha Collins. Her third collection of poetry, Cherokee Road Kill, received the 2015 Raynes Prize, Madonna Comix, an image and poetry collaboration she created with artist Dianne Kornberg, was exhibited […]

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 […]