Moonstone Presents:

2020 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series on PhillyCAM

699 Ranstead Street. Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia 2020-2021 Philadelphia Poet Laureate on the role of the Laureate in promoting the love of poetry in the City and communities. Trapeta B. Mayson is the 2020-2021 Philadelphia Poet Laureate. She is a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in Literature, Leeway Transformation Award, […]

2019 Chapbook Contest Winners

Zoom Meeting ID: 824 4272 1486, Passcode: 319164, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82442721486?pwd=c01zbVFCQkw3TmtQUlVUaXNwWGpKZz09 Book of Micah – Kenneth Pobo Kenneth Pobo teaches Creative Writing and English at Widener University near Philadelphia. He and his husband live in Media. He began writing poetry in 1970 at the age of fifteen. He likes doing character studies in poetry […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Antonio Lopez, Chukwuma Ndulue, Ewuare Osayande, with Elijah Pringle

Zoom Meeting ID: 836 1745 1559, Passcode: 749356, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83617451559?pwd=TGliZFF4dXZzamZOaGJreHVQbzBJdz09 Antonio López received a double B.A. in Global Cultural Studies and African & African-American studies from Duke University, scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the […]

Take Five: Laura Baird, Deborah Brown, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Richard Jackson, Susan Thomas, with Dave Worrell

Zoom Meeting ID: 828 6011 8796 Passcode: 045261 Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82860118796?pwd=L3V5OUwwMDd3SzdZVk9IUlRMaXN4UT09 Generous, empathetic, and deftly observant, these poems leave an afterglow, each one small candle guiding us through the forest of so much we don’t know. – Leslie Ullman, author of Library Of Small Happiness and Progress on the Subject of Immensity Laura (Behr) Baird has […]

The E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Indran Amirthanayagam, James Arthur, Leonard Gontarek, with John Wall Barger

Zoom Meeting ID: 884 1011 7845, Passcode: 035824, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88410117845?pwd=SDJkQWxreFJLbnc2MjROTUZlTXlXdz09 Indran Amirthanayagam, writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole, has published 19 poetry collections and recorded a spoken word album Rankont Dout, edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly. He has won the Paterson Poetry Prize. His new books are The Migrant States, […]

Educator/Poets: Marion Deutsche Cohen, Nina Gross, Deborah Turner, with Alina Macneal and Jennifer Hook

Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3643 5017 Passcode: 758900 Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82436435017?pwd=OWo1WWtscVBvYXlyTW9DakFHcGdsQT09 Marion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry or memoir; her newest book is “Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother” and her latest poetry collections are “The Essence of Seventh Grade: A Kind of Autobiography” and “The […]

New Voices: Lex Bakey, Matilda Bray, Zillah Elcin, Rachel Haas-Gutin, Devon James, Cooper Kidd, Sam Lyons, Kelly McGeehan, Cecelia McKinney, Isabella Piacentino, Aimee Schwartz, Hoa-Angel Tran, Maya Workowski, Darian Zenouzi, with Krisann Janowitz

Zoom Meeting ID: 867 1393 7746, Passcode: 569861, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86713937746?pwd=V3BvYkpnYUJhK0lqZ3d0UUNpNEhZdz09 New Voices feature poets under the age of 25 who have much to say and we believe they should be heard. We are excited to be a part of this community of young writers through readings and publications. I think it’s fair to […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Sarah Browning, Kathleen O’Toole, with Larry Robin

Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and for 10 years was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness. She is recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service […]

Serotonin: Ejiro Elizabeth Edward, Adam Grabowski, and Maria S. Picone, with Sean Lynch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85477143675?pwd=MGd5QmtHaTJPb21RdnNtSGs2OGZYUT09 Zoom Meeting ID: 854 7714 3675, Passcode: 693320, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Ejiro Elizabeth Edward is a writer from Nigeria. A passionate lover of the arts, she has been published on Inverse journal, stone of madness, Fortunate traveler and has been shortlisted for the dark juices anthology. She loves to travel and read when she’s […]

Philly Loves Poetry, Poetry & Jazz @ PhillyCAM: Aaren Perry and Sandra Turner-Barnes, with Charles S. Carr

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. “For seventy-five years, poets have listened to jazz and assimilated certain relationships between the two arts-not merely the issue of language but also the connection between jazz improvisation and poetic narratives as journeys.” (Preface of The Second Set by […]