Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House […]
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Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows
The Philadelphia Writing Project Presents: Silvino J. Alexander Jr., “Brother Jahi” is an educator, poet, author, and mentor/consultant currently residing in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. His poetry reflects the uncompromising reality of this world. Sydney Hunt Coffin has taught English, Poetry, and Art in Philadelphia, worked with the Advisory Council of the […]
(Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.) The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. The mission of Philadelphia Stories is to cultivate a community of writers, artists, and readers in the Greater Philadelphia Area through publications, professional […]
Amy Jannotti lives with several small animals and a multitude of dried flowers. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Calliope magazine, Charge! and Z Publishing House’s Pennsylvania’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction. Jay Margraf is a poet, educator, grad student, and queer transman currently living and learning in Oaklyn, NJ. His poetry provides commentary on masculinity, […]
Join us in celebrating the life and work of renowned poet Amiri Baraka on his 85th birthday! A dramatist, novelist, and poet whose career spanned over fifty years, he is one of the most respected and widely published African American writers. Poets will read their contributions to the Moonstone Chapbook, Remembering Amiri Baraka. (Available for […]
Erin Castaldi This book conquers some commonly held beliefs by people of the simplicity and lackluster of the haiku poem. Gregory Loselle has won awards at The University of Michigan, won The Academy of American Poets Prize, the William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting. Frederick Lowe has […]
Alicia Askenase has written four poetry chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (Sonaweb). She was an Editor’s Choice for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins Prize, which appears in Philadelphia Stories. Additionally, her publications include, New Works by Philadelphia Poets, The Manhattanville Review, The Big Muddy, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts […]
Patrick Rosal, is the author of four books of poetry and the recipient of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Research Scholar Program. Sami Miranda is a teacher, poet and visual artist. He […]
