Moonstone Presents:

  • Live Poetry: The Hosts of Other Series Read

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

      Wednesday March 26, 2025 – 7:00pm – The Hosts of Other Series Read  Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Use this link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RcZsDsGjRYmxq7LxQ_YDkQ Sibelan Forrester is a poet, translator, and host since 2016 of the Mad Poets Society First Wednesday poetry reading series. Raina J. León, co-host of Wild […]

  • Anthology Reading: Chaos, Crises, Conflict

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    Monday March 31, 2025 – 7pmEST – Chaos, Crises, Conflict Anthology Reading – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/o5aORNAuQH6qAzaYCOI-Yg In a time fraught with political strife and armed conflict, how can we reframe, heal, and continue to live in the midst of destruction, chaos, and loss?  We seem to have forgotten that we are all human beings. Where is […]

  • Live Broadcast: Grady Chambers

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    Tuesday April 8, 2025 – 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Grady Chambers is the author of the novel Great Disasters and the poetry collection North American Stadiums, selected by Henri Cole as the […]

  • Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Krystle Griffin, and Anne-Adele Wight

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

    Wednesday April 9, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Join us for the Book Launch of Long Island Sad Poems by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (Serotonin Press) Jane-Rebecca Cannarella edits HOOT Review, a magazine published on postcards, Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, a broadside press, and was an editor for Lunch […]

  • Live Poetry: Julia Kolchinsky’s PARALLAX

    Fleisher Art Memorial 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    April 12, 2025 – 7pm EDT- LIVE Live at Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine Street Join us as we celebrate the release of Julia Kolchinsky’s new book PARALLAX Julia Kolchinsky’s Parallax offers a lyrical narrative of parenting a neurodiverse child under the shadow of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the poet’s birthplace. As her child […]

  • Live Poetry: E. Lynn Alexander, Peter Baroth, Julia Gwiazdowski, and George Schaefer

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

    Wednesday April 16, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street E. Lynn Alexander is an artist, poet, and “crazy cat lady” from the Lehigh Valley. She is a partnering artist and writer in the Perspectives: Art on Environment project at the Nurture Nature Center. Peter Baroth, author of Long Green and […]

  • International Haiku Poetry Day

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    Sunday April 20, 2025 – 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0vQ-qLRCTqaki87Hoxes8A International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month (April). According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, […]

  • Live Poetry: Thomas Devaney, Sean Lynch, and Kim Gek Lin Short

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

    Wednesday April 23, 2025 – 7:00pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Thomas Devaney is a poet, facilitator, educator and author of Getting to Philadelphia and You Are the Battery. His work is featured in Best American Poetry 2019. Sean Lynch, author of five, has been the editor of various magazines, journals, […]

  • World Press Freedom Day

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    Sunday May 4, 2025 – VIRTUAL – World Press Freedom Day The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day or just World Press Day, observed to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of the press and remind governments of their duty to respect and uphold the right to […]

  • Live Poetry: Grace Bauer, Majorie Maddox, Amy Small-McKinney

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

    Wednesday May 7, 2025 — 7:00 pm – LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Grace Bauer is a Philadelphia-based poet who has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems (Backwaters Press). Marjorie Maddox is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University as well as an author who […]