Moonstone Presents:

Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading

Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is author of six poetry collections, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia), 2022, with her latest chapbook, Luna, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press, 2023. Winner of several poetry awards, including the Partisan Press Award, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher, she works full time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford.

E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff

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

Live poetry reading in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series. Kathleen Ossip’s books include July, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize; and two chapbooks, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, and The New York Review of Books. She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Open Reading Follows

New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading

Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 19th at 2pm Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a […]

Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher

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

Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances. Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work reflects on personal history, family, and place. She characterizes her work as situated “along the edge of the terrains of poetry.” Yolanda Wisher was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, and currently serves as chair of the
Philadelphia Poet Laureate Governing Committee. She is the author of Monk Eats an Afro and co-editor of the
anthology Peace is a Haiku Song with mentor Sonia Sanchez. Wisher performs a blend of poetry and song with
her band Yolanda Wisher; The Afroeaters.

Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023

The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023 Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 In 2023, Moonstone Arts Center hosted over 100 events with almost 300 poets and an audience of close to 3000. Join us for a reading with our featured poets of 2023. Featured Poets (not all will read): David Acosta Nathalie […]

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Live Poetry: S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx

The Rotunda 14014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Live Poetry: S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx Hosted at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street in Philadelphia Also on Zoom: S/He Speaks 2 is edited by Cassendre Xavier and Tom Daubert.  When we launched the S/He Speaks anthology in 2023, we noted that anyone likely to read it would already be […]

Live Reading: David Ebenbach, Elayna Mae Darcy, Autumn Konopka, Sean Lynch, and Victoria Mier

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

Moonstone Poetry – Prose Night David Ebenbach, Elayna Mae Darcy, Autumn Konopka, Sean Lynch, and Victoria Mier Wednesday September 18, 2024 – 7pm  Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom –  Registration Required: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82017815042?pwd=aLRcZOFnBsBoOfrU6001OawDPCuChe.1 David Ebenbach is the author of ten books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, including his new novel Possible Happiness, […]

28th Poetry Ink: VIRTUAL

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Moonstone Poetry presents 28th Annual Poetry Ink Reading VIRTUAL Monday, September 30th, 2024, 7pm Online via Zoom, register here: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88202311343?pwd=02AJS9GK5vIYcvL5dLXwwa7mJARNDc.1  We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad,  Ode, Free Verse, and all other forms. Join […]

Live Poetry: Mia Kang, Allayna Nofs, and Herman Beavers

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

Moonstone Live Poetry Wednesday October 9, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street and on Zoom Register for Zoom access: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpceivqTIpHNL2TDUW4c3-ZEqlzjU3eIE9 Mia Kang is the author of City Poems, Apparent Signs and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must. She lives in Philadelphia with two cats, is the […]

Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024

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Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2024 Sunday November 17, 2024 – 2pm EST – VIRTUAL Register to access Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6tpzotGNe7ciI7XVSoht8wYC9CkeMW New Voices Anthology – Fall 2024 – A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from […]