Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading: Remembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement

Virtual Poetry Reading Remembering Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Négritude Movement Sunday October 10, 2021 – 2pm EST   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102   Léopold Sédar Senghor (10/9/1906 – 12/20/2001) and the Négritude Movement In May 1935, the word ‘Négritude’ appeared for the first time in the only issue of the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2020 to 2015

Virtual Poetry Reading Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2020 to 2015 Hosted by J. C. Todd, our 2021 judge   Sunday October 17, 2021 – 2pm – Virtual   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956 Passcode: 704102       Kyle Laws won in 2020 for The Sea Is Woman, author of Uncorseted, Ride the Pink […]

Live Poetry Reading: Music and Poetry

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

Moonstone Live Poetry Reading Music and Poetry   Wednesday October 20, 2021 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Lindsay Hargrave is a poet with recent publications in giallo, Button Eye Review, Maudlin House, Wrongdoing, Rust + Moth and more. They […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger

Virtual Poetry Reading: Poets Speak Back to Hunger Featuring readers from an e-Collection of Poems from Around the World   Saturday October 23, 2021 – 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102   Join us as we mark the publication of a ground-breaking collection of poems that Speak Back to Hunger.  Several […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Gregory Djanikian and Daniel Simpson

Virtual Poetry Reading: Gregory Djanikian and Daniel Simpson   Tuesday October 26, 2021 – 7pm   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Gregory Djanikian is the author of seven collections of poetry, The Man in the Middle, Falling Deeply into America, About Distance, Years Later, So I Will Till the Ground, […]

Live Poetry Reading: Michele Belluomini, Ronald Carter, and Charlie O’Hay

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

Live Poetry Reading: Michele Belluomini, Ronald Carter, and Charlie O’Hay   Wednesday October 27, 2021 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub And on Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 Passcode: 678146   Michele Belluomini’s poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary. Her poems have also appeared in various Poetry Ink (Philadelphia) anthologies and the anthology COMMONWEALTH: […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: David R. Slavitt and Julie Swarstad Johnson

Virtual Poetry Reading: David R. Slavitt and Julie Swarstad Johnson   Sunday October 31, 2021 – 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 Meeting ID: 845 3206 9956, Passcode: 704102   David R. Slavitt’s new book is Opus Posthumous and Other Poems ($19.95, LSU Press, 978-0807175668). He is a poet, novelist, critic, and author of more than 130 works […]

POSTPONED: Serotonin Marathon Virtual Reading

Serotonin Marathon Virtual Reading POSTPONED until further notice 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, […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Anthony Palma and Brooke Palma

699 Ranstead Street 699 Ranstead Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Anthony Palma and Brooke Palma 2022 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series 699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.   Anthony Palma is the president of the Mad Poets Society and author of flashes of light from the deep. He holds a degree in English from […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022

Virtual Poetry Reading: International Women’s Day 2022 Sunday March 6, 2022 – 2pm EST Registration Required-Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOGhrzMpH9w44h0epioF-_rK2dcB0-iI Readings from our new anthology, International Women’s Day 2022 “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy   Imagine a gender equal world. […]