Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Philadelphia Says: Women Are Voting For the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment (the right of women to vote) Moonstone asks: What is the condition of women’s lives today? Women’s right to vote was passed in 1919, What did it accomplish? What […]
Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Chapbook Release Party & Reading Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review among others. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Walk like Bo Diddley, Living in the Candy Store, and Other […]
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 […]
Marion Cohen’s 28th book is “The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems” (Rhythm & Bones Press, 2019), and her 29th is “The Fuss and the Fury” (Alien Buddha Press, NM, 2019.) Chanda Rice (also known as Muffy) has been a writer all her life, but her half-sister would expose her children […]
Sean Lynch is a leftist poet and editor who lives in South Philly. His poems have been published in various journals and he is the author of four chapbooks. Joseph Rathgeber is an author and poet from New Jersey. He is author of Mixedbloods and The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R. and Other Stories. […]
Michael R. Brown has five books of poetry and has performed poetry, taught classes, and lectured in various world venues from the Stockholm to South Korea. Instrumental in bringing the poetry slam to New England, he created both the Cantab weekly series and the theatrical show Dr. Brown’s Traveling Poetry Circus. W. D. Ehrhart […]
