Moonstone Presents:

Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine St

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 […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook

Virtual Poetry Reading: Jim Morrison, a Tribute with Leonard Gontarek, Daniel Nester, Catie Rosemurgy, and Host Jennifer Hook https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862 Leonard Gontarek is the author of eight books of poems, including The Paris Poems Of Jim Morrison (Moonstone Press); Take Your Hand Out of My Pocket, Shiva; He Looked […]

Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe

Virtual

Virtual Reading: Tribute to Lamont B. Steptoe Sunday, February 9th, 2025 2pm Eastern Virtual Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1fJ5daTdS8elCUBV79ucyg Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet / photographer / publisher born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is author of eight books of poetry including In the Kitchens of the Master, Mad Minute, Uncle’s South Sea […]

Remembering Gerald Stern

Virtual

Sunday, February 23, 2025 2pm Eastern virtual Register for Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/P35CdROtSy2NBi1XJHF3lg Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Raritan […]