Moonstone Presents:

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER: Virtual Poetry Reading

    Zoom Meeting ID: 821 6127 0135 – Zoom Passcode: 960363 – Phone: 1-646-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82161270135?pwd=aDVLWlcxWmFsMTNwNjR1L3lEZXV1QT09 Sandra Turner-Barnes is an author, poet, and jazz lover and vocalist. Her first book of poetry Always A Lady has sold over 7,000 copies. In 1996, Sandra won the EBONY MAGAZINE Literary Competition for Short Fiction, and in 1997, Sandra re-created […]

  • M. Nzadi Keita, JC Todd, Alina Macneal, Jennifer Hook

    Zoom Meeting ID: 849 0497 4839, Passcode: 570429, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84904974839?pwd=U0lZb3JuOFlvRlUya1VjSlRTblBWdz09 Nzadi Keita, a Philly-born writer, editor, and scholar, is a 2017 Pew Fellow for the Arts in Poetry. Her book of persona poems, BRIEF EVIDENCE OF HEAVEN, gives voice to abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass, first wife of Frederick Douglass. Cited by Yale historian […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Antonio Lopez, Chukwuma Ndulue, Ewuare Osayande, with Elijah Pringle

    Zoom Meeting ID: 836 1745 1559, Passcode: 749356, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83617451559?pwd=TGliZFF4dXZzamZOaGJreHVQbzBJdz09 Antonio López received a double B.A. in Global Cultural Studies and African & African-American studies from Duke University, scholarships to attend the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Tin House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Bread Loaf. He is a proud member of the […]

  • Take Five: Laura Baird, Deborah Brown, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Richard Jackson, Susan Thomas, with Dave Worrell

    Zoom Meeting ID: 828 6011 8796 Passcode: 045261 Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82860118796?pwd=L3V5OUwwMDd3SzdZVk9IUlRMaXN4UT09 Generous, empathetic, and deftly observant, these poems leave an afterglow, each one small candle guiding us through the forest of so much we don’t know. – Leslie Ullman, author of Library Of Small Happiness and Progress on the Subject of Immensity Laura (Behr) Baird has […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Sarah Browning, Kathleen O’Toole, with Larry Robin

    Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Sarah Browning is the author of Killing Summer and Whiskey in the Garden of Eden. She is co-founder and for 10 years was Executive Director of Split This Rock: Poems of Provocation & Witness. She is recipient of the Lillian E. Smith Writer-in-Service […]

  • Philly Loves Poetry, Poetry & Jazz @ PhillyCAM: Aaren Perry and Sandra Turner-Barnes, with Charles S. Carr

    Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. “For seventy-five years, poets have listened to jazz and assimilated certain relationships between the two arts-not merely the issue of language but also the connection between jazz improvisation and poetic narratives as journeys.” (Preface of The Second Set by […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Dr. Neal Hall and Krisann Janowitz, with Aaren Perry

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Dr. Neal Hall is a medical-surgical eye physician, an internationally acclaimed poet, who has performed poetry readings throughout the United States and internationally. Dr. Hall is an award-winning author of Nigger For Life, Winter’s A’ Coming Still, Where Do I Sit, and Appalling Silence. The […]

  • The Red Brick Poet: A Tribute to Peter Krok

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83446748712?pwd=eTVZblBKYWVIa0ZCeU90UWhaSENRdz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 834 4674 8712, Passcode: 626581, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Please join us as poets pay tribute to Peter Krok, the editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal and the Humanities Director of the Manayunk Roxborough Art Center where he has been coordinating a literary series since 1990. His poem “10PM at Philadelphia Recreation […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Morri Creech, Joseph Harrison, & Dora Malech

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Morri Creech is the author of three collections of poetry, Paper Cathedrals,  Field Knowledge, which received the Anthony Hecht Poetry prize and was nominated for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Poet’s Prize, and The Sleep of Reason, a 2014 finalist for […]