Moonstone Poetry Readings Sunday May 28, 2023 – 2:00pm Virtual https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vcu6hrT4oG9fNr0Fk5e7nRIYG54JD0wA9 Mother’s Day (May 14) This is not a program about your mother but about motherhood in its many forms. We want poems that embrace the bare and grotesque nature of motherhood. For, in a time like ours, mothers have no room to be sentimental. […]
Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Saturday February 17, 2024 – 7pm EST Virtual Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D As of December 4, 2023, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14, 2023. On August 15th, Philadelphia police […]
Remembering Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Sunday February 18, 2024 – 2pm – VIRTUAL Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvdeipqTsoHdwqmC1q3s_Nx34bh3KSabHn The Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, warrior Audre Lorde was a native New Yorker and daughter of immigrants. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples […]
Sunday, March 3, 2024 Virtual -2pm EST Join us on Zoom – Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtcOmqrjIqHt38oY_EumWA2yjSHpfugrTn Traitor / Patriot: A Reflection on January 6, 2021 Moonstone is dedicated to communication. One of our missions is to create discourse by giving voice to poets, especially on controversial issues. I received a poem from g e Reutter […]
Tuesday MARCH 5, 2024 6:30pm – VIRTUAL Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Elliott batTzedek is author of the enkindled coal of my tongue, the recipient of a Leeway Foundation Art and Change Award […]
Sunday March 10, 2024 2pm EST – VIRIUAL Join us on Zoom – Use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpd-mgpzovG9bdKnadMSczNTW-YMqGyTKa International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. In 1848, indignant over […]
Sunday March 17, 2024 2pm EST – VIRITUAL Join us on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vdumppzwuHNYs4KmAVk04T1mXGlGaMbh5 “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” — Writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning dedicated this iconic poem to her husband Robert Browning but her famous sonnet could just as easily declare love for poetry itself. We can all do that […]
Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading honoring Robert Frost! Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 6/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as Paris […]
International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17) was started in 2007 and later taken on by The Haiku Foundation in celebration of National Poetry Month. According to The Haiku Foundation, the haiku is an ancient and undefinable-in-English form of Japanese poetry. At its most basic, it is three lines, the first with five syllables, the second […]
