Moonstone Presents:

  • 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. […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Quincy Scott Jones, Marci Blackman, Sarah Gambito, D. Nurkse, Bushra Rehman, Yolanda Wisher Thursday April 21, 2022 – 7pm – VIRTUAL Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc-usqjwuGteb-36iCgphT76_l9ZkiKT9   Join us for a night celebrating poetry and Quincy Scott Jones’ new-ish book How to Kill Yourself Instead of Your Children, a meditation […]

  • Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day

    Virtual Poetry Event: International Worker’s Day Sunday May 1, 2022 – 2 pm -VIRTUAL – International Workers’ Day (Labor Day, May 1) Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf–qrT0pGtX7GFWtGu2R5kGRSju8bauy   International Workers’ Day, also known as Labor Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of laborers and the […]

  • Remembering Thomas Kinsella

    Remembering Thomas Kinsella Sunday May 8, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApf-GpqTwpE9QBzsJ92os8X53FdKo3E0zv   Thomas Kinsella (4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021) was an Irish poet, translator, editor, and publisher. He began publishing poetry in the early 1950s and, around the same time, translated early Irish poetry into English. In the […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022

    Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices Spring 2022 Saturday May 21, 2022– 2pm EST https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcuitqTooGdwfpzt7nCg8xrIqo7F7spOJ   New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for younger poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry community and giving them the opportunity […]

  • Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Bro. Yao (Hoke S. Glover III), Shakeema Smalls

    Virtual Poetry Event: Omowole Jesse N. Alexander, Shakeema Smalls Sunday May 22, 2022 – 2pm Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-2trT4vGN0OaXwq5nWShZLwqTdgLBnJ Omowole Jesse N. Alexander is a son of Jesse, patriarch of the Alexander clan, leader, organizer, Raceman, and Maude Anna, Griot, visionary artist, poet, muse, teacher, Ancestor. He lives on Piscataway land in […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic

    Virtual Poetry Reading: Ken Holland and Mike Jurkovic   Registration Required – use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdeyrrzkvE9a5XaxS_M-lkBnESlr3EBOI    Ken Holland has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has had work published in such journals as Rattle, Tulane Review, Southwest Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The American Journal of Poetry and Tar River among others.  […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Barbara Siegel Carlson, Lynn Levin, and Maggie Paul

    Virtual Poetry Reading with Barbara Siegel Carlson, Lynn Levin, and Maggie Paul   Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 7 PM EDT — VIRTUAL   Registration Required — Use this Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0of-CsqzgiGNUamEfrp1xNspDag6I76ztR   Barbara Siegel Carlson is the author of the chapbook Between the Hours (2022) and 2 books of poetry Once in Every Language and […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Banned Books Week

    Moonstone Poetry Reading: Banned Books Week Sunday September 18 @ 2 PM EDT — VIRTUAL Registration is Required. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpdu6srTkjG9CKizvvMoFK92ycgaYP0pOg   Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, draws attention to banned and challenged books, and highlights persecuted […]

  • Virtual Poetry Event: Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman

    Virtual Moonstone Poetry Reading with Byron Beynon, Philip Brady, Jones Irwin, & Steven Kleinman Sunday October 30 @ 2PM — VIRTUAL Registration Required. Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-moqDsiHdZ-8fulshSjDrRRGm4piBqC   Byron Beynon lives in Wales. His work has appeared in several publications including The Galway Review, Cyphers, Poetry Pacific, London Magazine, The Tower Journal and the human rights […]