Moonstone Presents:

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: New Voices: Emerging Poets, Rose-Marie Athiley, Colby Bellman, Wes Mathews, with Larry Robin

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815   Passcode: 838862 New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. Rose-Marie Athiley (she/hers) is a senior at Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN, where she studies English and Communications. She moved to the United States in 2006 and through learning her third language […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Philly Jawns: For Women Revisited, Poetry Anthology Tribute to Nina Simone

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81841890688?pwd=TU4yZ3g2Y2hBZCtzdk1hNVBFTHRzZz09 Meeting ID: 818 4189 0688  Passcode: 380783 PHILLY JAWNS: FOR WOMEN REVISITED  A poetry anthology in tribute to Nina Simone “Editors Debra Powell-Wright and Pat McLean-Smith have lovingly gathered a chorus of voices from the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection to honor Nina Simone, the queen of Black Woman Magic, Rage and […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Martín Espada, Afaa Weaver, with Larry Robin

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815    Passcode: 838862 Martín Espada Celebrating his new book Floaters: Poems Autographed copies for $26.95 available at our website www.moonstoneartscenter.com Martín Espada is celebrating his new book Floaters: Poems ($26.95, W. W. Norton & Company, 978-0393541038). “Vintage Espada―essential, topical, political, irrepressible; in his poems, mercy acquires muscle and close […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Lisa Alexander Baron, Rodger Lowenthal, Abbey J. Porter, with Larry Robin

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81679636780?pwd=S3ZQQkxqcFRPU0Y2b01HelVkemFLZz09 Meeting ID: 816 7963 6780  Passcode: 788513 Lisa Alexander Baron is the author of four poetry collections, including While She Poses, poems prompted by visual art. Her poems appear in Chautauqua, Confrontation, Fourth River, and Philadelphia Stories. She teaches writing and public speaking at two Philadelphia-area colleges. She hosts “Modern Plays Read Aloud” on Meetup, […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Kirwyn Sutherland, Sekai’afua Zankel, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737     Passcode: 678146 Kirwyn Sutherland is author of Jump Ship, a Clinical Research Professional and poet who makes poems centering the black experience in America. He is a Watering Hole fellow, has attended workshops/residencies at Cave Canem, Winter Tangerine, Poets House, Philadelphia Sculpture Gym, and Pearlstein Art Gallery, was […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: International Jazz Day: aTONEment – Jazz Inspired Fables from Improvising Lives with John Lavin and Elijah Pringle

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87964733385?pwd=Nk5LN2FMNjhUeE5uVnQ2VVdBMVZPQT09 Meeting ID: 879 6473 3385 – Passcode: 904825 Virtual Poetry Reading: International Jazz Day: aTONEment – Jazz Inspired Fables from Improvising Lives A cross-genre poetry series melding musicians who play the notes with poets who take note! This spotlight on Philly’s Art of Improvisation will witness Moonstone poet, Raheem Curry trading solos with singer […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman, Wanda Phipps, and M.G. Stephens

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    Virtual Poetry Reading: Richard Hoffman, Wanda Phipps, and M.G. Stephens https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815 – Passcode: 838862   Richard Hoffman Richard Hoffman has published four volumes of poetry, Without Paradise; Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Award from The New England Poetry Club; Emblem; […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Margaret Randell, Cynthia Dewi Oka

    Virtual Poetry Reading with Margaret Randell and Cynthia Dewi Oka https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146   Margaret Randell is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Author of more than 150 books, releasing this month are Thinking About Thinking (not quite essays) and Out of Violence Into Poetry. She has […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Charles Carr, Cathleen Cohen, Faith Paulsen

    Virtual Poetry Reading with Charles Carr, Cathleen Cohen and Faith Paulsen   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Charles Carr is author of paradise, pennsylvania, and Haitian Mudpies & Other Poems (Moonstone Arts 2012). A Philadelphian, he was educated at LaSalle and Bryn Mawr College and worked in social and community development […]

  • Virtual Poetry Reading: Cynthia Dewi Oka with Charles S. Carr

    Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series, featuring Cynthia Dewi Oka   Watch the live broadcast: Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 | Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia | PhillyCAM TV: https://phillycam.org/watch   Cynthia Dewi Oka was born in Bali, Indonesia. Since 2012, she has been based in the Greater Philadelphia Area, Lenni Lenape Land, with […]