Moonstone Presents:

Virtual Poetry Reading: Alicia Askenase & Mike Cohen, with Alina Macneal & Jennifer Hook

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Alicia Askenase is the author of four chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (sonaweb). Her poetry has appeared in many lit journals, including: Chain#2 and #11, Poetry New York, The World, 6ix, Feminist Studies, Big Bridge, The Journal of […]

Virtual Poetry Reading, with Serotonin: Fizza Abbas, Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Leah Holbrook Sackett, with Sean Lynch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85662820989?pwd=VW1NMXZMcm0yMmIwQVh4VmI0WUVzUT09 Meeting ID: 856 6282 0989, Passcode: 613137 Fizza Abbas is a Freelance Content Writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is fond of poetry and music. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in quite a few journals including Poetry Village, The Daily Drunk, Indiana Voice Journal, London Grip and Poetry Pacific.   Jane-Rebecca […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Ishmael Reed and Tennessee Reed, with Aaren Perry

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82437345103?pwd=TGZ2R3JJbGpqN1ozcGl3QU1HRjlkdz09 Meeting ID: 824 3734 5103, Passcode: 253385, Phone: +1 646-876-9923 Ishmael Reed is the award-winning author of over twenty-five books including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: 24th Annual Poetry Ink, 100 Poets Reading

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435 Since 2006 Moonstone has had a party with 100 poets reading. This year is different. There will be no food, no gathering, no conversation. There will be a book and a virtual reading. Be part of our tradition of a marathon of poetry with both famous and […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Black Lives Matter 2020

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435  400 years in the making Is America finally ready to confront the past, present and future of systemic racism? What do you think? Poets Respond People in the street demanding the end of systemic racism, recognizing that it is embedded as normal practice, leading to discrimination in […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: Queer Poetics, Gala Mukomolova, Alina Pleskova, Galina Rymbu

Queer Poetics From the former Soviet Union https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83944818819?pwd=WlY2UkxGY0dyemNPSHgzczA1eXdWQT09 Meeting ID: 839 4481 8819, Passcode: 717435 Gala Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised, poet and essayist. Her full length poetry collection, Without Protection, is available through Coffee House Press. Her chapbook, One Above One Below: Positions & Lamentations, is available with YesYes Books. She is a recipient of the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading – New Voices: Emerging Poets, Cydney Brown, Husnaa Haajarah Hashim, and Teyanna Stone, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82855093815?pwd=Ryt0RzBqMmoyYWxJU3Q1YmJ2dnZmdz09 Meeting ID: 828 5509 3815  Passcode: 838862  Phone: 1-646 876 9923 US (New York) New Voices: Emerging Poets New Voices is a program designed for emerging poets under the age of 25. It aims to create a platform for young poets by welcoming them into the larger Philadelphia poetry collaborative and giving them the […]

Virtual Poetry Reading: F. X. Baird, Steve Burke, and Charles S. Carr, with Larry Robin

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737  Passcode: 678146  Phone: 1 646 876 9923 US (New York) F. X. Baird was born in Philadelphia, the youngest of 12 children. He studied with David Ignatow at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in the early 80’s and later at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow […]

Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Norma Ketzis Bernstock, Sean Hanrahan, and Elaine Terranova, with Charles S. Carr

699 Ranstead Street,Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia.   2021 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Writing During the Pandemic How have writers coped? Have they producd more or less? How has it effected what they write about? Their insights, observations, fears, hopes.   Norma Ketzis Bernstock – After retiring from […]