A reading from our Remembering anthology series. Charles Bukowski was a prolific underground writer whose work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories, and eventually publishing over sixty books. Join us as poets continue his tradition.
Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Sunday, August 27 @ 2pm Virtual on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh Chad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry […]
Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 19th at 2pm Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a […]
Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM: Autumn McClintock Tuesday January 9, 2023 @ 6:30pm VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. Autumn McClintock is a freelance writer and editor living in Germantown. Her newest chapbook, Dirt Bird, was recently published by Alexandria Quarterly Press, and poems of […]
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Featuring – g emil reutter Tuesday February 6, 2024 – 6:30pm – EST – VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have […]
Thursday February 8, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrce-spj4pE9Jq0ZszDJHI7vYgFYFf19BY David Eberhardt, author of Melange, The Tree Calendar, Blue Running Lights, and Poems from the Website, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two […]
Freedom 2024 Anthology Reading Sunday July 14, 2024 2pm on Zoom Zoom Meeting ID 829 9128 3645 – Passcode 060433 Registration Link – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuiqpjgsHtFxxxyjfTkHXjIJkgSPg2tA Freedom The United States celebrates Independence on July 4 France celebrates Bastille Day on July 14 The struggle for freedom and independence is universal. What does Freedom mean to you? […]
Tribute to Sonia Sanchez Sunday September 15th, 2024 – 2pm VIRTUAL Registration Link https://us05web.zoom.us/j/83627572456?pwd=JE0PCSxPn26WT6hBZ8aSmXHm0PqDxo.1 Happy 90th Birthday, Sonia Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes […]
Moonstone Poetry presents 28th Annual Poetry Ink Reading VIRTUAL Monday, September 30th, 2024, 7pm Online via Zoom, register here: https://us05web.zoom.us/j/88202311343?pwd=02AJS9GK5vIYcvL5dLXwwa7mJARNDc.1 We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse, and all other forms. Join […]
Remembering Louis McKee (July 31, 1951– November 21, 2011) Sunday November 24, 2024@ 2pm EDT – VIRTUAL On Zoom, register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceChqzgjGdayBxHLCQaGDjDwjYHv85Xm Louis McKee was an American poet and a fixture of the Philadelphia poetry scene from the early 1970s. He was the author of Schuylkill County, The True Speed of Things, and fourteen other […]
