Tag: Moonstone Press

  • Moonstone Presents: Alicia Askenase, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Heather H. Thomas

    Moonstone Presents: Alicia Askenase, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Heather H. Thomas

    Alicia Askenase has written four poetry chapbooks, including The Luxury of Pathos (Texture Press) and Shirley Shirley (Sonaweb). She was an Editor’s Choice for the 2018 Sandy Crimmins Prize, which appears in Philadelphia Stories. Additionally, her publications include, New Works by Philadelphia Poets, The Manhattanville Review, The Big Muddy, and Poems for the Writing: Prompts…

  • Moonstone Press: Mass Chapbook Release Event

    Moonstone Press: Mass Chapbook Release Event

    Erin Castaldi This book conquers some commonly held beliefs by people of the simplicity and lackluster of the haiku poem. Gregory Loselle has won awards at The University of Michigan, won The Academy of American Poets Prize, the William van Wert Fiction Award from Hidden River Arts, and The Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for Playwriting. Frederick Lowe has…

  • Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

    Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

    Join us in celebrating the life and work of renowned poet Amiri Baraka on his 85th birthday! A dramatist, novelist, and poet whose career spanned over fifty years, he is one of the most respected and widely published African American writers. Poets will read their contributions to the Moonstone Chapbook, Remembering Amiri Baraka.  (Available for…

  • Brother Jahi, Kyu & Barrett Rosser @ Fergie’s Pub

    The Philadelphia Writing Project Presents: Silvino J. Alexander Jr., “Brother Jahi” is an educator, poet, author, and mentor/consultant currently residing in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. His poetry reflects the uncompromising reality of this world. Sydney Hunt Coffin has taught English, Poetry, and Art in Philadelphia, worked with the Advisory Council of the…

  • Chapbook Release Party: 5 Featured Authors @ Fergie’s Pub

    Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Chapbook Release Party & Reading Leonard Kress has published poetry and fiction in Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review among others. His recent collections are The Orpheus Complex, Walk like Bo Diddley, Living in the Candy Store, and Other…

  • New Voices: Matilda Bray, Elisha Gibson, & Bella Randazzo @ Shakespeare & Co.

    Moonstone Poetry @ Shakespeare & Co. – 1632 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets Matilda Bray (14) “Matilda’s ability to focus on one or two unifying images and mine them metaphorically is extraordinary. Matilda is a brave and gifted poet.” – Joanne Leva, executive director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate…

  • Poetry & Humor: Hannah McDonald, Scott Sigl, & Jonathon Todd @ Fergie’s Pub

    Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub – Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Poetry & Humor with Hannah McDonald, who has performed at The Bechdel Test fest, the National Poetry Slam, etc Scott Sigl is a musician, poet, and teacher who has performed poems, as well as haikus in Boston, Charlotte, Oakland, New York, Jonathon Todd is…

  • Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie’s Pub

    Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows

  • Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow

    Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm   Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since…

  • Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow

    Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow

    THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring…   Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane.         Deborah Turner writes fiction…