Tag: Music
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House Poet: Dead Presidents Club with Von Wise, Blake Melvine & DJ Donald Khaleel Mason
House Poet #27: Dead Presidents Club Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 7 p.m. at Fergie’s Pub. featuring: Von Wise, Blake Melvine and resident DJ Donald Khaleel Mason Von Wise received his MFA for Creative Writing from Florida International University and is the author of Grow a Cowboy, winner of the 2025 Beyond Words Poetry Chapbook Awards.…
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Live Poetry Reading: Music and Poetry
Moonstone Live Poetry Reading Music and Poetry Wednesday October 20, 2021 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 Meeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 Lindsay Hargrave is a poet with recent publications in giallo, Button Eye Review, Maudlin House, Wrongdoing, Rust + Moth and more. They…
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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…
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On Toni: She Was A Friend of My Mind
Tickets to this event are SOLD OUT. Event Overview The African American Museum in Philadelphia, alongside the Moonstone Arts Center and the Scribe Video Center, is hosting a three-part event in tribute to the award-winning novelist and poet who brought forth the prominent issues on race and identity into the american literary mainstream. The event…
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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
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Sounds & Words: A Fundraiser for The Moonstone Arts Center
Sounds & Words: A Fundraiser for the Moonstone Arts Center with Music, Poetry, Food, Cash Bar, Exhibits, Book Sales For 35 years, Moonstone Arts Center has brought Philadelphia the best in the performance and publication of poetry. To support this Philadelphia treasure, 11 poets and 2 bands will come together on one evening to remind…
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We Shall Overcome: Music in the Continuing Struggle for Freedom
We Shall Overcome: Music in the Continuing Struggle for Freedom Thursday October 16, 2014, 4pm Temple University, 1330 Polett Walk We Shall Overcome is a protest song that became a key anthem of the Civil Rights Movement is thought to be a derivative of I’ll Overcome Someday, written by Rev. Charles Albert Tindley (1851–1933) of…
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Speaking in Riddles, Singing in Codes
Speaking in Riddles, Singing in Codes Thursday October 16, 2014, 1pm Temple University, 1330 Polett Walk Supporters of the Underground Railroad created their own codes as a secret language in order to help slaves escape. Code words would be used in letters to “agents” so that if they were intercepted they would not be understood. Underground…
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Hayden Saunier & Elliott Levin
Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday February 19, 2014, 7pm Hayden Saunier & Elliott Levin Hayden Saunier is the author of two poetry collections, Tips for Domestic Travel, published by Black Lawrence Press and Say Luck, which just won the 2013 Gell Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in…
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Sonic Liberation Front
Wednesday December 19, 9pm – Jazz Sonic Liberation Front Known for its iconoclastic combination of Afro-Cuban percussion excitement, free-jazz passion and deep-loop groove, the Philadelphia ensemble practically invents a new genre with each composition. “Sonic Liberation Front is well on its way to becoming one of the more important American ensembles of the decade. Their…