Tag: open mic

  • Sekai-afua Zankel & Lester Mobley

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday August 20 2014 7:30pm Sekai’afua Zankel and & Lester Mobley   Sekai’afua Zankel was born on the first day of spring, destined to be an artist-activist. Her activism came through her fifteen years of working as administrative assistant for Father Paul Washington at the Church of…

  • Mel Brake, Diane Sahms-Guarnieri & g emil reutter

      Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday August 27, 2014 – 7pm     Mel Brake   is Founder and Executive Director of MPW Foundation, a non-profit organization focusing on using the arts to reach children in the tri-state area. He is an awarding winning Philadelphia based poet/singer/song writer and author of…

  • Amy Small-Mckinney & Elliott batTzedek

    Amy Small-McKinney is the author of a collection of poems, Life is Perfect (BookArts Press), and two chapbooks of poetry, Body of Surrender (2004) and Clear Moon, Frost (2009), both with Finishing Line Press. She was nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She was the 2011 Montgomery County Poet Laureate, selected by poet, Christopher Bursk.…

  • BJ Ward and Joe & Camille Nocella

    BJ Ward is the author of Jackleg Opera: Collected Poems 1990-2013, Gravedigger’s Birthday, 17 Love Poems with No Despair and Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands. His poetry has been featured on NPR, New Jersey Network and the web site Poetry Daily, as well as published in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The New York…

  • Jeffrey Ethan Lee, Christine Salvatore & Aaren Perry

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday July 23, 2014 – 7pm New poems from three global voices.   Jeffrey Ethan Lee’s towards euphoria was the co-winner of the editor’s poetry chapbook prize from Seven Kitchens Press. His dramatic poetry book, identity papers, was a 2006 Colorado Book Award finalist. His first full-length…

  • Open Mic with Philadelphia and New York Young Poets

    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop  728 S. Broad Street Monday April 28, 2014, 7pm   Open Mic with Philadelphia and New York Young Poets Please welcome students and staff from City-As-School High School, one of New York City’s oldest alternative high schools that offers students the opportunity to earn academic credit and gain real work…

  • Luray Gross & Chris Cunningham

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday March 12, 2014, 7pm Luray Gross & Chris Cunningham                         Chris Cunningham’s poetry and book reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Slate, and Best New Poets.…

  • E-Verse Equinox Presents Sarah Arvio, Jenn McCreary & H.R. Stoneback

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday March 19, 7pm E-Verse Equinox Presents Sarah Arvio, Jenn McCreary, and H. R. Stoneback   Sarah Arvio’s latest book is Night Thoughts: 70 Dream Poems & Notes from an Analysis, a hybrid work made up of poetry, essay, and memoir, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Her…

  • TONIGHT – 7pm – Winter Solstice Readings

    TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 7pm – POETRY WINTER SOLSTICE READINGSAn Open Reading Moderated by Ray Garman

  • Tuesday – 11/24 – 7pm – Lynn Levin & Rob Wright

    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 7pm – POETRY Moonstone Poetry Series Presents LYNN LEVIN & ROB WRIGHT Rob Wright has been a regular contributor to the magazine Big City Lit since 2001. He was awarded Fellowships in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2005 and 2007. His poetry has been published by Schuylkill Valley…