Moonstone Arts Center

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  • Moonstone Presents: Candida Rodriguez & BJ Schwartz

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    Larry Robin

    Candida Rodriguez grew up in Puerto Rico where she developed a passion for reading and writing. When she turned 16 years old, she moved to Camden, where she joined her parents and two siblings. Her passion is in writing fantasy and science fiction, but has found a home in the lyricism of poetry and is a…

  • Featured Readers: Angel Hogan & David Kertis

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    Larry Robin

    Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday May 23, 2018 – 7pm Angel Hogan & David Kertis Angel Hogan has performed as part of the Black Women’s Arts Festival, Literary Death Match, Moonstone Presents, First Person Arts and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Angel worked with ArtWell, was a Contributing Editor to…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street, Wednesday February 28th, 2018 – 7pm

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    Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem, Palestine and moved to the U.S. when he was 18 years old. He is a poet, scholar, and translator of Arabic literature. His set of poems “Recourse,” won the 2017 Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Jacket 2, Track//Four, All Roads Will Lead You Home, Apiary…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub

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    Continuing our Wednesday night readings at Fergie’s and sending us into the second month of 2018 will be a few familiar faces in Nathelie Anderson, Alicia Askenase, and Herman Beavers! More details tba

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub

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    Readers tba Open mic will follow Hosted by Jennifer Hook and Alina MacNeal

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub

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    Jacob Russell lives in South Philly where he writes, plays barroom pool, and grows tomatoes and basil in the little strip of a garden in front of his apartment. Paul Siegell is the author of  wild life rifle fire, jambandbootleg and Poemergency Room. He has contributed to American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Coconut, Rattle, and…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café

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     Sarah Blake is the author of two poetry collections, Let’s Not Live on Earth and Mr. West. An illustrated workbook accompanies her chapbook, Named After Death. In 2013, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her debut novel, Naamah is forthcoming. Nomi Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class is forthcoming, based…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street

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        Brandon H. Blake has been an artist throughout his life, eventually studying Fine Arts at Millersville University. Primarily, he has been writing haikus as well as exploring other traditional forms of poetry throughout the last ten to fifteen years.     Poet and lyricist Beulah Gordon-Skinner has featured at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival,…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Panio Gianopoulos, Henry Israeli, Eugenia Leigh & Megan Staffel

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    Panio Gianopoulos is the author of the story collection, How to Get into Our House and Where We Keep the Money and the novella, A Familiar Beast. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Tin House, Northwest Review, Salon, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Big Fiction, and elsewhere. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for nonfiction literature,…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Eliza Callard, Lucy Bell Sellers, and Fritz Ward

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    Eliza Callard is a Philly gal, and still lives in the Germantown rowhouse she grew up in.  She likes to run in the Wissahickon and kayak in the Schuylkill, she has been published widely. Lucy Bell Sellers lives in Germantown, taught theatre at Germantown  Friends and at College of the Atlantic. She has written poetry…