Tag: poetry reading
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Painting in the Dark: An Artistic Collaboration
Saturday, July 11th, 2026 – 4 to 7 pm City Arts Salon, 5838 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144 Painting in the Dark interrogates the hideousness of war, addiction, and delusion with the consolation concluding poet John Lavin’s final poem, –but that’s all we have is each other. Illustrators Gregorio Torres, III and Janelle Robinson have…
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Live Poetry: Indran Amirthanayagam, Claudia Gary, & Mike Jurkovic
Wednesday July 8, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, youtube host and diplomat. He writes in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Haitian Creole and is the author of 30 books and translations. He edits the Beltway Poetry Quarterly, writes a weekly poem for Haiti en Marche and El Acento;…
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Live Poetry: Vasiliki Argyris & William Lessard
Vasiliki Argyris looks for the threads that bind history, poetry, and walking the earth. Her work can be found in Voicemail Poems, Pamphilet, and Works & Days. William Lessard writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, and others, he is the Poetry & Hybrids editor at Heavy Feather Review.
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Wednesday May 27, 2026 – 7pm LIVE
Wednesday May 27, 2026 – 7pm LIVE @ FERGIES Featuring: Alexander Khan, Dustin Wright, and Mac Chandler as host Alexander Khan is a poet, he is also a member of a big family in a small house, and a pharmacy staff for children. His work reflects these places and the different person he becomes in…
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Live Reading: Featured Poets 2025
Saturday, May 16 2026 – 2pm ET Philadelphia Central Library, Literature Department – 1901 Vine Street Featured Poets from 2025 Moonstone presents over 100 poetry readings a year, creates a book with some of the presenters poems, and has a live and virtual reading. This is it. Featured Poets (not all poets will be reading):…
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Virtual: Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2025
Moonstone Chapbook Contest Winners 2025 Sunday April 26, 2026 @ 2pm ET – VIRTUAL https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/NOIi7-_lSja6fp2YjqQPgw The Winning Manuscript: All at Once by Lucia Owen Unsentimental yet open hearted, these poems capture a married couple’s long and loyal love. The voice is older. The voice is precise, wise, stoic, and self-reliant. It confronts old age with…
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Wednesday May 13, 2026 – LIVE @ 7pm
Wednesday May 13, 2026 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War offers a groundbreaking and vital perspective on war’s destruction of the natural world—the creatures, plants, soil, water, and atmosphere of Earth. In poems and contextual comments, 61 contemporary poets…
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Wednesday May 6, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE
Wednesday May 6, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub Featuring: Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Raina J. León, ariel rosé Dilruba (Ruba) Ahmed is the author of Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, The Slowdown, and Poetry Unbound. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review,…
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Sunday April 26, 2026
Sunday April 26, 2026 – VIRTUAL at 2pm Moonstone Chapbook Contest 2025 – Reading Featuring: The Winning Manuscript: All at Once by Lucia Owen High Honorable Mention: Tarifa Moon by Bill O’Connell Honorable Mention: Bright Clatter by Susan Coppock Honorable Mention: Shadow House by Ada Lowenthal PLUS These Exceptional Poets Aliyah Cotton, author of…
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Sunday April 12 – LIVE
Sunday April 12, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub @ 3pm Featuring: Joseph Chelius, Lee Stockdale, Anne-Adele Wight, and Aaron Perry as Host Joseph Chelius is the author of five collections of poems and is a former Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet. Lee Stockdale has won the United Kingdom National Poetry Prize, Montana Prize for Humor, Sidney Lanier…