Tag: poetry reading
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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…
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Wednesday March 18, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Pub
Wednesday March 18, 2026 – LIVE at Fergie’s Featuring: Vincent Bush, Demetra De’Vine, William E. Heston, Matthew Klauber, and Sean Hanrahan as Host Vincent Bush is a Philadelphia-based mixed media artist and poet. Through his chosen mediums, Vincent explores healing, identity, and the power of love, often using the heart as a universal symbol that transcends…
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Sunday March 15, 2026 – Latinx Voices in Poetry: Poetry Without Borders – VIRTUAL
Sunday March 15, 2026 – Latinx Voices in Poetry: Poetry Without Borders Register Here: Latinx Voices in Poetry: Virtual Poetry Reading This anthology will include three sections: Remembering Marjorie Agosin, Remembering Ernesto Cardenzal, and Latinx Voices in Poetry: Poetry Without Borders – Poetry by Latin American Poets both in the US and Latin America
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Saturday March 7, 2026 – ICE OUT – LIVE READING
Saturday March 7, 2026 – ICE OUT – LIVE READING At Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine Street, Philadelphia Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are acting like the Nazi German SS who were tasked with detection of potential enemies of the state, the neutralization of opposition and providing domestic and foreign intelligence. The SS…