Tag: poetry

  • Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

    Remembering Amiri Baraka, Book Release & Reading

    Join us in celebrating the life and work of renowned poet Amiri Baraka on his 85th birthday! A dramatist, novelist, and poet whose career spanned over fifty years, he is one of the most respected and widely published African American writers. Poets will read their contributions to the Moonstone Chapbook, Remembering Amiri Baraka.  (Available for…

  • Moonstone Presents: Amy Jannotti, Jay Margraf, Charles Springer

    Moonstone Presents: Amy Jannotti, Jay Margraf, Charles Springer

    Amy Jannotti lives with several small animals and a multitude of dried flowers. Her poetry and fiction has appeared in Calliope magazine, Charge! and Z Publishing House’s Pennsylvania’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction.  Jay Margraf is a poet, educator, grad student, and queer transman currently living and learning in Oaklyn, NJ. His poetry provides commentary on masculinity,…

  • 2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM

    2019 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading Series at PhillyCAM

    (Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia.) The program is broadcast live on the first Tuesday of each month. The program is free and open to everyone. Please join us. The mission of Philadelphia Stories is to cultivate a community of writers, artists, and readers in the Greater Philadelphia Area through publications, professional…

  • Brother Jahi, Kyu & Barrett Rosser @ Fergie’s Pub

    The Philadelphia Writing Project Presents: Silvino J. Alexander Jr., “Brother Jahi” is an educator, poet, author, and mentor/consultant currently residing in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. His poetry reflects the uncompromising reality of this world. Sydney Hunt Coffin has taught English, Poetry, and Art in Philadelphia, worked with the Advisory Council of the…

  • 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

  • 2019 Philly Loves Poetry and New Voices @ PhillyCAM (Watch Live on Cable!)

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  • Moonstone Presents: Patrick Blagrave, Fae Aspen Gehringer & Octavia McBride-Ahebee

    Patrick Blagrave is a poet from Philadelphia, currently at work on a chapbook about student loan debt. He is on the editorial board of The Painted Bride Quarterly and is the founder and editor of Prolit, a literary magazine about class, work, and money. His work can be found in Bedfellows, Apiary, and Mad House…

  • Fran Baird @ Fergie’s

    Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his…

  • Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow

    Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm   Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since…

  • Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow

    Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow

    THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring…   Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane.         Deborah Turner writes fiction…