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Tag: poetry

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Toast Café featuring Christopher Bernard and . Luke Stromberg

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    Christopher Bernard is author of A Spy in the Ruins, Voyage to a Phantom City, Dangerous Stories for Boys and others. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction, poetry, essays, plays, and criticism.. He lives in San Francisco. Luke Stromberg has published work in Rotary Dial, Victorian Violet Journal, Tower Journal, Shot Glass…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub presenting Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse

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    Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse by Grace Bauer, Editor ($24.00,  Lost Horse Press) Poets reading include Grace Bauer, Kim Bridgeford, Emari DiGiorgio, Corie Feiner, Ona Gritz, Harriet Levin, Lynn Levin, Carolina Morales & Nancy Reddy – Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse is an anthology of poems from women…

  • Moonstone @ Communally Presents Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy

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      Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph over Democracy by Corey Dolgon ($34.95 -University of Chicago Press) Books will be available to purchase and be autographed “To understand the popularity of Italian Fascism in the ’30s, we needed Antonio Gramsci. To understand the popular malaise among the US middle class in the…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub featuring Megan Gillespie and Aubrey Rehab

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    Megan Gillespie is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, New Delta Review and Cimarron Review. Aubrey Rehab is the founder of South Jersey Poets Collective and hosts ‘World Above: Free Poetry Nights’ at Dante Hall in…

  • Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub Featuring Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Lillian Dunn, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

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      Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, a fitful Philadelphian who likes to make things (often poems), is the author of “The Self, it’s nothing personal”, the first of two chapbook projects forthcoming with Waterhouse Ltd. Her work has also been published in Whirlwind Magazine Lillian Dunn studied community literary projects in Argentina as a Fulbright scholar before moving to…

  • PHILLY LOVES HAIKU – Host: Charles S. Carr

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    2017 Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series on PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street Did you know that there are over 50 organizations that promote poetry in the Philadelphia area? They represent every poetry form, every ethnic background, every age, gender and community. This series ll consist of an interview with the directors of these groups…

  • Moonstone Poetry at Brandywine Workshop and Archive, 728 S. Broad Street

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    Shevaun Brannigan is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, as well as The Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Best New Poets, Rhino, Washington Square Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Tim Lynch has published   with Mead, War, Literature, and the Arts, HEArt Online, Whirlwind, & Radius. He was awarded a 2015 Piper Global…

  • Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Alicia Askenase, Julia Blumenrich, and Nina Schafer

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    Alicia Askenase is a poet and educator who has taught in Puerto Rico, Spain and the US, is the author of the chapbooks Cover, Suspect, The Luxury of Pathos and Shirley Shirley.  Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Review Revista Americana, 5trope, sonaweb, texture, Chain, Black and New Works by Philadelphia Poets.  She was a founding co-editor of the poetry journal 6ix and Literary Program Director…

  • Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Richard Bank, Ryan Eckes, and Al Tacconelli

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    Richard Bank’s poetry has appeared in numerous small press poetry journals. He has conducted a poetry reading series for the Mad Poets Society in the Philadelphia area. Bank has conducted Continuing Legal Education courses on jury techniques, and serves as an adjunct professor at Villanova Law School. Ryan Eckes’ narrative-driven poetry is, in his words, “a possible form…

  • Moonstone Poetry at Fergie’s Pub: Featuring Ona Gritz and Daniel Simpson

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    Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson ($14.99, August 2017) The poems in Border Songs offer more than a conversation between poets: they’re conversant, knowledgeable, informed by eros, loss, delight, curiosity, and intimate wisdom. This collection stays long after you’ve stopped reading to meditate alone about body and soul. –Stephen Kuusisto Ona Gritz’s first…