Tag: poetry

  • Deborah Fries & Lynn Levin

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday May 14, 2014, 7pm   Deborah Fries and Lynn Levin Deborah Fries is a native of Bedford, Pennsylvania, who currently lives in Elkins Park. The Bright Field of Everything is her second book of poetry. Named Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania by Galway Kinnell in 2006, she…

  • Sara Graybeal & Crystal Cheatham

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday May 21, 2014, 7pm Sara Graybeal & Crystal Cheatham   Sara Graybeal is a teaching artist, writer, and spoken word performer.  She is a member of the Backyard Writers Fiction Workshop, and is the founder of the Poeticians, a group of young activist poets based in…

  • M. Nzadi Zimele Keita, Sean Lynch & Lamont Steptoe

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday May 28, 2014 – 7pm Lamont B Steptoe, Nzadi Keita, Sean Lynch   M. Nzadi Zimele Keita is a Philly-born writer, editor, scholar and teacher. Her first book of poems, Birthmarks, documents a generation of African-Americans who experienced the Great Migration. She has received grants from…

  • MARGENTO & Martin Woodside

    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street. Saturday April 5 – 7pm  Athanor & Other Pohems by Romanian poet Gellu Naum,  Translated & Performed by MARGENTO  and Martin Woodside   MARGENTO (Chris Tanasescu) is a poet, academic, translator, and poetry performer whose pen-name is also the name of his poetry/action painting/jazz-rock band. Chris…

  • “Mentor & Mentored” Elijah B Pringle, III with Adriann “The Pen” Bautista & Jamarr Hall

    Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Studios  699 Ranstead Street Tuesday April 8, 2014, 7pm Elijah B Pringle, III with Adriann “The Pen” Bautista & Jamarr Hall Elijah B Pringle, III is an artist who continues to express himself in the Visual, Performing and Written Arts. He is a lyric baritone as well as a composer.  He…

  • Lynn Hoffman & Candace Riggs

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday April 9, 2014, 7pm Lynn Hoffman & Candace Riggs   Lynn Hoffman has been a merchant seaman, teacher, chef and cab driver. He’s published three novels, The Bachelor’s Cat, Philadelphia Personal and bang-BANG. He’s also written The New Short Course in Wine and The Short Course…

  • J.C. Todd, Elizabeth Catanese, Darla Himeles & Attractive Nuisance

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday April 16, 2014, 7pm J.C. Todd, Elizabeth Catanese,  Darla Himles & Attractive Nuisance   J. C. Todd’s recent work explores war’s infiltration into daily life. The author of What Space This Body, her work has appeared widely in journals such as the Paris Review, The American…

  • Lisa Coffman, Nathalie Anderson and W.D. Ehrhart

    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop 728 S. Broad Street. Saturday April 19 – 7pm Lisa Coffman, Nathalie Anderson and W.D. Ehrhart   Lisa Coffman grew up in East Tennessee and now lives on California’s Central Coast– a pair of landscapes that color and inspire her writing.  She is the author of two poetry collections, Less Obvious Gods,…

  • Lillian Dunn

    Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street. Wednesday April 23, 2014, 7pm   Poet Lillian Dunn is co-founder and executive editor APIARY Magazine, coordinates the UNCOMMON GROUNDS for which she was awarded a grant from the Leeway Foundation in 2012. She works at The Mighty Engine, an advertising firm in Old City, managing non-profit…

  • Open Mic with Philadelphia and New York Young Poets

    Moonstone Poetry @ Brandywine Workshop  728 S. Broad Street Monday April 28, 2014, 7pm   Open Mic with Philadelphia and New York Young Poets Please welcome students and staff from City-As-School High School, one of New York City’s oldest alternative high schools that offers students the opportunity to earn academic credit and gain real work…