Tag: reading

  • Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023

    Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023

    Live Poetry: Featured Readers 2023 Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 In 2023, Moonstone Arts Center hosted over 100 events with almost 300 poets and an […]

  • Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher

    Live Poetry: Elliott Levin, Ursula Rucker, and Yolanda Wisher

    Elliott Levin, author of does it swing and his newest poetry CD A Word by Any Other Name is a Philadelphia jazz legend. He has a quite active career as a published poet and likes to combine the two aesthetics in his performances. Ursula Rucker is an interdisciplinary poet, performer, and recording artist whose work…

  • New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading

    New Voices Fall 2023: Virtual Reading

    Virtual Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 19th at 2pm Via Zoom (registration required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuqpqTwoHt2LdMLO0LIelaovDd0q08NP Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young […]

  • E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff

    E-Verse Equinox Reading Series: Kathleen Ossip & Robyn Schiff

    Live poetry reading in collaboration with E-Verse Equinox Reading Series. Kathleen Ossip’s books include July, one of NPR’s best books of 2021; The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011; The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book…

  • Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading

    Diane Sahms: Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading

    Diane Sahms, a native Philadelphian, is author of six poetry collections, most recently City of Shadow & Light (Philadelphia), 2022, with her latest chapbook, Luna, the lesser light available from Moonstone Press, 2023. Winner of several poetry awards, including the Partisan Press Award, and recipient of an AEVentures Foundation Grant for Poetry. Former high school English teacher, she works full…

  • Which Side Are You On? – Labor Day 2023 Anthology Reading

    Which Side Are You On? – Labor Day 2023 Anthology Reading

    Labor is increasingly militant after years of inaction. Moonstone’s Labor Day Anthology for 2023 builds on this momentum with over 70 poets sharing their experiences, memories, and hopes for the labor movement. The accompanying anthology includes photos taken by Frank Espada and poetry written by his son, the author and people’s attorney, Martín Espada.

  • Live Poetry: Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg

    Live Poetry: Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, & Nicole Steinberg

    Poetry with Lauren Holguin, Gabriel Ramirez, and Nicole Steinberg with an open reading. Lauren Holguin is a writer, educator & dancer, she teaches K-12 neurodivergent students and is the Co-creator of Spit Poetry reading series, assistant poetry editor at Barrelhouse Magazine. Gabriel Ramirez is a Queer Afro-Latinx writer, performer and educator. Gabriel has been featured…

  • Virtual: Winners of 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest

    Virtual: Winners of 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest

    Winners of the 2022 Moonstone Chapbook Contest Sunday, August 27 @ 2pm Virtual on Zoom, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUucumgqT4pGtIQzeCL8bdb_uJmWhjgKSwh Chad Frame (winning chapbook Smoking Shelter) is the author of Little Black Book (2022, nominated for the […]

  • Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Mikey Franz, & Faith Paulsen

    Live Poetry: Mac Chandler, Mikey Franz, & Faith Paulsen

    Mac Chandler is a recent graduate of The University Of The Arts. She has been published in HASH magazine, Rappahannock Review, and High Shelf Press. Mikey Franz is a writer & composer from the Philadelphia area who uses his work to explore the relationship between music & language. His debut chapbook, Terrestrial Sanctuaries was published…

  • August 28th Poetry Reading with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Nora Hikari and Topaz Winters

    August 28th Poetry Reading with Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Nora Hikari and Topaz Winters

    Moonstone Poetry Reading LIVE at Fergie’s Pub 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Registration Required for zoom – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pcO-rrTgrGN2rrMno2LEP59ULoh3-7_Bf Sunday August 28, 2022 – 7pm Tsering Wangmo Dhompa […]