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January 2024
Live Poetry: Jonathan Koven, Pat Rodgers, and Robert Zell
Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines, Below Torrential Hill (EE) a winner of the Electric Eclectic Novella Prize, and Mystic Orchards, Grew up on Long Island, NY. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from American University, works as a technical writer, and reads chapbooks for Moonstone Arts. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Delana, and their cats Peanut Butter and Keebler. He has had both fiction and poetry published, by Assure Press, Animal Heart Press, Thirty…
Find out more »Live Poetry: W.D. Ehrhart and M.L. Liebler
Wednesday January 24, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And on Zoom: ttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodOmrqz8sEtaWMbfHtRb-xMHXESjVcrpm W. D. Ehrhart, Poet, Writer, Scholar and Teacher began writing when he was 15 years old and has been writing more or less continuously ever since. His first published work, a poem about Swarthmore College, appeared seven years later in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the following year eight of his poems were included in Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam…
Find out more »Live Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
Sunday January 28, 2024 – 2pm Live at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event over Zoom on Monday. Last year we presented…
Find out more »Virtual Poetry: 27th Annual Poetry Ink
27th Annual Poetry Ink Anthology Monday, January 29th, 2024 - 2PM Virtual on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqduytqjwjG9dP-hVrP8szAyz7uxDeUXTe We want you all: published poets, unpublished poets, academic poets, street poets, poets who write Sonnet, Villanelle, Haiku, Ekphrastic Poems, Concrete Poems, Epitaph, Elegy, Epigram, Limerick, Ballad, Ode, Free Verse. Join us for our 27th year of presenting 100 poets reading in alphabetical order. We will have the live event at the Rotunda on Sunday and a Virtual event on zoom on Monday. Last year…
Find out more »Live Poetry: House Poet @ Fergie’s with Lindsay Hargrave and Noah David Roberts
Wednesday, January 31st - 7PM Live at Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street And over Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYpd--tpj4uEtTGjg-a2O9NZBvpHqx9GFyw Welcome to House Poet @ Fergie's Since March 2022, House Poet has strived to bring together writers, dancers, DJs and musicians alike. Join us in 2024 as we bring that energy to Moonstone's Poetry Nights at Fergie's, featuring an open reading, featured readers, live music and a soundtrack you can bounce to. Lindsay Hargrave is a poet, editor at Graphic Violence, and a copywriter…
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Virtual Poetry: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM with g emil reutter
Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Featuring - g emil reutter Tuesday February 6, 2024 - 6:30pm – EST - VIRTUAL Watch for free on the PhillyCAM website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 in Philadelphia. g emil reutter is a writer of poems and stories. 18 collections of his poetry and fiction have been published, most recently, Until Next Time - Selected Poems 1990-2022. A chapbook, Glint- Down the Shore Poems is pending release. He can be found…
Find out more »Live Poetry: Emiliano Martín, Diane McManus, Keith Woodrow, & Robert Zaller
Wednesday February 7, 2024 – 7pm -LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub - 1214 Sansom Street and on zoom OR on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcOigqz4qHtCj5tnSWrCaVRobrdm0Q2HM Emiliano Martín is Spanish born and an advocate of the spoken word, he is the founder of Philadelphia Poetry Forum for the NE Regional Public Library. Past President of Pennsylvania Poetry Society (PPS, Inc) has also served as the Executive Director of Latin American Guild for the Arts (LAGA) in Philadelphia. Author of more than a…
Find out more »Virtual Poetry: David Eberhardt, Stephen Jones, Marjorie Moorhead, Daniel Williams, & Samantha Wright
Thursday February 8, 2024 – 7pm -Virtual Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrce-spj4pE9Jq0ZszDJHI7vYgFYFf19BY David Eberhardt, author of Melange, The Tree Calendar, Blue Running Lights, and Poems from the Website, was born in 1941. He retired in 2010 from 33 years of work in the criminal INjustice system at the Baltimore City jail. With Father Phil Berrigan and two others he poured blood on draft files in 1967 to protest the Viet Nam war. For that action, he spent 21 months in Lewisburg Federal…
Find out more »Live Poetry: Joshua Barnes, Sarah Browning, Eileen M. D’Angelo, & Juniper Sweeney
Moonstone Poetry Readings Wednesday February 14, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub - 1214 Sansom Street OR Join Us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqc-GrqzwrHNS3jAMLOupFHyUci7eweq4_ Joshua Barnes lives in Philadelphia with his husband. His poetry has previously appeared in &Change, Olney Magazine, Impossible Archetype, Philadelphia Stories, and Moonstone Press. When not writing, he can be found reading poetry, horror fiction, and comic books, and perfecting his handstands. He can be found on Instagram @ jsb1800. Sarah Browning is the author…
Find out more »Virtual Poetry – Fatal Force: Poetic Justice
Fatal Force: Poetic Justice Saturday February 17, 2024 – 7pm EST Virtual Join us on Zoom (Registration Required): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsduGuqTgjEtIm1XVEz94i3LTtCLb8iG5D As of December 4, 2023, 1085 people have been killed by police in the United States (Mapping Police Violence 2023). Police officer, Mark Dial shot and killed Eddie Irizarry on August 14, 2023. On August 15th, Philadelphia police changed their story, stating that Irizarry was actually in the car when he was shot six times. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw stated that officers'…
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