How do you present (potentially) 300 poets when many viewers feel Zoomed out after just two hours? Our answer is to take an entire week to present our poets for about two hours each day.

Poets are organized alphabetically by last name. Below is the reading schedule for each day, with links to the readings.

Not all contributors will be reading.

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MONDAY, zoom link

Alandra Abrams
Fran Abrams
Liz Abrams-Morley
Michael Abreu
David Acosta
Carolyn Adams
Marjorie Agosin
Nathalie Anderson
Nathan Antoine
Meredith Avakian
Fran Baird
Kwame Bakari
Houston Baker
Floi Baker
John Balaban
Catherine Bancroft
JT Barbarese
Katherine Barham
Lisa Alexander Baron
Herschel Baron
Amy Barone
Peter Baroth
Tina Barr
Margaret Chew
Barringer
Samantha Barrow
Adriann Bautista
Siduri Beckman
Ken Been
Michele Belluomini
Norma Bernstock
Sylvia Beverly
Byron Beynon
Lili Bita
Pamela Blanding
Lynn Blue
Julia Blumenreich
Willeena Booker
Elizabeth Boquet
Matilda Bray
Joni brenner
R. Bremner
Eugene Brown
Deborah brown
Megan Brown
Margaret Brown
Mary Brownell
Lisa Bruckman
Steve Burke

TUESDAY, zoom link

Dennis Brutus
Barbara Carlson
Charles Carr
Aileen Cassinetto
Erin Castaldi
Grace Cavalieri
Sandra Chaff
Joseph Chelius
China Rain Chung
Ty Clark
Eulinda Antonette
Clarke-Akalanne
CA Conrad
Jim Cory
Beverly Cottman
Lynda V. E. Crawford
Terence Culleton
Raheem Curry
Craig Czury
Eileen D’Angelo
Steven Davison
Toi Derricotte
Steven Deutsch
Gregory Djanikian
Pheralyn Dove
Tom Driscoll
Carlos Dufflar
Terry Dugan
Philip Dykhouse
Mare Earley
RuNett Ebp
Ryan Eckes
Oliver Egger
W.D. Ehrhart
Helene Eisman Fisher
Massimo Elijah
Alfred Encarnacion
Martin Espada
Cole Eubanks
R.G. Evans
Katherine Falk
Linda Fischer
Peggy Fisher
Francis Flavin
Philip Foster
Bryan Franco
Daisy Fried
Deborah Fries

WEDNESDAY, zoom link

Keith Gaboury
Nina Gadson
Maria Gillan
Eli Goldblatt
Leonard Gontarek
Amy Gordon
Beulah Gordon-Skinner
Linda Goss
Sandy Green
Ray Greenblatt
Ona Gritz
Luray Gross
Gena Gruz
Hanoch Guy
Anna Halberstadt
Vernita Hall
Therese Halscheid
Sean Hanrahan
Michael Hardin
Anne Harding Woodworth
Laura Hawley
Maurice Henderson
Alison Hicks
Ernest Hilbert
Everett Hoagland
Ditta Hoeber
Ann Huang
Joan Huffman
Susan Hulbert
Barbara Hurwitz
Jane Ellen Ibur
Jack Israel
Jaz
Mary Jo Jerome
Irving Jones
Quincy Jones
Betti Kahn
Chris Kaiser
Carl Kaucher
Nzadi Keita
Aziza Kinteh
KIRAAT KIRAAT
Rachel Kiskaddon
Jody Kolodzey
Lisa Konigsberg
Kathleen Kremins
Leonard Kress
Donald Krieger

THURSDAY, zoom link

Ed Krizek
Jim LaVilla-Havelin
Kyle Laws
Jeffrey Lee
Lynn Levin
Michael Levin
Elliott Levin
Antoinette Libro
Carey Link
Jewel Lloyd
Robin Longfield
Warren Longmire
Gregory Loselle
Dick Lourie
Gregory Loselle
Dick Lourie
Frederick Lowe
Alison Lubar
Lynette
Nick Lutwyche
Sean Lynch
Deidra Lyngard
Terri Lyons
Alina Macneal
Haki Madhubuti
Ann Malaspina
Norman Marshall
Angel Martinez
John Mason
Trapeta Mayson
Bernadette McBride
Octavia McBride-Ahebee
Cecelia McKinney
Austin McLain
Pat McLean
Diane McManus
Tony Medina
Barbara Meier
Drew Miller
Ethelbert Miller
Michael Miller
Helen Markil
Gail Mitchell
Abbe Mogell
Curtis Mohn
David Mook
Kathleen Moore
Michael Moss
Iryna Mozovaya
Peter E. Murphy

FRIDAY, zoom link

Charlotte Muse
Wun Kuen Ng
Thom Nickels
Leonard Niedermayer
Gloria Nixon-John
Stu O’Connor
Daniel O’Hara
Cynthia Oka
Ewuare Osayande
Alicia Ostriker
Marko Otten
Hermond Palmer
Our Sun Paul
Faith Paulsen
Joan Penn
Aaren Perry
John Polier
Steve Pollack
Kate Potter
Prabha Prabhu
Susana Praver-Perez
Halle Preneta
Elijah Pringle
Elijah Pryor
David Radavich
Margaret Randall
Patrick Reardon
Tennessee Reed
Don Riggs
Theresa Rodriguez
Ruth Rouff
Ursula Rucker
Destiny Samuel
Sonia Sanchez
Hayden Saunier
George Schaefer
Nina Schafer
Peter Schmidt
Jennifer Schneider
Esther Schnur-Berlot
Naila Schulte
Connie Wasem Scott
Fereshteh Sholevar
Alyson Shore Adler
Daniel Simpson
David R. Slavitt
Bob Small
Amy Small-McKinney

SATURDAY, zoom link

Christopher Sohnly
Ezra Solway
Meghan Sood
Charles Springer
Mbarek Sryfi
Lamont Steptoe
Jeanne Sutton
Kristen Swanson
Abigail Swoboda
Albert Tacconelli
Therese Taha
Elaine Terranova
Kelly Thompson
Melinda Thomsen
Esha Thornton
Terry Tierney
J. C. Todd
Jonathon Todd
Bevil Townsend
Sarah Trembath
Sandra Turner-Barnes
Bill Van Buskirk
Aliya Vance
Lois Villemaire
Elle Vintage
Brad Walrond
Dan Warner
Mercedes Weathers
Afaa Weaver
Kelley White
Diane Wilbon Parks
Roland Williams
Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon
Eleanor Wilner
Johnny Wilson
Rocky Wilson
Yolanda Wisher
MM Wittle
Donna Wolf-Palacio
Nellie Wong
Keith Woodrow
David Worrell
Samantha Wright
Sarah Zale
Robert Zaller
Sekai’afua Zankel
Daniel Zehner
Yelena Zotova
David Zuckerman

Moonstone began in 1981 when Larry Robin began to present writers at Robin’s Book Store, thousands of writers, poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers have read over the last 40 years. Poetry Ink started in 1996 as a benefit for the bookstore, where the cost of attendance was the purchase of a book. It has continued as our largest program, usually about 100 poets reading for six hours or so with an anthology that included those poets reading that year. This year is different, we have reached out to any poet who has ever read with us, and we are still functioning virtually. Our 25th annual Poetry Ink Anthology has 300 poets, some who are now famous and read here years ago and others who we just met. About half of the people who contribute to our anthologies are usually available to read, and I am never sure exactly who will show up.