Poetry Reading: Cydney Brown, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, & Lawrence Dugan

Wednesday, 12/27 LIVE @ Fergie’s Pub 7PM ET & on Zoom Zoom Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvcOGspzgiG9ISfRlJNdRQj2faXJsWhktf Cydney Brown is the 2023 Northeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate and author of Daydreaming. She is a Sophomore at Northwestern University and has been writing poetry since she was in 5th grade. Savannah Cooper-Ramsey’s published an …

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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 and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25. It includes a monthly reading series and a …

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New Voices Fall 2023: Live Reading

Live Reading: New Voices Fall 2023 November 16th at 6pm Hosted: Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine Street In cooperation with the Literature Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia Celebrate the release of our Fall 2023 volume of the New Voices anthology for young and emerging poets! New Voices is series for emerging poets between …

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Live Poetry: Jane-Rebecca Cannarella, Josh Dale, Shannon Frost Greenstein, & Christina Rosso-Schneider

Live Poetry reading at Fergie’s Pub. Jane-Rebecca Cannarella (she/her) is a writer, editor, and salt enthusiast living in Philadelphia. She is the editor of HOOT Review and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit, and a former genre editor at Lunch Ticket. Josh Dale is a native Pennsylvanian and the author of the novella, The Light to Never Be Snuffed (Alien Buddha Press, 2022,) and the poetry collection, Duality Lies Beneath (Thirty West Publishing, 2016.) Shannon Frost Greenstein (she/her) resides in Philadelphia with her children and soulmate. She is the author of “Pray for Us Sinners,” a fiction collection with Alien Buddha Press, and “An Oral History of One Day in Guyana,” a chapbook forthcoming from Bullsh*t Lit. Shannon is a former Ph.D. candidate in Continental Philosophy and a multi-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Christina Rosso-Schneider (she/they) is a writer, educator, and bookstore owner living outside of Philadelphia with her bearded husband and rescue pups. She is the author of CREOLE CONJURE (Maudlin House, 2021) and SHE IS A BEAST (APEP Publications, 2020). Currently, she teaches in the humanities department at Moore College of Art and through Rosemont College’s MFA Writer’s Studio.

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 Prize; and two chapbooks, Cinephrastics and Little Poems. Her poems have appeared widely in such publications as The Washington Post, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Magazine Writing, and The New York Review of Books. She teaches at The New School and at Princeton University, and she has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. Robyn Schiff is the author of four collections of poetry, including the volume Information Desk: An Epic, out from Penguin in August of 2023 and A Woman of Property (Penguin, 2016), which was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. Schiff is an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard, a co-editor of Canarium Books, and is the recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize. She recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Open Reading Follows

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 time for the government and is poetry editor of North of Oxford.

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

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 in Huffington Post, VIBE Magazine, The Flama, Remezcla, and others. Nicole Steinberg is the author of Glass Actress, Getting Lucky, and multiple chapbooks. Her work has been featured or reviewed in the New York Times, Newsweek, Flavorwire, Bitch, and Hyperallergic. She was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA.

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 Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid. He is Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County, PA, the Poetry …

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Live Poetry: Marion Deutsche Cohen, Paige Menton, & Aaron Poochigian

Marion Deutsche Cohen is known for poetry and memoir on three topics: spousal chronic illness, late pregnancy loss, and math. She is the author of 33 books; her newest poetry collection is Disturbing Shapes. Paige Menton, author of Wrim and Twenty Miles to April lives outside of Philadelphia where she runs a land restoration organization and cares for the land of a Quaker meeting. She is a poet, gardener, and teacher of writing and environmental education. Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the thrillers-in-verse, Mr. Either/Or. His work has appeared in such publications as Best American Poetry, The Paris Review and POETRY.