Special Event: LUCILLE CLIFTON MEMORIAL

May 26th, 2010

[ June 27, 2010; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 4pm – PoetryCelebration of Light: A Tribute to Lucille CliftonEveryone is invited to share their poems and memories of Lucille

“It will take a long time for many of us to truly accept a world that goes on without Lucille Clifton – one that goes on often without much apparent evidence of her [...]

Special Event: Scott Chrisitianson author of Freeing Charles

April 22nd, 2010

[ May 13, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] THURSDAY, MAY 13, 7pm – NON-FICTIONArt Sanctuary & Moonstone PresentSCOTT CHRISTIANSONauthor of Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War ($24.95 University of Illinois Press)

Freeing Charles recounts the life and epic rescue of captured fugitive slave Charles Nalle of Culpeper, Virginia, who was forcibly liberated by Harriet Tubman [...]


All Events

Sandy Tseng & Alicia Ostriker

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 30, 2010; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Thursday, September 30, 5:30pm – Poetry

Sandy Tseng & Alicia Ostriker

Sandy Tseng author of Sediment ($15.95 Four Way Books)
In Sandy Tseng’s first collection, leaving is both what remains and the act of going to another place, a different lifestyle, an unknown afterlife. This book recounts the pleasures and terrors of transition, of being “in between languages.” [...]

MPS: Eleanor Wilner & Mary Lynn Ellis

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 28, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, September 28, 7pm – Poetry

The Moonstone Poetry Series

Eleanor Wilner & Mary Lynn Ellis

Eleanor Wilner author of Visitor in Hell ($18.00 University of Chicago Press)

Eleanor Wilner has published six collections of poems, most recently The Girl with Bees in Her Hair; Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems; and Otherwise. Her work has appeared in [...]

VolkLibre! / Handmade Philly Swap Meet

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 26, 2010; 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Sunday, September 26, 3pm – $3 Cover & Pot Luck – Swap Meet

VolkLibre!/Handmade Philly Swap Meet

The beginning of a new era; exchange leads to real change.

The Nation Magazine Discussion Group

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 26, 2010; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Sunday, September 26, 11am – Discussion

The Nation Magazine Discussion Group

PF: L.A. Banks

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 24, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Friday, September 24, 7:30pm – Science Fiction

Philadelphia Fantastic Presents

L.A. Banks author of the Crimson Moon Series

L.A. Banks’ bestselling Crimson Moon series continues, and this time the otherworldly threat is dangerously personal… Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau earned a long vacation with her lover and fellow Shadow Wolf, Hunter, after the brutal wolf-like attacks that left [...]

Many Mountains Moving Magazine Reading

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 22, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Wednesday, September 22, 7pm – Poetry

Many Mountains Moving Magazine Reading

Jeffrey Lee, senior poetry editor

P&P: Bob Small

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 21, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, September 21, 7pm – Poetry

Poets & Prophets Presents

Bob Small

Duane Swierczynski & Dennis Tafoya

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 15, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Wednesday, September 15, 7pm – Crime Fiction

Duane Swierczynski & Dennis Tafoya

Duane Swierczynski

author of Expiration Date ($13.99 Minotaur Books)

In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn… and you’re history.

Dennis Tafoya

author of The Wolves of Fairmount Park ($25.99 Minotaur Books)

The Wolves of Fairmount is Dennis Tafoya’s lyrical, intense, sometimes tragic and sometimes hopeful second novel.

MPS: Daniel Donaghy & Connie Garcia-Barrio

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 14, 2010; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, September 14, 7pm – Poetry

Moonstone Poetry Series Presents

Daniel Donaghy & Connie Garcia-Barrio

In his second collection of poems, Daniel Donaghy uses the power of poetry to connect the Kensington section of Philadelphia he knew as a boy––a place replete with crime, poverty, fractured families, and various other kinds of darkness––to upstate New York’s woods, rural [...]

Philadelphia Stories Fiction Workshop

Friday, August 27th, 2010

[ September 13, 2010; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. September 20, 2010; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. September 27, 2010; 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Monday, September 13, 6:30pm – Fiction Workshop

Monday, September 20, 6:30pm – Fiction Workshop

Monday, September 27, 6:30pm – Fiction Workshop

Philadelphia Stories Fiction Workshop

For more information please email: christine@philadelphiastories.org