Special Event: Mark Auslander author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family

August 20th, 2011

[ September 7, 2011; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]

Wednesday September 7, 6pm – Non-Fiction

A Special Event at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street

Mark Auslander author of The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family ($24.95 University of Georgia Press)

What does one contested account of an enslaved woman tell us about our difficult racial past? Part history, [...]

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

The Nation Magazine Discussion Group

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

[ October 16, 2011; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] Sunday, October 16, 11am – Discussion

The Nation Magazine Discussion Group discusses
Reimagining Capitalism

The Nation asked a playful question and got back serious answers. Imagine you have the ability to reinvent American capitalism: Where would you start? What would you change to make it less destructive and domineering, more focused on what people really [...]

PF: Jonathan Maberry

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 28, 2011; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] Friday, October 28, 7:30pm -  Fiction
Philadelphia Fantastic Presents
Jonathan Maberry

Jonathan Maberry is a NY Times bestseller and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Patient Zero, the Pine Deep Trilogy, The Wolfman, Zombie CSU and They Bite.  His work for Marvel Comics includes the Punisher, Wolverine, DoomWar, Marvel Zombie Return and Black Panther.  His Joe Ledger [...]

CANCELLED – Matt Blackstone

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 27, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Thursday, October 27, 7pm-Fiction
CANCELLED – Matt Blackstone author of A Scary Scene in a Scary Movie ($16.99 Farrar Straus)

Rene, an obsessive-compulsive fourteen year old, smells his hands and wears a Batman cape when he’s nervous. If he picks up a face-down coin, moves a muscle when the time adds up to thirteen (7:42 is bad luck because [...]

Nelson George

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 26, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Wednesday, October 26, 7pm-Fiction
Nelson George author of The Plot Against Hip Hop ($15.95 Akashic Books)

“George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world . . . the book’s slim length and flyweight depth could make it an artifact of this particular zeitgeist in American history. Playas and haters and celebrity cameos fuel [...]

MPS: KIRAAT & Ray Brown

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 25, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, October 25, 7pm – Poetry
The Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
Kiraat & Ray Brown

KIRAAT.  This is the pseudonym chosen by Anthony James William, Jr. to write and publish his poetry.  It is an acronym for Keeping It Real At All Time.  Anthony was born in Philadelphia but received his early education in Virginia.  His family [...]

CANCELLED – Weekly Revue

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 21, 2011; 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] Friday, October 21, 8:30pm – Variety Show
CANCELLED – Weekly Revue Returns

Women’s Writing Series

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 19, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Wednesday, October 19, 7pm-Multi-Genre
Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Presents

Natalie C. Felix & Jaye Robin McNeil

Natalie C. Felix is a poet, artist and Uni-Verse-All community member with a BA in Spanish Literature from UC Santa Barbara and a MA in Human Science from Saybrook University. She is the Executive Director of the Community Cultural Exchange (CCE), [...]

P&P: Lois Marie Harrod

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 18, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Tuesday, October 18, 7pm – Poetry
Poets & Prophets Presents
Lois Marie Harrod

Lois Marie Harrod presently teaches Creative Writing and supervises student teachers at The College of New Jersey as well as teaches in the Evergreen Forum at Princeton Senior Resource Center. Her collection of poems Brief Term has just been published by Black Buzzard Press. [...]

Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Joseph Harrington

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 15, 2011; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Saturday, October 15, 7pm – Poetry
Travis Macdonald and Fact-Simile Editions Presents
Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Joseph Harrington

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet-critic, whose ongoing long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76, Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and Drafts 39-57, Pledge, as well as Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). [...]

LOS: Jeannie Brooks & Globus-Hoenich Quartet featuring John Swana

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

[ October 14, 2011; 8:30 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Friday, October 14 – Doors: 8:30 p.m. Show: 9 pm sharp
BYOB – $10 at the door / $8 in advance (only at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/194704)

Lucky Old Souls @ Moonstone Presents
Jeannie Brooks & Globus-Hoenich Sextet featuring John Swana & Jim Holton

JEANNIE BROOKS QUARTET: Jeannie Brooks, vocals; Jim Holton, piano; Mark Przybylowski, bass;

Gabe Globus-Hoenich, drums

GLOBUS-HOENICH SEXTET feauring JOHN [...]