moonstone poetry series

Floyd Brown & Joe Roarty @ Fergie’s Pub

Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub, Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Floyd Brown is a poet and hip-hop artist who was born in Wilmington, Delaware and lives in North Philadelphia. Joe Roarty’s poetry is high octane energy, passionate intelligence, supercharged, insistent blues, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. Sean Lynch, Host – Open Reading Follows

23rd Poetry Ink: 100 Poets Reading

Sunday June 2, 2019 – noon Moonstone at 1199C Headquarters, 1319 Locust Street Hello! We are hosting our 23rd annual Poetry Ink release event which will be commemorated by readings from 84 (not quite 100 this year!) poets. Join us in enjoying the work of academic poets, famous poets, free form poets, street poets, unknown …

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Fran Baird @ Fergie’s

Moonstone Poetry @ the Pub Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom Street Wednesday March 13, 2019 – 7pm Fran Baird Fran Baird studied with David Ignatow in the 1980s and more recently at the Antioch Writers’ Workshop with Cathy Smith Bowers, John Drury and Jamey Dunham. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize in 2009 for his …

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Simone Allender & Deborah Turner: This Poem’s For You, Open Reading to follow

THIS POEM’S FOR YOU featuring…   Simone Allender is a bookkeeper who started writing poetry in the early 80s (long before the bookkeeping) as a way of expressing her burgeoning feminism and keeping herself sane. She continues her writings today, as a way to keep herself sane.         Deborah Turner writes fiction …

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Dagmawe Berhanu, Wilquan Davis & Taylar Enlow: New Voices, Open Reading to follow

Moonstone@The South Philadelphia Library 1700 S. Broad Street New Voices: Philadelphia’s Emerging Poets A Voice for Everyone – Listen, Share, Connect Join us each month for readings by emerging poets under the age of 25. Monday February 25, 2019 – 6pm   Dagmawe Berhanu is an Ethiopian-American poet from Columbus, Ohio who has been living in Philadelphia since …

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Michelle Belluomini & Ditta Baron Hoeber Poetry, Open Reading to follow

    Michele Belluomini is author of Crazy Mary and Signposts for Sleepwalkers, her poetry has been published in American Poetry, Philadelphia Poets, Beltway, The Mad Poets Review and Apiary.          Ditta Baron Hoeber is an artist and a poet.  Her work has appeared in Contemporary American Voices, the American Journal of Poetry, the American Poetry Review, Construction …

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Moonstone Presents: Bondhus & Evans Poetry, Open Reading to follow

    Charlie Bondhus is author Divining Bones and All the Heat We Could Carry, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Nimrod, and Copper Nickel.          R.G. Evans is the author of Overtipping the Ferryman, his poems, fiction, and reviews …

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