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11/12/2023
Tune into PhillyCAM on Tuesday, November 14th to hear an interview and reading with Michael Miller. As a poet, Miller aims to bridge the gap of understanding with civilians about the military experience.
Available on online, on cable, or via WPPM FM radio.
11/04/2023
Join us Wednesday, November 8th at 7pm for live poetry at featuring Anna Prader, Jonathan Todd, and Leonard Gontarek.
All three poets will read a range of their work, followed by an open reading!
10/22/2023
Two weeks left to submit for our annual Chapbook Contest! First place wins a grand prize of $500, publication with Moonstone, author copies, and a reading at one of our venues.
We hope to read your collection soon!
10/18/2023
Live! Tonight at Fergie’s Pub @ 7PM and on Zoom
Featuring readings from elijah b pringle, Joe Roarty and George Schaefer
Link in bio for Zoom registration
10/11/2023
Live! Tonight at Fergie’s Pub @ 7PM and on Zoom
Featuring readings from Jared Harél, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Martin Wiley
Link in bio for Zoom registration
07/27/2023
Here’s our last event of the month of August, and what a way to end it off! We’ve got a special night of live poetry featuring our 2022 chapbook contest winners! You’ll be in for an amazing night with our esteemed authors! The link the register for zoom is in our bio!
07/27/2023
More poetry coming your way! Here’s another installment of our popular live poetry readings! Come join us for a night of fun while listening to some local poets! The link to register for zoom is in our bio!
07/27/2023
Charles Bukowski was an amazing poet who wrote about urban life and American society in modern times. Help us in remembering him and his works on Sunday, August 20th as we read some of his best, as well as poetry inspired by his work. The link the register for zoom is in our bio!
07/27/2023
I hope you’re all ready for more poetry! Coming later this month we’ve got another night of live poetry ready for you all to enjoy! If you can’t make it in person, the link to register for zoom is in our bio!
07/27/2023
Coming this month is a special installment of our live poetry readings, featuring poets and authors from Ukraine. Alongside this reading, you can purchase one of our books comprised of Ukrainian authors to help support them! The link to sign up for zoom as well as our online store is in the link in our bio!
07/27/2023
Hello poetry lovers! It’s time for another addition to the Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Reading series! This month we’re featuring the amazing Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach! Tune in on the PhillyCam website for another amazing interview!
07/27/2023
Here’s our first event of the month of August! Join us at another one of our great live poetry events to see some amazing readings, hosted by our winner of the 2022 chapbook contest, Nathalie Anderson!
The link to sign up on zoom is in our bio!
06/01/2023
We know you all are itching for more events, and we've got some! These amazing events will wrap up the month of June with a bang! Register for these events at the links below!
Please take a look at one of our newest publications! Eileen M. D’Angelo is a wonderful poet and we are so honored to sell her new book. Check it out on our website!
05/05/2023
Here we go! The rest of May! Let’s celebrate the spring with some poetry 💐See you there! 🌷
05/03/2023
Happy May everyone! We have A LOT of events this month. Here are the first few. We cannot wait to see you there 🌷
04/10/2023
Here we go! The rest of April is waiting for you! Mark your calendars, we have some amazing live poetry events the next few Wednesdays, and two virtual events on Sundays. Join us! 🌷 Happy Spring!
04/01/2023
Indulge your senses with the power of words - join us for a live poetry reading! ✨
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03/27/2023
Join us virtually or online for a life poetry reading with our 2022 featured poets! We hope to see you all there.📖
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03/22/2023
Join us virtually this weekend for a night of poetry in honor of world poetry day. Must be registered through zoom link in bio.
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03/17/2023
We have some amazing events coming up! Here are the poetry readings for the rest of the month! We’ll see YOU there! Happy spring 🌷
03/14/2023
Come join these spectacular poets at Fergies Pub for a Live Poetry Reading. We have some amazing poetry waiting to be heard. It's going to be a wonderful evening! See you there 🌸
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03/01/2023
Come celebrate the first day of March at Fergie’s Pub with us tonight! We have some amazing poetry waiting to be heard. It’s going to be a wonderful evening! See you there 🌷
02/24/2023
Guess what is happening Sunday… a Moonstone VIRTUAL event! Yay! We will be celebrating the new anthology, inspired by Fiona Bolger’s ‘Love in the Original Language.’ All are poems that inspire a love for the dignity of what is original and human. Zoom Link for this event: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpfuiqqz8qGNPXE20VPIAeJq2jrFQlFQoj
02/13/2023
This Wednesday we are celebrating the publication of Birds/Diz by Warren C. Longmire!
Join us for a poetry reading and a great time at Fergies Pub & Grill
Hope to see you there!
12/17/2022
New Voices Anthology Fall 2022
This afternoon we are enormously proud to present our newest issue of our New Voices anthology series with a reading from contributors!
A series for emerging poets between the ages of 10 and 25.
This reading is from the contributors to the Fall 2022 edition.
A monthly reading series and a bi-annual publication which strives to bring together younger poets from various communities. Our attempt to expand everyone’s experience, to introduce other ways of everything.
Please join us today at 2PM for the virtual reading.
11/16/2022
Happy chapbook birthday to An Act of Love by Anna Prader!
This ode to survivors is a balm to all those who need a little love. The lyricism creates candles in the night for those who need to a break from the dark.
Available now, link in bio 🔗
11/15/2022
TOMORROW at Fergie's Pub!
Praise for The Elephant's Mouth by (THE!) Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times best seller:
- “Luke Stromberg is an autobiographical poet, but instead of being confined to the past, his best narratives deliver enough metaphoric lift to transmute them into poetry. I’m remembering his shadow being “a movie on the wall;” tombstones as “baby teeth;” and days that “pile up like dishes in the sink.” The Elephant’s Mouth is a noteworthy debut.”
The day of Luke Stromberg's first poetry collection debut is almost here!
Tomorrow night, Stromberg will be reading from his new collection and will have copies of the publication available for purchase.
Following Stromberg are readings by John Wall Barger, Luke Bauerlein, Ernest Hilbert, Zed Murphy and Anne-Adele Wight.
For more details about the readers, check out the event page: https://fb.me/e/2YtweCuaG
As always, we will host the event over Zoom for those who cannot make it in person and are registered; the registration link can also be found in the event description.
We hope to see you there!
11/09/2022
Fresh off the presses! Our latest release, Tendrils by Lenore Rosenberg, is a poetic exploration of the daily. Through astute and sharp eyes, Rosenberg reveals the world around us anew.
The debut chapbook is now available on our site. Link in bio 🔗
11/08/2022
Amy Barone shared these lovely photos with us from her reading with David Ebenbach at Fergie's Pub on Wednesday, October 26th and we wanted to share them with you, too. Perhaps there are some new people scrolling by this post who are new to following our page. Welcome! For those who don't know, Moonstone hosts readings at Fergie's most Wednesdays! And most of those Wednesday readings are also followed by an open mic for anyone who wants to try out some new poems on stage in a cozy pub. So...if you enjoy reading and/or writing poetry, like a warm and cozy pub atmosphere, and are looking for something to do on Wednesday evenings, you're in the right place! We've got all the criteria covered.
We have four more Wednesday reading events coming up this month:
We're brimming with excitement to review your work and to share the publications with our readers.
10/11/2022
Reading events tonight and tomorrow!!
Tonight at 7PM is our virtual reading with former Moonstone Chapbook Contest winners. Tune in to get some inspiration to submit a chapbook of your own for this years contest - submission closes on 10/31.
Hello from Moonstone Arts Center! It's been a little while since our last post on here, but things have been brewing and stewing and we have a lot of exciting new events and anthologies lined up and coming your way!
Here's what we have in store as we greet the first week of October:
Moonstone is compiling an anthology to honor Indigenous People's Day, which falls on Monday, October 10th this year. Tomorrow, October 1st is the deadline for submissions to our Indigenous People's Day Anthology and for any contributors to let us know if they would like to participate in the associated virtual reading event for the anthology, which will be on Sunday, October 9th at 2PM EST.
Here is the submission link for the anthology for anyone who feels a burst of inspiration!
We also have our monthly poetry reading series, Philly Loves Poetry (https://phillycam.org/project/philly-loves-poetry) on Tuesday October 4th at 6:30PM EST. This event is broadcast via PhillyCAM and hosted by Charles Carr. This month Mr. Carr will be interviewing poet Cleveland Wall, author of Let X=X (2019, Kelsay Books), who will also read some of her work.
Viewers can watch the program on channels Xfinity 66/966 | Fios TV 29/30 or stream live from the website here: https://phillycam.org/watch
Keep your eyes peeled for our next update here, and as always, you can check our website for our full calendar of live and virtual events and calls for submissions: moonstoneartscenter.org
09/27/2022
Happy publication day to Wissahickon Creek: Walks and Dreams by Eli Goldblatt!
This collection of poems is an ode to nature and finding the peace in your surroundings, in Philadelphia and beyond.
It’s available now on our website! Link in bio 🔗
08/10/2022
Come one come all! We celebrate Lucia Herrmann as she bids Philadelphia adieu with a fashionable farewell at Fergie’s pub! The event will include readings from Lucia and all those who bring so@thing to share. Party prompt optional. Come share your words and celebrate with us 🎉🥳🎉
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This upcoming month we have a series of a poetry readings and book releases beginning on Tuesday, March 6th.
Tuesday, March 6th, 6:30 pm: Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCam
Philly Loves the Poetry of Medicine with readers Jack Coulehan, David N. Moolten and Wynne Morrison (This event will air over Comcast Cable, channels 66/966 HD/967 and Verizon FIOS, channels 29/30).
Wednesday, March 7th, 7:00 pm: Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
Readings concerned with mental health, self-healing, nature and occurrences in everyday life. Our readers are Cole Bryson, Courtney Gambrell, and Melissa Rothman.
Sunday, March 11th, 2:00 pm: Moonstone @Fergie’s Pub
We will be hosting a book release and reading for our anthology, Philadelphia Says #MeToo. The #MeToo movement began in 2006 by Tarana Burke to promote empowerment and recognition for women of color who have experienced sexual abuse.
Wednesday, March 14th, 7:00 pm: Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
Guest readings by Autumn Konopa and Lorraine Henrie Lins. Konopa has hosted the Mad Poets monthly reading series in Bryn Mawr PA, for about five years and is deeply interested in the relationship between the arts and socioeconomic class. Lins is a Pennsylvania county Poet Laureate and the author of four books of poetry. Currently, she serves as the Director of New and Emerging Poets with Tekpoet.
Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm: Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
Thinking Green with readers Jacob Russell, Paul Siegell and Anne-Adele Wight.
Wednesday, March 28th, 7:00 pm: Moonstone Poetry @ Fergie’s Pub
Guest readings by Alexander Fraum, Maryann Helferty, John Mason and Joe Roarty. Fraum is a relatively new poet to Philadelphia’s circles. He is a substitute teacher in the Philadelphia school system; Fraum employs his knowledge of anthropology, environmental science, and religious studies in his work to provide intimate portraits of the circumstances people inhabit. Helferty worked a long career in the environmental field and explores and reports on the natural world through her poems and photography. Mason has written for various publications for over 25 years. He has read material at Najee’s Loft, Moonstone Arts Center, and Sedgewick Theater. Roarty, a former Moonstone Chapbook winner, produces poetry that is full of energy, passionate intelligence, jazz and heightened speech rhythms. He uses colloquialisms such as shorthand text messages to omit vowels and drive lines foward.
