Moonstone Arts Center

Our February calendar of events is live! Save the date for these upcoming poetry readings! Link to register for virtual readings is in our bio.

✨NEWEST PUBLICATIONS ✨ Head on over to our online store read Moonstone’s newest publications! We recently published 3 new anthologies featuring talented poets of all ages. If you want to be featured in a Moonstone publication, check out our Submittable for open submissions!

I’m honored to have my #poem “An Act of Self Defense”, previously published in my full length ( “My Body Lives Like a Threat”, FlowerSong Press, 2022) included in the anthology “Human Rights” to be published by @moonstonearts @flowersong @jcwriters @nlapw @vonavoices

Sunday September 15, 2024 – 2pm  VIRTUAL Tribute to Sonia Sanchez (September 9, 1934) Happy 90th Birthday Sonia

Wednesday September 11, 2024 – 7pm - LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Justin Ryan Fyfe, James Milanesi & Alexandra Naughton. Amy Saul-Zerby Host – Open Reading Follows

Wednesday September 4 – 7pmEDT - LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Elliott batTzedek, Steve Burke, Mabel Lee & Matt McGarvey.

Tuesday September 3, 2024 - 6:30pm – EDT - VIRTUAL  Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon Charles S. Carr, Host

Moonstone Presents at Barnes & Noble, 1708 Chestnut Street Saturday August 24, 2024 @ 3:30pm EDT Independence Day of Ukraine Poetry Reading Julia Kolchinsky Dashbach, Kateryna Derysheva, Olena Jennings, and Olga Livshin.

Moonstone Poetry Wednesday August 21, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Katherine Sarwopeni Antarikso, Erme Maula, Peter Webb, and John Wojtowicz.

Moonstone Poetry Wednesday August 7, 2024 – 7pm Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom. Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Tuesday August 6, 2024 6:30pm – Live Broadcast Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Philly Loves Poetry Interview and Readings Series Charles S. Carr, Host

Sunday July 28, 2024 @ 3:30pm EDT – LIVE - Black Fire This Time. Moonstone Presents at Barnes & Noble, 1708 Chestnut Street.

Wednesday July 24, 2024 – 7pm - LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Anisha Bhat, Lester Norman Mobley, Joe Roarty & Pat Rodgers w/ Open Reading Afterwards.

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom. Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Kate Carey, M. Elizabeth Hershey & Miriam Kramer w/ an Open Reading Afterwards.

Wednesday July 10, 2024 – 7pm - LIVE Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom - Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Stephanie Cawley, & Savannah Cooper-Ramsey w/ Open Reading Afterwards.

July 9, 2024 - 6:30pm – VIRTUAL Can be viewed on the Phillycam website Or Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS, 29/30 In Philadelphia. Chad Frame is the author of Little Black Book (2022, Finishing Line Press), nominated for the Lambda Literary Award, and a chapbook, Cryptid

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom – Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Pink Trees Press With: MADELINE ARTENBURG, PAULINE FINDLAY, PHILLIP GIAMBRI, LINDA KLEINBUB, RON KOLM, JANE LECROY, AMY BARONE, RANDI HOFFMAN, and C.O. MOED

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom - Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Live at Fergie’s Pub,1214 Sansom Street and on zoom - Use this link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Join us in celebrating the release of poet James Feichthaler's new book "From the Back Porch of a War." A short reading will be followed by a book signing.

Join us for a virtual reading on Wednesday, March 3 at 2PM as poets reflect on the January 6 riots of 2021. Zoom link found in bio.