Moonstone Arts Center

Name: Moonstone Arts Center
Address: 110 S 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, US
Telephone: (215) 735-9600
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The Moonstone Arts Center promotes creative exchange through diverse cultural programs.Each year Moonstone produces over 200 public events including poetry

10/11/2026

House Poet Prequel feat. Zack Arthur & Tiffany

A spoken word dance party + open poetry mic at Fergies Pub

Zack Arthur splits his time between Philly and New York City, as all adventurous faggots do. Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, he moved to Philly in the summer of 2025 by way of North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and West Virginia. He predominantly writes pop culture essays for Across The Culture. His poems have appeared on multiple platforms in a number of countries: Indonesia (Globetrotter, Magdalene), Singapore (Q***r Southeast Asia), the Philippines (ASEAN SOGIE Caucus), Australia (Perspektif), United Kingdom (GENERATE Climate), and the United States (gold/dust). He lives in West Philly with five other roommates (naturally).

Tiffany is a Philadelphia based performance artist. Drawing inspiration from the human experience and womxnhood. Their poems dissect personal experiences, and intertwine humor and trauma. You can find them making music under the pseudonym Subspacehiway across platforms.

10/04/2026

Serotonin Press, a Philadelphia based publisher, focusing on mental illness and su***de prevention. Established as an online poetry journal, Serotonin has published hundreds of writers from dozens of countries, and an anthology of 115 writers organized into chapters on Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, OCD, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Trauma, Eating Disorders, and Self-Harm, as well as a novel and three poetry collections with more books to come. Serotonin is run by its founding editor Sean W. Lynch with support from California-based forensic psychiatrist Kavita Khajuria and help from volunteer readers.

We’ll be joined by Serotonin poets: Holiday Noel Campanella, Krystle Griffin, James Roach, Autumn H. Thomas, and Lauren T. Yates. The reading is hosted by Sean W. Lynch.

09/28/2026

Weekly lineup for live poetry at Fergies Pub

Michelle Myers is an award-winning poet, author, and educator whose work centers storytelling, cultural memory, and voice. A founding member of the Asian American spoken word poetry group Yellow Rage, she was among the first Asian American women featured on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and outlets, including USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Smithsonian Channel. Michelle is also an award-winning educator and the faculty coordinator and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated series Drop the Mic. She hosts the podcast Mind Your Margins, produced by her daughter, Myong.

Therese Halscheid is author of 5 poetry collections, the most recent Frozen Latitudes. Her poetry and lyric essays have appeared in several magazines, among them Tampa Review, Gettysburg Review, Columbia Journal, Hawai’i Pacific Review. She holds an MA and MFA and teaches for Atlantic Cape College as well as offering workshops for conferences, organizations and other writing venues. For many years she has been a house-sitter, as to write in unusual locations. Her photography chronicles her journey and has been in juried exhibitions.

Hector Reyes is a first gen Dominican-American South Bronx native living in Philly completing his 5 year medical residency who’s writing is charged by the emotions of the moment, love, longing, freedom, and the blissful wrath of being alone in his own head for too damn long.

Karol M. Wasylyshyn is widely published in the field of consulting psychology and has published volumes of poetry (Standing on Marbles and Escaping the Corner) focused on business leaders. Her poems appear in Forge, The Write Room, Curium, The Medulla Review, Spillway, Lullwater Review, Visions International, River Sedge, Nimrod Int’l Journal, Milk Money, and The Alembic. In the wake of her husband’s death in 2024, she edited a collection of his grammar columns in a book entitled The Queen’s English and is now working on a series of illustrated grief poems.

09/27/2026

It’s that time of year again for Moonstone’s chapbook contest! The winner receives a $500 cash prize, 25 copies of the chapbook, and a reading in Philadelphia (or virtually) with Moonstone’s venue. We also award for a runner-up chapbook.

Individual poems may have been previously published, but the work as a whole must be new. Simultaneous submissions to other publishers or contests are permitted so long as you promptly notify Moonstone Press if the manuscript is accepted elsewhere.

Submissions are judged blindly by our editorial committee and final judge. Chapbooks for many different voices, styles, and poets have won, so why not yours?

08/16/2026

Live Poetry Reading: August 19th at 7pm Fergies

Jonah Frankel: “Jonah would say he lives through art. He thinks his writing is beautiful even when it is not. Sometimes it is. His use of form and flow in his pieces is always inspired by music. His poems are informed by real life experience. To keep art inspired he has to take in more bu****it than he pumps out. The world is gross, the summer is hot and the winter is cold. Either way the good stuff is outside.”

outside.”

“Jasper Jonosky” is a rat bastard who lied and cheated his way here.” (Jonah thinks Jasper is super good [and beautiful] - modern beatnik type s**t).

John Wojtowicz grew up working on his family’s azalea and rhododendron nursery and still lives in the backwoods of South Jersey. Publications include: Rattle, New Ohio Review, Waxing & Waning, Gigantic Sequins, and Driftwood. His chapbook, No Lightsabers in the Kitchen, was selected as a winner of the 2025 Poetry Box Chapbook contest.

Woody Woodger is a trans femme profesional slt anarcho-commie dorkazoid who’s too terrified to heat treat her hair and hopes the cat ears distract from that.Her poems have appeared in WMN Zine, DIAGRAM, RFD, and peculiar, and have been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes. She has two chapbooks, postcards from glasshouse drive and Puberty 2. She currently lives on Lenni-Lenape and Poutaxat land.

Daniel Zehner has had poems and haiku published in Paterson Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Main Street Rag, Lips, the Aurorean, New Jersey Bards Poetry Review, US 1 Worksheets, Frogpond, several Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthologies, and many Moonstone Arts Center anthologies. He has had a collection of poems accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press due for release in October 2026. He is a retired trial lawyer living in New Jersey.

Sean Hanrahan Hosts, followed by open mic reading

08/02/2026

Our line-up for this weeks live poetry at Fergies Pub and open mic!

Stevie Edwards is an Assistant Professor at Clemson University and Poetry Editor of The South Carolina Review.

Mike Jurkovic, 2025-2027 Ulster County Poet Laureate. Published globally. President Calling All Poets Series. Co-chair of the Music Fan Film Series.

Joe Roarty – Anyone who has seen local legend, Joe Roarty, perform at Fergie’s Pub or other venues around Philadelphia knows to expect poetry that is original, explosive, humorous, and, literally, percussive.

Aaren Perry – Host – Open Reading Follows

07/26/2026

House Poet Presents: Juniper Danger & Thalia Geiger

Juniper Danger is a Philly based q***r poet and science teacher. She loves filling her house with people and those people with soup. You can find her work in Collide Zine and Voicemail Poems, and her Instagram is Juniper

Thalia Geiger is a poet and fiction writer, author of the chapbook Wild Like a Woman, and her debut poetry collection, Red Death, Purple Dark, is forthcoming from Thirty West Publishing. She is the winner of Black Fox Literary’s 2025 Summer Fox Tales Contest, and her work has been featured in New York Quarterly, Allegory Ridge, Coffin Bell, Grim & Gilded and more. She hails from Philadelphia, where she works in journal publishing. You can find her on Instagram and BlueSky 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖆 𝖌𝖊𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖗, and on Substack at thalierr.substack.com

Warren C. Longmire – Host – Open Reading Follows

07/14/2026

Join us for a discussion on censorship with Larry Robin, Director of Moonstone Arts Center and former owner of Robin’s Book Store, which was the Philadelphia defendant in the Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) po*******hy case in 1961. Larry will be joined by poet and rare book dealer Ernest Hilbert, and Keith Kopka, Writers Resist and Senior Editor at Narrative Magazine and Poetry Editor at Philadelphia Stories.

This program is presented in association with Book Complaints and the Defense of Intellectual Freedom, an exhibition from Special Collections and will take place in the Rare Book Department’s Elkins Library.

Sat, July 18, 2026 @ 2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department at Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Elkins Library, 3rd Floor

04/19/2026

Another week, another night of live poetry with Moonstone! Hope to see you there with our featured readers.

Grace Bauer has published six books of poems—most recently Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems. She also co-edited the anthology Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse. Her full-length collections of poetry include The Women at The Well, Beholding Eye, and Retreats and Recognitions. Her work has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Arts & Letters, the Colorado Review, Poetry, Rattle, and the Southern Poetry Review. Her awards include an Academy of American Poets Prize, Individual Artist’s Grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Nebraska Arts Council, and fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center.

Sean Hanrahan is a Philadelphian poet originally hailing from Dale City, Virginia. He is the author of Headless, the full-length collections Safer Behind Popcorn and Ghost Signs, and the chapbooks Hardened Eyes on the Scan and Gay Cake. His work has also been included in various anthologies and journals. He has taught classes titled A Chapbook in 49 Days, Ekphrastic Poetry, Poetry Embodied and has hosted and read at poetry events throughout Philadelphia. He can be found on Instagram as gaycakepoet.

Gina Myers is the author of the full-length collections A Model Year and Hold It Down, as well as several chapbooks including Philadelphia. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Hyperallergic, Fanzine, Frontier Psychiatrist, Coldfront Magazine, The Rumpus, and other places. From 2005 to 2016 she edited Lame House Press, which published handmade chapbooks by emerging and established poets. She currently coedits the tiny with Gabriella Torres. Originally from Saginaw, Michigan, Myers lives in Philadelphia where she runs the Accidental Player reading series.

04/12/2026

We’re jumping into spring with a new collection of poetry anthologies! Our latest publications span from a celebration of poetry itself to collective action against ICE. We hope you find a collection that calls to you.

All anthologies are now available on our Square site, 🔗 in bio!

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(215) 735-9600

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