Upcoming Events › Open reading opportunity

July 2, 2026

Guy Graybill in Bloomsburg’s Town Park

 

Guy’s layest book Rhymes from the Hinterland was praised by Book Readers’ Heaven as a ‘…compilation that brings to readers history, humor, romance and so much more…’

Creative, thoughtful, and of course poetic.

at a pavillion # 4, BloomsburgTown Park

Guy Graybill a published PA poet will present his crafted poems.

6:30  PM start time 

open reading opportunity

MC: Michael DeMarco

Start: July 2, 2026 7:00 pm
End: July 2, 2026 7:00 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Town Park
Address:
Market Street & the River, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

August 6, 2026

8/6/2026 Michael DeMarco & Janet Locke

at Kocher Park

One night, two River Poets – Elder poets, new poems

 

Theme: Things we may not normally write about. Who knows what the late summer evening holds. A verse? An epic poem? A myth? A sonnet? We guess we’ll see and hear. Newer yet to be heard poems are encouraged.

6:30  pm to dark (8:45 pm)

MC:  Linda Dietrichson

Start: August 6, 2026 6:30 pm
End: August 6, 2026 6:30 pm
Venue: Kocher Park
Address:
rte 487, Lightstreet, PA, United States

September 3, 2026

Return to Kocker [Haikuku] Park

David Brooks, Steven Concert, &

Kathleen Radspinner

Haiku round table – types of Haiku – Japanese, American, Bop, traditional, modern, experimental – 3 lines, 17 syllables – or not.

 

 

There is a lot to discuss, learn, write, study. Go looking for a Haiku or 2, or better yet have them find you.

Kocher Park, September’s earlier sunset means we start at 6:30 pm

Start: September 3, 2026 6:30 pm
End: September 3, 2026 6:30 pm
Venue: Kocher Park
Address:
sr 487, Lightstreet, PA, United States