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October 2, 2025

Featured Poet: Valerie Fox

Theme: Exploring the connections between kinds of art and artists 

Valerie Fox is a poet and fiction writer who grew up (by the river) in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, and attended Shippensburg University, Temple University, and Binghamton University. Her poetry books include The Rorschach Factory, The Glass Book, and Insomniatic. Her work has appeared in Hanging Loose, West Branch, Philadelphia Stories, SmokeLong Quarterly, Juked, Maudlin House, and other journals.  Much interested in collaboration, she recently published The Failed-Love Factory Auction Catalog, a short book of poems, with Arlene Ang. She’s taught writing at many schools, including Drexel University (in Philadelphia) and Sophia University (in Tokyo). Currently she is Managing Editor at New Flash Fiction Review.

MC: David Allan Brooks

Start: October 2, 2025 7:30 pm
End: October 2, 2025 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

September 4, 2025

First Thursday in September Poetry….9/4/2025

Theme: A Couple(t) of Cool Cats

12 centuries after his birth, a little white monastery cat lives on in the classic ode “Pangur Bán.” Now, it is your turn to commemorate your Pangur Bàn. A Couple(t) of Cool Cats is a celebration of felidae of all kinds through poetry. Bring an original poem or a classic like “Tyger, Tyger”—everyone will have the chance to read.

7:30 to 9 pm

MC: Emma Ganader

Start: September 4, 2025 7:30 pm
End: September 4, 2025 7:30 pm
Address:
Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

August 7, 2025

Matt Perakovich August 7, 2025

A summer reading at Kocher Park

Theme - Dog days: poems more or less about that hot sluggish stretch of summer and all things languorous. Inactivity, lassitude, torpor but no pets; service dogs are okay.

7 pm to 8:30 pm

Your preference: bug repellent or attractant is recommended

MC: Janet Locke

 

Start: August 7, 2025 7:00 pm
End: August 7, 2025 7:00 pm
Venue: Kocher Park
Address:
SR 487, , Lightstreet, PA, 17815, United States