River Poets

Theme: Uncertainty  -The theme is correct in that the uncertainty of safe travel indicated by the weather folks has helped us decide to cancel the poetry event for this evening 2/3/2022.

It will be rescheduled at a later date.

Join us at 7:30 pm March 3, 2022 at the Bloomsburg Public Library for featured reader T J Swisher and an open reading opportunity.

Guest Poet: Everyone

Winter Fest &  White Elephant Sale

Theme: Rote Poems ~ Reciting poems from memory –  yours or other poets.

White Elephant Sale ~ donate both new and gently used items: buying mistakes, gifts from a clueless aunt that never fit, etc.  All sales benefit River Poets programming.

MC: Susan Brook

Theme: Coming-of-Age ~ The term is defined as the attainment of prominence, respectability, recognition, or maturity.

Guest Poet: Anne Dyer Stuart 

Anne has published widely in literary journals, including AGNI, The American Journal of Poetry, Raleigh Review, Third Coast, Cherry Tree, Sugar House Review, The Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing, and The Louisville Review.  Her work won a Henfield Prize, New South Journal‘s Prose Contest, was anthologized in Best of the Web, and nominated for Best New Poets.  Her poetry chapbook, What Girls Learn, a finalist for Comstock Review‘s 2020 Chapbook Contest, will be published by Finishing Line Press in December 2021.  She is Creative Works Editor of IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work and an associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

MC: Jerry Wemple