Calendar of Events › Open reading opportunity

August 20, 2020 – August 20, 2020

Planning the future meeting August 20, 2020

Meeting is planned in the HMSC office/Columbia Mall [near the Spirit Halloween store]

Planning for the next several months…as if we know the future. Join us and share your ideas on where we can be and how we can get there

Bring thoughts and ideas – please bring your own snacks/beverages; if you want to send ideas and not attend, that’s okay, too

we are still under the sway of a non-living, non-dead virus….masks, social distancing rules are observed

Start: August 20, 2020 6:00 pm
End: August 20, 2020 6:00 pm
Venue: HMSC office/Columbia Mall
Address:
225 Columbia Mall Drive, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

August 6, 2020

August 6, 2020 – Feature: Paul Loomis in Kocher Park [7 PM]

Theme: Rivers and mountains, creeks and valleys

Paul Loomis is a math professor, folk song writer, occasional poet, distance runner, South American traveler, and man-about-town in Bloomsburg. He has been a spotty attender of River Poet events since 1999. His first published poem, in White Rabbit in 1993, was called “Sex”.

MC: Dave Barsky

Start: August 6, 2020 7:00 pm
End: August 6, 2020 7:00 pm
Venue: Kocher Park
Address:
along SR 487, N of Lightstreet, Lightstreet, United States

June 4, 2020

UPDATED June 4, 2020 – Feature: Lester Hirsh

 Change of venue – Kocher Park, SR 487 just north of Lightstreet

Change of time: 7 PM

Bring chairs, social distancing etiquette, beverages/food if you want, bug spray, check the weather.

Theme: The epistolary of letter-writing 

An avid letter writer, Lester corresponds with a number of Pennsylvania poets. He had a 21-year correspondence with the former US Poet Laureate Donald Hall (died 2019).MC: Susan or Richard Brook

Start: June 4, 2020 7:00 pm
End: June 4, 2020 7:00 pm
Venue: Kocher Park
Address:
SR 487 north of Lightstree, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States