May 4, 2017
Theme: Heart, Mind, and Soul – these are traditional wells of inspiration or launching points of ceativity
JoAnn Lindsey has been a welcome addition to the River Poets in the past few years. She writes for enjoyment, has an on-line book of poetry, and also writes children’s poems and short stories.
And May the Fourth be with you.
MC: Charles Weaver
April 6, 2017
THEME: As you like it*
All open reading – we do not mean everyone will read the same poem or read all at once, but bring a poem or two and your voice…help make it the best, the strongest, the biggest, greatest open reading ever.
* Not necessarily a shout out or about Shakespeare
MC: Richard Brook
February 2, 2017
THEME: Madness
Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry:
Madwoman; The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems; This Strange Land; Song of Thieves
and The Water Between Us (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry)
Since 2003, McCallum has served as Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, where she also currently holds the Margaret Hollinshead Ley Professorship in Poetry & Creative Writing. She has been a faculty member in the University of Memphis MFA program, Drew University Low-Residency MFA Program, Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA program, and at the University of West Indies in Barbados.
MC: Linda Dietrichson