River Poets

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

THEME: First one – What was the first poem or poet who brought you to poetry? Think of it as the first party on the first Thursday of the first month of a strange new year.  Informal attire.

Bring some underused items to sell, others will buy, and all will help fund the River Poets. A gathering, happening, a bit of milling about, and as always, some poems.

MC: Susan Brook

Matt Perakovich is a teacher and writer born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His interests include the end times, baseball, and taking long walks in the woods. Everything is going to be different when he paints his masterpiece.

MC: Richard Brook