May 2, 2013
THEME: OLD FRIENDS
Rob Burnside was born and reared in the anthracite coal region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. His interest in poetry began in childhood, listening to his mother recite from memory. He is a graduate of Wyoming Seminary and received a B.A. in Art Education from Wilkes University. In the early 1990s, near the end of a career on the Wilkes-Barre City Fire Department, he began writing poetry and short fiction to fill in long night shift hours at the fire station, and joined the River Poets shortly thereafter. He currently resides in Swoyersville, and has published a chapbook Falling Off the Bone, with the help of Finishing Line Press. His work is substantially influenced by the poetry of Stanley Kunitz, Ruth Stone, William Stafford, Patti Smith, and Walt Whitman. MC: Mike DeMarco
April 18, 2013
Abigail Hess and other poets from the Slam Poetry group at Susquehanna University will perform and present their poems. Serious times may call for serious poetry – or not. MC: Tara Holdren
March 7, 2013
Paula Closson Buck (Ph.D. Ohio University) is Professor of English. Her interests include creative writing and modern British and American literature.
Teaching Interests: Creative writing, poetry and fiction; contemporary poetry; twentieth-century literature.
Current Projects and Research Interests: Closson Buck is finishing up a novel - Drinking with Ptolemy; looking ahead to work on new poems, a second novel, and possibly essays drawing on recent travels to India.
Selected Publications
The Acquiescent Villa, a book of poems from Louisiana State University Press (1998)
Litanies Near Water, a book of poems from Louisiana State University Press (2008)
Individual poems have appeared in Agni, Agni Online, Gettysburg Review, Laurel Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and other magazines, and have been selected for Poetry Daily
MC: Richard Brook
