River Poets

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

THEME: COAL, COAL HEART. Richard Aston is active in the Wilkes-Barre – Scranton poetry scene and is a 30+ year member of Mulberry Poets and Writers Association. He has coordinated all of the poetry Mulberry Poets and Writers Association contests and is a staff reviewer of poetry books for Off the Coast magazine. His collection Valley Voices is published by Foothills Publishing. He has published technical textbooks, numerous professional engineering papers, and poetry. He has 3 children and 7 grandchildren.                                                   MC: Richard Sweeney

THEME: CELEBRATIONS

Paul Loomis is an Indiana-educated singer-songwriter, poet, international traveler and professor of mathematics at Bloomsburg University.

Also -the annual White elephant sale – bring donations for a silent auction benefitting River Poets. Books, CDS, etc. & et al

MC: Susan Brook