River Poets

Theme: Mistress – 

Chet’la Sebree’s book, Mistress  investigates representations and experiences of black women through the lens of Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore at least six of Thomas Jefferson’s children.

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MC: Linda Dietrichson

Theme: Celebration 

No more pencils no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks…we hope to have some high school students who will share their work with us.

Join us and celebrate.   26th anniversary of the River Poets

MC: Ben Dodge

 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