River Poets

April 1 – 30, 2021 -

Word About Town -poets, poems, @ location

Kate Potter – Heaven @ Fuji Sushi

Steven Concert – Deja Vu @ Chamber of Commerce; Aftermath of Agnes @ Cats in Bloom; Connection @ Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble

Quinn McCracken – City Park with a bag of Wendy’s @ Smoke Shop; Day After Hoof Trimming @ Cats in Bloom; Freight Train @ Wagner’s Trophies

Jim Joline – May 1970 @ Exclusively You; For Georgi @ Columbia County Annex: May 2020 @ Edward Jones Investments

Susan Brook – My February @ The Exchange; After the Flood @ David Trathen Law Office; What Kids All Knew @ Cats in Bloom

Janet Locke – You Need Poetry Today @ Shay Beauty Salon

Dick Brook - Ben @ Ten @ JAG Housing; Something about a land @Towne Camera; Corvidae @ Bloomsburg Public Library

Margie Elaine – Ode to Change @ Steph’s Subs; Stuck @ Lisa’s Country Cuts; Looking Up @ Bloomsburg Public Library

Richard Aston – To Sing Again @ Luschas, Naparsteck, & Crane; Sickness @ The Exchange

Linda Dietrichson – Bygone Days in Phillips Cafes @ Phillips

Michael DeMarco - Time at times eating time @ That’s Amore; Black & White @ Towne Camera; Black & White (reversed) @ Dr Leshock’s

Theme: Bridges  ~ Perhaps it is crossing a stream, bridging a gap, a wormhole in space, or a wrinkle in time.  River Poets are hopeful that the pandemic is coming to an end, and we will cross that bridge when we get to it. Happy 27^th Anniversary River Poets!

MC: Danny Robinson

Directions to Twin Covered Bridges: From Bloomsburg, travel north on Route 487 about 11 miles, turn right onto Winding Road, go approximately 1/4 mile, the West Paden Twin Covered Bridge is on the right.

Theme: Flawed and Ordinary ~ Chet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study (FSG Originals, June 2021), winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Chet’la Sebree is the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University.  She is the author of Mistress (New Issues, 2019), selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018

New Issues Poetry Prize.  She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from American University and has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, The MacDowell Colony, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Stadler Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in many journals—including wildness,  Poetry International and The Account.

MC: Linda Dietrichson

Direction to Bloomsburg Town Park: From Bloomsburg Public Library, follow Market Street south approximately one (1) mile, at the very end of Market Street, face eastward and you will see us.