River Poets

Theme: Songs for the Susquehanna 

Event begins at 7 pm and ends at 8:30 pm

Many voices will present selections from the compilation Songs for the Susquehanna at the river. We will gather at the banks of the Susquehanna River at the end of Market Street, Bloomsburg.

And/or bring your own “river” poems to share.

Please bring a chair, watch the weather to see if umbrella/rainwear is needed.

MC: Michael DeMarco

Theme: “We’re fogged outlines”: The Syntax of Intimacy and Memory ~ Do the words on the page provide subtle clues to secret moments in our lives which gently tug at the heartstrings?  Can they?

Guest Poet :Emma Ginader (She/Her) is a poet, critic, and editor. Her poetry has appeared in Paper Teller Diorama (great weather for MEDIA),

Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation, Lavender Review: Lesbian Poetry & Art, The Moth Magazine, Vox Viola, South Broadway Ghost Society, and december magazine.  Her work is forthcoming in Love Me, Love My Belly. She represented Mount Holyoke College at the 2015 Glascock Poetry Prize as an undergraduate student.

Raised in Bloomsburg, Ginader recently graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Writing. She currently works as a critic for The Baram House online magazine. She previously worked as the Columbia Journal Online’s Poetry Editor and The Daily Item newspaper’s Social Media Editor and Business Reporter. Follow her on Twitter @EmmaGinader.

MC: Linda Dietrichson

Theme: Conversations with the Dead ~

Dialogue poems, Moon River poems, poems that respond to another poet, gloss poems, create conversation with a dead poet by inserting your lines into their poem, etc.

MC: Danny Robinson