River Poets

A  free-for-all, open reading event, with the theme along these lines: 

Valentines, Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry;

Love Takes a Wrong Turn;

Love Takes a Right Turn;

Micro organic Love;

Ode to Romeo and Juliet; 

Or stay with ‘Myopia:  Close(near) Sighted Poems’ (the original theme). 

Show up for the fun; stay for the hearts, flowers, and music (maybe chocolate)

MC: Scott Hemingway

One branch of Jerry Wemple’s family has lived in and around tiny Montour County since at least the mid-1800s. He supposes this may be partially responsible for his obsession with small towns along the Susquehanna. He continues to work on a series of narrative poems linked to 2013’s The Artemas Poems, which, oddly enough, are about people in small towns along the river.

 K. A. (Katie) Hays is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Early Creatures, Native Gods (2012) and Dear Apocalypse(2009). Her poems have appeared (or will) in Gray’s Sporting Journal, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Northern Woodlands, Tin House, and many other venuesYou can read her poems online at the Poetry Daily and Verse Daily websites and watch a one-minute film of a poem of hers that was anthologized in Best American Poetry at Motionpoems.com. She currently lives in Lewisburg, PA, and teaches at Bucknell.

MC: Richard Brook