River Poets

THEME – Finality

James (Jim) Murray started reading poetry 20 years ago at the Phillips Emporium, first at their open mic then at River Poets. He started when he first attended Bloomsburg University where he studied to become a Social Studies teacher. After college he read poetry in South Dakota, North Carolina, around Pennsylvania, South Korea, and Australia. After traveling the world he went back to his first job that he had out of college, which was teaching in the Midwest. In 2012 he started Hard Coal Studios, through which he publishes comic books, prose, and poems and other works.

MC: Dick Sweeney

Diane Sahms Guarnieri is a Philadelphia Poet and Poetry Editor of The Fox Chase Review and co-curates The Fox Chase Reading Series. Her first collection Images of Being was released in October of 2011. She was awarded a grant in poetry from the AEV Foundation in May of 2013 and currently serves as Poet in Residence at Ryerss Museum and Library in Philadelphia. . Diane’s poetry has been published widely in the small and electronic press. You can visit her at http://dianesahmsguarnieri.wordpress.com/  and http://www.dianesahms-guarnieri.com/ On Youtube: Diane Sahms-Guarnieri Live at Cafe Improv 4-27-13

g emil reutter lives and writes in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia where he founded The Fox Chase Review and The Fox Chase Reading Series.  Eight collections of his poetry and prose have been published by Stonegarden.net, Blazevox Books and Persistenica Press. Most recently Carvings in November 2010. His newest fiction collection, Thugs, Con Men, Pigs and More was released in November 2014 by Red Dashboard Press.  You can visit him at   http://gereutter.wordpress.com/  .On Youtube: g emil reutter live at Cafe Improv 3-23-13

 MC: Michael DeMarco