River Poets

Theme: Coming-of-Age ~ The term is defined as the attainment of prominence, respectability, recognition, or maturity.

Guest Poet: Anne Dyer Stuart 

Anne has published widely in literary journals, including AGNI, The American Journal of Poetry, Raleigh Review, Third Coast, Cherry Tree, Sugar House Review, The Texas Review, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing, and The Louisville Review.  Her work won a Henfield Prize, New South Journal‘s Prose Contest, was anthologized in Best of the Web, and nominated for Best New Poets.  Her poetry chapbook, What Girls Learn, a finalist for Comstock Review‘s 2020 Chapbook Contest, will be published by Finishing Line Press in December 2021.  She is Creative Works Editor of IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work and an associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

MC: Jerry Wemple

Guest Poet: Everyone

Winter Fest &  White Elephant Sale

Theme: Rote Poems ~ Reciting poems from memory –  yours or other poets.

White Elephant Sale ~ donate both new and gently used items: buying mistakes, gifts from a clueless aunt that never fit, etc.  All sales benefit River Poets programming.

MC: Susan Brook

Theme: Uncertainty ~ Have you ever taken a left turn when the directions said to go right? While reminiscing about your youth, did you ever wonder aloud “Whatever happened to so-and-so”?

Guest Poets: Susquehanna University Slam

MC: Tara Holdren