April 7, 2022
Theme: Letting Go ~ an unexpected loss, an unfulfilled dream, a job, an ex, grown children, etc.
Event begins at 7:30 pm and ends at 9 pm
Dawn Leas is the author of A Person Worth Knowing (Foothills Publishing), Take Something When You Go (Winter Goose Publishing), and I Know When to Keep Quiet, (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in New York Quarterly, The Paterson Literary Review, Literary Mama, The Pedestal Magazine, SWWIM, and elsewhere. A writing coach, manuscript consultant, and arts educator, she is also a back-of-the pack runner, newbie hiker, salt-water lover, and mom of two grown sons.
*** April is National Poetry Month ***
MC: Steven Concert
March 3, 2022
Feature Poet: T J Swisher
Theme: Free Verse from the perspective of how one sees the world around them. Do you subscribe to the ideology that free verse should be free of any identifiable form / structure / pattern, etc.?
T.J. Swisher is a wife, mother of two, an educator, a volunteer firefighter/EMT, an EMS instructor, lifelong learner, and writer. She is a born-again Christian and loves living her life to show the world the amazing love of Christ. She is someone who goes through life at ninety miles per hour but absorbs it like a sponge, takes those experiences and perspectives, and puts it to ink on the page. Writing poetry is a deep-seated passion for T.J. and has roots back to her elementary days as a sixth grader when poetry was first introduced to her. It was with a single language arts assignment that the seed of a lifelong love of poetry would be planted.
MC: Michael DeMarco
February 3, 2022
Theme: Uncertainty -The theme is correct in that the uncertainty of safe travel indicated by the weather folks has helped us decide to cancel the poetry event for this evening 2/3/2022.
It will be rescheduled at a later date.
Join us at 7:30 pm March 3, 2022 at the Bloomsburg Public Library for featured reader T J Swisher and an open reading opportunity.
