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April 6, 2017

ALL OPEN READING

THEME: As you like it*

All open reading – we do not mean everyone will read the same poem or read all at once, but bring a poem or two and your voice…help make it the best, the strongest, the biggest, greatest open reading ever.

* Not necessarily a shout out or about Shakespeare

                   MC: Richard Brook

Start: April 6, 2017 7:30 pm
End: April 6, 2017 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA

March 2, 2017

First Thursday Poetry: g emil reutter & Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

FEATURES: g emil reutter & Diane Sahms-Guarnieri

Two poets/writers from southeast Pennsylvania

MC: Michael DeMarco

Start: March 2, 2017 7:30 pm
End: March 2, 2017 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States

February 2, 2017

February 2, 2017 Feature: Shara McCallum

THEME: Madness

Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry:

Madwoman;    The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems;         This Strange Land;       Song of Thieves 

and The Water Between Us  (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry)

Since 2003, McCallum has served as Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, where she also currently holds the Margaret Hollinshead Ley Professorship in Poetry & Creative Writing. She has been a faculty member in the University of Memphis MFA program, Drew University Low-Residency MFA Program, Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA program, and at the University of West Indies in Barbados.

MC: Linda Dietrichson

Start: February 2, 2017 7:30 pm
End: February 2, 2017 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, PA, 17815, United States