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January 7, 2016

Chasing winter: A global warming affair (party)

AKA: putting the NOW in snow.

A sail, a sale, white elephants, white landscape; bring your slightly used items to help fund the River Poets. A party, a gathering, milling about, and some poems

MC: Paul Loomis

Start: January 7, 2016 7:30 pm
End: January 7, 2016 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, 17815, United States

December 3, 2015

Featured poets: Jesse Waters & Melanie Simms

THEME: Travel & Geography

Jesse Waters A winner of the River Styx International Poetry Contest, runner-up for the Iowa Review Fiction Prize and Finalist in The Starcherone Prize, the DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Prize and the Paul Bowles Fiction Award. *   writershouse@etown.edu

Melanie Simms is an award winning poet with over 200 publications of poetry in such journals, magazines and newspapers as Blood and Thunder Magazine, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Ascent Aspirations, Jerry Jazz Musicians, Penn Review (University of Pennsylvania) among many others.

MC: Michael DeMarco

Start: December 3, 2015 7:30 pm
End: December 3, 2015 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg , PA, 17815, United States

November 5, 2015

Bloomsburg University’s New Poets

THEME: Beginnings – students from Jerry Wemple’s poetry writing course will read some of their original work.

Just before the final month of the semester, works in progress, pieces of future sonnets, and final odes will be presented.

MC: Jerry Wemple

Start: November 5, 2015 7:30 pm
End: November 5, 2015 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg , PA, 17815, United States