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February 5, 2015

February 5, 2015 – Featured Reader: Jesus Salas-Elorza

 

Jesus Salas-Elorza is a professor at Bloomsburg University. He specializes in contemporary Mexican literature.  He also writes poetry and has published in http://circulodepoesia.com.  He is presenting his own poetry and poetry in translation under the title “Romancing through Romance languages.” 

 

MC: Dave Barsky

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

January 8, 2015

January 8, 2015 – 1st Thursday (that is not a holiday) poetry at the Bloomsburg Library

All Readers are Featured

THEME: Poems by Heart

Remembering Beatrice Ermisch
Plus the annual white elephant sale – bring donations for a silent auction to benefit the River Poets; books, CDs, DVDs, etc. are welcome (re-gifting accepted)
MC and Hostess: Sue Brook

 

Start: January 8, 2015 7:30 pm
End: January 8, 2015 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street , Bloomsburg, PA, 17815

December 4, 2014

December 4, 2014 – Featured Reader: Shara McCallum

Featured  Poet: Shara McCollum

Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of several books of poetry: The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); This Strange Land (Alice James Books, US, 2011); a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003); and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 1999) winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry
Start: December 4, 2014 7:30 pm
End: December 4, 2014 7:30 pm
Venue: Bloomsburg Public Library
Address:
Market Street, Bloomsburg, 17815