April 4, 2013
Theme: A Night With James Magill & His Poetry
James Magill lives and writes in Pennsylvania. He currently has a manuscript titled Reflections on the Human Condition. Magill’s writing has received, and continues to garner, some national attention. A sample of his writing can be accessed at his Web Site: http://romonxassociatedartists.com/profile/JamesMagill This will be an interactive event, audience participation requested. Magill will also present tips and advice on how to get published. For additional information please GOOGLE “The Poetry of James Magill”. He can be contacted by e-mail at: Jwm2125@aol.com MC: Charles Weaver
March 7, 2013
Paula Closson Buck (Ph.D. Ohio University) is Professor of English. Her interests include creative writing and modern British and American literature.
Teaching Interests: Creative writing, poetry and fiction; contemporary poetry; twentieth-century literature.
Current Projects and Research Interests: Closson Buck is finishing up a novel - Drinking with Ptolemy; looking ahead to work on new poems, a second novel, and possibly essays drawing on recent travels to India.
Selected Publications
The Acquiescent Villa, a book of poems from Louisiana State University Press (1998)
Litanies Near Water, a book of poems from Louisiana State University Press (2008)
Individual poems have appeared in Agni, Agni Online, Gettysburg Review, Laurel Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and other magazines, and have been selected for Poetry Daily
MC: Richard Brook
February 7, 2013
THEME: COAL, COAL HEART. Richard Aston is active in the Wilkes-Barre – Scranton poetry scene and is a 30+ year member of Mulberry Poets and Writers Association. He has coordinated all of the poetry Mulberry Poets and Writers Association contests and is a staff reviewer of poetry books for Off the Coast magazine. His collection Valley Voices is published by Foothills Publishing. He has published technical textbooks, numerous professional engineering papers, and poetry. He has 3 children and 7 grandchildren. MC: Richard Sweeney
