River Poets

Theme: Flawed and Ordinary ~ Chet’la Sebree is the author of Field Study (FSG Originals, June 2021), winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Chet’la Sebree is the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts and an Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University.  She is the author of Mistress (New Issues, 2019), selected by Cathy Park Hong as the winner of the 2018

New Issues Poetry Prize.  She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from American University and has received fellowships from the Delaware Division of the Arts, Hedgebrook, The MacDowell Colony, the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the Stadler Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in many journals—including wildness,  Poetry International and The Account.

MC: Linda Dietrichson

Direction to Bloomsburg Town Park: From Bloomsburg Public Library, follow Market Street south approximately one (1) mile, at the very end of Market Street, face eastward and you will see us.

Theme: Whatever floats your boat

Kocher Park is a nature lover’s home away from home, join us creek-side as we share our words.

MC: Steven Concert

Directions to Kocher Park: From Bloomsburg, go north on Route 487 approximately 3.5 miles, park entrance is on the left.