May 7, 2026
Ars Poetica (the art of poetry) plus, a birthday party to celebrate 32 years of poetry by the River Poets and share a younger cake.
Bring poems you wrote, like, or want to read aloud ( a poem could be all three if that works).
Celebratee possibly the ‘best ever’ totally open reading
7:30 to 9 PM
MC: Steven Concert
April 9, 2026
Keystone Poetry Reading
Poets will be reading poems from the most recent book
6:30 PM to ending
March 5, 2026
Katie (K.A.) Hays has published four book-length collections of poetry with Carnegie Mellon University Press, most recently Anthropocene Lullaby, as well as a book co-translated with poet Keith Waldrop, Before Wisdom: The Early Poems of Paul Verlaine. She offers poetry workshops at Bucknell University and is trained to facilitate Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program courses at local prisons.
7:30 to 9 pm MC: Linda Dietrichson