November 4, 2021
Theme: “We’re fogged outlines”: The Syntax of Intimacy and Memory ~ Do the words on the page provide subtle clues to secret moments in our lives which gently tug at the heartstrings? Can they?
Guest Poet :Emma Ginader (She/Her) is a poet, critic, and editor. Her poetry has appeared in Paper Teller Diorama (great weather for MEDIA),
Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism, & Translation, Lavender Review: Lesbian Poetry & Art, The Moth Magazine, Vox Viola, South Broadway Ghost Society, and december magazine. Her work is forthcoming in Love Me, Love My Belly. She represented Mount Holyoke College at the 2015 Glascock Poetry Prize as an undergraduate student.
Raised in Bloomsburg, Ginader recently graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Writing. She currently works as a critic for The Baram House online magazine. She previously worked as the Columbia Journal Online’s Poetry Editor and The Daily Item newspaper’s Social Media Editor and Business Reporter. Follow her on Twitter @EmmaGinader.
MC: Linda Dietrichson
October 21, 2021
Theme: Conversations with the Dead ~
Dialogue poems, Moon River poems, poems that respond to another poet, gloss poems, create conversation with a dead poet by inserting your lines into their poem, etc.
MC: Danny Robinson
October 7, 2021
David Bauman & Micah Bauman – “Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems” is a father-and-son poetry collaboration by David J. Bauman and Micah James Bauman, published by Seven Kitchens Press (2021). A rare series of poems in alternating voices… a unique glimpse into the shifting dynamic of care and caring, depression and recovery, tracked throughout with unflinching honesty – Ron Mohring, editor and founding publisher at Seven Kitchens Press.
David has published two previous chapbooks, “Angels & Adultery” (Seven Kitchens Press, 2018) and “Moons, Roads, and Rivers” (Finishing Line Press, 2017). His poems have been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including New Ohio Review, Watershed Review, Flying Island, and Barely South Review. Micah has been published in South 85 Journal, Word Fountain, Electric Rail, The Blue Nib, and Sage Cigarettes. His reviews of young adult literature have appeared in his local newspaper, and commentaries on poetry, life, and music can be found on his blog at monkeyprodigy.wordpress.com.
Theme: Family ~Whether it’s an aunt you hated, a parent you never knew, a vindictive sibling, or the best friend who was closer than a brother, David and Micah encourage us to interpret family as broadly or narrowly as our poems permit.
Bloomsburg Public Library; second floor community room
