December 4, 2014
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
November 6, 2014
THEME: Favorite Animals
Before the poetry group was named “River Poets,” JoAnne Growney was there. For lots of years she lived in the yellow house on West 4th in Bloom and was a BU math professor who enjoyed and wrote poetry, now she is a Silver Spring (MD) grandmother who enjoys and writes poetry.
October 23, 2014
THEME: Departed Poets night
Bring your favorite poems by those no longer corporeally present. Do you choose to dramatize with costumes, props, or puppets? Let it be so!
MC: Paul Loomis and others
