River Poets

Lyrics. Some songs are poetry (when you can make out the words)…tonight we ask that you find a song or two, and take out the music – present the words.

Open reading opportunity.

MC: Dave Barsky

Rachael Lyon grew up in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the author of The Normal Heart and How It Works (2011), winner of the 2010 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Award and finalist for the 2010 Black River Chapbook Competition. She received an MFA in poetry from George Mason University and recently completed a Fulbright grant in Vienna, where she translated German poetry. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Southern Humanities Review. Working on her first collection of poems, she is a creative writing instructor at Penn State.

Open reading opportunity. MC: Mary Lou Wagner