Yes we plan!
6 pm in the library – bring ideas, pen & paper – help create the next round of poetic events and poetry
Bring along some food if you like.
Calendar of Events
August 2, 2018
Bill Baillie: Columbia County’s Earliest Poem
THEME-LESS (as an endless summer)
Bill’s feature: Columbia County’s Earliest Poem. During the Revolutionary War a soldier wrote a short poem/song about the tragic American attack on Quebec. The verse was “collected” by a Danville military leader on the back of a land survey and lay hidden in papers for over 200 years. Now we can sing it together! Bill Baillie – Presenter Bill Baillie is author of several books and scores of articles on Columbia County history. A retired educator, he is past president of the Columbia County Historical & Genealogical Society. MC: Charles Weaver |
July 5, 2018
Poetry in the Park
| At the Bloomsburg Town Park, East of Market Street, beyond kids-burg, pavilion near the lagoonTHEME: Guerilla Poetry, making poetry public |
7 PM start time
Poems are read and then shared with the trees. The sheet-protected paper is returned to the source with string as we ‘leave’ the poems on trees. Original poems are welcome on any subject. These and others provided may be left.
MC: Michael DeMarco
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