River Poets

THEME: POETRY -

Bucknell’s 2013-2015 Stadler Fellow, Justin Boening is the author of Self-Portrait as Missing Person, winner of a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. His poems and reviews have been published widely in literary journals and periodicals. In the summer, he teaches creative writing at the Columbia University High School Writing Program. 

MC: Richard Brook

Theme: Transformers

Matt Perakovich was once a dog but no longer, once an odor but grew stronger, once a sweet but broke a tooth, once on a vine–now vermouth.

MC: Paul Loomis

THEME: Confession-less Heart     (hearts that reveal nothing)

Tara Shoemaker Holdren, a Millville artist who still at times puts her poems into words. She has penned Circumnavigation.

Richard Brook – philosopher, professor, poet, a founder of River Poets and assembler of the annual poetry booklet – Renaissance man.

MC: Susan Brook