November 1, 2012
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
October 25, 2012
DEAD POETS NIGHT – Susan Brook and Janet Locke are River Poets from way back to 1994 when the group first met. They appreciate the spurring to bring you some things witchy, new and spooky, as well as readings from some of their favorite Dead Poets. Open reading opportunity. MC: Katelyn Faye Winters
October 4, 2012
The author of two poetry collections: You Can See It from Here, and The Civil War in Baltimore. Jerry Wemple is co-editor of the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, and editor of Watershed: The Journal of the Susquehanna. His poetry and creative nonfiction have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. He teaches in the English Department at Bloomsburg University. Open reading opportunity. MC: Richard Brook
