Theme:  Normalcy. What is normal? Can it be defined? Can you go to strange places in your mind where great poetry sleeps, and still pass complacently through daily life? Open reading.              MC: Dave Barsky   

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Jim Murray is a long time River Poet, starting in 1995 while at Bloomsburg University. He has read poetry in Rapid City, South Dakota in the first South Dakota poetry slam; read poetry in South Korea, Australia, and many other places. His first full poetry collection, Almost Normal, is full of poetic tales of travel and philosophy. Back from overseas, he started Hard Coal Studios, where he publishes poetry, comic books, prose, and more.

Theme: Walking, hiking, poetic steps.         Open reading.    MC: Mike DeMarco

Featured Reader: TBA or

Mike DeMarco –Theme: Rivers and water.   

**Note this is the 2^nd Thursday – due to an early Easter week.

 Open reading.                                  MC: Richard Brook

Theme: Poetry is what you get from crossing lions with lambs.  

Open reading.         MC:Sue Brook    

Richard Kahn never earned his poetic license at any DMV or MFA, but that never stopped him from driving. Poetry seems to him like joyriding on stolen language. He did eventually get an English teacher’s license (which acts kind of like a poetic driver’s permit) and has taught in a juvenile prison, which is nothing like you imagine, whatever you imagine, and composition courses at Bucknell and Bloomsburg University, which is better than you imagine. He recently returned from Kazakhstan where he was a Peace Corps volunteer. Joyriding language evidently brings you to many places but gets you nowhere

A party of sorts is arranged; perhaps word games  are played. A full evening of  winter wonder “what’s up with the poets?” night. Books may be opened, read, and roundly introduced.

Venue change: Cloak & Dragon Bookstore

MC and Party hostess: Susan Brook

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