Showing posts with label Jerry Wemple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerry Wemple. Show all posts
6/1/09
PA-themed poetry: York: 6/20/09
Saturday, June 20, 3 PM: Come to a reading of Pennsylvania-themed poetry at the York Arts Association, 220 South Marshall Street in York, PA. Readers will include Ann Michael and Jerry Wemple, among others. Hosted by Barbara DeCesare. For more information, call 717-755-0028.
6/1/08
Jerry Wemple: Shikellamy State Park: 6/21/08
Saturday, June 21, 2-4pm: Bloomsburg poet Jerry Wemple will read his work at the Shikellamy State Park Overlook as part of the Friends of Shikellamy State Park Summer Solstice Celebration. Wemple will be joined by singer/songwiter Jessica Jellen. For more information on this and other scheduled events, click here.
8/1/07
Common Wealth Reading: DC: 8/6/07
Café Muse presents Barbara DeCesare, Joanne Growney, Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple.
The Word Works, in collaboration with Friendship Heights Village, presents at Café Muse on Monday, August 6, poets Barbara DeCesare, JoAnne Growney, Marjorie Maddox, and Jerry Wemple in a publications reading for COMMON WEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Friendship Heights Village Center is located at 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland. All Café Muse programs are free to the public and handicapped accessible. Café Muse opens at 7pm with refreshments and classical guitar music by Michael Davis; readings begin at 7:30.
BARBARA DECESARE is a 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee.
JOANNE GROWNEY’s chapbook, My Dance is Mathematics, was published in 2006 by Paper Kite Press.
MARJORIE MADDOX’s short story collection, What She Was Saying, was a finalist for the 2005 Katherine Anne Porter Book Award.
JERRY WEMPLE, co-editor of the Common Wealth anthology, is an associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Attending poets are invited to participate in an open reading that concludes the Café Muse program. A sign-up sheet will be available at 7:00 pm. The Word Works is a nonprofit literary organization publishing contemporary poetry in artistic editions and sponsoring public programs for more than 30 years.
The Word Works, in collaboration with Friendship Heights Village, presents at Café Muse on Monday, August 6, poets Barbara DeCesare, JoAnne Growney, Marjorie Maddox, and Jerry Wemple in a publications reading for COMMON WEALTH: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. Friendship Heights Village Center is located at 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland. All Café Muse programs are free to the public and handicapped accessible. Café Muse opens at 7pm with refreshments and classical guitar music by Michael Davis; readings begin at 7:30.
BARBARA DECESARE is a 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee.
JOANNE GROWNEY’s chapbook, My Dance is Mathematics, was published in 2006 by Paper Kite Press.
MARJORIE MADDOX’s short story collection, What She Was Saying, was a finalist for the 2005 Katherine Anne Porter Book Award.
JERRY WEMPLE, co-editor of the Common Wealth anthology, is an associate professor of English at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Attending poets are invited to participate in an open reading that concludes the Café Muse program. A sign-up sheet will be available at 7:00 pm. The Word Works is a nonprofit literary organization publishing contemporary poetry in artistic editions and sponsoring public programs for more than 30 years.
9/1/06
COMMON WEALTH Poets at Susquehanna River Conference: Bucknell: 9/23/06
On Saturday, September 23, the Upper Susquehanna River Basin Conference at Bucknell University will conclude with a reading by poets appearing in Common Wealth: Contemporary poets on Pennsylvania. The conference will be held in the Langone Center on the Bucknell campus, and the reading will commence at 5:30 PM. Poets who are scheduled to read include Marjorie Maddox, Deirdre O’Connor, Ron Mohring, Karl Patten, Charlie Rice, and Jerry Wemple. For more information, please contact Bucknell University at 570-577-2000.
3/1/06
Common Wealth Reading: Bloomsburg: 3/22/06
Several contributors to a new anthology featuring poems about Pennsylvania will read at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in Multipurpose Room B, Kehr Union at Bloomsburg University.
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania was edited by Jerry Wemple, an associate professor in the Bloomsburg University English Department, and Marjorie Maddox, director of the creative writing program at Lock Haven University. The book, published by Penn State Press, received favorable reviews in The Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous other publications. Among the readers for the event are award-winning poets Harry Humes (a BU alumnus), Sandra Kohler, and JoAnne Growney (a former BU faculty member). Several recent alumni who either contributed a poem to the book or who served as editorial interns will also take part in the reading.
Click here for general directions to Bloomsburg University.
Click here for a map of the lower campus showing the Kehr Union building.
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania was edited by Jerry Wemple, an associate professor in the Bloomsburg University English Department, and Marjorie Maddox, director of the creative writing program at Lock Haven University. The book, published by Penn State Press, received favorable reviews in The Philadelphia Inquirer and numerous other publications. Among the readers for the event are award-winning poets Harry Humes (a BU alumnus), Sandra Kohler, and JoAnne Growney (a former BU faculty member). Several recent alumni who either contributed a poem to the book or who served as editorial interns will also take part in the reading.
Click here for general directions to Bloomsburg University.
Click here for a map of the lower campus showing the Kehr Union building.
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