Barbara DeCesare
Tuesday, April 15th ~ 7:00 PM
Kirby Hall Salon, Wilkes University
~ Free and open to the public ~
Sponsored by the Allen Hamilton Dickson Fund.
Barbara's second collection of poetry, Silent Type, is available from Paper Kite Press: http://www.wordpainting.com/shop.shtml
"Barbara DeCesare is one of the most exciting and original poetic voices in the Mid-Atlantic region. I'd follow her voice anywhere." —Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle Magazine
4/1/08
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Larry Kearney & Frank Sherlock: PhillySound: 4/13/08
Sunday, April 13, 4pm - PhillySound at Robin's Bookstore presents Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Larry Kearney, and Frank Sherlock. 108 South 13th St, Philadelphia.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet and feminist literary critic living in Swarthmore, PA, and teaching at Temple University. Larry Kearney has published nine books of poetry and lives in Larkspur, California. Frank Sherlock is the author of Ready-To-Eat-Individuals.
Hosted by C.A. Conrad.
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/041308_4.html
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet and feminist literary critic living in Swarthmore, PA, and teaching at Temple University. Larry Kearney has published nine books of poetry and lives in Larkspur, California. Frank Sherlock is the author of Ready-To-Eat-Individuals.
Hosted by C.A. Conrad.
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/041308_4.html
Doug Arnold & Liz Stanley: Pottsville: 4/12/08
Saturday, April 12 ~ 1 pm - 4 pm: Doug Arnold & Liz Stanley will read their poetry at All Things Good, 209 West Market Street in Pottsville. [Click here for an online event schedule.]
Doug Arnold's poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Psychopoetica (University of Hull-UK), Mad Poets Review, and The Pedestal. His first chapbook, Playing in Most of the Keys, was published by Finishing Line Press. His essay, “Reading Kay Ryan's Poetry,” appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Doug was formerly president of an advertising agency he founded and has written columns for the Philadelphia Business Journal and The Reading Eagle.
Liz Stanley completed her B.A. in English at Gettysburg College, and a Master's degree at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. She attended the Bread Loaf Writers conference, and taught English at Governor Mifflin Junior High School, Shillington, PA, where John Updike grew up. Since 1998 Liz Stanley has hosted the Bruce H. Stanley Memorial Poetry Series at Reading Area Community College, "Poetry @ 6," featuring local, regional and national poets, sponsored by the Foundation for RACC. She is currently on the board of directors of Berks Bards, a volunteer community organization that promotes the living art of poetry in Reading and Berks County, and sponsors monthly poetry readings at City Espresso in Reading, poetry events during the Literary Festival in October, and BardFest in the Spring.
Doug Arnold's poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Psychopoetica (University of Hull-UK), Mad Poets Review, and The Pedestal. His first chapbook, Playing in Most of the Keys, was published by Finishing Line Press. His essay, “Reading Kay Ryan's Poetry,” appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Doug was formerly president of an advertising agency he founded and has written columns for the Philadelphia Business Journal and The Reading Eagle.
Liz Stanley completed her B.A. in English at Gettysburg College, and a Master's degree at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. She attended the Bread Loaf Writers conference, and taught English at Governor Mifflin Junior High School, Shillington, PA, where John Updike grew up. Since 1998 Liz Stanley has hosted the Bruce H. Stanley Memorial Poetry Series at Reading Area Community College, "Poetry @ 6," featuring local, regional and national poets, sponsored by the Foundation for RACC. She is currently on the board of directors of Berks Bards, a volunteer community organization that promotes the living art of poetry in Reading and Berks County, and sponsors monthly poetry readings at City Espresso in Reading, poetry events during the Literary Festival in October, and BardFest in the Spring.
update: Sascha Feinstein interview
Please click here to listen to an interview with Sascha Feinstein on the Indiana University Press blog.
Barbara DeCesare: Bloomsburg: 4/8/08
Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 PM: Poet Barbara DeCesare will be the featured reader at the River Poets event at Phillips Emporium, 10 East Main Street in Bloomsburg.
Barbara DeCesare is the author of jigsaweyesore (1999) and Silent Type (2007). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gargoyle, and Tarpaulin Sky.
Barbara DeCesare is the author of jigsaweyesore (1999) and Silent Type (2007). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Gargoyle, and Tarpaulin Sky.
Kyle Conner & Jenn McCreary: Philly: 4/8/08
Tuesday, April 8, 6pm - Moonstone Poetry Series presents Kyle Conner and Jenn McCreary; both will read at Robin's Bookstore, 108 South 13th St in Philadelphia.
Kyle Conner is the author of Breaths For Flesh. Jenn McCreary lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press.
Hosted by Justin Vitiello; open reading to follow. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/040808.html
Kyle Conner is the author of Breaths For Flesh. Jenn McCreary lives in Philadelphia where she co-edits ixnay press.
Hosted by Justin Vitiello; open reading to follow. For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/040808.html
Thom Ward: Bucknell: 4/8/08
Tuesday, April 8, 4 PM: Thom Ward will give a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building on the campus of Bucknell University.
Thom Ward is the author of three books of poetry, Small Boat with Oars of Different Size (2000), Various Orbits (2004), and The Matter of the Casket (2007), as well as several chapbooks. He is senior editor for BOA Editions, Ltd., a prestigious publisher of American poetry and poetry in translation. For his poetry, he has received a fellowship from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and several grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2000 and 2001, he served as Chairman of the Literature Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. Ward has taught creative writing workshops throughout the United States. He lives in Penfield, NY.
The new Writers Up Close series brings to campus poets who also work in arts administration. Each poet speaks on his or her area of editorial/administrative expertise as a guest in Shara McCallum's course on arts administration, then presents a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library.
This event is free and open to the public.
Jen Currin, Pattie McCarthy, Jeremiah Bowen: Philly: 4/6/08
Sunday, April 6, PM:
PhillySound at Robin's Bookstore features poets Jen Currin, Pattie McCarthy and Jeremiah Bowen.
Jen Currin is the author of Hagiography and The Sleep of Four; she lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is a member of the poetry collective vertigo west, and teaches creative writing at Vancouver Film School and Langara College.
Pattie McCarthy is the author of Choragus; she teaches at Temple University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Jeremiah Rush Bowen lives in Philadelphia. He is currently at work on three book-length poems.
Hosted by C.A. Conrad.
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/040608.html
PhillySound at Robin's Bookstore features poets Jen Currin, Pattie McCarthy and Jeremiah Bowen.
Jen Currin is the author of Hagiography and The Sleep of Four; she lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is a member of the poetry collective vertigo west, and teaches creative writing at Vancouver Film School and Langara College.
Pattie McCarthy is the author of Choragus; she teaches at Temple University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Jeremiah Rush Bowen lives in Philadelphia. He is currently at work on three book-length poems.
Hosted by C.A. Conrad.
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/040608.html
Kimmika Williams: Philly: 4/3/08
Thursday April 3rd, 6 PM: Robin's Bookstore, 108 S 13th St, Philadelphia.
Poetry as Performance Art with Kimmika Williams and her class from Temple University.
Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon and the Spring 2008 Poetry as Performance Class (from the Theater Department in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University) will be presenting "Songs of Spring and Rites of Passage." Open Mic; all are welcome.
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/040308.html
Poetry as Performance Art with Kimmika Williams and her class from Temple University.
Dr. Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon and the Spring 2008 Poetry as Performance Class (from the Theater Department in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University) will be presenting "Songs of Spring and Rites of Passage." Open Mic; all are welcome.
For more information see: http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/040308.html
Judith Hall: Bucknell: 4/1/08
Tuesday, April 1, 4 PM: Judith Hall will give a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building on the campus of Bucknell University.Judith Hall is the author of four collections of poetry, To Put the Mouth To (1992), Anatomy, Errata (1998), The Promised Folly (2003), and Three Trios, her translation of the poet J II (2007). For a time Hall directed the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project and senior program specialist for literary publishing at the NEA. Since 1995, she has served as poetry editor of Antioch Review. She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She teaches at the California Institute of Technology and in the MFA program at New England College.
The new Writers Up Close series brings to campus poets who also work in arts administration. Each poet speaks on his or her area of editorial/administrative expertise as a guest in Shara McCallum's course on arts administration, then presents a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library.
This event is free and open to the public.
3/1/08
CFS: Watershed-The Journal of the Susquehanna
Watershed: The Journal of the Susquehanna is now accepting submissions for the second issue, slated for publication in January 2009. The reading period is March 1 to September 1, 2008. Watershed is an interdisciplinary annual print journal. The journal’s mission is to promote environmental awareness of the Susquehanna watershed region, which includes parts of New York state, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. The journal also seeks to promote the region’s culture, history, literature, and art; and seeks thought-provoking nonfiction on environmental issues, regional history and local culture, as well as top quality and inventive poetry and fiction. Quality black and white photography is welcome as well. While contributors need not reside in the Susquehanna region, the work must evoke the Susquehanna and its hills, valleys, and, most importantly, its people. Of course, these influences could be as varied as the geography of the watershed.
General guidelines: All work must have a strong sense of place, and in some way bring to mind the Susquehanna region. Email submissionsare strongly preferred, with submissions attached as individual MS Word files. (See specific directions for photography.) Subject line for submissions should indentify the genre, e.g., “Fiction Submission.” Please submit only one prose piece (double spaced) per category. You may submit up to five poems. Submissions for each genre should be done separately. Please include a brief biographical note with each submission. We do not print previously published material. Copyright reverts to author upon publication. Payment is three copies of the journal.
Nonfiction articles: We are looking for narrative-driven articles on the environment, history, or culture of the region up to 4,000 words. Articles should be aimed at a general readership, not an academic or specialist audience.
Short fiction: Submit stories up to 5,000 words.
Personal essays: Work may be autobiographical, expository, or other, but must be rooted in a Susquehanna region experience. Submit essays up to 5,000 words.
Poetry: Submit up to five poems (each as a separately attached file). Poems should be singled spaced, or as typography dictates.
Photography: Submit up to five black and white photographs for consideration. Hard copies (not scanned) photos should be mailed. Label the back of each print with a title and photographer’s name and contact information. Unused prints will be returned. We may not be able to return used prints due to the production process.
Email submissions and questions: river@bloomu.edu
Mailing address: Jerry Wemple, Editor, Watershed, c/o English Department, Bloomsburg University, 400 E. Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA 17815.
Poetry Ink Reading: Philadelphia: 3/30/08
Sunday, March 30, 1-6 PM: Robin's Bookstore in Philadelphia hosts the 12th annual Poetry Ink: 100 poets will read together. For full details, visit the Robin's Bookstore website (click here).
Patricia Hampl: Bryn Mawr: 3/27/08
Thursday, March 27, 7:30 PM: Poet and memoirist Patricia Hampl will give a reading of her work in Thomas Great Hall on the campus of Bryn Mawr College.
Patricia Hampl is the author of books including Woman Before an Aquarium, Blue Arabesque: a Search for the Sublime (about a work by Matisse), I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, A Romantic Education and Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life. Her new book is The Florist's Daughter.
This reading is free and open to the public. For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs at (610) 526-6520 or info@brynmawr.edu.
Patricia Hampl is the author of books including Woman Before an Aquarium, Blue Arabesque: a Search for the Sublime (about a work by Matisse), I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory, A Romantic Education and Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life. Her new book is The Florist's Daughter.
This reading is free and open to the public. For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs at (610) 526-6520 or info@brynmawr.edu.
Bret Johnston (fiction): Bucknell: 3/25/08
Tuesday, March 25, 7 PM: Fiction writer Bret Anthony Johnston will give a reading in Bucknell Hall on the campus of Bucknell University.
Bret Anthony Johnston is the author of the internationally acclaimed debut collection Corpus Christi: Stories (2004) and the editor of Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer (forthcoming, 2008). His work has appeared in such magazines as Paris Review, Oxford American, and Tin House, and in such anthologies as New Stories from the South: the Year’s Best, Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards. A graduate of Miami University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently the director of creative writing at Harvard University.
This event is free and open to the public.
J.C. Todd: Kingston: 3/21/08
Friday, March 21st:
Third Friday Art Exhibit & Poetry Reading
Paper Kite Press Studio & Gallery ~ 443 Main Street, Kingston PA
6:00 PM: New Paintings of Veda (Life) Artwork of Brooke Wandall.
Artist's reception. Refreshments served.
Gallery hours are by appointment, and Sundays noon - 5 p.m.
8:30 PM: Featured Reader J.C. Todd and Open Mic.
J.C. reads from her newest collection of poems from Wind Publications, What Space This Body. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Shade(2004) and Verse Daily. Awards include a Leeway Award for Poetry, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a New Jersey Governor's Award for Arts Education, an international exchange fellowship to Schloss Wiepersdorf arts colony in Germany and a scholarship to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden. She has edited translation features for Frigate and The Drunken Boat. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. A book signing will follow her reading. Arrive early to sign up for the open mic portion of the evening, and to check out the art.
Third Friday Art Exhibit & Poetry Reading
Paper Kite Press Studio & Gallery ~ 443 Main Street, Kingston PA
6:00 PM: New Paintings of Veda (Life) Artwork of Brooke Wandall.
Artist's reception. Refreshments served.
Gallery hours are by appointment, and Sundays noon - 5 p.m.
8:30 PM: Featured Reader J.C. Todd and Open Mic.
J.C. reads from her newest collection of poems from Wind Publications, What Space This Body. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Shade(2004) and Verse Daily. Awards include a Leeway Award for Poetry, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a New Jersey Governor's Award for Arts Education, an international exchange fellowship to Schloss Wiepersdorf arts colony in Germany and a scholarship to the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Sweden. She has edited translation features for Frigate and The Drunken Boat. She is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Bryn Mawr College. A book signing will follow her reading. Arrive early to sign up for the open mic portion of the evening, and to check out the art.
Ellen Dore Watson: Bloomsburg: 3/20/08
Thursday, March 20, at 4 PM: Poet Ellen Doré Watson will read at Monty's Assembly Room on the upper campus of Bloomsburg University.
Watson serves as Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review. She is the author of four books of poems, including We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York award from Alice James Books and, most recently, This Sharpening, from Tupelo Press. In 1998, Library Journal named her “One of 24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Among her honors are a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, two Pushcart nominations, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Watson has translated a dozen books from the Brazilian Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press), and also co-translates contemporary Arabic language poetry with Saadi Simawe. She makes her home in Conway, Massachusetts.
This event is free and open to the public.
Watson serves as Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review. She is the author of four books of poems, including We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York award from Alice James Books and, most recently, This Sharpening, from Tupelo Press. In 1998, Library Journal named her “One of 24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Among her honors are a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, two Pushcart nominations, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Watson has translated a dozen books from the Brazilian Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press), and also co-translates contemporary Arabic language poetry with Saadi Simawe. She makes her home in Conway, Massachusetts.
This event is free and open to the public.
James Harms: Lycoming: 3/18/08
Tuesday, March 18, 7:30 PM: Poet James Harms will give a reading in the Shangraw Performance Hall, Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall, on the campus of Lycoming College.
Harms is the author of five collections of poetry, all from Carnegie Mellon University Press: Modern Ocean (1992), The Joy Addict (1998), Quarters (2001), Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), and After West (2007). His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, and American Poetry Review. He is a contributing editor of West Branch.
Harms has been awarded an NEA fellowship, the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship, grants from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania state arts agencies, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. He directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University and currently serves as the 2008 Poet-in-Residence at Bucknell University.
This reading is free and open to the public.
Sapphire: Bloomsburg: 3/18/08
Tuesday, March 18, 7 PM: Poet and novelist Sapphire will give a reading in Kehr Union, Ballroom 1 & 2, on the campus of Bloomsburg University.
Sapphire is the author of two books of poetry, Black Wings & Blind Angels and American Dreams. Her novel, Push, was published in 1996 and won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award. Sapphire's poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals and publications, including The New Yorker, The Black Scholar, and The New York Times Book Review.
This reading is free and open to the public.
Sapphire is the author of two books of poetry, Black Wings & Blind Angels and American Dreams. Her novel, Push, was published in 1996 and won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award. Sapphire's poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals and publications, including The New Yorker, The Black Scholar, and The New York Times Book Review.
This reading is free and open to the public.
Ellen Dore Watson: Bucknell: 3/18/08
Tuesday, March 18, 4 PM: Ellen Doré Watson will give a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building on the campus of Bucknell University. Ellen Doré Watson serves as Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College and poetry editor of The Massachusetts Review. She is the author of four books of poems, including We Live in Bodies, Ladder Music (winner of the New England/New York award from Alice James Books) and, most recently, This Sharpening. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including American Poetry Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker. In 1998, Library Journal named her “One of 24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Among her honors are a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist’s Grant, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, and an NEA Translation Fellowship. Watson has translated a dozen books from the Brazilian Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado, and also co-translates contemporary Arabic language poetry with Saadi Simawe. She makes her home in Conway, Massachusetts.
The new Writers Up Close series brings to campus poets who also work in arts administration. Each poet speaks on his or her area of editorial/administrative expertise as a guest in Shara McCallum's course on arts administration, then presents a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library.
This event is free and open to the public.
G C Waldrep: Bloomsburg: 3/11/08
Tuesday, March 11th – at 7:30 pm SHARP at Phillips Emporium.
River Poets Feature: Award-winning poet G.C. Waldrep.
Open Reading after. MC: Dick Sweeney.
G.C. Waldrep’s books of poems are Goldbeater's Skin and Disclamor; he is also the author of two chapbooks, The Batteries (New Michigan Press, 2006) and One Way No Exit (Tarpaulin Sky, 2008). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Tin House, New American Writing, and other journals. His work has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Waldrep teaches creative writing and directs the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.
River Poets Feature: Award-winning poet G.C. Waldrep.
Open Reading after. MC: Dick Sweeney.
G.C. Waldrep’s books of poems are Goldbeater's Skin and Disclamor; he is also the author of two chapbooks, The Batteries (New Michigan Press, 2006) and One Way No Exit (Tarpaulin Sky, 2008). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Boston Review, New England Review, Georgia Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Tin House, New American Writing, and other journals. His work has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Society of America, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Waldrep teaches creative writing and directs the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets.
Jon Thompson & Justin Vitiello: Philadelphia: 3/11/08
Tuesday March 11, 6pm - The Moonstone Poetry Series presents Jon Thompson and Justin Vitiello.
Jon Thompson is an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University, where he teaches courses in twentieth century literature. In addition to his publications in poetry, he has published Fiction, Crime and Empire (University of Illinois Press, 1993). He also edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and is the editor of Parlor Press's new poetry series, Free Verse Editions.
Justin Vitiello was born in New City in 1941. After his B.A. in English and Spanish at Brown University (1963), he spent a year in Madrid as a Fulbright Scholar. He attended the University of Michigan, staying ten years (1964-73) to do a doctorate in Comparative Literature. His work as an activist has shaped his life and writings, notably with Danilo Dolci in Sicily and the USA, the nonviolent movement in Italy and India, the anti-nuke mobilization in Rome and Philadelphia, and the Wobblies (the Industrial Workers of the World) - everywhere. Since 1974, he has taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, focusing his creative, political and scholarly writings on America, Italy and Spain. His books of poetry published are: Vanzetti's Fish Cart, subway home, and Suicide of an Ethnic Poet.
Hosted by Justin Vitiello; open reading to follow.
Jon Thompson is an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University, where he teaches courses in twentieth century literature. In addition to his publications in poetry, he has published Fiction, Crime and Empire (University of Illinois Press, 1993). He also edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and is the editor of Parlor Press's new poetry series, Free Verse Editions.
Justin Vitiello was born in New City in 1941. After his B.A. in English and Spanish at Brown University (1963), he spent a year in Madrid as a Fulbright Scholar. He attended the University of Michigan, staying ten years (1964-73) to do a doctorate in Comparative Literature. His work as an activist has shaped his life and writings, notably with Danilo Dolci in Sicily and the USA, the nonviolent movement in Italy and India, the anti-nuke mobilization in Rome and Philadelphia, and the Wobblies (the Industrial Workers of the World) - everywhere. Since 1974, he has taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Temple University in Philadelphia and Rome, focusing his creative, political and scholarly writings on America, Italy and Spain. His books of poetry published are: Vanzetti's Fish Cart, subway home, and Suicide of an Ethnic Poet.
Hosted by Justin Vitiello; open reading to follow.
Poetry Contest: Pocono Armchair Review
The Pocono Armchair Review, a new online journal, is running a poetry contest:
Prize: $50 and publication in the Review.
Fee: Only $1. Send check to address below, or send via PayPal to editor e-mail below.
Please send poems as part of the body of your e-mail (no attachments, please) to editor@poconoarmchairreview.com. Paper submissions should be sent to:
The Pocono Armchair Review, 203 West Hazard St, PO Box 4, Summit Hill PA 18250.
Please type submissions, with a one-inch margin, double spaced, one side of the paper only.
Entry deadline: April 30, 2008.
Click here for general submission guidelines.
Prize: $50 and publication in the Review.
Fee: Only $1. Send check to address below, or send via PayPal to editor e-mail below.
Please send poems as part of the body of your e-mail (no attachments, please) to editor@poconoarmchairreview.com. Paper submissions should be sent to:
The Pocono Armchair Review, 203 West Hazard St, PO Box 4, Summit Hill PA 18250.
Please type submissions, with a one-inch margin, double spaced, one side of the paper only.
Entry deadline: April 30, 2008.
Click here for general submission guidelines.
Barbara Crooker & David Brooks: Pottsville: 3/8/08
Saturday, March 8, 1:30-4:30 PM: Barbara Crooker and David Brooks will read at All Things Good, 209 West Market Street in Pottsville.
2/1/08
CFS: Washington Prize
ANNOUNCING 28TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON PRIZE COMPETITION
The Word Works announces its 28th annual Washington Prize competition, offering $1,500 and publication for a volume of original poetry by a living American writer. Previous winners of the Washington Prize include Prartho Sereno (the 2007 winner for her book Call from Paris), John Surowiecki, Richard Lyons, Carrie Bennett, Ron Mohring, Fred Marchant, and Enid Shomer.
Send manuscripts of 48 to 64 pages between Jan. 15 and March 1, 2008, inclusive. Please do not send manuscripts before Jan. 15 or after March 1. Author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and signature should appear on the title page only. Please include a table of contents containing the manuscript title, as well as a cover letter containing your bio and publication acknowledgements. Biographical and publication information must not appear anywhere in the manuscript except the cover letter, which must be detachable from the rest of the manuscript. Use a binder clip to fasten the manuscript. No manuscripts will be returned, but please include a self-addressed, business-sized envelope for notification of contest results.
The winner will be selected by July 1, 2008, and all entrants will receive a copy of the winning book when it is published in January 2009. The entry fee is $25 U.S., by check drawn on a U.S. bank only and made payable to The Word Works. Mail manuscripts to:
Steven B. Rogers, Director
Word Works Washington Prize
3201 Taylor St.
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
The Word Works is a non-profit literary organization devoted to the dissemination of the best contemporary poetry. It publishes books of poetry in collectors’ editions featuring original artwork. It also sponsors programs such as the Joaquin Miller Cabin poetry reading series in Rock Creek Park and the Cafe Muse Literary Series in Chevy Chase, Md. The Word Works celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004, and has sponsored the Washington Prize since 1981. For more information about The Word Works and the Washington Prize, please visit http://www.wordworksdc.com/.
The Word Works announces its 28th annual Washington Prize competition, offering $1,500 and publication for a volume of original poetry by a living American writer. Previous winners of the Washington Prize include Prartho Sereno (the 2007 winner for her book Call from Paris), John Surowiecki, Richard Lyons, Carrie Bennett, Ron Mohring, Fred Marchant, and Enid Shomer.
Send manuscripts of 48 to 64 pages between Jan. 15 and March 1, 2008, inclusive. Please do not send manuscripts before Jan. 15 or after March 1. Author’s name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and signature should appear on the title page only. Please include a table of contents containing the manuscript title, as well as a cover letter containing your bio and publication acknowledgements. Biographical and publication information must not appear anywhere in the manuscript except the cover letter, which must be detachable from the rest of the manuscript. Use a binder clip to fasten the manuscript. No manuscripts will be returned, but please include a self-addressed, business-sized envelope for notification of contest results.
The winner will be selected by July 1, 2008, and all entrants will receive a copy of the winning book when it is published in January 2009. The entry fee is $25 U.S., by check drawn on a U.S. bank only and made payable to The Word Works. Mail manuscripts to:
Steven B. Rogers, Director
Word Works Washington Prize
3201 Taylor St.
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
The Word Works is a non-profit literary organization devoted to the dissemination of the best contemporary poetry. It publishes books of poetry in collectors’ editions featuring original artwork. It also sponsors programs such as the Joaquin Miller Cabin poetry reading series in Rock Creek Park and the Cafe Muse Literary Series in Chevy Chase, Md. The Word Works celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004, and has sponsored the Washington Prize since 1981. For more information about The Word Works and the Washington Prize, please visit http://www.wordworksdc.com/.
Dan Waber: Scranton: 2/29/08
Friday, February 29, 8:30 PM: Poet Dan Waber will read from his new book, Echolalia, at Anthology New & Used Books, 515 Center Street (2nd floor) in Scranton. You can read about (and order) Dan's book by clicking here.
Sascha Feinstein: Bloomsburg: 2/26/08
Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 PM: Poet Sascha Feinstein will give a reading of his work in the Schweiker Room of the Andruss Library on the campus of Bloomsburg University.
Dr. Feinstein, a professor of English at Lycoming College and co-editor of The Jazz Poetry Anthology, will give a campus workshop discussing the making of jazz poems earlier in the day.
The reading is free and open to the public.
Dr. Feinstein, a professor of English at Lycoming College and co-editor of The Jazz Poetry Anthology, will give a campus workshop discussing the making of jazz poems earlier in the day.
The reading is free and open to the public.
John Hoppenthaler: Bucknell: 2/26/08
Tuesday, February 26, 4 PM: John Hoppenthaler will give a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building on the campus of Bucknell University.
John Hoppenthaler is the author of two books of poetry, Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Southern Review, and other magazines, and in several anthologies. A reviewer, essayist, and interviewer, he is editor of the literary journal Kestrel. Hoppenthaler served for several years as personal assistant to the novelist Toni Morrison. A regular faculty member at the West Virginia Writers Workshop and Writers at the Beach, he is assistant professor of English at East Carolina University.
The new Writers Up Close series brings to campus poets who also work in arts administration. Each poet speaks on his or her area of editorial/administrative expertise as a guest in Shara McCallum's course on arts administration, then presents a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library.
This event is free and open to the public.
John Hoppenthaler is the author of two books of poetry, Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, Southern Review, and other magazines, and in several anthologies. A reviewer, essayist, and interviewer, he is editor of the literary journal Kestrel. Hoppenthaler served for several years as personal assistant to the novelist Toni Morrison. A regular faculty member at the West Virginia Writers Workshop and Writers at the Beach, he is assistant professor of English at East Carolina University.
The new Writers Up Close series brings to campus poets who also work in arts administration. Each poet speaks on his or her area of editorial/administrative expertise as a guest in Shara McCallum's course on arts administration, then presents a poetry reading in the Willard Smith Library.
This event is free and open to the public.
Poetry Residence at Bucknell: 2/23 deadline
Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing
Named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bucknell graduate and initiated in the fall of 1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers an emerging writer four months of unfettered writing time during Bucknell's fall semester, without formal academic obligations. The Residence is designed to grant the writer time to complete a first or second book. The resident presents a public reading of his or her work and otherwise constitutes a literary presence on campus during the fall. Providing lodging on campus, an office in the Stadler Center for Poetry, and a stipend of $4,000, the Residence is awarded to writers of prose (fiction or creative nonfiction) and poets on an alternating basis.
The Stadler Center is currently accepting applications from poets for the 2008-09 Philip Roth Residence. The Residence will extend from late August 2008 through mid-December 2008. The application deadline is February 23; click here for application instructions.
Chestnut Hill College Poetry Festival: Philly: 2/22-23
Chestnut Hill College Poetry Festival
February 22, 2008, 7 PM to February 23, 2008: Chestnut Hill College, 9601 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.
Friday evening will feature a performance by musician Shawn Germain, who released his debut album titled "A Neverending Season" in 2007. Following his performance, there will be an open mic for poetry readings and music. On Saturday evening, three poetry readings will be dedicated to William Walker, Ph.D., senior vice president of the College, on the occasion of his retirement in June. The speakers for Saturday nights poetry readings will be Eli Goldblatt, John Ebersole, and Elizabeth Pearson.
For more information, call 215-248-7001 or contact chcapply@chc.edu
February 22, 2008, 7 PM to February 23, 2008: Chestnut Hill College, 9601 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.
Friday evening will feature a performance by musician Shawn Germain, who released his debut album titled "A Neverending Season" in 2007. Following his performance, there will be an open mic for poetry readings and music. On Saturday evening, three poetry readings will be dedicated to William Walker, Ph.D., senior vice president of the College, on the occasion of his retirement in June. The speakers for Saturday nights poetry readings will be Eli Goldblatt, John Ebersole, and Elizabeth Pearson.
For more information, call 215-248-7001 or contact chcapply@chc.edu
Heather McNaugher & Kirk Nesset: Pittsburgh: 2/22/08
Friday, February 22, 8 PM: Heather McNaugher and Kirk Nesset will read their work at the Most Wanted Fine Arts Gallery, 5015 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh. This event is part of the Pot Luck Readers Series; suggested donation is $5 (or bring a dish).
McNaugher is the author of the forthcoming Panic & Joy; Nesset is the winner of the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
McNaugher is the author of the forthcoming Panic & Joy; Nesset is the winner of the 2007 Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
Kevin Clark: Bloomsburg: MOVED to 2/20/08
Kevin Clark's "Love & Other Silly Notions" will be featured at the February 20th River Poets reading, Tuesday evening at Phillips Emporium (Bloomsburg).
Kevin Clark is a Pittsburgh-born poetry and fiction writer; he currently teaches English at Luzerne County Community College. Kevin performed his multimedia, interactive "Love and Other Silly Notions" last February for an audience in Huntingdon, PA. The project explores love's frailties and flirtations, as well as its fantasies and fulfillments.
A short Open Reading will follow (MC: Emeka Obiozor).
For this and other River Poets events, see their website here.
[Note: This event was rescheduled due to yucky weather on the 12th.]
Kevin Clark is a Pittsburgh-born poetry and fiction writer; he currently teaches English at Luzerne County Community College. Kevin performed his multimedia, interactive "Love and Other Silly Notions" last February for an audience in Huntingdon, PA. The project explores love's frailties and flirtations, as well as its fantasies and fulfillments.
A short Open Reading will follow (MC: Emeka Obiozor).
For this and other River Poets events, see their website here.
[Note: This event was rescheduled due to yucky weather on the 12th.]
Eavan Boland: Bucknell: 2/19/08
Tuesday, February 19, 7 PM: Poet Eavan Boland will give a reading in Bucknell Hall on the campus of Bucknell University.Eavan Boland is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Against Love Poetry (2001), The Lost Land (1998), An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987 (1996), and, most recently, Domestic Violence (2007). Among her many awards and honors are a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She is a professor of English at Stanford University, where she directs the creative writing program.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event to honor Michael Wurster: Pittsburgh: 2/19/08
Michael Wurster has fostered poetry in Pittsburgh for over 30 years, teaching, advising, and conducting a free monthly open workshop. Most recently he co-edited Along These Rivers, a collection of poems by Western PA-based poets, in connection with Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. His students, friends, and colleagues are honoring Michael. They'll present him with a belated valentine: a tribute volume, Stories About Time. True to Wurster's big-tent approach, the book, edited by Ziggy Edwards and Arlene Weiner, has poems from A (Amenta) to Z (Zdrale). Lynn Emanuel writes the preface. Other authors include Ed Ochester, Arlan Hess, Jan Beatty,and Richard St. John.
The presentation/reading will take place Tuesday, February 19, at 7:00 pm, at the Te Cafe in Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh), 2000 Murray Avenue. The Te Cafe regularly hosts poetry. Specialty teas and other beverages and tasty light suppers are available.
The presentation/reading will take place Tuesday, February 19, at 7:00 pm, at the Te Cafe in Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh), 2000 Murray Avenue. The Te Cafe regularly hosts poetry. Specialty teas and other beverages and tasty light suppers are available.
update: Watershed released
The inaugural issue of Watershed: The Journal of the Susquehanna is out, and contains poems by Richard Brook, Emily Grosholz, Steven Good, Kevin Clark, Marjorie Maddox, JoAnne Growney, James Najarian, Chad Schell-McGaw, Gary Renzelman, Tara Shoemaker Holdren, Shanna Wheeler, Lynell Jones, Todd Davis, and Sandra Kohler.
For more information about Watershed, contact editor Jerry Wemple at river@bloomu.edu.
For more information about Watershed, contact editor Jerry Wemple at river@bloomu.edu.
update: Betsy Wheeler: new chapbook
Betsy Wheeler, who held the Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell, announces the release of her new chapbook: Start Here, published by Small Anchor Press. Betsy is the copublisher, with Dean Gorman, of Pilot Books.
update: Heather McNaugher interview
Karen Lillis, who's just joined our PA Poets roster, has interviewed Heather McNaugher on her small press blog. You can read the interview here.
Second Thursdays at Public Library: Lewisburg: 2/14/08
Frances Gundrum, from the Public Library for Union County in Lewisburg, organizes a monthly poetry reading on the second Thursday of every month from 7-8 PM. The February reading falls on Valentine’s Day, and poets are invited to come and share love poems.
There is no registration for the readings, and drop-ins are welcome. Complimentary coffee and tea.
There is no registration for the readings, and drop-ins are welcome. Complimentary coffee and tea.
Craig Czury: Marywood Univ: 2/11/08
Monday, February 11, 7:30 PM: Poet Craig Czury will give a reading of his work in the Comerford Theatre on the campus of Marywood University.
A native of Dallas, Pennsylvania, Czury is the author of 15 books of poetry, many of which focus on the coal regions of Pennsylvania. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and works as a poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals, and community centers throughout the world. His poems have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Chinese, Macedonian, Croatian, Albanian, and Italian. A featured poet at international poetry festivals, Czury lives in Reading, PA.
The reading is sponsored by the English Department and is free and open to the public.
A native of Dallas, Pennsylvania, Czury is the author of 15 books of poetry, many of which focus on the coal regions of Pennsylvania. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and works as a poet in schools, homeless shelters, prisons, mental hospitals, and community centers throughout the world. His poems have been translated into Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Chinese, Macedonian, Croatian, Albanian, and Italian. A featured poet at international poetry festivals, Czury lives in Reading, PA.
The reading is sponsored by the English Department and is free and open to the public.
update: Heather McNaugher: new chapbook
Prererelease Announcement: Heather McNaugher's chapbook, Panic & Joy, scheduled for publication this spring by Finishing Line Press, is now available for preorder (click on the press link, open the New Releases section, and scroll down). Heather McNaugher is Assistant Professor of English at Chatham University, where she is Poetry Editor of Fourth River. Her work has appeared in Paper Street, The Bellevue Literary Review, 12th Street Review, The Paterson Literary Review, Blithe House Quarterly, The New Yinzer and Dirt Rag Magazine.
Richard Grunn performs "Urbano's Circus": Kingston: 2/8/08
Friday, February 8th, 7 PM: Urbano's Circus performed by Richard Grunn.
Inspired by Alexander Calder's "Circus," "Il Circo di Urbano"(Urbano's Circus) is where art meets theatre. You will be amazed and entertained by these trash-constructed puppets as they perform their death defying and suspenseful acts. The show features Ivan the Iron-Clad Stomach, Clyde the Fearless Clown, and Boris the Elastic Acrobat. The Town Crier said, "The audience was soon cheering as these cleverly constructed puppets performed!" $5, or give of yourself! Bring us a poem or a work of art. Refreshments served.
Paper Kite Press Studio & Gallery: 443 Main Street, Kingston PA 18704.
Inspired by Alexander Calder's "Circus," "Il Circo di Urbano"(Urbano's Circus) is where art meets theatre. You will be amazed and entertained by these trash-constructed puppets as they perform their death defying and suspenseful acts. The show features Ivan the Iron-Clad Stomach, Clyde the Fearless Clown, and Boris the Elastic Acrobat. The Town Crier said, "The audience was soon cheering as these cleverly constructed puppets performed!" $5, or give of yourself! Bring us a poem or a work of art. Refreshments served.
Paper Kite Press Studio & Gallery: 443 Main Street, Kingston PA 18704.
update: Barbara Crooker: new book
Congratulations to Barbara Crooker, whose book Line Dance was recently published by Word Press. You can read more about Barbara's new book (and order a copy) by clicking here.
1/1/08
CFS: Allegheny River Watershed Anthology
Call for submissions: Allegheny River Watershed Anthology
Editors: Helen Ruggieri and Linda Underhill
Submission deadline: January 31, 2008
GUIDELINES: We are looking for poems and short prose about the Allegheny River Watershed of New York State and Pennsylvania. Human history, natural history, personal experience - any subject that in some way connects to the watershed will be considered for the anthology.
More information about the watershed, including a map of the watershed region, can be found here.
Send all submissions to awa@foothillspublishing.com. There is a limit of 70 lines per poem and 700 words for prose. Simultaneous submissions and previously published poetry will not be accepted. Please include a brief bio paragraph.
Submissions should be sent as MSWord attachments. If not possible, send in the body of an email.
Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2008. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission and respond within 60 days.
Tentative release date for the anthology is spring of 2008. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the book as payment and will be able to purchase additional copies at a 50% discount.
Linda Underhill grew up within sight of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, PA. She has degrees in writing from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona. Her collection of essays, “The Unequal Hours: Moments of Being in the Natural World,” was published by University of Georgia Press.
Helen Ruggieri lives two blocks from the Allegheny in Olean, NY (where the river first becomes navigable). She has an MFA from Penn State. Her book of poetry, “Glimmer Girls,” was published by Mayapple Press.
FootHills Publishing has been publishing chapbooks and books of poetry since 1986.
Previous anthologies include Knocking on the Silence (the Finger Lakes of New York State), Listening to Water (Susquehanna River Watershed), and The Dire Elegies (endangered species).
Editors: Helen Ruggieri and Linda Underhill
Submission deadline: January 31, 2008
GUIDELINES: We are looking for poems and short prose about the Allegheny River Watershed of New York State and Pennsylvania. Human history, natural history, personal experience - any subject that in some way connects to the watershed will be considered for the anthology.
More information about the watershed, including a map of the watershed region, can be found here.
Send all submissions to awa@foothillspublishing.com. There is a limit of 70 lines per poem and 700 words for prose. Simultaneous submissions and previously published poetry will not be accepted. Please include a brief bio paragraph.
Submissions should be sent as MSWord attachments. If not possible, send in the body of an email.
Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2008. We will acknowledge receipt of your submission and respond within 60 days.
Tentative release date for the anthology is spring of 2008. Contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the book as payment and will be able to purchase additional copies at a 50% discount.
Linda Underhill grew up within sight of the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, PA. She has degrees in writing from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona. Her collection of essays, “The Unequal Hours: Moments of Being in the Natural World,” was published by University of Georgia Press.
Helen Ruggieri lives two blocks from the Allegheny in Olean, NY (where the river first becomes navigable). She has an MFA from Penn State. Her book of poetry, “Glimmer Girls,” was published by Mayapple Press.
FootHills Publishing has been publishing chapbooks and books of poetry since 1986.
Previous anthologies include Knocking on the Silence (the Finger Lakes of New York State), Listening to Water (Susquehanna River Watershed), and The Dire Elegies (endangered species).
James Harms: Bucknell: 1/22/08
Tuesday, January 22, 7 PM: Bucknell's 2008 Poet-in-Residence, James Harms, will give a reading in Bucknell Hall.
Harms is the author of five collections of poetry, all from Carnegie Mellon University Press: Modern Ocean (1992), The Joy Addict (1998), Quarters (2001), Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), and After West (2007). His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, and American Poetry Review. He is a contributing editor of West Branch. Harms has been awarded an NEA fellowship, the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship, grants from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania state arts agencies, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Harms directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University.
This reading is free and open to the public.
Harms is the author of five collections of poetry, all from Carnegie Mellon University Press: Modern Ocean (1992), The Joy Addict (1998), Quarters (2001), Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), and After West (2007). His poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in many publications, including Poetry, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, and American Poetry Review. He is a contributing editor of West Branch. Harms has been awarded an NEA fellowship, the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship, grants from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania state arts agencies, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Harms directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University.
This reading is free and open to the public.
12/1/07
Keystone Chapbook Award: Harry Humes
Underground Singing: Poems by Harry Humes
Winner of the inaugural Keystone Chapbook Award, selected by Jeff Mann
Publication date: December 21, 2007
A copy will be mailed to all entrants in the 2007 competition.
CFS: Last call: MPWA Journal
[per Dennis Toomey on behalf of the MPWA]:
Last call for submissions to the Mulberry Poets & Writers Association Journal. Submissions must be received by December 8th, and can be sent via e-mail [click here] or regular mail to MPWA, PO Box 468, Scranton, PA 18501.
Also, please do check out th MPWA website. Submissions for the site may be sent via e-mail [click here].
Last call for submissions to the Mulberry Poets & Writers Association Journal. Submissions must be received by December 8th, and can be sent via e-mail [click here] or regular mail to MPWA, PO Box 468, Scranton, PA 18501.
Also, please do check out th MPWA website. Submissions for the site may be sent via e-mail [click here].
11/1/07
update: Craig Czury receives Fellowship
The Wilkes University Creating Writing Program has awarded the 2007 Norris Church Mailer Fellowship to Craig Czury. The fellowship is awarded annually to a graduate student in Wilkes University’s creative writing program who has shown artistic promise and demonstrates a commitment to public service in the local writing community and beyond.
For the complete article on Wilkes University's website, please click here.
For the complete article on Wilkes University's website, please click here.
9/1/07
Katie Hays & Erinn Batykefer: Bucknell: 9/25/07
Tuesday, Sept 25, 7 PM:
Two poets on staff at the Stadler Center for Poetry will read together on Tuesday evening in Bucknell Hall.
K A Hays, the 2007-08 Stadler Emerging Writer, earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Florida Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Missouri Review, Antioch Review and other magazines. Hays is also a fiction writer and verse translator whose work in those genres has appeared in Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and other magazines.
Erinn Batykefer, the 2007-08 Stadler Fellow, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Poetry Fellow. She is currently at work on first collections of both creative nonfiction and poetry; her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Threepenny Review, and Maisonneuve Magazine, among others. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
Two poets on staff at the Stadler Center for Poetry will read together on Tuesday evening in Bucknell Hall.
K A Hays, the 2007-08 Stadler Emerging Writer, earned an M.F.A. in the Literary Arts at Brown University and studied as an undergraduate at Bucknell and Oxford Universities. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Southern Review, Mid-American Review, Florida Review, Gray's Sporting Journal, Missouri Review, Antioch Review and other magazines. Hays is also a fiction writer and verse translator whose work in those genres has appeared in Hudson Review, Gulf Coast, Cimarron Review, and other magazines.
Erinn Batykefer, the 2007-08 Stadler Fellow, earned a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Poetry Fellow. She is currently at work on first collections of both creative nonfiction and poetry; her poems and essays have appeared in such journals as Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, Threepenny Review, and Maisonneuve Magazine, among others. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
River Poets: Whitman Sampler: Bloomsburg: 9/11/07
[from the River Poets Calendar]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007 - Whitman Sampler - Danny Robinson of Bloomsburg town and University will conduct a multi-media presentation of a premier American poet, Walt Whitman. There could be chocolate, but there will definitely be words. Open Reading will follow. MC: Scott Hemingway.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007 - Whitman Sampler - Danny Robinson of Bloomsburg town and University will conduct a multi-media presentation of a premier American poet, Walt Whitman. There could be chocolate, but there will definitely be words. Open Reading will follow. MC: Scott Hemingway.
G.C. Waldrep: Bucknell: 9/4/07
Tuesday, Sept 4, 7pm:
Poet G.C. Waldrep will read his poems in Bucknell Hall at 7 PM.
G.C. Waldrep holds degrees in American history from Harvard and Duke and a MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. He is the author of Southern Workers and the Search for Community (2001 Illinois Prize for history), Goldbeater's Skin (2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry), The Batteries (a poetry chapbook from New Michigan Press), and Disclamor (due in September from BOA Editions). His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, and West Branch. He has just joined the creative writing faculty at Bucknell University.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
Poet G.C. Waldrep will read his poems in Bucknell Hall at 7 PM.
G.C. Waldrep holds degrees in American history from Harvard and Duke and a MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. He is the author of Southern Workers and the Search for Community (2001 Illinois Prize for history), Goldbeater's Skin (2003 Colorado Prize for Poetry), The Batteries (a poetry chapbook from New Michigan Press), and Disclamor (due in September from BOA Editions). His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, and West Branch. He has just joined the creative writing faculty at Bucknell University.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853.
8/1/07
River Poets Planning Mtg: Bloomsburg: 8/28/07
The River Poets will hold their planning meeting at Panera on Tuesday, August 28 (dinner at 6:30, meeting at 7).
Butterfly Poetry Festival: Hazleton: 8/26/07
The 2007 Butterfly Poetry Festival will be held on Sunday, August 26 at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State University. This year's Festival is being sponsored by the Northeast Pennsylvania Alliance Against Homelessness.
The poetry festival will explore "portraits in visual and verbal forms." The event will consist of two sessions, one at 1:00 PM and the second at 3:00 PM, with an intermission and informal gathering between the two sessions. Poets are invited to share their "portrait poems" in the first session. The poets and audience will explore the concept of portraits as represented in words. There will be an open reading of "portrait poems" which will be limited only by time. Poets interested in participating are asked to contact Salvadore DeFazio, the festival's organizer, at 570-455-3963 before the event.
The second session will be introduced by Gary F. Clark, director of the Alliance Against Homelessness. Mr. Clark, a former professor of Art and Art History at Bloomsburg University, has focused his energies on photographing homeless people over the past few years. Since a recent interview by National Public Radio's Jennifer Ludden, Clark's Web page has had nearly one million visits. Viewers from around the world have responded and posted dozens of
comments concerning the photos. A presentation of photographs will be presented by Mr. Clark followed by a forum about the homeless. Insight into aspects of homelessness will be presented by a few experts in the field. The forum will then consider the amalgamation of poetry and photographs, the verbal and visual, to create a more comprehensive representation and understanding of the homeless. Gary Clark and Salvadore DeFazio will discuss their collaboration, and the hopes of expanding that collaboration among Pennsylvania's most influential poets.
The poetry festival will explore "portraits in visual and verbal forms." The event will consist of two sessions, one at 1:00 PM and the second at 3:00 PM, with an intermission and informal gathering between the two sessions. Poets are invited to share their "portrait poems" in the first session. The poets and audience will explore the concept of portraits as represented in words. There will be an open reading of "portrait poems" which will be limited only by time. Poets interested in participating are asked to contact Salvadore DeFazio, the festival's organizer, at 570-455-3963 before the event.
The second session will be introduced by Gary F. Clark, director of the Alliance Against Homelessness. Mr. Clark, a former professor of Art and Art History at Bloomsburg University, has focused his energies on photographing homeless people over the past few years. Since a recent interview by National Public Radio's Jennifer Ludden, Clark's Web page has had nearly one million visits. Viewers from around the world have responded and posted dozens of
comments concerning the photos. A presentation of photographs will be presented by Mr. Clark followed by a forum about the homeless. Insight into aspects of homelessness will be presented by a few experts in the field. The forum will then consider the amalgamation of poetry and photographs, the verbal and visual, to create a more comprehensive representation and understanding of the homeless. Gary Clark and Salvadore DeFazio will discuss their collaboration, and the hopes of expanding that collaboration among Pennsylvania's most influential poets.
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.
7/1/07
Stillwater Music & Poetry Fest Planning Mtg: Bloomsburg: 8/1/07
The next planning session for the Stillwater Music and Poetry Fest is set for Wednesday, August 1, 7 PM at the Town Perk Cafe in Bloomsburg. Please attend if you'd like to help with planning the festival (slated for September 14-15 in Stillwater.
For further information, please contact event organizer Kevin Clark at (570) 925-2347.
For further information, please contact event organizer Kevin Clark at (570) 925-2347.
CFS: Keystone Chapbook Award
SEVEN KITCHENS PRESS
2007 Keystone Chapbook Award – for Pennsylvania Poets
Prize: $100 plus 25 copies.
Submission deadline: Postmarked between June 17 and August 17 of each year.
Eligibility: Open to all Pennsylvania poets [see complete guidelines below].
COMPLETE GUIDELINES:
Any poet who was born, has lived, or currently lives in Pennsylvania is eligible to submit to the Keystone Chapbook Award. (Your manuscript does not have to treat Pennsylvania as its subject.) Additionally, poets living elsewhere may submit manuscripts which do show a strong connection to Pennsylvania.
Submit a paginated manuscript of 16-20 pages (not including front matter) of poetry. Include two cover pages: one with the manuscript title, author name, address, e-mail and phone number; the second cover page should have the manuscript title only. Include a table of contents page. Include, if applicable, an acknowledgments page for work previously published.
Please include, on a separate page, a brief (100-150 words) biographical note, which must address your specific connection to Pennsylvania (if you do not currently reside here).
The author’s name should not appear in the manuscript.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must notify us promptly if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Submissions must be posted between June 17 and August 17. The winning manuscript will be announced on or before October 15, at which time the name of the final judge will be announced. Manuscript finalists will also be announced, and may be eligible for spring/summer publication in the Keystone Chapbook Series.
Manuscripts will not be returned. E-mailed submission is preferred, but you may send via regular mail.
Do not staple or bind your manuscript. If you are sending by mail, please use a binder clip and mail flat in an 8.5 x 11 envelope. If you are sending by e-mail, please send one document in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .rtf files are ideal); you must include the words “Keystone Chapbook” in the subject line of your e-mail. Include a $12 reading fee with each manuscript you submit. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Checks should be made payable to Ron Mohring. Online payment may be made via PayPal to sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com. Each entrant will receive one copy of the winning chapbook, to be published on or before December 31.
The winner will receive $100 and 25 copies of their chapbook. Additionally, the publisher will distribute ten review copies and will solicit online reviews of the chapbook.
Send your manuscript—by e-mail, as a Microsoft Word attachment, to: sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com; or by mail to Ron Mohring, Publisher & Editor; PO Box 668; Lewisburg PA 17837.
2007 Keystone Chapbook Award – for Pennsylvania Poets
Prize: $100 plus 25 copies.
Submission deadline: Postmarked between June 17 and August 17 of each year.
Eligibility: Open to all Pennsylvania poets [see complete guidelines below].
COMPLETE GUIDELINES:
Any poet who was born, has lived, or currently lives in Pennsylvania is eligible to submit to the Keystone Chapbook Award. (Your manuscript does not have to treat Pennsylvania as its subject.) Additionally, poets living elsewhere may submit manuscripts which do show a strong connection to Pennsylvania.
Submit a paginated manuscript of 16-20 pages (not including front matter) of poetry. Include two cover pages: one with the manuscript title, author name, address, e-mail and phone number; the second cover page should have the manuscript title only. Include a table of contents page. Include, if applicable, an acknowledgments page for work previously published.
Please include, on a separate page, a brief (100-150 words) biographical note, which must address your specific connection to Pennsylvania (if you do not currently reside here).
The author’s name should not appear in the manuscript.
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must notify us promptly if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Submissions must be posted between June 17 and August 17. The winning manuscript will be announced on or before October 15, at which time the name of the final judge will be announced. Manuscript finalists will also be announced, and may be eligible for spring/summer publication in the Keystone Chapbook Series.
Manuscripts will not be returned. E-mailed submission is preferred, but you may send via regular mail.
Do not staple or bind your manuscript. If you are sending by mail, please use a binder clip and mail flat in an 8.5 x 11 envelope. If you are sending by e-mail, please send one document in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .rtf files are ideal); you must include the words “Keystone Chapbook” in the subject line of your e-mail. Include a $12 reading fee with each manuscript you submit. Multiple submissions are acceptable. Checks should be made payable to Ron Mohring. Online payment may be made via PayPal to sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com. Each entrant will receive one copy of the winning chapbook, to be published on or before December 31.
The winner will receive $100 and 25 copies of their chapbook. Additionally, the publisher will distribute ten review copies and will solicit online reviews of the chapbook.
Send your manuscript—by e-mail, as a Microsoft Word attachment, to: sevenkitchens at yahoo dot com; or by mail to Ron Mohring, Publisher & Editor; PO Box 668; Lewisburg PA 17837.
4/1/07
CFS: Pittsburgh Poets: DL 6/1/07
[reprinted from the Pittsburgh Poetry Calendar]
Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh will be an anthology showcasing outstanding work of Pittsburgh area poets and photographers.The book project is endorsed by the Allegheny Conference Pittsburgh 250 and promoted during the city's 250th birthday. Michael Wurster & Judith R. Robinson will edit the anthology.
Send up to 4 poems on any subject (2 copies of each poem) by 6/1/07. Include your name and contact information on each poem. Poems with not be returned. Poets will be notified in four months. Those selected receive 2 contributer's copies.
Send poems to: Judith R Robinson; Michael Wurster; Quadrant Publishing, LLC; 4712 Bayard St.; Pittsburgh PA 15213
Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh will be an anthology showcasing outstanding work of Pittsburgh area poets and photographers.The book project is endorsed by the Allegheny Conference Pittsburgh 250 and promoted during the city's 250th birthday. Michael Wurster & Judith R. Robinson will edit the anthology.
Send up to 4 poems on any subject (2 copies of each poem) by 6/1/07. Include your name and contact information on each poem. Poems with not be returned. Poets will be notified in four months. Those selected receive 2 contributer's copies.
Send poems to: Judith R Robinson; Michael Wurster; Quadrant Publishing, LLC; 4712 Bayard St.; Pittsburgh PA 15213
CFS: Watershed: A Journal of the Susquehanna
Watershed: a Journal of the Susquehanna is an interdisciplinary annual print and online journal, with its debut issue slated for late 2007 publication. The journal’s mission is to promote the culture, history, environment, literature, and art of the Susquehanna watershed region, which includes parts of upstate New York, much of Pennsylvania, and parts of Maryland leading to the Chesapeake. We seek thought-provoking nonfiction on regional history, cultural and environmental issues, and top quality and inventive poetry and fiction. While contributors need not reside in the Susquehanna region, the work must evoke the Susquehanna and its hills, valleys, and, most importantly, its people. Of course, these influences could be as varied as the geography of the watershed.
Prose should be double-spaced, while poetry may be single spaced. Black and white artwork and photography should be reduced to a 5” by 7” format (or smaller if appropriate) and sent as electronic files. Electronic submissions are preferred, with text in MS Word format. Submission deadline is July 15. Contributors will receive three copies. For more information, contact Jerry Wemple via email at jwemple@bloomu.edu.
Prose should be double-spaced, while poetry may be single spaced. Black and white artwork and photography should be reduced to a 5” by 7” format (or smaller if appropriate) and sent as electronic files. Electronic submissions are preferred, with text in MS Word format. Submission deadline is July 15. Contributors will receive three copies. For more information, contact Jerry Wemple via email at jwemple@bloomu.edu.
3/1/07
Poetry Ink Reading: Philadelphia: 4/1/07
Sunday, April 1, 2PM: Poetry Ink: Celebrating Poetry with 100 Poets Reading at Robin’s Bookstore, Philadelphia.
Asian American Poetry Panel: Bucknell: 3/20/07
Tuesday, March 20, 4 PM in the Smith Library (Vaughan Literature Building) at Bucknell:
Asian American Poetry and the Poetry of Marilyn Chin: A Panel Discussion featuring Poet-in-Residence Marilyn Chin.
Chin will jion visiting scholars John Gery, Adrienne McCormick, Lisa Sewell, Afaa Weaver, and Xiaojing Zhou in a discussion of Asian American poetry and Chin's role as one of its pioneers. Panelists will consider such issues as the Asian American voice, the blancing of Asian and American heritages, the influence of traditional poetics, and the role of politics. Time will be allotted for audience questions.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see our website.
Asian American Poetry and the Poetry of Marilyn Chin: A Panel Discussion featuring Poet-in-Residence Marilyn Chin.
Chin will jion visiting scholars John Gery, Adrienne McCormick, Lisa Sewell, Afaa Weaver, and Xiaojing Zhou in a discussion of Asian American poetry and Chin's role as one of its pioneers. Panelists will consider such issues as the Asian American voice, the blancing of Asian and American heritages, the influence of traditional poetics, and the role of politics. Time will be allotted for audience questions.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see our website.
Open Mic: Pottsville: 3/18/07
Sunday, March 18, 3-6 PM: Third Sunday open mic at All Things Good, Pottsville next to the Pottsville Free Public Library. Featuring Marlene Rowe, Founder of Stray Dog Poets and Deborah Filanowski. Open mic to follow.
Black Diamond Writers Network: Tamaqua: 3/17/07
[reposted courtesy of Janet Locke in Bloomsburg]
Saturday, March 17: Black Diamond Writers Network meets in the Tamaqua Library from 10 to 12. This month the meeting is followed by a workshop. Here are the details:
Have you ever wanted to write about a story about something that’s important to you or a life-changing event that occurred in your life? Would you like to learn more about writing a memoir? If so, join us at My Back Pages: A Memoir Writing Workshop. The workshop runs from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at the Tamaqua Public Library, 30 S. Railroad Street. Donna Searle, professional writing coach and owner of Writing Workshops by Design, will present the workshop following the regular monthly meeting of the Black Diamond Writers’ Network where she will speak on journaling.
Searle opened a writing studio in September 2005 at Reading’s GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. She holds weekly writing workshops for adults and teaches a graduate-level summer course in conjunction with West Chester University. Searle also writes with students at Lauer’s Park Elementary School. Searle personally writes poetry for public occasions and art shows and her nonfiction work has been published in periodicals and newspapers. She currently pursues publication for her first children’s picture book.
Cost for the workshop is $12 for Black Diamond Writers’ Network members and $15 for non-members. To register for the workshop, download an application from www.taplpa.info, visit the Tamaqua Library or call 570-645-3059. Deadline for paid registration is March 14, 2007. Seating is limited, so register early. For more information about the workshop or the Black Diamond Writers’ Network, call Kathy at 570-645-3059.
Saturday, March 17: Black Diamond Writers Network meets in the Tamaqua Library from 10 to 12. This month the meeting is followed by a workshop. Here are the details:
Have you ever wanted to write about a story about something that’s important to you or a life-changing event that occurred in your life? Would you like to learn more about writing a memoir? If so, join us at My Back Pages: A Memoir Writing Workshop. The workshop runs from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 17, 2007 at the Tamaqua Public Library, 30 S. Railroad Street. Donna Searle, professional writing coach and owner of Writing Workshops by Design, will present the workshop following the regular monthly meeting of the Black Diamond Writers’ Network where she will speak on journaling.
Searle opened a writing studio in September 2005 at Reading’s GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. She holds weekly writing workshops for adults and teaches a graduate-level summer course in conjunction with West Chester University. Searle also writes with students at Lauer’s Park Elementary School. Searle personally writes poetry for public occasions and art shows and her nonfiction work has been published in periodicals and newspapers. She currently pursues publication for her first children’s picture book.
Cost for the workshop is $12 for Black Diamond Writers’ Network members and $15 for non-members. To register for the workshop, download an application from www.taplpa.info, visit the Tamaqua Library or call 570-645-3059. Deadline for paid registration is March 14, 2007. Seating is limited, so register early. For more information about the workshop or the Black Diamond Writers’ Network, call Kathy at 570-645-3059.
11/1/06
Daniel Blasi: Bucknell: 11/17/06
Poet Daniel Blasi will present a Writers-at-Work session at Bucknell University's Writing Center (200G Roberts Hall), from noon to 1 PM on Friday, November 17.
Daniel Blasi received a BA in English from Boston University and an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at the University of Maryland, he was a finalist in the Ruth Lilly Student Fellowship administered by Poetry. After graduating, Daniel was a waiter fellow at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, a finalist for the Beatrice Hawley Award, a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Tupelo Press first book prize. He has been a five-time semi-finalist for a Discovery/The Nation Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Quarterly West, Passages North, Another Chicago Magazine, and Nimrod. Daniel lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and works at the strategic innovation consulting firm, Product Genesis, in Cambridge.
Sponsored by the Writing Center, the Writers at Work series encourages informal conversation between writers and interested members of the campus community. Bring a bag lunch; beverages and cookies will be provided.
For more information, please call the Writing Center at 577-3141.
Daniel Blasi received a BA in English from Boston University and an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park. While at the University of Maryland, he was a finalist in the Ruth Lilly Student Fellowship administered by Poetry. After graduating, Daniel was a waiter fellow at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, a finalist for the Beatrice Hawley Award, a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Tupelo Press first book prize. He has been a five-time semi-finalist for a Discovery/The Nation Prize. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Quarterly West, Passages North, Another Chicago Magazine, and Nimrod. Daniel lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and works at the strategic innovation consulting firm, Product Genesis, in Cambridge.
Sponsored by the Writing Center, the Writers at Work series encourages informal conversation between writers and interested members of the campus community. Bring a bag lunch; beverages and cookies will be provided.
For more information, please call the Writing Center at 577-3141.
C. K. Williams: Williamsport: 11/16/06
Poet C.K. Williams is scheduled to read at Lycoming College in Williamsport on Thursday, November 16, at 7:30 PM. The reading will take place in Shangraw Performance Hall in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.
This reading is free and open to the public. Call call the College Relations Office at 570-321-4037 for more information. Click here for a campus map.
This reading is free and open to the public. Call call the College Relations Office at 570-321-4037 for more information. Click here for a campus map.
Junot Diaz: Bloomsburg: 11/15/06
[not poetry, but . . .]
Bloomsburg University's Big Dog Reading Series concludes this fall with author Junot DÃaz on Wednesday, November 15, at 7 PM in Carver Hall’s Gross Auditorium.
Junot DÃaz is the author of Drown. His short fiction has appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize XXII. The recipient of numerous awards, including the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, DÃaz is now an associate professor at MIT. He was born in the Dominican Republic and spent most of his youth in New Jersey.
This reading is free and open to the public.
Bloomsburg University's Big Dog Reading Series concludes this fall with author Junot DÃaz on Wednesday, November 15, at 7 PM in Carver Hall’s Gross Auditorium.
Junot DÃaz is the author of Drown. His short fiction has appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories, and Pushcart Prize XXII. The recipient of numerous awards, including the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, DÃaz is now an associate professor at MIT. He was born in the Dominican Republic and spent most of his youth in New Jersey.
This reading is free and open to the public.
10/1/06
Cornelius Eady: Bucknell: 10/10 & 10/11/06
2006-07 Sandra & Gary Sojka Visiting Poet Cornelius Eady will be on the Bucknell campus Tuesday, October 10 and Wednesday, October 11. He will offer a reading at 7 p.m. in Bucknell Hall on Tuesday, October 10th and a Question and Answer session at noon on Wednesday, October 11th in the Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building. Both events are free and open to the public.
Cornelius Eady is the author of several poetry collections, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985, Lamont Poetry Selection), The Gathering of My Name (1991), You Don't Miss Your Water (1995), and the acclaimed Brutal Imagination (2001).
Cornelius Eady is the author of several poetry collections, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1985, Lamont Poetry Selection), The Gathering of My Name (1991), You Don't Miss Your Water (1995), and the acclaimed Brutal Imagination (2001).
JoAnne Growney: Bloomsburg: 10/10/06
Poet JoAnne Growney will be the featured River Poets reader on Tuesday, October 10, 7:30 PM at the Phillips Emporium in Bloomsburg. Copies of Growney's most recent book, My Dance Is Mathematics (Paper Kite Press), will be available.
There is an open reading during the second half of this event; MC is Susan Brook.
This event is free and open to the public.
There is an open reading during the second half of this event; MC is Susan Brook.
This event is free and open to the public.
John Hoppenthaler: Bloomsburg: 10/5/06
Bloomsburg University's Big Dog Reading Series will lead off this fall with poet John Hoppenthaler on Thursday, October 5, at 7 PM in the Kehr Union Multicultural Center.
John Hoppenthaler's poetry has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New Letters, The Bloomsbury Review, Tar River Poetry, Chelsea, Poet Lore, Connecticut Review, and September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond. His first poetry collection, Lives of Water, is available from Carnegie Mellon University Press. The poetry editor of Kestrel, he is currently editing a collection of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. This reading is free and open to the public.
John Hoppenthaler's poetry has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Ploughshares, The Southern Review, New Letters, The Bloomsbury Review, Tar River Poetry, Chelsea, Poet Lore, Connecticut Review, and September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond. His first poetry collection, Lives of Water, is available from Carnegie Mellon University Press. The poetry editor of Kestrel, he is currently editing a collection of essays and interviews on the poetry of Jean Valentine. This reading is free and open to the public.
9/1/06
Benjamin Grossberg: Bucknell: 9/27/06
Poet Benjamin Scott Grossberg will present an informal talk on Wednesday, September 27, at noon in Roberts Hall on the Bucknell campus, as part of the Writing Center’s Writers at Work series.
Benjamin Scott Grossberg is an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Antioch College, where he teaches poetry writing, English Renaissance Literature, and English poetry. He is the author of the chapbook The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel (Kent State University Press, 2006), and of the forthcoming Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) winner of the Richard Snyder Award. His poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Paris Review, and twice in West Branch. He has received several awards for his writing, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council and a Pushcart Prize. He lives on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio.
This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please call the Writing Center at 570-577-3141.
Benjamin Scott Grossberg is an Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Antioch College, where he teaches poetry writing, English Renaissance Literature, and English poetry. He is the author of the chapbook The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel (Kent State University Press, 2006), and of the forthcoming Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007) winner of the Richard Snyder Award. His poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Mid-American Review, Paris Review, and twice in West Branch. He has received several awards for his writing, including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council and a Pushcart Prize. He lives on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio.
This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please call the Writing Center at 570-577-3141.
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.
Matthew Zapruder: Bucknell University: 9/22/06
Poet Matthew Zapruder will present an informal talk on Friday, September 22, at noon in Roberts Hall on the Bucknell campus, as part of the Writing Center’s Writers at Work series. This talk will follow up on Thursday evening’s WAVE BOOKS Bus Tour Reading in Bucknell Hall [see previous announcement].
Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden (Tupelo Press 2002), and of The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, forthcoming 2006). His poems have appeared or are upcoming in The Boston Review, Fence, Alaska Quarterly Review, Open City, Painted Bride Quarterly, Bomb, Jubilat, Harvard Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He teaches poetry in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the New School, works as an Editor with Wave Books, and is co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series. He lives in New York City.
This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please call the Writing Center at 570-577-3141.
Matthew Zapruder is the author of American Linden (Tupelo Press 2002), and of The Pajamaist (Copper Canyon, forthcoming 2006). His poems have appeared or are upcoming in The Boston Review, Fence, Alaska Quarterly Review, Open City, Painted Bride Quarterly, Bomb, Jubilat, Harvard Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker. He teaches poetry in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the New School, works as an Editor with Wave Books, and is co-curator of the KGB Monday Night Poetry Reading Series. He lives in New York City.
This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information, please call the Writing Center at 570-577-3141.
WAVE BOOKS Bus Tour: Bucknell University: 9/21/06
On Thursday, September 21, don’t miss the WAVE BOOKS Bus Tour Reading. This is one of only two Pennsylvania stops on the reading schedule; the other is Pittsburgh on Sept 20. The event will begin at 6:00 PM in Bucknell Hall on the Bucknell University campus.
Stopping at 50 cities in 50 days, the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour is the biggest literary event of 2006. Throughout September and October, over one hundred poets, along with musicians, filmmakers and journalists, will participate as the bus traverses North America, bringing innovative poetry to big cities and small towns across the U.S. and Canada. Sponsored by Wave Books, the poetry bus will go more places with more poets reading more poems than was ever previously believed possible.
Beginning September 4 and ending October 27, the bus tour will visit a variety of venues, including the Space Needle in Seattle, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, the Museum of Natural History in LA, the Green Mill in Chicago, the DiA Arts Center in New York, and a number of bookstores, galleries, bars, prisons and schools all across the US and Canada.
Participating poets include Eileen Myles, James Tate, Cole Swensen, Dean Young, John Yau, Vijay Seshadri, Lewis Warsh, Joshua Beckman, Dara Wier, Juliana Spahr, John Godfrey, Joshua Clover, David Rivard, Noelle Kocot, Matthew Zapruder, Ann Lauterbach, Tyehimba Jess, Dana Levin, Hoa Nguyen, Jeff Clark, Richard Siken, Bob Hicok, Katy Lederer, Kim Addonizio, Arthur Sze, Catherine Wagner, Srikanth Reddy, Matthew Rohrer, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Bhanu Kapil and over 100 more.
This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information on this event, please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see their website.
Stopping at 50 cities in 50 days, the Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour is the biggest literary event of 2006. Throughout September and October, over one hundred poets, along with musicians, filmmakers and journalists, will participate as the bus traverses North America, bringing innovative poetry to big cities and small towns across the U.S. and Canada. Sponsored by Wave Books, the poetry bus will go more places with more poets reading more poems than was ever previously believed possible.
Beginning September 4 and ending October 27, the bus tour will visit a variety of venues, including the Space Needle in Seattle, the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, the Museum of Natural History in LA, the Green Mill in Chicago, the DiA Arts Center in New York, and a number of bookstores, galleries, bars, prisons and schools all across the US and Canada.
Participating poets include Eileen Myles, James Tate, Cole Swensen, Dean Young, John Yau, Vijay Seshadri, Lewis Warsh, Joshua Beckman, Dara Wier, Juliana Spahr, John Godfrey, Joshua Clover, David Rivard, Noelle Kocot, Matthew Zapruder, Ann Lauterbach, Tyehimba Jess, Dana Levin, Hoa Nguyen, Jeff Clark, Richard Siken, Bob Hicok, Katy Lederer, Kim Addonizio, Arthur Sze, Catherine Wagner, Srikanth Reddy, Matthew Rohrer, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Bhanu Kapil and over 100 more.
This event is free and open to the campus and community. For more information on this event, please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see their website.
Three Cave Canem Poets: Bucknell: 9/5/06
Poets Erica Doyle, Yona Harvey and Tyehimba Jess will read on Tuesday, September 5, at 7 PM in Bucknell Hall. This reading is a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Cave Canem.
Cave Canem is an organization devoted to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Best known for its celebrated summer workshop, Cave Canem has grown to include regional workshops, a first book prize, annual anthologies, and events in major cities around the United States. Poets Doyle, Harvey, and Jess have served as Cave Canem fellows and appear in the recently published 10th anniversary anthology Gathering Ground (University of Michigan Press).
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see their website.
Cave Canem is an organization devoted to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Best known for its celebrated summer workshop, Cave Canem has grown to include regional workshops, a first book prize, annual anthologies, and events in major cities around the United States. Poets Doyle, Harvey, and Jess have served as Cave Canem fellows and appear in the recently published 10th anniversary anthology Gathering Ground (University of Michigan Press).
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Stadler Center for Poetry at 570-577-1853, or see their website.
8/1/06
Claude Lewis: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg: 8/24/06
[from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel site:]
August 24, 2006:
Poetry Reading by Claude Lewis.
Claude Lewis, Esq. is currently a partner with Michak Teeter & Lewis LLC, and his practice includes real estate, commercial transactions, non-profit corporations and business related matters and, in addition, business consulting. He is engaged in several activities including membership in the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Nathanial Gadsden’s Writer’s Wordshop. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of Zion Academy.
Lewis has been involved in poetry presentations at the Whitaker Center, East Shore Library and Black history programs for various State Agencies including the Departments of Community and Economic Development, Environmental Protection, Education, Revenue the Office of the Auditor General and the Public Utility Commission. Claude Lewis is our current Poet Laureate of Harrisburg!
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
August 24, 2006:
Poetry Reading by Claude Lewis.
Claude Lewis, Esq. is currently a partner with Michak Teeter & Lewis LLC, and his practice includes real estate, commercial transactions, non-profit corporations and business related matters and, in addition, business consulting. He is engaged in several activities including membership in the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Nathanial Gadsden’s Writer’s Wordshop. Currently he is a member of the Board of Directors of Zion Academy.
Lewis has been involved in poetry presentations at the Whitaker Center, East Shore Library and Black history programs for various State Agencies including the Departments of Community and Economic Development, Environmental Protection, Education, Revenue the Office of the Auditor General and the Public Utility Commission. Claude Lewis is our current Poet Laureate of Harrisburg!
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
Friday Poetry Reading: Wilkes-Barre: 8/21/06
[Source: Paper Kite Press Announce]
Friday Open Mic @ Paper Kite Press Studio
This month's "Third Friday" open mic is set for August 21st at 7 PM.
Location: 156 S. Franklin Street, 2nd floor studio, in Wilkes-Barre.
Information: (570) 328-8658
Join us on August 21st for two fabulous spoken word artists from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel: Julia Tilley and Maria C. James!
Friday Open Mic @ Paper Kite Press Studio
This month's "Third Friday" open mic is set for August 21st at 7 PM.
Location: 156 S. Franklin Street, 2nd floor studio, in Wilkes-Barre.
Information: (570) 328-8658
Join us on August 21st for two fabulous spoken word artists from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel: Julia Tilley and Maria C. James!
Butterfly Poetry Festival: Penn State-Hazleton: 8/20/06
[passing this along:]
This year's Butterfly Poetry Festival, which will be held at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State, will feature a gathering of Pennsylvania Poets Laureate. There is a luncheon for all attending poets at 1:00 PM, followed by [one presumes] a reading at 2:00 PM. This event is expected to run until 3:30 or 4 PM.
Contact: Salvadore DeFazio, 570-455-3963.
This year's Butterfly Poetry Festival, which will be held at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State, will feature a gathering of Pennsylvania Poets Laureate. There is a luncheon for all attending poets at 1:00 PM, followed by [one presumes] a reading at 2:00 PM. This event is expected to run until 3:30 or 4 PM.
Contact: Salvadore DeFazio, 570-455-3963.
Open reading: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg: 8/17/06
[from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel site:]
August 17, 2006: Open Poetry Reading
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
August 17, 2006: Open Poetry Reading
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
Wes Ward & Elizabeth Morris: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg: 8/10/06
[from the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel site:]
August 10, 2006: Poetry Reading by Wes Ward and Elizabeth Morris
Wes Ward grew up in Alaska and moved to York, PA when he was in junior high school. He earned a BA in Secondary Education-English from York College. He currently teaches English at Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill. Brand New Fence is his first collection of poetry.
Elizabeth Morris has been writing poetry for a long time, during most of which the poetry was not good. In the '05-'06 school year, she won two gold awards on the national level of the Scholastic Writing Competition. She then performed at Slam 7 this summer and won tenth place. She was the youngest person there. Elizabeth hopes to keep writing for the rest of her life and eventually make a living from it.
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
August 10, 2006: Poetry Reading by Wes Ward and Elizabeth Morris
Wes Ward grew up in Alaska and moved to York, PA when he was in junior high school. He earned a BA in Secondary Education-English from York College. He currently teaches English at Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill. Brand New Fence is his first collection of poetry.
Elizabeth Morris has been writing poetry for a long time, during most of which the poetry was not good. In the '05-'06 school year, she won two gold awards on the national level of the Scholastic Writing Competition. She then performed at Slam 7 this summer and won tenth place. She was the youngest person there. Elizabeth hopes to keep writing for the rest of her life and eventually make a living from it.
Poetry Thursdays are held at the Susquehanna Art Museum, 301 Market Street, downtown Harrisburg, 7- 8:45 pm, presented by the Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel and hosted by Marty Esworthy.
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