Relax with Berks Bards at the Dance Studio, 2237 Howard Boulevard, Mount Penn, PA and enjoy a pear-wine tasting, desserts made with Asian pears, paired with Asian poetry and an open microphone. Reservations are suggested. Call 610-370-2629 or email Jen at jgittingsd@verizon.net to secure your place.
For more information on Asian pears go to www.wonderfulfruit.com and for information on Asian pear wines go to www.winesofsubarashii.com.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
April 29th, 2010 6:30 pm at the Outsiders Folk Art Gallery in the GoggleWorks featuring Craig Czury
Be there to welcome poet Craig Czury to the Outsiders Folk Art Gallery on the fifth floor of the GoggleWorks, 201 Washington Street, Reading PA. The reading will be followed by a book signing.
April 25th, 2010 noon to 2 pm at the GoggleWorks Theater featuring Eleanor Wilner
Join Berks Bards in welcoming award-winning poet Eleanor Wilner at the GoggleWorks Theater, first floor, 201 Washington Street, Reading, PA for a reading, question and answer session and a book signing. Reservations are suggested. Call 610-777-0863 or email Liz at zilabets@hotmail.com.
Eleanor Wilner (nee Rand) was born in Ohio in 1937 and holds an inderdepartmental Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. She has published six collections of poems, most recently The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Cooper Canyon,2004); Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems(1998); and Otherwise (University of Chicago, 1993)). Her other works include a verse translation of Euripides's Medea (Penn Greek Series, 1998); and a book on visionary imagination; Gathering the Winds (John Hopkins Press, 1975). Her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). A new book, Tourist in Hell, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in Fall 2010.
About Wilner's work, the poet Tony Hoagland has said, "Wilner...has a deep and heroic belief in the transformative power of language and myth. She paddles her surfboard outside the reef where most poets stop; she rides the big waves."
Wilner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. Former editor of The American Poetry Review, she is currently an Advisory Editor of Calyx. She has taught, most recently, at the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and Smith College. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.
(biography modified from The Academy of American Poets www.poets.org)
Eleanor Wilner (nee Rand) was born in Ohio in 1937 and holds an inderdepartmental Ph.D. from John Hopkins University. She has published six collections of poems, most recently The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Cooper Canyon,2004); Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems(1998); and Otherwise (University of Chicago, 1993)). Her other works include a verse translation of Euripides's Medea (Penn Greek Series, 1998); and a book on visionary imagination; Gathering the Winds (John Hopkins Press, 1975). Her work has appeared in over thirty anthologies, including Best American Poetry 1990 and The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). A new book, Tourist in Hell, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in Fall 2010.
About Wilner's work, the poet Tony Hoagland has said, "Wilner...has a deep and heroic belief in the transformative power of language and myth. She paddles her surfboard outside the reef where most poets stop; she rides the big waves."
Wilner has been the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Juniper Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. Former editor of The American Poetry Review, she is currently an Advisory Editor of Calyx. She has taught, most recently, at the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and Smith College. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.
(biography modified from The Academy of American Poets www.poets.org)
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
April 24th, 2010 1-4:30pm Wing Pointe in Hamburg featuring a poetry workshop with Randy Boone and an exploration of perfume with Mark David Boberick
Did you know it can take upwards of 200,000 rose petals to make enough oil for one bottle of Perfume? Or that the secretions of a certain African feline is one of the key ingredients in some of the most legendary fragrances ever created? Or that Marilyn Monroe’s mentioning that she wears Chanel No.5 and nothing else to bed is thought by many to be the reason for its success?
This workshop celebrates the Art of Perfumery and the words that are inspired by our sense of smell. Guests will learn about the history of perfume, the different ingredients that make up its composition, and will smell firsthand legendary perfumes as well as rare and vintage fragrances and the stories behind some of the most famous perfumes ever created. As you are moved by the scents, you will have time to write about your olfactory experiences.
Join Berks Bards for a Poetry and Perfume Workshop at the Wing Pointe Conference Center, 1414 Moselem Springs Road in Hamburg. Poet and teacher Randy Boone will lead a poetry workshop in conjunction with an exploration of the ingredients of perfume led by Mark David Boberick.
Randy Boone hails from Hellertown, Pennsylvania and teaches at Northampton Community College’s Monroe Campus. He can often be found lurking about coffee shops, thrift stores, the Las Vegas Strip, professional wrestling websites, and outdoors betwixt the local flora and fauna. His most recent publications include poems in Spout, Glimpse, Lehigh Valley Literary Review, English Journal, Connecticut River Review, Clark Street Review, and Epicenter, among other relatively obscure journals, reviews and magazines, and a chapbook of poems titled Ignoble Daydreams for Impudent Minds from Violent Publications.
Mark David Boberick is an Interior and Theatrical Designer who lives in Cape May, NJ. Originally from the Wyoming Valley, Mark has loved fragrances for as long as he can remember and started collecting them since he was 12 years old. Mark has been a writer for SniffapaloozaMagazine.com, an online fragrance journal since 2007 where he has written reviews and interviewed perfume luminaries such as Chandler Burr, Neil Morris, and Michael Edwards. He has also been published in Men’s Health Australia. Mark enjoys visiting museums, attending the opera and the theatre, and is devoted to Greyhound Rescue Organizations.
Reservations are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Please send payments to Marilyn Klimcho, 16 Bentley Court, Reading, PA 19601 or call 610-374-1161.
This workshop celebrates the Art of Perfumery and the words that are inspired by our sense of smell. Guests will learn about the history of perfume, the different ingredients that make up its composition, and will smell firsthand legendary perfumes as well as rare and vintage fragrances and the stories behind some of the most famous perfumes ever created. As you are moved by the scents, you will have time to write about your olfactory experiences.
Join Berks Bards for a Poetry and Perfume Workshop at the Wing Pointe Conference Center, 1414 Moselem Springs Road in Hamburg. Poet and teacher Randy Boone will lead a poetry workshop in conjunction with an exploration of the ingredients of perfume led by Mark David Boberick.
Randy Boone hails from Hellertown, Pennsylvania and teaches at Northampton Community College’s Monroe Campus. He can often be found lurking about coffee shops, thrift stores, the Las Vegas Strip, professional wrestling websites, and outdoors betwixt the local flora and fauna. His most recent publications include poems in Spout, Glimpse, Lehigh Valley Literary Review, English Journal, Connecticut River Review, Clark Street Review, and Epicenter, among other relatively obscure journals, reviews and magazines, and a chapbook of poems titled Ignoble Daydreams for Impudent Minds from Violent Publications.
Mark David Boberick is an Interior and Theatrical Designer who lives in Cape May, NJ. Originally from the Wyoming Valley, Mark has loved fragrances for as long as he can remember and started collecting them since he was 12 years old. Mark has been a writer for SniffapaloozaMagazine.com, an online fragrance journal since 2007 where he has written reviews and interviewed perfume luminaries such as Chandler Burr, Neil Morris, and Michael Edwards. He has also been published in Men’s Health Australia. Mark enjoys visiting museums, attending the opera and the theatre, and is devoted to Greyhound Rescue Organizations.
Reservations are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Please send payments to Marilyn Klimcho, 16 Bentley Court, Reading, PA 19601 or call 610-374-1161.
April 22, 2010 6:30 pm at Mifflin Community Library featuring Catherine Rittenhouse Good, Virginia Stefan and Edward Morrison
Join Berks Bards in welcoming Catherine Rittenhouse Good, Virginia Stefan and Edward Morrison, all local poetry contest winners. Mifflin Community Library is located at 6 Philadelphia Avenue in Shillington. An open microphone follows the reading.
April 15th, 2010 6:30-8:30 at Clay on Main featuring winners of the Poet's Wall Contest
Join Berks Bards at the Half Moon Cafe in Clay on Main, 313 Main Street in Oley, for a reading by the winners of the Poet's Wall Contest. The reading will be followed by an open microphone.
April 11, 2010 from 11:30 until 2 pm in room 411 at the GoggleWorks for Poetry Publishers Showcase
Join Berks Bards on Second Sunday at the GoggleWorks where featured poets from FootHills Publishing Co., Plan B Press and Paper Kite Press will read, followed by a book signing.
April 6th, 2010 at 7 pm poetry reading at West Lawn-Wyomissing HIlls Library featuring John Yamrus
Join Berks Bards in welcoming John Yamrus to BardFest 2010. An open microphone and book signing follow the reading.
April 6th, 2010, 6 pm in the Berks-Penn Rooms at Reading Area Community College featuring Argentinian poets Esteban Charpentier and Griselda Garcia
Join Berks Bards in welcoming Esteban Charpentier and Griselda Garcia to the Bruce Stanley Memorial reading series, Poetry at Six. An open microphone and book signing follow the readings.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
April 1st , 2010 First Thursday 6 pm at the Cucina Cafe in the GoggleWorks featuring Berks County Poet Laureate Heather Thomas
Dr. Heather H. Thomas is an award winning poet and professor of English at Kutztown University where she has taught since 1988. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. In English/Creative Writing from Temple University. Her Ph. D. was also earned at Temple. Thomas is the author of seven books of poetry including her most recent work, Blue Ruby. Some of her works have been translated into Spanish and published in Argentina. Her work has appeared in the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and in more than thirty print and online journals including American Letters and Commentary, Chain, 13th Moon, and mid)rib. Thomas is an associate poetry editor for the online magazine 5Trope and has published literary criticism, journalism as well as fiction and non-fiction essays. She has given readings in Argentina, Ireland and Russia as well as traveled the United States. She has won awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Currently Thomas is serving as Berks County's Poet Laureate. Following the reading will be a book signing and an open microphone.
Monday, March 8, 2010
BardFest 2010 on Berks Community Television for the entire month of April
Throughout the entire month of April catch one-minute poems between programming on Berks Community Television by the following poets: Heather Thomas, Craig Czury, Lorah Hopkins, Egedeme, Barbara Cassidy, Elizabeth Stanley, Michael Clipman, Ruth Martelli reading a poem by her daughter Elizabeth Martelli, Emily Whittle, Irv Westerfer, Jennifer Gittings-Dalton, Lynnel Jones, Michele Swigart-Uhrich, Doug Arnold, Nancy Knoblauch, Elizabeth Bodien, Lester Hirsh, Awilda Castro-Suarez, Patrick Klimcho and Marilyn L.T. Klimcho.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
March 4th, First Thursday 6 pm at the Cucina Cafe in the GoggleWorks featuring Ed Terrell
Ed Terrell is a local artist from Reading, Pennsylvania. He was born in Philadelphia but came to Reading when he was six years old. He went to elementary school right up the street from the GoggleWorks—Lauers Park. Art has been a big part of his life, he says. "Ever since I can remember—even going back to the sixth grade. Even in school I was entering in contests and stuff like that. The reason I mention Lauers Park is that recently we had a dedication of a piece of my artwork there. We donated it to the school. I was there for that dedication, and it was so emotional for me because I started out there in that school and never thought a piece of my art work would be there in that lobby."
Ed Terrell left Reading in 1970 and went out west to California. From there he went to Europe. He stayed over in Europe and then went on to Asia and Africa for about thirty years. He just recently came back about ten years ago. He's lived off his art all of his life. It was painting, sculpture, or crafts—whatever he felt like doing. "I’ve lived off my creativity. I owe that to my perseverance. Art is not an easy profession, but I felt I needed to stick with it because it made me feel good. It was something coming from me. It was something I could control. Even with the ups and downs of the so-called starving artist I’ve stayed with this and till this day I’m very thankful that I did."
Ed Terrell is the president and art director ACOR. For more information, visit www.acor-pa.org
Ed Terrell left Reading in 1970 and went out west to California. From there he went to Europe. He stayed over in Europe and then went on to Asia and Africa for about thirty years. He just recently came back about ten years ago. He's lived off his art all of his life. It was painting, sculpture, or crafts—whatever he felt like doing. "I’ve lived off my creativity. I owe that to my perseverance. Art is not an easy profession, but I felt I needed to stick with it because it made me feel good. It was something coming from me. It was something I could control. Even with the ups and downs of the so-called starving artist I’ve stayed with this and till this day I’m very thankful that I did."
Ed Terrell is the president and art director ACOR. For more information, visit www.acor-pa.org
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