February 7, 2013 at 6 p.m. at the GoggleWorks featuring poets Jeff Rath and Le Hinton

Please join Berks Bards in welcoming Jeff Rath and Le Hinton to First Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Cucina Cafe in the GoggleWorks on February 7, 2013.

There is an open mic to follow the featured readers. 

Please bring your poems, bring your friends, bring your friend's poems... 

Jeff Rath is the author of three collections of poetry: The Waiting Room at the End of the World (2007), In the Shooting Gallery of the Heart (2009) and Film Noir (2011), all published by Iris G. Press. His works have been published in a number of journals including Everyday Genius and Fledgling Rag. He is the 2007 R.E. Foundation Award winner and a Pushcart Prize nominee.

Le Hinton is the author of four poetry collections including, Black on Most Days (Iris G. Press, 2008) and The God of Our Dreams (Iris G. Press, 2010). His work has been (or soon will be) published in Watershed, Gargoyle, haggard and halloo, Little Patuxent Review, Fox Chase Review, the Baltimore Review and in the anthology/cookbook Cooking Up South. In 2012, his poem, “Our Ballpark,” was incorporated into Derek Parker’s sculpture Common Thread and installed at Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as part of the Poetry Paths project. He is the founder and chief editor of the poetry journal Fledgling Rag.