First Thursday with Glenn McGlaughlin, Patrick Klimcho and Marilyn Klimcho:
GLENN MCLAUGHLINGlenn McLaughlin studied chemistry, education, running and dishwashing, but not writing or poetry, at Bucknell University. Eight years ago, after nearly thirty years of laboring in the chemical and plastics industries, he was fortunate to lose his job and begin a journey that has led him, finally, to where he should have been all along, a high school chemistry classroom. He is currently a long-term substitute in chemistry at Methacton High School. While not formally trained in poetry or writing, he has published two collections of poems, Something Catches (2006) and Forms of Lectio (2008), the latter a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in Poetry in 2009. Several of his poems have been published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Mad Poets Review, Forward and Big Bridge. A volume of poems and essays, The Land I Am Given / Oops., was published in 2011. Additional honors include a Spring-Ford High School Senior Impact Award (a student nominated award for teachers who students believe make a difference) and election to the Bucknell Athletic Hall of Fame. He lives in Pottstown with his wife, Susan, and is an easy drive away from his two daughters and two granddaughters.
Patrick Klimcho enjoys writing humorous poem parodies, which he equates to solving crossword puzzles. Besides writing humor, Patrick likes to write political rants and what he refers to as 'sappy grandfather poems.' Patrick's work has been published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal and in Up and Under: the QND Review.
Marilyn Klimcho, Treasurer of Berks Bards, has been writing short stories and poems intensively for the past eight years as well as editing the work of several local authors, one of whom recently published. (Check out Lessons from the Hog House by Elizabeth Clark, American History Press.) Marilyn has had a short story published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, for which she received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize.
Marilyn Klimcho, Treasurer of Berks Bards, has been writing short stories and poems intensively for the past eight years as well as editing the work of several local authors, one of whom recently published. (Check out Lessons from the Hog House by Elizabeth Clark, American History Press.) Marilyn has had a short story published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, for which she received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize.
