Join Larew & Czarnecki at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts December 6th, 2018

Berks Bards is excited to welcome Hiram Larew and Michael Czarnecki! Join us at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts to hear selected poetry. Following their reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them.

When: December 6th, 2018 at 6 pm

Where: GoggleWorks Center for the Arts Studio 420

201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

Read Hiram Larew's Bio below: 

Larew's work has appeared most recently in Little Patuxent Review, Contemporary American Voices, FORTH, vox poetica, Poetry Super Highway, Poets & Artists, Every Day Poems, Lunaris Review (Nigeria), Amsterdam Quarterly, and The Wild Word.  His fourth collection is due out this year from Foothills Publishing House.  He’s been nominated for four Pushcarts, is a member of the Shakespeare Folger Library’s poetry board, and organizes several events in Prince George’s County, MD and beyond including Poetry X Hunger and The Poetry Poster Project. He is a global hunger specialist, and lives in Upper Marlboro, MD … and he’s very, very short.  On Facebook at Hiram Larew, Poet.

Read a sample poem from Hiram Larew below:

ACHILL SOUND

When the roads curve like sound

And dip as if lifting to bow

Whenever all thoughts round or cluster

Or when hearts call down

Is Ireland

And as rich when poor was

Or as wise as bare heads in snow seemed

And as twigs so frail broke into song

Ans as true as any blight could be

Was Ireland

So when sand laps the senses

Or salt drips the edges as dreams

Whenever hope streams through such heavens

And moss comes home

Or hearts beam down

Is Ireland.

- Hiram Larew

https://www.facebook.com/hiramlarewpoet/

Read Michael Czarnecki's Bio below:

Michael Czarnecki is a poet, oral memoirist and small press publisher originally from Buffalo, NY. He founded FootHills Publishing in 1986 and since then FootHills has released over 400 chapbooks and books of poetry. In 1994 Michael gave up other work to devote his time and life to poetry. Since then he has made his living solely through the creative word. In the last 25 years he has given hundreds of featured readings throughout the country. His Poems Across America Tour in 2013, a 14-week journey, featured a reading in each of the 48 contiguous states.

Michael has published 17 books, the two most recent being YOU and Ten Days in Huntington Wildlife Forest. When not out on the poetic road Michael lives on a 50-acre homestead in the northwest portion of the Susquehanna Watershed in NY.
More information about Michael can be found on his website: www.foothillspublishing.com/poetguy/index.html

He also posts a new photograph and new spontaneous poem everyday on his Facebook page: www.facebook.com/michael.czarnecki.35

Read a sample poem from Michael Czarnecki below:

What’s Next

next step

             just follows

last step

            it can't be

                            otherwise

step with gratitude

               step with light

                              step with love

in doing so

             next step

                        will be exactly

                                             right step

- Michael Czarnecki

www.foothillspublishing.com/poetguy/index.html

Join Cat Mahony at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts November 1st, 2018

Berks Bards is excited to welcome Cat Mahony! Join us at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts to hear selected poetry. Following her reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them.

When: November 1st, 2018 at 6 pm
Where: GoggleWorks Center for the Arts Studio 420
201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

Learn more about Cat Mahony before our event by reading more below:

Catherine Mahony, a writer of multiple genres, holds a Bachelor’s degree in professional writing from Kutztown University, and Associate’s degrees in communications and liberal arts from Reading Area Community College. Mahony is the winner of RACC’s Creative Writing Award for academic excellence for 2013 and 2014; her first chap book, Prior Restraints, was published that same year. You can also read Mahony’s award-winning poetry and fiction in “Lehigh Valley Vanguard” Agony and Ecstasy:Reflections of our Lives” Layers of Language” “Legacy” and “Shoofly.” Her creative nonfiction has been published in “Rag Queen Periodical.” Mahony has facilitated creative writing workshops in Studio B, Boyertown PA; Pagoda Writer’s Workshop; Reading, PA; Caron Treatment Center, Wernersville, PA; and Berks County Prison, Leesport, PA. She is currently establishing her creative writing program, Ebonybloodletting76, which brings creative writing lessons with a therapeutic twist to the under-served community. Mahony believes writing saved her life. She was diagnosed with Bipolar as well as Borderline Personality Disorder by the age of 16, and is a recovering heroin addict. By exposing her vulnerabilities through brutally honest writing, Mahony hopes she can help others who also may be struggling. She currently lives in Eastern, PA. With her son Alex.
Visit https://cmaho582.wixsite.com/ebonybloodletting76/blog/ to learn more!

Below is a sample of Cat Mahony's poetry:

Sewn Shut

By Cat Mahony
Such a familiar face,
Lips and eyes sewn shut.
Such familiar hands,
Crossed politely over a still chest.
Her skin
as taut as an African drum.
Her dress
something she would not be caught dead in.
She is silenced.
She is flawless.
She is beautiful.
The viewers can’t see from my vantage point.
My back pressed against ceiling tile.
My hair entwined in lighting fixtures.
Their words echo in her mind,
Words like;
Lost, hopeless, and tragedy.
Such a familiar face.
Lips quivering and eyes kaleidoscopes of tears.
Such familiar hands,
Fidgeting nervously in pockets.
Her skin
As white as a water lily.
Her dress
Something she would not be caught dead in.
She is silent.
She is innocent.
She is a mirror.
The viewers can’t see from her vantage point.
Her back to the wall as medics hurried in.
Her hair matted to wet cheeks.
Words echo in her mind,
Words like;
Orphan, motherless, and tragedy.

Join Carl Kaucher at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts October 4th, 2018

Berks Bards is excited to welcome Carl Kaucher! Join us at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts to hear selected poetry. Following his reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them. 

When: October 4th, 2018 at 6 pm 
Where: GoggleWorks Center for the Arts Studio 420
201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

Learn more about Carl Kaucher before our event by reading more below:

Carl Kaucher of Temple, Pa has been previously published in “Big Hammer” – “Street Value” – “Mad Poets Review” – “Wavelength 14” – “Blue Collar Review” – “Old Red Kimono” – “North of Oxford” – “Duanespoetree” and others. His new book “Sideways Blues – Irish Mountain and beyond” explores his experiences wandering urban spaces near his home and throughout Pennsylvania. The work reflects the amazing diversity of events that are happening all around us if only we slow down long enough to observe. Through his photography and writing, Carl exposes the miraculous beauty of the ordinary. He is photographing the overlooked places and documenting the chance occurrences that happen to him and by doing so gives us the opportunity to reflect upon those similar things happening in our lives also. He presents the work in hopes that it might inspire us to explore that dynamic world out side and beyond the touch screen.

Below is a sample of Carl Kaucher's poetry:

I am a Temple of free will and love creative entanglement and pale moon light. 

I have a spiritual flashlight and extra batteries if needed. 

My altar is alternative form meditated since before I was born. 

Sometimes I dream of silence and pray for it's return. 

Life is far simpler than I know when I let go of my self. 

Drifting on an empty street I am hoping to be filled with lost. 

In giving away, I am not taking. 

In living my way, I am not faking. 

My path abounds in the sounds of dissonance and syncopation as an alternating current spontaneously conducting me wild. 

It is the energy of my awakening from which I shall construct a lifestyle of rebellion based on feedback and distortion in a spiritual contortion like noise. 

I am a free spirited activist of roam and wander getting lost in the Alpha and Omega and through the prism of my style I shall wander for a while amidst the forgotten spaces to document the moments between memory and madness serenity and the still sweet compassionate chime of the sublime.

Join J.C. Todd at the GoggleWorks September 6th,2018

Berks Bards is excited to welcome J.C. Todd! Join us at the GoggleWorks to hear selected poetry. Following her reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them. Learn more about J.C. Todd before our event by reading more below:

J. C. Todd, a Pew Fellow in the Arts and winner of the Rita Dove Poetry Prize is author of The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press, 2018), What Space This Body (Wind Publications, 2008), and the artist books On Foot/By Hand and FUBAR (Lucia Press, 2018, 2016), both in collaboration with MaryAnn L. Miller. Her current work is concerned with the violence and displacement of war and intolerance. She has received fellowships and awards from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Arts Council, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ucross, Ragdale and Leeway foundations and was a 2016 writer-in-residence at Humboldt University in Berlin. She has taught in the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr College and is on the faculty of the MFA Program at Rosemont College. 

Below is a sample of J.C. Todd's poetry:

Reading With Students About Death Camps

What escapes into you. Don't hide it. 

César Vallejo

The evidence,

their eyes filling to

with it, mine too,

memory's char curling

the edges of pages,

photographs, maps,

the sear of witness real as innards

twisting open the tropes

of bread crusts,

catalogued shoes, barrels

of gold from teeth.

Not our lives, but lives

of the dead, escaped

into us. Grave,

we open to them.

When: September 6th, 2018 at 6:45pm 
Where: The GoggleWorks Studio 411
201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

Poetry With Marilyn - A Three Part Poetry Workshop Series in August 2018

Join Marilyn Klimcho at the Oley Valley Community Library for a Three Part Poetry Workshop Series!

Learn more about Marilyn before the events by reading more below:

Marilyn LT Klimcho is the author of Steeped in the Ceremony of Great Age, a book of poetry. She is also the author of a short story, Lost Gems, which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal and by Studio B in Boyertown as well as in the anthologies: Bird Song and US20, produced by Foothills Publishing.

When: August 9th, 16th, and 23rd from 5:30 - 7 pm
Where: The Oley Valley Community Library
339 Main Street Oley PA 19547

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Join Ryan Rettew at the GoggleWorks August 2nd, 2018!

Berks Bards is excited to welcome Ryan Rettew! Join us at the GoggleWorks to hear her music and poetry. Following the performance, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them. Learn more about Ryan before our event by reading more below:

Ryan Rettew grew up in Berks County and is a 2004 graduate of Twin Valley High School. After high school, Ryan followed her love of reading and writing to study English at Clarion University where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2008.

While studying at Clarion University, Ryan received recognition for her poetry. Her work was published in the school's literary magazine, Tobeco. She also earned a scholarship to attend the Chautauqua Writer's Festival. Ryan discovered her unique poetic style when she began putting her words to music. Songwriting has become Ryan's primary means of poetic expression. She has given performances at several locations in and around Berks County, including Boyertown's Turning Leaf Festival, The Other Farm Brewing Company (now known as The Other Farm & Forge), and Chaplin's Music Cafe.

In her early twenties, Ryan came up against drug addiction and depression. She has continued to write throughout her journey in recovery from these challenges. She began a career in teaching in 2012. She now lives in Lancaster County with her husband, Jim and many pets. She is a stay-at-home mom to their daughter, Robin, and has plans to return to teaching soon.

Below is a sample of Ryan Rettew's work:

Lyrics to “Map of Faces”

There's a lake where I forget.

You can come forget there, too.

The map I drew

looks like faces of the people that you knew.

It's the only way

to reach that lake.

Loneliness is a killer.

Ears and eyes are traitors to the soul.

Forgetfulness is better.

It's just a natural part of getting old.

O prophets spoke

of you.

I swear

I knew you once.

Your name

escapes me now but since

we're here

let's go somewhere.

There's a lake where I forget.

You can come forget there, too.

The face I drew

looks like maps of all the places that you knew.

It's the only way

to reach that lake.

Loneliness is a killer.

Ears and eyes are traitors from the start.

Forgetfulness is better.

It's just a certain stillness of the heart.

O prophets spoke

of you.

I swear

I knew you once.

When: August 2nd, 2018 at 6pm 
Where: The GoggleWorks
201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

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Join Patrick Klimcho at the GoggleWorks July 5th 2018!

Berks Bards is excited to welcome Patrick Klimcho! Join us at the GoggleWorks to hear his poetry. Following the reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them. Learn more about Pat before our event by reading more below:

Patrick Klimcho, Biography
The sad part about biographies, is that at the end the protagonist always dies. So let's call this a biography in progress. Actually, there's not much to tell. I was born in a small multi-ethnic steel town in Southeast Pennsylvania during the early Fifties and educated above my station in life by the nuns of a parochial school located in the tough, North Side of town. I goofed off through High School, where my life was saved by a particular English teacher. I got a job, worked my way through college, got married, raised a family and retired to live happily ever after. Then things got interesting. Most of this is pretty well documented by the poems in this collection; the story of an average, befuddled male trying to navigate a path through the ever changing riddle of gender roles and expectations

Read a sample poem from Patrick Klimcho below:

Two Wheeler

"You sure you're ready?"
His little face scrunches up. 
"No need to rush it,
We can put them back on."
With a shake of his head
He climbs aboard.  
I hold him upright
And we're off, his feet on the pedals.
Once, twice around the court
Neighbors out on their stoops
Witness the rite of passage. 
I start to huff a little
As he picks up the pace.
Releasing my hold
Running beside him.
One more lap peddling along
Engrossed in concentration.
He glances over at me
As I hold up both hands, grinning.
The neighbors applaud.
He laughs out loud
Grips the handlebars 
And rides away from me.
A fledgling
On his first flight
Free. 

Pat Klimcho, January 2009 

When: July 5th, 2018 at 6pm 
Where: The GoggleWorks
201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

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Join Heather H. Thomas at the GoggleWorks June 7 th 2018!

Berks Bards is excited to welcome Heather H. Thomas! Join us at the GoggleWorks to hear her poetry. Following their reading, we'll allow ANYONE to step up to the mic and read anything that moves them. Learn more about Ms. Thomas before our event by reading more below:

Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street (FutureCycle Press, 2018) and six other poetry collections. Her honors include a Rita Dove Poetry Prize for a poem in the collection. Vortex Street spirals from the poet’s riverside home across the globe, trailing patterns “behind a poet who stands bluntly amid the fluid of life.” The book has been praised as “an astonishment of language and image . . . brilliance and imaginative power in a compassionate and intimate voice.” The collection includes poems translated into Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian. Thomas teaches poetry at Cedar Crest College and lives in Reading along the Schuylkill River with her cat, Mina Loy.

Visit www.HeatherHThomas.com for more info.

Read a sample poem from Heather H. Thomas below:

Slit Silence

The shooting range marked Danger, No Trespassing, 

has a target made of old plates.

Shots disturb the birds, ricochet off the ridge,

separating the air I run through.

In Sarajevo, she timed her run across the bridge

—fifteen seconds between shots—

the leaves tender on trees not yet burned for fuel.

Snipers ringing the hills eyed her, eyed 

anyone walking home from work or buying bread. 

She counted the seconds on her watch before 

running through slit silence, plate of the sun the only 

unbroken thing until she reached the other side.

Heather H. Thomas, from Vortex Street (FutureCycle Press, 2018)

When: June 7th, 2018 at 6pm 
Where: The GoggleWorks
201 Washington Street Reading PA 19601

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Bard Fest 2018

Berks Bards is excited to announce our Bard Fest 2018 Event Line-Up!

When: April 5th, 2018 at 2pm

Where: Reading Area Community College | Yocum Library | Room Y117

10 S 2nd St, Reading

When: April 5th, 2018 at 6pm

Where: The GoggleWorks

201 Washington St, Reading


Randolph Bridgeman graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland. He is the recipient of the prestigious Edward T. Lewis Poetry Prize. He was a Lannan Fellow for the Folgers Shakespearian Theater 04-05 poetry reading series. He teaches poetry in the Great Mills High School, 21st Century Program. His poems have been published in numerous poetry reviews and anthologies. His poem Crazy Bob’s Used Car Radio Tips, was nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize. He has four books of poems, South of Everywhere 2005, Mechanic on Duty 2008, The Odd Testament 2013, and The Poet Laureate of Cracker Town 2015. His new book, The Trailer Park Chronicles, is forthcoming in 2018.The dedication of The Trailer Park Chronicles reads: For Mrs. Fitzpatrick, my 12th grade English Teacher, who had the personality of Kansas Zip Code, FUCK YOU! Look who’s written a book.

When: April 7th, 2018 at 1pm

Where: 1840 Lorraine Road Reading, PA 19604

RSVP: Linda at 610-413-0373


"I am in midst of rewriting a memoir of my career as a cult interventionist and how I got into that strange line of work. I finished a 400-page manuscript ten years ago, but no publisher would accept it. We will go over goals and what I think we should avoid when writing a memoir."Joseph Szimhart (www.jszimhart.com/about_me) is an Artist, published author, mental health worker, and cult information consultant. He has had an art studio at Goggleworks in Reading since 2011 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.Joseph has also worked as a Crisis Intake Caseworker at Montgomery County Emergency Services since 2000. He also worked as a cult interventionist, consultant, and lecturer since 1980. Joseph has had many media appearances, research and opinion articles and book reviews published in professional journals and books on cults.Joseph has written a novel: Mushroom Satori: The Cult Diary published in 2013 by Aperture Press in Reading, PA and has an undergraduate degree in Arts and Sciences from the University of Dayton. His writing and art has been featured in the cover story in ICSA Today magazine, 2017: “Retribing the Planet: Shamanism Repurposed for Modern Times” (International Cultic Studies Magazine, Vol. 8: No. 2).

When: April 8th, 2018 at 1pm

Where: Studio B

39 E Philadelphia Ave, Boyertown


Studio B will be holding a poetry/prose reading for those who submitted pieces of writing for “Let’s Rant." The exhibit for ''Let's Rant'' is debuting with an opening Friday, March 16 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit will run until April 15, 2018.

When: April 8th, 2018 from 6:30-8:30 pm

Where: Winedown

622 Penn Ave, West Reading

Tickets: $20 at the door, $15 if you RSVP Here: RSVP Link before 3/30/18


Guitarist Josh Taylor, Saxophonist Chris Heslop, and Bassist Trey LaRue will accompany Poet, Anthony Orozco for an evening of Jazz and Poetry!

When: April 10th, 2018 at 6pm

Where: Aladdin's Restaurant

401 Penn Ave, Reading


Our regularly occurring 2nd Tuesday Poetry Reading & Open Mic meets at Aladdin's Restaurant at 6pm every second Tuesday of the month. Join us downstairs for food, drinks, conversation, community, and of course...poetry!

 

When: April 11th, 2018 at 4:30pm

Where: Muhlenburg Community Library

612 Kutztown Rd, Reading


Jennifer Hetrick hosts a poetry workshop to create poems inspired by your childhood memories.

When: April 11th, 2018 at 6:30pm

Where: Live on BCTV or later archived at BCTV.org


Join us LIVE on BCTV to watch Poets' Pause featuring special guest: Michael Shiffman. Hosted by Marilyn Klimcho, this show will discuss the works of Shiffman, what brings inspiration, beloved poets, and more!

When: April 14th, 2018 at 11am

Where: Oley Valley Community Library

339 Main St, Oley


nur alima schieBeare attended the University of Pa and Antioch University where she studied psychology, counseling, holistic health and comparative religions She received her master’s from Bryn Mawr college where she studied policy and clinical social work. She has worked in both adult and juvenile prisons, private high schools and in family service agencies using classical and holistic treatment modalities. She has studied meditation and religions most of her life and is a devotee of both Jalaludin Rumi and Hafiz. She is a student in the Sufi Order of the West, founded by Hazrat Inayat Khan.During this event, she will read selected poems from her recently released book: Journey to the Beloved. Learn more about Nur Alima here: http://foothillspublishing.com/2018/nuralima.html.

When: April 15th from 3pm to 5pm

Where: Culture Den
3451 St Peters Rd, St Peters


Bring together poetry on the page with scissors and eye-savvy visuals; use the ones supplied, and bring your own, too.


Join Jennifer Hetrick for a collaging with poetry workshop! Feel free to bring magazines and other printed visuals which might be useful to cut up as well as scissors and tape or glue. Supplies will be included, but the more, the merrier.

When: April 20th from 6pm to 10pm

Where: Culture Den
3451 St Peters Rd, St Peters

Beatniks & Bongos: where verse meets vibe...Open mic for poets with live musical interludes. Bring your favorite poems and percussion, and relive the rebellious beat generation here at the den! Poets have the option to be recorded and contribute to our ever-growing archive of performances. Bohemians welcome!

When: April 21st, 2018 at 1:30pm

Where: Hamburg Public Library

35 N 3rd St, Hamburg


Word Mangling for Fun and Profit: a poetry workshop with Marilyn LT KlimchoMarilyn LT Klimcho is the author of Steeped in the Ceremony of Great Age, a book of poetry. She is also the author of a short story, Lost Gems, which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in the Schuylkill Valley Journal and by Studio B in Boyertown as well as in the anthologies: Bird Song and US20, published by FootHills Publishing.

When: April 23rd at 7pm
Where: Firefly Bookstore

271 W Main St, Kutztown


April is National Poetry Month, and we will be celebrating with readings from local poets and open mic time for you to share your favorite poems or your own creations!

*DATE CHANGED*
When: Wednesday, April 25th, 2018 from 6:30-8pm

Where: Winedown

622 Penn Ave, West Reading

Tickets: $15 at the door. RSVP Here: RSVP Link (seating is limited!)


Michael Shiffman attended Dartmouth for his BA and Columbia for his MA. He is a Reading/Mount Penn native and has held many professions including Tailoring, and Wine Salesman 18 yrs.During this event he will pair wine and poetry and later open the floor to anyone interested in sharing their wine-inspired poetry.

About this event, Michael Shiffman shared these thoughts:
It is difficult to convey much about the world of wine in a few hours. It is too complex, too full of geography and history and an infinity of tastes. But one thing can be accomplished, and that is to dispel the impression that one must "know" about wine in order to enjoy and appreciate it.

Wine at the outset is an experience and remains exactly that for as long as you are interested in it. Think of wine as having two parts. There is wine information or everything people think of as "knowledge." And then there is tasting experience without which there can be no knowledge.

Drink as widely as you can. Don't be concerned if you are unfamiliar with what's in your glass. Taste with curiosity and attention. Listen to the wine and try not to prejudge it. The world of wine holds more tastes and flavors than anyone can imagine. And always remember: "the palate is smarter than the brain."

When: April 27th - Doors at 6:30pm - Reading at 7pm
Where: Culture Den

3451 St Peters Rd, St Peters


Heather H. Thomas will read from her new book Vortex Street, praised as a “coiled spring ready to explode through its own serene surface” of poems arising from her local and global experience and mediations. Thomas, a creative writing professor at Cedar Crest College and a Berks Poet Laureate, will be followed by an open mic for poetry.

When: April 28th, 2018 at 1pm

Where: Southeast Branch of Reading Public Library

1426 Perkiomen Ave, Reading


Bring together poetry on the page with scissors and eye-savvy visuals; use the ones supplied, and bring your own, too.Join Jennifer Hetrick for a collaging with poetry workshop! Feel free to bring magazines and other printed visuals which might be useful to cut up as well as scissors and tape or glue. Supplies will be included, but the more, the merrier.

When: May 3rd, 2018 at 6pm

Where: The GoggleWorks

201 Washington St, Reading


Lexi Spino is a young poet from York, PA. She first joined Berks Bards early last year, and since then, we've been dying to have her back! She's got a chapbook titled "I'm A Wanderer, Not A Runaway", a spoken word EP called "Suicidal Since Birth", and a poetry book "This is Not For You" available. Her work can also be heard on Spotify! She is very heavy into the art scene around York and when she isn't writing or being an active member of the art society she is running around like a five-year-old with her daughter.

When: May 5th, 2018 at 1pm

Where: 1840 Lorraine Road Reading, PA 19604

RSVP: Linda at 610-413-0373


Dave Kline on The Life and Times of Mountain MaryAn interactive exploration of Dave’s work to explore and portray the live and times of a woman who was way ahead of her time here in Berks County.Dave Kline is a business person, musician, composer, entertainer, writer, photographer, traveler and bard who has traveled the world bringing back folkloric tales of traditions, customs and culture. Dave writes, produces and hosts the award-winning, weekly Mountain Folk radio and web show that is herd on terrestrial radio stations in the USA, as well as internationally via satellite and Inet networks, including Apple iTunes and PlanetBluegrass Network. Dave writes the weekly Mountain Folklore column for Berks County Magazine in the Reading Eagle newspaper, has written and taken photographs for other publications such as Pennsylvania magazine and is an experienced mountain guide with more than 50 trips to the alps and beyond to his credit.

When: May 8th, 2018 at 6pm

Where: Aladdin's Restaurant

401 Penn Ave, Reading


Our regularly occurring 2nd Tuesday Poetry Reading & Open Mic meets at Aladdin's Restaurant at 6pm every second Tuesday of the month. Join us downstairs for food, drinks, conversation, community, and of course...poetry!

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