First Thursday Poetry Reading Nov. 3rd Featured Poet is J.C. Todd

  November's Featured Poet is J.C. Todd

J. C. Todd’s poetry books include Beyond Repair, (2021) a selection for the Able Muse Press Book Award, and The Damages of Morning (Moonstone Press, 2018), a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Micropress Award. Winner of the 2016 Rita Dove Poetry Prize and ‘commended’ winner of the 2021 National Poetry Competition of Poetry Society of the UK, she holds fellowships from the Pew Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Bemis Center. Poems and interviews have appeared in the Baltimore Review, The Night Heron Barks, One Art, The Paris Review, and other journals. In 2023, PDR Press will release her new and selected poems in a bilingual (English/Lithuanian) edition. JC has taught at Bryn Mawr College and in the Rosemont MFA program.  

See more at www.jc-todd.com 

An excerpt from “Sonogram:"

- Beyond Repair -

Bursting in me, insurgent memory

walled off for thirty years.

Where is the sonogram,

CAT scan, MRI to locate

rogue cells that refuse to forget?

This is where the sorrow lodges.

Here. Where it hurts.

J. C. Todd

   

Open Mic to follow the First Thursday Poetry Reading!

Join us Thursday, November 3rd
from 6:00 - 7:45 p.m. for
1st Thursday Poetry 
  at Goggleworks Center for the Arts
201 Washington St., Reading 
 Meeting Place: GoggleWorks Cafe Area |  Masks optional.  

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