Kick off Bard Fest 2017 with Yolanda Wisher!

Join Berks Bards in welcoming Yolanda Wisher back to Reading in this Poetry and Live Music event as a part of the Bruce H. Stanley Poetry Reading Series event and the very first event of Bard Fest 2017!

Yolanda Wisher is Philadelphia’s 2016-2017 Poet Laureate, as well as a 2016 Hedgebrook Writer-in-Residence and 2015 Pew Fellow. She also works as Chief Rhapsodist of Wherewithal for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture.

THE AFROEATERS:
Will Brock, keys
Paul Giess, trumpet
Diego Maugeri, guitar
Carol Moog, harmonica
Mark Palacio, bass
Anssumane Silla, percussion
Yolanda Wisher, poetry/vocals

When: March 30th, 2017 at 6pm
Where: 10 S 2nd St, Reading, PA 19602

What to bring: Bring your friends, bring your poems, bring your friend's poems!

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Poetry at Six: "Liberty's Vigil: Occupy Anthology"

Join us Wednesday, February 15, 6 pm at Reading Area Community College, Reading, PA, for live poetry and book launch of Liberty's Vigil: Occupy Anthology~ 99 poets among the 99%, published by Foothills Publishing Co, Kanona, NY. Featured poets are Elizabeth Bodien, Craig Czury, and Heather Thomas. Open Mic. The event is free and open to the public. Location is Berks-Penn Rooms, RACC, 10 South Second St, Reading, PA, 19603. Phone 610-607-6239.

Jewell Brown, student at RACC, will present a recitation of excerpts from a speech by Frederick Douglass. Brown is a winner in the 2012 Norton Anthology Student Video Contest.

For more information, call 610-607-6239, Foundation for RACC.