Poets' Pause on BCTV: Monthly Interviews with Poets.

Every month, Marilyn Klimcho of Berks Bards hosts our television show called Poets' Pause on BCTV. Through the show, she interviews local and regional poets, but she has recently expanded into interviewing poets from further away through our connections and resources in the literary community since the virtual world is largely how so much is done nowadays because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In working to see the always-there silver linings even in hard times, we are very grateful to understand the value of how working virtually now better allows us to collaborate with and feature even more poets than in the past, oftentimes through one poet in our circle of knowing introducing us to others. We have been incredibly thankful for this opportunity in the midst of so many community-wide limitations.

 This episode highlights Maya Spence.

 

Marilyn also recently interviewed Jesse Alexander. Berks Bards will be featuring him during April 2021 as National Poetry Month.

 

You can find these and other interviews on YouTube under the show's title through BCTV and also through the BCTV website.

November 2020: two poetry workshops at Berks Encore's senior centers.

Marilyn Klimcho of Berks Bards is teaching two poetry workshops for seniors through Berks Encore at different center locations in November 2020.

Poetry Workshop — *Tuesday, November 3 @ 12.30 pm 

 (as of the scheduled date, this workshop is rescheduled 

to *Tuesday, November 10 at 11.15 am)

 Berks Encore — Strausstown Center
44 East Avenue
Strausstown, PA 19559
Any questions? Contact the center @ 610.488.5770

&

Poetry Workshop — Thursday, November 5 @ 10 am
Berks Encore — Fleetwood Center
14432 Kutztown Road
Fleetwood, PA 19522
Any questions? Contact the center @ 610.944.9242 

 

Update as of Wednesday, October 29:

 

 A third poetry workshop will be hosted at Berks Encore's new senior center in Douglassville. 

Poetry Workshop — Monday, November 30 @ 10.30 am
Berks Encore — Douglassville Center
2144 Weavertown Road
Douglassville, PA 19518

Any questions? Contact the center @ 610.582.1603

Tuesday Oct. 11, 2011 Poetry Workshop Bernardine Hall Auditorium 3:45 pm Alvernia University featuring Marilyn L.T. Klimcho

FULL CIRCLE:WRITING COMPELLING POETRY

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11^TH, 2011

Bernardine Hall Auditorium, 3:45-5:15-ish.

You’ve felt it every day of your life. Something happens and you want to write about it, to capture the event and relive it, to share it, or somehow “catch” its unique power in words.

You have stories you want to tell. You are searching for ways to “boil it down” in a way that will rivet your listeners and make them long to turn the page.

Guess what? That is POETRY. You don’t need to “be” a poet to try it!

This “playshop” will show you how to mine your life experiences for stories that can become poems.

Q’s: 610-790-1982

The Alvernia Literary Festival hosts: Marilyn L. T. Klimcho

Marilyn Klimcho is a writer, editor and writing coach who is currently involved with three local writers groups: Berks Bards, Inc., a non-profit for which Marilyn is the treasurer, the Saturday Scribes, also known as Writers Without Borders which meets every Saturday now at the GoggleWorks instead of at Borders and a critique group that meets once a month to tackle longer written works.

Marilyn’s been published in the Reading Eagle, on BCTV’s website and won an honorable mention in the Harrisburg Writer’s Contest for a story she coauthored with her husband Patrick. She’s given many readings and organized many events including the annual BCTV poetry broadcast for the month of April, but more importantly she researches markets, edits and helps other authors to publish.