Thursday, April 3, 6:00 p.m. - First Thursday Poetry at the Bravo Cafe' in the GoggleWorks. Featured poet is Heather Thomas, with the premiere of her new book, Blue Ruby. Book signing to follow. This event is free and open to the public. Open mic to follow. 201 Washington ST, Reading.
Sunday, April 6, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Book Binding Workshop at the Steelers Fellowship Club with Awilda I. Castro-Suarez. Registration required. $7 (cash only) at the door. Contact Marilyn Klimcho at 610-478-3380 ext 5309, or 610-374-1161. 126 Bern ST, Reading.
Monday, April 7, 6:00 p.m. - The Bruce Stanley Memorial Poetry Reading, "Poetry at 6" at Reading Area Community College, Berks-Penn Rooms. Featured poet is Maria McDonnell. Open mic to follow. This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Hettie Campion, The Foundation for RACC at hcampion@racc.edu. 10 South 2nd ST, Reading.
Wednesday, April 9, 5:00 p.m. - The English Department at Kutztown University presents "Wordpainters: Jennifer Hill Kaucher and Dan Waber." Contact Dr. Heather Thomas, Kutztown University, for more information or email to hthomas@kutztown.edu.
Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 p.m. - J.C. Todd and Martha Carlson-Bradley present at Penn State Berks Campus. Multi-purpose Room, Perkins Student Center. Hosted by Jayne Brown.
Saturday, April 12, 2:00 p.m. - Poetry reading at All Things Good. Featured poets are Doug Arnold and Liz Stanley. Contact person is Lester Hirsh, 570-462-9419. This event is free and open to the public. 209 West Market ST, Pottsville.
Sunday, April 13, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Second Sunday Poetry Reading at the GoggleWorks in Room 411. Featuring FootHills Publishing poets and Michael Czarnecki, publisher. 201 Washington ST, Reading.
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. - "Piecing Poems: A Workshop on Creating New Work from Scraps," workshop with Jayne Brown. Perkins Student Center, Room 3, Penn State Berks Campus. Space is limited, reserve your spot! Contact Jen Gittings-Dalton for more information at 610-370-2629 or email to jgittingsd@verizon.net.
Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. - The P-Poets present...at the Mifflin Community Library. Featured poets are Deborah Filanowski, Lester Hirsh, and Awilda I. Castro-Suarez. Contact is Lynn Stimeling, Programs/PR Coordinator, 610-777-3911. Hosted by Awilda I. Castro-Suarez. 6 Philadelphia AVE, Shillington.
Tuesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. - A Poetry Reading featuring contributors to Penn State Berks's new student literary journal and participants from the "Piecing Poems" workshop on April 15. Freyberger Art Gallery, Perkins Student Center, Penn State Berks. Tulpehocken RD, Reading.
Thursday, April 24, 6:30 p.m. - Poetry Reading at the Adamstown Area Public Library featuring Marilyn and Pat Klimcho. 3000 N Reading RD, Adamstown.
Tuesday, May 6, 6:30 p.m. - Poetry Workshop at the PAL Center for the Arts. Featured poets are Jen Gittings-Dalton, Michael Clipman, and Maria McDonnell. 328 Walnut ST, Reading.
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This project was supported by the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Berks Arts Council.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Poetry around the area...
Books:
FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Emily Hayes Whittle's poetry chapbook SHADOWS and LIGHT
Poet’s Statement about Shadows and Light:
I primarily see the poems in this collection as my struggle to find faith, sanity, and light in a world often veiled in shadows and darkness. Though many of these poems were born in shadow, hopefully, as a whole, light breaks through. I find light for my path through poetry, my family, and my Celtic Christian and American Indian spiritual inheritance.
The amazingly gifted Rebecca Gonzalez will debut her well-reviewed book, Sonata for Rain, for the Lancaster Poetry Exchange on March 26 at 7:30 PM. She has graciously agreed to have this venue serve as the coming out party for her moving collection of poems. It will be spring and you owe it to the spiritual side of yourself to come and here this magical poet.
Barnes and Noble
Red Rose Commons
1700 H Fruitville Pike
Lancaster, PA 17601
717-290-8171
Hosted by Jeff Rath
Rebecca Gonzalez’s long-awaited poetry collection gives its readers moments of reflection and contemplation that are as universal as they are delicate. These gentle poems, some juxtaposed with their original Spanish version, offer sincere pleadings (“Remind me that it is/all worth the sacrifice”) and aching (“I need you/like a breath”) that carry Sonata for Rain right into the heart.
Presentations:
Two-time American Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Monday, March 31 at 8 p.m., Elizabethtown College Leffler Chapel and Performance Center.
Free tickets required for the event are available by calling 717-361-4757.
FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Emily Hayes Whittle's poetry chapbook SHADOWS and LIGHT
Poet’s Statement about Shadows and Light:
I primarily see the poems in this collection as my struggle to find faith, sanity, and light in a world often veiled in shadows and darkness. Though many of these poems were born in shadow, hopefully, as a whole, light breaks through. I find light for my path through poetry, my family, and my Celtic Christian and American Indian spiritual inheritance.
The amazingly gifted Rebecca Gonzalez will debut her well-reviewed book, Sonata for Rain, for the Lancaster Poetry Exchange on March 26 at 7:30 PM. She has graciously agreed to have this venue serve as the coming out party for her moving collection of poems. It will be spring and you owe it to the spiritual side of yourself to come and here this magical poet.
Barnes and Noble
Red Rose Commons
1700 H Fruitville Pike
Lancaster, PA 17601
717-290-8171
Hosted by Jeff Rath
Rebecca Gonzalez’s long-awaited poetry collection gives its readers moments of reflection and contemplation that are as universal as they are delicate. These gentle poems, some juxtaposed with their original Spanish version, offer sincere pleadings (“Remind me that it is/all worth the sacrifice”) and aching (“I need you/like a breath”) that carry Sonata for Rain right into the heart.
Presentations:
Two-time American Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Monday, March 31 at 8 p.m., Elizabethtown College Leffler Chapel and Performance Center.
Free tickets required for the event are available by calling 717-361-4757.
Monday, February 18, 2008
New Collection of Poems, Blue Ruby, by Heather Thomas
Congratulations to Heather Thomas on the release of her new work, Blue Ruby, published by FootHills Publishing Co.
"A very fine experimental poet, Heather Thomas writes books that flash in your mind. She has a visionary imagination and the technical brilliance to show it forth in startling imagery. In her new collection of poems, Blue Ruby,...Thomas weaves together themes from her own life with critical events in the contemporary world...her great subject is silence." Anne Kaier, Wild River Review
For the complete review, see www.wildriverreview.com.
To order the new book, go to www.foothillspublishing.com.
Liz Stanley
Berks Bards
"A very fine experimental poet, Heather Thomas writes books that flash in your mind. She has a visionary imagination and the technical brilliance to show it forth in startling imagery. In her new collection of poems, Blue Ruby,...Thomas weaves together themes from her own life with critical events in the contemporary world...her great subject is silence." Anne Kaier, Wild River Review
For the complete review, see www.wildriverreview.com.
To order the new book, go to www.foothillspublishing.com.
Liz Stanley
Berks Bards
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Welcome to the Berks Bards blog!
If you love poetry, and the sound of the spoken word, and you are reading this blog post, then I want to welcome you to the First Berks Bards Blog. Thanks to the rare spirit and enthusiasm of one BB, we are launched into a new phase. Muchas gracias, Awilda! for opening this blog.
Liz Stanley
Berks Bards
Liz Stanley
Berks Bards
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Poet of First Thursday in February 2008: Thomas Bierowski
What? First Thursday in February poetry reading
When? Feb 7th, 6-8 pm,
Where? At the Bravo Cafe', GoggleWorks.
Featured poet:
Thomas Bierowski
Tom Bierowski was born in Mt. Carmel, PA (1962), where he attended Holy Spirit grade school, rode his bicycle and served Mass on Sundays. He went to high school at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional, in Shamokin, PA where he was a student council rep and National Honor Society member until he joined the marching band and was kicked off both. After high school, he joined the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (‘The Franciscans’) where he wore a black habit and heavily contemplated the mysteries before returning to the secular world three years later.
25 years of various jobs and academic degrees have intervened between then and his appearance at the Goggleworks: B.A. in English from St. Joseph’s University, pack out man for Canada Dry, pool builder, maintenance man, software tech writer, M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, house painter, free lance writer, gardener, aerospace technical writer, teaching fellow, PhD in English Literature from Lehigh University… and now he’s an Assistant Professor of English at Alvernia College.
Never once has he called himself a scholar, poet, novelist, artist, or musician— although he has spent much of his adulthood doing any/all of those things because life is too short not to. He has organized writers’ series at Lehigh and Alvernia and digs the vibe of live performance because he’s convinced that communication is THE rush of being human. His credits include The Pennsyltucky Lullaby (a novel, 1994), Talking Book (a multimedia hootenanny, 2002), The Rocket Power’d Cross (a graphic novel/live performance, 2006), Eaten by Horses (and Other Earthly Oddities) (spoken word presentation of fiction and personal essay, 2007), The Vile Lunacy of Time (spoken word presentation of original memoir, 2007), and The Double-Wide Dream (multimedia happening/rock opera, 2007).
The event is open to the public, sponsored by Berks Bards.
When? Feb 7th, 6-8 pm,
Where? At the Bravo Cafe', GoggleWorks.
Featured poet:
Thomas Bierowski
Tom Bierowski was born in Mt. Carmel, PA (1962), where he attended Holy Spirit grade school, rode his bicycle and served Mass on Sundays. He went to high school at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional, in Shamokin, PA where he was a student council rep and National Honor Society member until he joined the marching band and was kicked off both. After high school, he joined the Order of Friars Minor Conventual (‘The Franciscans’) where he wore a black habit and heavily contemplated the mysteries before returning to the secular world three years later.
25 years of various jobs and academic degrees have intervened between then and his appearance at the Goggleworks: B.A. in English from St. Joseph’s University, pack out man for Canada Dry, pool builder, maintenance man, software tech writer, M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University, house painter, free lance writer, gardener, aerospace technical writer, teaching fellow, PhD in English Literature from Lehigh University… and now he’s an Assistant Professor of English at Alvernia College.
Never once has he called himself a scholar, poet, novelist, artist, or musician— although he has spent much of his adulthood doing any/all of those things because life is too short not to. He has organized writers’ series at Lehigh and Alvernia and digs the vibe of live performance because he’s convinced that communication is THE rush of being human. His credits include The Pennsyltucky Lullaby (a novel, 1994), Talking Book (a multimedia hootenanny, 2002), The Rocket Power’d Cross (a graphic novel/live performance, 2006), Eaten by Horses (and Other Earthly Oddities) (spoken word presentation of fiction and personal essay, 2007), The Vile Lunacy of Time (spoken word presentation of original memoir, 2007), and The Double-Wide Dream (multimedia happening/rock opera, 2007).
The event is open to the public, sponsored by Berks Bards.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Berks Bards present Bill Wunder and Dan Maguire
Poetry at 6
Shake off those January blues and come to RACC January 23rd, 6:00 pm, to welcome poets Bill Wunder and Dan Maguire.
Berks-Penn Rooms, Reading Area Community College
10 South Second Street, Reading, PA, 610-372-4721
This event is free and open to the general public, as well as students and staff at RACC.
Open mic to follow the featured readers.
Sponsored by the Foundation for RACC, with support from Berks Bards, "Poetry at 6" is an annual series of poetry readings at Reading Area Community College, honoring the memory of Bruce H. Stanley, professor of Humanities, 1972-1997.
BIO
Bill Wunder’s poems have twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, and in
2004 he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His poems
have been a finalist in The Robert Fraser Poetry Competition, The Mad Poet’s
Society Competition twice, and The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards three times.
Recently, his work has appeared in The Manhattan Review, Lips, The Paterson
Literary Review, Mad Poet’s Review, Drexel University On-Line Journal, Wild
River Review, and others. He has read or lectured in many venues, including
local schools, James A. Michener Museum, Bucks County Community College, The
Poetry Project at The Montgomery Theater and The Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry
Series sponsored by the National Park Service. Via Dolorosa Press in
Cleveland, Ohio published Bill’s chapbook titled A Season Of Storms. His
book Pointing At the Moon is forthcoming from Wordtech Communications.
Dan Maguire's poems have appeared in many local and national journals but
most recently in The Patterson Review and the Comstock Review. Among his
many honors and awards, which includes an invitation to read at the Library
of Congress, are several Best Poet selections at the Philadelphia Writers
Conference. A native of Philadelphia who has lived in all US time zones, he
finds that he keeps returning to the shore and currently resides in New
Jersey.
Liz Stanley
~Berks Bards
Shake off those January blues and come to RACC January 23rd, 6:00 pm, to welcome poets Bill Wunder and Dan Maguire.
Berks-Penn Rooms, Reading Area Community College
10 South Second Street, Reading, PA, 610-372-4721
This event is free and open to the general public, as well as students and staff at RACC.
Open mic to follow the featured readers.
Sponsored by the Foundation for RACC, with support from Berks Bards, "Poetry at 6" is an annual series of poetry readings at Reading Area Community College, honoring the memory of Bruce H. Stanley, professor of Humanities, 1972-1997.
BIO
Bill Wunder’s poems have twice been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, and in
2004 he was named Poet Laureate of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His poems
have been a finalist in The Robert Fraser Poetry Competition, The Mad Poet’s
Society Competition twice, and The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards three times.
Recently, his work has appeared in The Manhattan Review, Lips, The Paterson
Literary Review, Mad Poet’s Review, Drexel University On-Line Journal, Wild
River Review, and others. He has read or lectured in many venues, including
local schools, James A. Michener Museum, Bucks County Community College, The
Poetry Project at The Montgomery Theater and The Joaquin Miller Cabin Poetry
Series sponsored by the National Park Service. Via Dolorosa Press in
Cleveland, Ohio published Bill’s chapbook titled A Season Of Storms. His
book Pointing At the Moon is forthcoming from Wordtech Communications.
Dan Maguire's poems have appeared in many local and national journals but
most recently in The Patterson Review and the Comstock Review. Among his
many honors and awards, which includes an invitation to read at the Library
of Congress, are several Best Poet selections at the Philadelphia Writers
Conference. A native of Philadelphia who has lived in all US time zones, he
finds that he keeps returning to the shore and currently resides in New
Jersey.
Liz Stanley
~Berks Bards
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