Fourth Friday August 26th, 2011 Open Mic at Cafe Harmony 7 pm

Join Awilda I. Castro Suarez at Cafe Harmony in West Reading for an open mic this Friday beginning at 7 pm. Hope to see you there!

Batter Up Baseball Poetry Contest Reading August 3rd 2011

Join the Bards at First Energy Stadium at approximately 6:30 PM and hear the winners of the Berks Bards Baseball Poetry Contest read the winning poems.

Following the game, at approximately 9:30 PM, hear the RDG Hip Hop Summit perform on the deck. Bring your baseball poems for a bit of an open mic as well.

Batter Up Poetry Contest and the Reading Phillies

BATTER UP FOR POETRY! CONTEST

Berks Bards and the Reading Phillies are sponsoring a Baseball Poetry Contest for poets and writers in Berks County to celebrate the sport of baseball and the R-Phils this summer.

Winner will be invited to read their poem at an intermission during the R-Phils game on Wednesday, August 3, 2011.

Submit a poem by email to zilabets@hotmail.com, or by mail to Berks Bards, 16 Bentley Court, Reading, PA 19601.

Deadline for entries is Wednesday, July 27th. Winners will be notified by phone or by email by July 31st.

Contest Rules:
1. Each entrant may submit only one poem.
2. Topic of the poem is baseball: the sport, history or love of baseball.
3. Decision of the judges is final.
4. Deadline for submission is Wednesday, July 27, 2011.
5. Include your name, address, phone number, and email address.
6. Submitted poems will not be returned. Keep a copy for yourself.
7. Contest is open to anyone, ages 12 and up.

For more information, contact Liz at zilabets@hotmail.com or Marilyn at 610-610-374-1161.

Liz Stanley
~Berks Bards
zilabets@hotmail.com
Facebook: Berks Bards
Twitter: @bardsofberks
Blog: berksbards.blogspot.com

June 2nd, 2011 6 pm poets Blackford, Dixon and Denis read at the Cucina Cafe in the GoggleWorks

Welcome, Summer!

First Thursday Poetry on June 2, 2011

The Cucina Cafe' ~ The GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
201 Washington St, Reading, PA

6:00 to 8:00 pm

Anne Blackford, Carol F. Dixon, Jude-Laure Denis

Open Mic to follow

This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by Berks Bards, with support from a grant from the PA Partners in the Arts,
funded by an appropriation of the State Legislature, and administered locally by the Berks Arts Council, PA Council for the Arts.

May 5th, 2011 6 pm Ed Romond at the Cucina Cafe in the GoggleWorks

Join Berks Bards in welcoming:

Edwin Romond, whose latest book is Dream Teaching (Grayson Books,

2005). His work has appeared in journals such as The Sun, English Journal,

The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Zone 3, Poet Lore, New Letters, Barrow Street,

The Rockhurst Review as well as in college texts and anthologies. Romond

has been awarded poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the

Arts, and from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Councils on the

Arts. He was named “Poet Laureate” of the Easton, PA Riverview Arts

Festival and “Poet of the Month” in January for the Your Daily Poem

website. In addition, Garrison Keillor read Romond’s poetry on NPR and

the late Tim Russert selected Romond’s memoir, “The Ticket,” for his best

selling book, Wisdom of Our Fathers. Last year he was invited to read at the

prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, a four day gathering in

Newark, NJ.

Before retiring in 2003, Romond was a public school teacher for 32

years in Wisconsin and New Jersey. He now lives in Wind Gap, PA with his

wife, Mary, and their son, Liam.

April 20,2011, 7 pm Susan Deer Cloud at the Freyberger Art Gallery at Penn State Berks Campus

Native American Poet Susan Deer Cloud is the featured reader at the Freyberger Art Gallery in the Perkins Student Center at Penn State's Berks Campus on April 20th at 7 pm. For details contact Jayne Brown by email at jrb30@psu.edu or by phone at 610-396-6041. This event is free and open to the public.

April 14, 2011, 7:30 pm Poet A. V. Christie joins host Doug Arnold on BCTV for Poets' Pause

Tune in to Poets' Pause on Berks Community Television as Host Doug Arnold features poet A. V. Christie at 7:30 pm on Comcast, Channel 13 or Service Electric, Channel 19.