Saturday, May 17, 1pm to 4pm

Richard Kahn & Kevin Clark

Richard Kahn studied at the prestigious Institute of the Open Road, graduating by not distinguishing himself any more than absolutely necessary after having taken classes in the lower classes of five continents. He was generously endowed with many chairs as he hitchhiked about. Bloomsburg University then filled in some of the many missing pieces in his education, and then Bucknell filled in a few more. He teaches at an upriver institution for law flouting juveniles who live by far harsher rules. Richard Kahn sometimes feels like a poet, and he likes the feeling. He hopes the feeling will last even though he knows that it is in the nature of feelings to come and go.
    Kevin Clark is a Pittsburgh-born poetry and fiction writer; he currently teaches English at Luzerne County Community College. Kevin performed his multimedia, interactive "Love and Other Silly Notions" last February for an audience in Huntingdon, PA. The project explores love's frailties and flirtations, as well as its fantasies and fulfillments.

 Doug Arnold's poetry has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review, The Sulphur River Literary Review, Psychopoetica (University of Hull-UK), Mad Poets Review, and The Pedestal Magazine. His first chapbook, Playing in Most of the Keys, was published by Finishing Line Press. His essay, “Reading Kay Ryan's Poetry,” appeared in the Schuylkill Valley Journal, and another of his nonfiction pieces.
Doug was formerly president of an advertising agency he founded and has written columns for the Philadelphia Business Journal and The Reading Eagle. He has also taught at Albright College in Reading, PA, as well as Reading Area Community College. He lives with his wife in suburban Reading, and they have 3 children and 4 grandchildren.

Liz Stanley
Liz Stanley has loved poetry since first grade, and was encouraged to read poetry by her grandmother Florence Balthaser. As a student of literature, Liz Stanley completed her B.A. in English at Gettysburg College, and a Master's degree at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. She attended the Bread Loaf Writers conference, and taught English at Governor Mifflin Junior High School, Shillington, PA, where John Updike grew up. 
 
Since 1998 Liz Stanley has hosted the Bruce H. Stanley Memorial Poetry Series at Reading Area Community College, "Poetry @ 6," featuring local, regional and national poets, sponsored by the Foundation for RACC. She is currently on the board of directors of Berks Bards, a volunteer community organization that promotes the living art of poetry in Reading and Berks County, and sponsors monthly poetry readings at City Espresso in Reading, poetry events during the Literary Festival in October, and BardFest in the Spring. 
 
Liz Stanley is national sales manager for Bullfrog Films, Inc. She lives in Reading, PA, with her white and tan cat, a Turkish Van named Bear. 
 

Saturday March 8, 1pm- 4pm
Wine Tasting AND
Barbara Crooker and David Brooks
Barbara Crooker: The author of more than 575 poems published in over 1600 anthologies, books, and magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Cream City Review, Poetry International, The Christian Century, and America, Barbara Crooker is the recipient of the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, the 2003 "April Is the Cruelest Month" Award from Poets & Writers, the 2000 New Millenium Writing's Y2K competition, the 1997 Karamu Poetry Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, twelve residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a prize from the NEA. A twenty-four time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Awards for her part in the audio version of the popular anthology, Grow Old Along With Me--The Best is Yet to Be (Papier Mache Press). She is the author of ten chapbooks, two of which won prizes in national competitions: Ordinary Life won the ByLine Chapbook competition in 2001 and Impressionism won the Grayson Books Chapbook competition in 2004. Radiance, her first full-length book, won the 2005 Word Press First Book competition, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. Line Dance, her second book, is forthcoming from Word in December. Recently, Garrison Keillor read eleven of her poems on The Writer's Almanac, National Public Radio. http://www.barbaracrooker.com/
David Brooks: has been a published poet for over 25 years. He has been featured in Bucknell University's "West Branch." His short stories have been published in "Appearances" and he has written literary criticism for "The American Book Review." His manuscript, "Right Livelihood" won the Pavement Saw Chapbook Competition in 1997. Selections from his work-in-progress "Love Me, Love My Delusions" have appeared on the DOJ, the online journal of Drexel University. David will update us on his forthcoming book.
 

Sunday Nov 18 at 3pm

Barbara Crooker

Note: Rescheduled due to snow to March 8, 2008

The author of more than 575 poems published in over 1600 anthologies, books, and magazines such as Yankee, The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Cream City Review, Poetry International, The Christian Century, and America, Barbara Crooker is the recipient of the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud, the 2004 WB Yeats Society of New York Award, the 2004 Pennsylvania Center for the Book Poetry in Public Places Poster Competition, the 2003 Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, the 2003 "April Is the Cruelest Month" Award from Poets & Writers, the 2000 New Millenium Writing's Y2K competition, the 1997 Karamu Poetry Award, and others, including three Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, twelve residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a prize from the NEA.

http://www.barbaracrooker.com/

Oct 21, at 3pm

Le Hinton

Sept 26, 2007 at 3pm -- Liz Stanley

Liz Stanley has loved poetry since first grade, and was encouraged to read poetry by her grandmother Florence Balthaser. As a student of literature, Liz Stanley completed her B.A. in English at Gettysburg College, and a Master's degree at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, Vermont. She attended the Bread Loaf Writers conference, and taught English at Governor Mifflin Junior High School, Shillington, PA, where John Updike grew up. 
 
Since 1998 Liz Stanley has hosted the Bruce H. Stanley Memorial Poetry Series at Reading Area Community College, "Poetry @ 6," featuring local, regional and national poets, sponsored by the Foundation for RACC. She is currently on the board of directors of Berks Bards, a volunteer community organization that promotes the living art of poetry in Reading and Berks County, and sponsors monthly poetry readings at City Espresso in Reading, poetry events during the Literary Festival in October, and BardFest in the Spring. 
 
Liz Stanley is national sales manager for Bullfrog Films, Inc. She lives in Reading, PA, with her white and tan cat, a Turkish Van named Bear. 
 

Aug 26 at 3pm

David LaFleur

singer/songwriter

see him on Stage 6
http://stage6.divx.com/user/dneu/video/1372804/Folsom-Prison-Blues---David-LaFleur
 

Sunday June 17, 2007

at 3 pm

Guest Poets:

Marty Esworthy, Christine O'Leary-Rockey & Julia Tilley

Julia Tilley

Current editor of Treasure Trove Poetry Project; past poetry editor of Steel Point Quarterly and editor for Hard Reality and Herstory, et. al. Her work: Anticipating You (chapbook from Crosstown Press) and work published in Shirazad, Magera, Haggard and Hallo, the People’s Poet, City Beat, Experimental Forest, etc.

Christine O’Lear-Rockey

Holding degrees in Philosophy and Religion is a writer and poet residing in Harrisburg, PA. A charter member of thew Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel, recently p7ublished in The Ultimate Hallucination, in The Bloom Magazine, Experimental Forest, The Literary Lion, and The Poet’s Cut. She is the author of a book, A Human Action, in its second printing.

Marty Esworthy

Megaera-award-winning poet, editor emeritus Steel Point Quarterly and renowned poetry impresario. His publications include Red Pagoda, Landings, Quasar Review, the Crucible, House Taken Over, Fledgling Rag, and Miserere Review. Books: Hard Reality (Pacobooks, 2004) and Twenty-Six Javanese Proverbs (Iris G. Press, 2006)

-- Canceled --

May 20, 2007 at 3pm

Terry Kitchen

Award-winning Boston contemporary folk singer/songwriter

"one of New England's best songwriters" (Boston Globe)

www.terrykitchen.com

Sunday April 15, 2007

at 3 pm

Special Guest

David Brooks

Poet and author

March 18, 2007

Sunday at 3 pm

with guests:

Deborah Filanowski and Marlene Dembinsky Rowe

two of Schuylkill's best poets

November 16, 2006

David LaFleur

Solo Roots Acoustic; Music at its Finest

He has mastered an array of instruments including guitar, dobro, mandolin, and dulcimer which he rotates during his stage performances.  David’s rich tenor voice compliments nicely his unique mixture of folk, blues, and bluegrass which he has been performing for over 25 years.

David has opened for noted artists like Emmy Lou Harris, Tom Rush, and the Seldom Scene, and his original music has been featured on TV as well as National Public Radio.  In 2004 alone, he was a finalist or received honors in eight national songwriting contests, was a featured performer at the Mountain Stage NewSong Festival and performed for over 200 audiences from Minnesota to Florida.

See David LaFlaur play at All Things Good

www.davidlafleurmusic.com 

Susan Kerschner 

Oct 8
5:00 pm

at All Things Good, 209 W. Market St., Pottsville  570.628.9608

Susan Kerschner 

Susan Kerschner was one of the founding members of Berks Bards in 1995 in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Arts Connection, BardFest 2000 Anthology, , Circle Magazine,  Shirazad (an anthology), and in two volumes by the International Society of Poetry. Ms. Kerschner was also a participant in the Poets & Painters exhibit at the Berks Arts Council Gallery at the Pagoda in 2002. She also won awards in the Summit Arts Festival in 1997 and 1998.

Heather & Craig

BIO: Craig Czury has conducted poetry writing and poem fusion workshops in Russia, Lithuania, Argentina, Northern Ireland and throughout the U.S. for  performance on stage and radio. His latest books of poetry are PARALLEL RIVERTIME (bilingual Russian/English edition) Petropol Press, St. Petersburg, 1999, and UNRECONCILED FACES, FootHills Publishing, 1999. Co-editor of Red Pagoda Press Poetry Pamphlet Series, Czury lives in Reading, Pa. where he conducts his on-going Berks Poetry Project, creating multi-voice poem fusions with the African-American, Hispanic, Asian and Anglo communities and juvenile lock-up.

BOOKS OF POETRY: JANUS PEEKING (1980 First Book Award, Montana Arts Council), Calleopea Press, 1981. AGAINST THE BLACK WIND, Two Magpie Press, 1981. SCHACHAMEKHAN - eel stream, & HITCHHIKING THE RUINS, Mulberry Poets & Writers Cassette Poetry Series, 1985. GOD'S SHINY GLASS EYE, Great Elm Press, 1987. EXCEPT..., FootHills Publishing, 1990. HACKING AND SMOKING, FootHills Publishing, 1990. FINE LINE THAT SCREAMS: Anthology of Prison Inmates' Poetry, (editor), Endless Mountains Review Press, 1992. OBIT HOTEL, Pine Press, 1993. SCRAPPLE, Night Shade Press, 1995. SHADOW/ORPHAN SHADOW... SOMBRA/SOMBRA HUÉRFANA (bilingual English/Spanish edition), Spanish translation by Rosann DeCandido Kamin & Alicia Partnoy, Pine Press, 1997. UNRECONCILED FACES, FootHills Publishing, 1999. PARALLEL RIVERTIME (bilingual Russian/English edition), Russian translation by Irina Mashinskaia, Petropol Press (St. Petersburg, Russia), 1999.

See Czury's web site: http://locker.wcupa.edu/cmoon/poetry_projects/

BIO: Heather Thomas is the author of Practicing Amnesia (Singing Horse Press, 2000) and three other collections of poetry, including The Fray (Kutztown Publishing, 2000), a collaborative work of poetry and embroidery with fiber artist Barbara Schulman. Under the signature H.T., she wrote her first two books, Voiceunders (Texture Press, 1993) and Circus Freex (Pine Press and Standing Stones Press, 1995). She won a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry for a poem in Voiceunders. She has won other awards and grants from the Academy of American Poets, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. She co-edits the literary journal 6ix with a collective of Philadelphia writers. Heather is an associate professor of writing and literature at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. She earned a Ph.D. in literature and a master’s degree in creative writing at Temple University, and her undergraduate degree in English at the University of Pennsylvania. She also attended Vassar College. She worked for many years as newspaper journalist and editor. Born in New York, she moved to Pennsylvania as a child and lived in poet Wallace Stevens’ birthplace at 323 North Fifth Street, Reading, Pennsylvania. She continues to live in Reading with the poet Craig Czury and her son, Ian Forester.

Heather's Web Site

Heather's latest book is

Resurrection Papers
ISBN 0-925904-37-6, 64 pages, $15

Go to this link for more info on this book.

Thursday Aug 24 at 7pm

Jennifer Hill Kaucher  & Michael Czarnecki 
J. Kaucher: http://www.jkaucher.addr.com/
M. Czarnecki web site: http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2006/id23.htm

Jennifer Hill-Kaucher

Charles Cantalupo

-- July 27
  http://spdbooks.org/SearchResults.asp?AuthorTitle=cantalupo

About 17 in attendance (good for Pottsville). Great reading: reading on poetry about war and peace from Africa's perspective.

Reading from his great new book:
WHO NEEDS A STORY? CONTEMPORARY ERITREAN POETRY IN TIGRINYA, TIGRE AND ARABIC
Cantalupo, Charles & Negash, Ghirmai, Eds.
released, 01 Jan 2006

Cancelled due to the flood of 2006

Movie, Henry & June, shown instead

Thursday June 29

7:00 pm

with Guest

Susan Kerschner 

Susan Kerschner was one of the founding members of Berks Bards in 1995 in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Arts Connection, BardFest 2000 Anthology, , Circle Magazine,  Shirazad (an anthology), and in two volumes by the International Society of Poetry. Ms. Kerschner was also a participant in the Poets & Painters exhibit at the Berks Arts Council Gallery at the Pagoda in 2002. She also won awards in the Summit Arts Festival in 1997 and 1998.

Thursday May 25

Pat Schilbe

Actress, writer, radio personality, copy writer, Haiku writer, etc.

Short Bio: Born and raised  in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. Wanting to be an actress while growing up, she became one as well as a writer and radio personality. She played such roles as Mary Magdalen in the "The Upper Room" at St Leo Preparatory School in Florida and attended Theodore Irvine Studio for the theater, followed by classes at Bowa Adams Studio for Radio in Manhattan. In 1943 she was hired by WAZL and had her own radio show. Pat was part of the team that put WPAM on the air in 1947 in Pottsville. She wrote copy for every advertiser on WPAM as well as having her own radio shows, "For Women Only" and "Women in the News." In 1950 she moved back to NYC and was hired by ABC radio (Blue Network). She wrote promotions for every show on the air and filled in for guests. In 1955 she moved to TV. She appeared with Pat Boone as a telephone operator in a one minute spot as well as writing  and spending time with stars such as Sid Caesar, Hugh Downs, Frank Gifford, Dick Clark, Tony Randall, Harry Reasoner, Robert Preston, Fred Astaire, Gary Moore, Don Meredith, Joey Brown, Victor Borge, Jonathan Frid and Englebert Humperdink. She will read some of her Haiku and tell stories of her interesting life. 

Attendance: 22-25

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Kathleen Radspinner

Kathleen and David Brooks were our host guests. Kathleen sang her own written songs while playing the piano; some she hadn't sung in quit a few years. She also read some of her own poems. David read some of his own poems. Kathleen has a very clear and strong voice and everyone was delighted with her performance. She also is preparing to record her first album. Kathleen has over the decades toured the country singing in night clubs, coffee houses, bars, and other entertainment venues so it is about time she recorded her first album so everyone else can hear her great voice. 

Thursday March 16,

Christine Goldbeck

Christine was our main guest: she explained her digital-story project called, Covalent Bonds  an unique multivocal hypertext work.

Bio:Writing since she was five and continuously published in newspapers, magazines and books since she was 17, Christine Goldbeck is the author of the print story collection "A Tribute to O'Hara and Other Stories," editor and publisher at minecountry.com and author/artist at christinegoldbeck.com. Her articles, poems and photographs have won national, state and regional journalism awards. Mother to 15 year old Becca, the facilitator of Coal Region Book Nook, a group for authors, researchers and artists whose work is related to the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, a book discussion facilitator and Commonwealth Speaker for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Christine is a graduate student studying new media culture and writing.

Wednesday, November 16
at 6:53 pm

Guest Poet:
Steve Shaw

A multimedia performance from a poet, writer, artist, songwriter, singer, TV showman. He is new to this area so come out and see him.
 

Oct 19

Guest Poet:
Deborah Filanowski

Deborah is a poet’s poet, her poetry is laced with humor and pathos, resonating vivid imagery and masterful word artistry. Author of ...And Guppies Eat Their Young
(available at All Things Good).

Sunday, September 25

Lester Hirsh

  Lester Hirsh is a 2005 Grammy Nominee for the Spoken Word Category for his CD version of Mosaic Two: Poems of an Ancient Order.
    Singer, songwriter, poet, guitarist Lester Hirsh performs a variety of musical styles. Lester Hirsh has been a professional poet, editor, publisher, and singer-songwriter since 1975. He has taught community education creative writing as well as guitar classes in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. . His poems have been published in the Asheville Poetry Review, Coal City Signal and other periodicals. From 1988 -2002 he was the publisher and co-editor of Bone & Flesh magazine, a respected small press periodical featuring poetry, prose & art work, from writers around the world. In 1997, Lester was listed in Marquis -- Who’s Who in the East. That same year, his song To Have You By My Side was one of a dozen songs sent on a disc (Notes From Home) to entertain Americans troops in Bosnia. That year he was also a finalist at the Napa Valley Emerging Songwriter Contest, Napa Valley California (Whistle In The Wind; On the Road in America)  He also has produced 4 CDs of original music as well as two Spoken Word CDs. His Spoken Word CD (Mosaic Poems of an Ancient Order) was nominated for a 2005 Grammy. Lest has been the feature Reader at Tamaqua Public Library for National Poetry Month and a feature reader at Robbins Bookstore in Philadelphia. He hosts the Moveable Spring/Stray Dogs Poetry Series at All Things Good in Pottsville, PA, and does Artist-in-School residences, pubs, concerts, and Special Needs Audience venues. He is currently recording his first instrumental CD of original material and writing a book of poems pertaining to the coal region of Pennsylvania.


 

Wednesday, April 7, 2005
 7pm to 10 pm
Special Guest
Dusan Neumann

Poet, reporter (BBC), film maker, music producer, race car driver, escaped Communistic Czechoslovakia

March 16, 2005

Kate Potter read her poetry and translations of others. Her poetry is precise in choice of words, with an elegant quality, and with serious content. I have been wondering every since I first met her what her poetry would be like and it was well worth the wait. One poem was on the concept of flutter. Lester Hirsh, Deborah Filanowski, David Weaver, and a few others also read. Another good night.

David Weaver and his handmade Indian rattles & flute.

Kate Potter is an award-winning poet who has directed many stage performances blending two or more poetic voices into particular themes at venues such as art gallery openings, arts festivals and academic symposiums. She has appeared in numerous readings in New York City where she was the featured poet at The People's Voice Cafe.

Review: February 17, 2005
Dr. Charles Cantalupo
Poet & College Professor

Charles made his words come alive in a dramatic, forceful, soulful, and passionate manner to the delight of the 20+ in attendance. Deborah promised he would be good, and he was. David Weaver sang folk songs and played his guitar accompanied with Terry Sourbeer. David also played his river cane flute, which he handmade using a traditional Indian design. Lester Hirsh read one of his poems and played a instrumental on his guitar. Deborah Filanowski read several of her poems and showed us her latest book of poems, which we will carry here at ATG. Pat Schilbe recited several of her poems, and Kate Potter recited a poem, first in French and then in English as well as reading a piece on politics and religion. Find some of Charles work at: http://www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/material/cantalupo.html
http://poetry.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.thing.net/%7Egrist/l%26d/canta1.htm

Review of December 8, 2004 open mic event

with Grammy Nominee Lester Hirsh

and Guest Poet Marty Esworthy

An exceptional night with Marty Esworthy (Harrisburg), Lester Hirsh, Deborah Filanowski, Steve Shaw and others reading their poetry. Marty Esworthy gave a very energetic reading with his unique "sound poetry" and his use of  scientific words from physics and astrophysics to give vision and sound to his reading. His method of reading from different areas within the room and his enthusiasm make his poetry more quickening to his audience.  A trio from South Carolina (folklorists Carrie and Michael Nobel Kline and Hanna Musser Thurman) sang folk songs in beautiful harmony, while Terry Sourbeer and David Weaver played their guitars and sang folk songs. Lester Hirsh also played his guitar, harmonica, and sang several songs to the great enjoyment of all. Deborah Filanowski was inspired to read three of her poems after listening to Marty give the first half of his performance. Steve also read his poetry and sang a song while playing Lester's 12 string guitar. One poem he read he had just composed on his train ride from Philadelphia where he compared his looks to Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) and Santa Claus.  This may have been our best open mic to date. One that should have been recorded for others to also enjoy. If you missed it, you missed a great time. About 24 attended from 7:30 pm to about 10:30 pm.  Thanks Deborah for bringing Marty down to All Things Good.

Marty Esworthy is a Megaera-award-winning poet, editor emeritus Steel Point
Quarterly, East Coast poetry impresario, Almost Uptown
Poetry Cartel cultural theoretician, and sound poetry advocate.

Publications include Red Pagoda, Landings, Quasar Review,
the Crucible, Harry, logodaedalus and Miserere Review.
Esworthy recently completed an epic performance art project,
thinking everyday-- for five years!-- about Ng, a cyberspace
siren.

Fun fact to know and tell: Esworthy's lyrics, though not so linear,
combine planes of prosody and consciousness in astonishingly
energetic ways, and have been translated into twelve different
languages, including COBOL and FORTR! AN.

Current project: a Poet’s Tour of Harrisburg. Transcribed (for
individual tours) and Live. Once. Maps & words & sounds, past,
present and future, illustrating the literary essence of the capitol
city of the great state of Pennsylvania.

Fave movie scene of all time was when Richard Dreyfuss
made a mountain of mashed potatoes. "That was cool."


Devolution is real: o, judgement!
thou art fled to brutish beasts
& men have lost their reason!

Lester Hirsh is a 2005 Grammy Nominee for the Spoken Word Category for the CD version of Mosaic Two: Poems of an Ancient Order.

Lester Hirsh was born in Danville, PA, raised in the anthracite coal town of Shenandoah, and later in Miami, Florida.  He has lived in Philadelphia, Williamsport, and Highesville, Pennsylvania and resided in Concord, NH since 1985, while also keeping an apartment in Shenandoah, PA.

Singer, songwriter, poet, guitarist Lester Hirsh performs a variety of musical styles. His music and poetry echoes impressions of the coal towns of Pennsylvania where he spent his formative years, as well as Miami, Florida, and New England. He has performed in a variety of ensembles over the past 20 years including a folk trio, Side Three, originating in Florida, a folk/pop trio Jerusalem in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and mostly solo work in New England since 1985. His range reaches from the formative folk years to the influences of classical, Brazilian jazz, country and popular musical genres. He was largely inspired by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot and many other 1960's artists.

Lester Hirsh has been an editor of Bone & Flesh, a literary magazine, and makes frequent appearances as a musician and performer.  He has produced three LP tapes and four CD recordings of his music and spoken word readings of his poetry.

Hirsh was a 1997 finalist in the Napa Valley California Emerging Songwriter Contest.  He has been a touring member of the New Hampshire State Council of the Arts.

Aug 26 (7-10pm) with special quest Craig Czury and Heather Thomas

Craig Czury
a former resident of Pottsville
 (poet, writer, editor)

Heather Thomas
(poet, essayist, and playwright)

We took at least four pictures of Craig and Heather, but our digital camera malfunctioned so this is the only picture we have of the event. You can see Heather's legs on the far right. Lester Hirsh is in the center of the picture. My apologies.

A Story of the event appeared in the Pottsville Free Press the week after the event.

David Brooks has been a published poet for 23 years. He has been featured in Bucknell University's "West Branch." His short stories have been published in "Appearances" and he has written literary criticism for "The American Book Review." His manuscript, "Right Livelihood" won the Pavement Saw Chapbook Competition in 1997. Selections from his work-in-progress "Love Me, Love My Delusions" have appeared on the DOJ, the online journal of Drexel University.

Review: About 20 attended. Reading by David Brooks was enjoyed by all: he has an unique style. Marlene Rowe, Deborah Filanowski, Celic Shuman, and others read also. Lester Hirsh and Kathleen Radspinner sang several songs including Summer Time. 

March 12 (Friday)
7pm - 10pm

Open Mike:

 Poetry Reading & Music

Featuring

• Deborah Filanowski, Marlene Rowe, Lester Hirsh, and others
• Lester Hirsh will also provide some musical entertainment

Lester Hirsh

Review:

   This was the first event by ATG: Attendance 25 to30; 6 Poetry Readings; 4 musical renditions; Artists Katy Connelly & J. Angelo attended; pictures taken by Pottsville Free Press. Possible future monthly meeting place for the Stray Dogs, Poetry group. Announcement made about future sketching by Angelo to be done at ATG.

Sage also had event same night (music and Mad Potter)