Monday, March 21, 2011

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.

April 14, 2011 6:30 pm at Mifflin Community Library with DaVonna Smith, state winner of a recitation contest

Join Berks Bards in welcoming DaVonna Smith, state winner of a poetry recitation contest, at the Mifflin Community Library, 6 Philadelphia Ave., Shillington at 6:30 pm for a poetry recitation followed by an open microphone.

April 14, 2011, 1 pm Berks County Poet Laureate Craig Czury at the Jewish Cultural Center of Reading

Join Berks County Poet Laureate Craig Czury for a 1 pm luncheon followed by a poetry presentation at the Jewish Cultural Center of Reading, 1100 Berkshire Blvd., Wyomissing. Lunch is $7.50. The poetry presentation, which begins at 1:45 pm is free and open to the public. For luncheon reservations please contact Jayne Kleinmann by April 8 at 610-921-0624.

April 13, 2011 4 pm Berks County Poet Laureate Craig Czury Kutztown University Rohrbach Library

Berks County Poet Laureate Craig Czury will give a poetry reading at the Rohrbach Library, Room 100 B at Kuztown University's Voices and Choices Center at 4 pm. For details call 610-683-4766. The reading is open to the public.

April 9, 2011 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Painting and Poetry Workshop with dance therapist Janna Grobel at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Reading

Join Berks Bards at 9:30 am for a day-long workshop with Dance Therapist Joanna V. Grobel at the First Universalist Unitarian Church, 416 Franklin Street in Reading. Space is limited for the Touching the Source: Painting, Poetry and the Body. Call 610-370-2629 for reservations and details by April 2nd.

April 7, 2011, 6 pm First Thursday in BardFest 2011 features Lisa Alexander Baron and Bill Van Buskirk at the GoggleWorks Cucina Cafe

Join Berks Bards in welcoming local poets Lisa Alexander Baron and Bill Van Buskirk for a poetry reading at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts in Reading. An open microphone follows the couple's performance.

April 6th, 2011 at 6 pm Michael London at RACC releases a CD inspired by the poetry of Rumi

Poet and musician Micheal London will read and perform selections from his new CD "The Field" inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the 13th century Persian Sufi mystic. This is event is sponsored by the Foundation for RACC and will be held in Berks Hall in the Berks-Penn Rooms with an open mic to follow.

April 4, 2011 at 7 pm Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov will be at Albright College in Teel Hall

Bard Fest 2011 kicks off National Poetry Month with Nikola Madzirov from Macedonia. Madzirov will read in the Kachel Chapel in Teel Hall, Albright College, 13th and Union Streets in Reading. This event is open to the public and is sponsored by the "Experience" at Albright College and by Berks Bards. For further information contact Craig Czury at 610-207-4321.

April 1-30, 2011 Watch BCTV for glimpses of the Poem-a-Day broadcast

During the entire month of April Berks Community Television will air a poem a day between regular programming. Check it out on Comcast, Channel 13 or Service Electric, Channel 19. Nineteen regional and local poets will read a short poem each day.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

March 3rd, 2011 First Thurdsay from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Cucina Cafe in the GoggleWorks, Reading

Berks Bards presents award winning poet Catherine Rittenhouse Good.

Please join the Bards in welcoming the poet who has repeatedly dominated the Encore Poet Awards at this, her second appearance at a Bard sponsored event.

Discover for yourself Catherine's gentle humor, turn of phrase and insight.

As always, the featured poet will be followed by an open microphone.