Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County’s First Thursday Series of the year opens with a free Literary Arts Salon at 7 p.m. Jan. 5 at Freeman Hall, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown.
Reading selections from their work will be Robbin Farr, Ethel Rackin and Roy Smith. The reading will be followed by informal discussion and light refreshments in the parlor at Freeman Hall. Authors’ books will be available for sale.
Seating is limited and free parking is available. Reservations are required and can be made by sending an email to info@bucksarts.org.
The honoraria are donated in support of poetry and creative writing by Mark Wisse and the Lenel Education Fund.
Farr, poet and essayist, lives and writes in Doylestown. She is a founder and co-editor of River Heron Review, an online poetry journal, publishing and supporting poets from across the globe.
Her poetry has been published in various journals, including Panoply, Sky Island, Atlanta Review, 2River View and others. Her book, “Become Echo” (Atmosphere Press), is launching next month.
Rackin is the author of three books of poetry: “The Forever Notes” (Parlor Press, 2013); “Go On” (Parlor Press, 2016); and “Evening” (Furniture Press, 2017). Her new teaching text is “Crafting Poems and Stories: A Guide to Creative Writing” (Broadview Press, 2022).
Her writing has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Volt, and other journals. A MacDowell fellow, she is a professor of English at Bucks County Community College, where she directs the Bucks County Poet Laureate Program and the Wordsmiths Reading Series.
Smith runs a monthly poetry round table gathering at Prallsville Mills, Stockton, N.J., and has been a longtime organizer and MC of multiple poetry events in Bucks County and New Jersey. He has been published in River Heron Review, Philadelphia stories, Apiary, Karla’s Thirteen New Hope Poets, the Bucks County Herald, Radius magazine and Phantom Billstickers cafe reader out of New Zealand among others.
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