Category: events
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Finding some relief and reunification after the election
Poetic Relief at Book & Puppet November 14 I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that maybe poetry offers the outlet and the hope we all deserve. In November, Noble Quills at Book & Puppet Company, the independent bookstore in downtown Easton, will feature McKenna Graf and Darrell Parry. That event is November 14,…
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Wine and a ghost story…
Bill Prystauk and I will be headed to Cellar Beast Winehouse in Andrees on November 15 for what might be the most unusual book event ever… We will be joining J.Z. Nieves and Liz Rosen reading our various horror-adjacent works. And the sommelier at Cellar Beast will be pairing wines…
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Join me for NaNoWriMo at Easton Public Library
November is National Novel Writing Month, where ambitious writers try to write an entire novel in a month. To celebrate, Easton Area Public Library is hosting some FREE public writing-themed events:
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Arts & Crafts & Words
The fourth week of the month is always hairy for me because my local public library’s board meets, of which I am vice president, and my local writers’ group meets, and of that I am president. Plus, if you’re like me, the mundane items like bills and finances seem to…
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Craft your Zine with your inner child, TONIGHT!
I have been asked several times recently what I publish. What kind of books I like and promote. And I usually smile and reply that I don’t have a certain genre— that I collect people, storytellers, voices. The creative world is so vast, and with artificial intelligence improving and distribution…
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Lehigh Valley Poetry Round-up
If you like your poetry in the comfort of your own home, Stick Figure Poetry released its fall issue a few days ago, edited by Darrell Parry, author of Twists: Gathered Ephemera and founder of that online poetry publication that began life as a program at Mary Meuser Memorial Library. Poet and familiar face at Parisian Phoenix Nancy…
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Festival Unbound and Poetry in the Rose Garden TODAY
Every April, the world celebrates poetry— the same sort of observance reserved for Black History Month or Disability Pride or Suicide Awareness. And here we are, in October, already, and I am impressed with the volume of poetry events flooding the Lehigh Valley, six months after official National Poetry Month, perhaps an…
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Splintered River as the election approaches
I can’t help but feel that nothing we create in our fictional universes will compare to what is happening in the real world. And that is why I agreed to publish E.H. Jacobs’ debut novel, Splintered River. In some ways, the premise of the novel seems unbelievable, and you wonder if these ambitious political…
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