Sunday, October 28, 2012
Lara Adams of Chalfont has been selected as the 2012 Bucks County Poet Laureate.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Chalfont resident Lara Adams Gaydos has been named the 36th Bucks County Poet Laureate by officials at Bucks County Community College. Gaydos will give her first reading as 2012 Bucks County Poet Laureate at 2 p.m. on Dec. 1 in the Orangery at Bucks County Community College's Newtown Campus. In addition to the inaugural reading, Gaydos receives a $500 award and a proclamation from the Bucks County Commissioners. Gaydos grew up in a house full of writers. Her father, Thomas E. Adams, won an O. Henry award for a short story in 1962 and her mother, Patricia Ann Adams, was a poet. “I was surrounded by it, but I didn’t think about writing as a career.” Instead, Gaydos graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University in 1994 with a degree in …
Friday, July 27, 2012
Corie Feiner wrote a poem in the wake of last week's tragedy in Colorado.
Shortly after last week’s mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, 2011 Bucks County Poet Laureate and Yardley resident Corie Feiner was asked by a local political leader to write a poem about the tragedy. Feiner told Patch the poem, "Distinctions," is dedicated to the families and victims of the movie theater shooting. “I didn’t write this from a political viewpoint, I wrote this to engage people in a dialog," she said. “I want them to think about the complexities and really think about what happened.” The longtime poet said she hopes the poem can start a conversation where people across the country can ask: “What exactly is going on in our country?” It’s a question that Feiner, a stay-at-home mom, has found herself asking in the wake of the …
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Robert Fraser Open Poetry Competition honors the late director and founder of the Writing Clinic at Bucks County Community College.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Bucks County Community College is encouraging writers to enter the Robert Fraser Open Poetry Competition by Wednesday, Feb. 22. The contest honors the late director and founder of the Writing Clinic at Bucks County Community College. “Fraser was a gifted teacher and remarkable poet who was an inspiration for many,” said Dr. Christopher Bursk, a poet, professor and director of the contest. “His own writing was marked by an unshakable integrity, a true grace, an unflinching honesty, a commitment to the play of language and an abiding respect for the power of words.” The winner receives $100 and the opportunity to read on the Newtown campus Friday, March 30, along with contest judge April Linder. Linder, invited this year to serve as the …
Monday, March 28, 2011
The Language and Literature Department at Bucks County Community College hosted the 10th annual event Monday to celebrate Women’s History Month.
Bucks County Community College held its 10th annual Reading & Writing Women event on Monday, March 28 in the Gateway Atrium. The event was an opportunity for students and faculty to celebrate literature written by women.
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Saturday, February 19, 2011
Bob Holman – who has spanned the globe with his performance poetry – was at Bucks County Community College on Friday for an event presented by The Wordsmiths Reading Series.
Bob Holman brought poetry and laughter to a standing room only audience at Bucks County Community College Friday afternoon. He set the tone immediately, directing people to sit only on the left side of the room as they filed in. One student walked in and sat on the right side, prompting Holman to look up and jokingly say, “Oh, you’re breaking my heart! You rebel, you poet!” Adjusting his thick-rimmed glasses, he excitedly sang to the students standing in the hallway, his voice resonating through the room and intriguing the students to sit down. Holman made known his interest in endangered languages - “We are losing a language every two weeks!” He showed a short film of himself in Africa with a group of people called Griots who sing and …
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