toward the end of last week, dr. philip terman of western pennsylvania and clarion university's english department visited berks county. after doing a poetry reading at penn state main the previous afternoon, he made his way to goggleworks in the city of reading to do a poetry reading for berks bards. he read from his latest book called our portion and also passed around a copy of a recent book produced with bookbinder susan frakes.
two videos of some poems voiced.
and this little lady, robin irene, acted as the poet-in-training for the evening, young yet whose momma writes music and lyrics weaved from a background in poetry. in rare moments when she let out a curious squeal, we noted that she was merely testing out her lungs for future poetry. and her momma loved that her first poetry reading was by dr. terman since we studied his craft with him for ourselves in our college days.
after the main reading, the open mic for the evening kicked into gear.
two days later, dr. terman served as the guest poet for the pagoda writers in mount penn and hosted a workshop of varying prompts to write poems in the moment. more than 20 writers sat with pens scratching paper in the quieter minutes, once ideas began to stir.
three videos of some poems voiced.
thank you again tremendously to marianne deery, the mayor of boyertown and innkeeper of twin turrets inn, and chris dietz of cd's place for their part in helping to make dr. terman's trip to southeastern pennsylvania all the better through a historic bed and breakfast and good eats.
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