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2nd Saturday Poets
Featured Readers
March 2012- December 2012
For over 30 years, poets and writers have been meeting on the second Saturday of each month at local New Castle County venues to read and enjoy the work of Delaware poets. The event has become so popular that poets and writers from surrounding states now seek out 2nd Saturday Poets to read their work. Each monthly reading opens with one or two featured readers whose readings are followed by an open mic session from members of the audience.
All readings will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Jackson Inn, 101 N. DuPont Road, Wilmington, DE (302-652-9972). If you'd like to receive monthly 2nd Saturday email announcements, please send your email address to
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March 10, 2012 – Tery Aine Griffin and Phil Linz
Tery received a 2010 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist grant for fiction. She
teaches at Wesley College in Dover, DE.
Phil is the author of four poetry chapbooks. He works as a chemist for a pigments
manufacturer.
April 14, 2012 - Phillip Bannowsky and JoAnn Balingit
Phillip is a poet, monologist, international educator, and human rights activist. He's been a regular at 2nd Saturday Poets since its inception.
JoAnn is Delaware’s 16th Poet Laureate. Her recent collection, Forage, which won the Whitebird Chapbook Prize, was published by Wings Press in the fall of 2011.
May 12, 2012 - David Kozinski and Dimitris Lyacos
David’s poems “So Little, So Much Time” and “Poetry Reading” were nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His collection,
Loopholes, won the 2009 Dogfish Head chapbook competition.
Dimitris Lyacos is a Greek poet and playwright. He is the author of Poena Damni, a genre
crossing trilogy, which various artists have celebrated in the media of painting, sculpture, video and
dance.
June 9, 2012 - Amanda Newell and Meredith Hadaway
Amanda’s collection, Fractured Light (Broadkill Press, 2010), won the 2010 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize.
Meredith is the author of two poetry collections, The River is the Reason (Word Press, 2011) and Fishing Secrets of the Dead (Word Press, 2005). She teaches at Washington College.
July 14, 2012 - Daniel M. Ford
Dan is a Baltimore native who currently teaches in North East, Maryland. He received an MA in Irish Literature from Boston College in 2003 and an MFA in Poetry from George Mason University in 2008.
August 11, 2012 - Haiku Night
Bring your own original haikus to share. Lisamarie McGrath, winner of the National Flute Association's Orchestral Competition, will improvise musical interludes. Contact Bob Davis for details:
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. Open mic to follow for short prose and poems of any format.
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