The Mad Poets Blog

On Thursday, August 14, 2008, at 7:00 p.m., the Mad Poets Society will present a poetry reading featuring Camille Norvaisis and Alyce Wilson, followed by an open mike, at the Milk Boy Acoustic Café (in the Bryn Mawr Film Institute) 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, hosted by Joseph Dorazio.    

           Alyce Wilson received her MFA in poetry from Pennsylvania State University, and co-founded the online literary quarterly Wild Violet, with the goal of making the arts more accessible to contemporary readers. In 2003, she published her first book of poetry, “Picturebook of the Martyrs,” and is has just completed her second book of poetry. At the moment she is in the research stage for her next project: a book on wedding planning entitled “My Wedding, My Way: Real Women, Real Weddings, Real Budgets.”         

Camille Norvaisas lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and operates her own sign business.  She started writing poetry after taking an inspiring class with Dr. Christopher Bursk fourteen years ago. Her most recent recognition was as a finalist in the Mad Poets Competition for her poem “Paukstukas.” She was twice named 1^st runner-up in the Bucks County Poet Laureate Competition and is a co-poetry editor at the Schuylkill Valley Journal. Currently she is working on a chapbook titled, “Perhaps It Was Adam With The Apple.”