Friends and fans of poetry! The marvelous featured poets will be Bill Wunder and Bernadette McBride. Definitely come join us if you can!

7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 7
Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Rd.
Wallingford, PA (just off the "Blue Route")

The accessible entrance is around to the right of the building; there's plentiful free parking. Light refreshments will be served, and an open mic will follow the featured reading. Questions or concerns? - Contact series host Sibelan Forrester at <sforres1@sswarthmore.edu> or leave voicemail at (610) 328-8162.

Bernadette McBride is a poet, prose writer, and a multi-genre editor. Author of four full-length poetry collections, she taught creative writing and literature at Temple University and Bucks County Community College for many years and served as poetry editor for the *Schuylkill Valley Journal*. A founding member of poetry improv troupe, No River Twice, her writing honors include second place for the International Ray Bradbury Writing Award, recognition in the UK, Canada, and on PRI’s The Writer’s Almanac, and three Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry. She is a Pennsylvania Poet Laureate Emerita for Bucks County.

Bill Wunder’s poem *Looking Through Old Family Photographs* was chosen as a co-winner for First Prize in the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. He is a poet, editor and the author of four volumes of poetry. Bill’s book, *Hand’s Turning the Earth* was a national finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He is a two-time Pushcart Nominee and a former Poet Laureate of Bucks County, PA. His newest volume of *Poetry is Welcome to Paradise, New and Selected Poems*. Bill’s poems are widely published, and recently, some of his work became a permanent part of a Living Anthology on War Memories published in *Revue LISA* (Le Mans, France). A Vietnam veteran, Bill works with the V.A. on poetry workshops for veterans with Parkinson’s Disease, and for many years was the Poetry Editor of the *Schuylkill Valley Journal*