This event will feature readings by:

Steve Delia
Lisa DeVuono
Bill Van Buskirk

Open mic to follow. Hosted by Sibelan Forrester

Community Arts Center
414 Plush Mill Road
Wallingford PA 19086

Steve Delia has been writing for poetry for 46 years. He has read at coffee houses, libraries, bookstores, and even in a cemetery. He has also read on WXPN. He won first prize for poetry at the 2015 Philadelphia Writers Conference. He started writing memoirs around 9 years ago. He also dabbles in essays. Raining With The Sun Out is his newest book and is combined with an older work 1622 Church Street. Two for the price of one! This is his third book published by Parnilis Media. The other books are The Alphabet Concerto and Poetry Time. He wants to thank all the hosts at readings for letting him indulge in going 4th in open readings.

Lisa DeVuono is one of the founders of It Ain’t Pretty, a women’s writing collective that performed locally. She produced multi-media shows incorporating song, music, poetry, and dance, including Rumi in Song at the Sedgwick Theater; and Whole Heart Home, and Breaking Open Breaking Free, part of the IceHouse Tonight series in Bethlehem. She has led creativity and poetry workshops and has worked with teens in recovery, cancer patients, and ALS patients and their families. She wrote a peer-based curriculum Poetry as a Tool for Recovery: An Easy-to-Use Guide in Eight Sessions for facilitators working with persons living with mental health challenges. In addition to the full-length manuscript This Time Roots, Next Time Wings, her poetry has appeared in the Mad Poets Review, Paterson Literary Review and the anthology Grit Gravity & Grace: New Poems about Medicine and Healthcare. She is the author of the chapbook Poems from the Playground of Risk published by Pudding House Press and was the recipient of an honorable mention in Passaic County Community College’s annual Allen Ginsberg Contest. She enjoyed a career as a medical librarian and has recently worked for the Cheltenham Township Library System.

Bill Van Buskirk has been a meter reader, model, professional gambler, management consultant, a Buddhist, a construction worker, community organizer, drug counselor, pacifist, university professor and step-father. Most of these adventures have found their way into his poems, which he loves to send out for publication. Sometimes they are accepted which makes him feel really good—like the whole world loves him. Most times they aren’t. He has two books of poetry: Everything that’s Fragile is Important and This Wild Joy that Thrills Outside the Law. He believes that poetry can be a kind of magic-in-language that captures energies that hum and shine outside our day jobs—like humor, awe, hope, gratitude, wonder, mournfulness, wisdom, memory, ghosts, stillness and silence. When he was ten, a nun told him he was born on Shakespeare’s birthday. When he was eighteen he took a vow to never be bored again (That one got him into a lot of trouble.) He’s been married three times: one annulment, one death, one divorce. When he was nineteen he decided to talk to everybody about important things. He made a lot of friends on the bus to school. But people started looking at him funny so he stopped. He learned a little bit about violence on the street. It wasn’t for him. When he was twenty he found out who Shakespeare was. He was impressed. When he was twenty-three he had a little son who died after one day on earth. When he was thirty he decided he needed a career. He doesn’t remember much of what happened after that.