The Wordsmiths Reading Series at Bucks County Community College, 275 Swamp Road, Newtown, is continuing its tradition of live readings with three gatherings for the fall 2024 season.
The schedule is as follows:
Nathan Spoon — Thursday, Sept. 12, 12:15 p.m., Hicks Art Center Gallery: The Language and Literature and the Arts and Communication Departments at Bucks County Community College announced that renowned poet Nathan Spoon is presenting a reading of new work and favorites. Spoon is a self-described “autistic poet with savant abilities” and author of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded, forthcoming in the Propel Disability Poetry Series published by Nine Mile Books. His poems and essays have appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, American Poetry Review and more. He is editor of Queerly and has read his poems at Penn, Vanderbilt, Yale and elsewhere.
The reading is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dreams of Flora & Fauna. Practicing from the Center for Creative Works and Studio Route 29 that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the participating artists’ works range from ceramics, drawings, monoprints, paintings, puppetry, performance and weaving.
Visitors to Spoon’s reading and the public are invited to attend the closing reception for both exhibitions in Hicks Art Center: Dreams of Flora & Fauna and Endless Summer on Sept. 12, from 4 to 7 p.m. The reading and reception with light refreshments are free and open to the public. Contact exhibitions associate Clifford Eberly at gallery@bucks.edu or 215-968-8432 for more information.
Kasey Jueds and Bernadette McBride — Friday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., Tyler Hall 142: The next reading in the fall series features poets Kasey Jueds and Bernadette McBridge, who will read selected works.
Thomas Devaney and 2024 Poet Laureate — Saturday, Nov. 16, 1 p.m., Tyler Hall 142: The final reading in the fall series features Thomas Devaney and the still-to-be-selected 2024 Poet Laureate.
For more information on the Wordsmiths Reading Series, visit bucks.edu/wordsmiths or email Dr. Ethel Rackin at Ethel.Rackin@bucks.edu.
