Barbara Crooker Does Poetry Thursdays, September 14

September 14, Babara Crooker Reads at Midtown Scholar

The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel's Poetry Thursdays reading series at the Midtown Scholar bookstore presents Barbara Crooker, author of Gold (Cascade Books, 2013), September 14.

Crooker's poems have appeared  in many journals such as Yankee,
The Christian Science Monitor, Smartish Pace, The Beloit Poetry Journal,
Nimrod, The Denver Quarterly, The Tampa Review, and Poetry International.

Barbara Crooker received the 2007 Pen and Brush Poetry Prize, 

and the 2006 Ekphrastic Poetry Award from Rosebud.  

Residencies include the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 

and three Pennsylvania Council Creative Writing Fellowships.

Crooker's verse has frequently been featured on Garrison Keeler's NPR/PRI show, The Writer's Almanac.

A brief open mic will precede Crooker's presentation. 

Midtown Scholar Bookstore. 1302 North Third Street,

Harrisburg, PA 17102. Phone, 717.236.1680.