Saturday 13 November 2021 VIRTUAL POETRY READING 7 pm

Please join us - Saturday 13 November 2021 - in celebrating the poetic works of our gathered poets.  Poetry inspires, enlivens, challenges and feeds us.  We are excited to share six unique and gifted poets.  A plentiful harvest of word and meaning.

We will start our Virtual Reading at 7:00 pm with a short introduction about word hive and the straightway into the works of our poets.  

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Readings:

1. Glinda Johnson-Medland

2. Tyler Steven Barton

3. Brandon Dameshek

4. Janine P. Dubik

5. Scott Hower

6. Tom Johnson-Medland

The Link for EVENT: http://meet.google.com/uqd-usnf-xek  

Below is a little about our poets.

Glinda Johnson-Medland is a published writer and poet who grew up in Connecticut and now resides outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has spent the majority of her career life as a social worker and therapist. She is currently the Executive Director of word hive- a space for poets; a new nonprofit committed to bringing poetry to local communities in the form of workshops, poetry readings and collaboration with other artists. She is currently working on grants and other supports for word hive.

Tyler Barton is the author of Eternal Night at the Nature Museum (Sarabande, 2021). His poetry is in the latest issue of Barrelhouse Magazine, and has been nominated for Best of the Net. Find him at @goftyler, tsbrton.com, or in the Adirondacks. 

Brandon Dameshek’s poetry has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Cimarron Review, The Coe Review and Conte. He is the author of the collection Who Would You Be? Dameshek is a former recipient of the Eileen Lannan Prize for Poetry. In addition to his full-time work as an Instructional Developer, Dameshek began teaching English Composition at the local community college in 2007. Born in Central Pennsylvania, he now resides in Camp Hill, PA with his wife and three rambunctious dogs.

Janine P. Dubik has had her poems included in Poetry in Transit since 2016 and published by The Scop, Back Channels’ “The Pandemic Issue” (www.backchannelsjournal.net), Word Fountain (wordfountain.net), The Electric Rail literary magazine, and Thirty-Third Wheel. She has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and resides in Monroe Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.

Scott Hower - My artistic philosophy is rooted in the teaching of my printmaking professor at Millersville University during the early 1980’s.  Robert Nelson had a lite motif that he reiterated in every session of every class that I attended with him. He would say, “Art is a professional term. Those of you who feel that your work belongs in a portfolio that is never shared should not refer to yourselves as artists.  You may be the most talented, creative person present but if you fail to share your work you are something less than an artist.”

Tom Johnson-Medland - A public speaker since 1975. A published author since 1987. Tom is in his 24th year as an end-of-life specialist and hospice leader.  Tom loves authoring books, poems, stories, essays, articles, painting with watercolors, and taking photographs.  He also loves, leading workshops and lectures about just about anything.  Tom has seventeen books published - eleven of which are volumes of poetry - and over 60 articles / individual poems published in an array of journals.   He and his wife Glinda just started a 501(c)3 foundation for poets - word hive: a space for poets. tomjohnsonmedland.com