Jimmy Pappas and Susan Romanenghi are our two featured readers this Wednesday June 10 starting at 7 PM. for Virtually Live PoetryBridge #11. Everyone on the mailing list will receive an invitation link Wednesday morning. If you know someone who wants to be on our mailing list, please have them personally contact me directly at info@poetrybridge.net. See Featured Poems to read poems they plan on reading.
Jimmy Pappas served during the Vietnam War as an English language instructor for South Vietnamese solders. After a lengthy career as a high school teacher, he focused on writing poetry and has been published in over 80 journals. He is currently the Vice President of the Poetry Society of NH. His poem "Bobby's Story" was one of ten finalists in the 2017 Rattle Poetry Contest and won its 2018 Readers Choice Award. It is included in his first book Scream Wounds, a collection of poems based on veterans' stories. He was the winner of the 2019 Rattle chapbook contest for Falling off the Empire State Building.
Here is a link to his poem "The Gray Man": https://www.rattle.com/the-gray-man-by-jimmy-pappas/
Susan Romanenghi is a poet, story writer, photographer, collagist and maker of greeting cards who repotted from Chicago to Seattle 26 years ago and is happy to call this community HOME.
We have a Poetry Box in front of our house. Like a Little Free Library, only we put poetry there. It’s neat to see people in the neighborhood take and enjoy – kids especially seem interested and this makes me happy. Of course, not just my poems (I am building collection of poems – I have tended to be more of a prose writer for the past few decades). Anyway…I’ve put Ferlinghetti in there along with many other classic poets from the Norton Anthology of Poetry. Here is a link to my blog: https://romansue.com/.