First Fridays
The reading series usually takes place upstairs at the Ragged Edge Coffeehouse (110 Chambersburg street in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) at 7:00pm on the First Friday of the month. We take a break in July and August.
We start with an open mic followed by the featured poet. Readings are open to the public. For safety we have recently held most readings online or on the Ragged Edge patio this past year. We are delighted to announce that our May reading will be held upstairs at the Ragged Edge. Join us onsite to hear award-winning poet and author Marjorie Maddox Hafer, professor from Loch Haven University.
We start with an open mic followed by the featured poet. Readings are open to the public. For safety we have recently held most readings online or on the Ragged Edge patio this past year. We are delighted to announce that our May reading will be held upstairs at the Ragged Edge. Join us onsite to hear award-winning poet and author Marjorie Maddox Hafer, professor from Loch Haven University.
Winter 2022
January 7 — Open Mic
7:00pm on Zoom
February 4 — Cliff Lynn
(based in Denver)
7:00pm on Zoom
March 4 — David Yezzi
(based in Baltimore)
7:00pm on Zoom
April 1 — Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter
(based in Philadelphia)
7:00pm Live at the Ragged Edge
May 6 — Marjorie Maddox
(based in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania)
7:00pm Live at the Ragged Edge
June 3 — Wilde Readings Hosts
Laura Shovan, Faye McCrae, Linda Joy Burke, Ann Bracken
(Co-Hosts of the Howard County literary reading series)
7:00pm on Zoom
Some past readers have included Sarah Browning, Luke Stromberg, Gary Finke, Steven Leyva, Voices of Woodlawn: Patrick Washington, Ladi Di Beverly, Hiram Larew, and Diane Wilbon Parks (with Cliff Bernier on the harmonica) Dan Vera, Barbara DeCesare, Maria James-Thiaw, Aaron Angelo, Christopher Kempf, Hiram Larew, Dorothy Trench Bonett (translations of Xu Zhimo), Matthew McBride, Mark Brazaitis, Joseph Ross, Laura Shovan, Bill Jones, Kendra Kopolke, James Arthur, Dorah Malech, Gerry LaFemina, Elizabeth Knapp, Adrienne Su, Brian Fanelli, Diana Anhalt, Gilbert Arzola, Harry Bauld, Moira Egan Daryl Sznyter, Shara McCallum, Hugh Martin, Renee Nicholson, Elizabeth Hazen, Marc Harshman, Anne Higgins, Nina Forsythe, Corey Van Landingham, Kenneth Vincent Walker, Ryan Teitman, Kim Roberts, Dustin Nispel, Le Hinton, Richard Kearns, Jeff Rath, Carla Christopher, Christian Tiede, James Arthur, Marty Esworthy, Michael Hoover, Eliot White, Michael Simms, Ned Balbo, Anne Harding Woodworth and Brent House.
Currently I co-host with the awesome Alan Bogage and Marty Malone. Our co-host emeritus and consultant is Gary Ciocco. Dana Larkin Sauers founded the series 17 years ago!
January 7 — Open Mic
7:00pm on Zoom
February 4 — Cliff Lynn
(based in Denver)
7:00pm on Zoom
March 4 — David Yezzi
(based in Baltimore)
7:00pm on Zoom
April 1 — Diane Sahms-Guarnieri and g emil reutter
(based in Philadelphia)
7:00pm Live at the Ragged Edge
May 6 — Marjorie Maddox
(based in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania)
7:00pm Live at the Ragged Edge
June 3 — Wilde Readings Hosts
Laura Shovan, Faye McCrae, Linda Joy Burke, Ann Bracken
(Co-Hosts of the Howard County literary reading series)
7:00pm on Zoom
Some past readers have included Sarah Browning, Luke Stromberg, Gary Finke, Steven Leyva, Voices of Woodlawn: Patrick Washington, Ladi Di Beverly, Hiram Larew, and Diane Wilbon Parks (with Cliff Bernier on the harmonica) Dan Vera, Barbara DeCesare, Maria James-Thiaw, Aaron Angelo, Christopher Kempf, Hiram Larew, Dorothy Trench Bonett (translations of Xu Zhimo), Matthew McBride, Mark Brazaitis, Joseph Ross, Laura Shovan, Bill Jones, Kendra Kopolke, James Arthur, Dorah Malech, Gerry LaFemina, Elizabeth Knapp, Adrienne Su, Brian Fanelli, Diana Anhalt, Gilbert Arzola, Harry Bauld, Moira Egan Daryl Sznyter, Shara McCallum, Hugh Martin, Renee Nicholson, Elizabeth Hazen, Marc Harshman, Anne Higgins, Nina Forsythe, Corey Van Landingham, Kenneth Vincent Walker, Ryan Teitman, Kim Roberts, Dustin Nispel, Le Hinton, Richard Kearns, Jeff Rath, Carla Christopher, Christian Tiede, James Arthur, Marty Esworthy, Michael Hoover, Eliot White, Michael Simms, Ned Balbo, Anne Harding Woodworth and Brent House.
Currently I co-host with the awesome Alan Bogage and Marty Malone. Our co-host emeritus and consultant is Gary Ciocco. Dana Larkin Sauers founded the series 17 years ago!