This event will feature readings by
C.L. Liedekev
Jane C. Miller
Hayden Saunier
Wendy Schermer

Hosted by Brooke Palma. An open mic will follow.

Barnaby’s West Chester
15 S. High St.
West Chester PA 19382

C.L. Liedekev is a two-time nominee for Best of the Net, with his poem, "November Snow. Philadelphia Children's Hospital," a finalist in 2021. His work can be found at Humana Obscura, Red Fez, MacQueen's, Hare's Paw, River Heron Review, Marrow, American Writers Review, and Quibble, amongst others. His debut collection, No Damage Visibile was published by Alien Buddha Press.

Jane C. Miller is the author of Canticle for Remnant Days (2024) and coauthor of Walking the Sunken Boards (2019), both published by Pond Road Press. Her work has appeared in RHINO, Colorado Review and UCity Review and on buses in Luzerne County, PA through the Poetry in Transit program. A winner of the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest and two state fellowships, Miller coedits the online poetry journal, ൪uartet (www.quartetjournal.com). She lives in Wilmington, DE with her husband, son and dog. For more information, visit www.janecmiller.com.

Hayden Saunier is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Wheel (Terrapin, 2024). Awards include a Pushcart Prize, Rattle Poetry Prize, Pablo Neruda Award, and Gell Poetry Award. Her work has been published in such journals as Beloit Poetry Journal, Nimrod, Southern Poetry Review, The Sun, and Virginia Quarterly Review and has also been featured on Poetry Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and Verse Daily. Learn more at www.haydensaunier.com. 

Wendy Schermer was born in Detroit, grew up in Philadelphia, and is now a resident of Arden, Delaware, where she has lived since 2005. Wendy shares her home with two cats, who have been steadfast companions since her two sons became adults and made lives of their own - one in Philadelphia, and the other in Helena, Montana.

Wendy has been writing creatively for many years and is a member of a couple of writing groups that provide friendship, support, inspiration and helpful feedback on her writing.

Her poetry has been published in Dragonfly, USA Today, The Fox Chase Review, The Broadkill Review, The Rainbow Journal, The Cicada’s Cry, A Collection of Dance Poems, Amore Love Poems and the collections of work by participants in the 2010 and 2012 Cape Henlopen Writers’ Retreats. In 2014, one of Wendy’s poems was chosen for the University of Delaware’s Random Acts of Poetry Series