Riverwood Poetry Series November 27, 2010

Featuring Robin Sampson and Cheryl Panosian-Haddad

Suggested donation is $3.00 and a non-perishable food item to be donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Place.
Goodwill donations welcome.

Robin Sampson is a poet, writer, blogger, bookings coordinator and host for Wednesday Night Poetry Series, mother of three (two daughters in their twenties and a teenage son), gardener, Master Wildlife Conservationist, inquirer into the gritty, beautiful business of life, nature and geology. She is sustained by plans to build a timber frame home with her husband Will near their waterfall in Maine. Her poetry has been published in Bent Pin, Wicked Alice., The Bitter Oleander, Poets Against the War, and other places. She also has an essay included in the book Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions (Marion Street Press, April 2008). Visit her website at Connecticut River Review, The New Verse News, RobinESampson.com
A school psychologist, Cheryl Panosian-Haddad is a former host of WNPS, and was first involved with the series around 1995 when it met at Doctor Java’s Caffinee Emporium. Since that time Cheryl married her sweetheart adding the name Haddad to her own family name – and in subsequent years became a busy mother of daughters. Her poetry builds on her Armenian heritage and on strong family themes. Her work is serious but she has a sense of humor: she was the winner of the first WNPS Halloween Poetry Costume contest, when she read Sylvia Plath’s work costumed in a giant cardboard oven….

Official Website: http://www.riverwoodpoetry.org/