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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, May 4th from 2-4pm

    Non-Member Price: Free / Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, May 4th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! As the second Sunday is Mother’s Day, we have moved May’s reading up to May the Fourth, Star Wars Day! This month will not have a feature, but instead we will have an open podium. Anyone who would like to read may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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    Writers of the White Rose

    Monday, May 19th from 7-9pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 16+
    Instructor: Chris Koslosky

    Join us for Writers of the White Rose! A writers group that includes taking turns reading each other’s work and sharing our insights using a writer-directed, question-based approach. Our goal is always to encourage each other and motivate ourselves to be the best writers and thinkers we can be! Prompts are given at each session, often generated by participants, to help writers charge up their creative batteries; however, no hard and fast rule exists about what topics to write about and all ideas are welcome!

    To attend, please RSVP to Chris Koslosky (facilitator) at whiterosetheatrics@gmail.com.

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, June 8th from 2-4pm

    Non-Member Price: Free / Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, June 8th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! This month’s feature is Stephen Concert, Harveys Lake PA author who has been writing poetry for over 45 years. His poetic works have been recognized in local, state, and national competitions—twice in Creative York’s “The Writer’s Eye” competition.

    An award-winning queer poet, Steven is the founder of North 415 Press, an independent publishing venture, and has edited anthologies and manuscripts for a few national organizations. He serves as First Vice-President of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society.
    Steven’s poetry has been recognized in local, state and national competitions. He earned finalist status in NFSPS’ 2021 Barbara Stevens Poetry Manuscript competition. Steven’s work has been published in print and online, and recent credits include: Agates, Common Threads, Discretionary Love, One Art Poetry, Poets Live, and River Poets. He has published seven chapbooks—Too Blind to See (reissued 2024), Standing in the Chaos,  No Mortar Required, and a 2025 three title series, Break the Silence: Book of Queer, Book of Violence, and Book of Retribution—plus one full-length collection, Steer into the Skid.”

    Following the feature, we will open the podium up to writers who would like to share their work with the crowd.

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    Writer’s of the White Rose

    Monday, June 16th from 7-9pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 16+
    Instructor: Chris Koslosky

    Join us for Writers of the White Rose! A writers group that includes taking turns reading each other’s work and sharing our insights using a writer-directed, question-based approach. Our goal is always to encourage each other and motivate ourselves to be the best writers and thinkers we can be! Prompts are given at each session, often generated by participants, to help writers charge up their creative batteries; however, no hard and fast rule exists about what topics to write about and all ideas are welcome!

    To attend, please RSVP to Chris Koslosky (facilitator) at whiterosetheatrics@gmail.com.

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, July 13th from 2-4pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, July 13th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! This month will not have a feature, but instead we will have an open podium. Anyone who would like to read may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, August 10th from 2-4pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, August 10th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! This month will not have a feature, but instead we will have an open podium. Anyone who would like to read may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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    Writers of the White Rose

    Monday, August 18th from 7-9pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 16+
    Instructor: Chris Koslosky

    Join us for Writers of the White Rose! A writers group that includes taking turns reading each other’s work and sharing our insights using a writer-directed, question-based approach. Our goal is always to encourage each other and motivate ourselves to be the best writers and thinkers we can be! Prompts are given at each session, often generated by participants, to help writers charge up their creative batteries; however, no hard and fast rule exists about what topics to write about and all ideas are welcome!

    To attend, please RSVP to Chris Koslosky (facilitator) at whiterosetheatrics@gmail.com.

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, September 14th from 2-4pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, September 14th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! This month’s feature is to be announced. Anyone who would like to read after the feature may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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    Writer’s of the White Rose

    Monday, September 15th from 7-9pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Chris Koslosky

    Join us for Writers of the White Rose! A writers group that includes taking turns reading each other’s work and sharing our insights using a writer-directed, question-based approach. Our goal is always to encourage each other and motivate ourselves to be the best writers and thinkers we can be! Prompts are given at each session, often generated by participants, to help writers charge up their creative batteries; however, no hard and fast rule exists about what topics to write about and all ideas are welcome!

    To attend, please RSVP to Chris Koslosky (facilitator) at whiterosetheatrics@gmail.com.

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, October 12th from 2-4pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, October 12th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! This month we will hold a free writing workshop for the first hour, and an open reading for the second. Anyone who would like to read after the feature may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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    Writers of the White Rose

    Sunday, October 19th from 7-8:30pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 18+
    Instructor: Chris Koslosky
    Location: Virtual Event

    Join us for Writers of the White Rose! A writers group that includes taking turns reading each other’s work and sharing our insights using a writer-directed, question-based approach. Our goal is always to encourage each other and motivate ourselves to be the best writers and thinkers we can be! Prompts are given at each session, often generated by participants, to help writers charge up their creative batteries; however, no hard and fast rule exists about what topics to write about and all ideas are welcome!

    This month’s class is virtual!

    To attend, please RSVP to Chris Koslosky (facilitator) at whiterosetheatrics@gmail.com.

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, November 9th from 2-4pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Join us on Sunday, November 9th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! This month’s feature is to be announced. Anyone who would like to read after the feature may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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  • Writers of the White Rose

    Monday, December 15th from 7-9pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 18+
    Instructor: Chris Koslosky
    Location: Virtual Event

    Join us for Writers of the White Rose! A writers group that includes taking turns reading each other’s work and sharing our insights using a writer-directed, question-based approach. Our goal is always to encourage each other and motivate ourselves to be the best writers and thinkers we can be! Prompts are given at each session, often generated by participants, to help writers charge up their creative batteries; however, no hard and fast rule exists about what topics to write about and all ideas are welcome!

     

    This meeting is virtual. To attend, please RSVP to Chris Koslosky (facilitator) at whiterosetheatrics@gmail.com.

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  • Renascence Poetry Reading

    Sunday, March 8th from 2-4pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: 15+
    Instructor: Carol Clark Williams

    Rescheduled from February 8th-Join us on Sunday, March 8th from 2-4pm for a poetry reading! Our final Renascence poetry reading featuring Pennsylvania’s national treasure of poetry, Le Hinton, followed by open readings. Poet and publisher, Le Hinton is author of seven collections, including: Elegies for an Empire (2023), and Sing Silence (2018), both from Iris G. Press. His work has been widely published and can be found in The Best American Poetry 2014, Baltimore Review, Skinny Poetry Journal, Pleiades, Progressive Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, and elsewhere. His poems have received multiple Pushcart Prize nominations as well as nominated for Best of the Net. His poem “Epidemic” won Baltimore Review’s 2013 Winter Writers Contest. In 2014, it was honored by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book, and in 2021 it was featured on WSPU ‘s Poetry Moment. His poem “Our Ballpark” can be found outside Penn Medicine Stadium in Lancaster, PA, incorporated into Derek Parker’s sculpture Common Thread.

    This will be our final second Sunday reading and we will be starting up with second Saturday readings starting in April. Anyone who would like to read after the feature may sign up on the sheet when they arrive that day. Start your week off right by listening to York’s incredible poets!

    This event is free and open to the public

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  • Poetry Brew

    Saturday, April 11th from 6-8:30pm

    Member Price: Free to Attend for All
    Age: All Ages
    Instructor: Dustin Nispel

    Join us for the return of Poetry Brew! Run by Denzy Dark (Dustin Nispel), Poetry Brew will include multiple features and will be followed by an open mic. Features will be announced soon. All are welcome to join for this free event!

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