Chuck Joy Presents: Poetry Reading With George Looney

Chuck Joy presents local poet, George Looney at Werner Books & Coffee on Wed. Dec. 16 from 6-7:30 PM. George will be reading aloud his poetry and sharing his works with attendees.

George Looney's books include the forthcoming Conversations with the Visible: The Caravaggio Poems, which has won the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize (and which will be his twenty-second book), Things Still Worth Trying to Do (from Bluebonnet Books of Girard, PA), The Visibility of Things Long Submerged, which won the BOA Editions Short Fiction Award, and The Acrobatic Company of the Invisible, which won the Cider Press Review Editors' Prize. He is the founder of the BFA in Creative Writing Program at Penn State Erie, editor of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co- founder of the original Chautauqua Writers' Festival.

Things Still Worth Trying to Do was published by Bluebonnet Books.