Join us for poetry and open mic under the Unionville Elm. The event will kick off with a reading from Poet Laureate Heather Thomas and then we’ll open the floor up to poets and others who wish to share.

Open mic slots may be reserved by emailing Sherri at inneralchemyhealing@gmail.com. Poets may sign up anytime between now and the day of the event as long as spots are available.

No reservations are required for this event. Donations are optional at the door.

Biography of Featured Poet

Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street (FutureCycle Press, 2018), Blue Ruby, Resurrection Papers, Practicing Amnesia, and other poetry books. She has new poems in current issues of The Wallace Stevens Journal and Barrow Street, the anthology Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest (Stockton University, 2021), and she edited a folio of international women poets for Persimmon Tree online. Her poems are translated and published in six languages. Her work has earned honors including a Rita Dove Poetry Prize. Heather taught creative writing and modern poetry at Kutztown University for 25 years and was a Berks County Poet Laureate. She teaches part time, writes, and lives along the Schuylkill River in Reading with her goddess cat, Lily B.