Reading at Eichelberger Conservatory: April 30

The Hanover Poets Laureate present “Traveling Companions,” a poetry reading with Gary Ciocco, Todd Brandt and Katy Giebenhain, with musicians Nathaniel Sauers and Jeb Mahone

7:00pm, Saturday, April 30, 2011 in the Conservatory at The Eichelberger Performing Arts Center

Gary Ciocco has been teaching philosophy at various colleges for fifteen years, first in his native southwestern Pennsylvania, and since 2005 in central Pennsylvania and Maryland. He was runner-up for the Bordighera Poetry Prize in 2007 and prepared a chapbook from those poems when invited to read in New York in 2008. His poetry has been published in National Catholic Reporter, The Evening Sun, and Shadowtrain. He has recently done articles relating philosophy to the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead.

Todd R. (T. R.) Brandt, aka Train, is a self-taught American Poet—writing, featuring, and publishing since his move from Middleton, Pennsylvania to Gettysburg in 1998. After studying Mechanical Engineering, he has raced jeeps, restored antique autos, piloted airplanes, and driven steam locomotives.

Katy Giebenhain has an MPhil from University of Glamorgan, Wales, and an MA from University of Baltimore. She edits the Poetry + Theology rubric for Seminary Ridge Review. Poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The London Magazine, Writing by Ear, Backbone Mountain Review, The Cresset and Prairie Schooner. A chapbook, Pretending to be Italian, is available from RockSaw Press.