Big Dog Reading Series: Professor Jerry Wemple's Artemas & Ark: the Ridge and Valley Poems

You might know Dr. Jerry Wemple from previous blog posts, written by a past contributor, or perhaps you’ve had him as a professor, or maybe you've just merely passed him on campus pre-COVID. What you might not know about Dr. Wemple is he’s a published poet and a creative non-fiction writer. He has been published in journals and anthologies and has written four poetry collections.

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Dr. Wemple has also been present with several awards for his incredible work. He was first awarded the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award in 2000 for his poetry collection, You Can See It From Here. Then four years later, The Civil War in Baltimore was awarded the Word Journal Chapbook prize.  That was only the tip of the iceberg.

Just last year, Dr. Wemple published a new collection called Artemas & Ark: the Ridge and Valley Poems, which was described by WVIA presenter, Erika Funke, as, “Distinctive-lyrical and ballad-like, and a mythical landscape.” Dr. Wemple has been invited to talk about his poetry on both the WVIA radio program ArtScene and the Arts In Bloom of Bloomsburg University Big Dog Reading Series. He also gave a virtual reading for the Big Dog Reading series on February 4^th, 2021 that was streamed live on Facebook Live and YouTube.

If this something that interests you or you want to find out more about Dr. Jerry Wemple’s work, you can follow the links at the bottom of the page. There you can find the link to his interview with Erika Funke from WVIA’s ArtScene and to his virtual reading for Big Dog Reading Series from February 4, 2021.

 

Here is the link for the radio interview

https://soundcloud.com/wvia-public-media/jerry-wemple-february-01-2021?in=wvia-public-media/sets/artscene-1 [soundcloud.com]

 

Here is a link for the reading

https://www.facebook.com/ArtsinBloomBU/videos/873033730178436 [facebook.com]