The Reader's Café
125 Broadway
Hanover, PA

James S. Jaffe Rare Books
367 W. Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA

Tudor Bookshop
651 Wyoming Avenue
Kingston, PA

Drummer Boy Books
209 East Main Street
Ligonier, PA

Robin's Bookstore
108 S. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA

Farley's Bookshop
44 South Main Street
New Hope, PA

Spring Church Book Company
RD 1 Box 174
Shelocta, PA

International Poetry Forum
The International Poetry Forum offers The Poets-in-Public series, which features established poets reading their works in public, and The Poets-in-Person program, an educational outreach program bringing poetry to students of various ages.

Pennsylvania Center for the Book
The official Pennsylvania affiliate for the Library of Congress's Center for the Book, the PCB is located at Penn State University. Their current project is developing a website, and on March 1, 2003, they released Phase I of the online Literary Map of Pennsylvania and the Family Literacy Activity Guide, "Playing with Words," for everyone who works with preschool children and their families.

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The PCA supports artists throughout the state with a grants and awards program, an Arts In Education Roster, workshops on preparing grant applications, advice and consultation, and publications that are available on request. The PCA participates in PennPAT, a program to support presenters in presenting eligible Pennsylvania-based performing artists. PennPAT also publishes a roster of all performing artists funded through the program.

Pennsylvania Poetry Society
Founded in 1949, the PPS assists its members in the development of their craft and fosters an intelligent appreciation of poetry. PPS publishes a newsletter, distributes STROPHS (newsletter of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies), publishes a book each year of prize winning poems, and holds an annual convention every June.

Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets
Hosted by Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry, the Seminar provides four weeks of study each June with established poets for undergraduates. Approximately 8 fellowships are provided each year, with tuition, room, and board included.

Gist Street Reading Series
The Gist Street readings are held monthly and feature local and national poets and writers. The series focuses on emerging writers either publishing in national journals and magazines or publishing their first or second books.

Ligonier Valley Writers Conference
Offering seminars and workshops for writers of all levels, this three-day, weekend conference occurs every year in mid-July. Contact Sally Shirey by email at mail at sarshi@wpa.net, call (724) 537-3341, or write P.O. Box B, Ligonier, PA 15658.

1. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...

2. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...

3. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...

4. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...

5. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America...

6. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...

7. The Unknown Citizen
by W. H. Auden
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be...

8. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

9. Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history...

10. Because I could not stop for Death (712)
by Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death...

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The American Poetry Review
Founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg in Philadelphia, APR quickly became one of the most widely circulated poetry magazines. It has included the work of over 1,500 writers, among whom are nine Nobel Prize laureates and thirty-three Pulitzer Prize winners.

Autumn House Press
Autumn House Press was launched in 1998 when prominent American publishers dramatically reduced their poetry lists and important contemporary poets were left struggling to find publishers. Small presses, such as Autumn House, are now publishing some of the most important poetry in America.

The Fourth River
The Fourth River is a journal interested in literature that engages and explores the relationship between humans and their environments, be it downriver, down-home, or down on the farm, downwind or down-to earth. In short, writing that is thoughtful and daring and richly situated at the confluence of place, space and identity.

Brilliant Corners
The only national journal to focus on jazz-related literature. It has published a range of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers such as Amiri Baraka, Hayden Carruth, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Jayne Cortez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, William Matthews, and Al Young.

Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publishes contemporary poetry, a Poets on Prose series, and a Classic Contemporaries Series. The latter reissues significant out-of-print books by American poets such as Richard Hugo, Carolyn Kizer, James Tate, Stephen Dobyns, Carol Muske, Amy Gerstler, Larry Levis, and Ellen Bryant Voigt.

The Gettysburg Review
Published by Gettysburg College, the Gettysburg Review made its debut in 1988. More than seventy short stories, poems, and essays first published in the journal have appeared in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, The Best American Poetry, The Best American Essays, The Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, or have been reprinted in publications such as Harper's.

Painted Bride Quarterly
Painted Bride Quarterly is published online by Drexel University. It features poetry, fiction, non-fiction, art, and an online store.

University of Pittsburgh Press
Founded in 1936 with funding from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, the Buhl Foundation, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, and the University of Pittsburgh. The Press publishes books in several academic areas and in poetry and short fiction, while maintaining a commitment to publishing books about Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania for general readers, scholars, and students. Special poetry series include the Pitt Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize.

West Branch
Published by The Stadler Center for Poetry, West Branch is a biannual magazine of fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews, published with the assistance of Bucknell University, the Bucknell Alumni Association for the Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.