ONE ART x Quartet Reading
Hosts: Jane C. Miller (൪uartet) & Mark Danowsky (ONE ART)
Date: Sunday, August 16
Time: 2pm Eastern
Duration: 1.5-2 hours
Featured Poets: Sue Ellen Thompson, Melody Wilson, Annette Sisson, Cora McCann Liderbach, Sarah Dickenson Snyder
Tickets are FREE!
(donations appreciated)
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~ About The Co-Hosts ~
Jane C. Miller is the author of Canticle for Remnant Days (2024) and coauthor of Walking the Sunken Boards (2019). A winner of the Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest and two Delaware Division of the Arts fellowships, her work has appeared innumerous journals including RHINO, Colorado Review, Whale Road Review and on buses in Luzerne County, PA through the Poetry in Transit program. Miller coedits the online poetry journal, ൪uartet. janecmiller.com
Mark Danowsky is Founder & Editor-in-Chief of ONE ART: a journal of poetry and Poetry Craft Essays Editor for Cleaver Magazine. He curates Stay Curious on Substack. He previously served for many years as Managing Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. His short poetry collections include Take Care (Moon Tide Press), Meatless (Plan B Press), Violet Flame (tiny wren lit), JAWN (Moonstone Press), and As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press). His poems and other writing have been curated in many journals including, Gargoyle, The Summerset Review, Sheila-Na-Gig, and Modern Haiku. These days, he writes quite a lot of haiku and aphorisms. He currently resides in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
~ About The Featured Readers ~
Cora McCann Liderbach of Cleveland, Ohio, has poetry in journals such as Quartet, ONE ART, Painted Pebble, Jackdaw Review, Gyroscope Review, Sheila-na-Gig Online and Artemis. She is a 2022 Best of the Net nominee and has a chapbook, “Throughline” (Finishing Line Press, 2024).
Melody Wilson is a Pushcart nominated poet whose work appears in Nixes Mate, Anti-Heroin Chic, Crab Creek Review, Nelle, Rust and Moth, Verse Daily, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere. Her first collection, Madre Dura, received the 2026 Paul Nemser Prize from Lily Poetry Review. A graduate of Pacific University’s MFA program, she lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Phillip and their dog Z. Find more of her work at melodywilson.com.
After years in the classroom, Sarah Dickenson Snyder now carves in stone, sculls on the Connecticut River, and rides her bike. Travel opens her eyes. She has five poetry collections: The Human Contract (2017), Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), With a Polaroid Camera (2019), and Now These Three Remain (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2023), and To Eve (Nixes Mate Review 2026). Several poems have been nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prizes. Work is in Rattle, Verse Daily, and RHINO. sarahdickensonsnyder.com
Annette Sisson lives in Nashville, TN, with her husband and soft-coated wheaten terrier. She retired at the end of May from Belmont University, where she taught for 37 years. Since retirement, she has traveled, bought a new house, put her old house on the market, and spent two weeks at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her poems have appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Penn Review, River Heron Review, RockPaperPoem, Rust and Moth, Sky Island Journal, West Trade Review, and many other journals and anthologies. Her second book, Winter Sharp with Apples, was published by Terrapin Books in 2024, and her third book manuscript, Rhizomes and Bones, was recently “Runner-Up” in the Cider Press Book Award. In 2019 she won The Porch Writers’ Collective’s poetry prize, and in 2024 and 2025 she was a finalist for the Charles Simic Poetry Award. Her poems have placed in many other contests, and more than a dozen have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of six books of poetry—most recently SEA NETTLES: NEW & SELECTED POEMS. She has taught at Middlebury College, Binghamton University, Wesleyan University, Central Connecticut State University, and the University of Delaware. A resident of Oxford, MD for the past 20 years, she has been mentoring adult poets and teaching workshops at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda. In 2010, the Maryland Library Association awarded her its prestigious Maryland Author Award.