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Bucks County Poetry Series: Lorraine Lins

The Bucks County Poetry Series is a monthly poetry series, held on the second Friday of every month, featuring some of the area's best poets and hosted by poet Bill Wunder. 


April 22nd at 8 pm: Lorraine Lins
Our featured reader for April will be Lorraine Lins, who was recently named the 2010-11 Poet Laureate for Bucks County.

Lins rose to the top of 82 entrants to become the 34th bard of Bucks County, the longest-running poet-laureate contest in the state.

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“It’s very humbling to have been selected from among my peers, who are amazingly talented,” says the Langhorne, Pa., resident. “I know I have big shoes to fill, and I share this honor with them.”

Lins, who is married with two daughters, says she was captivated by “the boss” (Bruce Springsteen) while growing up just across the river in Hamilton, N.J. But while others were spinning his LPs, Lins was poring over the record sleeves.

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“Most people listened to Springsteen’s albums, but I would just read the covers and was so taken by the words,” said the Langhorne resident, who moved to Bucks County 24 years ago.

That love of lyrical poetry directed Lins to other writers, such as Pablo Neruda and other classics.  She rediscovered her creativity a dozen years ago when she took a creative writing course at a local community school, where her instructor urged her to study poetry at Bucks with Dr. Bursk.  Lins, who had been named runner-up as Bucks County Poet Laureate twice, has recently published her first chapbook, I Called It Swimming. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Bucks County Writer, And The Questions Are Enough, The Schuylkill Valley Journal, Mudfish 16 and Eating Her Wedding Dress. She’s also a recipient of the college’s Penland Prize for Poetry.

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