THURSDAY AUGUST 15 featuring Author of the new retrospective collection MOONMAN Doors open at 7 7:30m open mic Bring printed copy for your poem to be eligible to be chosen to be printed in Downey Patriot At downtown Downey’s premier performance venue Clifton Mark Snider, American poet, novelist, literary critic, scholar, and educator, has now given us Moonman: New and Selected Poems, an engaging collection of his poetry. Readers will delight in Clif's use of precise verbs, the timing of his phrases and his descriptive powers. Even more impressive are the moving endings of many of his poems. His poems about family fall into this category. "Sonnet for My Mother," "My … Continue reading Third Thursdays Poetry Matters presents Clifton Snider