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President Ganther Visits Harrisburg, Meets with Bucks County Delegation

 On Tuesday, June 14, Bucks County Community College President Dr. Felicia Ganther met with the members of the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives from Bucks County in Harrisburg to share her vision of the college. President Ganther was introduced from the gallery at the opening of each session of the House and Senate.   Pictured on the House floor are (L - R) Rep. Perry Warren, Rep. Todd Polinchack, Rep. Kathleen “K.C.” Tomlinson, Rep. Wendi Thomas, Jean Dolan of Bucks, President Felicia Ganther, Rep. Craig Staats, Rep. Tina Davis, Rep. Meghan Schroeder, Rep. Shelby Labs, and Rep. Frank Farry. Visiting the Senate chamber are (L - R) Sen. Steve Santarsiero, Jean Dolan of Bucks, President Felicia Ganther, Sen. Maria Collett, and Rep. Perry Warren.  
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College Launches 46th Bucks County Poet Laureate Competition

The search is on for the 46th annual Bucks County Poet Laureate, according to Bucks County Community College Professor Ethel Rackin, Ph.D., director of what is the longest-running poet laureate program in Pennsylvania. The contest is open to Bucks County residents over age 18 who have not previously served as poet laureate, said Rackin, who teaches language and literature at BCCC, where the program is based. Each entrant must submit 10 original poems of any style or length along with an entry form to the college’s Language and Literature Department. Entries must be submitted online by Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The winner receives a $500 honorarium, a proclamation from the Bucks County Commissioners, and will be featured at a Fall reading and reception at Bucks County Community College with the previous year’s poet laureate, Nicole Steinberg, and contest runners-up. Poetry of any kind is welcome. The entry requires 10 poems, any style, form, or length. All work must be original, published or unpublished, typewritten or word-processed, one poem per page, in black ink. The poems and entry form must be submitted online at bucks.edu/poetlaureateentry There is no charge to enter the contest, but there is a limit of one entry per person. Two judges will blindly select the winner. The preliminary judge will narrow the entries down to a few dozen for the final judge, who will choose the winner and three runners-up from the pool of finalists. Tsering Wangmo Dhompa The 2022 final judge will be Tsering Wangmo Dhompa. Dhompa’a parents fled Tibet in 1959. Raised by her mother in Tibetan communities in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, Dhompa earned a BA and an MA from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, an MA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks In Writing the Names (2000) and Recurring Gestures (2000). She has published the full-length collections Rules of the House (2002), In the Absent Everyday (2005), and My Rice tastes like the lake (2011), which was a finalist for the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s Book of the Year Award for 2012. She is also the author of the poetry chapbook Revolute (2021). Dhompa's non-fiction book based on her life is called A Home in Tibet (Penguin India, 2013), published in the United States as Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging (2016). Shawn R. Jones Preliminary judge will be Shawn R. Jones. Jones was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Womb Rain and A Hole to Breathe. Her work has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, New Ohio Review, River Heron Review, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and her poetry collection, Date of Birth, has won the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and is forthcoming from Persea Books in 2023. The Bucks Poet Laureate Program is one of the oldest in the country. It also holds a High School Poet Contest every Spring and sponsors an annual writers’ conference, and is yet another way that Bucks County Community College contributes to the cultural heritage of the region. For more information, contact Rackin at ethel.rackin@bucks.edu.

Centurions Baseball Makes Impressive Debut in Small College World Series

 In its first season in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association, the 7th-seeded team finished the double-elimination tournament with two wins and two losses The Bucks County Community College Centurions baseball team went deep as the 7th-seeded team in its first-ever appearance in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association Small College World Series, but was eliminated Wednesday, May 18, after a heartbreaking one-run loss to top-seeded Penn State DuBois. The Lions edged the Centurions, 8 – 7 at Showers Field, a municipal stadium in the city of DuBois, Pa. The Centurions had suffered their first loss in the opening game of the tournament, a 3 – 0 shutout to 10th-seed Bryant & Stratton - Albany, Monday. But they rebounded Tuesday with a 12 – 2 shellacking of No. 6 D’Youville, followed immediately by a 7 – 4 victory over 8th-seed Southern Maine Community College.  That set up the tight contest with Penn State DuBois Wednesday. It was the first time that Bucks had been invited to the tournament, and the first baseball team invited from the new Eastern States Athletic Conference (ESAC). The Centurions received the invitation after they won their first ESAC conference championship by defeating Central Penn 14 – 5 on May 5 at Newtown, Pa.   Led by head coach C.J. Brancato and assistant coach Andrew Lihotz, the Centurions finished the regular season with a record of 26 – 21 – 1. “The USCAA Small College World Series was a wonderful experience for our student-athletes,” said Matt Cipriano, director of student life and athletic programs. “We’re very excited about the future.” The tournament wrapped up Thursday, May 19, when 5th-seed Apprentice School captured the third title in school history with a wild 23-17 win over 4th-seed Miami-Hamilton. For more information, visit smallcollegeworldseries.com   Bucks County Community College sports are Division II, non-athletic scholarship and compete in the USCAA. Bucks offers six intercollegiate sports in the USCAA in addition to eight club sports. To learn more, visit bucks.edu/athletics