Emeritus Professor of French Jim Gaines recently read selections from his poetry at the 2nd Biennial Bridgewater International Poetry Conference hosted by Bridgewater College on Jan. 15-18, 2015. Approximately 60 poets from a variety of countries met for the gathering in the Shenandoah Valley, which had Skype links to poets in France and Japan. Gaines’s selections included samples of his original work and also from his translations of the French World War I poet Guillaume Apollinaire.