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Catskill Mountain Foundation Main St., Rte. 23A Hunter, NY 12442 (Greene Co.) Contact: Pam Weisberg or Faith Lieberman 518-263-4908 x 202 Fax: 518-263-4459 catskillmtn@yahoo.com
20 Sat All DAY $10/12 Festival: JAZZ "For the Natural Poet" With D. Nurkse and
Naomi Guttman and friends PLUS From "Watercats" Alan Semerdjian & free jazz legend Daniel Carter
22:45 pm Seminar/Dialogue (reaching a population in crisis)
3:00 - 4:15 Readings, Jazz & Improvisation
4:15-4:45 Open Mic (including songs/music)
4:45 Booksigning/Reception & more sound/music/art
Reading, Open Mic, Reception $5, $3; Free for high school students.
Howland Cultural Center
Beacon, NY
(845) 831-0077
18 Thurs 8 "Calling All Poets" Series features Joel Allegretti
Hudson Valley Writers Center 300 Riverside Drive Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591-1414 (Westchester)
Metro North to Philipse Manor (Call 1(800) METRO-INFO for schedule.)
HVWC is housed in the rail station, which is on the state and national registry of historic places. Director: Dare Thompson (alt: Golda Solomon) (914) 332-5953 or (845) 236-3074 writerscenter.org
14 Sun 4:30 $5/3 Paul Violi / Honor Moore
19 Fri 8 $3 Open mic (sign up: 7:30) poetry, fiction, essay
21 Sun 3:30 $12/10 Po'Jazz with poets Sarah Cortez, Stephen Coleman / musicians Tony
Jefferson, John Hart, Nicki Parrott (Kids under 12 admitted free of charge.)
26 Fri 7 Free. Book party for Rebecca McClanahan / Suzanne Cleary
Northern Westchester Center For The Arts 272 N Bedford Rd. Mt. Kisco 10549 Director: Cindy Beer-Fouhy 914-241-6922 FAX: 914-241-0137 cindyf@bestweb.net http://www.nwcaonline.org
The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc. 73 Broadway (Historic Rondout) / PO Box 1956 Kingston, NY 12402 Contact: Ione at 845-338-5984 Fax: 845-338-5986 pof@deeplistening.org - dlc@deeplistening.org http://www.artswire.org/pof - http://www.deeplistening.org/dlc Foundation marks its sixteenth year supporting creation and dissemination of new work in music, literature and performance locally, nationally and internationally. Retreats began in 1991.
Voices of the Valley Poetry Performance Series Monkey Roasting Co. 478 B'way, Kingston Smoke-free. Coffee, sodas, light menu. Features plus open mic. Events on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and cost $3 unless o/w noted. Info: (845) 883-9172, rnrcurmudgeon@yahoo.com.
Woodstock Poetry Society P.O. Box 531 Woodstock 12498-0531 Contact: Bob Wright bobwright@usa.net Venue: Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Every second Saturday at 2 p.m. Features plus open mic. 845-679-9837 FAX: 845-679-9838 http://www.woodstockpoetry.com
Mid-Hudson Also consult: www.chronogram.com for theatre and music events. (Area code: (845))
Fri 7 p.m. Spoken Word Cafe Pongo Barnes & Noble, Poughkeepsie. 485-2224.
Parker Theatre, SUNY New Paltz. 257-3880.
Performing Arts of Woodstock, Wdstk. 679-7900
Arts Center Theater, CGCC, Hudson. (518) 828-4181
Workshops Workshop for Teachers Call for time. Writing to read paired texts. Pre-reg. req. Institute for Writing & Thinking, Bard College. 758-7484.
Also consult www.hudsonvalley.org. Sampling below:
Note: Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate (Sleepy Hollow in Westchester). See website for details.
Albany:
New York State Writers Institute HU 355, Ualbany - 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222 (518) 442-5620 FAX: (518) 442-5621 writers@uamail.albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst (Check for scheduled readings.)
06 Sat 1-4 Free
Voorheesville Public Library's "Poetry Performance
Day"
51 School Road, Voorheesville
Dan Wilcox, Tom Nattell, many others
12 Fri 7:30 Absolutely Friday Night Poets
Lemily & Son Int'l Gallery
176 Washington Ave, Albany
Dan Wilcox, Featured poet, reading from "Exiles", poems in the voices of
Frida Kahlo & Leon Trotsky, with slides & music; open mic to follow
13 Sat 8:00 Poetry Extravaganza
Miss Mary's Art Space
5 New Scotland Ave.
Dan Wilcox (poems for women). Also performing: Mary Panza, jil hanifan, Nancy Klepsch, Victoria Moore & Karin Maag-Tanchak
Regular Series (Info: wilcox23@juno.com)
[1st Mon 7 p.m.] - Open Mic, Mocatopia Coffee House, Lark St., Albany
[Wed's 9 p.m.] - Open Mic for musicians & poets, Lark Tavern, Madison Ave., Albany
[1st Wed 7] - Open Mic for musicians & poets, Mother Earth's Café, Quail & Western, Albany
[Fri's 9] - "Urban Guerilla Theater" open mic, Mason Hall, 120 Madison Ave., Albany
[2nd Wed 7:30] - "Alchemy of the Word" Open Mic & feature (Dan Wilcox), Lionheart, 258 Lark St., Albany
[2nd Thur 8] - "Soul Kitchen" Open mic at Clayton's Caribbean Restaurant, 244 Washington Ave., Albany
[2nd Sun 3 p.m.] - Saratoga Poetry Zone, open mic, Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs
[3rd Tues 7] - Open mic, Colonie Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Rd., Loudonville
[3rd Sat 7:30] - Arthur's Market, 35 N. Ferry St., Schenectady
[Last Tues 8] - "School of Night" open mic, Valentine's, 17 New Scotland Ave., Albany
[Last Wed 7] - "High Drama Poetry Society" Open Mic, Fuze Box, 13 Central Ave., Albany
High Drama Poetry Society The Fuze Box, 12 Central Ave donaldlevy@yahoo.com 518-432-4472
The Lionhart Blues Café (Alchemy of the Word) 258 Lark St Contact: Amanda Stahl http://www.albanyarts.com
Saratoga
Saratoga Springs Public Library 49 Henry Street Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Contact: Linda Bullard 518-584-7860 FAX: 518-584-7866 lindab@saratoga.lib.ny.us http://www.library.saratoga.ny.us (Check for complete schedule.)
Sundays 3 p.m. Saratoga Poetry Zone, open mic. An egalitarian forum for those interested in writing, reading, and listening to poetry in an atmosphere of communal respect. Made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Delaware County, Northern Catskills
WORD THURSDAYS, Treadwell, NY (607) 746-7306 WORDTHUR@CATSKILL.NET
WORDS ON THE AIR! - 10 PM, the 1st Sunday of Every Month WJFF Radio Catskills Sullivan Co. NPR Affiliate, Hosts Bright Hill Press's RADIO BY WRITERS! - 90.5 FM - Throughout the Week, Delaware Broadcast Group (WDLA, WDHI, WIYN) Hosts BHP's POETRY MOMENTS!
TREADWELL ‹ On Thursday, April 18, as part of its ongoing
National Poetry Month Celebration, Word Thursdays will present poets
George Drew of Poestenkill and Christine Gelineau of Windsor. They will
read from their poetry and sign copies of their books after the open
reading, which begins at 7 p.m., and during which all present are invited
to read from their own poetry or fiction or that of another. The readings
will take place at the Bright Hill Center, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, a
block north of Route 14 (Main Street). There is a small admissions fee for
adults; all those under 18 are admitted free.
George Drew was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New
York State. His poetry has been widely published in the ³Antioch
Review,² ³Beloit Poetry Journal,² ³Hollins Critic,² ³Mississippi Review,²
³Poetry Northwest,² ³Quarterly West,² ³The Quarterly,² ³Salmagundi,²
³The Southern Poetry Review,² ³The Texas Review,² and many other
journals and literary magazines. His work has been anthologized, most
recently in ³North Country² and ³The Anthology of Magazine Verse and
Poetry.² His first collection, ³Toads in a Poisoned Tank,² appeared in
1986 from Tamarack Editions; his second, ³So Many Bones: Poems of
Russia,² was published in 1997 by Rarus Press, a Russian publisher, in a
bilingual edition. Drew has given poetry readings in many venues, and
has been a staff member at The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire
as part of an annual conference for middle-school and high-school
teachers of poetry.
Christine Gelineau lives on a farm where, along with her husband,
she raises Morgan horses. She is the author of the chapbook ³North
American Song Line,² and her poems have appeared in numerous
journals and anthologies, including ³American Literary Review,²
³Seneca Review,² ³Beloit Poetry Journal,² ³Kansas Quarterly,² ³Florida
Review,² ³Green Mountains Review,² ³The American Voice,² ³Kalliope,²
and the ³Paterson Literary Review. She is an adjunct assistant professor
in English at SUNY Binghamton where she teaches and coordinates
department¹s reading series.
Bright Hill Center¹s programs are funded, in part, by the New York
State Council on the Arts, a State agency; the A. Lindsay and Olive B.
O¹Connor Foundation; the Walter Rich Charitable Foundation, the
Merrill Family Fund, by area merchants and businesses; and by Bright
Hill Press members and friends. For information on the Bright Hill Center
and its programs call 607-829-5055, write to BHC, 94 Church Street, POB
193, Treadwell, NY 13846, or email the organization at wordthur@catskill.net
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