UPCOMING
December 20, 2009, 2 p.m. / Season’s Readings: Holiday Poetry & Prose Open Mic
To launch our year as co-presidents of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild, Jill and I are hosting a holiday open mic. Hot coffee and warm words: what a great way to slow down for a couple hours this season! Open to the public. Bring family & friends for a new tradition.
Details: Perfect Blend (376 Delaware Avenue, Delmar, NY). No cover charge: Please bring nonperishable goods to donate to the local food bank. A sign-up for interested writers will be available at 1: 30 p.m. Writers are invited to read two pieces (short poems or prose excerpts no greater than 400 words) on the holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, etc.) or a holiday theme (such as kindness or generosity). Writers should select one piece from a published author other than themselves and one piece they have written.
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March 27, 2010, 2 p.m. / Poetry Reading, featuring Carolee Sherwood, Jill Crammond Wickham and students from Poetry Boot Camp
East Line Books in Clifton Park, New York. (Visit the website for information and directions about the reading; visit Carolee’s workshop page for information about “Poetry Boot Camp.”)
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READINGS/EXHIBITS ARCHIVE
June 31 – September 11 / Fence Show Select 2009
Juried member show for The Arts Center of the Capital Region. Opening reception July 31, 5 – 9 p.m., Main Gallery. Two of my pieces were selected: “Night warrior” and “Persephone.”
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June 26 – July 12 / Fence Show Salon 2009
Member show for The Arts Center of the Capital Region. Opening reception June 26, 5 – 9 p.m. I entered three pieces: “Night warrior,” “Persephone” and “Kaleidoscope.”
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June 1, 2009, 7 p.m. / “Selfhood” — A Memoir Project Reading Series
A group reading curated by Robyn Ringler at The Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy, NY. The evening, which features nine authors of poetry and essay reading brief selections, concludes with Q&A. I will be reading my poem “The moon was there the whole time,” and the group will be performing my poem “I do not want to write a poem” (a.k.a. “the tantrum poem”). Other readers at the event will be Peter M. Pryor, Kathe Kokolias, Susan E. Oringel, Deborah A. Sabin, Paul Ehmann, Dawn Elizabeth Marar, Will Nixon and Julie Lomoe.
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January 2008/”outbursts!” (solo exhibit)
My first solo exhibit — “outbursts!” (acrylic on canvas) — is on display at Harmony House Marketplace, 148-190 Remsen Street, Cohoes. The pieces in the show use bold colors and simple female figures to explore joy and sadness, confidence and doubt. Sometimes serious, always playful, the lively characters captured on canvas make the relationship between art and emotion accessible to everyone. The exhibit lasts the entire month of January at Harmony House Marketplace (NY wines * Bakery * Gallery / 518 238-2232)
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