Events
Wanda S. Praisner, The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
West Caldwell Public Library
30 Clinton Road
West Caldwell, NJ
Saturday, December 3rd, 2 PM (Free)
Lives Brought to Life
Sarah Bracey White, White Plains Women’s Club (White Plains, NY)
Wednesday October 26th at 1 pm
Sarah will be the keynote speaker and will be reading from Primary Lesssonsat the “Annual Book and Author Luncheon, 100th Anniversary Celebration”
Kevin Carey, Del Rossi’s Trattoria (Dublin, NH)
Sunday, October 30th at 3pm
Kevin will be part of an open poetry reading with Katie Towler
Joan Cusack Handler, Canio’s Book Store (290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY)
Saturday, October 22nd at 5pm
Joan will be reading from Orphans
Kevin Carey, Dodge Poetry Festival (First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church, Newark, NJ)
Saturday October 22nd at 5pm
Kevin is part of a festival reading with Nicole Terez Dutton, Celeste Gainey, Amy Meng, and Deborah Paredez
Kevin Carey, Newton Free Library (Newton, MA)
Monday, October 11th at 7pm
Kevin will be reading from Jesus Was A Homeboy
Sandra Castillo, Black Dog on the Square (567 Industrial Drive, Tallahassee, FL)
Thursday, October 13th at 7pm
Sandra will be reading from Eating Moors and Christians
Joan Seliger Sidney, Mystic Museum of Art (9 Water Street, Mystic, CT)
Friday, October 14th at 7:30pm
Joan will be the opening voice for Marilyn Hacker’s Arts Cafe reading
Margo Taft Stever and Richard Jeffrey Newman, The 2016 Western Maryland Independent Literary Festival (Frostburg State University)
Saturday, October 15th and 11am in the Library Mtg. Room
Margo and Richard will join Susana H. Case, Ellen Kombiyil for the panel After Violence: The Poetics of Trauma and Resistance:
The panel investigates the role of factual accuracy in poetry and poetics—why poets choose to invent or alter facts and the difficulty in portraying traumatic memory. To call something real suggests that it is so in relation to ourselves, but there are multiple realities to daily life and its events, accuracy a form of negotiated reality. What if research reveals conflicting truths? What is the cost of invention to the poem and to the poet? How do the psychological and physiological workings of memory and post-traumatic growth affect the act of writing? How does the influence of the world outside the writer, its politics, memes, and rewarded behaviors, hinder or enrich the truth as it is conveyed in poetry?
Jack Ridl, The Lost Lake Writers Retreat (Alpena, MI)
October 6-9
Jack will be joining Dorianne Laux, Kelly Forden, and Irina Reyn at The Lost Lake Writers Retreat
Shira Dentz, The Seligmann Center (Chester, NY)
Sunday October 9th at 2pm
Shira will be a featured reader
Sarah Sousa launched a mini lit mag which is delivered via the Tinyletter platform to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday. Subscription is free.
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Wanda S. Praisner, Mercer County Community College, Student Center room 104 (1200 Old Trenton Road, West Windsor, NJ)
Thursday, September 29th, reception at 6:30pm/reading at 7pm
Launch Reading of The Kelsey Review
Sarah Bracey White, Scarborough Presbyterian Church (Scarborough, NY)
Saturday, October 1st at 6 pm
There will be a Primary Lessons exhibit at the Baker/Collyer annual Christmas fundraiser “Art, Literature and Music of the Hudson Valley”
BOA Editions announced that Christian Barter’s forthcoming book, Bye-bye Land, has won the Isabella Gardner Award; it will be published by them in 2017.
Shira Dentz’s “blue [belewe] moon” appears in the new poetry & prose anthology,
The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker
Sarah Bracey White, Scarsdale Women’s Club (Scarsdale, NY)
Thursday, September 22nd at 2 pm.
Sarah will be reading from Primary Lessons
Kevin Carey, Annie’s Book Stop of Worcester (65 James St, Worchester MA)
Friday, September 23rd at 7:00PM
Kevin is reading with Jennifer Martelli as part of Worchester Storytellers
Sandra Castillo, Books & Books (265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL)
Friday, September 23rd at 8pm
Sandra is reading from Eating Moors and Christians
Sandra Castillo, St. Thomas University Library (Miami Gardens, FL)
Thursday, September 15th at 11am
Sandra will be reading from Eating Moors and Christians
Kevin Carey, Harvard Coop (1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA)
Thursday, September 15 at 7pm
Book launch for Jesus Was a Homeboy
Jack Ridl, The Red Dock, (Douglas, MI)
Tuesday, August 9th
Kevin Carey, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Lenfell Mansion (Madison, NJ)
Thursday, August 11th at 6:00pm
Dawn Potter & Baron Wormser, Town House Forum (Strafford, VT)
Thursday, August 11th at 7:00pm
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Jack Ridl, Ox-Bow School of the Arts of The Art Institute of Chicago (Saugatuck, MI)
Monday, July 18-Thursday, July 21
Jack will be leading a workshop, “Poetry Is Everywhere”
Andrea Carter Brown, Occidental College (Los Angeles, CA)
Monday, July 18th at 10am
Andrea will be reading and discussing my poetry for Upward Bound students
Kevin Carey, The Lilypad (1353 Cambridge St, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA)
Friday, July 15th at 7pm
Kevin will be reading in the Boston Poetry Marathon 2016
Cindy Veach has three poems in the current issue of Zone 3
Harriet Levin Millan’s latest novel, How Fast Can You Run, will be released in October 2016
Richard Jeffrey Newman, Astoria Coffee (30-04 30th Street, Astoria NY)
Tuesday, June 21st at 7:30opm
Richard will be reading in the Risk of Discovery Reading Series (cost is $10, includes food)
Pam Bernard’s poems are forthcoming in Mudlark; Spoon River Poetry Review; and War, Literature & Art
Carole Stone’s poem “Plein Air” appeared on The Greenwood Gardens Facebook page in May and two of her poems appeared in the Adanna Women and Art issue, spring 2016.
Richard Newman, Schoolhouse Green (across the street from 65 Foxhurst Street, Oceanside, NY)
Monday, June 13 at 7 PM
Richard Newman, Sunday Salon Series, Jimmy’s (43 East 7th Street, New York, NY)
Sunday, June 19 at 7 PM
Richard will be reading from For My Son, A Kind of Prayer on Father’s Day at the prestigious Sunday Salon reading series
Joan Seliger Sidney and Victoria Muñoz, The Studio @ Billings Forge (563 Broad Street, Hartford, CT)
Monday June 6th at 7pm
Joan will be reading in the WordForge Reading Series
Joan Cusack Handler, American Irish Historical Society (991 5th Ave, New York, NY)
Wednesday, June 8th at 6:30pm
Joan will be doing a Q & A about her latest book, Orphans
Wanda S. Praisner, Montclair Library (50 South Fullerton Ave., Montclair, NJ)
Thursday, June 9th at 7PM
Wanda will be part of the publication reading for Lips #44/45
Shira Dentz, Evelyn’s Cafe (110 8th St, Troy, NY)
Thursday, June 9th at 9pm
Shira will be part of Fence’s Living Poets Theatre
Wanda S. Praisner, Sussex County Community College Art Gallery Building C (One College Hill Road, Newton, NJ)
Saturday, June 11 from 2-4 PM
Wanda will be part of the Stillwater Review 6 Reading
September 24-25, 2016
Location: 74 Lake Avenue, Ocean Grove, New Jersey
Cost: $370 (includes lunch each day)
Size: Six participants
Contact: [email protected]
This workshop will be devoted to discussing the poetry of Stanley Kunitz. Over the course of his long career, Kuntiz consistently braided the lyrical, the personal and the mythic. His poems possess a depth that stems from a haunted, articulate caring for all manner of spirits that—were it not for poetry—would otherwise be lost. This will be an opportunity to see how his work evolved and to consider an artist who has everything to teach us about poetry’s ability to fathom the dark and light of imagination.
The Being with Poets Series was initiated by Baron Wormser. Each workshop allows for the sustained consideration of important poets of the recent and not-recent past. Workshops have been devoted to Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Hayden Carruth, Dante, Shakespeare, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Denise Levertov and Donald Justice, among others. Workshops are open to anyone who is interested in talking about poems.
Baron Wormser is the author/co-author of fourteen books, including two books about teaching poetry. He currently teaches in the Fairfield University MFA Program and was the founding director of the Frost Place Seminar and the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He has taught many dozens of workshops in many different venues throughout the United States.
Poems:
“In the Dark House,” “Halley’s Comet,” “The Wellfleet Whale,” “Quinnapoxet,” “The Testing Tree,” “Three Floors,” “River Road,” “Revolving Meditation,” “The Scourge,” “The Dragonfly,” “The Harsh Judgment,” “Night Piece” (all poems from The Collected Poems)
Richard Newman, Park Plaza Restaurant (220 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn NY)
Saturday, June 4th at 2:30pm
Where:
Cost: $5
Richard will be reading from For My Son, A Kind of Prayer in Patrica Carragon’s Brownstone Poets Reading
Richard Newman, Nassau County Baha’i Center (11 West Jamaica Avenue, Valley Stream NY)
Sunday, June 5th at 4 PM
Richard will be part of a dual launch reading, celebrating the publication of both Veils, Halos & Shackles (VHS) and Grabbing the Apple: An Anthology of New York Woman Poets, edited by VHS contributor Terri Muus.
Celia Bland has three poems from her new manuscript in the upcoming issue of the Red Wheelbarrow Review
Judith Sornberger has poems forthcoming in the upcoming issues of Spillway, Wild Horses, and Chautauqua.
Sarah Bracey White, Travelers’ Rest (Ossining, NY)
Thursday, May 19th
Sarah is peaking about and reading from Primary Lessons, A Memoir at Somers League of Women’s Voters’ Annual Authors Luncheon
Sarah Sousa won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship for 2016
Harriet Levin Millan’s work was featured in Drunken Boat. Both of these poems will appear in her forthcoming book, My Oceanography.
Dawn Potter, White Mountain School (Franconia, NH)
Thursday, May 5, 6:30pm
Dawn will be doing a poetry reading at the campus
Kevin Carey, The Hall Haskell House (Rt 1A Ipswich, MA)
Friday, May 6, 7:00pm
Kevin will be reading in “Celebration of the American Voice” to benefit My Brothers’ Table
Richard Newman, Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street, NY, NY)
Thursday, April 28th, 6-7:30pm
Launch reading for the anthology Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women
Sandra Castillo, Kendale Lakes Library (15205 SW 88th St, Miami, FL)
Saturday, April 30th, 2pm
Sandra will be reading from Eating Moors and Christians
Joan Sidney, UConn Co-op Bookstore in Storrs Center (2075 Hillside Rd, Storrs, CT )
Monday, April 18th at 7 pm
Joan is reading in the Roar Reading Series
Dawn Potter, Space Gallery (Portland, ME)
Friday, April 22nd at 7 pm
Dawn is reading in the Beloit Poetry Journal celebration
Richard Newman has a poem in the latest anthology from Kasva Press: Veils, Halos & Shackles
Pam Bernard’s creative prose is in current issue of Mom Egg, titled “The Gift”
Wanda S. Praisner, County College of Morris (214 Center Grove Road, Randolph, NJ)
Wednesday, April 13th, reading at 5pm and dinner at 7pm
Reading at the publication reading of Journal of New Jersey Poets
Joan Sidney, RJ Julia’s Booksellers (768 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT)
Thursday, April 14th
Joan will be reading from Bereft and Blessed
Richard Newman, The Long Island Writers House (46 Green Street, Huntington, NY)
Sunday, April 17th, 4-6pm
Launch reading for the anthology Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women
Celia Bland’s article on “Six Emerging/Emergent Women Poets” is in the current issue of Vela
Sandra Castillo, West Dade Regional Library (9445 Coral Way, Miami, FL)
Tuesday, April 5, 6pm
Sandra will be reading from Eating Moors and Christians
Dawn Potter, University of Maine at Augusta (Augusta, ME)
April 8,2-5 pm; reading at 6:15 pm
Dawn is leading a workshop, “Magic Words,” for teachers, followed by a featured reading in the Plunkett Poetry Festival
Shira Dentz, Spotty Dog Books & Ale (440 Warren St, Hudson, NY)
Saturday, April 9th at 7pm
Volume Reading and Music Series presents Jenny Offill, Shira Dentz and Courtney Maum
Sarah Bracey White, Greenburgh Public Library (Elmsford, NY)
Tuesday, March 29 at 7 pm.
Sarah will be an inaugural speaker for series “Women and Culture”
Teresa Carson, Fox and Crow (594 Palisade Ave, Jersey City, NJ)
Tuesday, March 29th at 8pm
Teresa will be having a reading of her latest book, The Congress of Human Oddities
Wanda S. Praisner, Princeton Library (65 Witherspoon St., Princeton, NJ)
Sunday, April 3 at 2 PM
Wanda will be part of the U.S. 1 Worksheets Publication reading
Celia Bland’s essays on rereading Look Homeward, Angel and Jane Eyre recently appeared on the National Book Critics Circle website as part of the “Second Thoughts” series
Dawn Potter, Common Street Arts (Waterville, ME)
Thursday, March 17th at 5:30pm
Dawn is a featured reader in the Two Cent Talks: Waterville Reading Series
Celia Bland, The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2016 Annual Meeting (Cambridge, MA)
Thursday-Sunday, March 17-20th
Celie is delivering a talk at Harvard about using images to teach poetry as part of the ACLA Conference
Dawn Potter
Monday, March 7th at 8pm
Dawn is a featured guest on NCTE poetry group’s Twitter chat
Sarah Bracey White, Sumter County Public Library (Sumter, SC)
Saturday, March 12th at 2pm
Sarah will be at the Annual Local Authors’ Book Fair, exhibit and book signing
Carol Stone’s new book of poems, Late, was just published by Turning Point
Shira Dentz’s poems “Palm trees blowing, like feathers.” and “birds, pockets of air.” appear in 32 Poems Fall/Winter 2015
Wanda S. Praisner, West Caldwell Library (30 Clinton Rd., West Caldwell, NJ)
Saturday, March 5, 1-4pm
Wanda will be reading at Girl Talk: A Reading in Celebration of National Women’s History Month
Shira Dentz, Ada Books (717 Westminster S, Providence, RI)
Saturday, March 5 at 6pm
Shira will be reading with Camille Rankine, Ravi Shankar in Ada Books’ Publicly Complex Reading Series
Brent Newsom, Windhover Writers Festival (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, TX)
Wednesday February 17th at 7:30 pm
Brent will be a featured presenter at UMI’s Writers’ Festival
Sarah Bracey White, Empire State College (Hartsdale, NY)
Thursday, February 18th at 6 pm.
Sarah will be talking about her book, Primary Lessons: A Memoir
Robin Silbergleid, Ann Arbor District Library (Ann Arbor, MI)
Saturday, February 20th, 1-3pm
Robing will be doing a reading and writing workshop with University of Michigan Center for Reproductive Medicine and ART of Infertility
Sarah Bracey White, Marian Woods Catholic Retirement Center (Hartsdale, NY)
Thursday, February 11th at 10:30 am
Sarah will be talking about Primary Lessons and there will be a staged reading of The Wanderlust: A South Carolina Folk Tale
Sarah Bracey White, Somers Library (Somers, NY)
Saturday, February 13th at 1:30 pm.
Sarah will be talking about Primary Lessons
Through this workshop we intend to open doors for each participant that have not been opened before. We invite each participant to start afresh with each piece of writing, to find new ways through the thicket of the self and welter of the world.
Fiction workshop with Baron Wormser and Rachel Basch, June 13-17, 2016. Rachel Basch, a novelist, has been teaching fiction and creative nonfiction on the graduate and undergraduate level for 28 years. In addition to her university teaching, she’s been leading writing workshops out of her home since 2004.
Poetry workshops with Baron Wormser, June 26-30, 2016 and August 15-19, 2016. Baron Wormser is the co-author of two books about teaching poetry along with nine books of poetry, a memoir, a novel, and a book of short stories. He has led generative workshops for decades.
Nonfiction workshop with Baron Wormser and Kim Dana Kupperman, July 27-31, 2016. Kim Dana Kupperman is an award-winning essayist who has worked as an editor, writer, and teacher for over thirty years. Open the Doors is one of the most exciting and provocative creative-writing teaching experiences she has ever had.
Brent Newsom, Brigham Young University (Harold B. Lee Library Auditorium, Provo, UT)
Friday, January 15th at 12pm
Brent will be reading in the English Department’s Winter Reading Series
http://ers.byu.edu/upcoming.pdf
Richard Jeffery Newman, QED Astoria (27-16 23rd Avenue Astoria, NY)
Saturday, December 12th from 2:00-3:30pm
Richard is hosting a workshop: Making Fear a Thing of Beauty: Turning What Scares You Into Art
The statistics speak for themselves. Depending on the measure used, studies show that as many as 20% of men will experience some form of sexual violence at some point in their lives. Sadly, most of those men suffer in silence, victimized a second time by a culture that refuses to acknowledge the truths of their existence. Richard Jeffrey Newman broke his own silence as a survivor of childhood sexual assault in his first book of poetry, The Silence of Men, which was published by CavanKerry Press in 2006 and which some survivors have credited with helping them begin to tell their own stories. Since then, with the help of a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts, Richard’s been delving into this silence more deeply, making poems from the fears that it nurtures and giving voice to how being a survivor has shaped his life. Some of those poems will be published in 2016 by Ghostbird Press, as the chapbook For My Son, A Kind of Prayer.
“Making Fear a Thing of Beauty” will combine a reading and discussion of this new work with a workshop built around strategies for “turning what scares you into art.”
For more on the event, visit QED Astoria or Facebook
Wanda Praisner’s poem, “The Pera Palace Hotel, Istanbul,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (this will be her eighth).
When: February 6-7, 2016, 10 to 4 each day
Where: 417 Riverside Drive, Apartment 7A, New York, NY
Cost: $325 (including lunch)
Limited to six participants
Over the course of two days we will look closely at poems by Jane Kenyon, a poet of great resonance whose quiet, naturalist details shimmer with metaphorical power. Her work is an encounter with something timeless: the precise evocation of a scene, mood or moment. Kenyon’s mastery of free verse technique meshed beautifully with the art of seemingly casual narrative. This will be a chance to consider the work of a poet who spoke truly and deeply.
Teachers: Baron Wormser has led numerous “Being with Poets” workshops devoted to sustained discussion of an important poet. He is the author/co-author of fourteen books and teaches in the Fairfield University MFA Program. Nadell Fishman has taught at Vermont College and is the author of two poetry collections, Drive and At Work in the Bridal Industry.
Acceptance into the workshop is on a first-come, first-served basis. No deposit is required. Amount is payable upon coming to the workshop.
Contact Baron Wormser at [email protected] to register.
When: February 6-7, 2016, 10 to 4 each day
Where: 417 Riverside Drive, Apartment 7A, New York, NY
Cost: $325 (including lunch)
Limited to six participants
Over the course of two days we will look closely at poems by Jane Kenyon, a poet of great resonance whose quiet, naturalist details shimmer with metaphorical power. Her work is an encounter with something timeless: the precise evocation of a scene, mood or moment. Kenyon’s mastery of free verse technique meshed beautifully with the art of seemingly casual narrative. This will be a chance to consider the work of a poet who spoke truly and deeply.
Teachers: Baron Wormser has led numerous “Being with Poets” workshops devoted to sustained discussion of an important poet. He is the author/co-author of fourteen books and teaches in the Fairfield University MFA Program. Nadell Fishman has taught at Vermont College and is the author of two poetry collections, Drive and At Work in the Bridal Industry.
Acceptance into the workshop is on a first-come, first-served basis. No deposit is required. Amount is payable upon coming to the workshop.
Contact Baron Wormser at [email protected] to register.
CavanKerry is grateful for past and current support received from the following organizations: