Showing posts with label Genesee Reading Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genesee Reading Series. Show all posts
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Thursday, June 15, 2017 Mary, How does your garden grow?
Red Rooster Farm:
This week, we were able to till the North and East gardens, and yesterday I began planting the North garden. Thus far, yesterday and today, I have put in 90 tomato plants: Amish paste, Romas, Robeson, Carolina Gold, Cherokee Purple, Mortgage Lifters, Brandywine, Celebrity, Celebration, Early Girl, Sweet 100's & Honey Bunch; eggplant, purple and striped, sweet peppers (green to red) Red Beauties and Galileo, mixed hot peppers, mixed bell peppers, cherry bombs; carrots, Blue Lake beans, Gourmet green beans . . .more waiting to be planted. Just as I finished putting in the tray of carrots, it began to rain. Made it to the house before the skies opened up:DOWNPOUR!
Now the sun is shining. . . .
Getting Back to Poetry Readings:
Went to the Genesee Reading Series on Tuesday evening at Writers & Books and thoroughly enjoyed listening to Poets Bart White and Paulette Swartzfager. They decided to share the reading, sitting side by side, each reading a poem that would let the other select a poem in response or not. it was fabulous. Both of them, Southerners, who are gifted storytellers. What's not to love? The evening's reading was on wing. Loved every minute of it.
On Writing:
I seem to be writing every morning, mostly 100 word stories; yet, there have been a few poems too.
I think I'm settling into a summer work routine. I really need to work on my novella. I haven't really returned to that, but I will. Perhaps as soon as the gardens are planted.
I have been reading The Great Gatsby in preparation for the Brockport Seymour Library Book Discussion on June 28th. I think I'm in good shape for this. It's funny, I am seeing so much in this reading, more than ever before. I wonder if it's happening to the other readers too.
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I have several poetry books that I am writing reviews for. Still trying to finish looking at a manuscript I was given literally months ago. I'm nearly done.
Can you believe we're nearly through June? How is it possible?
Soon, summer! Enjoy!
Monday, January 5, 2015
Art, Art, Art
The wind howled all night long . . . Still dark, this January morning, snow swirling, swirling. Perhaps this will be a good day to stay put.
Yesterday, I finished my first scarf of 2015. A length of thoughts, I'd say. I love the shades of green. This will keep someone very warm.
Began the second scarf. This is shades of purple and pink and blue, like the early mornings in the apple orchard. My thoughts continue. In the year of finishing my MFA, I knitted my thesis before I wrote it. The rhythm of knitting takes me somewhere beyond the rocking chair. The weave of my imagination.
In 10 days or so, the Spring semester will begin. Well, truthfully it's Winter, but we work towards Spring, and when Spring arrives, we will be so anxious to have it done. Predictable. But what isn't predictable is the mood of the semester. These days, I'm only interested in the conversation of creative process.
I am only interested in Art. I think this may be intimidating, the mystery of Art, which is something I find comforting. Something I can go back to and study it from another angle. I don't have all the answers, but look forward to the conversation. I think art makes me think like the turn of a kaleidoscope. How subtle is the slight change. Something beautiful in the silence that follows the turn. To see it this way is the difference, I think.
Upcoming Local Events:
Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue
Friday evening, January 9, 2015, 7-8:30 p.m.
Price: Pay What You Wish.
Building on the narrative of our lives…one brick at a time. Join us to celebrate the inaugural issue of The Big Brick Review and enjoy readings by several of the first-issue authors. Wine and snacks provided.
Initial publication: The Big Brick Review launched its inaugural issue on Oct 7, 2014, featuring celebrated narrative nonfiction writers including Georgia Beers, Susan Bono, Gregory Gerard, Erin Green, Sonja Livingston, Jenny Lloyd, Sejal Shah, and Alison Smith. The next scheduled publication is a February Essay Contest issue. See BigBrickReview.com for more information.
What’s it all about? The Big Brick Review is an online publication devoted to support of the narrative non- fiction genre by serving as a venue for established writers and a springboard for emerging writers. Founded in 2014 by Gregory Gerard, the journal features personal accounts that build on the narrative of our lives, finding new insight to old struggles…old insight to new struggles…and all shades-of-gray in between.
Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue
Genesee Reading Series, curated by Wanda Schubmehl
Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 7:30-9 p.m. Poets Kathleen Van Schaick and Colleen Powderly
Price: $3.00 member' $6/ General Public.
Now in its 31st year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region reading in the W&B Performance Space.
Kathleen Van Schaick has been an elementary school teacher and literary anthology editor (Le Mot Juste, Foothills Publishing, 2008-2010). Her work has been published in The MacGuffin, The Broad River Review, Cairn: St. Andrews Review, The Dire Elegies: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America and Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology. She was awarded the 2006 Portia Steele Award in Poetry. She serves as program coordinator on senior issues for WXXI radio’s Reachout Radio, programming for the blind and visually impaired, and is a hospice volunteer.
An avid hiker, she has hiked in Vermont, North Carolina and Newfoundland. Colleen Powderly’s early poems reflect her childhood in the deep South and a decade spent in the Midwest. Those poems eventually formed the basis for her book, Split (FootHills Publishing, 2009). More recent work has focused on narrative and ekphrastic poems. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Ekphrasis, Steel Toe Review, Third Wednesday, and The Centrifugal Eye, and has been anthologized in Malala: Poems for Malala Yousefzai and Mo’ Joe: The Anthology. Colleen has served on the editorial board for the Just Poets anthology, Le Mot Juste, and is currently Vice President of that organization.
Upcoming GRS Readings:
February 10: Norm Davis and Rick Petrie
March 10: Al Abonado and Noah Falck
Just Poets Events:
On Thursday, January 8th, David Forman is our featured reader followed by open mic (Barnes & Noble, 7 PM). You may not know David—he divides his time between Ithaca and Rochester and comes to readings and meetings when he can. He’s a fine poet and I look forward to hearing him read at length.
Yesterday, I finished my first scarf of 2015. A length of thoughts, I'd say. I love the shades of green. This will keep someone very warm.
Began the second scarf. This is shades of purple and pink and blue, like the early mornings in the apple orchard. My thoughts continue. In the year of finishing my MFA, I knitted my thesis before I wrote it. The rhythm of knitting takes me somewhere beyond the rocking chair. The weave of my imagination.
In 10 days or so, the Spring semester will begin. Well, truthfully it's Winter, but we work towards Spring, and when Spring arrives, we will be so anxious to have it done. Predictable. But what isn't predictable is the mood of the semester. These days, I'm only interested in the conversation of creative process.
I am only interested in Art. I think this may be intimidating, the mystery of Art, which is something I find comforting. Something I can go back to and study it from another angle. I don't have all the answers, but look forward to the conversation. I think art makes me think like the turn of a kaleidoscope. How subtle is the slight change. Something beautiful in the silence that follows the turn. To see it this way is the difference, I think.
Upcoming Local Events:
Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue
Friday evening, January 9, 2015, 7-8:30 p.m.
Price: Pay What You Wish.
Building on the narrative of our lives…one brick at a time. Join us to celebrate the inaugural issue of The Big Brick Review and enjoy readings by several of the first-issue authors. Wine and snacks provided.
Initial publication: The Big Brick Review launched its inaugural issue on Oct 7, 2014, featuring celebrated narrative nonfiction writers including Georgia Beers, Susan Bono, Gregory Gerard, Erin Green, Sonja Livingston, Jenny Lloyd, Sejal Shah, and Alison Smith. The next scheduled publication is a February Essay Contest issue. See BigBrickReview.com for more information.
What’s it all about? The Big Brick Review is an online publication devoted to support of the narrative non- fiction genre by serving as a venue for established writers and a springboard for emerging writers. Founded in 2014 by Gregory Gerard, the journal features personal accounts that build on the narrative of our lives, finding new insight to old struggles…old insight to new struggles…and all shades-of-gray in between.
Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue
Genesee Reading Series, curated by Wanda Schubmehl
Tuesday, January 13, 2015, 7:30-9 p.m. Poets Kathleen Van Schaick and Colleen Powderly
Price: $3.00 member' $6/ General Public.
Now in its 31st year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region reading in the W&B Performance Space.
Kathleen Van Schaick has been an elementary school teacher and literary anthology editor (Le Mot Juste, Foothills Publishing, 2008-2010). Her work has been published in The MacGuffin, The Broad River Review, Cairn: St. Andrews Review, The Dire Elegies: 59 Poets on Endangered Species of North America and Listening to Water: The Susquehanna Watershed Anthology. She was awarded the 2006 Portia Steele Award in Poetry. She serves as program coordinator on senior issues for WXXI radio’s Reachout Radio, programming for the blind and visually impaired, and is a hospice volunteer.
An avid hiker, she has hiked in Vermont, North Carolina and Newfoundland. Colleen Powderly’s early poems reflect her childhood in the deep South and a decade spent in the Midwest. Those poems eventually formed the basis for her book, Split (FootHills Publishing, 2009). More recent work has focused on narrative and ekphrastic poems. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Ekphrasis, Steel Toe Review, Third Wednesday, and The Centrifugal Eye, and has been anthologized in Malala: Poems for Malala Yousefzai and Mo’ Joe: The Anthology. Colleen has served on the editorial board for the Just Poets anthology, Le Mot Juste, and is currently Vice President of that organization.
Upcoming GRS Readings:
February 10: Norm Davis and Rick Petrie
March 10: Al Abonado and Noah Falck
Just Poets Events:
On Thursday, January 8th, David Forman is our featured reader followed by open mic (Barnes & Noble, 7 PM). You may not know David—he divides his time between Ithaca and Rochester and comes to readings and meetings when he can. He’s a fine poet and I look forward to hearing him read at length.
· Saturday, January 10th is our monthly meeting at St. John Fisher. Bob McDonough leads a program on poet Russell Atkins. Here’s a link to a good article on Atkins along with a sample of his poems: http://beltmag.com/rediscovering-russell-atkins/. Bring your poems for workshop afterwards. Please note that we will meet in the Wilson Formal Lounge, just past the student cafeteria on the first floor. (1:30-4 PM).
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Suddenly, August . . .
Photo by Meghan Tonery
The skies in western NY are spectacular. Reminds me of Maxfield Parrish.
Meghan returned home this week and we have enjoyed having her home. Her friends came to visit too.
Our house has been full of good conversation.
In 27 days, the fall semester will begin. Is it possible? My precious summer days have been swept away . . .
I have been working steady in the garden. Last year at this time, we were harvesting tomatoes and starting to can. This year, not so. Everything is delayed. I hope we have an extended summer.
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This past Sunday at Liftbridge Books, I had the great pleasure reading with Karla Linn Merrifield and Colleen Powderly at the launch of:
Karla Linn Merrifield & Friends, a new
anthology from mgv2>publishing, edited by Walter Ruhlmann and also including
poems by Michael G. Smith, Eve Anthony Hanninen and Chris Crittenden. Book signing to follow (the book is 53 pages;
$15). If you can’t make the reading but
would like to order a copy, go to http://www.lulu.com/shop/karla-linn-merrifield/karla-linn-merrifield-friends/paperback/product-21079562.html?showPreview=true.
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Mark Your Calendars!
Mon. Aug. 5 Craig Czury reads at Pittsford Library, Fisher Room 7PM
Craig hitch-hikes the valleys of Pennsylvannia, ground zero in the fracking wars;
beds down where he can, taps out his Marcellus Journal. Craig’s poems
will appear in Vigil for the Marcellus Shale: 12 Poets Opposing Hydraulic Fracturing
soon to published by FootHills.
*** Not to be missed!!!!
JUST POETS MONTHLY OPEN MIC:
Thur. Aug. 8 M.J. Iuppa, featured reader followed by open mic at Barnes & Noble 7PM
M.J.’s Between Worlds was published this year by FootHills.
Le Mot Juste available.
Genesee Reading Series at Writers & Books
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
PRICE:
Member's Price: $ 3.00
General Public Price: $ 6.00
Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl
Location: WAB – 740 University Ave.
** Come at 7PM to share light refreshments and socialize before the program ***
August is the month to hear Bart White and Priya Keefe, now
Rochester residents by way of North Carolina and Seattle, among other
locations. We are fortunate to have them here! You will be so
intrigued by their work you won’t even care that it’s 98F outside!
Bart White grew up in Asheville, North
Carolina in a family full of storytellers. On long treks through the
Smokies, he learned to love the mountains in all seasons. A
watercolorist in those days, he attended Washington University in St.
Louis on a fine arts scholarship. He studied art and literature in Spain
and France, drove a taxi, and was a public high school teacher in New
York City before moving to Rochester, NY with his wife, two children and
a fox hound. Bart teaches French and Spanish at the Harley School,
champions poetry there and at the school’s summertime Horizons program
where he teaches workshops. Active in Just Poets, he helped edit this
year’s Le Mot Juste and organize the recent “Earth’s Water” reading at
the Bug Jar with John Roche. Bart is co-editor with Dwain Wilder of
Vigil for the Shale, An Anthology of Poems in Response to Fracking,
forth-coming from Foothills Press. Two collections of his poems,
Elegies and Love’s Labors, are in the works.
Priya Keefe‘s poetry has appeared on a
Dublin lampost and in Seattle buses. It is floating around the internet
at Hoot, CounterPunch, The Nervous Breakdown, and other sites. Her
writing has also been known to slay trees. A recovering shy person,
Priya has discovered she loves performing. Her readings include Seattle
City Council meetings, the Bumbershoot Festival, and Band of Poets.
Priya has been poetry editor and lead cross-genre editor for The Pitkin Review, and a curator for the poetry reading series of the Seattle City council. Her book, Pangea’s Daughter, was an Emergency Press contest finalist, but is still looking for a home.
*** Not to be missed!!!!
Hope I will see you at one or more of these events!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Sound the Golden Trumpets!
My prose chapbook Between Worlds will be released next week at the upcoming Genesee Reading Series at Writers and Books on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
Please come and celebrate this with me. See full details Listed below.
Also, in publishing news, my work Has been accepted into the following upcoming anthologies, Ekphrastia Gone Wild, edited by Rick Lupert and
Lummox Press, edited by RD Armstrong; recent poems published or forthcoming in Napalm & Novacain, edited by A.J. Huffman, Poetry Haiku (UK) edited by Nancy May,Pound of Flash, edited by A.J.Huffman, Jellyfish Whispers, edited by A.J.Huffman, & Poetry Pacifica, edited by Changming Yuan; my micro chapbook: How Deeply They Delve,the song of one day has been accepted by Origami Poems Project.
Monday, May 6, 2013
C'est Fini! Spring Semester 2013! Let the Wild Rumpus Begin!
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is
pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
-- Buddha
The Spring Semester is over.
Have a cookie, dearies!
Photo: by K. Iuppa. Chocolate Chip Cookie Temptress!
Looking forward to some upcoming events this week in Rochester:
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
PRICE:
Free and open to the public
A collaborative program of Writers & Books and The Little
Theatre, Authors Aloud! brings two area authors each month to The Little
Theatre Cafe.
Detroit Poet & Rock Poet M. L. Liebler will perform with Grammy Winning Eminem Producer, Musician and Co-Writer Steve King. Liebler & King are part of M. L. Liebler & The Coyote Monk Poetry Band made up of some of Detroit’s best known, award winning musicians. In Rochester they perform as a duo Wyote Monk with special guest acclaimed poet Sean Thomas Dougherty.
JCC CenterStage:
Featuring a beloved score of classics including "I'm the Greatest Star," "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "People," this legendary musical celebrates the meteoric rise of comedienne and Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice. A rags-to-riches tale of sheer determination and the quest for fame...and love.
Directed by JCC Artistic Director Ralph Meranto, and featuring the incomparable Brynn Lucas as Fanny, this is certain to be one unforgettable production. Shows will sell out.
For tickets, call (585) 461-2000 during JCC hours or go online and order.
****This show is not to be missed.
Next Week:
PRICE:
Member's Price: $ 3.00
General Public Price: $ 6.00
What an opportunity the Genesee Reading Series presents this
month! Well-known and beloved MJ Iuppa reads from a new book with
emerging, not-to-be-missed Celeste Helene Schantz. Our celebration of
poetry extends into May, as these two poets show us why poetry still
matters.
M.J.Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario, where for the past eight years, she and her husband, Peter Tonery, have been committed to food sustainability. Her most recent poems have appeared in Poetry East, The Chariton Review. Tar River Poetry, Blueline, The Prose Poem Project, and The Centrifugal Eye, among others. Her chapbook As the Crow Flies appeared in 2008 (FootHills Publishing), and her second full length collection, Within Reach, was published in 2010 by Cherry Grove Collections. A prose chapbook, Between Worlds, will be published in 2013 by FootHills. She served as the poetry advisor (2007-2012) for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and since 1986, has worked as a teaching artist in the schools, K-12, for a variety of agencies ( RCSD, BOCES 2, Genesee Valley BOCES, Writers & Books, Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. and V.I.T.A.L. programs). Currently, she is Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Minor program at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.
Celeste Helene Schantz is a member of the Board of Directors of Just Poets. Her work appears in the groups’ annual journal, Le Mot Juste. Her essay, “Lines of Descent,” selected as a part of Story Walk at the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, tells the tale of how she learned about her African slave and Native American ancestors and how her family came to Upstate New York. In 2012 she was a finalist in the Cultural Center of Cape Cod’s National Poetry Competition, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. In March, Celeste was a participant in the Eastman School of Music’s Women in Music festival, which this year featured Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner. She has been chosen by poet and novelist Marge Piercy to participate in her Intensive poetry workshop at Cape Cod. Celeste lives in Fairport with her son Evan, and is currently at work on her first book of poetry.
-- Buddha
The Spring Semester is over.
Have a cookie, dearies!
Photo: by K. Iuppa. Chocolate Chip Cookie Temptress!
Looking forward to some upcoming events this week in Rochester:
Authors Aloud!: Presents ML Liebler and Wyote Monk!
Hosted by: The Little Theatre Tuesday, May 07, 20138:00 PM - 10:00 PM
PRICE:
Free and open to the public
Detroit Poet & Rock Poet M. L. Liebler will perform with Grammy Winning Eminem Producer, Musician and Co-Writer Steve King. Liebler & King are part of M. L. Liebler & The Coyote Monk Poetry Band made up of some of Detroit’s best known, award winning musicians. In Rochester they perform as a duo Wyote Monk with special guest acclaimed poet Sean Thomas Dougherty.
JCC CenterStage:
Funny Girl
May 4-19, 2013
Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Bob Merrill, Book by Isobel LennartFeaturing a beloved score of classics including "I'm the Greatest Star," "Don't Rain on My Parade" and "People," this legendary musical celebrates the meteoric rise of comedienne and Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice. A rags-to-riches tale of sheer determination and the quest for fame...and love.
Directed by JCC Artistic Director Ralph Meranto, and featuring the incomparable Brynn Lucas as Fanny, this is certain to be one unforgettable production. Shows will sell out.
- Saturday, May 4 at 8 PM
(This performance no longer available for online sales. Call during JCC business hours.) - Sunday, May 5 at 2 PM
(This performance no longer available for online sales. Call during JCC business hours.) - Thursday, May 9 at 7 PM (less than 50 seats remaining. Hurry.)
- Saturday, May 11 at 8 PM
- Sunday, May 12 at 2 PM
- Thursday, May 16 at 7 PM
- Saturday, May 18 at 8 PM
- Sunday, May 19 at 2 PM
For tickets, call (585) 461-2000 during JCC hours or go online and order.
****This show is not to be missed.
Next Week:
Genesee Reading Series: MJ Iuppa & Celeste Helene Schantz
Launch of my new prose chapbook Between Worlds (Foothills Publishing) price $10.00.
Hosted by: Wanda Schubmehl , Tuesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m.PRICE:
Member's Price: $ 3.00
General Public Price: $ 6.00
M.J.Iuppa lives on a small farm near the shores of Lake Ontario, where for the past eight years, she and her husband, Peter Tonery, have been committed to food sustainability. Her most recent poems have appeared in Poetry East, The Chariton Review. Tar River Poetry, Blueline, The Prose Poem Project, and The Centrifugal Eye, among others. Her chapbook As the Crow Flies appeared in 2008 (FootHills Publishing), and her second full length collection, Within Reach, was published in 2010 by Cherry Grove Collections. A prose chapbook, Between Worlds, will be published in 2013 by FootHills. She served as the poetry advisor (2007-2012) for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and since 1986, has worked as a teaching artist in the schools, K-12, for a variety of agencies ( RCSD, BOCES 2, Genesee Valley BOCES, Writers & Books, Project U.N.I.Q.U.E. and V.I.T.A.L. programs). Currently, she is Writer-in-Residence and Director of the Visual and Performing Arts Minor program at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY.
Celeste Helene Schantz is a member of the Board of Directors of Just Poets. Her work appears in the groups’ annual journal, Le Mot Juste. Her essay, “Lines of Descent,” selected as a part of Story Walk at the Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, tells the tale of how she learned about her African slave and Native American ancestors and how her family came to Upstate New York. In 2012 she was a finalist in the Cultural Center of Cape Cod’s National Poetry Competition, judged by Naomi Shihab Nye. In March, Celeste was a participant in the Eastman School of Music’s Women in Music festival, which this year featured Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner. She has been chosen by poet and novelist Marge Piercy to participate in her Intensive poetry workshop at Cape Cod. Celeste lives in Fairport with her son Evan, and is currently at work on her first book of poetry.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Old Thoughts for New
It's remarkable how slowly the week between Christmas and New Year's goes by. Then, on the mark of Twelve, time resumes its clipped pace and here we are at the weekend of the first week of the new year.
I'm beginning this year with a double dose of energy. The quiet introspective holiday restored me in so many ways. I'm grateful to my family for giving me this down time-- a true gift.
In the past week, I have been writing a lot, which always makes me feel "with it," because "without it" can make me very cranky and I feel like have gremlins aching to get into some mischief. Better to be occupied with creative work than entertaining the imp of the perverse.
Thus far, I have written 5 new poems and have had 2 acceptances for the New Year, which were sent in the middle of the night on New Year's Day and received an hour later. Poems that went halfway around the world to the middle of their day and back to the beginning of mine. Amazing, right?
Yesterday (1/4/2013), in the high winds, I ventured out to start my first residency of the year and drop off a batch of student plays for the 2 Pages/2 Voices competition at Writers & Books.
Here's the call for submissions:
Each play must be no more than two pages in length and contain no more than two characters. The only other stipulation for this year's submissions is that at some point in the the play the word "border" must be included.
The dates for this year's event are:
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 (Submissions can be hand-delivered or mailed to Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607.
Performance of plays: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the Writers & Books Performance Space.
This competition is such fun. I love going to the reading of the winning work. Advice: if you go to the reading, get there early because the room fills up FAST.
Next up at Writers & Books is the first Genesee Reading Series of the Year. This reading
will feature two writers, Anne Panning and James Whorton who read at St. John Fisher College in the Fall. If you missed their readings in the Fall, you may want to make a point of
going to this reading. Here are the details:
Genesee Reading Series
Tues., Jan. 8
$3 W&B members / $6 general public, 7:30 p.m., at W&B.
Hosted by Wanda Schubmehl
For the first Genesee Reading Series of 2013, we import two writers of fiction, essay, and memoir from SUNY Brockport, Anne Panning and James Whorton.
Anne Panning’s novel, Butter, was published in October 2012 by Switchgrass Books. Her short story collection, Super America, won the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice. She has also published a book of short stories, The Price of Eggs, as well as short fiction and nonfiction in places such as Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Florida Review, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kalliope, Quarterly West, The Kenyon Review, The Laurel Review, Five Points, The Hawaii Review, Cimarron Review, West Branch and Brevity. Four of her essays have received notable citations in The Best American Essays series. She is currently at work on a memoir, Dragonfly Notes: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children, and teaches creative writing at SUNY Brockport.
James Whorton is a former Mississippian and former Tennessean who now is happy to live in Rochester with his wife (Kate Whorton, who runs the Genesee Pottery on Monroe Ave) and two daughters. He's published three novels--Angela Sloan, Frankland, and Approximately Heaven. His short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Sewanee Review, American Book Review, and The Washington Post. He is an associate editor at blipmagazine.net, and is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department at SUNY Brockport.
I'm beginning this year with a double dose of energy. The quiet introspective holiday restored me in so many ways. I'm grateful to my family for giving me this down time-- a true gift.
In the past week, I have been writing a lot, which always makes me feel "with it," because "without it" can make me very cranky and I feel like have gremlins aching to get into some mischief. Better to be occupied with creative work than entertaining the imp of the perverse.
Thus far, I have written 5 new poems and have had 2 acceptances for the New Year, which were sent in the middle of the night on New Year's Day and received an hour later. Poems that went halfway around the world to the middle of their day and back to the beginning of mine. Amazing, right?
Yesterday (1/4/2013), in the high winds, I ventured out to start my first residency of the year and drop off a batch of student plays for the 2 Pages/2 Voices competition at Writers & Books.
Here's the call for submissions:
Writers & Books and Geva Theatre Center Seek Submissions for 2 Pages/2 Voices
Each year, in January, Writers & Books and Geva Theatre Center collaborate to present 2 Pages/2 Voices, an evening of short short plays written by area writers and read by area actors.Each play must be no more than two pages in length and contain no more than two characters. The only other stipulation for this year's submissions is that at some point in the the play the word "border" must be included.
The dates for this year's event are:
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 (Submissions can be hand-delivered or mailed to Writers & Books, 740 University Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607.
Performance of plays: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the Writers & Books Performance Space.
This competition is such fun. I love going to the reading of the winning work. Advice: if you go to the reading, get there early because the room fills up FAST.
Next up at Writers & Books is the first Genesee Reading Series of the Year. This reading
will feature two writers, Anne Panning and James Whorton who read at St. John Fisher College in the Fall. If you missed their readings in the Fall, you may want to make a point of
going to this reading. Here are the details:
Genesee Reading Series
Tues., Jan. 8
$3 W&B members / $6 general public, 7:30 p.m., at W&B.
Hosted by Wanda Schubmehl
For the first Genesee Reading Series of 2013, we import two writers of fiction, essay, and memoir from SUNY Brockport, Anne Panning and James Whorton.
Anne Panning’s novel, Butter, was published in October 2012 by Switchgrass Books. Her short story collection, Super America, won the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice. She has also published a book of short stories, The Price of Eggs, as well as short fiction and nonfiction in places such as Beloit Fiction Journal, Bellingham Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Florida Review, Passages North, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kalliope, Quarterly West, The Kenyon Review, The Laurel Review, Five Points, The Hawaii Review, Cimarron Review, West Branch and Brevity. Four of her essays have received notable citations in The Best American Essays series. She is currently at work on a memoir, Dragonfly Notes: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children, and teaches creative writing at SUNY Brockport.
James Whorton is a former Mississippian and former Tennessean who now is happy to live in Rochester with his wife (Kate Whorton, who runs the Genesee Pottery on Monroe Ave) and two daughters. He's published three novels--Angela Sloan, Frankland, and Approximately Heaven. His short stories and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American, Mississippi Review, Sewanee Review, American Book Review, and The Washington Post. He is an associate editor at blipmagazine.net, and is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the English Department at SUNY Brockport.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Genesee Reading Series, 2/14/2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Genesee Reading Series
Hosted by Wanda Schubmehl
Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m
$3 W&B members / $6 general public.
Come to the heart of the Neighborhood of the Arts. Fall in love with the writing of Dwain Wilder and Bill Pruitt. Meet the Buddha dog and the Fractal Buddha. Go home feeling glad to be alive!
Bill Pruitt has given poetry readings and done storytellings in many venues in Rochester and New York state. He has published three books of poetry, including chapbooks Ravine Street and Bold Cities and Golden Plains, and, most recently, a full-length collection, Walking Home from the Eastman House. He has also written short stories and a novel. He has worked as a construction laborer, loading dock receiver, hospital courier, natural food store manager, and, for the last two and a half decades, as a teacher of English as a Second Language for BOCES.
Dwain Wilder, born in a small town outside Dallas, graduated from Yale with a degree in American Studies, and moved to Rochester in 1970 to study Zen Buddhism. He has had leadership roles in the anti-Vietnam War and Civil Rights movements, and has worked as a navy flightcrew member, research technician, software engineer, and luther. He holds three patents, in semi-conductor device design and musical instrument innovation. His Appalachian dulcimers are held in high regard in the US and abroad, and he teaches dulcimer building in his studio and at the Northeast Dulcimer Symposium in Blue Mountain Lake. Dwain's poetry collection, Under the Only Moon, was published in 2011 by FootHills Publishing. He lives with his wife and two dogs in a farmhouse on the edge of a park.
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