For Immediate Release
Poets George Nicholson and Will Nixon will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on Saturday, September 8th at 2pm. Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every month except for October, when it is held on the 3rd Saturday.
The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Levine. All meetings are free and open to the public.
Bios:
George Nicholson
- George J. Nicholson is a local Woodstock poet and visual artist working in
various media. He has been writing poetry since 1975, when a series of eight
poems spontaneously flowed upon his first exposure to Igor Stravinsky’s
Rite of Spring. George is an active performer within the Hudson Valley poetry
scene.
George’s poetry is steeped in the nuances of feeling and his passionate
search for meaning. Symbol, archetype, and the dynamics of transformation as
reflected in nature, human relationship, and the questing human soul comprise
the core themes of his work. His deep personal affinity to ancient Greece is
also interwoven throughout much of what he has written.
George is a firm believer in a greater intelligence “behind the scenes”
and considers himself to be at his most creative when he is acting as a “stenographer
to the unconscious.”
Among his most salient influences are the mystic, poet saints of India: Tukaram
Maharaj, Alama Prabhu, Mirabai, and others. He has also drawn inspiration from
Basho, Dante, Eliot, and the poets of ancient Greece, many of them anonymous.
George has self-published the chapbook First Light. He is currently
completing work on Ancient Heart: Dialogues with Stone, inspired by
the ancient marble sculptures housed in the Athen's museum, and Voice Within
the Silences, a cross section of his work that spans 30 years. George's
poetry has appeared regularly in Journeys, a Jungian inspired periodical
and is included in the anthology, Vines of Victory (2001).
George Nicholson can be reached
at: gnicholson@hvc.rr.com.
Will Nixon - Will Nixon has published two chapbooks, When I Had It Made (Pudding House) and The Fish Are Laughing (Pavement Saw) plus poems in many journals and magazines. He has finished a cyberpunk epic, Lyndon Baines Takes a Fare to the Palace of Wisdom, about a Gotham cabbie in 2063. Now he's working on a poetry manuscript inspired by the movie Night of the Living Dead and on another about living in Hoboken in the 80s, Love in the City of Grudges. He lives in Woodstock.