For Immediate Release
Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival as part of the Woodstock Arts Consortium is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock "Second Saturdays" Art Events. For a full listing of "Second Saturday" events, see: www.artsinwoodstock.org
A Benefit Donald Lev's Home Planet News will be featured along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Woodstock Community Center, 56 Rock City Road, on January 12, 2013. Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every month.
The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include an open mike.
Bios:
Donald Lev - Donald Lev was born in New York City in 1936. He attended Hunter College, worked in the wire rooms of the Daily News and New York Times, and then drove a taxi cab for 20 years (with a 6-year hiatus in which he ran messages for, and contributed poetry to, The Village Voice and operated the Home Planet Bookshop on the Lower East Side). His earliest poems appeared in print in 1958 and he started his first small press magazine, HYN Anthology, in 1969. Among his honors have been a Madeline Sadin Award from New York Quarterly in 1973 and a Life Time Achievement Award from the Catskill Reading Society/Outloudbooks in 2003. In 2008 Outloudbooks brought out his The Darkness Above: Selected Poems 1968-2002 a sampling from the first four decades of his writing. A chapbook, Only Wings: 20 Poems of Devotion was published in 2010 by Presa Press in Michigan, and a new collection, A Very Funny Fellow, was brought out by NYQ Books in February, 2012. His brief underground film-acting career pinnacled with his portrayal (he wrote his own lines) of "The Poet" in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1969 classic Putney Swope. He lives in High Falls, NY, where he spends most of his time publishing the literary tabloid Home Planet News, which he and his late wife Enid Dame founded in 1979.
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2013 Schedule
01/January 11th – Darcy Smith; Tim Dwyer & 2013 Annual Business Meeting
Golden Notebook (upstairs)
02/February 8th – Gary Siegel; Joanne Pagano Weber
Mountain View Studios
03/March 8th – Marina Mati; Robert Milby
Golden Notebook (upstairs)
04/April 12th – Dennis Wayne Bressack; Donald Lev
Mountain View Studio
05/May 10th – Karen Schoemer; Timothy Brennan
Mountain View Studio
06/June 14th – Rebecca Schumejda; Theodore Phelps
Golden Notebook (upstairs)
07/July 12th – Anique Taylor; Sparrow
Golden Notebook Upstairs
08/August 9th – Alison Koffler; Jo Pitkin
Golden Notebook Upstairs
09/September 13th – Lee Slonimsky; Sarah Van Arsdale
Golden Notebook Upstairs
10/October 11th – Richard Loranger; Teresa Costa
Golden Notebook Upstairs
11/November 8th – Lee Gould; Norma Bernstock
Golden Notebook Upstairs
12/December 13th – Dennis Sullivan; Joe Krausman
Golden Notebook Upstairs
Also, why not become a 2013 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival?
Membership is a nominal $15 a year. (To join, send your check to the Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Include your email address as well as your mailing address and phone number. Or join online at: www.woodstockpoetry.com/become.html). Your membership helps pay for meeting space rental, post-office-box rental, the WPS website, and costs associated with publicizing the monthly events. One benefit of membership is the opportunity to have a brief biography and several of your poems appear on this website.