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
Poets Trina Porte and Victoria Sullivan will be the featured readers along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Studio, on April 13, 2013. Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every month.
Mountain View Studio
20 Mountain View Avenue
Woodstock, NY 12498-1216
845-679-0901
mtnviewstudio.com
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:
Trina Porte - Trina Porte’s poetry has been published
in Evergreen Chronicles, Dust & Fire, RATH, Photography Quarterly, I
Love You Greene, Zephyrs, Perfect 8, Chronogram, Rain and Thunder, and
the anthologies A Slant of Light, lifeblood and Just Like A Girl.
She has read at Cornelia Street Café, BAAD, Brecht Forum, Makor,
and Bluestockings in New York, Patrick’s Cabaret,
Blue Moon, and Dyke Night in Minneapolis, and The
Haunted Bookshop in Iowa City. Favorite public library readings include
Chatham, Great Barrington, New Lebanon, Northampton, Stephentown,
and Woodstock, and her work is archived in the collections
of Booklyn and the Minnesota Historical Society.
In her work as a feminist activist, she was privileged and proud to know Andrea
Dworkin, to join the struggle to end violence against women, and to
celebrate lesbian contributions to community and politics. She lives in the
woods upstate NY with her wife of 22 years, is publisher-editor of Chickaree
Press, and makes a fine genoise.
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Victoria Sullivan - Victoria Sullivan is both a poet and a
playwright. She has performed her poetry in numerous venues in New York City,
Ulster County and Cairo, Egypt, as well as on radio and television. Her latest
chapbook, EATING FIGS AT TWILIGHT won the Edda Poetry Chapbook Competition for
Women of the Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press. Her two prior chapbooks are ALZHEIMER
DREAMS (Red Parrot Press) and THE DIVIDED BED (Hatch-Billops Collection). Her
poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Artist and Influence,
Wildflower, Poetry in Performance, Medicinal Purposes, Northeast Corridor, The
Same, and in the book WHEN A LIFE MATE DIES (1997).
Sullivan has had seven Equity productions of her plays in New York City. Having
been a member of Hypothetical Theatre Co. and American Renaissance Theater Co.,
she is currently active in the playwrights unit of the Woodstock Fringe. Sullivan
also holds the title “Poet Laureate of the Woodstock Roundtable”
on radio station WDST 100.1.
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