Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, January 12th, 2019 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)

Darcy Smith
T. G. Vanini

Poets Darcy Smith and T. G. Vanini will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets at Golden Notebook (Upstairs), 29 Tinker Street on Saturday, January 12th, 2019 at 2pm.

Note: WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (2pm) of every month at Golden Notebook (Upstairs).

Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
29 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
www.goldennotebook.com
845-679-8000

The reading will be hosted by poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include an open mike.

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Features:

Darcy Smith - Darcy Smith works as a sign language interpreter. Her poems have appeared in Boyne Berries, Up The River, Chronogram, MER, GTK, Sadie Girl Press, Universal Table, Arsenic Lobster, Between the Lines and RAR. Darcy is a Buddhist and a kickboxer. Her current obsession is executing a six punch three kick combination with perfect form.



Dog Flowers

What dog nips my heels
tears at my pant leg
won't stop

Won't stop the gush of
flesh torn too fast
to see

To see the dog
he lurks behind
the broken fence

Broken I can’t bring
her back can’t outrun
this dog can't mend

Can't mend the missing
can't call the barking dog off
can't bring her home

Can’t brush her hair
why bother with fresh
cut flowers everywhere?

Flowers cut, can’t mend
can’t tuck back time, this cut
will fester past forever

Past the forever barking
past flowers swimming
the dog nips deeper

The dog won’t stop
flowers in every room
smell too strong

Too strong, can't fight this
dog. Can't fight for her, for
broken dreams, her flowers

Her flowers have fallen
can't throw them out
don't touch the petals

The petals have dried
swimming petals barking
flooding, don't you see?

Don’t you see the dog?
Cut flowers fester
don't touch her

Don't move her petals
the smells too strong
don’t touch her

Don't throw her out
her barking flowers
flood the room.

-Darcy Smith

Note:
Dog Flowers appeared in Arsenic Lobster (April, 2017)
http://arseniclobster.magere.com/archive/issuefortythree/1content.html

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T. G. Vanini - T. G. Vanini has been writing poems in Woodstock for three decades. The best of them make up his recent first book, Dear Cloudface (Post Traumatic Press). He performs his songs and song-poems in the duo The Princes Of Serendip, with the singer Julie Parisi Kirby. Their newest album is Yumpatiddly Bee: Silly Songs (Jaiya Records). His poems are full of imagery, music, and variety of form and affect. His research as a mathematical logician has been another avenue to explore the relationships between language and reality.



I reached

I reached behind my shoulder
and found another kind of blade.
When it pierced me nothing bled
but my sense of wonder.

Steel caressed my fluttering heart
and cut it like a flower.
Everything was slower.
The panther’s tongue made a sweet rasp

as it comforted my wound.
Sleep came over me like an avid lover
and left a minute later.
And look! The bright flags and balloons

of the Every Day Parade were dancing
as the marchers beneath sprouted gossamer wings.
Soon, what remained? Some echoes of songs
and a telescope to watch the tide rising.

-T. G. Vanini

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Developing WPS 2019 Schedule - all readings at Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
All of 2019 Events: Events

01/January 12th - Darcy Smith; T. G. Vanini
02/February 2nd (1st Sat) - Leny Brown, Roger Mitchell
03/March 9th - Bruce Weber; Celia Watson Seupel
04/April 13th - Brian Liston; Lissa Kiernan
05/May 11th - Howie Good; Reagan Upshaw
06/June 8th - Jack Hopper; Jessica Hornik
07/July 13th - Post Traumatic Press Publishing (Dayl Wise+)
08/August 10th - Kate Reese Hurd; Thomas Bonville
09/September 14th - Carol Graser; Mary Kathryn Jablonski
10/October 12th - Ken Holland; Susan Sindall(NA)
11/November 9th - Jerrice J. Baptiste
12/December 14th - George Wallace; Robert Basner and Annual Business Meeting

Also, why not become a 2019 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society?

Membership is $20 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.

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