CANCELED
Please Stay Well

Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, July 11th, 2020 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)

CANCELED
Please Stay Well

Barbara Ungar
Stuart Bartow

To be rescheduled.

Poets Barbara Ungar and Stuart Bartow 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, July 11th, 2020 at 2pm. Barbara Ungar and Stuart Bartow will be rescheduled at a later date.

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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Barbara Ungar - Barbara Ungar’s fifth full-length collection, Save Our Ship, won the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize and will be forthcoming from Ashland Poetry Press in 2019. Prior books include: Immortal Medusa, one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2015, and co-winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing Poetry Award; Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life; and The Origin of the Milky Way, winner of the Gival Prize, a Silver IPPY, and a Hoffer award. An English professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, she lives in Saratoga Springs with her son. She has published poems in Chronogram and many other journals; in the last millennium, she lived in Woodstock and read at Tinker St. Café as Psyche. www.barbaraungar.net.



Shooting Into The Hurricane

Some guy posted
Shoot at Hurricane Irma,
stunned when tens
of thousands signed up.

A sheriff tweeted DO NOT
shoot @ Irma. You won’t make it
turn around & very dangerous
side effects. We laughed,

gave you the Darwin Award,
said you put the duh in Florida
for shooting at the hurricane
when the bullet boomeranged

back into your brain.
We felt better about our laughter
when you turned out to be fake.

We laughed but keep following
fake-news you, our bellwether,
off the Wile E. Coyote cliff—

-Barbara Ungar

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Stuart Bartow - Stuart Bartow lives in Salem, New York, and teaches writing and literature at SUNY (State University of New York) Adirondack. His non-fiction work, Teaching Trout to Talk: the Zen of Small Stream Fly Fishing, won the 2015 Adirondack Center for Writing Non-Fiction Award. His latest collection of poems, Green Midnight, is published by Dos Madres Press, and a book of haiku, Quaking Marsh, published by Red Moon Press. His most recent book of haiku and haibun, One Branch, is also published by Red Moon Press. He also chairs the Battenkill Conservancy, an environmental group working to protect and preserve the Battenkill Watershed along the Vermont-New York border.



Lust

Love or lust, she declared from the back
of the classroom, What difference does it make?
And, after all, isn’t it only words, parsing.
But that back road I often travel, that
fist of sparrows between the fields, their

sister or mate gliding too low, car-clipped,
stranded in the road’s middle, still singing
to her flock as they fretted around her,
scattering back to the bushes between
passing pickup trucks, then returning,
trying to levitate their love through song
that their urging might make miracle,
and I thought, maybe, that’s the difference.

-Stuart Bartow

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Developing WPS 2021 Schedule - all readings held via Zoom
All of 2021 Events: Events

Due to the ongoing pandemic - for now, all meetings will be held virtually via Zoom

To attend: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com
If attending, please indicate if you would like to be on the open mike. Thank you.

01/January 9th - Canceled
02/February 13th - Canceled
03/March 13th - Guy Reed; Victoria Sullivan via Zoom
04/April 10th - TBA via Zoom
05/May 8th - TBA via Zoom
06/June 12th - TBA via Zoom
07/July 10th - TBA via Zoom
08/August 14th - TBA via Zoom
09/September 11th - TBA via Zoom
10/October 9th - TBA via Zoom
11/November 13th - TBA via Zoom
12/December 11th - TBA and Annual Business Meeting via Zoom

Also, why not become a 2021 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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