CANCELED
Please Stay Well
Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, August 8th, 2020 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
CANCELED
Please Stay Well
Irene Sipos
Perry S. Nicholas
To be rescheduled.
Poets Irene Sipos and Perry S. Nicholas
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, August 8th, 2020 at 2pm. Irene Sipos and Perry S. Nicholas
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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Features:
Irene Sipos - Irene Sipos earned her Master of Arts in the
legendary 1970s English Department of SUNY University at Buffalo. She recently
retired from SUNY Buffalo State where she taught in the English Department
and the College Writing Program and was a co-founder of Buffalo State's Rooftop
Poetry Club.
Her work has appeared in Lilith Magazine, The Comstock Review, Earth's
Daughters, Buffalo Poets Against War, Burchfield Penney Newsletter, The Jewish
Journal of Western New York, Artvoice,The Owl Light News, Buffalo News,
as a Park Street Press broadside and in the anthology, A Celebration
of Western New York Poets. Her chapette, Poem... and other Poems,
is No.12 in the Buffalo Ochre Papers. She was a finalist in the 2004
Comstock Review Awards Issue and the 2015 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook
Contest. Recently Irene published a book of poems titled Stones.
Currently, Irene works at the Writing Center at Buffalo State and is a freelance
editor and tutor.
Tired
Sitting across the aisle
on the B train
I look at the row of weary faces
various shapes, sizes, colors, ages,
a horizontal explication of what it means
to have woken many mornings
to brave routine, to leave concerns at home
along with scattered laundry and unwashed
dishes to head for same/same at work.
I picture each of you, one at a time. I try to
observe without you knowing and suddenly I
see round, soft faces, no creases in foreheads,
no wrinkles like parentheses around eyes, no down
turned mouths, no slumped shoulders. I see the plump
babies you once were. And with that, a rush of hoping
that you were affectionately held on generous laps, that
you were sung tender songs, that you were offered
a bowl of blueberries as initiation to the messy pleasures
of this world. I hope that occasionally you reach back,
even if only briefly to recall your beginning self as a
visitor new to the planet, unencumbered and dear.
-Irene Sipos
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Perry S. Nicholas - Perry S. Nicholas is an English Professor
at SUNY at Erie North in Buffalo, N.Y. He has published one textbook of poetry
prompts, three full-length and five chapbooks of original poetry, and two
CDs of poetry. He has hosted four poetry venues in the WNY area. You can see
his work at perrynicholas.com.
Perry has judged the Just Buffalo poetry contest, the national Poetry
Out Loud competition, the Wordworth fiction contest, and has been guest
lecturer at Villa Maria College, Niagara Community College, Buffalo State
College, Medaille College, Daemen College, and New York College in Athens,
Greece.
What We Call Fall-Spring
We change, and then again,
through a strange period of exhaustion.
Long ago, age didn’t matter,
and we loved more than we felt
possible through the wide gap of winter.
We scanned a book, cover to cover,
100 Things to See in the Night Sky,
and all the planets shown clear,
stars shaped into something wider
than two shifting seasons of love.
-Perry S. Nicholas
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Developing WPS 2020 Schedule - all readings at Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
All of 2020 Events: Events
01/January 11th - Elizabeth J. Coleman; Lee Slonimsky
02/February 8th - Andrea Mitchell; Bruce Weber
03/March 14th - Guy Reed; Victoria Sullivan Canceled
04/April 11th - Brett Bevell; Rebecca Schumejda Canceled
05/May 9th - Judith Saunders; Raphael Kosek Canceled
06/June 13th - Elizabethanne Spiotta; William Seaton Canceled
07/July 11th - Barbara Ungar; Stuart Bartow Canceled
08/August 8th - Irene Sipos; Perry S. Nicholas Canceled
09/September 12th - Elizabeth Cohen; Lisa Rhoades Canceled
10/October 10th - Philip Pardi; Sparrow Canceled
11/November 14th - Anique Taylor; Mary Leonard Canceled
12/December 12th - Guy Reed; Victoria Sullivan and Annual Business Meeting Canceled
Also, why not become a 2020 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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