CANCELED
Please Stay Well

Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, December 12th, 2020 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)

CANCELED
Please Stay Well

Guy Reed
Victoria Sullivan

To be rescheduled.

Poets Guy Reed and Victoria Sullivan 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, December 12th, 2020 at 2pm. Guy Reed and Victoria Sullivan 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:

Guy Reed - Guy Reed is author of Second Innocence (Luchador Press, 2020) and the chapbooks, The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), Still Life With Acorn (Fool Head Press), and Until The Words Came, co-authored with Cheryl A. Rice (Post Traumatic Press). He’s published in journals, anthologies and contributed two poems, performing one, in a featured role for the film, I Dream Too Much (The Orchard). A Minnesota native, Guy’s lived in California, Oregon and currently resides in the Catskill Mountains with his wife and their children.



Astonishment

Only we can burn our own hearts
at the proper temperature.

A requirement of transgressions against
our individual consciousness. Yet,

it is human nature to act against
our will, our iron discipline, our firm
personal beliefs, even when we know.

There is a weakness not composed
of character, but built into the flesh
that desires sensation when
face to face with aging and death.

-Guy Reed

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Victoria Sullivan - Victoria Sullivan is “Poet Laureate of the Woodstock Roundtable” on WDST. 100.1 FM, and she regularly performs improv poetry/spoken word with Peter Einhorn’s jazz band at Station Bar & Curio and the wine bar Early Terrible in Woodstock. A member of the Goat Hill Poets, Sullivan has performed as a feature (& often at open mics) locally, including at CAPS, New World, the Harmony, Inquiring Minds. Chronogram, & other venues. Basically, she’s a fan of the poetry scene and is published in several anthologies, a number of journals, as well as in four chapbooks of her work.



The Evening News

Cut to the bone, the old man
cries, cut here and here.
Don’t fear the pain.
What is life but a series
of cruel surgeries?

And elsewhere soldiers
dance over their fallen
enemies, rifles held high,
screaming their victory songs,
While trampling on the bones
of the newly dead.

The old man watches,
lights a cigarette and scratches
at a wound that won’t heal.

Women in black carry photos
of their beloved sons and
husbands: are they lost?
Are they dead? Are
they in prison? The
women in black gesture
and wail. They have no one
to tell them where the men
have gone. The women
go on wailing ad
tearing their clothes.

If you’re looking for comedy,
my dear, you’ve come
to the wrong planet.

-Victoria Sullivan

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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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