Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 2pm 3:30pm (eastern)

HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom

Cheryl Rice
Teresa Costa

Poets Cheryl Rice and Teresa Costa will be the featured readers, followed by an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in person and streamed via Zoom on Saturday, November 12, 2022 at 2pm (eastern).

WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (usually 2pm) of every month.

Nancy's of Woodstock - Artisanal Creamery
297 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845)684-5329
nancysartisanal.com
(part of the Bearsville Arts complex)

*** We ask all people who wish to attend in person to self-test for Covid within 24 hours prior to the event. Self-test kits are reasonably priced and available at nearly every pharmacy. ***

The Zoom app can be downloaded here: Zoom Download Center

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

To attend in person please self-test for Covid within 24 hrs of the event and just show up

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:

Cheryl Rice - Twice a Best of the Net nominee, Cheryl A. Rice’s publications include Moses Parts the Tulips (ADP Press), My Minnesota Boyhood (Post Traumatic Press), and most recently Love’s Compass (Kung Fu Treachery Press). Founder and host of the now defunct Sylvia Plath Bake-Off, Rice earned her BS at SUNY New Paltz and half an MS at the University of Albany. Her RANDOM WRITING poetry workshops continue to appear around the Hudson Valley upon request. She was born on Long Island to coincide with the Cuban Missile Crisis. For Updates on the Poetry World of Cheryl A. Rice, go to: http://flyingmonkeyprods.blogspot.com/



Paradise

You float, tethered to wings of ripstop nylon,

orange bird of no consequence.

You fly like a stone, shoot at paper turkeys or

cans stolen from your mother’s toxic larder.

‘Be with me,’ you said in the moment.

Each moment rolled like an urban globe,

the negative, limping space you created.

Bird of Paradise started it all,

promise on our first date of exotic territory

you couldn’t explore alone.

A black feather wages war with the sky,

human drone out of film,

bones broken to prove your worth.

Gravity is the only constant.

Parachutes never open in time

to prevent collision with dry life.

What was it like in that moment you crossed into ether?

Was the Holy Mother on hand to forgive you,

offer a taste of authentic Heaven?

-Cheryl Rice

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Teresa Costa - Teresa Costa; Poet, for now....
Has way too many hobbies to list. Yet is still writing poetry... working on a book of pure fiction. Re-organizing everything that was re-organized. Is on the committee of the Hudson Valley's Annual New Years Day Poetry Extravaganza. Hosted Word of Mouth Poetry Series in Kingston. Before that hosted a slew of places for poetry in the county of Ulster, hosted the Woodstock Goddess Poetry Festival two years. Is currently working on the Anthology for WOMPS and a book of poems... and a few other innovative ideas...
Published: recently the featured poet for Broad Sheet - Green Kill Gallery's poetry forum...



High God

I found God
& I ate him.

Am I a Goddess?
Or a God Eater??

I found God and wore
him as a dress.

He played w/my silky thighs.

I found God
I snorted him up my nose
& got religiously high...

-Teresa Costa

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WPS 2022 Schedule - all readings are now HYBRID: in-person & streamed via Zoom
All of 2022 Events: Events

Due to the ongoing pandemic - for now, all meetings will be held virtually via Zoom
The Zoom app can be downloaded here: Zoom Download Center

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

01/January 8th - Bruce Weber; Jerrice J. Baptiste via Zoom
02/February 12th - Leigh Ann Christain; Mike Jurkovic via Zoom
03/March 12th - Alison Koffler; Ken Holland via Zoom
04/April 9th - The Hudson Valley Women's Writing Group via Zoom
05/May 14th - Roger Hecht; Saida Agostini via Zoom
06/June 11th - James Reitter; Jessica Cuello via Zoom
07/July 9th - Alison Woods; Matthew Burns via Zoom
08/August 13th - Arden Levine; Marjorie Maddox via Zoom
09/September 10th - Dennis Rush; Robert Charles Basner HYBRID: in-person & streamed via Zoom
10/October 8th - Joann Deiudicibus; Thomas Festa HYBRID: in-person & streamed via Zoom
11/November 12th - Cheryl Rice; Teresa Costa HYBRID: in-person & streamed via Zoom
12/December 10th - Anique Sara Taylor; Cate McNider and Annual Business Meeting HYBRID: in-person & streamed via Zoom

Also, why not become a 2022 Member or donate to the Woodstock Poetry Society?

Membership is $20 a year. (To join or donate, 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 our upgraded Zoom account, 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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