Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, January 11th, 2025 at 2pm
Woodstock Library

HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom

Guy Reed
Will Nixon

Poets Guy Reed and Will Nixon will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in person and streamed via Zoom on Saturday, January 11th, 2025 at 2pm(eastern).

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

Woodstock Library
5 Library Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845)679-2213
www.woodstock.org

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. Thank you.

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 won the 2022 Littoral Press poetry prize, and is author of Second Innocence (Luchador Press), The Effort To Hold Light (Finishing Line Press), and co-author, with Cheryl A. Rice, of Until The Words Came (Post Traumatic Press). Guy co-directed two short films and recently began a third with filmmaker Katie Cokinos. From Minnesota, Guy has lived in California, Oregon, but has lived longest in the Catskills Mountains. Visit his website for more guyedwinreed.com


photo: Dan Wilcox

Truth

Sitting silent in the forest,

Crack, rustle, boom!
A tree fell out of the breezeless afternoon.
Silence again.

Not the same.

-Guy Reed

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Will Nixon - If Not in Heaven, Then in Saugerties, Will Nixon's new book, is portrait of the town in acrostic poems. "A collection of love letters about Saugerties straight from Will Nixon's wildly poetic heart," says Katie Cockinos. A decade ago, he published a similar book, Acrostic Woodstock. He also wrote The Pocket Guide to Woodstock and Walking Woodstock: Journeys into the Wild Heart of America's Most Famous Small Town co-authored with Michael Perkins. He now lives in Kingston. willnixon.com



Partition Street

Practice your laughter, no matter how rusty or canned.
Announce yourself to the parking meters lonely from lockdown.
Recite haiku to the sidewalk that never healed its cracks.
Turn the corner with a skip in your step, but
Immediately turn back, ignoring the “Don't Walk” because
There’s someone smiling in the window who looks
Incredibly like you, a lost twin or a clone,
Only it is you, the one & only you, only you
Need a haircut &
Shave, you pandemic hermit, you do!
They say Rip Van Winkle lived outside of town &
Ruined his life by leaving his wife to hunt squirrels, but
Every time the light turns red, you catch a lipstick wink in the window.
Even if you’re not ready for love, Partition Street has plans.
The tattoo parlor coming out of hibernation promises a golden dawn.

-Will Nixon

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Developing WPS 2025 Schedule - now in-person at the Woodstock Library and via Zoom
All WPS Events: Events

01/January 13th - Guy Reed; Will Nixon
02/February 8th - Alison Koffler; Dayl Wise
03/March 8th - Charlie Cody; Mike Jurkovic
04/April 12th - Poetry Month Special Event (TBA)
05/May 10th - Roberta Gould; Vivi Hlavsa
06/June 14th - Irene Sipos; Perry S. Nicholas
07/July 12th - TBA; TBA
08/August 9th - TBA; TBA
09/September 13th - Jennifer Franklin; Lucia Cherciu
10/October 11th - Raphael Moser; TBA
11/November 8th - Linda McCauley Freeman; TBA
12/December 13th - TBA; TBA and Annual Business Meeting

Also, why not become a 2025 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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