Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, May 10th, 2025 at 2pm
Woodstock Library

HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom

Roberta Gould
Vivi Hlavsa

Poets Roberta Gould and Vivi Hlavsa 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, May 10th, 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:

Roberta Gould - RWidely published in poetry journals (Confrontation, Green Mountain Review) and Anthologies including: WeWere Seed, for Gaza, Word Thursday, The Art and Craft of Poetry (Daisy Aldan, editor); & in Socialism and Democracy etc. Her 14 books include: Woven Lightning, Spuyten Duyvil Talk When You Can, Tell the Truth, Day True, & Atravesar, a forthcoming Kindle in Spanish, Feb 2025.

She has translated poems from Spanish by major writers, is a supporter of Haitan People’s Support Project, Street Children Project in Mexico and many more.

Interview Planet Poet
https://www.sharonisraelpoet.com/blog/roberta-gould-woven-lightning

E mail robertagould@icloud.com



I Want To Fly

I want to fly through the walls
with the spirits hovering in this house
I want to turn myself inside out
and show the weave of my heart

That’s a problem May I be forgiven
that I temper your guess
put too much on your plate lest you starve
and I be condemned for not giving

Dogs, take the stand and howl for me!
I dribble the ball in wonder, in a very close game

-Roberta Gould

from Day True Roberta Gould 2023

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Vivi Hlavsa - Virginia (ViVi) Hlavsa taught English at Queens College and tutored young adults with learning disabilities. She has written scholarly articles and a book, Faulkner and the Thoroughly Modern Novel, and several books of poetry, Re-Versing: Memoire of the Non-Agenarian, Waking October Leaves and Squinnied for a Sign. As president of the Kingston AAUW (American Association for University Women), ViVi led book groups, movie discussions, trips to museums, and instituted “One Book, One Community” with area colleges and libraries. In 2011, ViVi started SSIP (Seniors Serving in Place), now with five branches (see info.SSIP), for which she won New York State’s “Senior of the Year” in 2017. Several new books of poems are planned.



Newsworthy

Caught up in a current
event, the flying newspaper
briefly pressed itself
against the car windshield,
canvassed the panicked face,
then sank to the street,
reclining, a Henry Moore,
(full of suggestive holes)
before folding in half,
cardiovasculars done.

-Vivi Hlavsa

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

01/January 11th - 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 - Lee Slonimsky; Robert Charles Basner
08/August 9th - Matthew J. Spireng; Suzanne Cleary
09/September 13th - Jennifer Franklin; Lucia Cherciu
10/October 11th - Raphael Kosek; Raphael Moser
11/November 8th - Bruce Weber; Linda McCauley Freeman
12/December 13th - Cheryl A. Rice; Tom Bonville and Annual Business Meeting

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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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