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Saturday June 23 2018, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM   Brownstone Poets Brownstone Poets Patricia Carragon Park Plaza Restaurant 220 Cadman Plaza West Brooklyn, NY 9176795002 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Poetry Grows in Brooklyn Heights 2018 Brownstone Poets Still Inspiring Brooklyn Since 2005 Brownstone Poets presents Saturday, June 23 at 2:30 p.m. Alex Cigale Joe Elliot Jim Fea... [details »]

Thursday June 28 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring V. P. Loggins Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

V. P. Loggins (Annapolis, MD) is the author of The Green Cup (2017), winner of the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize, The Fourth Paradise (Main Street Rag 2010) and Heaven Changes (Pudding House Chapb... [details »]

Friday June 29 2018, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM   Notes from the Reading Life: Alex Gilvarry and Alexandra Kleeman National Book Foundation/NYPL Mark Lee Richmondtown Library, 200 Clarke Avenue Staten Island, NY 917-229-9578 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Co-presented by the National Book Foundation and The New York Public Library, Notes from the Reading Life is a discussion series that brings prominent New York readers to library branches across the b... [details »]

Thursday July 5 2018, 5:00 PM to Monday July 9 2018, 1:00 PM      A Summer Retreat for Writers: Finding Inspiration, Contemplation The Mariandale Center Mariandale Center 299 N. Highland Avenue Ossining, NY 914-941-4455 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

This retreat will be an opportunity to go a little deeper into the spiritual life, as well as the writing life. Whether your writing is for personal journals or for publication, there are aspects we s... [details »]

Friday July 6 2018, 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM   Literati: A comedy show about books (with Joe Pera!) LiteratiComedy.com Michael Wolf 21 A Clinton Street New York, NY 413-626-0677 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Literati is a night of comedians in character performing hilarious readings. Sophisticated, satirical, and sometimes wigs. Do you ever leave a comedy show saying “Hmm that was pretty funny but not eno... [details »]

Thursday July 12 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays – Featuring Charlie Rossiter Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Charlie Rossiter (Oak Park, IL) writes, performs, and promotes poetry every chance he gets. Projects have included creating and hosting the Poetry Motel, a cable television program, with grants from... [details »]

Saturday July 14 2018, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Poets in the Park: Poets from “Ghost Fishing" Anthology Hudson Valley Writers Guild Dan Washington Park Albany, NY 5184820262 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Celebrating nearly 30 years of poetry in July at the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park, Albany, NY. This year’s program is: July 14, Poets from “Ghost Fishing: an Eco-Justice poetry Anthology;”... [details »]

Saturday July 21 2018, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Poets in the Park: "Coast to Coast: the Route 20 Anthology" Hudson Valley Writers Guild Dan Wilcox Washington Park Albany, NY 5184820262 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Celebrating nearly 30 years of poetry in July at the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park, Albany, NY. This year’s program is: July 14, Poets from “Ghost Fishing: an Eco-Justice poetry Anthology;”... [details »]

Thursday July 26 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Susan Richmond Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Susan Edwards Richmond (Acton, MA) is the author of five poetry collections: Before We Were Birds, Purgatory Chasm, and Boto (all by Adastra Press); Increase (FootHills Publishing); and Birding in Win... [details »]

Saturday July 28 2018, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM   Poets in the Park: poetik & Bob Sharkey Hudson Valley Writers Guild Dan Washington Park Albany, NY 5184820262 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Celebrating nearly 30 years of poetry in July at the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park, Albany, NY. This year’s program is: July 14, Poets from “Ghost Fishing: an Eco-Justice poetry Anthology;”... [details »]

Thursday August 9 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Naomi Guttman Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street Treadwell, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Naomi Guttman (Clinton, NY) was born in Montreal, where she attended Concordia University. Her book Reasons for Winter won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry and was shortlisted for The League of Canadia... [details »]

Thursday September 13 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Dan Payne and Philip Mosley Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Philip Mosley (Dunmore, PA) is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State. In 2008, he was awarded the Prix de la Traduction by the French Community of Belgiu... [details »]

Thursday September 27 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Paul Pines Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Paul Pines (Glens Falls, NY) grew up in Brooklyn and passed the early 60s on the Lower East Side of New York, then shipped out as a Merchant Seaman, spending part of 65/66 in Vietnam. His Bowery jazz ... [details »]

Thursday October 11 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Kellie Bean and Lisa Wujnovich Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Kellie Bean (Oneonta, NY) is a life-long lover of books and theater. In published works, on a wide array of subjects (from The Daily Show, to feminist theory, from Disney films to the works of Samuel ... [details »]

Thursday October 25 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Andy Fogel and Andrea Fry Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Andy Fogle (Saratoga Springs, NY) is the author of five previous chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Last Apprenticeship (White Knuckle Press) and The Neighborhood We Left (Finishing Line Press). O... [details »]

Thursday November 8 2018, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring George Drew Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis 94 Church Street TREADWELL, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

George Drew (Poestenkill, NY) is the author of The View from Jackass Hill, 2010 winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press; which also published Down & Dirty (2015), and his New & Se... [details »]

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