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Event Name:

Word Thursdays - Open Mic - Sally Fishe & Richard Levine

Address:

94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Sep 13 2012 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Sep 13 2012 at 10:00 PM

Hosting Organization:

Bright Hill Literary Center

Contact Name:

Bertha Rogers

Contact Email Address:

wordthur@stny.rr.com

Contact Phone Number:

607-829-5055

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Event Cost:

$3.00

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Event Description:

SALLY FISHER, West Delhi and Manhattan: Her two books for children were published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Viking. The Square Halo, a book about art for adults, was published by Harry N. Abrams. She has been active in puppet theater for both children and adults as a playwright, puppet builder, and performer. She is also a student of clown and improvisation. Her poetry has appeared in Field, New Directions, The Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, Shenadndoah, Margie, Chelsea, Shenandoah, Heliotrope, Mid-American Review, Tar River, Turning Wheel, Poetry East, The Word Thursdays Anthology, Out of the Catskills and Beyond, and many other magazines and anthologies. She has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony on five occasions. She has retired after working for many years in publications at the Metropolitan Museum, and makes her living as a writer, editor, and print production consultant. RICHARD LEVINE, Brooklyn and Cobleskill, NY, is the author of That Country’s Soul, A Language Full of Wars and Songs, Snapshots from a Battle, and forthcoming from Bright Hill Press A Tide of a Hundred Mountains (2012); that collection won the annual Bright Hill Press Poetry Chapbook Competition. His poem “Believe This” was featured in former Poet Laureate Ted Kosser’s column, “American Life in Poetry”. In 2010, Mr. Levine was runner-up for the 2010 William Stafford Award for Poetry. A retired teacher, he is learning to steward a forest. Free to age 18 and under.