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Event Name:

Word Thursdays - Paul Hamill and Shirley Powell

Address:

94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Sep 9 2010 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Sep 9 2010 at 9:00 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:

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Event Description:

Paul Hamill has published poetry in many journals including Georgia Review, Southern Review, Cortland Review, Seneca Review and Stone Canoe. His most recent collections are chapbooks: Winter Mild (Pudding House, 2003), Congregation (Ithaca College, 2009) and The Book of Minotaurs (Split Oak, 2009). He has received grant funding from the New York State Council for the Arts and other sources for workshops and workshops and readings for seniors as well as for high school students. Father and grandfather, parenting is one of his favorite topics. He lives with his wife in Ithaca and works as a senior administrator at Ithaca College. He was Poet Laureate of Tompkins County in 2007 and 2008. Shirley Powell began her lifelong poet's journey in third grade in an Ohio hamlet called Reilly, and her first poems appeared in newspapers and in a collection of school children's poems published by the state's department of education. As an undergraduate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, she won two prizes for her poems; from then on, she was hooked on poetry. A major part of her writing life emerged when she moved to New York City in 1971. She became an active Greenwich Village poet as the surrealistic and subterranean found their way alongside her lyrics. Narrative poems flowed from these as well, and around age 40, she began to publish poems in magazines. Since then, she has been involved with poetry workshops, public readings, a literary quarterly (Oxalis), and with managing various poetry readings series festivals, and contests in her Upstate New York years. She has published five collections of poetry, including her latest, Other Rooms (Grim Reaper Press).