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Wednesday May 12 2021, 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM   "The Dairy Restaurant" Virtual Book & Author with Ben Katchor Temple Israel, Lawrence Alan Freedman 140 Central Avenue Lawrence, NY 5162391140 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

In "The Dairy Restaurant" Ben Katchor illuminates the unique historical confluence and events and ideas that led to the proliferation of the dairy restaurant in New York City. Here is an encyclopedic ... [details »]

Thursday May 13 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - V. P. Loggins Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

V. P. Loggins (Annapolis, Maryland) 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... [details »]

Saturday May 15 2021, 12:00 PM to Sunday May 16 2021, 1:00 AM      Dispossessed for the Dispossessed St. Rocco's Alexis Bhagat 451 Main Street Catskill, NY 518-221-5673 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Join us in Catskill for an all day and night reading event in honor of Ursula K. Le Guin's eery, mysterious, and throughout-provoking work of science fiction, The Dispossessed! We will have the option... [details »]

Thursday May 27 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Marcela Sulak & Jeannine Ouellette Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Marcela Sulak’s (Czech Republic) lyric memoir, Mouth Full of Seeds and her third poetry collection, City of Sky Papers, are forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press; her two previous BLP poetry titles ar... [details »]

Monday May 31 2021, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM   Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration Poetry Motel Foundation Dan Wilcox Washington Park at the Robert Burns Statue Albany, NY 5184820262 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Poets & other citizens will gather on Monday, May 31, 2021 at 6:00 PM at the Robert Burns statue in Washington Park in Albany, NY to celebrate the birthday of the quintessential American poet, Walt Wh... [details »]

Thursday June 10 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Richard Newman, Margot Farrington Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Richard Jeffrey Newman (Jackson Heights, NY) has published two books of poetry, Words for What Those Men Have Done (Guernica Editions 2017) and The Silence of Men (CavanKerry Press 2006), as well as a... [details »]

Saturday June 19 2021, 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM   Aimee Wright Clow and Friends St. Rocco's Alexis Bhagat People Park Albany, NY 518-221-5673 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Aimee Wright Clow and friends will be participating in an outdoor reading at People's Park, where there will be refreshments and seats, as we enjoy listening to a variety of readings.... [details »]

Thursday June 24 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Denise B. Dailey and Alice Pettway Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Denise B. Dailey (Walton, NY) a teacher-writer of French-Chilian origin, holds a BS from McGill University and an MFA from Columbia University. She travels to the seven continents with her husband an... [details »]

Thursday July 8 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Nandini Bhattacharya Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Nandini Bhattacharya (Houston, Texas) was born and raised in India and has called the United States her second continent for the last thirty years. Love's Garden, published in 2020, is her first nove... [details »]

Thursday July 22 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Millicent Borges Accardi and Elizabeth Maxey Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 6078295055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Millicent Borges Accardi (Topanga Canyon, California) is the author of three poetry books, most recently, Only More So (Salmon Poetry 2016). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment f... [details »]

Thursday August 12 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - David Bachner and Vicki Whicker Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

David Bachner is a retired college dean and professor. A graduate of Bates College, he studied in Japan, served in Korea in the Peace Corps, worked at the University of Hawaii, earned a PHD from Case... [details »]

Thursday August 26 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Lynne Kemen and Julene Waffle Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Lynne Kemen writes: "I was born in Bath, NY, then lived in Hartwick, NY, Rutland, VT, Crawfordsville, IN, then came to Ithaca in 1960, as my father's government job required. My mother refused to un... [details »]

Thursday September 9 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Melody Davis and Sharon Ruetenik Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Melody Davis (Albany, NY) a writer and art historian, is the author of four poetry collections. "Ghost Writer" is her latest volume, published by Broadstone Books in 2019. The collection has been no... [details »]

Thursday September 23 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Word Thursdays - Featuring Seeing Things V. Poets Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

Poetry enables us to "see things": to see what is and what is not, in the domains of the senses and imagination. We develop our practice of writing by drawing upon both. Workshop participants who par... [details »]

Thursday September 30 2021, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM   Special Edition Word Thursdays Featuring Random Acts Of Kindness Word Thursdays Beatrice Georgalidis Zoom and Facebook Live Treadwell, NY 607-829-5055 Google Map It (NOTE: this website makes no claims with regards to map accuracy!)

JOURNAL WRITERS & THE KINDNESS IS CONTAGIOUS PROJECT(IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ANDES CENTRAL SCHOOL) In February 1999, Jennifer Finkle, a teacher at Andes Central School (1990 - present) wrote on the first ... [details »]

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