2015 NYS Summer Writers Institute Reading Series

The Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore in Saratoga will run from July 29 through July 24.

All readings are at 8PM in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall, Skidmore College, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

For more information:   518-580-5000, info@skidmore.edu

Picture:  Claire Messud

 

JUNE 29: Non-fiction reading by Phillip Lopate and fiction reading by Linda Spalding.

JUNE 30: Fiction reading by Francine Prose and fiction reading by Caryl Phillips.

JULY 1: Fiction reading by Michael Ondaajte and poetry reading by Campbell McGrath.

JULY 2: Poetry reading by Charles Simic and fiction reading by Howard Norman.

JULY 3: Fiction reading by Claire Messud and fiction reading by Elizabeth Benedict.

JULY 6: Poetry reading by Carolyn Forche and fiction reading by Victoria Redel.

JULY 7: Poetry reading by Frank Bidart and fiction reading by Rivka Galchen.

JULY 8: Fiction reading by Mary Gaitskill and non-fiction reading by Honor Moore.

JULY 9: Fiction reading by Joseph O'Neill and fiction reading by Joanna Scott.

JULY 10: Fiction reading by Joyce Carol Oates.

JULY 13: Fiction reading by Amy Hempel and fiction reading by William Kennedy.

JULY 14: Fiction reading by Ann Beattie and poetry reading by Tom Healy.

JULY 15: Fiction reading by Rick Moody and poetry reading by Lloyd Schwartz.

JULY 16: Non-fiction reading by Nick Flynn and fiction reading by Adam Braver.

JULY 17: Poetry reading by Robert Pinsky poetry reading by Peg Boyers.

JULY 20: Fiction reading by Cristina Garcia and poetry reading by Wayne Koestenbaum.

JULY 21:Fiction reading by Russell Banks and poetry reading by Chase Twichell.

JULY 22: Non-fiction reading by Laura Kipnis and non-fiction reading by Jim Miller.

JULY 23: Fiction reading by Jamaica Kincaid and poetry reading by Henri Cole.

JULY 24: Fiction reading by Paul Harding and fiction reading by Binnie Kirshenbaum.

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Hollis Seamon wins "Ippy" Gold Medal

Hollis Seamon, this year's featured guest author at the New York State Summer Young Writers Institute for high school-aged writers, tied for the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award ("Ippy") Gold Medal for Short Fiction for her story collection, Corporeality.

More 2014 "Ippy" results here:  http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1791

Students at the Young Writers Institute will read Seamon's 2013 young adult novel, Somebody Up There Hates You, about a 17-year-old battling cancer.

Booklist said, "Seamon’s first young-adult novel is a tender, insightful, and unsentimental look at teens in extremis. It brings light to a very dark place, and in so doing, does its readers a generous service."

More about Hollis Seamon:  http://www.skidmore.edu/youngwriters/guest-author.php

More about the New York State Summer Young Writers Institute:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/programpages/nyssywi.html

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Free Events in Saratoga This Summer

Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid! Joyce Carol Oates!  William Kennedy! Robert Pinsky!  Marilynne Robinson! Russell Banks! And many more….

You are invited to attend the NYS Summer Writers Institute’s free public readings at Skidmore in Saratoga this summer, every weekday from June 30th to July 25th, cosponsored by Skidmore College and the New York State Writers Institute.

SUMMER PUBLIC READING LIST 2014
All Readings are at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Free and open to the public

JUNE 30
Fiction reading by Elizabeth Benedict and poetry reading by Campbell McGrath.

JULY 1
Fiction reading by Francine Prose and non-fiction reading by Nicholas Delbanco.

JULY 2
Poetry reading by Frank Bidart and fiction reading by Jim Shepard.

JULY 3
Fiction reading by Russell Banks and poetry reading by Chase Twichell.

JULY 4
Fiction reading by Howard Norman and poetry reading by Jane Shore.

JULY 7
Poetry reading by Rosanna Warren and fiction reading by Cristina Garcia.

JULY 8
Non-Fiction reading by Phillip Lopate and fiction reading by Victoria Redel.

JULY 9
Poetry reading by James Longenbach and fiction reading by Joanna Scott.

JULY 10
Poetry reading by Louise Gluck and fiction reading by Caryl Phillips.

JULY 11
Fiction reading by Joyce Carol Oates.

JULY 14
Poetry reading by Carolyn Forche and fiction reading by Amy Hempel.

JULY 15
Fiction reading by Marilynne Robinson and poetry reading by Peg Boyers.

JULY 16
Fiction reading by Danzy Senna and nonfiction reading by Honor Moore.

JULY 17
Fiction reading by William Kennedy.

JULY 18
Poetry reading by Robert Pinsky.

JULY 21
Poetry reading by Mark Strand and fiction reading by Binnie Kirshenbaum.

JULY 22
Poetry reading by Charles Simic and fiction reading by Adam Braver.

JULY 23
Fiction reading by Rick Moody and poetry reading by Tom Healy.

JULY 24
Fiction reading by Jamaica Kincaid and poetry reading by Henri Cole.

JULY 25
Fiction reading by Paul Harding and poetry reading by Carl Dennis.

For more information:

NYS Summer Writers Institute
Office of the Dean of Special Programs

PHONE
518-580-5593

MAIL
NYS Summer Writers Institute
Office of the Dean of Special Programs
Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

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FENCE Magazine Open for Submissions

ATTENTION ALL WRITERS

Fence magazine will be accepting new submissions of poetry, fiction, and everything else for the whole month of August(the gateway closes 8/31/13 at exactly 11:59pm EST).

Please keep in mind our SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Each poem and story MUST be submitted individually. This will help us keep better track of withdrawn pieces. Submit no more than five poems at any one time, and up to twenty-five pages of fiction.

If you wish to submit more than one document, you MUST submit each document separately. Submissions containing more than one poem or story will not be read.

Thank you, and consider the floodgates OPEN. 

https://fence.submittable.com/submit

Founded in 1998 by Rebecca Wolff, Fence is a biannual journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism that has a mission to redefine the terms of accessibility by publishing challenging writing distinguished by idiosyncrasy and intelligence rather than by allegiance with camps, schools, or cliques. It is Fence‘s mission to encourage writing that might otherwise have difficulty being recognized because it doesn’t answer to either the mainstream or to recognizable modes of experimentation. Fence is long-term committed to publishing from the outside and the inside of established communities of writing, seeking always to interrogate, collaborate with, and bedevil other systems that bring new writing to light.

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Salon.com Editor to Read in Rensselaerville, 8/16

Joan Walsh, editor-at-large of Salon.com, headlines this year’s Rensselaerville Festival of Writers as a keynote speaker Saturday August 16, at 8:00 p.m.

Walsh will read from her 2012 book What’s the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was.

The acclaimed celebration of arts and literature takes place this year August 15 – 18 in several venues throughout the idyllic Helderberg hamlet of Rensselaerville, NY. Walsh’s appearance promises a riveting highlight in the festival’s rich schedule of readings, workshops, and receptions.

For more:  festivalofwriters.org.

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"This Upstate Life" in Rensselaerville

Local authors will present their work at the annual Rensselaerville Festival of Writers, August 15-18, 2013
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"This Upstate Life"

Local writers will read their own work, poetry, fiction, personal essay, or cross-genre and experimental work specifically rooted in the upstate New York region.

Tom  Corrado -  Middleburgh       Carol Graser - Galway

Anne Decker  - Albany                   Susan Jefts – Saratoga Springs

Sarah Giragosian - Albany             Howard J. Kogan Stephentown

Marea Gordett - Cohoes              Marion Menna - Glenmont

John Worth Gordon - Albany      Mary Cuffe Perez - Galway

Dan Wilcox - Albany

 

Himanee Gupta-Carlson – Greenfield Center

For more info:  www.festivalofwriters.org

 

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Sasha Weiss on Henri Cole

Sasha Weiss of the New Yorker's Culture Desk gave a boost last summer to poet Henri Cole (who shares the stage tonight with Jamaica Kincaid in Saratoga).

In the "What We're Reading" feature she talked about Cole's 2011 book, Touch:

His latest book... is a collection of poems (mostly sonnets) that take up a mother’s slow death and a son’s mourning her, a cruel relationship with an addict and his subsequent overdose, sexual longing and degradation, family dysfunction, the killing of soldiers, loneliness, and the desire to escape from one’s life. Yet these are poems of inveterate gentleness (the word “soft” is repeated again and again) and “Touch” is a book one reads with dream-like urgency, as if “drinking water right out of the tap … lips on the faucet” as Cole writes in the poem “Shrike.” Why do we want to linger here, in Cole’s unsettled world? From what source do these poems draw their magnetic power?

More:  http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/what-were-reading-henri-cole.html

Full schedule of readings:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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Jamaica Kincaid Reads Tonight

Jamaica Kincaids presents her new novel tonight in Saratoga.

Full schedule of readings here:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

Elizabeth Floyd Mair interviewed Kincaid about the novel, See Now Then, in Sunday's Times Union:

Q: The long sentences that are a trademark of your style — is that just the way that it first comes to you?

A: When I'm writing about the family in this book, for instance, I tend to condense all of the feelings of the ups and downs into one moment. I write out of that moment, and it seems to come in one sentence, or in one series of sentences that unfurl and refurl into themselves. The poet Derek Walcott once said to me that each of my sentences holds within it its own contradiction. When he said that, I was amazed, because it is true.

More:  http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/See-Now-Then-hits-close-to-home-4673216.php

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Angry, female and refreshingly believable-- Claire Messud

Claire Messud, who talks with you about her work tomorrow, July 11, in Saratoga, is the author most recently of The Woman Upstairs (2013).

 

Elizabeth Day, writing in the London Observer, says "Claire Messud's latest narrator is angry, female and refreshingly believable.... It's difficult to think of any great novel by a woman that has at its heart an unapologetically furious female narrator who is not insane, thwarted or clinically depressed.... the real achievement of this novel is to imbue every chapter with thought-provoking questions surrounding the place of women in literature, society and – most importantly – their own minds. Female anger has never been so readable."

More of the review:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/25/woman-upstairs-claire-messud-review

Full schedule of free readings:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise Tomorrow

"After a half-century and a winding continent-wide journey they never planned, Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee are at the forefront of the new immigrant fiction"

Husband and wife authors Bharati Mukherjee and Clark Blaise, who share the stage tomorrow in Saratoga, are profiled together in the Toronto Globe and Mail in 2011:

"Closely chaperoned Bharati Mukherjee, 23, had never been alone in the same room with a man when she met Clark Blaise at the University of Iowa near the unanticipated end of the Kennedy presidency. Two weeks later, the two young writers were married."

"Almost 48 years after that, following dual careers in which the couple have published almost 30 books between them, two of them co-written and the latest two so intertwined they actually share some characters, the authors sit together in Toronto for their first-ever joint interview."

More in The Globe:  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/clark-blaise-and-bharati-mukherjee-a-shared-literary-journey/article583203/

Complete schedule of free readings: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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This Week's Summer Reading Recommendations

3 out of 9 of Publishers Weekly's summer reading picks for the week of July 8th are new books by NYS Writers Institute visitors....

Chris Bohjalian, who brought out the Armenian community in droves this past April for The Sandcastle Girls:

"The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday) - An exploration of post-WWII Italy doubles as a murder mystery in this entertaining historical whodunit from Bohjalian (The Sandcastle Girls). In 1952 Florence, Francesca Rosati, a dress-shop worker, is brutally murdered by a killer who carves out her heart, and Detective Serafina Bettini is assigned to solve the homicide."

Howard Norman, regular visitor to the Summer Writers Institute, who reads again on July 25:

"I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman (HMH) - In this luminous memoir, novelist Norman (The Bird Artist) recalls moments of 'arresting strangeness,' even in the midst of his quest to gain clarity and stay balanced emotionally. Norman writes of five places where he lived and the characters he met in each, providing him with an opportunity to reflect on his life. With a twinge of melancholy and a steely resolve not to let himself be moved or hurt, Norman regales us with his tale of lust, death (he inadvertently kills a swan on a local lake), and disappointment that mark his teenage summer of 1964 in Grand Rapids, Mich."

And Stacey D'Erasmo who visited us in 2009:

"The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between by Stacey D’Erasmo (Graywolf) - Part of Graywolf’s “Art of” series on the craft of writing, edited by Charles Baxter, this first work of nonfiction by novelist D’Erasmo (The Sky Below) examines the concept of intimacy and the ways this mysterious phenomenon has been conveyed by writers, visual artists, and filmmakers. D’Erasmo organizes the book into chapters based on the places where intimacy occurs, and the results are lucid and provocative."

More:  http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/58057-pw-picks-the-best-new-books-for-the-week-of-july-8-2013.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=27e6247d6a-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-27e6247d6a-304669825

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Joyce Carol Oates in a New Yorker video interview

"I'm not sure that I really have a personality...."

Joyce Carol Oates, who presents a free reading in Saratoga on July 12, gives an intimate video interview to the New Yorker on June 23, 2013.

All Readings are at 8:00 p.m. in Davis Audiorium, Palamountain Hall
Free and open to the public

Full schedule of free readings:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html



New Yorker interview: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/06/video-joyce-carol-oates.html

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Phillip Lopate on the Art of the Essay

Major American essayist Phillip Lopate, who presents a free reading in Saratoga on Monday 7/8, has published two new books in 2013-- the collection, Portrait Inside My Head: Essays, and the writer's guide, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction.

Morris Dickstein reviewed both in the New York Times in March:

"His gods are Montaigne, the father of the essay, whose field of research was his own mind, and William Hazlitt, who, besides being an incomparable literary critic, sketched vehement novelistic impressions of what no one else thought worth noticing, from boxing matches and Indian jugglers to 'the pleasure of hating.'"

More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/books/review/essays-and-a-writers-guide-by-phillip-lopate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Complete schedule of free readings:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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Robert Pinsky on the PBS News Hour

A July 4, 2001 appearance by poet Robert Pinsky (who presents a free reading today 7/5 in Saratoga) on the PBS NewsHour was reshared yesterday on that program's website.

Pinsky read some astonishing lines from a poem by Walt Whitman ("By Blue Ontario's Shore") that emphasize the importance of self-criticism in any true expression of patriotism-- of recognizing our country's failings so that we may work to improve and perfect it.

Also featured is Pinsky's July 4, 2002 reading of poet John Hollander's poem about fireworks, "Sparklers."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2013/07/from-the-newshour-archives-robert-pinsky-on-the-4th-of-july.html

For a full schedule of free readings at the New York State Summer Writers Institute in Skidmore:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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Hillary Clinton's 1969 Commencement Speech at Wellesley

Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate, who reads July 5th at the New York State Summer
Writers Institute in Saratoga, remembers Hillary Clinton's commencement speech at Wellesley, which he attended as a young poetry professor. The piece appeared yesterday in Slate:

"What was amazing, and not standard, was the gift for rising to an occasion: a political gift and a matter of talent surging toward its realization. As part of the prepared part of her speech, Hillary Rodham read a poem by a classmate, a composition also touchingly of that era. On that day in May, in other words, the notes that were struck may have been unremarkable, but the occasion was like hearing a very young, uniquely gifted musician play: something in the sheer, expressive command—a word used about athletes, as well as musicians—was extraordinary, unmistakable, and already formed."

More: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/07/hillary_clinton_wesleyan_commencement_speech_robert_pinsky_on_the_politician.html

Full schedule of free summer events:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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Anti-sentimental romance fiction, tomorrow

Binnie Kirshenbaum, who reads at Skidmore tomorrow, July 4th, is celebrated for depictions of romantic love relationships in fiction that are never idealized and anything but sentimental.

Here's the Daily Beast on her most recent novel, The Scenic Route (2009):

“.... Binnie Kirshenbaum’s clever, offbeat novel The Scenic Route is an antidote to all that soft-focus sentiment. This is indeed a woman-has-midlife-crisis-and-finds-romance-in-Italy story, but it is so resolutely unsentimental, even antisentimental, that you won’t be dialing Alitalia anytime soon. Instead of escapist fantasy, narrator Sylvia Landsman offers a reality check, sobering truths about family, regret, loss, history—in fact, she provides commentary on all kinds of subjects..... Just about the only thing she doesn’t serve up is a happy ending.”
—The Daily Beast

Kirshenbaum shares the stage with award-winning poet, Frank Bidart.

Full schedule of free summer events:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

Kirshenbaum also chairs the Writing Department at Columbia University School of the Arts: http://arts.columbia.edu/faculty/binnie-kirshenbaum

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President of The Poetry Foundation Reads Today

Robert Polito, award-winning writer and poet, and new president of The Poetry Foundation (which boasts an astounding $200 million endowment from philanthropist Ruth Lilly), will present a free reading as part of the New York State Summer Writers Institute tonight. He will share the stage with novelist Ann Beattie.

Polito is also director of the writing program at The New School in Manhattan, and a past winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his biography of pulp fiction writer Jim Thompson, Savage Art.

His latest book is the poetry-prose hybrid collection Hollywood and God (2013).

Here is the title poem, which starts "If only God would save me / I would know how to hurt you."

http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/own_words/page_1/

Full schedule of free readings:  http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

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Summer Writers Institute in Saratoga

 

We invite you to attend the following FREE events:

SUMMER PUBLIC READING LIST 2013
All Readings are at 8:00 p.m. in the Davis Audiorium, Palamountain Hall, Skidmore College, 815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs
Free and open to the public

For more information, contact the Skidmore Office of the Dean of Special Programs at 518-580-5593 or summerwriters@skidmore.edu.

JULY 1
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Campbell McGrath (poet, American Noise) and Elizabeth Benedict (novelist, Almost) (novelist, The Practice of Deceit; Almost)

JULY 2
Fiction Reading
Paul Auster (author, The Brooklyn Follies) and Siri Hustvedt (novelist, What I Loved)

JULY 3
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Ann Beattie (novelist, Love Always) and Robert Polito (poet, Hollywood and God)

JULY 4
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Frank Bidart (poet, Metaphysical Dog) and Binnie Kirshenbaum (novelist, The Scenic Route)

JULY 5
Poetry Reading
Robert Pinsky (former Poet Laureate)

JULY 8
Fiction Reading
Phillip Lopate (author, Portrait Inside My Head) and Adam Braver (novelist,Misfit)

JULY 9
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Rosanna Warren (poet, Ghost In A Red Hat) and Paul Harding (Pulitzer Prize, novel Tinkers)

JULY 10
Fiction Reading
Bharati Mukherjee (novelist, Miss New India) and Clark Blaise (novelist, The Meagre Tarmac)

JULY 11
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Claire Messud (novelist, The Woman Upstairs) and Jorie Graham (Pulitzer Prize; author, Dream of the Unified Field)

JULY 12
Fiction Reading
Joyce Carol Oates (National Book Award, them; We Were The Mulvaneys)

JULY 15
Amy Hempel (fictionist, The Dog of the Marriage) and Honor Moore (memoirist,TheBishop’s Daughter)

JULY 16
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Russell Banks (novelist, The Darling) and Chase Twichell (poet, Dog Language)

JULY 17
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Rick Moody (fictionist, Demonology) and Tom Healy (poet, What the Left Hand Knows)

JULY 18
Non-Fiction and Poetry Reading
Mark Strand (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry) and Peg Boyers (poet, Honey with Tobacco, Hard Bread)

JULY 19
Fiction Reading
William Kennedy (Pulitzer Prize, Ironweed; Roscoe)

JULY 22
Mary Gaitskill (novelist, Veronica) and Jane Shore (poet, That Said)

JULY 23
Fiction and Poetry Reading
Jamaica Kincaid (novelist, See Now Then) and Henri Cole (poet, Middle Earth)

JULY 24
Poetry and Fiction Reading
Charles Simic (Former Poet-Laureate, Pulitzer Prize, New & Selected Poems) and Linda Spalding (novelist, The Purchase)

JULY 25
Fiction Reading
Michael Ondaatje (Booker Prize, The English Patient) and Howard Norman (novelist-memoirist, I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place)

JULY 26
Poetry and Non-Fiction Reading
Richard Howard (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, Talking Cures) and Jim Miller (Democracy is in the Streets)

 

 

 

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Jamaica Kincaid and Writers Institute in NYT

The New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore is mentioned in a New York Times profile of Jamaica Kincaid-- though not by name!

"When Ms. Kincaid read from the book last summer at a writers’ institute at Skidmore College, the mostly student audience peppered her with questions about 'whether the novel is a suitable vehicle for working through the personal this or that,' said Robert Boyers, the director of the institute."

Read more in the Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/books/jamaica-kincaid-isnt-writing-about-her-life-she-says.html?src=recg

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Poets Wanted

POETS NEEDED FOR  26^thAnnual  Altamont Fair Poetry Reading


Poet Alan Casline writes:

This year’s POETS AT THE FAIR at the Altamont Fair is being held on Wednesday August 15, 2012 beginning at 1:00 PM. Participating poets will receive a free pass.

This year we will be presenting from the Hotel Altamont stage in the Village and Carriage Museum.


To sign up to read or for more information contact: Alan Casline at acasline@aol.com


Our host will be Pat Canaday.


Having a stage opens up some new possibilities and we are looking for Performance Poets to contribute some mixed media, musical and theatrical pieces to the event.


The schedule would be for a poets to read from their work for 10 min. each with there also being  4 (or more depending on interest) performance slots scheduled for 15 min. each.


Last year at 2:00 PM we had a LEGENDS OF LOCAL POETRY ROUND-ROBIN where poets read the work of other departed poets like W.W. Christman, Art Willis, Magdalene Merritt, Tom Nattel, etc. This will be a feature of this year’s reading as well.


Of course if there are not that many poets in the house everyone will have more time to read.


An unrelated idea is I have discovered the Altamont Fair is a tri-county fair. The counties are Albany, Schenectady and Greene Counties.  I am especially looking for a few Greene County poets to participate. My problem is I don’t know any.


26^th Annual POETS AT THE FAIR
Wednesday August  15, 2012 at 1:00 PM
at the Altamont Fair Grounds, Altamont, New York
presenting from the Hotel Altamont stage in the Village and Carriage Museum.


Local Poets reading from their work
Legends of Local Poetry from the near and historical past
Performance Poetry

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