Poets in the Park, Saturday 7/21

Sylvia Barnard (pictured here) and Carolee Sherwood, the "Women Poets of Willett St." will present a free outdoor reading this Saturday 7/21 at the Robert Burns statue at Henry Johnson Blvd. & Hudson Ave. in Washington Park, Albany, as part of the Hudson Valley Writers Guild's "Poets in the Park" series.

Bring a chair or blanket to sit on
Rain site: the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave.
Sponsored by the Poetry Motel Foundation & the Hudson Valley Writers Guild
For information call 482-0262

Sylvia Barnard is Professor of Latin and Greek at UAlbany. She is is currently conducting research on the cult of the Dioscuri. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to Cyprus in 2003 for her work. She is interested in and teaches classes on women in antiquity, Latin and Greek literature, Greek and Roman history, and ancient law. She regularly teaches Latin and Greek texts, both in translation and in their original language.

Carolee Sherwood is a painter, mixed media artist and poet.Her poetry is published locally and nationally and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

For more information visit the Hudson Valley Writers Guild website at hvwg.org.

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