For Immediate Release - for further information contact Phillip X Levine (845)246-8565 or email: phillip@woodstockpoetry.com
Woodstock Poetry Society (www.woodstockpoetry.com) is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock "Second Saturdays" Art Events.
Due to the ongoing pandemic - for now, all meetings will be held virtually via Zoom
The Zoom app can be downloaded here: Zoom Download Center
To attend: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com to receive Zoom info.
If attending, please indicate if you would like to be on the open mike. Thank you.
Poets Elizabethanne Spiotta and William Seaton will be featured, followed by an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets virtually via Zoom on Saturday, June 12th at 2pm.
Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every month.
The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include an open mike.
Features:
Elizabethanne Spiotta - Elizabethanne Spiotta is a poet mother widow chaplain who often wonders if she is will ever get her head out of the clouds. She is living the good life on the water in the country of upstate NY.
Elizabethanne Spiotta
Taking Ownership.
I just asked the bus driver to drop me off
straight away in Mountainville
where I will hide behind one of your barns until after dark
for you to come
and find me.
On the last of the crunchy dry leaves,
we can disturb the young onion grass
and show our teeth to the stars.
-Elizabethanne Spiotta
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William Seaton - William Seaton is a poet, translator, and critic, the author of Spoor of Desire: Selected Poems and Dada Poetry: An Introduction. Active in poetry performance since sixties happenings, he was a member of the San Francisco Cloud House group in the seventies and produced the Poetry on the Loose series in the Hudson Valley for twenty-one years. Seaton maintains a largely literary blog offering “a blend of thought available nowhere else” at williamseaton.blogspot.com.
William Seaton
See the glyph on th’enameled beetle’s back!
while in the sky the birds pursue their destiny,
quite innocent of thought, their route inscribed
in every cell. They may have lice but rarely doubt.
Each thought a blue shaft like a glacier’s heart,
piercing the gusty land of air with small and similar strokes.
Selflessness like one inside a car caroming,
overturning, yet to hit the final ground.
-William Seaton
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Developing WPS 2021 Schedule - all readings held via Zoom
All of 2021 Events: Events
Due to the ongoing pandemic - for now, all meetings will be held virtually via Zoom
The Zoom app can be downloaded here: Zoom Download Center
To attend: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com
If attending, please indicate if you would like to be on the open mike following the featured readers. Thank you.
01/January 9th - Canceled
02/February 13th - Canceled
03/March 13th - Guy Reed; Victoria Sullivan via Zoom
04/April 10th - Judith Kerman; Leslie Gerber via Zoom
05/May 8th - Judith Saunders; Raphael Kosek via Zoom
06/June 12th - Elizabethanne Spiotta; William Seaton via Zoom
07/July 10th - Barbara Ungar; Lucia Cherciu via Zoom
08/August 14th - Irene Sipos; Perry S. Nicholas via Zoom
09/September 11th - Nine-Eleven 20 years later via Zoom
To present during this event - email: phillip@woodstockpoetry.com
10/October 9th - Philip Pardi; TBA via Zoom
11/November 13th - Elizabeth Cohen; Mary Leonard via Zoom
12/December 11th - Amy Ouzoonian; Anique Taylor and Annual Business Meeting via Zoom
Also, why not become a 2021 Member or donate to the Woodstock Poetry Society?
Membership is $20 a year. (To join or donate, send your check to the Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Include your email address as well as your mailing address and phone number. Or join online at: www.woodstockpoetry.com/become.html). Your membership helps pay for our upgraded Zoom account, post-office-box rental, the WPS website, and costs associated with publicizing the monthly events. One benefit of membership is the opportunity to have a brief biography and several of your poems appear on this website.
