For Immediate Release
The Woodstock Poetry
Society will host a memorial event remembering local Woodstock poet Saul
Bennett when it meets at the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on Saturday,
November 11th at 2pm. Note: WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every
month. All meetings are free and open to the public.
As many of you already know, sadly, our friend and poet, Saul Bennett passed
away suddenly on August 6th from a heart attack. A large selection of Saul's
poetry is now available via the links below so that you may read some of Saul's
work and so that you may select a poem of Saul's that you might be interested
in reading at this memorial if you would like.
Please contact Phillip Levine (845)246-8565 pprod@mindspring.com
or Will Nixon (845)679-5853 will@willnixon.com
if you are interested in sharing work by or about our missed poet and friend
Saul.
The event will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Levine. We expect Saul's
wife, Joan, and children Charles and Lizzy, to be attending.
Photos: Dan Wilcox
Poems by Saul
Bennett:
from In Transit Lies Life Everlasting (chapbook)
Samaritan
on a Bridge
Sea Dust
(I)
June 15,1904–September
11, 2001, R.I.P.
In Transit
Lies Life Everlasting
Cold Trail
"Easter
Eve in Washington Square," From the 1926 Aquatint by John Sloan
Trolley Car
to the Stars
Beside Harlem's
Still Waters
Transport
to the East, 1942
Passage from
a Boardwalk Refreshment Stand, Rockaway Beach, Queens, 1943
Nuns Bathing
at Rockaway Beach, Queens, 1955
Cards
Walking Wall
Regatta
Magellan's
Secret Sailing
Child at Sea
Sea Dust
(II)
from Mourning Glory (chapbook)
Samaritan
on a Bridge
Forewarned
When Strangers
Embraced
Dwarf
The Bitter
Riches of Chocolate
In All
the Excitement I Lost My Mind
A Greater
Body of Knowledge
Rinkwise
What Came
After the Last Cheyenne Warrior Departed Harlem
The Gray White
Way
When the Sneak
Preview Comes to Play
What Comes
Over You, What
One's Very Own
Bale of Hay
Mourning
Glory
I'm Beginning
Again
On the
Trailing Depths of a Daughter Dead
Child At Sea
from The Overture of Jerome Kern's
'The Girl From Utah'
Performed in 1942 by Midgets in the Bronx (chapbook)
That Morning
The Clap
The Castle
Lowered
Leon Treadway
Enters Heaven
The Carvery
Negroes,
Swinging
A Precious
Liberty
Van Gogh's
'Boats at Saintes-Maries'
Just Another
Cut of Meat
Herman's
Sigmund
Freud in America
Please Grant
Mercy, Ella Webb!
A Jewish
Child is Poured Cocoa
The Bleeding
from Harpo Mark at Prayer (Archer Books, 2000)
Confectionery
Delicatessen,
As Rendered By Brueghel The Younger
Glass
Listen Carefully
Nothing
On the Menu at
the Asia Food Shoppe, Sunnyside, Queens, 1949
Quarters
The Dismantling
of an American
The Hungry Aftermath
of Marxist Dogma
Walking Wall
from Sea Dust (manuscript in progress)
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