Woodstock
Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, February 11th, 2017 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
Janet Hamill
Pauline Uchmanowicz
Poets Janet Hamill and Pauline Uchmanowicz
will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry
Society & Festival meets at Golden Notebook (Upstairs), 29 Tinker Street
on Saturday, February 11th, 2017 at 2pm.
Note: WPS&F meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (2pm) of every month at Golden
Notebook (Upstairs).
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
29 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY 12498
www.goldennotebook.com
845-679-8000
The reading will be hosted by poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are free,
open to the public, and include an open mike.
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Features:
Janet Hamill- Janet Hamill is the author of six books of poetry
and short fiction: Troublante, The Temple, Nostalgia of the Infinite Lost
Ceilings, Body of Water – which was nominated for the Poetry Society
of America’s William Carlos Williams Prize – and Tales from
the Eternal Café – named one of the “Best Books of 2014”
by Publishers Weekly. Her seventh book, Knock, has just been published
by Spuyten Duyvil.
In addition to her writing, Janet is a strong proponent of the spoken word.
She has read at The Poetry Project, The People’s Poetry Gathering, the
Bowery Poetry Club, Cornelia Street Café, the Knitting Factory, The Rubin
Museum of Art, Central Park Summer Stage, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, the Andy
Warhol Museum, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, the Liss Ard Festival in
County Cork, Ireland, Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in London, the Latitude
Festival in Southwold, England, and Liverpool’s Heartbeats series.
She released two CD’s of spoken word and music in collaboration with the
band Lost Ceilings – Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet.
At present, she is active as an artist advisor at the Kurt Seligmann Center
for the Arts in Sugar Loaf, NY.
In 1832 Sauk & Fox made their first land concessions west
of the Mississippi
for forty barrels of salt forty barrels of tobacco &
blacksmithing services
vivid hallucinations resulted from the ingestion
of belladonna by bikers
parked by a fountain in the evening light of a
fertile valley town in eastern Iowa
For forty barrels of salt forty barrels of tobacco &
blacksmithing services
someone’s old lady told me he saw a woman in front of a dressing mirror in
a slip
parked by a fountain in the evening light of a
fertile valley town in eastern Iowa
they put us up gave us weed &
fixed the panel truck’s gear box for nothing
Someone’s old lady told me he saw a woman in front of a dressing mirror in
a slip
she worked for a chiropractor & was studying
to be one when he touched her
they put us up gave us weed &
fixed the panel truck’s gear box for nothing
137 years after the Black Hawk War he felt empty
space between her shoulders
She worked for a chiropractor & was studying
to be one when he touched her
rubbing ointment into a disc in her backbone she
flew to a gathering of witches
137 years after the Black Hawk War he felt empty
space between her shoulders
in 1832 Sauk & Fox made their first land concessions west
of the Mississippi
-Janet Hamill
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Pauline Uchmanowicz - Pauline Uchmanowicz is the author of
poetry collection Starfish (Twelve Winters Press, 2016) as well two
poetry chapbooks and has received residency grants at the MacDowell Colony and
Yaddo. A freelance writer in the Hudson Valley, her poems, essays, and reviews
have appeared in Crazyhorse, Ohio Review, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts
Journal, Radcliffe Quarterly, Woodstock Times, Z Magazine, and else-where.
She is associate professor of English and director of Creative Writing at SUNY
New Paltz.
Egypt Beach, Massachusetts
A pre-swimmer practices
dead man’s float, plays
duck-duck-goose, then
after lessons she drifts
back to the family
towels and umbrella,
where on his fingertip
her father spins a ball
as precisely as a planet
homes into syzygy,
the girl’s attention poised
on the frontier that separates
matter from logic. Edging
toward the orb, head arced
with limbs stretched wide,
the child forms a five-
pointed starfish—she could
wish upon her own body
for mastery of flutter kick
and arm over arm crawl.
A flea pushes around a granule.
Time presses against nets.
-Pauline Uchmanowicz
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Developing WPS 2017 Schedule - all readings at Golden
Notebook (Upstairs)
01/January 14th – Elizabeth J. Coleman; Lee Slonimsky
02/February 11th – Janet Hamill; Pauline Uchmanowicz
03/March 11th – Perry Nicholas; Peter Coco
04/April 8th – Matthew J. Spireng; Richard Levine
05/May 13th – Joel Lewis; Kate Reese Hurd
06/June 10th – Karen Corinne Herceg; Mike Jurkovic
07/July 8th – Donald Lev; Howard J. Kogan
08/August 12th – Paul Nash and the "Palisades
Poets"
(John J. Trause, Denise La Neve, Josh Humphrey, Susanna Rich, Mort Rich, ...)
09/September 9th – Mary Makofske; TBA
10/October 14th – John Amen; Ken Holland
11/November 11th – Cate McNider; Laurence Carr
12/December 9th – Dante Kanter; Otis Kidwell Burger; and Annual Business Meeting
Also, why not become a 2017 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society &
Festival?
Membership is $20 a year. (To join, 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 meeting space rental, 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.