Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, November 10th, 2018 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)

Janet Hamill
Teresa Costa

Poets Janet Hamill and Teresa Costa will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets at Golden Notebook (Upstairs), 29 Tinker Street on Saturday, November 10th, 2018 at 2pm.

Note: WPS 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 eight collections of poetry, prose poetry and short fiction: Real Fire (Alexander Quarterly Books), Knock (Spuyten Duyvil, ), Tales from the Eternal Café (Three Rooms Press), Body of Water (Bowery Books), Lost Ceilings (Telephone Books), Nostalgia of the Infinite (Ocean View Books), The Temple (Telephone Books), and Troublante (Oliphant.). Tales from the Eternal Café was named one of the “Best Books of the Year 2014” by Publishers’ Weekly; Body of Water with a cover photo and interior photos by musician Patti Smith, was nominated for the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Prize. Her poem “K-E-R-O-U-A-C,” included in the widely praised anthology, Bowery Women Poems (2006), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared the anthologies Resist Much/Obey Little, Have an NYC, Living With the Animals Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970, The Unmade Bed, and Deep Down: The New Sensuous Writing by Women and in magazines and journals including Bomb, City Lights Review, Colorado North Review, Kansas Quarterly, and the Hart Crane Newsletter. She has read at venues in the US and abroad including the Peoples’ Poetry Gathering, the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, the Walt Whitman Cultural Center, WORD Festival, Bowery Poetry Club, the Knitting Factory, CBGB's Gallery, Nuyorican Café, Summer Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, the Church of Beethoven, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, the Liss Ard Festival in County Cork, Ireland, and the Meltdown Festival in London. In addition to her books, she has released two CDs of spoken word and music in collaboration with the band Moving Star: Flying Nowhere (Yes No Maybe Records), produced by Lenny Kaye, featured clarinet cameos by Patti Smith and Genie of the Alphabet (Not Records), produced by Janet Hamill and Moving Star, featured cameos by David Amram, Bob Holman, Lenny Kaye and Patti Smith. Janet is the founder and co-director of the Megaphone: Language Arts series at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf, NY. www.janethamill.com.



Fire Canto

The moths were so big they had faces. I heard
the universe charging at my back. The light principle
was so winded. In collapsing it gave birth to new life.

I heard the blood pulsing in the stars. I heard
the grinding teeth of titanium. I heard the night chanting
rain, rain, rain, simulating the lapping of water
against my walls. I heard the sheer numbers
of the night. In its dark belly a desperate rhythm of sleep.

So forgive me for walking away with the flame.

-Janet Hamill

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Teresa Costa - Teresa Costa has been writing poetry since 1973, and reading/performing it publicly since 1974. Costa has been published in Home Planet News, HomePlanet News Online, (HPNOnline), Stained Sheets, Other #6, Chronogram, amongst many others. Creature Comforts was published by Post Traumatic Press July 2013. Recent: Poetry Anthology: Dreams You Catch, published by DarkAngel Publications, available on Amazon.com and Kindle. Costa has been hosting poetry readings since 2001; Cross St Atelier, Saugerties, NY, Muddy Cup in Kingston & Saugerties, NY, Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY BBB in Lake Katrine, NY & most recently at Artbar Gallery under the title: Word oF Mouth Poetry Series aka WOMPS. A 53 year resident of Ulster county, NY. Born in Brooklyn. NY, raised in the Catskill Mts. Teresa is/was Poet of the month on Dial-a-Poem Sept. 2018 (845-384-2445) sponsored by Greenkill Gallery.



Summer Queen

Queen Anne's Lace, ruled over the wild daisies
That summer. Queen of the roadside along with
The over-crowding of purplish blue Chicory.
Milkweed had moved too far out into roadside,
Where Monarchs wood feed/feel the poison of
Motorized vehicles, exhaust, oil and gasoline.
The rains outdid Tiger/Day Lillies. Practically
stunted in growth, just short of drowning.
Worms, millipedes celebrated the dampness. Some
Held nightly festivities, while the ants those
Socialized pests tried vainly to overtake my household.

-Teresa Costa
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Developing WPS 2018 Schedule - all readings at Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
All of 2018 Events: Events

01/January 13th - Philip Pardi; Sparrow
02/February 10th - Frank Boyer; Philip Fried
03/March 10th - Cheryl Rice; Guy Reed
04/April 14th - Donald Lev; Mary Leonard
05/May 12th - Judith Saunders; Lucia Cherciu
06/June 9th - Dennis & Justin Bressack
07/July 14th - Marcia Slatkin; Therese L. Broderick
08/August 11th - Alison Koffler; Perry S. Nicholas
09/September 8th - Catherine Arra; Matthew J. Spireng
10/October 13th - Barbara Elovic; Carl Rosenstock; Richard Levine
11/November 10th - Janet Hamill; Teresa Costa
12/December 8th - TBA and Annual Business Meeting

Also, why not become a 2018 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society?

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.

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