Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, October 12th, 2019 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)

Ken Holland
Susan Sindall (NA)

Poet Ken Holland will be the featured reader, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets at Golden Notebook (Upstairs), 29 Tinker Street on Saturday, October 12th, 2019 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:

Ken Holland - Ken Holland has had poetry published in several dozen literary journals, including Confrontation, Rattle, The Cortland Review and The Antigonish Review. This past year he’s been featured in Roanoke Review, Wisconsin Review, and several others. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won/placed in a number of contests. He stands by the credo that if you do not read, you cannot write. He lives in Fishkill and is hopeful that by time of his reading he’ll have managed to have retired from work.



Quebec

We headed toward Quebec
as if it were truly some foreign country—
a checkpoint at the border
a language other than English,
sliding out our passports
when a driver’s license would have sufficed.

The bungalow court that first evening
had paddle boats
and a pond whose coat of green algae
luminesced under starlight.
We filled a thermos with wine
and pushed off,
whispering as if our children might hear us
eight hundred miles away.

Tell me about the stars, you said,
your head tipped back to take in
both the galaxy and the wine.
It’s taken untold light years,
I explained,
for this sky to have reached us.
Think of polished bone--
bright without heat.

You grew quiet then
as if you needed to translate
what I’d told you.
While I considered
the inconsequential rhythm of months
since we’d last felt the gravity of attraction,
one to the other.

-Ken Holland

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Susan Sindall - Susan Sindall's life in poetry was preceded by years of activity in another art. After graduating from the Dance Division of the Juilliard School of Music in 1960, she went home to Cambridge MA for the summer and started teaching Modern Dance in the gym of her old high school.

She performed with Mary Anthony, Eve Gentry, and others while teaching children and adults in the greater New York area. The 92nd Street YM-YWHA served as her professional home where she became Director of the Children's Dance Department.

As she watched her students interact, then saw their personalities similarly expressed in improvisation and choreography, she began to study Laban Movement Analysis, which teaches the observational skills and vocabulary to better understand such movement transformations.

She had always loved the sleek feel of a pen in her hand, writing journals and a few short stories; but intense experiences now seemed to require other uses of language: a more musical arrangement of words. Her work within movement metaphor flowed into what became poems.

She continued teaching dance at Manhattanville College, SUNY New Paltz, The Lincoln Center Institute, and the Laban Institute of Movement Studies, which she had co-founded, but in 1985 she retired to concentrate on writing.

Jean Valentine was a wonderful first teacher, as were Robert Bly and Michael Burkard. A fortunate member of Galway Kinnell's workshop at New York University, she graduated Magna cum Laude in 1994 from a free-wheeling Gallatin Division banquet of Old English, Chaucer, and Art History.

Her poems were slowly appearing in journals. She was again teaching children--this time as a poet in the schools. She won residencies at colonies.

After two summer workshops with Ellen Bryant Voigt, Susan Sindall entered the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and earned her MFA in 2003. The intellectual energy, stringent demands, and support of that program continue to nourish her poems.

She lives in the Hudson Valley with her composer husband, whom she met at Juilliard. Their son and daughter, with spouses and two grandsons, often visit.



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-Susan Sindall

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Developing WPS 2019 Schedule - all readings at Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
All of 2019 Events: Events

01/January 12th - Darcy Smith; T. G. Vanini
02/February 2nd (1st Sat) - Leny Brown, Roger Mitchell
03/March 9th - Bruce Weber; Celia Watson Seupel
04/April 13th - Brian Liston; Lissa Kiernan
05/May 11th - Howie Good; Reagan Upshaw
06/June 8th - Jack Hopper; Jessica Hornik
07/July 13th - Post Traumatic Press Publishing (Dayl Wise+)
08/August 10th - Kate Reese Hurd; Thomas Bonville
09/September 14th - Carol Graser; Mary Kathryn Jablonski
10/October 12th - Ken Holland; Susan Sindall (NA)
11/November 9th - Jerrice J. Baptiste
12/December 14th - George Wallace; Robert Basner and Annual Business Meeting

Also, why not become a 2019 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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