CANCELED
Please Stay Well

Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, June 13th, 2020 at 2pm
Golden Notebook (Upstairs)

CANCELED
Please Stay Well

Elizabethanne Spiotta
William Seaton

To be rescheduled.

Poets Elizabethanne Spiotta and William Seaton 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, June 13th, 2020 at 2pm. Elizabethanne Spiotta and William Seaton will be rescheduled at a later date.

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:

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.



because you.

because i saw you
i stopped to say ‘hello’ &
ask about your wife.

because i ‘looked so pretty’
you pushed your tongue
into my mouth

because you ‘couldn’t help it’
you held me in place,
your hands are mitts of history

because i am full of fire
i pushed you to the ground
and raised my pretty fist

-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.



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 2020 Schedule - all readings at Golden Notebook (Upstairs)
All of 2020 Events: Events

01/January 11th - Elizabeth J. Coleman; Lee Slonimsky
02/February 8th - Andrea Mitchell; Bruce Weber
03/March 14th - Guy Reed; Victoria Sullivan Canceled
04/April 11th - Brett Bevell; Rebecca Schumejda Canceled
05/May 9th - Judith Saunders; Raphael Kosek Canceled
06/June 13th - Elizabethanne Spiotta; William Seaton Canceled
07/July 11th - Barbara Ungar; Stuart Bartow Canceled
08/August 8th - Irene Sipos; Perry S. Nicholas Canceled
09/September 12th - Elizabeth Cohen; Lisa Rhoades Canceled
10/October 10th - Philip Pardi; Sparrow Canceled
11/November 14th - Anique Taylor; Mary Leonard Canceled
12/December 12th - Guy Reed; Victoria Sullivan and Annual Business Meeting Canceled

Also, why not become a 2020 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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