Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, March 11th, 2023 at 2pm
Woodstock Library

HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom

Allison Argueta
Brianna Heller

Poets Allison Argueta and Brianna Heller will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in person and streamed via Zoom on Saturday, March 11th, 2023 at 2pm(eastern).

WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (2pm) of every month.

Woodstock Library
5 Library Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-2213
www.woodstock.org

*** We ask all people who wish to attend in person to self-test for Covid within 24 hours prior to the event. Self-test kits are reasonably priced and available at nearly every pharmacy. ***

The Zoom app can be downloaded here: Zoom Download Center

To attend virtually: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com to receive Zoom info
If attending, please indicate if you would like to be on the open mike. Thank you.

The reading will be hosted by poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include an open mike.

Features:

Allison Argueta - Ally is in 10th grade from Saugerties, New York. Her buoyant mind finds solace in writing, reading, photography, art, and playing guitar. Ally is inspired by the people around her, her experiences, and feelings. She writes because forgetting is a fear of hers, and she wants to remember everything- people, experiences, feelings, and the complexity of every minuscule whirlpool of wonders.



                Angel

             Angel
     Bound to a storm of
Immense longing & waiting.
       Dizzying solitary.
    Veins black like night,
 Only the moon is not there.
    Her anatomy a machine
          Without oil.

-Allison Argueta

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Brianna Heller - Brianna is a poet and writer. She is currently a sophomore at Saugerties High School. In the time that she’s not writing she’s a lover of life and nature. She enjoys art and the outdoors.



Big Loves Coming

He told me once in a corridor
That I was a nihilist
Nothing has meaning everything is insignificant
As I once felt
The problem was
I enjoyed the color yellow
And the sunrise
And that gave me purpose
I lived for summer and loved deeply
And that gave me meaning
I wondered if those hallways could talk and what they’d say
I pondered if he truly believed nothing comes and nothing goes
What’s next
I’d ask
And cry
Cry for the mountains that never got their imagination back
And the birds whose vocal cords were snipped
For the crayons, whose paper dresses were torn
Everything had meaning to me
I loved ladybugs like they were a sister to my soul
And the rain
Like it was my evening shower
He was never content with my marvelousness
He never loved that I shot sparks from my heart and cared about every detail that ran across my scarred hands
So when he told me
That I was a nihilist
I smiled and said
Big loves coming

-Brianna Heller

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Developing WPS 2023 Schedule - February-December readings Hybrid: in-person and now at the Woodstock Library and via Zoom
All WPS Events: Events

01/January 14th - Danielle Woerner; Virginia Konchan (via Zoom only)
02/February 11th - Alison Koffler; Dayl Wise
03/March 11th - Allison Argueta; Brianna Heller
04/April 8th - Darcy Smith; Dennis Wayne Bressack
05/May 13th - Jerrice J. Baptiste; Mary K O'Melveny
06/June 10th - Irene Sipos; Perry S. Nicholas
07/July 8th - Kateri Kosek; Raphael Kosek
08/August 12th - David Messineo; TBA
09/September 9th - Barbara Ungar; Lucia Cherciu
10/October 14th - Bracha Nechama Bomze; Reagan Upshaw
11/November 18th - George Quasha; Sam Truitt 3rd Saturday
12/December 9th - Lisa St. John; TBA and Annual Business Meeting

Also, why not become a 2023 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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