Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, October 14th, 2023 at 2pm
Woodstock Library

HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom

Bracha Nechama Bomze
Reagan Upshaw

Poets Bracha Nechama Bomze and Reagan Upshaw will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in person and via Zoom (and streamed live on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WoodstockPoetry) on Saturday, October 14th, 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:

Bracha Nechama Bomze - Bracha Nechama Bomze’s book-length poem, Love Justice, (3Ring Press, Brooklyn), won her PEN author membership in 2015. She has read at Poets House, Book Culture, and Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition events. She lives in NYC with her mellifluous wife and muse, Carol Bloom (Browse Carol’s art photography at photobloom.net). Contact Bracha via www.LoveJusticethePoem.com.



Merci, Henri

for beckoning
this ten-year-old,
her
color-wheel eyes

trichromatic hands
forbidden from
punished for
decorating
her own
stone-colored
scratchy-gray
room
into….

L’Atelier Rouge

Merci, Henri,
for whispering:

You, too, are an art studio.

Go, paint your life!

-Bracha Nechama Bomze

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Reagan Upshaw - Reagan Upshaw is the author of In the Panhandle (Kelsay Press, 2023). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Able Muse, American Journal of Poetry, Poets & Writers, the Washington Post, Art in America, and many other publications. He lives in Beacon, NY, where he works as an art appraiser.



Too Hot Not to Cool Down

You Take My Breath Away. You Can’t Change That.
You Always Make Me Smile. You Hung the Moon.
I’ll Make You Mine. I Want to Be Your Last.
I Dreamed a Dream. I Long to See You Soon.
You Make Me Feel Brand New. You Set Me Free.
I Feel Love. I Want to Hold Your Hand.
You Make It Feel Like Christmas. You and Me.
I Won’t Let Go. I Wanna Be Your Man.

You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling. You’re So Vain.
You Don’t Send Me Flowers Anymore.
I’m a Fool to Want You. I Can’t Stand the Rain.
I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore.
You Think You Know Somebody. You Never Know.
I Should Have Known Better. I Can’t Let Go.

-Reagan Upshaw

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Developing WPS 2023 Schedule - February-December readings Hybrid: in-person and now at the Woodstock Library and via Zoom (and streamed live on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WoodstockPoetry)
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; Will Nixon
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; Lissa Kiernan 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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