Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, September 12th, 2026 at 1pm (new time)
Woodstock Library
Philip Pardi
Wendy Kagan
HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom
Poets Philip Pardi and Wendy Kagan
will be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock
Poetry Society meets in person and streamed via Zoom (and www.facebook.com/phillip.levine/)
on Saturday, September 12th, 2026 at 1pm(eastern).
WPS meetings are now held the 2nd Saturday (1pm) of every month. New time.
Woodstock Library
10 Dixon Ave, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845)679-2213
www.woodstock.org
The Zoom app can be downloaded here: Zoom
Download Center
To attend virtually: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com
to receive Zoom info
If attending via Zoom, 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.
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Features:
Philip Pardi - Philip Pardi is the author of Meditations
on Rising and Falling, which won the Brittingham Prize and the Writers'
League of Texas Poetry Award. Recent work appears in Alaska Quarterly
Review, American Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Mid-American
Review. He teaches at Bard College and in the Clemente Course in the
Humanities.
Steve in Beit Sahour (Palestine, 2001)
Steve, up early, would sip cool coke along-
side his hosts, listening to the distance.
What a thing it is to fear, said someone.
(Pausing now in the telling, Steve surveys
the speed and shift around us, his city reduced
to those who will not hear.) Their son, he spoke
to me just once, Steve tells me: He was young,
he saw in me just another American
in his country for ten days, knew in no time
I’d be back here in need of coffee to get
me out the door. Tell them, said the son
when I was leaving, and his father’s eyes
went wide, surprised to hear his boy speak up,
Tell them I don’t throw stones, I throw rocks.
-Philip Pardi
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Wendy Kagan - coming soon
coming soon
coming soon
-Wendy Kagan
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WPS 2026 Schedule - now in-person at the Woodstock Library and via
Zoom
All WPS Events: Events
01/January 10th - Ethan Sirotko;
Janet Kaplan
02/February 14th - Tina Barry; Zelda
aka Judith Z. Miller
03/March 14th - Michael Cohen; Rhonda
Rosenheck note: new time 1pm
04/April 11th - Poetry Month Special
Event - "Poetry as Resistance"
05/May 9th - Marianna Boncek; Richard
Parisio
06/June 13th - Judith Kerman; William
Seaton
07/July 11th - Allen Shadow; Carol
Graser
08/August 8th - Cheryl Rice; Leslie
Gerber
09/September 12th - Philip
Pardi; Wendy Kagan
10/October 10th - Darcy Smith; Raphael
Moser
11/November 14th - Denise La Neve;
Robyn Hager
12/December 12th - Kemp Battle; Marnie
Andrews and Annual Business Meeting
Follow the WPS on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WoodstockPoetry
and why not become a 2026 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society?
Membership is a tax deductible $20 a year. (To join, send your check to the
Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Please include
your email address. Or join online at: www.woodstockpoetry.com/become.html.
Your membership helps pay for our upgraded Zoom account, post-office-box rental,
the WPS website, and costs associated with publicizing the monthly events.
Note that WPS is a registered 501c3 (and NYS Charity).
One benefit of membership is the opportunity to have a brief biography and
several of your poems appear on this website. Numerous bios, poems, and pictures
of past and present WPS members are available here: www.woodstockpoetry.com/members.html
and here: www.woodstockpoetry.com/poems.html.
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