Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, October 10th, 2026 at 1pm (new time)
Woodstock Library
Darcy Smith
Raphael Moser
HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom
Poets Darcy Smith and Raphael Moser
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, October 10th, 2026 at 2pm(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:
Darcy Smith - coming soon
coming soon
coming soon
-Darcy Smith
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Raphael Moser - Raphael Moser’s poetry has appeared
in journals including Mad Hatter’s Review, Chronogram, swifts &
slows, and The Georgia Review, among others. She was a regular
contributor to the poetry blog October Babies and has performed original
poetry and music in venues in NYC and Long Island. She has been awarded residency
grants from SLS Concordia College, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems
will be included in a forthcoming swifts & slows anthology and
the publication of her manuscript Blindly Swept Frankly is forthcoming
by Red Glass Books.
Elizabeth’s Trials
Waist deep in the cavern, the random and
Unreal cut off, a rapturous prism
Is wrought. Worlds of light may keep, may hold a
Crucible staked in mettle and will. Back
outside reversals like foothills sprawl round
a starless edifice clamped onto rapt
unseeing eyes. Hash tag: The body jerks
swagger. Hash tag: Schemes like tributaries.
Its inside affect defect in porous
zones under the sharpie grifting sky. Where
to begin again. The shadows on the
cave reminisce with light. Seeds pressed mid-air
cross-stitching an orphic melancholy
Back and forth, figures gentle the light
-Raphael Moser
Banks V
Black-edged deep soil
spatters on a wall
quiet
The season's heavy
leaves white unaltered
until
the
Rank-burdened deluge
unwraps the dark
Hardened by the luster
of terrifying beauty
Blackness settles
Stoneward
stones loosed stones drift
stoneward
-Raphael Moser
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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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