Woodstock Poetry Society
Featured Reading and Open Mike
Saturday, November 11th, 2026 at 1pm (new time)
Woodstock Library
Denise La Neve
Robyn Hager
HYBRID: in-person and virtually via Zoom
Poets Denise La Neve and Robyn Hager
will be the featured reader, 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, November 11th, 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
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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:
Denise La Neve - Denise La Neve writes both poetry and fiction.
Her current poetry collection, Half-Lives of the Radium Girls, was
published by The Poets Press (www.poetspress.org).
She was a contributor and editor for a trilogy of “Poets of the Palisades”
anthologies: Beyond the Rift (2010), META-LAND (2016), and
On the Verge (2020). Denise’s work has appeared in many literary
journals, and she co-hosts a literary series (The High Mountain Meadow Poetry
Series). A Patersonian, she spent summers in a small farming village in the
Vosges Mountains of northeastern France. She traveled with her husband to
far pavilions, sailed on a sloop through the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea. She
sojourned to India, the Great Wall of China, the sarsens of Stonehenge, swam
in ancient Roman baths in Spain, recovered amber in Lebanon and the Dolomites
of Italy, ballooned in Tuscany, and canoed the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.n
Fountains
In columned lean-tos
made of sandstone
with terracotta roofs
fed by Rivière La Lanterne,
lavoirs were constructed
to wash clothes by hand
not in a portable tub,
stationary sink,
or chlorinated pool;
rather at a fountain
on the Rue de la Mairie,
longstanding as Paris or Rome.
Shirts, trousers, and dresses immerse,
soak in the cool waters
of this crystal spring.
Here, women gather,
converse about neighbors:
Yvonne her
raspberries
recipes for preserves;
Simone price
of milk of eggs
her husband’s farm
Reine her
daughter, her son
family news.
Laughter ripples
on waves of conversation
generation after generation
till one day
the town shuts off the water,
leaving stone basins still.
Decades pass,
and the flow of water resumes,
but the fountain’s use is lost in time.
Cavernous and quiet,
it is now a home for algae,
minnows and tadpoles.
The sound of laughter
is seldom heard outside,
no longer face-to-face.
Women’s voices are silent,
just echoes … fading into the past,
the past itself washed away.
-Denise La Neve
Published in "Meta-Land: Poets of the Palisades" anthology, 2016 by The Poet's Press
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Robyn Hager - coming soon
coming soon
coming soon
-Robyn Hager
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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
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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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