Date/Time
Date(s) - June 14, 2022
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Keegan Ales
Categories
Please join UCWN at Keegan Ales for original poetry readings by five of Ulster County’s premiere poets. Spotlighted are Judith Kerman, Judith Lechner, Penelope Levine, Sabrina Miller, and Cheryl A. Rice. After their readings the mic will open for you to regale us with one of your own poems. Let’s hear you!
Five Women Poets & You
June 14, 2022, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Keegan Ales
20 Saint James Street, Kingston NY 12401
Enjoy our community and Keegan’s comestibles while listening to spoken word poetry our county’s best. You must register to attend. Just $5 for UCWN members and $10 for all guests. A member must log in with her email and password to take advantage of the member discount. This event may be recorded and posted on our YouTube.com channel. By registering for this event, you agree to being photographed and recorded. Dynamic Duo: Judith Kerman and Leslie Snow.
Agenda
• 5:30: Check in and networking
• 6:15: Poetry readings begin
Biographies
Judith Kerman
Judith Kerman’s most recent book, Definitions, was published by Fomite Press in May 2021. She has published ten prior collections of poetry as well as three books of translations of Cuban and Dominican poetry and fiction. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic in 2002. A retired university professor and administrator, she founded Earth’s Daughters magazine in Buffalo, NY (1971 to present) and runs Mayapple Press, located in Woodstock, NY.
Judith Lechner
Judith Lechner is a former English teacher and writer for educational publishers. Her poetry book “The Moon Sings Back” was published in 2011; individual poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. She is a member of Goat Hill Poets, and her work has received the Green Heron Poetry Prize, Tattoo Haiku Prize, and Donald Lev Foundation Award.
Penelope Levine
Penny reads her work throughout the region. She curated three performances at Cocoon Theatre supporting poets in the visual and musical performance of their work. She has set her own poems to music, dance, and theatre. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “The Architecture That Held Them.”
Sabrina Miller
“From the wheat fields and gypsum plateaus of northwest Oklahoma, my affinity for words led me to relocate to the beautiful mountains and rich artistic history of the Catskills. In my time here, I have since compiled hundreds of pages of poetry that now live as song lyrics. I have performed spoken word at several local venues and it was one fateful gathering where I met my band mate, Rennie Cantine, who asked me to do spoken word with his band. Ever since, I began playing guitar and mandolin, composing words into music, and we are close to finishing our second album as Sabrina and the Gems. While I have worn many hats, I am—at heart—a poet and cherish any opportunity to return to my roots, strongly embedded in the soil of a wordsmith.” www.sparklepoetess.com
Cheryl A. Rice
Cheryl A. Rice’s poems have appeared in Baltimore Review, Home Planet News, Misfit Magazine, and Trailer Park Quarterly, among others. Recent books include Love’s Compass (Kung Fu Treachery Press), and Until the Words Came (Post Traumatic Press), the latter coauthored with Guy Reed. Her blog is at: http://flyingmonkeyprods.blogspot.com/. Rice lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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Bookings
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