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***SOLD OUT!***I’m reading poetry this Saturday February 9, 2019!

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***UPDATE*** I’ve just been informed we’re sold out for tomorrow’s fundraising dinner/reading. Sorry! 🙂
Dear friends. I’m giving a poetry reading this Saturday, February 9 as part of a LiterarY Dinner in support of the Syracuse YMCA Arts Branch and The Downtown Writer’s Center and all of the amazing and valuable work they do in the community. The cost for attending is $50 — it’s a fundraiser event…and you get dinner! 🙂
 
Complete info is below. If you’re planning on coming, please RSVP Phil Memmer <pmemmer@syracuseymca.org>. Feel free to share this with anyone who may be interested. Thanks!
 
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Saturday Night’s Y Lit Dinner – February 9, 2019
 
Location: 208 Pear Tree Dr., Camillus 13031
 
Time: 6:00 to ? (dinner itself will probably start around 6:45-7:00)
 
Guest Poet: Christopher Citro, author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy.
 
Donation: $50 per person, tax deductible. You can bring a check payable to YMCA, or cash, or you can also give online at our Mobile Cause page: https://app.mobilecause.com/vf/artsymca
 
Our menu will include seven dishes, including four vegetarian options. It’s going to be scrumptious!
 
Thank you for supporting the charitable work of the Arts Branch of the Y!
 
Phil Memmer
Executive Director, the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse
340 Montgomery St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
pmemmer@syracuseymca.org
(315) 474-6851 x328
(315) 474-6857 (fax)
ycny.org/arts

Thank you Martha’s Vineyard!

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With a steaming cup of chowder on the ferry off of Martha’s Vineyard I toast thank you to all the wonderful people who came out for my lyric essay class yesterday and my poetry reading and book signing today. Thank you to Carolina and Merissa for your help and hospitality. Thank you to everyone for making my winter visit to the vineyard cozy and warm! Can’t wait to come back in June for the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing tenth anniversary!

Martha’s Vineyard Times Article About my Class and Reading This Weekend

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Thank you Kate Feiffer of the The Martha’s Vineyard Times for this beautiful, generous article about my lyric essay class and poetry reading this weekend at the Oak Bluffs Library on Martha’s Vineyard! If you’re in the area come on by! Both my class (Fri 1/25 3:30-5:30) and my reading (Sat 1/26 10:30-11:30 am) are free and open to the public, thanks to the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series.

Read the article HERE.

I’m teaching and reading on Martha’s Vineyard Jan 25 & 26, 2019

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I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be traveling to Martha’s Vineyard in a few weeks to offer a creative writing class on the lyric essay and to give a poetry reading – as part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Year-Round Visiting Writers Series. Both the class and reading are free and open to the public. If you’re in the area come on by!

The Year-Round Visiting Writers Series highlights local and national writers and offers free creative writing workshops and readings to the Vineyard community.

Learn more here: http://oakbluffslibrary.org/event/mvicw-writing-series-the-poetic-essay-writing-seminar/

I’m reading at Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival

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Delighted to be heading out to read my poetry and moderate a publishing panel for Lit Youngstown’s Fall Literary Festival at Youngstown State University. There are tons of readings, panels, a book fair – so much literary goodness. I’ll be reading poems from my unpublished second book manuscript Friday Sept 21 at 2 pm, along with fellow readers Sara Moore Wagner and Susan Wojnar, then moderating an Editor’s Publishing Panel that features Dianne Borsenik, Rochelle Hurt, Larry Smith, Vertigo Xi’an Xavier, Jessica Fischoff, and John Gosslee. And that’s just one fragment of all that’s happening over the festival’s two days. If you’re in the neighborhood, come on by!

Schedule of events.

I’m reading in Youngstown Sept 21, 2018!

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I’m delighted to share the news that I’ll be reading my poems at Lit Youngstown’s Second Annual Fall Literary Festival, which takes place this September 21-22. If you’re in the area, come on by! The two-day line-up of readers, presenters, workshops, panels, and activities is really exciting. Early registration is just thirty-five dollars and lasts until August 15. I’ll be reading at 2 pm Friday Sept 21.

Click HERE to see the complete festival schedule and to register.

LiterarY Dinner & Reading!

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What a wonderful time I had reading poetry on Saturday night at the LiterarY Dinner! So great to see so many friends in the audience! Thank you so much everyone for coming out and supporting the Syracuse YMCA Arts programs. Thank you to my fellow reader Cheryl Reed, and musical artists Daniel Fields and Sabine Krantz. Thank you to our hosts Neva and Richard Pilgrim and Johanna Keller and Charles Martin. Warmth and good company on a cold February night!

 

 

(Thank you to Cheryl Reed for this photograph of us)

 

Poetry Reading in Syracuse Saturday February 17, 2018

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Dear friends. I’m giving a poetry reading next Saturday, February 17 as part of a LiterarY Dinner in support of the Syracuse YMCA Arts Branch and The Downtown Writer’s Center and all of the amazing and valuable work they do in the community. The cost for attending is $50. I’ll be reading my poetry for ten minutes. The evening will also include a prose reading by novelist Cheryl Reed. There’ll be music. There’ll be food. There’ll be great fun.

If you’re interested please RSVP the hosts. Complete info below. Feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested.

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•Hosts: Neva & Dick Pilgrim, Charles Martin & Johanna Keller 917-584-1878
•Date: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AT 6:00 PM
•Location: The Pilgrim Home / 438 Brookford Rd Syracuse, NY
•Featuring: Poet Christopher Citro & Novelist Cheryl Reed as well as Musical Artists!
•To Benefit YMCA Arts

DON’T YOU DESERVE A GREAT NIGHT OUT IN FEBRUARY?
Brrr, it’s cold. If you have been with us in the past, you know this is a fantastically warm party for the coldest month! If you are new to the Y programs, you’ll find it’s a terrific community of truly caring people. Please join us for the annual LiterarY Dinner in support of the YMCA Arts Branch and the Downtown Writers Center. The Y Arts Branch offers extraordinary programs that enrich our town.
The evening includes dinner, wine, entertainment and fabulous company.
For more than a decade, members of the cultural community all over Syracuse host dinners in their homes to raise money for the Y Arts Branch and its programs. All the hospitality is donated and poets and writers and musicians donate their services too.
A tax-deductible donation of $50 per person is requested (please RSVP and bring cash or a check with you on that evening made out to YMCA Syracuse). Every dollar raised goes to the Y arts programs that enrich our town and bring arts to children of our community.
So, for the cost of a dinner out, you get dinner out AND entertainment AND a whole lot more fun AND do some tax-deductible good….We hope you can join us!
Johanna Keller & Charles Martin
Neva Pilgrim & Dick Pilgrim