Steve Castro and I are doing a Zoom reading March 5 at 7pm!


Poet Steve Castro, author of Blue Whale Phenomena (Otis Books, 2019), and I are giving a Zoom poetry reading on Sunday March 5, 2023 at 7 pm ET. We haven’t seen each other in person for over a decade. He’s in town to read in person with me at Syracuse Stage earlier in the day, but since only folks around here will be able to attend that in-person reading, we thought we’d also read on Zoom later that day! Come join us!

Registration in advance is required. It’s free and simple! All you need is your name and an email address! Use the QR code above or visit the registrations link here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcuitrDwiGta6iaHRL5Q3YZlFXsl3CXJL

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

LiterarY Dinner & Reading!

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

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

I’m Reading in Buffalo NY Tomorrow!

Along with poets Ed Tato and Devon Moore, I’ll be reading my poems tomorrow, Saturday March 4, 2017 at 4pm at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo (415 Grant St, Buffalo, NY 14213-1140).  Admission is free, refreshments will be provided, and the poems will help melt all this March snow. If you’re in the area, swing (or cross-country ski) on by!

 

Audio of my 10/23/2015 reading at the Downtown Writer’s Center available at Talk About Poetry

I’m delighted to be able to share this audio recording of my poetry reading at The Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse on October 23, 2015. The recording was made by Bob Herz and is released as part of the Talk About Poetry podcast. This recording features poems from my first book, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, as well as newer work. Thank you so much Bob and thanks again Phil Memmer for inviting me to read!
You can listen on Soundcloud HERE.
You can listen via iTunes HERE.