Woodstock Mayapple Writers' Retreat Public Reading

Описание: The Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat began as the Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Retreat in Saginaw, Michigan, in 2003, and moved to Woodstock in 2012. During COVID, it went online as a Zoom retreat, and in 2022 it became a hybrid retreat, as it is this year. Participants have come from as far away as St. Thomas USVI, Arkansas, California, Chicago and Utah. This year’s Woodstock Library Reading presents writers from the Hudson Valley, the Ozarks, and the Southern Tier of New York.

In addition to these readings, which will be streamed on the Library’s YouTube channel for those who cannot attend in person, two additional readings will be streamed online-only on Thursday, August 1 and Tuesday, August 6, at 7 p.m. at    / @mayapplepress5284  

Judith Kerman established Mayapple Press in 1979 and this Writers’ Retreat in 2003. A retired college professor and administrator, she has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Definitions (Fomite Press) and Aleph broken: Poems from My Diaspora (Broadstone Books), and three books of translations of Caribbean Latina poets. She founded Earth’s Daughters magazine in Buffalo in 1971. She lives in Woodstock, NY, where she serves as Vice-Chair of the Planning Board.

Stephen Lewandowski has retired after a forty year career with various conservation agencies while publishing fifteen large and small books of poetry and essays. His most recent is Hard Work in Low Places, a collection of poems published by Tiger Bark Press in Rochester, NY. He hopes his poetry will interest students of natural history, biological sciences, geology, watersheds and macroinvertebrates. He has spent the majority of his life in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, whose preservation and protection he alternately desires and despairs. His new book of his poems, Ground Truth, Poems from the Field, was published in April of 2024.

Shannon Frystak is a historian and writer who is currently working on a collection of essays entitled Confessions of an Academic Bartender: Essay on Life Inside and Outside of the Guild. Her historical work focuses on the brave women of the long “Sixties” era (a course she is teaching this fall) and while she loves being a historian, she is not looking forward to the next few months in the classroom

Leslie Gerber was born in Brooklyn in 1943. He was graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in creative writing. For 39 years he ran a mail-order classical music business, while writing thousands of music reviews and articles. In 1970 he moved to Ulster County and has lived there ever since. He began writing poetry in 1999. He is a proud member of the Goat Hill Poets, founded by Cheryl A. Rice and himself. He lives in Woodstock New York with his dog Winnie. Website: www.lesliegerber.net His books, Lies of The Poets, The Edge of Sleep, and Losing Tara were published by Post Traumatic Press.

Alison Koffler was the recipient of the Green Heron Poetry Award in 2011 and was the 2016 winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Award for poetry, having won it as well as in 1993, 2000, and 2006. Her poems have been published in numerous publications and are included in A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley, SUNY Press, 2013, Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets and Writers, Bright Hill Press, 2017, and CAPS Poetry 2020, CAPS Press, 2020. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her husband, the poet Dayl Wise, and their dogs, Cole and Leif. She and Dayl are the co-founders of Post Traumatic Press.