Friday Favorites: Sept. 19
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In honor of the 20th anniversary celebration tonight for the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, I ‘d like to acknowledge the writers and book lovers this group is featuring at its annual fall event.
The Sleepy Hollow-based writer’s group will honor writer Benjamin Cheever; writer/educator Brenda Connor-Bey who is Poet Laureate of Greenburgh; and co-founder Donald Stever, for their long-term contributions to the success of HVWC. The evening will feature a special reading by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins of North Salem, who has been a supporter of the Center for many years. The Katonah Studio Jazz Band will play throughout the evening.
The Writers’ Center serves more than 6,000 people annually with a range of day and evening programs and workshops.
The honorees:
Benjamin Cheever:
Four novels—”The Plagarist,” (Atheneum, 1992) ” The Partisan,” (Atheneum, 1994) ” Famous After Death,” (Bloomsbury, 2000) and “The Good Nanny: A Novel” (Bloomsbury, 2004)—and two nonfiction works, “Selling Ben Cheever” (Bloomsbury, 2001) and “Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete” (Rodale, 2007). He is also the editor of “The Letters of John Cheever” (Simon & Schuster, 1988).
Brenda Connor-Bey:
Author of “Tribute: A Rainbow of Praises”, co-author of the one-woman play, “The Head Lady: The Story of Madam C.J. Walker.” Her poems appear in numerous anthologies, “Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women” (edited by Amina & Amiri Baraka, Wm. Morrow), “Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life” (University of Pittsburgh), “Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review” (North Carolina State University), New Rain 7 (Blind Beggar Press), “The Writer in All of Us” (edited by June Gould, Ph.D., Dodd Mead).
Billy Collins:
“The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems” (University of Arkansas Press, 2006) , “The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems” (Random House, 2005), “Sailing Around the Room: New and Selected Poems” (Random House, 2001).
Donald Stever:
An environmental attorney who has worked alongside his wife Margo Stever, a poet, in establishing the HVWC .
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