Riverspace to host poets
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- January
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Readings at Riverspace in Nyack is returning on Sunday, Feb. 1 at 4 pm in the cafe and highlighting its poetry friends from across the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow.
Poets Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon and David Tucker, both award winners, will read from their chapbooks. The afternoon is billed as “Poetry Chapbooks: An Afternoon with Poets from the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.”
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon collaborated with fellow poet Elizabeth Alexander on Poems in Conversation and a Conversation, their chapbook about “Reclining Nude “a collage by renowed African American artist Romare Bearden. Black Swan, Stefanon’s first fulllength collection, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Alexander, you recall, read an original poem at President Barak Obama’s inauguration.
David Tucker, author of Days When Nothing Happens, is also a career journalist. He won the Bakeless Prize for Poetry for Late for Work, described by Philip Levine a as “a series of verbal triumphs.”
This event is made possible, in part, with funds from the Community Arts Grants program of the Arts Council of Rockland, the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts and a generous grant secured by Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee.
Tickets are free, but donations accepted. Riverspace is at 119 Main Street, Nyack. Information: call 845-348-1800. For more information on the Hudson Valley Writers Center go to its Web site.
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