Poets on Friday
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- April
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The Slapering Hol Press of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center in Sleepy Hollow is hosting a special poetry reading tomorrow evening.
The writers’ group at the Philipse Manor train station on Riverside Drive along the Hudson River will be featuring The Poets of Toadlily Press at 7:30 pm. Toadlily Press is a local press and deserves attention for the writers it highlights and well-crafted chapbooks it produces.
Poets from An Uncommon Accord, the latest book in Toadlily Press’ quartet series —Marcia Arrieta, Michael Carman and George Kraus— will be joined by previously published Toadlily Press poets Pamela Hart and Maxine Silverman.
“The four splendid and drastically individuated poets included in An Uncommon Accord manage, paradoxically enough, to create a harmony and a conversation among one another worthy of the great string quartets. The tensions between them are not violent but musical. They energize and transform the unique experience of each poem and poet; they give a permanent glow to the beautiful local civilization that is this book..” said Vijay Seshadri in the press’s promotional material.
Here is a bit on each featured poet:
•Marcia Arrieta is a high school English teacher and editor/publisher of the poetry journal, Indefinite Space. Her chapbook, the curve against the linear, was published in 2008 in An Uncommon Accord. She has an MFA from Vermont College, lives on the canyon in Pasadena, Calif. and often escapes into philosophy, nature, music and art.
Michael Carman lives in Yonkers. Her chapbook, You in Translation, appears in An Uncommon Accord. She has taught poetry for Poets & Writers, in men’s and women’s jails in Westchester County, and at Sing Sing Prison. She currently teaches writing at F.I.T./SUNY in Manhattan.
George Kraus holds a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Rendition was published in An Uncommon Accord. He has worked as translator and scholar and divides his time between Rio de Janeiro and Tarrytown where he writes poetry and prose.
Pamela Hart is a former journalist and new partner at Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, The End of the Body, was published in 2006 in The Fifth Voice. She’s writer in residence at the Katonah Museum of Art and directs the Art of Writing Institute at Long Island University, Purchase College campus, and teaches writing at LIU’s graduate school of education.
Maxine Silverman’s poems and essays have been published in anthologies and journals including Pushcart Prize III, and in two chapbooks, Survival Song (Sunbury Press) and Red Delicious in Desire Path, the inaugural Toadlily Press volume, as a founding editor. She is also a visual artist, and curates the series Readings at Riverspace in Nyack.
Admission $5 ($3 for Writers’ Center members). For information on the writers’ center go to the Web site.
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