Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Hélène Cardona is a poet, literary translator and actor, the recipient of over 20 honors & awards, including the Independent Press Award, International Book Award and Hemingway Grant. Her books include Life in Suspension and Dreaming My Animal Selves (both Salmon Poetry) and the translations Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Robert Bensen (Oneonta, NY)  has conducted the “Seeing Things” workshop at Bright Hill since Spring 2019.  The latest of his six collections of poetry is Before (Five Oaks Press, 2019). His poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Native Realities, Jamaica Journal, AGNI, Akwe:kon, Poetry Wales, The Thomas Hardy Review, […]

BRIGHT HILL LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS & TEENS - SUMMER II AUGUST 8 – 12 BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLIES, BAFFLING BATS (Taught by Bertha Rogers) – Ages 6 – 14: 9 am – 2:30pm, 5 days – There are many butterflies in the skies in the Catskills, and we’re lucky to see those regularly. Bats tend to […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Meg Kearney’s latest poetry collection, All Morning the Crows, was winner of the 2020 Washington Prize for poetry and spent seven months on SPD’s poetry bestseller list after its release in 2021. In addition, Meg is author of An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now, winner of the 2010 […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Alexis Rhone Fancher is published in Best American Poetry, Rattle, Hobart, Verse Daily, Plume, Tinderbox, Cleaver, Diode, The American Journal of Poetry, Spillway, Nashville Review, Poetry East, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. She’s authored six poetry collections, most recently, Junkie Wife (Moon Tide Press, 2018), and The Dead Kid Poems (KYSO Flash Press, 2019). EROTIC: […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Lynne Kemen lives in Upstate New York. Her chapbook, More Than A Handful, was published in 2020. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in La Presa, Silver Birch Press, The Ravens Perch, Fresh Words Magazine, Topical Poetry, The Ekphrastic Review, Blue Mountain Review, and the anthology What We […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Kate McNairy lives in Ballston Spa, upstate, NY. and has taught at SUNY Adirondack & Empire State College. She has also worked as an administrative assistant for an opera company and baseball team. She read her poetry here a few years ago and so enjoyed the venue. She has published […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Anastasia Vassos is the author of Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (Nixes Mate, 2021).  Her chapbook The Lesser-Known Riddle of the Sphinx was a finalist in Two Sylvias Press 2021 Chapbook Contest. Her poems appear in Thrush, RHINO, SWWIM, Comstock Review and elsewhere. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review, […]

Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Sara Cahill Marron is the author of Reasons for the Long Tu’m (Broadstone Books, 2018), Nothing You Build Here, Belongs Here (Kelsay Books 2021), and Call Me Spes (MadHat Press 2022), and is the Associate Editor of Beltway Poetry Quarterly and publisher at Beltway Editions (www.beltwayeditions.com). Her work has been published widely […]