Word Thursdays featuring The Five Sylvias
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, […]
Word Thursdays featuring Sara Cahill Marron & Indran Amirthanayagam
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 […]
Word Thursdays featuring Kendel Hippolyte and Clifford Brooks
Zoom link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746 Kendel Hippolyte was born in Castries, St. Lucia, in 1952. In the 1970s he studied and lived in Jamaica, receiving a BA from the University of the West Indies in 1976. Hippolyte is the author of several books of poetry, including Fault Lines (Peepal Tree Press, 2012), Night Vision (Triquarterly […]
SEEING THINGS INTERIM CRITIQUE GROUP
JANUARY 2- MARCH 6, Winter 2023 SEEING THINGS INTERIM CRITIQUE GROUP Monday 7 PM, 10 sessions Led by Pam Strother January 2- March 6. Intensive poetry workshop led by Pam Strother. 10 week session - Monday evening from 7 to 9:30 - Workshop value: $700 (scholarships and sliding scale offered to those in financial need). […]
WORD THURSDAYS FEATURING PHIL MEMMER AND HAZEL SIMMONS-MCDONALD
PHIL MEMMER Philip Memmer is the author of six books of poems, most recently Cairns (Lost Horse Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Poetry London, and Mid-American Review, in many anthologies, in the Library of Congress’s “Poetry 180” website, and in Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” column. […]
HOW TO PHOTOGRAPH YOUR MOTHER – ARTISTIC STORYTELLING WITHNICK KELSH
May 13, 9 - 4 PM The day before Mother’s Day, Nick Kelsh will take students out into the world and inside our gallery studio to learn how to shoot a portrait (of someone you love). After lunch, Nick will teach editing, captioning, and offer insights into how to write an accompanying piece to the […]
WORD THURSDAYS FEATURING RICHARD GEORGES AND MAC DONALD DIXON FEBRUARY 23, 2023
VirtualWord Thursdays Online featuring Richard Georges, Poet Laureate of the British Virgin Islands, and Mac Donald Dixon, recipient of the St. Lucia National Medal of Merit will broadcast live on Thursday, February 23 at 7 PM EST in celebration of Black History Month. To attend the event, Bright Hill's 31st season opener on February 23, […]
PREHISTORIC BEARS AND CATSKILLS CREATURES- TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS
Bright Hill Press and Literary Center 94 Church Street, Treadwell, NY, United StatesFEBRUARY 20-24, 2023 PREHISTORIC BEARS AND CATSKILLS CREATURES- TAUGHT BY BERTHA ROGERS Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop February 20-24. Workshop Cost to Participants: $170 - led by master teaching artist Bertha Rogers. - Ages 6 -14: 9 am - 2:30 pm, 5 days – We’ll learn about Eurypterus, Coelophysis, American Mastodon, Giant Beaver, Giant Short-faced […]
WORD THURSDAYS FEATURING OUR ANCESTORS DID NOT BREATHE THIS AIR
AYSE GUVENILIR Ayse Guvenilir was born in Austin into a family with a Turkish father, a Venezuelan mother, and three older brothers. Growing up in Texas, France, and various parts of upstate New York, Ayse has always used reading and writing for connection, reflection, and relaxation as she moved from place to place. She sees […]
WORD THURSDAYS FEATURING SAFIA JAMA AND TIM HUNT
SAFIA JAMA Safia Jama was born to a Somali father and an Irish American mother in Queens, New York. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, she has published poetry in Ploughshares, Boston Review, World Literature Today, Spoken Black Girl, and Poem-a-Day. Her poetry has also been featured on WNYC’s Morning Edition and CUNY TV’s Shades of […]