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 […]

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. […]

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 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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

APRIL 3-7, 2023 THE CATSKILL FOSSIL FOREST IN CAIRO + THE GILBOA FOREST Bus trip to Cairo & Gilboa to see fossil forest in quarry and in Gilboa Youth Literacy Arts Education Workshop April 3-7. Workshop Cost to Participants: $170 - led by master teaching artist Bertha Rogers. - Ages 6-14, 9 am - 2:30 […]

CELIA SORHAINDO Celia A. Sorhaindo was born in The Commonwealth of Dominica. She migrated with her family to England in 1976, when she was 8 years old, returning home in 2005. Her poems have been published in several Caribbean and international journals. She is co-compiler of Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return, published by […]