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 […]

MAY 6 - THE WORD AND IMAGE GALLERY PRESENTS UNCOMMON CREATURES ARTIST: BERTHA ROGERS A word and image installation at The Word and Image Gallery. Times to be announced. Show runs through June 4. BERTHA ROGERS Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies and the collections Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, […]

FRANK HABERLE Frank Haberle is the author of two books:  Shufflers (Flexible Press, Minneapolis, September 2021), a story of transients moving through minimum-wage jobs in the 1980s; and the upcoming Downlanders (Flexible Press, November 2023), following five misfits into a fictional wilderness.  Frank’s short stories have won awards from Pen Parentis, Beautiful Loser Magazine, the Sustainable […]

May 13 9-2:30 PM with Nick Kelsh. During this multi-media arts education workshop, students will learn how to take great photos on iPhones (Bright Hill has acquired a fleet of 5 in-house) during part one of the workshop. After lunch, moms will be invited back to Bright Hill, at which time students will take portraits […]

BERTHA ROGERS Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies and the collections Wild, Again (Salmon, 2019); Heart Turned Back (Salmon, 2010); Even the Hemlock (Six Swans, 2005); The Fourth Beast (Snark, 2004); A House of Corners (Three Conditions, 2000); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, 1991); and What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems (forthcoming, Salmon, […]

GEORGIA POPOFF Georgia A. Popoff is a writer, editor,arts-in-education specialist, and Workshops Coordinator for the YMCA of Central NY’s Downtown Writers Center, where she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. Her poetry includes Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press, 1997), The Doom Weaver (Main Street Rag Publishers, 2008), and Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common […]

SEAN MURPHY Sean Murphy is the Founding Director of 1455, a non-profit that celebrates storytelling (www.1455litarts.org). He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and AdAge. A long-time columnist for PopMatters, his work has also appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, Washington […]