Word Thursdays Online 2021
Bright Hill Press presents our 29th Season of Word Thursdays.
We are continuing our mission of keeping art and literature alive in the Catskills – and beyond – with our virtual series of Word Thursdays Online via Zoom.
November 18, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Jen Karetnick and Jennifer K. Sweeney
November 11, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Elizabeth Powell and Mary Kay Rummel
October 28, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Carolyne Wright and Lynn Levin
October 14, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Jay Rogoff and JoEllen Kwiatek
September 9, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Melody Davis and Sharon Ruetenik
September 9, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Melody Davis and Sharon Ruetenik
August 26, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Seeing Things Chapbook Series Poets, Lynne Kemen and Julene Waffle
August 12, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Seeing Things Chapbook Series Poets, David Bachner and Vicki Whicker
July 22, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Libby Maxey and Millicent Borges
July 8, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Nandini Bhattacharya
June 24, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Denise B. Dailey and Alice Pettway
June 10, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Richard Jeffrey Newman and Margot Farrington
May 27, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Marcela Sulak and Jeannine Ouellette
May 13, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring V.P. Loggins
April 22, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Unity
April 8, 2021: Word Thursdays Online featuring Fred Schneider
February 25, 2021: Word Thursdays Online celebrating Black History Month featuring Jeffrey Colvin
Word Thursdays Online 2020
Our in-person featured poet reading series, Word Thursdays, in its 28th year, transitioned to an online platform when quarantine began; instead of our scheduled writer, who was unable to attend due to circumstances of the pandemic, we opened our season with the New York State Poet Laureate, Alicia Ostriker, who read poetry while quarantined in her apartment in New York City!
April 10, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Alicia Ostriker
April 23, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Bill Stratton and Cicada Musselman
May 15, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Bruce Bennett
May 29, 2020: Word Thursdays Online with Rainie Oet, winner of BH’s 2019 full length poetry anthology, Porcupine in Freefall
September 11, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Vicki Whicker
September 25, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Forest & Field Poets
October 9, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Mary Gilliland – “The Ruined Walled Castle Garden”
October 23, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Pam Strother and Robert Bensen — “Seeing Things: An Anthology of Poetry”
November 13, 2020: Word Thursdays Online featuring Alice Lichtenstein