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What’s Happening at Writers & Books? September 2002 Programs & EventsWide Open Mike with Norm Davis
W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester’s longest running open mike program, “Wide Open Mike.” This forum allows poets and prose writers, essayists and performance artists of all ages and backgrounds, a place to share their work with others in a friendly atmosphere. Join host Norm Davis, local poet and editor of HazMat Review. Senior Reading Group
Join senior readers in the Verb Café for a pleasant afternoon of coffee, creative writing, and conversation. Read your prose and poetry in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere. Hosted by Norm Davis. Genesee Reading Series
W&B Our Genesee Reading Series kicks off a new season with authors James Hancock and Steve Lewandowski in the Verb Café, hosted by M.J. Iuppa. James Hancock has been a professor at Monroe Community College for many years. He is also an established poet and essayist and will read from a wide selection of excellent work. Steve Lewandowski’s poems and essays have appeared in national environmental and literary journals. Among many other honors, he has received the Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award from Finger Lakes Community College, and the Finger Lakes Land Trust’s Annual Conservationist of the Year Award. Steve has published eight books of poems and is celebrating a new collection, One Life, from Wood Thrush Books. Wide Open Mike Dedicated to the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11
We will accept donations to the Red Cross A MAMMOTH Event with Antonio Vallone
Antonio Vallone is an associate professor of English, creative writing, and film at Penn State DuBois, and a member of the Pennsylvania State University graduate faculty. He is also founder and publisher of MAMMOTH Books, a small press dedicated to publishing fine literary works of poetry and prose. Antonio was educated at Monroe Community College, SUNY Brockport, Purdue University, and Indiana University at Bloomington. He has studied with some of the finest writers and editors of our day, including William Heyen, Anthony Piccione, A. Poulin Jr., Mary Oliver, and Yusef Komunyakaa. His poems have been published in a number of journals in the United States and England, and he is the author of three collections, The Blackbirds’ Applause, Grass Saxophones, and Golden Carp. His next collection, American Zen, will be published in 2003. Antonio, who has read his poems and presented papers across the United States, will discuss writing and small press publishing in the Verb Café, and read and sign his work. Join us for this rare opportunity to meet one of today’s leading figures in contemporary literature. Following the Sun
John Hanson Mitchell, author of Following the Sun: A Bicycle Pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Hebrides (Basic Books, 2002), will read from, discuss, and sign his new work at W&B in the Verb Café. John is the author of seven other critically acclaimed books. He is also the editor of the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s magazine, Sanctuary. His work gracefully informs readers of humankind’s unique and essential relationship to nature and the environment. John received the John Burroughs Essay Award in 1994 and the New England Book Award in 2000. Nature Writing Workshop
Widely published environmentalist and nature writer John Hanson Mitchell will lead a workshop on nature writing at the Gell Center of the Finger Lakes. John has years of experience traveling around the world and writing about nature. Find the full course description here. W&B Members-Only Writers Group
W&B Writers in search of other writers are welcome to our members-only W&B Monthly Writers Group. Organizer and W&B board member Cynthia Martone says that this is a “professional critique group interested in solid, constructive feedback. Criticism has one goal: to make each member’s writing as good as it can be so that no publisher could turn it down.” Grand Opening of ARTWalk!
Introducing W&B’s New Screenplay Salon
Celebrate the 60s and Ken Kesey’s birthday. Join us in the Verb Café for the screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, based on Ken Kesey’s most famous novel. Jack Garner will host a discussion of the screenplay and the film. For more information about how to join our Screenplay Salon, call at 585-473-2590, x104. The Art of ASIL
ASIL is no acronym, she is a Rochester-born figure artist armed with a powerful style of depiction. Her career took off during a stay in Massachusetts, where she honed her technique of creating an almost haunting and sometimes sorrowful flow of images. In Rochester, ASIL has displayed her artwork in various coffee shops and local galleries and has earned an Emerging Artist award from the 2001 Image Art juried show. Join us for an opportunity to view and purchase some of her oil paintings and other works. Local poets Norm Davis, Marie Mandiak, Rick Pietrie, Lindsay Klug, Michael Ketchek and others will read poetry inspired by ASIL’s creations. Rochester Fantasy Fans Book TalkBeastMaster by Andre Norton
Rochester’s very own science fiction and fantasy club will meet at W&B. This meeting in the Verb Café is for RFF members, people who might be interested in joining the club, and those who would simply like to sit in on the book discussion. <— To August 2002 • To October 2002 —>
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