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October 2003 Programs & Events
 Wide Open Mike with Norm Davis
- Friday October 3, 7:30 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
W&B is proud to sponsor Rochester’s longest running open mike program, “Wide Open Mike,” hosted by Norm Davis, local poet and editor of HazMat Review.
 2000 Word Club Open Mike
- Tuesday October 7, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
This fiction and creative non-fiction open mike, hosted by Len Messineo, allows writers of all levels to read up to 2000 words of prose in front of an encouraging and enthusiastic crowd.
An Evening with Marsha Jones
- Thursday October 9, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
Join Marsha Jones as she reads from her novel-in-progress, Love Begins With Truth, supported in part by a grant from the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. Marsha has written for The Buffalo Challenger, about…time magazine, Upstate Women’s Magazine, and other publications. She is a past president of the Rochester Association of Black Communicators and a member of The National Association of Black Journalists. She holds a BA in journalism and Spanish from Purdue University.
Senior Reading Group
- Tuesday October 14, 2–4 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public.
Share your writing with other senior readers and writers in a comfortable, supportive atmosphere. Hosted by Norm Davis.
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered Open Mike
- Tuesday October 14, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and pen to the public
The Wilde/Woolf Society presents an informal reading open to everyone. Material will focus on (but is not limited to) LGBT lifestyles and issues. Hosted by Dennis Rosenbaum and published author and W&B instructor Patricia Roth Schwartz.
Karen Morris Publication Party
- Wednesday, October 15, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
Karen Morris is a Professor of Law at Monroe Community College and a Brighton Town Judge. Join her for a party celebrating the publication of her most recent text book, Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Law, 6th Edition. Karen has written text books on business law, hospitality law, and penal law, and she will answer questions and talk briefly about the art and craft of writing text books.
The Genesee Reading Series
- Tuesday, October 21, 7:30 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- with Lisa Jadwin, Cheryl Savageau, and Elizabeth Valentine, hosted by M.J. Iuppa
- Admission $3 members, $6 general public.
Dr. Lisa Jadwin received her Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 1989, where she specialized in the English novel. She is currently a professor of English at St. John Fisher College, and in addition to her scholarly books and articles has recently completed her first work of fiction.
Special guest Cheryl Savageau’s work has appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including River Styx, Sojourner, and The Boston Review. She received a 1996 Notable Book for Children award from the Smithsonian for Muskrat Will Be Swimming and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Dirt Road Home. Cheryl is of mixed French Canadian and Abenaki heritage and currently teaches in the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Elizabeth Valentine attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2000 and since then has participated in a number of Writers & Books fiction workshops. In 2002, she won the ImageArt Poetry Award. She is currently at work on the third of three related novellas.
Rochester Poets Reading & Open Mike
- Wednesday October 22, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
Rochester Poets has been a thriving poetry organization in the community since 1922. Their membership includes poets of all ages, interests, and backgrounds. Come to W&B to hear a Rochester Poet read, followed by an open mike program, hosted by Donna Marbach.
 W&B’s Screenplay Salon
- Thursday October 23, 6–9 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Admission $6 members, $8 non-members
- Contact Karen vanMeenen for details. or 473-2590 x104
Each month join Democrat and Chronicle film critic Jack Garner for a discussion and screening of a critically acclaimed film.
Rear Window
- 1954, USA, 112 min., Color
- Produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcok
- Screenplay by John Michael Hayes
- All Movie Guide
The classic Alfred Hitchcock film starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly
The Old Pothead!
- Tuesday October 28, 7 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free and open to the public
Join Sam Abrams for a reading, signing, and publication party for his poetry collection, The Old Pothead Poems. Sam was born in Brooklyn in 1935, has been a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at the University of Athens, and is currently Professor of Language and Literature in the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology.
LITalk
- Thursday October 30, 7 - 8:30 pm
- in the Verb Café at W&B
- Free to W&B members, $3 general public
Join various W&B instructors for this unique lecture and discussion series that is sure to challenge writers of all kinds with unique topics of interest.
“How Can You be in Two Places at Once When You’re Really Nowhere at All?” We spend much of our lives in non-places: strip malls, cluttered highways, airports and parking ramps, places where our usual reaction is a kind of psychic numbness. Join W&B instructor Ken Wilson as he examines contemporary writers and artists who attempt to re-imagine our sense of place in a post-modern world.
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