Genesee Reading Series

Now in its 24th year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region.

Hosted by Wanda Schubmehl
$3 W&B members, $6 general public
7:30 p.m., W&B
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Featuring Wynne McClure and Julie Damerell

May brings not just flowers (even in Rochester) but also the opportunity to hear two extraordinary local poets, Wynne McClure and Julie Damerell.

Wynne McClure's books have been published by FootHills Publishing: a chapbook, The Hidden Self, a book with her late husband Paul Bither, Torn For Peace, and a new book forthcoming, My Lonely Luxury, scheduled to appear this spring. She is one of the "Five In The Afternoon" poets, whose latest anthology is This Span I Will Cross. She is an active member of Just Poets and Rochester Poets, and has been published in the anthologies of both. She is the First Prize winner of the 2003 issue of RIT's Signature magazine and took Honorable Mention in the Louella Cady Lamphier Contest. She enjoys collaborating with other artists, such as Voices In the Gallery with Memorial Art Gallery, the RochesterInk Poetry In Fusion festival, the Rochester Art Club collaboration, and the Women In Music festival with the Eastman School.

Julie Damerell teaches at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, and lives in Brighton with her husband and two children. She is the web editor for miller's pond, http://millerspondpoetry.com. She has authored a chapbook of her poetry, Needing Blue.

Her prose has been published in Mother Voices and online in Ellavon. Among the print magazines that include her work are ByLine, Bellowing Ark, The Rockford Review, and Snow Monkey. Print anthologies that include her work are Words of Wisdom: Hornell Poet's Theatre Twentieth Anniversary Anthology; Anthology One, Alsop Review; The Best of Melic Review: Three Years Online. Many of her poems can also be found in on-line zines, including Zuzu's Petals (her first acceptance), Conspire, Tryst, Melic Review, La Petite Zine, Sijo Blossoms and Tanka Light.