Readings & Other Events Word Thursdays Writers

Bright Hill Center - 2008 Schedule of Events   BRIGHT HILL LITERARY CENTER, 94 CHURCH STREET, TREADWELL, NY 13846, VOICE: 607-829-5055; E-MAIL: wordthur@stny.rr.com; WEB SITE: brighthillpress.org; nyslittree.org. ALL EVENTS TAKE PACE AT BRIGHT HILL CENTER, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED FEB. 9, 16, 23; MAR. 1, 8, 9 AM-2:30 PM: WORD THURSDAYS WINTER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS: A TIME FOR TOTEMS & MASKS FROM MANY CULTURES: LEARNING ALL ABOUT THEM, MAKING THEM, & WRITING ABOUT THEM. FEE $85 FOR 5 SESSIONS; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. FEBRUARY 28, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION - OPEN MIKE READING OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETS & WRITERS. $3 ADMISSION, UNDER 18, FREE. MARCH 27, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION - OPEN MIKE READING AMERICAN WOMEN POETS & WRITERS. $3 ADMISSION, UNDER 18, FREE. APRIL 6, 3-5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - ART EXHIBIT "A LIGHT HEART" MIXED MEDIA WORKS BY JS GRIN, COOPERSTOWN, NY (JS GRIN has a sense of place, a sense of humor, and a special ability to capture scenes and situations you already know and remember. A poet, writer, teacher, and artist, Grin believes in showing the world she inhabits. Raised in the Catskills, she witnessed farms and animals and mountain vistas; then Iowa landscapes and people framed her own children’s early years. Surrounded by the students she teaches in both public school and college, she returns the quick humor and easy smiles of the curious. History Sings, a program for students, and Grin and the Ts, a jazz standards trio are also part of Grin’s repertoire. She was winner of "Icarus: Women in Aviation" for her sculpture "Leaving the Hangers (sic) Behind." Grin shows her work at the Smithy Pioneer gallery and at member shows at the Cooperstown Art Association as well as at local businesses. Her photographic posters represent her social commentary sculptures.) OPENING. FREE. APRIL 6-25 (SEE HOURS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - ART EXHIBIT "A LIGHT HEART" MIXED MEDIA WORKS BY JS GRIN, COOPERSTOWN, NY, MON.-TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM, WED., 9 AM - NOON, & BY APPT. FREE. APRIL 10, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY POET WILLIAM SEATON, MIDDLETOWN, NY ( WILLIAM SEATON's Spoor of Desire: Selected Poems is due from FootHills Publishing in March of 2008. He is the author as well of Tourist Snapshots (CC Marimbo) and Cold Water (Monkey's Press). His poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in such journals as Chelsea, Wordsmith, Mad Blood, Home Planet News, Copulation, and Heaven Bone as well as in four anthologies (including the recent Riverine from Codhill Press), and his scholarly studies in Mystics Quarterly, the Iowa Journal of Literary Studies, and in several volumes of Bruccoli Clark's Dictionary of Literary Biography series. He has been active in poetry performance throughout his career, from happenings in the 60s and street readings in the 70s to a recent show in Budapest with a hurdy-gurdy player as the opening act. He has taught in a wide variety of settings, including the Nigerian bush and a New York State prison as well as at Long Island University and Adelphi. For more than fourteen years he has produced the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance series in Middletown, NY. AND EARL W. ROBERTS III, UNDADILLA, NY & DRUMS, PA (EARL ROBERTS has written religion page articles for various local newspapers including The Oneonta Daily Star. He has had poetry and fiction published in a number of small literary magazines and anthologies including Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond and The Second Word Thursdays Anthology, both published by Bright Hill Press. His poetry also has been published in a chapbook of entitled Poems in the Key of Grief. The on-line journal www.nycbigcitylit.com nominated one of these poems Memorial Garden for a Pushcart Prize in 2003. His non-fiction story, "Top Button," was included in Paul Auster’s book I Thought Mv Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project. He also works an artist’s model. Currently he is writing weekly essays aka sermons. Roberts is an ordained United Methodist minister. In July of 2007 he returned to the area to serve as the interim pastor of the First United Methodist Church of Unadilla and the Sidney Center United Methodist Church. This coming July Earl will be the pastor of the Dallas United Methodist Church near Wilkes-Barre, PA. His wife, Anne, son, Stephen, and Earl (about once a week) live in Drums, Pennsylvania, also near Wilkes-Barre. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. APRIL 24, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET MICHAEL DOWDY, NYC (MICHAEL DOWDY was born and raised in the mountains of southwest Virginia. He holds a Ph.D from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is assistant professor of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry at Hunter College in New York City. His poems and articles have appeared in various journals, and his first scholarly book, American Political Poetry into the 21st Century, was published by Palgrave in 2007. The Coriolis Effect, selected and published by Bright Hill Press, is his first poetry collection ) AND LISA HARRIS, TRUMANSBURG, NY (LISA HARRIS, born in Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, spent the first fifteen years of her life in the Allegheny Mountains. Educated at Wyoming Seminary, Bard College, Armstrong Atlantic University, Avery School of the Arts and the SUNY Cortland, she has worked as a bartender, teacher, creative writing instructor, administrator and consultant. She lives with her family in the Trumansburg. She has received support for her writing from two Constance Saltontall Foundation Residencies; three Landsmen Fellowships (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY); a Hambidge Center Residency, several Ithaca College Provost Grants including Ithaca College's AD White Scholar to Cornell. Recent publications: Allegheny Dream, The Distillery, Allegheny Angel, Ginosko,  Of Two Minds, The MacGuffin, Resurrecting the Quick, The American Aesthetic; winner, Bright Hill Press Fiction Award, BOXES, LOW COUNTRY STORIES; Battles are Fought and Won, The Second Word Thursdays Anthology; Feminism 3, HarperCollins, Irene Zahava, Into the Current, The Habersham Review, Painted Buntings, Phoebe, Cantaraville; Splitting Sticks, Lifting Stones, and Nimrod International. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. MAY 4, 2008, 3-5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT, "PORTOLANI: MAPS OF A JOURNEY: JOHANNE RENBECK", STAATSBURG, NY (After earning a BA in English Literature form the University of Rochester, JOHANNE RENBECK studied painting and drawing with artists at Rochester Institute of Technology, Bard College, and with Helen Frankenthaler at the Santa Fe Art Institute. She has devoted independent study to the arts and mythology of northern Europe and of Egypt and has taken courses in Egyptian hieroglyphics, as well as studying book arts at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale. Her monoprint collages were published in Cait John’s Cooking Like a Goddess. She has received grants from the Dutchess County Art Associatin for community and arts-in-education projects. Recent exhibits in the Hudson Valley include solo shows of artist’s books and related installations at St. Thomas Aquinas College and Greene Co. Council on the Arts. Her book "Rearranging" was juried into the BHC North American Juried Book Arts 2006 exhibition). OPENING, FREE. MAY 4- 23 (SEE HOURS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT, "PORTOLANI: MAPS OF A JOURNEY: JOHANNE RENBECK", STAATSBURG, NY. MON.-TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM; WED., 9 AM - NOON, & BY APPT. FREE. MAY 8, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED WRITER RAHNA REIKO RIZZUTO, BROOKLYN, NY (RAHNA REIKO RIZZUTO’S first novel, Why She Left Us, is the acclaimed story of three generations of a Japanese American family. The novel was published by HarperCollins in 1999. Why She Left Us won an American Book Award in 2000; it also received a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention and was named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Honolulu Advertiser. Rizzuto is also the Associate Editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City, published by Temple University Press in 1999. (This anthology was a PEN American Center Open Book Honoree.) Her essays and short stories have appeared in anthologies, journals and newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Salon Magazine, Mothers Who Think, Because I Said So, and Topography of War. In 2001 Rizzuto was awarded a U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, and spent eight months living in Hiroshima, Japan. Her new book, Hiroshima in the Morning, is inspired by her experience of living at the original Ground Zero and interviewing the atomic bomb survivors as the September 11th attacks unfolded within sight of her Brooklyn-based family. Rizzuto is a faculty member at Goddard College in Vermont, where she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program. She has been an active member of the Asian American Writers Workshop for 15 years, where she has taught workshops and judged the Asian American Literary Award in fiction. She has also served on the U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship Selection Committee and the New York State Council for the Arts Literature Panel. She is an accomplished public speaker who has given readings, lectures and interviews at more than 50 venues. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is half-Japanese/half-Caucasian. She grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii and lives in Brooklyn. She was the first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics. AND FEATURED POET GEORGIA POPOFF, SYRACUSE, NY (GEORGIA A. POPOFF is a community poet, performer, educator, spoken word producer, and senior editor of The Comstock Review comstockreview.org. A teaching poet in schools and community settings, Georgia is the Writer in Residence for the Middletown, NY, school district and provides professional development to many districts and conferences throughout NYS and the US. She has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and web publications. Her first collection is Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press 1997). Her second book, The Doom Weaver, is being released in Spring 2008 by Main Street Rag Publications. Georgia is the Central New York Program Director for Partners for Arts Education (arts4ed.org), a board member of the Association of Teaching Artists (teachingartists.com), and a faculty member of the Downtown Writer’s Center, the Syracuse chapter of the YMCA national Writers Voice program. In addition to her creative writing, she has published critical writing in the Comstock Review, NY Foundation for the Arts "Chalkboard," and the Teaching Artist Journal. In the mid-90s, Georgia was active in the Poetry Slam movement, competing in the National Poetry Slam in 1994 and 1995, was an MC in the 1998 Nationals, and served as the CNY Slam Master for more than 2 years. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. MAY 9, 2008, 9: AM - 2:45 PM: 12TH ANNUAL SHARE THE WORDS HIGH-SCHOOL POETRY COMPETITION, FEATURING HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENT POETS & KEYNOTE POET LIZ ROSENBERG, BINGHAMTON, NY. LIZ ROSENBERG   JUDGES: POET MARGOT FARRINGTON, BROOKLYN & TREADWELL, NY (MARGOT FARRINGTON is the author of two poetry collections. The most recent is Flares And Fathoms (Bright Hill Press, 2005).  Her work has appeared in more than a half dozen anthologies. Two recent and noteworthy ones debut this spring through Yarroway Mountain Press (CA) and Parthian Press in the UK.  In April 2006, Farrington was poet-in-residence at Chester College in NH. She has read widely, and done performances using poetry and visual media at museums and galleries.) And POET GEORGIA POPOFF, SYRACUSE, NY is a community poet, performer, educator, spoken word producer, and senior editor of The Comstock Review comstockreview.org. A teaching poet in schools and community settings, Georgia is the Writer in Residence for the Middletown, NY, school district and provides professional development to many districts and conferences throughout NYS and the US. She has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies, and web publications. Her first collection is Coaxing Nectar from Longing (Hale Mary Press 1997). Her second book, The Doom Weaver, is being released in Spring 2008 by Main Street Rag Publications. Georgia is the Central New York Program Director for Partners for Arts Education (arts4ed.org), a board member of the Association of Teaching Artists (teachingartists.com), and a faculty member of the Downtown Writer’s Center, the Syracuse chapter of the YMCA national Writers Voice program. ; OTHERS TBA. FOOTHILLS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, ONEONTA. $3 ADMISSION, UNDER 18, FREE. MAY 15, 2008; 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS - SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM WINNERS OF THE SHARE THE WORDS HIGH-SCHOOL POETRY COMPETITION. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE MAY 17, 2008: 8 AM - ALL DAY: THE BIG READ - MARATHON READING OF HARPER LEE’S "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD," FOLLOWED BY DISH-TO-PASS DINNER OF SOUTHERN DISHES. ALL AT BRIGHT HILL. ADMISSION FREE. ALL INVITED TO SIGN UP TO READ (contact WT at wordthur@stny.rr.com for sign-up forms) MAY 22, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET & WRITER DOUGLAS KORB, BRATTLEBORO, VT ( DOUGLAS KORB has worked, lived, and studied in Spain, China, Boston, and New York City. He grew up within the third generation of a large Polish-American family in Manasquan, New jersey and currently resides in Brattlebor, VT. He received a BA in English Literature from Warren Wilson College and an MFA in creative writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. 5AM, Poet Lore, mannequin Envy, RHINO, and Talisman are some of the magainzes in which his poems and book reviews have appeared. The Cut Worm, which won Bright Hill’s Poetry Chapbook Award, is his first chapbook of poems). AND FEATURED POET & WRITER D. H. MELHEM, NYC. (D. H. MELHEM is the author of seven books of poetry, including New York Poems (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2005), Conversation with a Stonemason (2003), Country (1998), and Rest in Love (1975, 1978, 1995), three novels, two critical works, a musical drama, a creative writing workbook, over 70 essays, and two anthologies.  Her studies of Black poets include the first comprehensive study of Gwendolyn Brooks and Heroism in the New Black Poetry (both from Univ. Press of Kentucky). Most recent publication: Stigma & The Cave (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2007), two short novels greeted as "virtuosic, harrowing and gritty" (Home Planet News) and featured in Barnes & Noble’s "Science Fiction and Fantasy: Politics and Social Issues" list, along with classical works by Orwell, Atwood, Dick, Huxley, Roth, and Woolf.  The novels complete the trilogy Patrimonies, begun with Blight (1995), currently in development as a feature film. Among awards for poetry and prose: an American Book Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, three Pushcart Prize nominations, a CUNY Ph.D. Alumni Association Special Achievement Award (2001), and a RAWI Lifetime Achievement Award (2007). She serves as vice-president of the International Women’s Writing Guild. )$3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. JUNE 7-8, 2008, 10 AM - 4 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - DELAWARE COUNTY GALLERY TOUR. FREE. JUNE 8, 2008, 3-5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - ART EXHIBIT "WOULD WOOD? WOOD WOULD!" ARTIST’S BOOKS & VINTAGE VILLAGE VOICE DRAWINGS BY WALTER GURBO, GARRETTSVILLE, NY. (WALTER GURBO was a career illustrator; for 12 years he did "Drawing Room," a syndicated feature on the back page of New York’s "Village Voice" and did hundreds of drawing for "The New York Times" as well as being a regular illustrator for Playboy, Esquire, MS, Screw, and others. He studied at The High School of Art and Design and the Pratt Art Institute in New York, and later taught at the School Of Visual Arts for a decade. Gurbo has had a number of shows in New York City and Upstate. Ten years ago he moved Upstate. He lives in Garretsville and has a studio in a loft building in New Berlin where he is completing other lofts for artists. In 2007 he began creating a series of wooden books that are autobiographical and influenced by the locale in which they were done—overlooking the Butternut Creek in Gilberstville or the Caribbean in Puerto Rico. OPENING. FREE. JUNE 8 -26, 2008 (SEE HOURS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - ART EXHIBIT "WOULD WOOD? WOOD WOULD!" ARTIST’S BOOKS & WINTAGE VILLAGE VOICE DRAWINGS BY WALTER GURBO, GARRETTSVILLE, NY. MON.-TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM; WED., 9 AM - NOON, & BY APPT. FREE. JUNE 12, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY POET JOAN LARKIN, FLORIDA (JOAN LARKIN’s most recent collection is My Body: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press). David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times has called Larkin’s voice "unsentimental, ruthless and clear-eyed… poetry without pity, in which despair leads not to degradation but to a kind of grace." Her previous books include Housework, A Long Sound, Sor Juana’s Love Poems (translated with Jaime Manrique), and Cold River, which received the Lambda Literary Award for poetry. Larkin co-founded the independent press Out & Out Books during the feminist literary explosion of the 1970’s. She has edited four anthologies of poetry and prose, including A Woman Like That, nominated for Publishing Triangle and Lambda awards. Her writing includes "The Hole in the Sheet," a Klezmer farce, and two meditation books in the Hazelden recovery series, If You Want What We Have and Glad Day. "The Living," her verse play about AIDS, has been produced at festivals in Boston and New York. Larkin has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In her fourth decade of teaching, she serves on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program in Poetry Writing at New England College.) AND FEATURED WRITER, TBA. $3 ADMISSION, UNDER 18, FREE. JUNE 30-JULY 5 (JULY 4TH HOLIDAY OBSERVED) 9 AM-2:30 PM: WORD THURSDAYS SUMMER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS: FIRST SESSION. AGES 5-14. FEE: $85, FIVE DAYS; SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE JUNE 26, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY POET BURT KIMMELMAN, NJ (BURT KIMMELMAN has published five collections of poetry: Musaics (1992), First Life (2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, Somehow (2005), and There Are Words (2007); his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009. For over a decade, he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The Winter Mind: William Bronk and American Letters (1998); and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996, paperback 1999). He also edited The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (2005). AND FEATURED POET FRANNIE LINDSAY, BELMONT, MA. (FRANNIE LINDSAY’s newest volume of poetry, Lamb, was selected for the Perugia Press Award in 2006. It has also been chosen as the sole runner-up for the Laughlin Award , given yearly for an outstanding second volume of poetry. Her first volume, Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press, 2004), was selected by J.D. McClatchy as the winner of the May Swenson Award. Her poems have appeared individually in The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, Quarterly West, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Field, Black Warrior Review, Salamander, Beloit Poetry Journal, Hunger Mountain, and many other journals. They have also been featured on Poetry Daily and read by Garrison Keillor on Writers Almanac. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has recently completed a third poetry manuscript, and lives in Belmont , Massachusetts with her two retired greyhounds. She is also a classical pianist.$3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. JULY 5 & 6, 2008 10 AM-5 PM: STAGECOACH RUN TWO-DAY OPENING: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY MIXED MEDIA EXHIBIT, "THE STONES & BONES OF DELAWARE COUNTY" BY BERTHA ROGERS, TREADWELL, NY (BERTHA ROGERS’s paintings, drawings, and artist’s books have been exhibited in more than 250 juried, invitational, and solo shows in New York City, nationally, and abroad. Her word-and-image work is collected privately and in museums, including the Harry Ransom Archive at the University of Texas. Her awards include fellowships to the UCross Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Hedgebrook Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Caldera Foundation, Jentel Foundation, and several NYFA and NYSCA grants for presentation and exhibits. She studied art and English at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Iowa, and scenic design and painting at the Studio and Forum of Scenic Design, NYC. She teaches writing and visual arts at schools throughout New York through DCMO BOCES Arts in Education, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and other agencies. In 2007 she was given the Distinguished Services to the Field of Arts in Education Award at CommonGround Conference in Rochester. Her poems have been published in literary journals and in five individual collections. Her new translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book will be published in late 2008. Her newest collection, Heart Turned Back, will be published in the fall of 2009 by Salmon Publishing, Ireland). This exhibit was made possible, in part, through a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program to the Roxbury Library Association and Bertha Rogers. FREE. JULY 5-25, 2008 (SEE HOURS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY  - MIXED MEDIA EXHIBIT, "THE STONES & BONES OF DELAWARE COUNTY" BY BERTHA ROGERS, TREADWELL, NY. TUES. - FRI., 10 AM - 4 PM, SAT., BY APPT. FREE. JULY 10, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS, OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET PAUL GENEGA, STUYVESANT, NY (PAUL GENEGA is the author of four full-length collections of poetry and four chapbooks. His work has been published in a great many literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including Poetry, New York Quarterly, Southwest Review, The Nation, Zwoje (Poland) and Joe Soap’s Canoe (England) and appeared most recently in the anthology Salmon: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007 (Salmon Publishing, Ireland, 2008). Among his awards are the "Discovery" / The Nation Award, the Charles Angoff Award from The Literary Review, the Lucille Medwick Award and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Paul was one of the featured readers in the "Speaking the Word" Poets & Writers Tour and Festival in August, 2000. He has also read his work at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Geraldine Dodge Festival, the Boston Public Library, the Bowery Poetry Club and the Irish Writers Center (Dublin), among other venues. He teaches at Bloomfield College, New Jersey, where he coordinates the creative writing program, and lives at the edge of the majestic Hudson in Stuyvesant, NY.) AND FEATURED POET JOHN PAUL O’CONNOR, FRANKLIN AND NEW YORK, NY (JOHN PAUL O’CONNOR’s poems have been featured in Indiana Review, Baltimore Review, Columbia, DoubleTake, Sycamore Review, St. Ann’s Review, Runes, MARGIE, Atlanta Review and other literary magazines. He has won AWP's Prague prize and his poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart award. John has worked as a construction worker, a factory worker, a counselor for the homeless and mentally ill, a janitor, a dishwasher, a fruit picker, a songwriter, and folksinger , the director of the Center for Popular Economics, and a union organizer. The award winning poet Rachel Zucker has said, "Like many folk singers John handles weighty subject matter -- personal narrative, politics, aesthetics, the natural world, class conflicts -- in relatively short packages (usually two pages or less).  He writes about the beauty of Iowa, his Irish ancestry, having sex, old cars, getting drunk, living in New York, a friend's breast cancer with the perfect mix of honesty, irony, artfulness and simplicity.  The poems often span 10-30 years and manage great leaps of narrative logic.  I always feel that I am entering a world that is both true and metaphorical, encountering a speaker that is specific and that transcends the personal." O’Connor lives in Franklin and New York City $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. JULY 19, 2008, 9-2 PM: ADULT BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP, TUNNEL BOOKS, LED BY BERTHA ROGERS. BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH. FEE $40, INCL. MATERIALS (MEMBERS $35) JULY, 24, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED WRITER RICK HENRY, POTSDAM, NY (RICK HENRY'S most recent publication is Lucy's Eggs and Other Stories (Syracuse University Press, 2006). His other books include: Pretending and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse, a philosophical inquiry into the pragmatic foundations of fictional discourse (Greenwood Publishing, 1996); and Sidewalk Portrait: Fifty-fourth Floor and Falling, a novella (BlazeVox Books, 2006). In addition, he is co-editor of The Blueline Anthology (Syracuse University Press, 2004). He is editor of Blueline (a literary journal) and editor in chief of Potsdam College Press). AND SHARON MESMER, BROOKLYN, NY (SHARON MESMER is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in poetry.  Her recent poetry collections are Annoying Diabetic Bitch (Combo Books, 2008) and The Virgin Formica (Hanging Loose Press, 2008).  Her first collection, Half Angel, Half Lunch, was published by Hard Press in 1998.  Allen Ginsberg described her work as "beautifully bold and vivaciously modern," and Alice Notley as "a long stream of indomitable spunk."  Her fiction collections are The Empty Quarter and In Ordinary Time (Hanging Loose Press 2000 and  2005) and Ma Vie B Yonago (Hachette Litteratures, France, in French translation, 2005).  Lonely Tylenol, a hand-set, letter press art book is a collaboration with the painter David Humphrey (Flying Horse Editions/University of Central Florida, 2003).  Forthcoming is Chiar Asa (Just This"), a collection of poetry in Romanian translation.  She teaches undergraduate fiction writing and literature and graduate seminars in poetry at the New School. Her blog is virginformica.blogspot.com. Her novel needs a publisher.) $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. AUGUST 3, 2008, 3-5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT "CLUES AND NO ANSWERS: PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS" BY EMILY MARTIN, IOWA CITY, IA (EMILY MARTIN started as a painter-sculptor working with personal or anecdotal imagery. She has found that prints and books, particularly sculptural book forms, provide her with the proper arena for her intentions. The complexity in working with books or series of prints allows her to have the materials, the forms, and the content all working together. She has been a working artist since the late 70s, earning an MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1979. In 1996 Emily Martin began the Naughty Dog Press. Her work is in public and private collections throughout the US and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL; and others. Martin teaches at the University of Iowa Center for the Book and in workshops around the country. She lives and works in Iowa City. The Naughty Dog Press is named after her first dog and studio companion, Gomez, who died in 2006.) FREE. AUGUST 3-22, 2008 (SEE HRS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT "CLUES AND NO ANSWERS: PRINTS & ARTIST’S BOOKS" BY EMILY MARTIN, IOWA CITY, IA. TUES.-FRI., 10 AM - 4 PM; SAT., BY APPT. FREE. AUG. 4-9, 9 AM-2:30 PM: WORD THURSDAYS SUMMER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR KIDS, SECOND SESSION. AGES 5-14. FEE: $90, SIX SESSIONS. SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. AUGUST 14, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET LIZ BEASLEY, DURHAM, NC (LIZ BEASLEY won Bright Hill’s 2006 Poetry Book Competition with her manuscript, How the Brain Grew Back Its Own History, published by Bright Hill in 2008. She is a graduate of Bowling Green State University (OH) and the University of Georgia, where she earned her PhD. Her poetry has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Pleiades, Green Mountains Review, Poetry, AGNI Online, Alaska Quarterly Review, Arts & Letters, Epoch, Inch, Nimrod, Permafrost, Phoebe, and others. She currently lives in Durham, NC, where she teaches English and creative writing. AND FEATURED POET JAY ROGOFF, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY(JAY ROGOFF has published three full-length books of poetry, The Cutoff (1995), winner of the Word Works’ Washington Prize competition; How We Came to Stand on That Shore (2003); and most recently The Long Fault (LSU Press, 2008). The Long Fault explores the disasters of sacred and secular history, including wars as ancient as Troy and as contemporary as Iraq, and incidents of mass violence from the Middle Ages to modern times. The poems simultaneously enlist the power of our creative acts of art and love as an ally in confronting disaster and helping us proceed. Rogoff’s poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including Agni, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Progressive, Salmagundi, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and The Yale Review. He also regularly publishes criticism in such journals as The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Salmagundi, Shenandoah, and The Southern Review, and he reviews the New York City Ballet’s Saratoga season for The Saratogian newspaper. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and, frequently, at Yaddo. Jay Rogoff lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife, art historian Penny Jolly, and teaches at Skidmore College. Rogoff was the final judge for Bright Hill’s 2006 Poetry Book Competition, choosing Liz Beasley’s manuscript. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. AUGUST 18-22, 9 AM-2:30 PM: WORD THURSDAYS SUMMER LITERARY WORKSHOPS FOR TEENS. AGES 13-18. FEE: $85, FIVE SESSIONS. SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. AUGUST 28, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET SUSAN HOOVER, WOODSTOCK, NY & CELLIST SERA SMOLEN, ITHACA, NY. (Combining poetry with original, composed music in performance, SUSAN HOOVER and SERA SMOLEN have received instant recognition for their interdisciplinary collaborations. SUSAN HOOVER (poet, musician, teacher) teaches poetry in the schools for Teachers & Writers Collaborative and has published poems in Cover Arts New York, University of Colorado Literary Magazine, EPT, Dark Thirty, Granite, Cold Mountain Review, Isinglass Review and other publications. Her books include The Magnet and The Target (The New School Chapbook Series, 1995), and Taxi Dancer (Exotic Beauties Press, 1979). She is also included in As If The World Had Not Known Sorrow (The Poets Press, 1986). She has given readings at many NYC venues, including The New School, The Kitchen, Cornelia Street Cafe and locally she has appeared as a featured reader at several Out Loud Festivals in Claryville, as well as the first two Woodstock Poetry Festivals, The Kleinert-James Gallery, The Colony Arts Center, The Albert Shehanian Fine Arts Gallery in Poughkeepsie. Together with Nancy Rullo and Janice King she was the third member of the All Right! Girls, a poetry performance group. SERA SMOLEN (cellist) is an active performer of many genres of music, four centuries of Classical music as a soloist, collaborator, chamber musician, improvisor, orchestral musician and recording artist. She performs and records original music with her husband, Tom Mank. In addition to her university and private teaching, she is the assistant director of the New Directions Cello Festival, a founding member of the Binghamton Cello Festival and a guest clinician around the United States and Canada. She leads teacher training seminars on "Teaching Music as a Living Art" covering pedagogies of improvisation and composition for developing string programs.) AND ANDREA LOUIE (ANDREA LOUIE is the author of a novel, Moon Cakes (Ballantine Books), and co-editor of an anthology, Topography of War: Asian American Essays (The Asian American Writers’ Workshop). She has received such awards as the Hannah S. and Samuel A. Cohn Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and a Ludwig Volgelstein Foundation grant. She was a member of the review panel in literature for the New York Council on the Arts and was a writer-in-residence for the National Book Foundation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in news journalism from Kent State University and a graduate certificate in Asian studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She lives and works in New York, where she serves as the communications manager for Religions for Peace, an international non-profit organization that is affiliated with the United Nations. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. SEPTEMBER 7, 2008, 3-5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT "THE HYBRID BOOK: WORDS, IMAGES, AND SPACE" BY SUSAN VIGUERS, PHILADELPHIA, PA (SUSAN VIGUERS is Professor at The University of the Arts and Director of the MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program. For 13 years (until 2004) she was Director of the University Writing Program. She has a Ph.D in English from Bryn Mawr College and has published extensively—scholarship in the areas of English Renaissance drama, pedagogy, and children’s literature, as well as creative nonfiction (With Child, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and poetry. Her artist’s books have been shown inumerous museums and galleries, among them, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, exhibitions of the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair at the Corcoran, and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt) and are included in many special collections at such institutions as Yale University, Columbia University, Smith College, University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, University of California at Irvine, RISD, and MICa. She is recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching). OPENING. FREE SEPT. 7-26, 2008 (SEE HOURS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT "THE HYBRID BOOK: WORDS, IMAGES, AND SPACE" BY SUSAN VIGUERS, PHILADELPHIA, PA. MON.-TUES. 10 AM - 4 PM, WED., 9 AM-NOON; SAT., BY APPT. SEPTEMBER 11, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED WRITER KERMIT FRAZIER, GARDEN CITY, NY (KERMIT FRAZIER has been a professional writer—especially playwright and television writer—as well as a teacher of writing, literature, and theater for more than twenty years. His more than a dozen plays have been produced in New York and around the country at such theaters as the Milwaukee Rep, the Seattle Children’s Theater, the Asolo Theater Company, the Philadelphia Drama Guild, the Williamstown Theater Festival, and the First Stage Children’s Theater. He has written for such television series as Ghostwriter, Gullah Gullah Island, The Cosby Mysteries, and Rescue 77, and The Wonder Pets. And his articles, reviews, and short stories have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The Chicago Review, American Theater, Black World, Essence, and The New York Times Book Review. He has taught at such schools as Morgan State and New York universities, Baruch and Williams colleges, and the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, where he has also served as acting president. Currently, he’s an associate professor of English at Adelphi University, where he teaches in the new MFA program in creative writing. His play, Kernel of Sanity, will be produced at Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre in New York in January 2009.) AND FEATURED POET NEIL SHEPARD, JOHNSON, VT (NEIL SHEPARD has published three collections of poetry: This Far from the Source (Mid-List Press, 2006), I’m Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List, 1998) and Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (First Book Award, Mid-List, 1993). His poems have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines, among them Antioch Review, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, New England Review, North American Review, Ontario Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and TriQuarterly. He teaches in the BFA Creative Writing Program at Johnson State College in Vermont and is the Editor of the literary magazine Green Mountains Review. He also founded and directed for eight years the Writers Program at the Vermont Studio Center, the largest arts colony in the United States. Poems from Shepard’s most recent book, This Far from the Source, were featured online at Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and the book was selected as a December "Pick of the Month" by Small Press Reviews. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. SEPT.13, 2008, 9 AM-3 PM: ADULT INTENSIVE BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP, SEWN BINDINGS, LED BY BERTHA ROGERS. BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH. FEE: $60, MATERIALS INCLUDED. SEPTEMBER 25, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET THOMAS KRAMPF, HINSDALE, NY (THOMAS KRAMPF has published 5 books of poems, including Poems to my Wife and Other Women (Salmon Poetry, 2007), Taking Time Out: Poems in Remembrance of Madness (Salmon Poetry, 2004), Shadow Poems (Ischua Books, 1997), Satori West (Ischua Books, 1987), and Subway Prayer and Other Poems of the Inner City, (Morning Star Press, 1976). He has read his work in many colleges and universities, and on National Public Radio in New York and Buffalo. In 200l he was awarded a teaching residency at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castelbar, Ireland, and in 2005 the noted French author, Raymond Bozier, translated his long "Subway Prayer" poem, with excerpts published in the French literary journal, Place Aux Sens. In 2006 he participated in the "Printemps des Poetes" literary festival in La Rochelle, France, with leading poets from France and Iran. He was also one of the first U.S. poets invited to read at the Eden Mills Literary Festival, Ontario, Canada. For many years, Thomas Krampf specialized in teaching poetry and creative writing to learning disabled adults and children. He has also given poetry workshops in drug rehabilitation centers and in prisons. He currently lives in Hinsdale, New York, with his wife, Françoise, who is a retired engineer. They have three daughters and grandchildren. AND FEATURED POET GRAHAM DUNCAN, ITHACA AND CEDAR KEY, FL (GRAHAM DUNCAN was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, and attended SUNY Albany and Cornell University. After completing his PhD, he taught for three years at Russell Sage College and 35 years at SUNY Oneonta, retiring in 1991. More than 400 of his poems have been published in periodicals, including Blueline, The Comstock Review, Confrontation, Ellipsis, Heliotrope, Manhattan Poetry Review, Pegsus, Pivot, Poem, Poetry New York Rattapallax, Southern Poetry Review, and Whole Notes. Chapbooks he has published includ The Map Reader and Stone Circles. His poems have been anthologized in the Anthology of Magzine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, The Flutes of Power, The Best of Wind, The Word Thusdays Anthology, The Second Word Thursdays Anthology, and Out of the Catskills and Just Beyond. In 2001 Bright Hill Press published Every Infant’s Blood: New and Selected Poems. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. OCT. 4-5, 2008, 10 AM-4 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY. DELAWARE COUNTY GALLERY TOUR. FREE. OCTOBER 5, 2008, 3-5 PM: 7TH BHLC NORTH AMERICAN JURIED BOOK ARTS EXHIBIT FEATURING BOOK ARTISTS FROM THROUGHOUT THE US. JURORS: KEITH SMITH AND BERTHA ROGERS. Since 1967 KEITH SMITH has been making books. They range from artist books to poetry, textbooks and dictionaries. He has made over 150 one-of-a-kind artists books, most of which are in his own collection, seen by only a handful of people. Smith has published over two dozen small editioned artists books and book-length poems and written ten small dictionaries to aid structure and vocabulary in his poetry. The only books to have widespread distribution are his eight books-on-books: Structure of the Visual Book, Text in the Book Format, Bookbinding for Book Artists and the five volumes of Non-Adhesive Binding: Books without Paste or Glue, 1- 2- & 3-Section Sewings, Exposed Spine Sewings, Smith's Sewing Single Sheets and Quick Leather Bindings. BERTHA ROGERS’s paintings, drawings, and artist’s books have been exhibited in more than 250 juried, invitational, and solo shows in New York City, nationally, and abroad. Her word-and-image work is collected privately and in museums, including the Harry Ransom Archive at the University of Texas. Her awards include fellowships to the UCross Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the Hedgebrook Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Caldera Foundation, Jentel Foundation, and several NYFA and NYSCA grants for presentation and exhibits. She studied art and English at Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Iowa, and scenic design and painting at the Studio and Forum of Scenic Design, NYC. She teaches writing and visual arts at schools throughout New York through DCMO BOCES Arts in Education, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and other agencies. In 2007 she was given the Distinguished Services to the Field of Arts in Education Award at CommonGround Conference in Rochester. OPENING. FREE. OCT. 5-24, 2008 (SEE HOURS): 7TH BHLC NORTH AMERICAN JURIED BOOK ARTS EXHIBIT FEATURING BOOK ARTISTS FROM THROUGHOUT THE US. MON.- TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM., WED. 9 AM - NOON. SAT., BY APPT. FREE. OCT. 18, 2008, 9 AM - 3 PM: ADULT INTENSIVE BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP, FLEXAGONS, POP-UPS, & ADVANCED POP-UPS, LED BY BERTHA ROGERS. FEE. $60 (MEMBERS $50). BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH. MATERIALS INCLUDED. OCTOBER 9, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET EVELYN DUNCAN, ITHACA, NY (EVELYN DUNCAN was born in Cedar Run, PA, where she attended a one-room school. Her family moved to Binghamton, NY, during the Depression, and she graduated from Binghamton Central High School. She then worked in the proof room of Vail-Ballou Press before attending the New York State College for Teachers at Albany, earning a BA and an MA in English. She was an editorial assistant at the Cornell University Press and has taught English in middle school, high school, the Russell Sage College evening division, and SUNY Oneonta, NY. Her work has been published in The Comstock Review, The New Yorker, Phoebe (SUNY Oneonta), Poem, Big City Lit online, The Saturday Review, and The Second Word Thursdays Anthology. She now lives in Ithaca, NY, and belongs to a writers’ group there.) AND MADELINE TIGER, BLOOMFIELD, NJ (MADELINE TIGER's work appears regularly in journals and anthologies. Her newest (her ninth) collection of poems is The Earth Which Is All (2008). Her eighth collection was Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000 (2003).  Her most recent chapbooks were White Owl, Water Has No Color, and Mary of Migdal. Her recent  poems appear in  Edison Review, Harrisburg Review, Home Planet News, One Trick Pony, Poetry New York, The Mad Poets Review, The Marlboro Review, Rhino, Tiferet, U S 1, on Wise Women's Web and poetrymagazine.com; and in recent anthologies: The Poets of New Jersey (2005); Family Reunion  (2003); Word Thursdays Anthologies (1993 & 1999); Jewish Women's Literary Annuals (‘02,‘04,‘06).  Recent reviews appear in the American Book Review, The Journal of NJ Poets, and online in Sidereality and Jacket, and an introductory essay appears online in The Persimmon Tree. She teaches writing in state and local programs, and she is a "Dodge Poet". She is the recipient of the first Teaching Artist Award  of the NJ Arts Education Collective and NJ Theatre Alliance (Spring, 2008). She has five children and seven grandchildren and lives in Bloomfield, NJ under a weeping cherry tree.. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. OCTOBER 23, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE, 7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET ESTHA WEINER, NYC (ESTHA WEINER is co-editor and contributor to Blues For Bill: A Tribute To William Matthews. (Akron Poetry Series, 2005) and author of The Mistress Manuscript (Rivendell Press, forthcoming).  Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The New Republic and Barrow Street.  She is a 2005 winner of a Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for "Discovery/The Nation" Prize. Estha is founder and director of The NY Writers Nights Series for Sarah Lawrence College, Marymount Writers Nights, and a Speaker on Shakespeare for The New York Council For The Humanities.  She is Adj. Assistant Professor of English at City College of NY, and serves or  has served on the Poetry/Writing faculties of The Frost Place, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, Stonecoast Writers Conference, Poets and Writers, Poets House, as well as The Writers Voice.  She also serves on the Advisory Board of Slapering Hol Press, Hudson Valley Writer’s Center.  In her previous life, Estha was an actor and worked for BBC radio in the US). AND MICHAEL T. YOUNG. (MICHAEL T. YOUNG has published two collections of poetry, most recently, Transcriptions of Daylight. He has received a 2007 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received the Chaffin Poetry Award for 2005. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Heliotrope, Lips, The Same, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and many other journals. His work is also in the anthologies Phoenix Rising and Chance of a Ghost. He currently lives with his wife and son in Jersey City, New Jersey. $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. NOVEMBER 2, 2008, 3-5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT "PHOTO FALLING–WORD FALLING!" BY JOHN D. MORTON, TREADWELL, NY (Born in 1953, JOHN D. MORTON grew up in Cleveland. An early cultural influence was Bob Denver’s portrayal of beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on "Dobie Gills." In 1971 John formed the influential protopunk band "electric eels." The "eels" have several recordings available, all released after their demise. In 1977 John formed the punk-performance band "Johnny and the Dicks." Their album with no record in it is selling on eBay for $100. The "eels" are noted in the seminal book "England’s Dreaming" by John Savage. In 1978 Morton moved to NYC and became part of the 80s young artist scene, exhibit at "A Times Square Show." He curated "Murder, Suicide, and Junk" at ABCNoRIO. Morton still performs, recently with "The new Gay MotherFletchers" and has read his poetry in NYC. In 2002 he was pronounced "one of America’s funniest and most uncompromising nihilists" by The Village Voice. Among his other work he is a web designer. He has exhibited in Havana, Cuba; the Kentler International Drawing Center, NYC; Phoenix House, NYC; ArtPark at Manhattan Art; Sharpe Gallery, Josef Gallery, and Bard College; and received fellowships and grants from Art Matters Inc., the NY CAPS program, the Beards Fund. He was a visiting artist at the Museum School, Boston). OPENING. FREE. NOV. 2-28, 2008 (SEE HOURS): WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT "PHOTO FALLING–WORD FALLING!" BY JOHN D. MORTON, TREADWELL, NY. MON.-TUES., 10 AM - 4 PM; WED., 9 AM-NOON; SAT., BY APPT. NOVEMBER 13, 2008, 7 PM: WORD THURSDAYS: OPEN MIKE,  7 PM, FOLLOWED BY FEATURED POET ALAN CATLIN, SCHENECTADY, NY (ALAN CATLIN, since the publication of his first chapbook, My Son and I, by Timberline Press in 1983, has published dozens of chapbooks on a variety of subjects. In addition, he has published several full-length collections, including a selected poems, Drunk and Disorderly, from Pavement Saw Press; Schenectady Chainsaw Massacre by Staplegun Press; Stop Making Sense, Playing Tennis with Antonioni, and Self-Portrait as the Artist Afraid of His Self-Portrait, all from March Street Press. Several manuscripts have been finalists for national poetry book awards, and he has been nominated for seventeen Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and poetry. Since retiring to the restaurant business he has been at work on a series of fictional memoirs under the working title of Hours of Happiness. Most recently he has been working on art-inspired poetry, such as Our Lady of the Shipwrecks (after Turner), published by Finishing Line Press, and Effects of the Sunlight on Fog, published in 2008 by Bright Hill. AND FEATURED WRITER, TBA, $3 ADMISSION; UNDER 18, FREE. DECEMBER 6, 2008, 9 AM -5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT & FUND-RAISER SILENT AUCTION OF ART, GOODS, & SERVICES. OPENING DECEMBER 6-13, 10 AM - 5 PM: WORD & IMAGE GALLERY - EXHIBIT & FUND-RAISER. SILENT AUCTION OF ART, GOODS, & SERVICES. CLOSES DECEMBER 13, 5 PM.