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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| January
2007 | ||||
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers, with host James Joseph |
Friday, January 19 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| We celebrate Patricia Smith's Teahouse of the Almighty | Sunday,
January 21 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
Free |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| February 2007 | ||||
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe celebrates the poets of Toadlily Press. | Friday, February 9 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
Free |
| Reading by Wesley Brown and Louise Meriwether |
Sunday,
February 11 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers, with host Dan Rustin |
Friday, February 16 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) |
HVWC |
$3 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| March 2007 National Small Press Month | ||||
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe. A reading by Suzanne Cleary's advanced poetry students. | Friday, March 9 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Reading by Danielle Trussoni and Abigail Thomas | Sunday, March 11 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| CANCELED DUE TO SNOW Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers, with host Julia Rust | Friday, March 16 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Reading by Richard Blanco and Terese Svoboda | Sunday, March 18 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| A reading featuring our 2006 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition winner, Mary Kaiser, and poet David Petruzelli |
Sunday, March 25 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| April 2007 National Poetry Month | ||||
| Reading by Rebecca McClanahan and Suzanne Cleary | Sunday, April 1 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe. Let the Laureates Speak: readings by past and present poets laureate Stephen Stepanchev (Queens), Jackie Sheeler (Rikers Island) and Brenda Connor-Bey (Greenburgh). |
Friday, April 13 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Celebration of Jean Fritz's new book, Who's Saying What in Jamestown, Thomas Savage? | Saturday, April 14 | 1
- 2:30 pm |
Free | |
| Lecture by Professor Andrew Burstein, author of The Original Knickerbocker, a new biography of Washington Irving. Sponsored by Historic Hudson Valley and The Hudson Valley Writers' Center. | Sunday, April 15 | 1:30
pm |
Free | |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by Julia Rust. |
Friday, April 20 | 8
pm | HVWC |
$3 |
| Ron Rosenbaum, author of The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups, will give a talk on the Shakespeare controversies and lead a group discussion. | Sunday, April 22 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Local Author Fair featuring Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown authors, poets, and publishers. The Writers' Center and Slapering Hol Press will both be represented. |
Thursday, April 26 | 5:30
- 7:30 | Free | |
| A reading by novelists Arthur Phillips (The Egyptologist, Angelica) and Thrity Umrigar (The Space Between Us) | Sunday, April 29 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| May 2007 | ||||
| How to Transmogrify that Casually Skimming Reader Into a Loyal Fan: Writer/consultant Peter Jacobi (The Magazine Article: How to Think It, Plan It and Write It) will lead a special, one-night only lecture and discussion for writers of all levels and genres, exploring thirteen ways to give the reader what he or she wants. | Thursday, May 10 | 7
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) FREE to HVWC members |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe. A reading by poet Maria Terrone (A Secret Room in Fall, The Bodies We Were Loaned) and poet/writer Paola Corso (Giovanna's 86 Circles, Death by Renaissance). | Friday, May 11 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by James Joseph. |
Friday, May 18 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Writers and editors from the literary journals The Westchester Review and Inkwell |
Sunday, May 20 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| June 2007 | ||||
| Readers from Slapering Hol Press and Inkwell literary journal read poems and prose inspired by the natural world, following a guided tour of Man and Nature, an exhibition of environmental and nature works by artist Cleve Gray |
Wednesday, June 13 | Tour
6:15 Reading 7pm | $6
(nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) | |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by Dan Rustin. | Friday, June 15 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Small Press Festival: Book Fair / Panel Discussion / Poetry Reading |
Sunday, June 17 | 2
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| A reading by Rachel Hadas and Mervyn Taylor | Wednesday, June 20 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| July 2007 | ||||
| A literary tribute to Cleve Gray's Threnody, focused on the themes of war and peace, including readings of commissioned poems created by students of Suji Kwock-Kim and Suzanne Cleary. Also, readings by Paul Rieckhoff (Executive Director and Founder of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America) and Francine du Plessix Gray, noted author and wife of Cleve Gray. | Wednesday, July 11 | Tour
6:15 Reading 7pm | $6
(nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) | |
| A reading by Michael Cleary and Peter Meinke |
Wednesday, July 18 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by Anne Marie. | Friday, July 20 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| August 2007 | ||||
| A reading by Annecy Baez and Aracelis Girmay | Wednesday, August 1 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Co-hosted by James Joseph and Anne Marie. | Friday, August 17 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| September 2007 | ||||
| Poetry & Jazz at the Sleepy Hollow Waterfront Festival, featuring Patricia Smith and other performance poets, with Mark Morganelli and the Jazz Forum All-Stars | Sunday,
September 9 | festival
10-3 jazz 11-2 poetry 11:45-12:15 |
Kingsland
Point Park | free |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by Mike Fitzell. |
Friday, September 21 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Panel Discussion: "Research and the Real World: How digging for facts supports authors" with Allison Gilbert, Meg Ruley, and Marilyn Johnson |
Sunday, September 23 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| October 2007 | ||||
| Fourth Annual Hudson Valley Golf Classic, benefiting HVWC's community programs to advance the art and craft of writing (please note that start time has been moved from 1:00 to 12:30) | Tuesday, October 2 | 12:30
pm shotgun start | $325 | |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe. A reading by poets Elizabeth Harrington and Natalie Safir | Friday, October 12 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by Dan Rustin. |
Friday, October 19 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Reading
& Creating from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God:
a Big Read event Thomasenia Myers will lecture on the literary, historic and social significance of Their Eyes Were Watching God, followed by a writing workshop led by Brenda Connor-Bey | Saturday, October 20 | lecture:
1-2:30 workshop: 2:45-5 | Westchester
Arts Council | lecture:
free |
| A reading by poets Grace Schulman and Charlie Smith | Sunday, October 21 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| A reading by Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Calligraphy of the Witch; Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders) and Helena María Viramontes (Their Dogs Came with Them) | Sunday, October 28 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| November 2007 | ||||
| Annual Autumn Celebration - dinner, dance & silent auction to benefit the Writers' Center | Saturday, November 3 | 7
pm | Sleepy
Hollow Country Club | $200 |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe. Poets & writers on war and peace, featuring Maxwell Wheat and others | Friday, November 9 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Manhattanville College reading featuring three recent winners of our Slapering Hol Press Annual Chapbook Competition—Susana Case, Mary Kaiser, and Sean Nevin, and Slapering Hol Press co-editor Suzanne Cleary | Wednesday, November 14 | 7
pm | Manhattanville
College (Reid Castle, East Library) | TBA |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by James Joseph. |
Friday, November 16 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Magazine Editors & Writers Symposium: The strange yet occasionally rewarding process of pitching to and writing for the mainstream glossies. An afternoon of panel discussions and small-group conversations exploring the link between popular magazines and the American literary tradition; featuring high profile editors from major magazines. | Saturday, November 17 | 1
- 5 pm | Lyndhurst |
$75 (nonmembers) $65 (HVWC members) |
| A reading by Israeli poet and translator Peter Cole and Muslim poet and translator Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore. Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish-Christian-Muslim Understanding. |
Sunday, November 18 | 4:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
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Date |
Time |
Location |
Admission | |
| December 2007 | ||||
| CANCELED DUE TO STORM Latino December Celebration with Esmeralda Santiago - a family festival of stories, music, & food featuring local writers & musicians |
Sunday, December 2 | 2
pm | John
Paulding School | free |
| Writers at Masters: poets Billy Collins and Eamon Grennan | Tuesday,
December 11 | 7:30
pm | $15
(nonmembers) $10 (HVWC members) | |
| Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Cafe. A reading by poet/translators Ann Cefola and Greg Delanty | Friday, December 14 | 7:30
pm | HVWC |
$5 (nonmembers) $3 (HVWC members) |
| Open Mike Night for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and other writers. Hosted by Reggie Marra. |
Friday, December 21 | 8
pm (sign-up begins at 7:30) | HVWC |
$3 |
| Notes: HVWC = The Hudson Valley Writers' Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY. Events are held in the restored Philipse Manor railroad station. Kendal-on-Hudson is in northwest Sleepy Hollow between Phelps Hospital and the Hudson River. It is accessible via Rockwood Road off of Route 9 just north of the entrance to the hospital. Click here for directions. The Masters School is located at 49 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Events are held in the Claudia Boettcher Theatre on the campus. Take Route 9 to Clinton Avenue in Dobbs Ferry; go southeast on Clinton, past two campus houses to main entrance of school; turn left at stone marker. The campus is located about one mile from the Dobbs Ferry railroad station on Metro-North's Hudson River Line. Cab service is available. Sunnyside is located in Tarrytown, New York, one mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on Route 9 (turn west on West Sunnyside Lane). Warner Library is located at 121 North Broadway (Route 9), Tarrytown, New York, approximately 1.5 miles north of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Hollow Brook Golf Club is located in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Click here for directions. Neuberger Museum of Art is located on the campus of Purchase College, State University of New York, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY 10577. For further information about any of these events, call the Writers' Center at 914-332-5953. |