Winner and Returnee
Poet
Mary Kaiser of Birmingham, Alabama, won the 2006 Slapering Hol
Press (SHP) chapbook competition and recently had the thrill of seeing
her chapbook, Falling Into Velázquez, in print. Now she’ll be here
to read for us and finally meet all who helped make that book possible.
Her work is inspired not just by Velázquez but by Eakins, Cornell, Rivera, Kahlo, Manet, Monet, Richter, Arbus, and others— and by daily life. “The voice here is intelligent, careful, confident, and to be especially praised for. . . understanding that power often lies in restraint,” said poet Carl Phillips.
Kaiser is a member of the English faculty at Jefferson State Community College and has had her poems appear in The Cincinnati Review, PMS, and Perihelion, among others. She received a Hackney award in 2005.
Reading
with her is poet David Petruzelli of NYC (much cheerier than in
this photo), who had the distinction of arriving at his reading last summer
only to learn it had been cancelled by a tornado! We welcome him back
and trust the weather will cooperate this time.
Petruzelli’s first book, Everyone Coming Toward You (2005), was selected by Campbell McGrath for the Tupelo Press Judge’s Prize. His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, The Gettysburg Review, MiPOesias, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and Rattle.
A former auction writer and appraiser, he is a member of the expert committee of The Philatelic Foundation in Manhattan.
This reading made possible by the Sanger Stewart Memorial Fund.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.