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Join us for a day-long festival celebrating and highlighting the important work of small presses, featuring Blind Beggar Press, BOA Editions, Bright Hill Press, Camber Press, Codhill Press, Perugia Press, Toadlily Press, and our own Slapering Hol Press and including local community, university and independent presses.
2:00 pm Book Fair: Visit the many tables representing independent presses. Talk with press editors and volunteers about submission guidelines and processes and purchase their latest editions—a great opportunity to pick up a last minute Father’s Day present!
3:00 pm Panel Discussion: Editors from our featured presses will provide an honest look at what it takes to operate a small independent press and what editors are looking for from new writers—sure to be a dynamic presentation.
4:30 Poetry Reading: Meet the poets published by our featured presses—Bertha Rogers, Frannie Lindsay, Meredith Trede, David Tucker and Thom Ward.
Admission to the book fair is free; the panel discussion and/or poetry reading is $5 ($3 for HVWC members).
Bertha
Rogers has published poems in journals and anthologies and in the interdisciplinary
collection Even the Hemlock: Poems, Illuminations, Reliquaries; she has
3 chapbooks and a full-length poetry collection, Sleeper, You Wake. Her
translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and she is currently translating
the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book. Delaware County’s Poet
Laureate, Bertha founded Bright Hill Press in Treadwell, NY, now celebrating its
15th year, and serves as BHP program director, in partnership with NYSCA, for
the New York State Literary Web Site and Literary Map (www.nyslittree.org).
www.bertharogers.com
Frannie
Lindsay’s newest volume of poetry, Lamb, was selected for the Perugia
Press Award in 2006, and was runner-up for the Academy of American Poets James
Laughlin Award. 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, Salamander, Prairie Schooner, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Harvard Review,
and many other journals. A classical pianist, Frannie lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts
with two retired greyhounds. www.frannielindsay.net
Meredith Trede is a Toadlily Press editor. She’s had over sixty poems published in journals including The Paris Review, The Nebraska Review, and The MacGuffin. Meredith has had residencies from the Saltonstall Foundation, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and France, a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. A resident of Sleepy Hollow, she and her husband are partners in a management consulting business.
David
Tucker of South Orange, New Jersey, was winner of our Slapering Hol Press
(SHP) chapbook competition in 2003 for Days When Nothing Happens. He went
on to win the Bakeless Prize at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in 2005, and
his book, Late for Work, which was selected by Philip Levine, was published
by Houghton-Mifflin in the spring of 2006. David is on the editorial team at The
New Jersey Star Ledger, which won a 2005 Pulitzer Prize, and the life of that
newsroom is a frequent topic of his poetry.
Thom Ward is Editor for BOA Editions, Ltd. His poetry collections include, Various Orbits (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004) and Small Boat with Oars of Different Size (Carnegie Mellon, 2000). Thom’s poetry chapbook, Tumblekid, the winner of the 1998 Devil’s Millhopper Poetry Contest, was published by the University South Carolina-Aiken. He teaches writing workshops at universities, elementary and secondary schools, and tutors individual students. Thom lives with his wife and children in upstate New York.
Admission to the book
fair is free; the panel discussion and/or poetry reading is $5 ($3 for HVWC members).
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.