Slapering Hol Press Presents the Annual War & Peace Reading (In-person at HVWC)
Sun, Nov 08
|Hudson Valley Writers Center
Join us in-person at the Hudson Valley Writers Center for the annual War & Peace Reading, featuring Mark Pawlak. He is joined by Sean McClain Brown, winner of the 2026 SHP Chapbook Competition, and members of David Surface’s Veterans Writers Workshop: Bill Greenhut, Bernie Seiler, and Michael Lang.
Time & Location
Nov 08, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Dr, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, USA
About the event
The Slapering Hol Press at the Hudson Valley Writers Center will present the 21st annual Veterans Day Reading: Poets and Writers on War and Peace, Sunday, November 8th at 4:00PM, featuring Mark Pawlak.
BIOS
Mark Pawlak is the author of eleven poetry collections, most recently Special Operation (Beltway Editions, 2026), Away Away (Arrowsmith Press, 2024), and the memoir My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov (MadHat Press, 2021). His poems have been translated into Chinese, German, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish. His work has appeared widely in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Anthology of Poetic Journals and in the literary magazines New American Writing, Mother Jones, Poetry South, The Saint Ann’s Review, and The World, among many others. He is retired from the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he taught
mathematics and received the Chancellors Achievement Award. He has been an editor…
Tickets
General Admission
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