Woodstock Poetry Society Reading Featuring Judy Lechner and Teresa Costa
Poets Judy Lechner and Teresa Costa will be featured followed by an open mic when the Woodstock Poetry Society meets in-person at the Woodstock Library and virtually via Zoom on Saturday, November 9th, 2024 at 2:00 pm.
The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip X Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include an open mic.
To attend virtually: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com to receive Zoom info. If attending, please indicate if you would like to be on the open mic.
Judy Lechner wrote her first poem at age 10 and will, with the least encouragement, recite it for you. She has been a featured reader in many venues in Ulster County and is a longtime member of the poetry groups: Goat Hill Poets for over 20 years and has read in many of their performances, Woodstock Poetry Society, and Poets House in New York. Her poetry collection The Moon Sings Back was published in 2011 and her poems have appeared in Chronogram, Half Moon Review, ASK 25, Home Planet News, Jews, Green Heron, Liteary Gazette and in Tattoo where she won a prize for her haiku. She is a retired reading and English teacher and was an editor and writer for Macmillan and Scholastic among other publishers for 45 years.
Teresa Costa has been around the poetry scene since 1974. Has hosted poetry readings from 2001- 2020. Has read extensively thru-out the Hudson Valley. Her first book Creature Comforts was published by Post Traumatic Press in 2013. Self published 4 chapbooks. Has been published in Chronogram, Woodstock Times, Stained Sheets, Riverine-Codhill Press, CAPS anthology 2015, CAPS 2020, Home Planet News, Long Island Quarterly, amongst others. Costa is available for readings & interviews @ hotpoet391@yahoo.com
