Enjoy an afternoon of poetry and spoken word at the Honest Weight Food Co-op featuring the winners of the 2025 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize.
Poets scheduled to read are:
- Barbara Ungar—“Knocked Back”
- Dan Wilcox—“Where Language Ends” by Carlos Andrés Gómez
- Susan Kress—“Fire-Proof Box”
- Will Nixon—“Orpheum”
- Julie Lomoe—“River Reminiscing”
- Bob Sharkey—“In My Home-town There Are No Apples” by Chuckwuebuka Alu
- Anna Boughtwood—“HELL IS FOR HOUSE FLIPPERS”
- Barbara Ungar—“You Can’t Put the Red Sea in a Poem” by Joanne Durham
- Mary Panza—“this business of her being older” by Anne Rankin
- Bob Sharkey—“Traveler’s Guilt” by Melanie Hyo-In Han
- Barbara Ungar—“Because” by Alison Stone
You can read all of the winning poems on the contest website.
The Hudson Valley Writers Guild sponsors this event, which is free and open to the public.
