Woodstock Poetry Society featuring Joann Deiudicibus and Thomas Festa
Woodstock Poetry Society is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock “Second Saturdays” Art Events.
Poets Joann Deiudicibus and Thomas Festa 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, October 12th, 2024 at 2pm (Eastern).
WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (2pm) of every month.
Woodstock Library
5 Library Lane, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845) 679-2213
www.woodstock.org
To attend virtually: contact phillip@woodstockpoetry.com to receive Zoom info. If attending, please indicate if you would like to be on the open mike. Thank you.
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.
Joann Deiudicibus teaches writing in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her first chapbook, Lost & Found, is now available from Finishing Line Press. Her poems and essays about poetry appear in WaterWrites; A Slant of Light; & Reflecting Pool (Codhill Press), Comstock Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Drifting Sands, Typishly, Stone Poetry Quarterly, as well as Affective Disorder and the Writing Life (Palgrave Macmillan). She is the poetry guest editor for The Shawangunk Review. Ask her about true crime, cats, and confessionalism.
Thomas Festa is a Professor of English at SUNY-New Paltz. He is the author of a poetry chapbook, Earthen (Finishing Line Press, 2023), a monograph on John Milton’s poetry, The End of Learning (Routledge, 2006), and over two dozen scholarly articles, most recently on W.S. Merwin and James Merrill. Other recent work includes poems in Bennington Review, Connecticut River Review, Contemporary Haibun Online, Presence, and Modern Haiku.
