 "Frequency North," the aggressively eclectic visiting writers series at The College of Saint Rose, wraps up its second year with readings by Denise Duhamel and Katie Degentesh.
Duhamel and Degentesh will appear at Saint Rose Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Saint Joseph Hall Auditorium, 985 Madison Ave., Albany. Copies of their works will be available for purchase and signing. The April 26 program is sponsored by the Saint Rose School of Arts and Humanities and is free and open to the public. Duhamel is no stranger to the Capital Region literary scene, having spent residencies at Yaddo in 1990, 1994, 1995 and 2002. She is the author of numerous books and chapbooks of poetry, her most recent titles being Two and Two (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), Queen for a Day (2001) and Mille et un sentiments (Firewheel Editions, 2005). Just out is Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry (Soft Skull Press, 2007), which she co-edited with Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad. Other books by Duhamel currently in print are Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), The Star-Spangled Banner, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Prize (1999), Kinky (1997), Girl Soldier (1996), and How the Sky Fell (1996). In 1999, she was a featured poet on Bill Moyers' PBS special "Fooling with Words." A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she has been published in numerous anthologies, including four volumes of The Best American Poetry (1993, 1994, 1998 and 2000). Duhamel teaches creative writing and literature at Florida International University and lives in Hollywood, Fla. Degentesh is the author of The Anger Scale (Combo Books, 2006), a series of poems titled with questions from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and constructed with the help of Internet search engines such as Google. Publisher's Weekly recently wrote of her: "Degentesh inhabits the poems' weirdly pathologizing psychic space with a deep love of overheard speech that's charged with unconscious (and sometimes not so unconscious) violence, longing and misunderstanding…" She is a member of the Flarflist Collective, an avant garde poetry movement whose members mine the Internet with odd search terms and construct poems, plays and other texts from the search results. Her writing has appeared in Shiny, Fence and The Poetry Project Newsletter, among other places. Degentesh lives in New York City. "Frequency North" is the brainchild of Daniel Nester, an assistant professor of English at Saint Rose. In creating the series in 2006, Nester set about to plug what he perceived as a large gap in the literary events offered in the Capital Region. He purposely designed the series to be "aggressively eclectic." Visiting writers have included champion slam poets, experimental essayists, writers who use Google and junk e-mails to create poems, and a poetry reading cleverly disguised as a TV talk show. In addition to teaching, Nester is the author of God Save My Queen and God Save My Queen II, collections about his obsession with the rock band Queen. Nester's creative work has appeared in jubilat, Crazyhorse, Open City, Spoon River Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2003, among other places. He also writes for Poets & Writers, Time Out New York and Bookslut. Nester is assistant web editor for sestinas for McSweeney's and publishes and edits the online journal "Unpleasant Event Schedule." "Frequency North" is funded in part by Poets & Writers Inc. with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. The series will return for its third year in fall 2007. For more information about the "Frequency North" writers series, contact Daniel Nester in the Saint Rose English department at (518) 454-2812 or e-mail nesterd@strose.edu. Link to Denise Duhamel and Katie Degentesh come to Frequency North
 New York Magazine has an interview up with David Halberstam, who died in a car crash over the weekend. Halberstam was a Pulitizer Prize winning journalist and author. He began is career covering the Vietnam War for the New York Times. He later went on to sports journalism in his books The Breaks of the Game and Playing for Keeps.
The interview is from the annual Poetry & the Creative Mind benefit in Menlo Park, California, which rasies money for National Poetry Month. Link to David Halberstam on Poetry, Bush, and Baseball - New York Magazine
Poets Bob Wright and Teresa Marta Costa will be the featured readers when the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival meets at the Woodstock Town Hall, 76 Tinker Street, on Saturday, April 14th, 2007 at 2pm. The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip Levine. All meetings are free and open to the public. For information about the group, and its activities, visit http://www.woodstockpoetry.com/ Bios: Teresa Marta Costa - Brooklyn born, Catskill Mountain bred, is a 42 year resident of Ulster County, NY. Attended her first poetry reading in Rosendale, NY where she met the infamous George Montgomery & Ray Bremser. She has featured extensively throughout the Hudson Valley, in Venice Beach, California, NYC, & in Albany, NY. She had published three chapbooks: Cosmic Orgasms, CO2- What We breathe Out, and Bon(e) Appetit(e). Costa has been published in Mombacchus Journal, The Woodstock Times, Waterways 1979, Chronogram, Other:6, Wildflowers; an Woodstock Anthology, Home Planet News, Poets Gallery Press, Literary Passions, Companions; Crazy Ladies Press, amongst others. She is listed in American Poets & Writers Directory, a member of Woodstock Poetry
Society, Voices of the Valley and the now defunct 3 Free Women; a poetry entourage. Was a featured poet on The Velvet Trigger Poetry Show; in 1979, & Poets Gallery Show, Also partook at the last Avant Garde Festival in 1979 in NYC. Was a featured poet at The Ulster County Poetry Festival at Widow jane Cave, in Rosendale, NY in 2006, and at The Albany Wordfest in 2006. Former poetry director & host of the now-defunct cross st Gallery in Saugerties, NY where she hosted more 3 years of poetry readings, til the roof caved in. Costa now hosts poetry readings at The Bohemian Book Bin, Rte. 9W at The Kings Mall, in Kingston, every second Thursday of the month. Her most recent chapbook: Gone Fishing will be available. Costa resides in W. Hurley with her husband, various & mythological critters of different dimensions.. Bob Wright - Bob Wright, who currently resides in Athens, New York, has been writing poetry for some 20 years. In March 2007 he will start up a monthly poetry reading at the Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, that will feature two poets and an open mike. He is one of the founders of the Woodstock Poetry Society and for six years acted as coordinator at most of its monthly meetings. Before that, in its last year, he served as president of the Stone Ridge Poetry Society, in Stone Ridge, New York. He was active for a number of years in the Alchemy Club (a poetry group formed some 70 years ago in Grahamsville, New York); performed for a poetry performance series based in New Paltz, New York; and for several years initiated and participated, along with musicians and other poets, in an annual benefit for the Woodstock Artists Association. He is published in a number of notable literary journals and often attends and reads at poetry venues throughout the Hudson Valley. He is the curator for the Hudson Valley Poetry Calendar ( www.poetz.com/hudson), a fairly comprehensive listing of poetry events in the Hudson Valley; has been a featured reader at local colleges, bookstores, libraries, and cultural centers; and has conducted poetry workshops at several colleges and summer camps. Here's our upcoming schedule of featured readers:
5/12 - Lee Gould, Dimitris Lyacos
6/9 - Iris Litt, Jana Martin
7/14 - TBA, Cheryl A. Rice Also, why not become a 2007 Member of the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival? Membership is a nominal $15 a year. (To join, send your check to the Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Include your email address as well as your mailing address and phone number.) Your membership helps pay for hall rental, post-office-box rental, the WPS website, and costs associated with publicizing the monthly events. One benefit of membership is the opportunity to have a brief biography and several of your poems appear on this website.
Live From The Living Room, a featured reading series with an open mic afterwards is held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Capital District Gay & Lesbian Community Center, 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany, NY. The next reading is April 11 with Hudson Valley poet Roberta Gould. Roberta has been published in many literary magazines with 5 books and several chapbooks. Her latest book is Pacing The Wind. Roberta has lived in Mexico and another of her books, Esta Narinia, was written there. For more information about Roberta, go to her web site, www.robertagould.net. Sign up is at 7pm with 7:30 start time with host Don Levy and $2.00 suggested donation. For more info call (518) 462-6138. This is a straight-friendly reading.
Behind the Egg: A Reading Series presented by Tool A Magazine and Unpleasant Event Schedule Most events take place at 4pm. All events free of charge (with a suggested small donation). All events take place at The Capital District Federation of Ideas, 383.5 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY Upcoming readings:
Saturday, April 14: R.M.Engelhardt, Poet Essence, and Joseph Krausman
* makeup reading for the Valentine's Day blizzard! Sunday , April 15: Kate Greenstreet, Janet Holmes, and Shafer Hall Thursday, May 3, 7:30pm: Elizabeth Hughey, Christopher Janke, and Michael Robins Saturday, May 5: Thomas Devaney, Sparrow, and Aidan Thompson
Here is our schedule for National Poetry Month poetry readings held every Saturday from 1-3 p.m. on the porch of the Artworx Fine Art gallery (74 Beekman Street, Saratoga Springs). FIRST SATURDAY, APRIL 7TH
1-1:30 - Lorraine Grund
1:30-2 - Dan Wilcox
2-2:30 - Tim Verhaegen
2:30-3 - Julie Lomoe SECOND SATURDAY, APRIL 14TH
1-1:30 - Leslie Neustadt
1:30-2 - Evelyn Hanna and Mary Cuffe-Perez from the Schylerville Storytelling Quilters Group
2-2:30 - Carl Danna
2:30-3 - Douglas Holiday THIRD SATURDAY, APRIL 21ST
1-1:30 - and 1:30-2 Barbara Garro and Ed Grocke
2-2:30 - Therese Broderick
2:30-3 - Kate McNairy FOURTH SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH
1-1:30 - Carol Graser
1:30-2 - Robert Milby
2-2:30 - Sue Jefts
2:30-3 - Francelise Dawkins For more information contact Barbara Garro at 518-587-9999 or www.BarbaraGarro.com
This is an event that is going to take place at the Voorheesville Public Library hosted by the Every Other Thursday Night Poets. You are cordially invited to join the Every Other Thursday Night Poets and Friends for a pot luck brunch on Saturday, April 14, 2007 at 11 a.m. in the community room. Bring food and poetry to share. After the eating, Traditional Irish music will offered by Amy Dodge, Tim Finley and Steve Schreiber of Comhaltas. And poetry will be performed until 3 p.m. The event is open to the public and everyone is welcome. Sign up is requested for brunch, others can just drop in!
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