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Word Thursdays to Feature South Kortright Poet Anna Moschovakis & NYC Poet Danniel Schoonebeek Thursday, June 13
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Treadwell,, NY --- June 9, 2013 -- Word Thursdays will feature South Kortright poet Anna Moschovakis and NYC poet Danniel Schoonebeek on Thursday, June 13; Schoonebeek is a former Delhi resident. They will read from their work after the open mic, which begins at 7 pm. The readings will take place in the Word & Image Gallery at Bright Hill Literary Center, 94 Church Street, Treadwell, one block north of Barlow's General Store. The gallery is showing, through June 28, Jefferson artist Rose Mackiewicz's "Reconstructions: A Memoir in Words & Photographs." During the open mic, all those present are invited to read from their own work or that of others for up to five minutes. Admission is $3 (18 and under, free). Anna Moschovakis's most recent books are You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, winner of the 2011 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and The Jokers, a translation of La violence et la dJrision by Egyptian-Fre | | South Kortright Poet Anna Moschovkis |
nch novelist Albert Cossery. She is also the author of a previous book of poems, I HaveNot Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, and several chapbooks, and translator of numerous books from the French. She has received grants from New York Foundation for the Arts and The Fund for Poetry, and residency fellowships from Ledig House/Writers OMI and The Edward Albee Foundation; in 2009 she was granted an apexart outbound residency grant to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A freelance editor and book designer, she teaches in the Writing Program at Pratt Institute and is a member of the writing faculty at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is also a longtime member of Brooklyn-based publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, for which she edits several books a year and heads up the Dossier Series of investigative texts.
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Danniel Schoonebeek was born and raised in Delhi, in the Catskills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, BOMB, Indiana Review, Guernica, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, The Rumpus, Crazyhorse, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. In 2012, he was an Emerging Poets resident at Poets House and a writer-in-residence at Oregon State University. He writes a monthly column on poetry for The American Reader, hosts the Hatchet Job reading series in Brooklyn, and works as associate editor at PEN America, where he edits the PEN Poetry Series. With poet Allyson Paty, he is the author of Torch Songs, a series of collaborative poems.
Bright hill is dedicated to literature in its many forms; its 2013, 21st-anniversary programs are made possible by grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and supported by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Otis A. Thompson Foundation; the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation; the A. C. Molinari Foundation; Tianaderrah Foundation; Stewart's Shops; the Delaware Youth Bureau, through the auspices of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Stewart's Shops; and by the support of Bright Hill's members and friends. Bright Hill has a library of more than 10,000 volumes, which is free and open to the public during gallery hours and by appointment; library cards for checking out books are available at the library desk.
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