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READINGS, PUBLICATIONS & PHOTO EXHIBITS (newest posting is LAST)
***Thursday, April 27, 2006, 6 PM: L.I. POETS read for Affordable Housing: Suffolk Community College -- Montauk Room, Babylon Student Center.
***Sunday, May 7, 2006, 2 PM: North Shore Public Library, Rt. 25A, Shoreham: The Right Scooping Spoon: Tales of a Caregiver.
The care-giver's role is not an easy one. But through the writing of plays, poems and stories, I've come to understand both the frustrations and the rewards of my commitment, and to know both my mother and myself more deeply. I'll read works in all three genre that explore my experiences as care-giver for my mother, an Alzheimer patient.***Sunday, May 14, 2006, 3:30 PM: American Incian Community House, 404 Lafayette St ( South of Astor Place), 8th floor, New York City:
Memory: A full-length romantic comedy, directed by Tom Thornton,
with Irma St. Paule, Dawn Jamieson, Tom Thornton, Diana Barth.
The Quintessential Mother's Day Play!
--Can a grown daughter navigate between her own needs, those of her husband, and those of her aged mother, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer disease? --Will an 85 year old widow with more than a touch of dementia enjoy romance and relationship with a man newly met at the senior center? --What choppy currents make care-giving our aged parents both difficult -- and exhilarating? Come see! Donation please; free food and discussion afterward.*** Sunday, January 21, 2007, 4-6 PM Poetry Reading and reception for A WOMAN MILKING, published by Word Press, Dec. 2006, at PEN & BRUSH, 16 E. 10th St, NYC.
***Friday, February 16, 2007, 8 PM, Conklin Barn, Huntington, High St and Rt. 110, Long Island, Poetry Reading.
*** Sunday, February 18, 2007, 3-5 Paumonak North Sea Group, Vineyard Series ( Poems on the Vine), Aquebogue.
Poetry reading.****Thursday, March 15,2007 2 PM Reading of Full length play, Brooklyn Heights Community House -- Memory, see above.
****Thursday, April 26, 2007, 2 PM Part of group reading for North Sea Poetry Collective Anthology: Neighborhood House, Setauket, LI.
****JUNE, 2007: 6 PHOTOS as part of woman's "Intuition" show in Gallelry 4222, Wynn Lane, Port Jefferson, NY 11777. phone 631 433 3167 for gallery hours. Exhibit is up until June 24!
**** July 23, 2007: Poetry reading, Cornelia St. Cafe, 29Cornelia Street, NYC (between Bleeker St & w. 4th st, west of 6th Avenue): 6-8 PM. $10 cover includes one drink.
**** August 13, 2007: Poetry reading, Oceanside Summer Gazebo Reading Series, 7 PM, Schoolhouse Green, near Foxhurst Green, East of Longbeach Road. Info call Tony Levino, 516 763 1667
****Reviews and honors for A Woman Milking in 2007
Word Press flyer with five blurbs, bio. www.word-press.com
Blog entry, Kevin Walzer, publisher Word Press.
The Dairy Goat Journal, Review by Jennifer Stultz, Editor
Planet Drum, Review
MBR Bookwatch-- on line revew, www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/feb_07
Writer's Almanac: "The Virtue of Trusting One's Mind," chosen by Garrison Kiellor.
See newsletter@americanpublicmedia.org
The Iconoclast # 96, Review by Orel Protopopescu, author.
Cercles, on line French magazine of French / English letters, www.cercles.com/review/reviews by
Charles Holdefer.
Small Farmer's Journal, review by Sue Tank, staff.
Calyx Magazine, review by Catherine West, ed Crone Magazine.
The Educational Testing Service chose "The Virtue of Trusting One's Mind" for inclusion in
assessment tests for High school students in the state of Maryland.
It will appear during a ten-year period (2009 - 2019) and up to
450,000 copies will be made.Work published / accepted for publication, 2007:
---"Devolution," "January 2, 2007 -- Full;" "Transformation;" "What it takes," in Long Island Sounds: 2007Anthology of Poetry, Ed Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan;
---"Gregor Samsa's Sister," Oberon Magazine
---"Repairs," Crone Magazine.
---"Mummies: Guanajuato, Mexico," Calyx Magazine.
---"A Late Blessing" accepted for inclusion in an anthology called THE POETRY OF RECOVERY, ed. Tom Lombardo.
2008
-- Jan 9: Long Island Poets on Film, taped at Riverhead Cable, Public Access TV, hosted by Tammy Morgan
-- Jan: 6 poems accepted for publication by ARS MEDICA, journal of the School of Psychiatry, University of Toronto Medical School. "My Hollowed Mother," "Shift / Change," "That Old Song and Dance," "The Need for Mother," "Being of Use," "Toileriing -- Years Later."
--- Feb 28, 6:45 - 9 PM: UPSIDE DOWN, my full length play to be read by Times Square Playwrights, dir. Tom Thornton, at the Dramatist's Guild, 1501 Broadway, Suite 701, NY 10036, telephone 212 767 7800. How did you react to the 9/11 attack on the WTC ? Did your world view change? Did you act differently? Did you find yourself closer to friends? Were there sometimes conflicts? Follow four young New Yorkers as they try to work through the shock of that day. There is free admission, and there will be refreshments during discussion to follow the reading.On Wednesday, May 28, 7 PM, at Chelsea Studios 151 W. 26th street, Marcia Slatkin's screenplay, The Scarlet Lesson, will be read in a "full length" workshop format with discussion and refreshments to follow. The play imagines how contemporary attitudes toward adultery / pregnancy/ abortion might have changed since Hawthorne depicted Puritan reactions -- and what new options these changes might allow. Visit the high school class studying The Scarlet Letter in 1980, and watch their teacher home-tutoring the student whom he has impregnated. Both teacher and student change profoundly as they study the Hawthorne novel.
On Saturday, May 31, at Corazine Studio, 300 W. 43 St, 5th floor, the new theater group LITTLE HIBISCUS will read Marcia Slatkin's full -length stage play, Upside Down. Set in NYC around the time of the 2001 attacks on the WTC, it dramatizes ways in which different reactions to the political crisis brought people togther -- and split them apart. Watch these young and very diverse New Yorkers wrestle with the implications both of the crisis itself, and of their individual responses.
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