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Past Readings
Poems of Place Reading: Sun Sept 27, 4pm, River Hook Preserve.
For the 3rd year running, we’re partnering with River Hook Preserve on a reading of poems with a sense of place — ecological, urban, a state of mind, anything that feels placeful to you.
Featured Readers: Kelly Jo LIllian, Conrad Lochner, Kate MacLaughlan, Jess Monette, Mary Newell, Alison Stone, Monica Wendel, Tedo Wyman
Prose Reading: Descent: Sun Oct 4, 5:30-7:30PM, Marydell Faith & Life Center.
We’re continuing our partnership with Marydell for this prose reading of local writers’ original work. This season’s theme is Descent — prose that sits with going down instead of up: endings, letting go, shedding, erosion, weathering, the quiet parts of a season that don’t get the attention the bloom does. Doesn’t need to be literal landscape — take it wherever it leads you.
Featured Readers: Abbie Cohen, Katie Elevitch, Delmarie Forbes, Sinéad Alyse, Eugene Hwang, Donna Lee Miele, Emily Richards, Collin Stephens, Sara Weiss
Spring & All Community Prose Reading featuring Ian Allison, Jill Rovitzky Black, Tina Cooper, Jocelyn Jane-Cox, Doris Hunter Carrion, Ryan King, Jorli Peña, Rebecca Watkins, & Diana Wilkins — Thursday May 21, 2026 at Marydell Faith & Life Center
Poetry Reading with Valzhyna Mort and Samyak Shertok with community readers Kelly Jo Lillian, Conrad Lochner, Marjorie Tesser, Tedo Wyman, and Laura Zaino — Saturday April 25, 2026 at Big Red Books
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 5 with Big Red Books featuring Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort — Wednesday April 22, 2026
Let the Story Warm You: An Evening Prose Reading with Marydell Faith & Life Center featuring Ellyn Hament, Christina Leaño, Bridget McFadden, Emilya Naymark, Alex Russo, Fredric Sinclair, Collin Stephens, Jessica Wahlstrom, and Zaneta – Friday February 6, 2026 at Marydell, Nyack
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 4 with Big Red Books featuring The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley – Wednesday November 19, 2025
Poetry Reading featuring Leila Chatti & Isabella DeSendi with community readers H.E. Fisher, Madison Flanagan, Del-Marie Forbes, Alexa Palumbo, & Jeff Shalom – Saturday November 15, 2025 at Big Red Books
Poems of Place: Community Poetry Reading with Friends of River Hook featuring Mary Lou Buschi, Gail Hovey, Eugene Hwang, Shauna Lauricella, Conrad Lochner, Kirsten Meehan, Madalasa Mobili, Alison Stone, Abigail Todras, & Tedo Wyman – Saturday July 20, 2025 at River Hook Preserve
How to Read a Book (Of Poetry) Session 3 with Big Red Books featuring Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay – Wednesday June 11, 2025 at Big Red Books, Nyack
Poetry Reading featuring Dawn Lundy Martin & Matthew Gellman with Community Readers Kelly Jo Lillian, Kate MacLauchlin, Kirsten Meehan, Earl ‘Owen’ Minoza, and Cherish Pratt – Saturday May 18, 2025 at The Angel Nyack
Poetry Reading featuring Andres Cerpa & Joshua Garcia with Community Readers H.E. Fisher, Conrad Lochner, Bridget McFadden, & Jay’Ada Mercedes – Friday April 18, 2025 at Prohibition River, Nyack
Spring & All Community Prose Reading featuring Judy Bivona, Tina Cooper, Vanessa Goldhaven, Ellyn Hament, Jennifer McArdle, Madalasa Mobili, Emilya Naymark, David Thomas Peacock, & Fredric Sinclair – Saturday March 22, 2025 at Old Stone Meeting House, Upper Nyack
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 2 with Big Red Books ft. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón – Wednesday November 13, 2024 at Big Red Books, Nyack
Nyack Writes Poetry Reading featuring Marie Howe and Megan Pinto – Saturday October 12, 2024 at Nyack Center
Poems of Place: Community Poetry Reading with Friends of River Hook featuring Mary Lou Buschi, Tina Cooper, Vanessa Goldhaven, Ronald Hammond, Bridget Kiley, Kelly Jo Lillian, Conrad Lochner, Kate MacLauchlan, & Tedo Wyman – Saturday July 20, 2024 at River Hook Preserve
How to Read a Book (of Poetry) Session 1 with Big Red Books ft. The Wild Iris by Louise Glück – Wednesday June 26, 2024 at Big Red Books, Nyack
Night Glare Reading Series: Jill Bialosky & Bethany Ball – Thursday February 29, 2024 at Nyack Library
Night Glare Reading Series: James Hoch & Emily Lee Luan with Carson McCullers Center for Writers & Musicians – Friday October 13, 2023 at Carson McCullers House Nyack
Night Glare Reading Series: Jennifer Franklin & Isabella DeSendi with Carson McCullers Center for Writers & Musicians – Saturday June 17, 2023 at Carson McCullers House Nyack
