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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Kinship: Joan Barasovska\, Jayne Benjulian\, & Hilde Weisert - Free
DESCRIPTION:Pictured: Joan Barasovska\, Jayne Benjulian\, Hilde Weisert \nA reading and conversation with three  award-winning poets on the many forms of kinship: with family\, community\, heritage\, and the natural world.  \nJayne Benjulian is the author of Five Sextillion Atoms (Saddle Road Press\, 2016).  Her collection\, said David Wojahn\, is a “highly distinctive and gripping book notable for the ways in which it combines the stories of family history with larger matters of public history.”  \nHer poems\, widely published\, have been shortlisted for the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, the Fish Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize. She served as chief speechwriter for Apple and investigator for the Public Defender in King County\, WA. She lives in the Berkshire Hills where she edits the work of prose writers and poets. \nJayne was an Ossabaw Island Project Fellow; teaching fellow at Emory University; lecturer in the Graduate Program in Theater at San Francisco State University; and Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Lyon\, France.   www.jaynebenjulian.com  \nJoan Barasovska is a poet living in Chapel Hill\, NC. In lyrical\, accessible poetry\, Joan contemplates the lifetime of a woman: as a girl\, a daughter\, a young woman in despair\, and a wife and mother. At the brink of old age\, living in welcome solitude\, she revisits memory with broadened perspective. \nJoan hosts a poetry series sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society at independent bookstore McIntyre’s Books. Joan was selected by the Poetry Society as their 2026 Pinesong Dedicatee. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and four times for a Pushcart Prize. Her books have been reviewed in numerous literary journals. She is the author of Birthing Age (Finishing Line Press\, 2018); Carrying Clare (Main Street Rag\, 2022); Orange Tulips (Redhawk Publications\, 2022); and Unblessed\, Unsung (Main Street Rag\, 2025)  www.joanbarasovska.com \n“In Unblessed\, Unsung\, Joan Barasovska carries us from the Eastern European shtetl to a Philadelphia tailor shop\, from a bright baseball star to his businessman brother\, from father to son\, from mother to daughter. Drawn from photographs and family history\, these poems form a steady line of family through dark times. Reading them is like standing in a darkroom watching images emerge\, silver on paper\, under a red safelight: fragile magic.” —Mimi Herman\, author of The Kudzu Queen \nHilde Weisert’s 2015 poetry collection The Scheme of Things was published by David Robert Books. Her work has appeared in LIBER: A Feminist Journal\, Cold Mountain Review\, Plume\, Paterson Literary Review\, the Journal of the American Medical Association\, The Hudson Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Prairie Schooner\, The Sun\, and elsewhere. Awards: 2017 Gretchen Warren Award (NE Poetry Club)\, 2016 Tiferet Poetry Award\, 2008 Lois Cranston Prize\, and three Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowships. She is co-president of the Sandisfield Arts Center She is co-president of the Sandisfield Arts Center.. www.hildeweisert.com \n“Hilde Weisert’s quiet\, versatile poetic voice\, fully at ease in narrative and lyric\, is distinguished by vivid accuracy of thought and speech\, modest but absolute courage in choice of subject\, a dry\, sweet humor\, and a generosity of spirit that brings me back to her book again and again.”\n– Ursula Le Guin \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://sandisfieldartscenter.org/event/the-poetry-of-kinship-joan-barasovska-jayne-benjulian-hilde-weisert-free/
CATEGORIES:Free,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Poetry\, Prose and a Play - Canceled!
DESCRIPTION:We regret that this event has been canceled. \nDirect from Waterbury’s Seven Angels Theater! \nDon’t miss this unique theatrical experience created by former Waterbury City Historian and educator Phil Benevento and Sandisfield actress and writer Linda Storms! \nThe first act begins with alternating poetry and prose. The second act is a dramatic readers’ theater production of “The Opening of a Door\,” an original play by Phil Benevento performed by the Chase Parkway Players/ \nSet in Waterbury in the 1990s\, the play is about Rosa who has just returned from a trip to Africa and Southern Europe. She has brought a strange souvenir for her friend and colleague Marie Santi – a gift that can grant a wish. In this original play\, we learn of the trials and tribulations of Marie’s family and how this surprising gift may offer a chance to wish for a better life. \n 
URL:https://sandisfieldartscenter.org/event/poetry-prose-and-a-play/
CATEGORIES:Paid,Performances,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250608T140000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry of Horses: A Community Read
DESCRIPTION:Picture is of Maxine Kumin’s PoBiz Farm (Maxine on her horse)\, from the Maxine Kumin website \nFree. \nThe relationship of humans and horses has inspired some of the most moving and acclaimed poetry by some of our greatest poets. Today’s event is an opportunity for community members to come and read (out loud) their favorite horse related poems\, or read from the poems we’ll provide. Or just listen. \nAn opportunity to lift our voices and tune our ears in praise of the importance of horses to human history (we wouldn’t be where we are without them). \nOne of the poets whose work we’ll include is Maxine Kumin\, whose Amanda poems capture not only the unique horse-human relationship but also\, vividly\, a horse.  If you like it\, come and sign up to read it. \nAmanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields \nThis morning Amanda\nlies down during breakfast.\nThe hay is hip high.\nThe sun sleeps on her back\nas it did on the spine\nof the dinosaur\nthe fossil bat\nthe first fish with feet\nshe was once.\nA breeze fans\nthe deerflies from lighting.\nOnly a gaggle of gnats\nhousekeeps in her ears.\nA hay plume sticks out of her mouth. \nI come calling with a carrot\nfrom which I have taken\nthe first bite.\nShe startles\nshe considers rising\nbut retracts the pistons\nof her legs and accepts\nas loose-lipped as a camel. \nWe sit together.\nIn this time and place\nwe are heart and bone.\nFor an hour\nwe are incorruptible. \nOthers we may include are Donald Hall’s “The Names of Horses”\, Jack Gilbert’s “Horses at Midnight without a Moon”\, and a sad one called “Weakness” by Alden Nowlan (suggested by Sandisfield poet Hannah Fries). \n  \n 
URL:https://sandisfieldartscenter.org/event/the-poetry-of-horses-a-community-read/
CATEGORIES:Free,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Sandisfield in Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Photo above\, Hannah Fries\, by Susan Quinn. \nAward-winning local poets Hannah Fries and Hilde Weisert read poems and lyrical essays inspired by “the landscape we live” — whether it be spring ephemerals\, wandering cows\, turkey families\, birch trees\, creeks running and creeks dry\, mud\, or mountainsides. \nHannah Fries is a poet\, writer\, and editor. She is the author of the poetry collection Little Terrarium as well as the book Being with Trees and a 2026 collection of lyric essays about the natural world. Of her poetry\, Ellen Bass wrote “Hannah Fries’s poems are acutely alive to the physical world in all its varied\, gorgeous\, and vulnerable incarnations from rain to moon snail\, moosewood to worm\, fox to orchid. With rich imagery and fresh detail\, Little Terrarium wakes us up to all the layers of “glimmer and decay.” \nHilde Weisert is a poet\, teacher\, and Sandisfield Arts Center co-president. Of her poetry collection The Scheme of Things\, Ursula Le Guin wrote “Hilde Weisert’s quiet\, versatile poetic voice\, fully at ease in narrative and lyric\, is distinguished by vivid accuracy of thought and speech\, modest but absolute courage in choice of subject\, a dry\, sweet humor\, and a generosity of spirit that brings me back to her book again and again.”
URL:https://sandisfieldartscenter.org/event/sandisfield-in-poetry/
CATEGORIES:Free,Poetry,Talks and Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220717T140000
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SUMMARY:Update! Poetry and Music with Molly Peacock\, Doug Anderson presented with Voices of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:July 15 update: Cornelius Eady and his trio won’t be able to present due to a serious family emergency in Cornelius’ family. We send our love to Cornelius and hope to have him and his trio\, Lisa Liu and Charlie Rauh\, present in the future. \nHappily\, poet and Cave Canem Fellow Kate Rushin will read a few of Cornelius’s poems as well as her own\, and talk a bit about Cornelius and Cave Canem\, the press he and Toi Derricotte founded. \nMASKS REQUIRED. \nOn Sunday\, July 17 at 2 PM\, we join with Voices of Poetry for an extraordinary afternoon of poetry and conversation. To bring in the widest possible audience\, from high school student writers to senior citizens\, we’re pleased to present this event free (donations welcome). \nBenjamin Luxon will set the stage with a few words about the long tradition of poetry\, and poetry and music\, at the Sandisfield Arts Center. \nThe afternoon features award winning poets Doug Anderson and Molly Peacock. \nMolly Peacock\nMolly Peacock is an acclaimed poet\, biographer\, essayist\, and writer of tales whose multi-genre literary life has taken her from New York City to Toronto\, from poetry to prose\, from words to words-and-pictures\, and from lyric self-examination to curiosity about the lives of others. “Peacock has many talents\, not the least of which is her voice\, characterized by engaging honesty and self-deprecating humor. She comes across as that fellow passenger on an airplane to whom you have suddenly and quite naturally confessed your story (and learned hers)” (Lorna Blake in The Hudson Review). Molly’s biography of painter Mary Hiester Reid\, Flower Diary\, was a Quill and Quire Best Book of 2021. More about Molly. \n  \nDoug Anderson has taught at various colleges and universities\, and two MFA programs. He has published several books – of poetry & memoir – including The Moon Reflected Fire (Alice James Books\, 1994)\, which won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Blues for Unemployed Secret Police (Curbstone Books\, 2000)\, which received a grant from the Eric Mathieu King Fund of the Academy of American Poets; Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam\, the Sixties\, and a Journey of Self-\nDiscovery (W. W. Norton & Co.\, 2009); and Horse Medicine (Barrow Street Press\, 2015). His most recent poetry collection – Undress\, She Said – is forthcoming from Four Way Books in September 2022. His work has appeared in many literary journals\, including Asheville Poetry Review\, Field\, Nine Mile\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Southern Review\, Massachusetts Review\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. \nThe first half of the program will include poets Hilde Weisert\, Neil Silberblatt\, and Kate Rushin. \n \nHilde WeisertAward-winning poets Hilde Weisert\, president of the Sandisfield Arts Center\, and Neil Silberblatt\, founder of Voices of Poetry\, will introduce the afternoon with short readings from their own work. \nOf Weisert’s 2015 collection The Scheme of Things\, Ursula Le Guin wrote “Hilde Weisert’s quiet\, versatile poetic voice\, fully at ease in narrative and lyric\, is distinguished by vivid accuracy of thought and speech\, modest but absolute courage in choice of subject\, a dry\, sweet humor\, and a generosity of spirit that brings me back to her book again and again.” \nNeil Silberblatt\nNeil Silberblatt has published two poetry collections: So Far\, So Good (2012)\, and Present Tense (2013)\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  His most recent poetry book\, Past Imperfect (Nixes Mate Books\, 2018)\, was nominated for the Mass. Book Award in Poetry. Neil is the founding director of Voices of Poetry which has organized and presented a series of (more than 400) poetry events\, featuring acclaimed poets at various venues in NY\, NJ\, CT and MA\, including The Mount / Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox\, MA\, and The Rubin Museum of Art in NYC. We’re delighted to have him add the Sandisfield Arts Center to that list. \nKate Rushin  is the author of The Black Back-Ups and “The Bridge Poem.” Her work is widely anthologized and is included in Poetry Magazine with the Witness Stones Old Lyme poetry project and in the anthology\, African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song\, edited by Kevin Young. She has received fellowships from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation\, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Cave Canem Foundation. Kate is currently Professor of English and Poet in Residence at Connecticut College in New London\, CT. \nThe afternoon will be capped off with conversation with the poets about poetry and the writing life and a book signing reception. \nThe event is free\, but space will be limited. If you’re sure you plan to attend\, reserve a ticket below.  (It nay look like you are “buying” but the price is $0 – free.) \nDonations gratefully accepted at the event or at our Donate page. \nAt this time given current Covid-19 uptick we anticipate asking attendees for proof of vaccination and to wear a mask.  \nThis program is supported in part by a grant from the Sandisfield Cultural Council\, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council\, a state agency.\n \n  \n  \nTo reserve tickets\, click the + sign for the number you want\, then click the Get Tickets button.  \n  \n 
URL:https://sandisfieldartscenter.org/event/poetry-music-eady-peacock-voicesofpoetry/
CATEGORIES:Free,Performances,Poetry,Special Events
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