Poetry/Prose/Performance Saturday, August 6th at 7pm with Alison Koffler, Dayl Wise, & Susan Hoover at BEAHIVE, 314 Wall St, Kingston.
Alison Koffler was three times the winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Award for poetry in 1993, 2000 and 2006. She was the recipient of the Poetry Teacher of the Year Award from Poets’ House and McGraw-Hill in 2003, and the Green Heron Poetry Award in 2011. Her poems have appeared in such publications as Iris: A Journal for Women, Heliotrope, Poetry in Performance, and Kalliope. She works as an on-site teacher-consultant for the New York City Writing Project at Lehman College. Married to the poet, Dayl Wise, she divides her time between the Bronx and Woodstock, NY.
Dayl Wise lives part time in the Bronx and Woodstock, New York with his wife, the poet Alison Koffler and Molly, a Labrador-pit bull mix. His poems have appeared in numerous publications. In his spare time, he runs Post Traumatic Press (PTP) and is the author of Poems and other stuff (PTP) 2004 and Basic Load (PTP) 2009. He is the editor of Post Traumatic Press 2007 (PTP), an anthology of work by three generations of veterans.
Susan Hoover (poet, musician, teacher) teaches poetry in the schools for Teachers & Writers Collaborative and has published poems in Cover Arts New York, University of Colorado Literary Magazine, EPT, Dark Thirty, Granite, Cold Mountain Review, Isinglass Review and other publications. Her books include The Magnet and The Target (The New School Chapbook Series, 1995), and Taxi Dancer (Exotic Beauties Press, 1979). She is also included in As If The World Had Not Known Sorrow (The Poets Press, 1986). She has given readings at many NYC venues and has appeared as a featured reader at several Out Loud Festivals in Claryville, as well as the first two Woodstock Poetry Festivals and at galleries in Woodstock and Poughkeepsie. With Nancy Rullo and Janice King, Susan was a member of the All Right! Girls, a poetry performance group. All shows are held at BEAHIVE in Uptown Kingston (314 Wall St.). Doors open at 7 PM; start time is 7:30. Features perform for approximately 20 to 25 mins. each, with open mic before and after. Cover charge is $5; free for BEAHIVE members. Drink included.
Phillip X. Levine is a poet, editor and performer. He is poetry editor for Chronogram and president of the Woodstock Poetry Society & Festival (www.woodstockpoetry.com). From 2001-2008, he hosted a popular weekly reading series at The Colony Cafe, one of the most storied venues for poets and musicians in Woodstock, NY. This OPEN WORD series is an evolution of The Colony series.
BEAHIVE www.beahivebzzz.com is a new kind of collaborative space for work and community. Its ultimate aim is to support a Local Living Economy, one that is locally rooted and human-scale. BEAHIVE opened in Beacon in May 2009 as the first such space in the Hudson Valley and partnered with Chronogram to open a second location in Uptown Kingston in December 2009.
For more information contact Phillip Levine at (845)246-8565 or pprod@mindspring.com.
This article appears in July 2011.
