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Susan Cummins Miller events:
On Thursday, April 18, and Saturday, April 20, Mark McLemore’s NPR broadcast “Arizona Spotlight” features a reading from my poetry chapbook, Making Silent Stones Sing. The program will be archived on the “Arizona Spotlight” website, https://radio.azpm.org/arizonaspotlight/.
Thursday, April 25. “Angles of Reflection: a GeoPoetic Journey.” I will be reading my poems during a Zoom presentation for UU-Detroit’s Poetry Vespers at 7 p.m EDT. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/99979852182?pwd=SW5ueTQyMnQxbjgwWVR1NWJ1QUJnUT09
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Finishing Line Press Poetry Reading
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Finishing Line Press Poetry Reading
Local poet, novelist and columnist Michele Herman will make a return engagement, reading her poems along with three of her favorite fellow Finishing Line Press poets. The poets will also be happy to talk about their writing and publishing process and to answer questions about anything writing-related.
Joyce Englander Levy is a poet, mother, writer, and senior yoga and meditation teacher. Her debut chapbook, Pier 40, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2025. She is the poetry editor at Human Shift, and a reader at Only Poems. She is also the author of the Substack “Look Both Ways,” which explores meditation, creativity, and mindful movement. She is also a former director of mindful movement at The Well and cofounder of Yoga Shanti NYC. She has spent her life and career studying and sharing the art of mindful living.
Kim Farrar is a writer and collage artist. Her poetry collection, The Impossible Physics of the Hummingbird, is forthcoming in 2025 from Unsolicited Press. She is the author of two chapbooks published by Finishing Line Press: The Familiar and The Brief Clear. Her poetry has been published most recently in Midwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and New Ohio Review. Her essays have been published in Illness & Grace, Voices of Autism and Reflections. She was a semifinalist in Grayson’s Poetry Contest in 2022 and 2021. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work can be found on her website at Poetrysite.blog.
Michele Herman’s first novel, Save the Village (Regal House, 2022), was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Prize. She’s also author of two poetry chapbooks from Finishing Line Press: Victory Boulevard (2018) and Just Another Jack: The Private Lives of Nursery Rhymes (2022). In 2023, one of her poems was an honorable mention for the Robinson Jeffers Prize and another was a finalist in the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in recent issues of Carve, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, The Sun and many other journals. She’s a devoted teacher at The Writers Studio, a developmental editor, a writing coach, an award-winning translator of Jacques Brel songs, and an occasional columnist at The Village Sun and LitHub.
Ivy Raff is the author of What Remains/Qué queda, a bilingual English/Spanish poetry collection which won the Alberola International Poetry Prize and is forthcoming for publication later this year. Her debut chapbook, Rooted and Reduced to Dust, is out now from Finishing Line Press. An avid challah baker and hiker, Ivy is mainly nomadic and calls Queens home.
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Saturday, April 20th
Saturday, April 27th
Bound to Happen Books, Stevens Point, WI
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Riverfront Arts Center, Stevens Point, WI
Open Reception – Poetry Reading @ 4:45 PM
Author’s Toolbox: Poet Arthur Turfa: Writing Poems about Family without Anyone Getting Upset
Hudson Valley Writers Center Local Writers Series
Hudson Valley Writers Center (map)
Join us at the Hudson Valley Writers Center to kick off National Poetry Month with local poets Ivy Raff, Timothy Liu, & Bryan Monte as they read from their most recent books. Books will be available for purchase on site.
National Poetry Month Reading @ Northshire Books
Northshire Books (map)
Celebrating National Poetry Month in beautiful upstate New York. I’ll be reading from my newly-released poetry chapbook, Rooted and Reduced to Dust.
Finishing Line Press Poetry Reading
Hudson Park Library (map)
Reading alongside fellow Finishing Line Press poets Michele Herman, Kim Farrar, and Joyce Englander Levy. We will conclude with remarks on our writing and publishing processes, and answer questions about anything writing-related.
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- Julia Nunnally Duncan will sign copies of her books, including her newest ones, All We Have Loved and When Time Was Suspended, on Saturday, April 6, noon-2 p.m. at the MACA gift shop in downtown Marion, NC.
- Julia Nunnally Duncan book signing on Saturday, April 27, 10-4, at Pioneer Day in Old Fort, NC.
- Julia Nunnally Duncan will do a presentation about her essay collection All We Have Loved for the Orchard Book Club on Wednesday, May 15, from 11-1 p.m. The Orchard Book Club meets at The Orchard at Altapass, located on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western NC.
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Tricia Knoll Poetry Reading including Unknown Daughter:I will be reading on April 3, 2024 as part of Poetry Month:Voices of Women PoetsApril 3, 7pm at the Kellogg – Hubbard Library, 135 Main Streetin Montpelier, Vermont.Cindy Ellen Hill is a writer, musician and obsessed gardener in Middlebury, Vermont. She has written extensively for Vermont Woman, Vermont Outdoors, VTDigger, and magazines, winning NENPA awards. She is the author of two sonnet chapbooks, Wild Earth (Antrim Press 2021) andElegy for the Trees(Kelsay Books 2022), and has had poems published in Vermont Magazine, Vermont Life, Measure, The Lyric, and on National Public Radio.Tricia Knoll is the author of nine books of poetry.How I Learned To Be Whitereceived the 2018 Human Relations Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry. She is a Contributing Editor to Verse Virtual. Her new chapbookThe Unknown Daughterreleases from Finishing Line Press on March 1st.Wild Apples, poems about downsizing and moving 3,003 miles from Oregon to Vermont comes out from Fernwood Press in February 2024.Samantha Kolber is a poet, publisher, and mother in Montpelier, Vermont. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Birth of a Daughter (Kelsay Books 2020) and has had poems published in Rattle, Hunger Mountain, and other journals and anthologies. She is the owner and publisher of Rootstock Publishing, a small, curated hybrid & traditional press publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction books by authors from Vermont and beyond.Tricia KnollThe Unknown Daughter (a chapbook – part autobiographical, part fantasy fiction and part feminist history) is on a sale now from Finishing Line Press for March delivery! Description and details also at my website.And a sneak preview for the cover of my other new book, Wild Apples from Fernwood Press to be released in February, 2024. .Website: triciaknoll.com____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quiet Tree & Words From Walls sites:
- Sat April 11, 2024, from 12pm – 4pm
Turn The Page Bookstore5707 Richmond Road, Suite 40Williamsburg, VA 23188
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- Saturday, May 18, 9AM-12PM at the 5/3 Pavilion, 251 W. Main Street
- Sunday, June 23, 10AM-1PM at 398 Southland Drive
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Barry Vitcov events:
I have three events scheduled for after the release of my chapbook Structures.
- The first is a book signing at Oregon Books and Games, 150 NE E St, Grants Pass, OR 97526, on June 29, 10:00 a.m. till Noon;
- the second is a book reading and signing at Bloomsbury Books, 290 E Main St, Ashland, OR 97520, on July 15, 7:00 p.m. till 8:00 p.m.;
- the third at Four-Eyed Frog Books, 39138 Ocean Dr, Gualala, CA 95445; on August 17, hours to be determined. Of course, I’ll also be doing some readings and signings from my first two books Were I Live Some of the Time and The Wilbur Stories & More.
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