Join us for a FREE poetry reading featuring the work of Leslie Heywood and Joe Weil on Saturday, May 11, at 1:30 pm at Tioga Arts Council (TAC) - Gallery located at 179 Front St., Owego, NY 13827.
ABOUT LESLIE HEYWOOD
Leslie Heywood is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Binghamton University. She is a transdisciplinary creative writer and scholar with book publications in creative nonfiction, poetry, gender and sport studies, and histories of feminism. Her articles have been published in disciplines ranging from cultural and sport studies to feminist psychology to affective neuroscience, as well as many creative writing journals. Books include Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir, Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors: Poems, and Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture. Her current research, writing, and activities focus on how creative writing and other arts can serve to makes connections between sustainability, climate change, and trauma with an eye toward mitigation strategies and community building. Heywood serves on the Sustainable Communities TAE steering committee, and is the director for the Arts and Humanities section of the Binghamton2degrees project: http://2degrees.binghamton.edu/
ABOUT JOE WEIL
Joseph Weil is an assistant professor who teaches poetry as well as fiction at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Since 2008, four full length volumes of his poems have been published: What Remains (Night Shade, 2008) Painting the Christmas Trees (Texas Review Press), The Plumber's Apprentice (New York Quarterly books, 2009), The Great Grandmother Light, New and Selected (New York Quarterly books, 2013), A Night in Duluth (New York Quarterly books, 2016), and The Backwards Year (New York Quarterly books, 2020.) Weil’s latest book is Saint World, published by Iniquity press/Vendetta books on New Years Eve, 2023. He is currently working on a one man performed autobiography that combines his poems with his music compositions.
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, May 11, at 1:30 p.m.
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LOCATION: Tioga Arts Council, 179 Front St., Owego, NY
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Tioga Arts Council (TAC) is proud to present a generative workshop with resident poet, Abby E. Murray, on Saturday, July 13, at Cloud Croft Studios. Join us!
How to Sing in the Dark
Participants in this workshop will be treated to poems born in times of struggle and carry clarity, light, and the doggedness of hope. We’ll explore the poetry of political upheaval and war, as well as familial and personal grief; in doing so, we’ll rediscover the techniques good listeners and writers have used for centuries in order to create poems that help us persevere. Prompts generated by the work at hand will get us writing, and poets will leave with drafts to carry onward through the dark.
Date & Time: Saturday, July 13, (tentatively) from 1 - 4 p.m.
Location: Cloud Croft Studios - Barn, 1003 Sanford Rd., Owego, NY
Registration:
TAC Supporter: $10
Not-Yet-Supporter: $15
Seating limited to 15 participants.
ABBY E. MURRAY (she/they) is the editor of Collateral, a literary journal concerned with the impact of violent conflict and military service beyond the combat zone. Her book, Hail and Farewell, won the Perugia Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She served as the 2019-2021 poet laureate for the city of Tacoma, Washington, and currently teaches rhetoric in military strategy to Army War College fellows at the University of Washington. Readers can find her work in recent or forthcoming issues of Rattle, Prairie Schooner, One Art, North American Review, or by visiting www.abbyemurray.com.
Facebook: @abbyemurray
Instagram: @abbyemurray