Beside the River Images of Rockland Life
August 2, 2009
Valley Cottage Library and Ramapough Poets present:
Beside the River
Images of Rockland Life
by Ramapough Poets
with photographs by
Alice M. Hughey
On Exhibit August 1-26, 2009 in the Gallery at Valley Cottage Library
A walk around Rockland Lake, a trip into New City for ice cream, the Nyack Street Fair, Piermont on a sunny day. These are just a few of the many excursions through Rockland that the Ramapough Poets take in their poetry, exhibited here at the Valley Cottage Library as visual art.
Come share this journey through Rockland County. The work on the walls, personal views of life in Rockland, encompasses its geography, its history and its people. Two very different media are represented in these views: photography and poetry. The interplay between words and images provides the visitor with a unique experience of life in our county.
The poems are written by eight Ramapough Poets, and range from scenic views of Rockland County present and past, to experiences of life here. The participating poets are: Barbara Hurley, Martin I. Levine, Ted Mascola, Greg Roman, Jane Craig Sebok, Irving Sherman, Harry Waitzman and Diane E. Weber. The black and white photographs are by Rockland based photographer Alice M. Hughey, whose work captures the environment in which she lives and the activities that occupy her.
Please join us
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Artists’ Reception at 5:30 pm
Music and Poetry Performance at 6:30 pm
with Ramapough Poets and Friends:
Jake Allyne, Gde Arsa Artha, Bobby Deitch, Alice M. Hughey,
Martin I. Levine, Timothy Licht, Ted Mascola, Jane Craig Sebok,
Irving Sherman, Harry Waitzman, and Diane E. Weber
Come listen to music and poetry, view the art on exhibit in the gallery,
and join the celebration! Program is free and open to the public.
Community participation welcome! An open reading will follow.
In the Community Room and Gallery of
Valley Cottage Library
110 Route 303, Valley Cottage, New York 10989
845-268-7700 www.vclib.org
Memorial Service for Barbara Hurley
April 15, 2009
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR BARBARA HURLEY
DATE: April 26, 2009 (Sunday) 2PM
PLACE: New Hempstead Presbyterian Church Sanctuary
484 New Hempstead Road, New City, NY 10956
http://www.nhpchurch.org
A POETIC EVENING WITH HARRY WAITZMAN
April 13, 2009
New City Library
presents
A POETIC EVENING WITH HARRY WAITZMAN
AUTHOR OF SKUNK CABBAGE
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM
During this special evening of poetry, Harry Waitzman will be reading from his collection, Skunk Cabbage, as well as newer works.
The reading will be followed by an open reading.
Please join us at
New City Library
220 North Main Street, New City, New York 10956
845-634-4997
SPRING POETRY READINGS SCHEDULE
March 6, 2009
Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…
Spring Poetry Readings
with Rockland’s Young Poets
at
Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, New York
March 12, 6:30 pm— Hillcrest Elementary School 5th grade Poets
March 12, 7:30 pm— Clarkstown North High School Poets
April 2, 6:30 pm— Congers Elementary School 5th grade poets
April 23, 6:30 pm— Lakewood Elementary School 5th grade poets
June 4, 7:30 pm— Clarkstown South High School Poets
*Please note the earlier starting time for the Elementary School readings.
Also, please note that on March 12, there are TWO readings scheduled to start ONE hour apart
All readings are hosted by Diane Weber of Ramapough Poets, and will be followed by open readings. Community participation is welcome. The programs are free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
For more information, call 845-348-4701.
Memorial Day for the War Dead
May 23, 2008
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
the grief of all your losses to their grief,
even of a woman that has left you. Mix
sorrow with sorrow, like time-saving history,
which stacks holiday and sacrifice and mourning
on one day for easy, convenient memory.
Oh, sweet world soaked, like bread,
in sweet milk for the terrible toothless God.
“Behind all this some great happiness is hiding.”
No use to weep inside and to scream outside.
Behind all this perhaps some great happiness is hiding.
Memorial day. Bitter salt is dressed up
as a little girl with flowers.
The streets are cordoned off with ropes,
for the marching together of the living and the dead.
Children with a grief not their own march slowly,
like stepping over broken glass.
The flautist’s mouth will stay like that for many days.
A dead soldier swims above little heads
with the swimming movements of the dead,
with the ancient error the dead have
about the place of the living water.
A flag loses contact with reality and flies off.
A shopwindow is decorated with
dresses of beautiful women, in blue and white.
And everything in three languages:
Hebrew, Arabic, and Death.
A great and royal animal is dying
all through the night under the jasmine
tree with a constant stare at the world.
A man whose son died in the war walks in the street
like a woman with a dead embryo in her womb.
“Behind all this some great happiness is hiding.”
June Poetry Readings
June 1, 2007
Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…
POETRY in the CAFE
Spring Poetry Readings with Rockland’s Young Poets
at
Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, New York
on Tuesday, June 5th, at 7:30 pm
Green Meadow Waldorf School Seventh Grade Poets
will offer readings from their original works, and
on Thursday, June 7th, at 6:30 pm
Hillcrest Elementary School Fifth and Sixth Grade Poets
will offer readings from their original works.
All readings are hosted by Diane Weber of Ramapough Poets,
and will be followed by open readings.
Community participation is welcome.
The programs are free, open to the public
and wheelchair accessible.
For more information, call 845-348-4701.
May Poetry Readings
May 2, 2007
Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…
POETRY in the CAFE
Spring Poetry Readings with Rockland’s Young Poets
at
Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, New York
On Thursday, May 3rd, at 7:30 pm
Nyack High School Poets
will offer readings from their original works,
On Thursday, May 10th, at 6:30 pm
Lakewood Elementary School Fifth Grade Poets
will offer readings from their original works,
on Thursday, May 17th, at 7:30 pm
Suffern High School Poets
will offer readings from their original works,
on Thursday, May 24th, at 6:30 pm
Congers Elementary School Fifth Grade Poets
will offer readings from their original works.
“We are Virginia Tech”
April 29, 2007
Nikki Giovanni reading her poem at the convocation.
