RAMAPOUGH POETS

2011 Fall Poetry Reading at Barnes & Noble

Doc — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:23:52 +0000

Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…

2011 Fall Poetry Reading

with Ramapough Poets

Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
WestNyack,New York

November 10 at 7:30 pm

Fall into Poetry

with Ramapough Poets and friends!

Community participation is welcome.

The program is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

For more information, call 845-348-4701.

Come join us for some great poetry, and to share your own–

student poetry readings are being offered

on Nov 3 and Nov 17, and again in the spring!!

Summer Poetry Reading August 4, 2011

Doc — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:43:22 +0000

Valley Cottage Library and Ramapough Poets present

POETRY in the GARDEN

A Summer Poetry Reading

by Ramapough Poets and

Friends

Thursday, August 4, 2011

at 6:30 PM

During this unique evening of words and music, Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate to perform the words and music of poetry, followed by an open reading.

Community participation welcome!

In case of rain or excessive heat, program moves inside.

In the Garden of Valley Cottage Library

110 Route 303, Valley Cottage, New York 10989

845-268-7700

www.vclib.org

March Thaw Poetry Reading

Doc — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:24:56 +0000

The Pomona Cultural Center and Ramapough Poets present

March Thaw Poetry

A MARCH THAW POETRY READING BY RAMAPOUGH POETS AND FRIENDS

Featured Artists will include:

Musicians Gde Arsa Artha and Bobby Deitch
and
Poets Jane Craig Sebok, Marty Levine,
Ted Mascola, Greg Roman,
Harry Waitzman, and Diane Weber

Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at 3:00 PM

During this relaxing afternoon of words and music,
Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate to perform
the words and music of poetry, followed by an open reading.

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.

In the Gallery of
Pomona Cultural Center
Route 306 (just north of Pomona Road), Pomona, New York
For more information, call 845-362-8062.

Poetry Readings with Rockland’s Young Poets

Doc — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:08:48 +0000

Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…

Poetry Readings

with Rockland’s Young Poets

Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, New York

Fall Kick-Off Event for the New School Year!

Thursday, November 18, 7:30 pm

Clarkstown North High School Poets

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.

Come join us for some great poetry, and to share your own–

more poetry readings will be held in the spring!!

Rachel Wetzsteon (1967-2009)

Doc — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:08:38 +0000

(From the New Republic, Dec. 31, 2009)

In Memory, and Admiration, of

Rachel Wetzsteon

Adam Kirsch, Senior Editor

With great sadness, we at the The New Republic learned this week of the death of Rachel Wetzsteon, our poetry editor. Rachel only joined TNR a few months ago, and she had just begun to make her mark on the poetry we publish. But we admired her own poems for years: at 42, she was one of the best poets of her generation, distinguished by her natural gift for form, her tough urban romanticism, and her appealing combination of melancholy and wit. Her three books of poems—Other Stars (1994), Home and Away (1998), and Sakura Park (2006)—show a steady increase in mastery and feeling, as she took on the inheritance of Larkin and Auden (about whom she wrote a critical study, “Influential Ghosts”) and made it her own. Sakura Park, named after a park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she lived, is a lovely and moving book about romance and disillusion, conjuring a life that is at once intellectual and glamorous and heartbroken. We had looked forward to working with Rachel, and reading her, for many years to come, and we join her many readers, friends, and colleagues in mourning her loss. In her memory, we present two of her poems below.

Short Ode to Morningside Heights

Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground,
comfort me in my dark apartment
when my latest complaint shrinks my focus
to a point so small its hugely present
but barely there, and I fill the air
with all the spiteful words I spared the streets.

The pastry shop’s abuzz
with crazy George and filthy graffiti,
but the peacocks are strutting across the way
and the sumptuous cathedral gives
the open-air banter a reason to deepen:
build structures inside the mind, it tells
the languorous talkers, to rival the ones outside!

Things are and are not solid.
As Opera Night starts at Caffe Taci,
shapes hurry home with little red bags,
but do they watch the movies they hold
or do they forego movies for rooftops
where they catch Low’s floating dome in the act
of always being about to fly away?

Ranters, racers, help me remember
that the moon-faced fountain’s the work of many hands,
that people linger at Toast long after we’ve left.
And as two parks frame the neighborhood—
green framing gray and space calming clamor—
be for me, well-worn streets, a context
I can’t help carrying home, a night fugue
streaming over my one-note how, when, why.
Be the rain for my barren indoor cry.

–Rachel Wetzsteon

Commands for the End of Summer

Deepen,
leaves, not with what
has made us sorry but
with what was profound about that
sorrow.

ii.

Make me
spontaneous,
gathering winds, but don’t
blow so giddily I teeter
too much.

iii.

Songs I
listened to all
summer long, accept my
thanks: to regress is not to move
backward.

iv.

Splash of
patchouli on
my wrist, remind me that
in this cauldron there is a world
elsewhere.

Smile! Those
days of humid
agony have earned you
the right to a hundred purple
sunsets.

vi.

Come, fall,
I can feel you
stirring, I can hardly
wait for the things that will happen
come fall.

–Rachel Wetzsteon

A MARCH THAW POETRY READING BY RAMAPOUGH POETS AND FRIENDS

Doc — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:11:34 +0000

The Pomona Cultural Center and Ramapough Poets present

March Thaw Poetry

A MARCH THAW POETRY READING BY RAMAPOUGH POETS AND FRIENDS

Featured Artists will include:

Musicians Gde Arsa Artha and Bobby Deitch

and

Poets Jane Craig Sebok, Marty Levine,

Ted Mascola, Greg Roman, Irving Sherman,

Harry Waitzman, and Diane Weber

Sunday, March 21^st, 2010 at 3:00 PM

During this relaxing afternoon of words and music,

Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate to perform

the words and music of poetry, followed by an open reading.

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.

In the Gallery of

Pomona Cultural Center

Route 306 (just north of Pomona Road), Pomona, New York

For more information, call 845-362-8062.

Spring 2010 Poetry Readings with Young Poets

Doc — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:03:59 +0000

Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…

Spring Poetry Readings with Rockland’s Young Poets

Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, New York

March 25, 7:30 pm— Clarkstown North High School Poets

April 8, 6:30 pm— Congers Elementary School 5th grade poets

April 22, 6:30 pm— Lakewood Elementary School 5th grade poets

May 6, 7:30 pm— Suffern High School Poets

May 20, 6:30 pm— Felix Festa Middle School Poets

June 3, 7:30 pm— Clarkstown South High School Poets

*Please note the earlier starting time for the Elementary and Middle School readings.

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.

Come join us for some great poetry, and to share your own!!

Beside the River Images of Rockland Life

Doc — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:52:45 +0000

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

SPRING FINALE 2009 YOUNG POETRY READINGS

Doc — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:34:48 +0000

Barnes & Noble and Ramapough Poets present…

Spring Poetry

Readings

with Rockland’s Young

Poets

Barnes & Noble
4416 Palisades Center Drive
West Nyack, New York

Spring Finale Event!

June 4, 7:30 pm

Clarkstown South High

School Poets

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.

Come join us for some great poetry, and to share your own!

Memorial Service for Barbara Hurley

Doc — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:13:17 +0000

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