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Mayapple author Carlo Matos leads online poetry workshop – August 4 – 31

Carlo Matos

In October this year Mayapple Press will publish The Secret Correspondence of Loon and Fiasco, by Carlo Matos. We are happy to announce that Carlo is the winner of a grant from the Illinois Arts Council and that the award winning writing sample was from the very same The Secret Correspondence of Loon and Fiasco.

Before the book arrives on the shelves, Carlo will be leading an online poetry workshop for the Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative.

The title of the workshop is “Writing the Moment”. From the description:

In this workshop, we’ll be writing poems for specific occasions, poems that are meant to serve the needs of the moment however we choose to define it.

The cost is just $100 and as of this writing, there are just a couple of slots left. Go to Writing the

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Schedule of Public Readings Announced – Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat

The Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat is almost upon us. Every year the participants in the Retreat participate in Public Readings around the area. Here is the list of events and readers for 2013:

Wednesday, July 31, 7:30 pm at New World Home Cooking in the back room. Readers are poets Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Diane Sautter Cole, Vincent O. Cooper and Judith Lechner.

Thursday, August 1, at 7:30 p.m, at the main room of the Villetta Inn at Byrdcliffe (next to the Byrdcliffe Theater on Upper Byrdcliffe Road). Patricia Harkins-Pierre and Vincent O. Cooper, both faculty at the University of the Virgin Islands, will present a talk on Caribbean poetry. In addition, a workshop will be offered; local poets are welcome to bring a poem for critique.

Friday, August 2, at 5 p.m., at the Outdated Antiques Café, 314 Wall St., Kingston. Readers are Sandra Ebner, Leslie Gerber, and Patricia Harkins-Pierre.

Saturday, August 3, at 5 p.m., at the Woodstock Library, part of their regular spoken word series. Readers are Judith Kerman,

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