An Evening of Poetry

The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library is pleased to present An Evening of Poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month. Three local poets, Nancy Gerber, Alison Stone, and Marjorie Tesser, will each read selections of their work, then audience members will have the opportunity to participate in an open mic session during which they may read their own original work.

Nancy Gerber’s writing has appeared in literary and scholarly journals, including Mom Egg Review, Adanna, and the Journal of Aging, Humanities and the Arts. Her most recent book, Fire and Ice: Poetry and Prose, was named a Notable Book in Bowker’s 2014 Shelf Unbound Competition. She received a doctorate in English from Rutgers University and lives in Montclair, NJ.

Alison Stone is the author of Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014), Borrowed Logic (Dancing Girl Press 2014), From the Fool to the World: Poems in the Voices of the Major Arcana of the Tarot (Parallel Press 2012) and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award and was published by Many Mountains Moving Press. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and a variety of other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry’s Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly’s Madeline Sadin award and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes.

Marjorie Tesser is the author of poetry chapbooks THE IMPORTANT THING IS (Firewheel Chapbook Award Winner), a poetry book that is also a game, and The Magic Feather (Finishing Line), re-imagined fairy tales in the voices of female characters. She co-edited, with Bob Holman, the Bowery Books anthologies Bowery Women: Poems and Estamos Aquí: Poems by Migrant Farmworkers, and is the editor of the literary journal Mom Egg Review, which publishes literature by and about mothers. Marjorie has led poetry workshops and readings for Bowery Books, the Motherhood Foundation, PEN, AWP, and the New York and Massachusetts Poetry Festivals. Her poems and short fiction have appeared recently in Drunken Boat, Les Femmes Folles, Akashic Press’ online Thursdaze feature, and The Saturday Evening Post. Marjorie will read poems from her publications and some new work.

It is our honor to host these accomplished writers for An Evening of Poetry at the library. This event is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served. Please join us.

The Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library is located at 25 Flywheel Park W., Piermont, NY 10968.

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