War Words: A Slam Poetry Event at the Hudson River Museum on July 8

War Words: A Slam Poetry Event at the Hudson River Museum on July 8 

On Sunday, July 8, writers will read war-themed poems at the Hudson River Museum’s Slam Poetry event War Words. The event, cosponsored by the Hudson River Museum and the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center, Sleepy Hollow, is FREE with Museum admission. 

Inspired by the Museum’s current exhibition Westchester Women & War: Portraits, (http://www.hrm.org/exhibits/WACS/wacs.html) the event begins at 1 pm with a tour of the exhibition, a commemorative collection of pastel and oil portraits of World War II women veterans and photographs of Westchester women soldiers today. The tour is led by curator Laura Vookles. Westchester Poetry SlamMaster Eric ZORK Alan leads the readings at 2 pm. Readers were selected from participants in two June writing workshops at the Museum and the Hudson Valley Writer’s Center.  The writers share their own poems that range from expressions of patriotism, courage and fear to memorials of pain and loss. Slam poetry offers tools of verbal expression and performance to help poets deal with powerful, complicated subjects like war and grief. 

An Open Mic for writers in the audience to share their war-themed poetry is also slated. 

Readers at War Words, July 8:
Jay Albrecht ; Terry Dugan ; Hostage Poet; Ira Eliasoph; Deborah Maier; Eric Marx; Casey Minter; Laura Vookles; Mar Walker; Dayle Wise 

This program is FREE with Museum Admission.

Museum Admission:
Adults $5
Seniors 62+,Youth 5-16 $3  
Members FREE

Proud participant of Blue Star Museums: Offering FREE admission to all active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day, September 3, 2012.

The Hudson River Museum is located at 511 Warburton Ave in Yonkers, NY. 

For more information and directions: http://www.hrm.org/information.html