Poetry Open Mic Featuring Sue Oringel and Georgia Poppoff
Ndakinna Education Center Greenfield Center, NY
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Taking place on the first Wednesday of every month, Caffe Lena's poetry open mic, hosted by Carol Graser, is a relaxed, supportive performance opportunity for poets of all styles and levels of experience. Sign-up starts at 6:30 PM. Readings start at 7:00 PM. Each poet reads two short poems (less than one page) or one longer poem, with a limit of 5 minutes altogether.
Georgia A. Popoff is an educator and arts-in-education specialist. She has published three poetry collections, most recently Psalter: The Agnostics Book of Common Curiosities (Tiger Bark Press, 2015), and is coauthor of a book for teachers on poetry in K-12 classrooms. She serves as a senior editor of Comstock Review and a workshops coordinator and faculty member at the Downtown Writers Center. Popoff lives in Syracuse, New York.
Susan Oringel is a poet and writer, a teacher of creative writing, and a psychologist in private practice in the NY Capital District. A graduate of the Warren Wilson M.F.A. program, she has published in various journals, such as Blueline, The Maryland Poetry Review, and the National Council of Teachers of English Journal. She also served as co-translator for a collection of Latin American poetry: Messengers of Rain, published by Groundwoods Press,in 2002 and 2011. Fellowships and awards include Individual Artist award from the Albany-Schenectady League of Arts, a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, and an SOS award sponsored by NYSCA. She teaches creative writing at Hudson Valley Community College and previously taught at Empire State College and Schenectady Community College. She has two manuscripts looking for homesa chapbook, My Coney Island, and a full-length collection, Carnevale.
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Ndakinna Education Center
23 Middle Grove RD
Greenfield Center, NY 12833
United States
