Point of Contact’s is celebrating National Poetry Month with its annual poetry series Cruel April.
The series will begin April 3rd at 6pm with a reading by local Syracuse poet Georgia Popoff, followed by a reception and informal dialogue. This event is free and open to the public. Popoff will be reading her selections from Point of Contact’s annual poetry collection, Corresponding Voices, Vol. 7.
Georgia A. Popoff has two volumes of poetry (Coaxing Nectar from Longing and The Doom Weaver), and coauthored Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community (with Quraysh Ali Lansana), finalist for an NAACP 2012 Image Award. Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common Curiosities, her third collection of poems, is forthcoming from Tiger Bark Press in 2015. She is an artist educator, professional development specialist, and Comstock Review senior editor. Currently, Georgia is the Workshops Coordinator for the Downtown Writers Center adult curriculum and its youth program, the Young Authors Academy, in Syracuse, NY.
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Up Next:
April 10 – Abbas Kiarostami
April 17 – Oana Avasilichioaei & Colleen Kattau
April 24 – Celia Caturelli & John Colasacco
Join Point of Contact for Cruel April’s first ever Publisher’s Hour. Point of Contact will be hosting a Publisher’s hour for three consecutive nights from 5-7pm in conjunction with its annual poetry series. A collaboration of Point of Contact and the Downtown Writer’s Center, this series will present one local publisher on each night. Each event will include a short presentation by the publisher about their business, followed by a meet and greet with visitors and poets. Don’t miss your chance to share your work with these local publishers. Event is free and open to the public.
April 7 – Bob Herz, of W.D. Hoffstadt & Sons, and Nine Mile Magazine
April 8 – Paul Roth of Bitter Oleander Press
April 9 – Steven Huff and Phil Memmer of Tiger Bark Press
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