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Genesee Reading Series

Genesee Reading Series
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
7:30 PM
$3 members; $6 public

Summer is heating up! Take a cool break and come listen to two sizzling poets, David White and Dee Hogan. This is going to be a delicious treat (the name of David White's first poem notwithstanding).

Dee Hogan, a native of Corning, NY, earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees from SUNY Geneseo. She taught high school English in public schools for 35 years, and is now adjunct professor at St. John Fisher College. She has also taught at the former Athenaum (now The Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning). She has taught for a total of 43 years, and shows no signs of stopping. Her poetry has appeared in local anthologies, and The Democrat and Chronicle and Messenger Post have published more than 30 of her Op-Ed pieces. She has work forthcoming in Blueline and Soundings Review. In 2004, Dee created "Write the Night Away," a free and open-to-the-public writer's forum sponsored by the St. John Fisher College English Department.

David White wrote his first poem, "The Hairy Lollipop," in the fall of 1965. His first publication came when "Shed in Mind" appeared in City Newspaper in 1987. A member of Rochester Poets and Just Poets,and has published poetry in their journals, as well as in the Angle, Hazmat and the Bertrand Russell Quarterly. David often reads in the local open mic context and enjoys mixing poetry in with his philosophy classes. The picture shows him with "The Humanist," a fiberglass work by the poet Anita Weschler, about whom David wrote an article for Everything2. The Hairy Lollipop and Other Poems by David E. White, edited by George Campbell McDade and selected by Linda M. White, with cover by Matte, is available at http://thevoyage-journal.weebly.com/one.html.

The Beautiful Necessity: The Regulating Lines of Claude Bragdon’s Transcendental Architecture

Wednesday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.
$3 W&B members / $6 general public

“In nature, in number, in geometry, in music, also, there is but one law, a law infinitely simple, infinitely subtle, incommunicable, evanescent. It is what Emerson calls the Beautiful Necessity. Gentlemen, let us build altars to that Beautiful Necessity.”
-- Claude Bragdon, “Mysticism and Architecture.”
Join us for an exciting presentation by Eugenia Victoria Ellis, PhD, AIA, who with Andrea G. Reithmayr is editor of The Beautiful Necessity.

First Fridays / Wide Open Mic

Hosted by Norm Davis
Fri., August 6
Admission is free.

Along with other local galleries and performance spaces, W&B will be open on the first Friday evenings of each month hosting Wide Open Mic, and a series of other readings and performances in our Verb Café and Performance Space. Known for its eclectic mix, Wide Open Mic welcomes poets, performers, and writers of all kinds. It is Rochester’s longer-running open mic, hosted by Norm Davis, poet and editor of HazMat Review.

Genesee Reading Series

Hosted by Wanda Schubmehl
August 10: James Cook & Sally Bittner Bonn
$3 W&B members / $6 general public, 7:30 p.m

Now in its 26th year, the Genesee Reading Series presents writers from the greater Genesee Valley region reading in the W&B Performance Space.

Senior Reading Group

Hosted by Norm Davis
Tues. August 10
Free and open to the public. 2-4 p.m.

Share your writing with other seniors in a comfortable atmosphere at W&B.

Members Night Events

Wed., August 11th 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Adult
Free to W&B members

If you aren’t a member of W&B, here is your chance to join at the door and enjoy a special read-aloud with audience participation on August 11th.

The August Member Night will feature a poet and story teller, sharing the oral arts of reading aloud with a chance for audience participation. Come listen and see how words come alive in the throat, and a chance to taste them yourself.

The Bertrand Russell Society

Hosted by David White
Thurs., August 12
Free to W&B members, $3 general public, 7 p.m., W&B

The Bertrand Russell Society was formed shortly after Russell’s death in 1970. Russell was born in 1872 and worked in fields such as mathematical logic; philosophy; social, religious, and educational reform; anti-war protests and politics. An accomplished writer, Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. This ongoing lecture series promises to enlighten and entertain. Monthly meetings are open to everyone, not just to members of the society.

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