All poetry readings listed below are held at the Schweinfurth Art Center.

Suggested Admission: $6 Adults; Members & children 12 and under are FREE.

Thursday, September 15, 7:30pm

Georgia A. Popoff is a community poet, educator, spoken word producer, and managing editor of The Comstock Review.  She is currently on the faculty of the Downtown Writer’s Center, the Syracuse chapter of the YMCA national Writers Voice program.  Popoff’s work has appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and web publications.  Her second book, The Doom Weaver, was released in Spring 2008 by Main Street Rag Publications. 

Jessica Cuello's poems have appeared in Tampa Review, Copper Nickel, Clackamas Review, RHINO, Conte, and many other literary journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook, Curie, a biographic poem cycle about the scientist Marie Curie, is new from Kattywompus Press. Cuello is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia Teachers' College and she teaches French at Marcellus High School.

Thursday, September 29, 7:30pm

Howard Nelson is the author of Robert Bly: An Introduction to the Poetry, editor of Earth, My Likeness Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman and On the Poetry of Galway Kinnell: The Wages of Dying. He is a widely published poet and contributor to Walt Whitman: an Encyclopedia. On May 24, 2010, his poem, "The Man in the Yard" was broadcast on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor.  Nelson is Professor of English at Cayuga Community College.

Thursday, October 6, 7:30pm

Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University.  His poems have appeared in American Poet, Narrative Magazine, Ontario Review, Ploughshares, and other literary journals.  Frazier will read selections from his first collection of poems, Dark Thirty (University of Arizona Press, 2009).

Friday, October 7, 5:30-7:30pm

FREE

Members of the Finger Lakes Writers Group will read selections of their poetry during First Friday at the Art Center.  The Finger Lakes Writing Group was founded in January 2002 and is a group of individuals with diverse writing interests who meet on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at the Creamery in Skaneateles, New York.

Current members are Margaret Baum, Jamie Bruno, Robert Calimeri, Dianne Emmick, Howard Ford, Marge Gower, John Grau, Jim Hughes, Bobbie Panek, Mary McLaughlin, Edson Porter, Tim Potter, and Nancy Prosser. The group invites serious writers to join. For more information, visit www.bobbiepanek.com. Click on other to find more information on the group's policies.

Thursday, October 13, 6:00pm

FREE

Join Jim Delaney, literature instructor at Cayuga and Onondaga Community Colleges, for an evening of poetry for high school students. Doors open at 6pm. Refreshments will be served. Reading runs from 6:30-8:30pm.  To share your poetry at the event, contact Jim Delaney at 252-5934. This event is co-sponsored by Auburn's YMCA-WEIU's Writer's Voice Program, and is free & open to the public.  Don’t miss the High School Poetry Workshop with Jim Delaney at the Schweinfurth Art Center on Saturday, September 17, 1-4pm, $25.  Call (315) 255-1553 for more information.

Friday, October 14, 6:00pm

FREE

Join Jim Delaney, literature instructor at Cayuga and Onondaga Community Colleges, for an evening of poetry.  Doors open at 6pm. Refreshments will be served. There will be a dramatic presentation of Hunter’s Moon by Jim Delaney at 6:30pm, followed by the poetry reading from 7-9pm.  To share your poetry at the event, contact Jim Delaney at 252-5934.  This event is co-sponsored by Auburn's YMCA-WEIU's Writer's Voice Program, and is free & open to the public.

The event will include readings by the following:

Jamie Bruno

Carol Cambareri

Carol Contigulia

James Delaney

Sue Ellis

Tony Gero

Glenn Miley

Bobbie Panek

Joe Pickney

Mark Povinelli

Liz Utzman

Kelly Voll

Matt Weese

Friday, November 4, 5:30-7:30pm

FREE

Members of the Night Writers, a regional writers group, will read selections of their poetry. The Night Writers are five writers from the Auburn area who write fiction, including novels and short stories, as well as essays and poetry.  Four of the group members have had their poems selected for published anthologies and two of them, Beth Patton and Heidi Nightengale, have had chapbooks of their poetry published within the past year.  The other group members are Maureen McCarthy and Judith Trice, who are both published poets, and Susan Eoannou, who is at work on her second novel.

Thursday, September 22, 6-8pm

$10 members/$15 non-members

Artist Candy Lucas uses collage to “rearrange reality” and to create new worlds.  She weaves her own photography, mass media images, and text together to create unique works of art and greeting cards.  Participants will use cut phrases from magazines, etc to create visual poetry.  All supplies will be provided.  Bring favorite photos and images.  Learn more about the Makeshift series by clicking here or to enroll for the series, visit www.cayuga-cc.edu/communityed.

Session 4: Wednesdays, September 14 – October 19, 3:45 –5pm

$15 members/$20 non-members

Art After School students will explore the connection between poetry and visual art.  Students will learn the basics of poetry and will write their own works with published poet Georgia Popoff.  Written projects will include the creation of a 26 word poem using each letter of the alphabet, while visual art projects will focus on crafting used books into works of art/poetry.

Sunday, October 23, 2pm

FREE

Join Art After School students and poet Georgia Popoff for a reading of works produced during Session 4 of Art After School at the Art Center.  Don’t miss Drop-In Family Art Making from 1-4:30pm for art activities that incorporate poetry and visual art.  All activities are free on this date.