Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts David Appelbaum and Sarah Wyman, Friday, October 23, 7 PM.
Read about David Appelbaum , Sarah Wyman and Betty MacDonald below the ticket information.
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David Appelbaum
David Appelbaum, founder of Codhill Press, has served time in the university as well as in publishing. Former editor of Parabola Magazine, he is the author of Everyday Spirits [SUNY Press], notes on water [Monkfish], and more recently, Portuguese Sailor Boy and The Collector of Lapsed Times [both, Black Spring Publishing Group].
Sarah Wyman
Sarah Wyman lives in the Hudson Valley where she writes and teaches about literature and the visual arts at SUNY New Paltz. She co-facilitates the Sustainability Learning Community and teaches poetry workshops at Shawangunk Prison. Her poetry has appeared in Ekphrastic Review, aaduna, Mudfish, San Pedro River Review, Potomac Review, Lightwood, Heron Clan XI, A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Poets of the Hudson Valley, and other venues. Her books are Sighted Stones (FLP 2018) and Fried Goldfinch (Codhill 2021). She is co-founder of earthrisecommons.org. Website: https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/sarahwyman/
Betty MacDonald
Writer/actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting. Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! Her work is included in the anthologies 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better With Age, and Lightwood, an online magazine. Betty presented her essay “First Love,” at the Cell Theatre in New York City and at Vassar College. Videos of her essays “First Love”, “Daughter of Twins”, “Not Jewish Enough”, and “I’m Not a Woman of My Age!” are available at WritersRead.org. Betty’s essay,“First Love” is included in WritersRead’s recently released anthology Well Said Well Read.
Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a livestream presentation of readings and interviews from Green Kill in Kingston, NY. Words Carry Us videos are available online at YouTube.com.
Following her early career as radio personality Tiny Lee, Betty became a travel industry correspondent. Presently, she finds travel exhausting and prefers staying home in New York’s Hudson Valley. For close to 40 years, storytelling has influenced her work as a performer with Community Playback Theatre.
All My Monsters are Dead or Why I Love Being Old, Betty’s book of poems and essays is available from Codhill Press.
It Wasn’t Too Late, Betty’s newly released book of poems and essays is available as of October 15th from Codhill Press.
