\"And next year's words await another voice.\" - T.S. Eliot
\nThe Elting Memorial Library is proud to host the fourth installme nt of the ninth season of Next Year's Words\, a New Paltz reader's forum! This reading series features writers from the Hudson Valley\, occasional g uests\, and an open mic. The event can be attended in-person in the Steinb erg Reading Room or viewed over Zoom. To register for the Zoom\, follow th is link: https://cutt.ly/NYW-Feb-2023
\n\"Next Y ear's Words is a reading forum in New Paltz for creative writing in local communities. We aim to mix young and seasoned voices\, juxtaposing works o f fiction\, poetry\, memoir and nonfiction from different stages of life. Includes an open mic\, refreshments\, and intriguing introductions. Endors ed by Wallkill Valley Writers and the SUNY New Paltz English Department.\"
\nLearn more about this months speakers!
\nAnn Lauinger has p ublished 3 books of poetry: Persuasions of Fall (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize)\; Against Butterflies (a finalist for the Eugene Paul Nassar P rize)\; and Dime Saint\, Nickel Devil (2022). Her poems have appeared in A limentum\, The Cumberland River Review\, Georgia Review\, Lightwood\, Parn assus\, Plant-Human Quarterly\, Smartish Pace\, The Southern Poetry Review \, Valley Voices and Zone 3\; such anthologies as The Bedford Introduction to literature\, In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare\, and A Sl ant of Light\; and been featured on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and Marth a Stewart Living Radio. She is professor emerita at Sarah Lawrence College \, where she taught medieval and Renaissance literature. A member of the S lapering Hol Press Advisory Committee\, she lives in Ossining\, New York.< /p>\n
David Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy\, SUNY-New Pal tz. He has published many poetry and philosophy books. Some of his poetry titles include Everyday Spirits\, Notes on Water\, Portuguese Sailor Boy\, Collector of Lapsed Times and Otherwise in 2 (2022). He founded the liter ary small press Codhill Press\, and for 10 years was editor in chief of Pa rabola Magazine.
\nViolet Snow is a fiction writer\, memoirist\, and freelance journalist\, often writing about history and ancestors. Her art icles have appeared in the New York Times &ldquo\;Disunion&rdquo\; blog\, Civil War Times\, Woodstock Times\, American Ancestors\, The Record of Ber gen County NJ\, Jewish Currents\, and other periodicals. Her fiction and m emoir have been published in Otter Magazine\, Pilgrimage\, Tinker Street\, and the podcast series &ldquo\;The Strange Recital.&rdquo\; Afternoon of a Sadhu is her memoir about wandering through India on foot at age 22. The feminist journal Minerva Rising printed an excerpt from her historical no vel\, To March or to Marry\, about suffrage and women's clubs in the early 1900s. Violet has taught workshops on memoir and family history through T he Poetry Barn. http://violetsnowwriter.com
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