Join us for a celebration of Women's History Month with poe try from our own local Hudson Valley poets!
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\nIRENE O&rsquo\;GARDEN&rsquo\;S poetry has found its way to the Off &ndash\;Broad way stage (Women On Fire)\, into hardcover (Fat Girl\, Fulcrum:Selected Po ems) paperback (Risking the Rapids\, Glad to Be Human) children&rsquo\;s b ooks (The Scrubbly Bubbly Car Wash\, Maybe My Baby) and into many literary journals and anthologies.
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\nRain Lee is our younges t poet and is currently in the musical \"Oklahoma!\" for Haldane High Scho ol. She has written for her High school newspaper \"THE BLUE PRINT\" and h as been in several musicals in her high school. \;
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\nSandra Proto is a poet\, fiction writer\, playwright\, blogger\, and essayist originally from South Jamaica\, Queens\, and Rockaway. Sandra Pro to has published two volumes of poetry: a full-length collection Wrapped U p In Life with Omniscient Eyes (2011) and a chapbook Spring&rsquo\;s Tepid Breath (2014). She is the editor of Move Over World\; Mary Is About to Ho lla! Her work has been published in Bards Annual Anthologies\, \;Poet s To Come Anthology\, Sounds of Solace: Meditative Verse Newtown Literary Journal\, Jam Journal\, and TimBookTu. \;
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\nMar y Newell authored the poetry chapbooks Re-SURGE and TILT/ HOVER/ VEER\, po ems in journals and anthologies\, and essays including &ldquo\;When Poetry Rivers&rdquo\; (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for th e More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary and the for thcoming Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. \;
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\nCatherine Gonick's poetry has appeared in many literary journals includin g Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, Notre Dame Review\, The Forge\, and New Verse News\, and in anthologies including in plein air\, Grabbed\, Support Ukra ine\, and Rumors\, Secrets &\; Lies: Poems about Pregnancy\, Abortion & amp\; Choice. Locally\, she was a longtime\, joyful participant in Irene O &rsquo\;Garden&rsquo\;s performing literary magazine\, The Art Garden\, an d helped found the Depot Theatre in Garrison\, where she attempted to act and had several plays produced\, as well as Philipstown Reform Synagogue i n Cold Spring. She works with her husband in Cold Spring in a company that slows the rate of global warming through climate repair and climate resto ration projects around the world.
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\nJudith Saunder's \, a long-time resident of the Hudson Valley\, she has published poetry an d creative nonfiction in a wide variety of periodicals and anthologies. Mo st recently\, her work has appeared in The Chiron Review\, Dash\, Folio\, The Concho River Review\, California Quarterly\, Blue Unicorn\, The MacGuf fin\, ISLE\, and The South Carolina Review. She is the author of two prize -winning chapbook collections of poetry (Panhandler\,Red Berry).
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\nLucia Cherciu is a Professor of English at Dutchess Communi ty College and served as the 2021-2022 Dutchess County Poet Laureate. She is the author of six books of poetry\, including Immigrant Prodigal Daught er (Kelsay Books\, forthcoming 2023)\, Train Ride to Bucharest (Sheep Mead ow Press\, 2017)\, which received the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize.
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\nRaphael Kosek&rsquo\;s latest book of poetry\, HARMLE SS ENCOUNTERS\, won the 2021 Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest. AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY\, a finalist at Brick Road Poetry Press\, was released in 2019. ROUGH GRACE won the 2014 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Contest. \;Her poems and lyric essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She served as th e 2019-2020 Dutchess County\, NY Poet Laureate where she teaches at Dutche ss Community College. \;
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