Submission deadline for the 14th annual Rip Van Winkle poetry competition is March 31, 2011, sponsored by All Arts Matter in Greenville. Manuscripts of original poetry, in English, are eligible if they neither have been published nor are committed to be published. The contest is divided into two age categories; contestants 14 years or younger should indicate with a check mark in the appropriate box on the entry form. Three winning poets in each category will receive cash prizes. In the 14 and younger category, the cash awards will be $25, $15, and $10 respectively. In the adult category, the cash awards will be $100, $75, and $50 respectively.
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Tags: poetry, Rip van Winkle, youth
I pulled up
and parked in
the employee of the month
parking space
but a guard
came out
and immediately told me to
get the hell out
before there
was any trouble.
The lines were written by Dennis Lucas Jr. in his 1992 collection, 13 Ways Of Looking At A Crow, which many thought came as close as one can to defining a contemporary Catskillian lyrical style.
Dennis Michael Lucas Jr., 42 of Hunter, passed away last Thursday, December 2. He is survived by his parents Jane and Dennis Lucas of Haines Falls, their town’s former postmistress and current supervisor, as well as head of the regional Coalition of Watershed Towns.
Lucas grew up in Hunter, attended Hunter-Tannersville Central School and graduated in 1986. He then attended and graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.A. in English. Dennis lived in Brooklyn, NY, New York City and Oceanside, CA before returning to the area.
He was a poet/essayist/singer/songwriter and musician but above all a humorist, read his obituary in the Daily Mail this week. IN addition to his 1992 book of poetry and a 2000 fictional work, Cliffhanger Notes, Lucas was a regular contributor to Chronogram and other area publications.
“He was a talented guy but he had troubles with coping with all life throws our way,” said his father this week. “We’re losing the war on drugs.”
The river is moving.
The black-bird must by flying.
The kite is stealing groceries.
The crow must be at the movies
So he wrote. And so he touched many lives, here and everywhere he landed.
Calling hours and a Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, Dec. 11 at Aston-Basagic Funeral Home, Main St., Hunter, NY 12442 from 1-3 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mtn Top Friends of the Library, the Hunter Library or Greene County Mental Health.
WGXC/WORD! show kicks off the WGXC/Prometheus Radio Project Station Barnraising Friday night with free admission at 7:30 p.m. at Cannonball Factory, 359 Columbia St. in Hudson. Celebrating text+sound and word+music. Curated by Lee Bradshaw, Jeffrey Lependorf, Sam Truitt, and Chad Weckler.
WGXC: Hands-On Radio, a new community radio station serving Greene and Columbia counties, will soon go live. On Friday, September 24, WGXC and the Prometheus Radio Project present an evening of free performances kicking off the WGXC/Prometheus Radio Station Barnraising (September 24-26). Drawing on the high concentration of literary and musical talent in the area, WORD! pairs some of the counties’ most lauded writers with exceptional musicians and electronic soundscapes. The collaborations created for WORD! celebrate the magic of spoken words with music and the power of the sung word. These include everything from “Baconist” Paul LaFarge reading to the sizzling sound of frying bacon and poet Rebecca Wolff reading along with the haunting vocals of Lady Moon (Ngonda Badila) to short story virtuoso Nelly Reifler reading with Japanese bamboo flute master player Jeffrey Lependorf and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Rob Caldwell playing along with readings from Finnish poet Catharina Gripenberg and Catalan poet Gemma Gorga Lopez. These collaborations and others will be followed by a musical set featuring some of the hottest urban sounds around, including hip-hip legend Sean Delaney, R&B
sensation TIMOtion, and the luscious pop vocals of Anneice Cousin. Throughout
the evening, performance artist Kathe Izzo—The Love Artist—will appear “unbound.” The evening can also be heard on www.WGXC.org.
The complete list of performers: Robert Caldwell, Cooga, Anneice Cousin, Sean Delaney, Denero Man, DW Gibson, Catharina Gripenberg, Dave King, Paul LaFarge, Jeffrey Lependorf, Rachel Levitsky, Gemma Gorga Lopez, Lady Moon, Phil “The Guitar Man,” Nelly Reifler, Julian Seidenberg, TIMOtion, Sam Truitt, Van Diesel, Rebecca Wolfe, plus The Love Artist “Unbound.” More information: 518-291-WGXC
Cornelius Eady
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/07/KPageandSleepwalkers_SpottyDog_WGXC_072410.mp3
Hudson’s Mikey Corcoran played a few songs on guitar in between the openers and headliners. Click here to listen, or paste the following url into your computer’s media player: http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/07/MikeyCorcoran_SpottyDog_WGXC_072410.mp3
Tourist opened, a new band featuring Hudson’s Kyle Clements with Ngounga Badilla on percussion and Otto Hauser on drums. Click here to listen or paste the following url into your computer’s media player:
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/07/Tourist_SpottyDog_WGXC_072410.mp3
Tags: local audio, music, poetry
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- Bernadette Mayer reading.
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- Miguel Frasconi and Jeffrey Lependorf performing.
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- Miguel and Jeffrey’s table of glass instruments and flutes.
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- Wayne Koestenbaum reading.
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/07/BernadetteMayer_ACC_WGXC_071710.mp3
Click here to listen to Frasconi and Lependorf’s performance, or paste the following url into your computer’s media player:
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/07/MiguelFrasconiJeffreyLependorf_ACC_WGXC_071710.mp3
Click here to listen to Koestenbaum’s reading, or paste the following url into your computer’s media player:
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/07/WayneKoestenbaum_ACC_WGXC_071710.mp3
Tags: Athens Cultural Center, local audio, music, poetry
This recording by WGXC volunteer Ira Sher of the Athens Cultural Center reading series May 15, 2010, features poets Brenda Coultas and Christopher Stackhouse and fiction writer Lynne Tillman. Click here or on the ACC logo to listen to an mp3 audio recording of the reading, or paste the following url into your computer’s media player:
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/06
/poetry_AthensCulturalCenter_051510.mp3
Tags: local audio, poetry
Claude Haton and Harry Gottlieb at the Cairo Open Mic, May 28, 2010 at Gallagher's.
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/06/
CairoOpenMic_052810.mp3
Tags: Cairo Library, local audio, music, poetry, WGXC
Nippertown! reports renowned Chilean poet Raúl Zurita will read from the newly released bilingual edition of his collection, “Purgatory,” with translator Anna Deeney Wednesday at 6 p.m. Apr. 28 in the Beterlsmann Campus Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson in a free show. Read the entire article at Nippertown!
Mark Patton
http://archive.free103point9.org/2010/04
/CairoOpenMic_CairoLibrary_WGXC_042310.mp3
A vote will be held Tue. April 27 at Resurrection Lutheran Church to determine whether Cairo will build a new library. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has offered the town a $3.07 million low-interest loan (4.25 percent) and, if the town accepts the loan, a $200,000 grant with a local share match of about $100,000. The vote is for a bond for the loan. Cairo Library Executive Director Debra Kamecke is on the WGXC Radio Council.
Tags: local audio, music, poetry
On The Air
WGXC is on 90.7-FM now, at full-power, 3300 watts. We cover all parts of Greene County except parts of the mountaintop, and all of Columbia County except for a bit of Western Columbia County south of Germantown. WGXC also covers a large part of southern Albany County. We have heard reports that the signal is getting from Delaware County to Great Barrington, from Selkirk to Saugerties, from Pine Plains to the I-90 extension.
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