There is still time to get your tickets! LiveWriting Ruth Danon curator New Season Six Poets Up and Down the Hudson Valley Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street Beacon NY October 2, 7:30-9:30, doors at 7pm Tickets: bit.ly/LW-OCT-2 @shirad.bsky.social

One of the first books I remember reading. An evolution story – how globs became human. Loved that I could put the memory of “drifting to and fro in the tide of the early sea” into the revision of my soon to be book, Long Ago in the Twentieth Century, coming from Grid Books next year. bit.ly/4hMBUH3

The Glob by John O'Reilly, Walt Kelly on Ken Sanders Rare Books

New York: The Viking Press, 1952. Walt Kelly. Second printing before publication. Hardcover. 63pp. Octavo 21 cm Red cloth over boards with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a black ink stamp...

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Please join us on October 2nd for the latest installment of our LiveWriting series. @cherylfish.bsky.social @shirad.bsky.social @edwintorres.bsky.social @hudsonvalleyny1.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social

LiveWriting Ruth Danon curator New Season Six Poets Up and Down the Hudson Valley Howland Cultural Center 477 Main Street Beacon NY October 2, 7:30-9:30, doors at 7pm Tickets: bit.ly/LW-OCT-2

If you are near Brooklyn, NY this Sunday, we'd love to see you at this event. www.ruthdanon.com/event-detail...

A Persistence of Cormorants Poetry Reading | Ruth Danon

A Persistence of Cormorants is a summer-long poetry reading series on our shoreline featuring accomplished and exceptional poets from the New York area, many of who live in Brooklyn. On each of the sc...

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I hope you can join us for this evening of inspiring work.

It’s almost July 4th. I’m proud to announce that I will be presenting a new poem written for the occasion at the Beacon Independence Day celebration on July 4th. Check out my Poet Laureate Page on the Arts Mid- Hudson www.artsmidhudson.org/dc-poetlaure....

Happy to see another “spy” poem out in the world. Many thanks to Phillip Rowland for publishing this poem. I am ever grateful to him and to Noon: The Journal of the Short Poem for his ongoing support of my work. noonpoetry.com/wp-content/u...

Please join us as we celebrate National Poetry Month at Van Wyck Hall, 1095 Main Street in Fishkill, NY - Dutchess County Poet Laureate Ruth Danon and Poet and Novelist Kristen Holt Browning April 24 at Village Hall from 6-8 pm. This is a FREE event.

The next LiveWriting event is April 17th and features four poets - Elizabeth Murphy, John Yau (both from Beacon), Stephen Motika (from sort of Cold Spring), and Michael Broder, from Brooklyn.  howlandculturalcenter.ticketspice.com/live-writing... #HudsonValleyPoetry

The next LiveWriting event is April 17th and features four poets - Elizabeth Murphy, John Yau (both from Beacon), Stephen Motika (from sort of Cold Spring), and Michael Broder, from Brooklyn.  Get your tickets today! howlandculturalcenter.ticketspice.com/live-writing...

I’m happy to have been invited to read my work at the Arts MidHudson Annual Meeting on Monday, February 23rd. I’m looking forward to being with the kind people who named me Poet Laureate. You can read my latest February Poet Laurette Corner Letter here:

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Some poems take hold and don’t let go. This poem by Linda Gregerson, deceptively simple, took hold. The poem lays bare what we must bear. Beautiful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... “Bear,” by Linda Gregerson | The New Yorker Linda Gregerson

“Bear”

“I can’t quite tell, so muddy / is the newsprint, whether he’s looking // toward us or away.”

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Meet the Authors * Saturday, January 31, 2026 * 6:00 PM 8:00 PM * Madam Brett Social Club
 - 418 Main, Second FloorBeacon, NY Stanza Books is proud to present its 2025 BEACON WRITERS anthology, and welcome all to meet the authors. GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY! momence.com/Madam-Brett-...

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