Monday, August 20, 2007

Dennis Doherty and Carly Sachs

September 15, 2007 at 2pm

Please note the following location change:
The Flow Lounge
138 Smith Avenue
Kingston, NY
(if you can make it to R&F, the Flow Lounge is two easy blocks away)

A $5 donation is suggested.

Dennis Doherty is Director of the Creative Writing Program at SUNY New Paltz, where he teaches creative writing, literature, outraged love, and friendly subversion. His essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Yankee Magazine, Chiron Review, Slipstream, Slant, Bayou, and dozens of other reviews and anthologies. His first poetry collection, The Bad Man (Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press), appeared in 2004. His second collection, Fugitive (Codhill Press), is due out in the fall of 2007.

Carly Sachs teaches creative writing at George Washington University. Her first book of poems, the steam sequence won the 2006 Washington Writers’ Publishing House first book prize. With Reb Livingston, she curates Lolita and Gilda’s Burlesque Poetry Hour at Bar Rouge in Washington, DC. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including Alimentum, Another Chicago Magazine, Beltway Quarterly Review, Coconut, CrossRoads, MiPoesias, Poem Memoir Story, No Tell Motel, Runes Review, and Best American Poetry 2004. Carly is currently an Arts Fellow at the Drisha Institute in NYC. Visit Carly's blog at: http://fivefeetabovewater.blogspot.com/index.html

Check out Carly's work:

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/sachs1.htm

http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/sachs_carly.html

http://www.notellmotel.org/poem_single.php?id=348_0_1_0