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DWC FALL 2020 ONLINE READINGS
Admission to all DWC Fall 2020 Readings is free, and open to the public.
In order to receive an invitation to the Zoom room, email DWC director Phil Memmer
at pmemmer@ymcacny.org before the day of the event.
Books by all authors are available for sale through the DWC... your purchase supports
both the author and our programs! See the end of this document for more information.
All event start times are Eastern Standard. Zoom lobbies for all events open at 6:50.
Strut your stuff at the DWC Fall Open Mic Night!
Friday, Dec. 11, 7:00 PM.
Friday, September 18, 7:00 p.m.
Poets GARY COPELAND LILLEY & CHARD deNIORD
Gary Copeland Lilley is originally from Sandy Cross, North Carolina, and was
a longtime resident of Washington, D.C., where he was a founding member of
the Black Rooster Collective. He received the D.C. Commission on the Arts Fel-
lowship for Poetry in 1996 and again in 2000, and he earned a MFA in Poetry
from Warren Wilson College in 2002. He is the author of five books of poetry,
including The Bushman’s Medicine Show (Lost Horse Press, 2017), Alpha Zulu
(Ausable Press, 2008), Black Poem (Hollyridge Press, 2005), The Reprehen-
sibles (Fractal Edge Press, 2004), and The Subsequent Blues (Four Way, 2004).
Chard deNiord is the author of six books of poetry, including In My Unknowing
(2020), Interstate (2015), The Double Truth (2011), and Night Mowing (2005),
all from the Pitt Poetry Series. He is also the author of two books of interviews
with ten eminent American poets, I Would Lie To You If I Could (University of
Pittsburgh Press, 2018) and Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Song: Conver-
sations and Reflections on 20th Century American Poetry (Marick Press, 2011).
His poems have appeared recently in Poetry, The Southern Review, AGNI. Get-
tysburg Review, The Antioch Review, and Blackbird. He is a professor of English
and Creative Writing at Providence College and a trustee of the Ruth Stone Trust.
He served as poet laureate of Vermont from 2015 to 2019.
Friday, Sept. 25, 7:00 p.m. • Poet KEITH FLYNN
Keith Flynn (www.keithflynn.net) is the award-winning author of seven books,
including six collections of poetry, most recently The Skin of Meaning (Red Hen
Press, 2020), and a collection of essays, entitled The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz
and Memory: How To Make Your Poetry Swing (2007). From 1984-1999, he was
lyricist and lead singer for the nationally acclaimed rock band, The Crystal Zoo,
which produced three albums. He is currently touring with a supporting combo, The
Holy Men. His poetry and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies,
including The American Literary Review, The Colorado Review, Poetry Wales, and
many others. He has been awarded the Sandburg Prize, a 2013 NC Literary Fel-
lowship, the ASCAP Emerging Songwriter Prize, and the Paumanok Poetry Award;
he was twice named the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for NC. Flynn is also
founder and managing editor of The Asheville Poetry Review.
MORE FALL 2020 ONLINE READINGS
Friday, October 2, 7:00 p.m. • Poets
CAMILLE YVETTE-WELSCH & KATELYNN HIBBARD
Camille Yvette-Welsch is the author of FULL and The Four Ugliest Children in
Christendom. Her work has appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, Indiana Review,
Radar Poetry, Menacing Hedge, Cream City Review, Zone 3, and many other
publications. She ardently supports public poetry initiatives and works with se-
nior citizens as part of the Poems from Life project. She is a Teaching Professor
of English at The Pennsylvania State University, where
she directs the High School Writing Day.
KateLynn Hibbard’s books are Sleeping Upside Down, Sweet Weight, and
Simples, winner of the 2018 Howling Bird Press Poetry Prize. Editor of When We
Become Weavers: Queer Female Poets on the Midwest Experience, she teaches
at Minneapolis College and lives with many pets and her spouse Jan in Saint
Paul, Minnesota. https://katelynnhibbard.com.
Friday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.
Novelist JENNIFER PASHLEY
Jennifer Pashley is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel The Scamp
(Tin House) and two award-winning books of short stories, States and The Conjurer.
Her brand-new second novel is The Watcher. Her stories have appeared widely in
journals like Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, Los Angeles Review, and PANK, and have
won The Red Hen Prize for Fiction (“States”), The Mississippi Review Prize for Fic-
tion (“Something Good”), and the Carve Magazine Esoteric Award for LGBTQ Fiction
(“Angels”). She has been awarded residencies by both Virginia Center for the Cre-
ative Arts and the Summer Writers Institute and has taught workshops at several
universities. The Scamp was awarded the Lascaux Review prize for the novel. Jenni-
fer lives with her family and dogs in Syracuse, NY. Photo by Martirene Alcantara.
The Syracuse University Humanities Center, in the College of Arts and Sciences,
presents as part of the 2020-21 Syracuse SymposiumTM on Futures
Thursday, October 29, 7:00 p.m.
A Dream of a New Past:
A Reading by Poet PHILIP METRES
Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Cop-
per Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance
(University of Michigan, 2018), Pictures at an Exhibition (University of Akron,
2016), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected
Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State, 2015). His work—including
poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and scholarship—has garnered a
Lannan fellowship, two NEA fellowships, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt
Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry
Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose
work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.” His poems have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Pol-
ish, Russian, and Tamil. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights
program at John Carroll University, and lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio. For more information, visit
http://www.philipmetres.com, or follow him on Twitter and Instagram @PhilipMetres.
EVEN MORE FALL ONLINE READINGS
Friday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.
Poet RHINA P. ESPAILLAT
Rhina P. Espaillat has published twelve full-length books and four
chapbooks. Her most recent publications are two poetry collections
titled And After All and The Field, and a chapbook in collaboration with
poet Alfred Nicol, Brief Accident of Light. Espaillat is noted for her
English translations of Saint John of the Cross, her book of Spanish
translations of Robert Frost, Algo hay que no es amigo de los muros/
Something There Is that Doesn’t Love a Wall, and her bilingual col-
lection of Richard Wilbur translations, Oscura fruta/Dark Berries. Her
work comprises poetry and prose in both English and her native Span-
ish, and translations from and into both languages. Her many national and international awards include
the Richard Wilbur Award, the Nemerov Prize, the Eliot Prize, several annual awards from the New England
Poetry Club, the Poetry Society of America and the Frost Foundation, various honors from the Dominican
Republic’s Ministry of Culture, and a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award from Salem State College.
Friday, November 20, 7:00 p.m.
Poets TERRY BLACKHAWK & LAURA DONNELLY
Terry Blackhawk founded and directed Detroit’s InsideOut Literary Arts Proj-
ect (iO), a renowned poets-in-schools program. Her poetry collections include
One Less River (Mayapple Press, 2019); body & field (Michigan State University
Press, 1999); Escape Artist (BkMk Press, 2003), selected by Molly Peacock for
the John Ciardi Prize; The Dropped Hand (Lotus Press, imprint of WSU Press
2011); The Light Between (Wayne State University Press, 2012), as well as
four chapbooks. Before her retirement in 2015, she co-edited To Light a Fire:
Twenty Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project (WSU Press, 2015) with
iO Senior Writer Peter Markus.
Laura Donnelly is the author of Midwest Gothic, winner of the Richard Snyder
Prize and forthcoming from Ashland Poetry Press in fall 2020. Midwest Gothic
was also a finalist for the Poets Out Loud Prize and the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s
Choice Award. Donnelly’s first book of poetry, Watershed, won the 2013 Cider
Press Review Editors’ Prize. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Co-
lumbia Poetry Review, Rhino, Passages North, Flyway, and Mississippi Review.
She is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Oswego.
Friday, December 4, 7:00 p.m. • Poet Cathy Linh Che
Cathy Linh Che is the author of Split (Alice James Books), winner of the
Kundiman Poetry Prize, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry
Society of America, and the Best Poetry Book Award from the Association of
Asian American Studies. Her work has been published in POETRY, Los Ange-
les Review of Books, and Gulf Coast. Her many awards include recognitions
from MacDowell, Djerassi, The Anderson Center, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook,
Poets House, Poets & Writers, The Fine Arts Work Center at Provincetown, The
Asian American Literary Review, The Center for Book Arts, The Lower Manhat-
tan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, the Jerome Foundation. She has
taught at the 92nd Street Y, New York University, Fordham University, Sierra
Nevada College, and the Polytechnic University at NYU. She was Sierra Nevada College’s Distinguished Vis-
iting Professor and Writer in Residence. She serves as Executive Director at Kundiman and lives in Queens.
ORDER BOOKS / DWC BOOK CLUB
Although our readings are happening online, that doesn’t mean you can’t still get your books from the DWC!
We will have the latest title (and in a couple cases, additional titles) from each visiting author in our Fall
series. See the list below for specific titles. Order as many books as you’d like, and we’ll get them to you.
There are two ways to order books:
1. Join the Reading Series Book Club. Club details are in our fall workshops brochure. There are two
separate clubs, one for Sept-Oct events, one for Nov-Dec events. Please contact Georgia Popoff at dwcwork-
shops@ymcacny.org, or at (315) 474-6851 x380, to register.
2. Purchase books a la carte. Select books you’d like from the list below, and email them to Phil Memmer
at pmemmer@ymcacny.org. He will send you a PayPal invoice (you can use any credit card).
A few important notes:
• It’s a big help to us if you order well in advance! It helps us decide how many copies to order, and ensures
that we don’t end up with too many unsold books.
• All titles are “while supplies last.” Once we are sold out, that’s it. This is particularly true for non-book-
club titles, which are ordered in smaller quantities.
• Shipping/delivery is free if you order two or more books at the same time.
• If you order only a single book, shipping is $3.
• All prices include tax.
AVAILABLE TITLES:
*Gary Copeland Lilley, The Bushman’s Medicine Show ($16)
*Chard deNiord, In My Unknowing ($16)
Chard deNiord, I Would Lie to You If I Could ($16)
Chard deNiord, Interstate ($16)
*Keith Flynn, The Skin of Meaning ($16)
Keith Flynn, Colony Collapse Disorder ($16)
*Camille-Yvette Welsh, The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom ($16)
*KateLynn Hibbard, Simples ($16)
*Jennifer Pashley, The Watcher ($25, hardcover)
*Philip Metres, Shrapnel Maps ($16)
Philip Metres, Pictures at an Exhibition ($16)
*Rhina P. Espaillat, The Field ($16)
Rhina P. Espaillat, And After All ($16)
*Terry Blackhawk, One Less River ($16)
*Laura Donnelly, Midwest Gothic ($16)
*Cathy Linh Che, Split ($16)
* Indicates a title included with Book Club registration. Titles through Philip Metres are included in the Sept-
Oct Book Club, and remaining titles are included in the Nov-Dec Book Club.
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