Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Around this time of year, being of somewhat limited literary talent, I start running out of adjectives to describe how wonderful our Monday evenings are. Let me just say that the weather was exquisite, and the Readers were wonderful.

Joan Dupre, a late fill-in (life happens, even to our Readers!) was fantastic! She was warm, and funny and set a great tone for the evening.



Christine Timm was equally delightful-- she had the audience totally in her sway--one moment laughing, the next emotional. Her "tattoo" slam poem at the end of her set was masterful.




J R (Judy) Turek, our good friend, pitched in with a beautiful, and educational, poem centering on Long Island, and its heritage, as it applies to her garden;



and Clive Young alternatingly brought the crowd to chuckles and grimaces, as he read a very powerful, perfectly crafted short story.


(See more photos here)

This Monday, we feature some more great talent--two old friends and three new-to-us Readers:



Paula Camacho
Paula Camacho moderates the Farmingdale Poetry Group, which meets at 7 PM on alternate Weds. from September to June at the Farmingdale Public Library. Her poems have won awards and have been published in several magazines and anthologies, including Writers' Journal, Lucidity, Farmingdale Observer, Newsday, North Shore Woman's Newsletter and the anthologies of Performance Poet's Association Literary Review, Long Island Quarterly, Long Island Expressions, Dream, For Loving Precious Beasts, Long Island Sounds: 2007, Friends of the Hempstead Plains, Songs of Seasoned Women and the Farmingdale Poetry Chapbook. She was chairperson on the Committee to Establish the Nassau County Poet Laureate law and was a panelist on the Nassau County Poet Laureate Panel. Currently she is working as the coordinator of Maxwell Wheat's Nassau County Poet Laureate Committee. She is a panelist for Nassau Grants for the Arts. She has published Hidden Between Branches, and two chapbooks, The Short Lives Of Giants, and November's Diary.

Teri Coyne
Teri holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University. Before turning to fiction, Teri wrote and performed stand-up comedy in clubs around New York City for many years. She has written several short films which were produced through NYU.

Teri has studied novel writing at the Iowa Summer Writers Workshop, memoir with Frank McCourt at the Southampton Summer Writer's Program, fiction with Masha Hamilton at the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City and poetry with Philip Shultz at NYU.

Teri's debut novel Skin and Bones will be published by Ballantine in July of next year. Teri has also written a memoir entitled Wish You Were Here about her family trips she took as a young girl. She is currently at work on her second novel Grace and Heart.

Teri leads a technical writing and training team at a large global law firm. She divides her time between New York City and the North Fork of Long Island.

For more information on Teri visit her website at www.tericoyne.com.


Bruce Grossberg

Bruce Grossberg is happy to be returning to the Gazebo. He is the author of two plays on Ulysses Grant, and is currently working on a third. Bruce has also written a number of shorter works, including Shakespeare In The Park, which has been seen at the Samuel French One-Act Festival, and other plays which have been performed in New York, Los Angeles, and Texas. He blogs occasionally at www.bafterthefact.blogspot.com. Sometimes television actor, sometimes lawyer, Bruce lives in Forest Hills with his wife, the artist Laura Rovinsky, and their daughter, Sofia.



Sonia Russell
Sonia Russell is an author, publisher, poet, and orator from Long Island, NY. Her first novel, "The Cost of Love," debuted in September 2007 under the pseudonym of LeRoia. This novel, which is the first of a series, as well as the first publishing effort of her company SoniSpeaksVolumes Publishing, LLC, has sparked book clubs, book signings, and table talk book signings in several cities. Sonia (LeRoia) was the featured author at Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.'s Women's Month "Meet the Author" in Jamaica, New York in March of this year. She was also featured at Hue-man Bookstore in Harlem, on a panel of five authors called "First Voices," where she discussed "The Cost of Love," in April. Sonia recently obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in English, and endeavors to teach creative writing. Sonia's readings at the Gazebo this year will focus on Love, the theme surrounding her book and recently inspired poetry.

Susan Deacon


Upcoming Readers:

August 11 Long Island Writer's Guild
August 18 Yolanda Coulaz- The Reverend Mofo Doris Bush Florence Gatto
August 25 Barbara Hoffman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Barbara Southard Karen Swenson

Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, www.schoolhousegreen.org. or our new blog site http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road.


The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside, in support of the Oceanside Education Foundation. The Gazebo Readings will be held each Monday evening in June, July and August, and will feature 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, published authors, comedians, fiction and non-fiction writers, and local community members sharing some of their favorite literature. The Summer Gazebo Readings will be held outdoors; seating is limited, so bring a lawn chair, a blanket, a picnic table. The grounds are open, and the public is encouraged to come early and have a quiet summer's picnic on the grounds. Admission is free.

Sponsors include:
Home & Hearth Realty
Tower's Funeral Home
Oceanville Mason Supply
Westron's Light Bulb Warehouse
NY Municipal Credit Union
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro, Inc. Insurance
Dr. Aaron Rappaport, DDS & Dr. David Rappaport, DMD
Marsh Hawk Press
LI Pulse Magazine
Councilman Anthony J. Santino
M. Schamroth & Sons

E. Fine
C. Scarlata & Family
Kaufman Family

Doc's Mechanical Piping & Heating Corp.
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys at Law


For more information:

Tony Iovino
68 Yorktown Street
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
H 516 763-1667
C 516 459-3262
W 516 741-8585
www.schoolhousegreen.org
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 28, 2008

Photos From July 28, 2008

Featuring Joan Dupre, Christine Timm, J R (Judy) Turek and Clive Young


Thursday, July 24, 2008

Perfect

Perfect weather. Perhaps our largest crowd. 5 incredible Readers. Another typical summer evening at the Gazebo!

Jack Anderson led off with funny, thoughtful (and poignant) poetry;


Geri Lipshultz followed with interesting, well-crafted story-poems;


Richard Vetere brought power and life to his works, enthralling the crowd;




Tony Policano was warm and engaging;


and finally we were treated to J R (Judy) Turek who was masterful--funny, touching, insightful-- simply a delight!



(Check below for more photos)

This Monday, July 28, 2008 we feature:


Christine Timm
Christine Timm is a NYC performance poet. She produces and co-hosts the NYC College Slam, Love Poetry Hate Racism events, and the Bowery Kids entertainment series at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan and co-produces and co-hosts the Smalls Lit Series at Smalls Jazz Club in the West Village. Her most recent publications can be found in Polarity, Arabesques Review, and The Long Island Quarterly. She has a collection of poetry forthcoming on Small Books Press. She has a Ph.D. in English Lit from the Graduate Center at City University of New York with dissertation on the Beats and spoken word. She is Associate Professor of English at Westchester Community College where she teaches modern American poetry, creative writing, and composition.
www.myspace.com/christine_timm

Lee Kostrinsky
Lee Kostrinsky is a writer and musician. His first book of fiction "Here Nor There" was published in 2001 and his first book of poetry "Why Pat Cooks" was just recently published this year on the new Smalls Books. Lee is also the co-owner of the legendary Smalls Jazz Club in New York City.

Clive Young
Clive Young is an author and lecturer covering the crossroads between high technology and popular culture. He is the author of Crank It Up [Backbeat Books, 2004], which profiles the world's top rock concert roadies, exploring how they make the biggest acts in the world sound great, night after night. The book received strong reviews from mainstream magazines like Billboard and Hit Parader, as well as specialist press. He is now racing to finish this next book, Homemade Hollywood, a history of amateur filmmaking, which will be published in 2008 by Continuum Books.

He has covered the music industry as both the senior and web editors of Pro Sound News and has also written for MTV, VH1, American Songwriter, Music Business International, Wine Enthusiast and many other outlets. His comedy screenplay, Worst Case Scenario, recently won Script Magazine's national competition.

When not tapping away on the keyboard, he often lectures at libraries around Long Island, discussing the histories of movie special effects, music videos and more; he will present programs on these topics at more than 20 libraries across Long Island this summer. For more information, visit his website at www.cliveyoung.com.


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pcoming Readers:

August 4 Teri Coyne Bruce Grossberg Paula Comacho Susan Deacon Sonia L. Russell
August 11 Long Island Writer's Guild
August 18 Yolanda Coulaz- The Reverend Mofo Doris Bush Florence Gatto
August 25 Barbara Hoffman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Barbara Southard Karen Swenson


Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, www.schoolhousegreen.org. or our new blog site http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/


The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road.


The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside, in support of the Oceanside Education Foundation. The Gazebo Readings will be held each Monday evening in June, July and August, and will feature 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, published authors, comedians, fiction and non-fiction writers, and local community members sharing some of their favorite literature. The Summer Gazebo Readings will be held outdoors; seating is limited, so bring a lawn chair, a blanket, a picnic table. The grounds are open, and the public is encouraged to come early and have a quiet summer's picnic on the grounds. Admission is free.


Sponsors include:
Home & Hearth Realty
Tower's Funeral Home
Oceanville Mason Supply
Westron's Light Bulb Warehouse
NY Municipal Credit Union
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro, Inc. Insurance
Dr. Aaron Rappaport, DDS & Dr. David Rappaport, DMD
Marsh Hawk Press
LI Pulse Magazine
Councilman Anthony J. Santino
M. Schamroth & Sons

E. Fine
C. Scarlata & Family
Kaufman Family

Doc's Mechanical Piping & Heating Corp.
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys at Law


For more information:

Tony Iovino
68 Yorktown Street
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
H 516 763-1667
C 516 459-3262
W 516 741-8585
www.schoolhousegreen.org
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Photos from July 14, 2008

A Spectacular Evening

Monday evening was a spectacular night all the way around. We were treated to simply the best evening of the summer--perfect weather (all the more surprising given the rain earlier in the day). As good as the weather was, the readings were even better.

Sandi Sonnenfeld started us off with a provocative essay;
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the always gracious and entertaining Robert Dunn followed with his wry, funny poetry;

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Brenda Janowitz was delightful-- an engaging, theatrical reader, the excerpts from her novel had every couple on the Green nodding and grinning in self-recognition;

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and we ended with a passionate and powerful reading by Denis Gray--one that had so great an impact that when he finished it took a few moments for the crowd to start breathing again.

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More photos of the Readers and the crowd can be seen here.

This week coming up promises more of the same-- a very special lineup.

Monday, July 21, 2008 we feature:

J R Turek

J R (Judy) Turek is a very special friend of our program-- her support has been invaluable these two years.

J R strives to write a poem a day and mostly succeeds. She is in her tenth year as Moderator of the Farmingdale Creative Writing Group and is a member of Maxwell Wheat's Nassau County Poet Laureate Committee, serving as the chairperson of the Nassau County School Poetry Contest. A portion of the proceeds from her poetry book, They Come And They Go, supports Autism Awareness organizations on Long Island.

In 2007, she was a co-editor of Long Island Sounds: 2007, Finding Our Voices, and Performance Poets Association Literary Review #11. In 2008, she has co-edited Long Island Sounds: 2008 and Performance Poets Association Literary Review #12. You can see and hear her read her poetry on www.poetryvlog.com.

J R has been published in primal sanities!, The Towe Auto Museum Poetry Collections 2007 and 2006, Asbestos, Soul Fountain,Long Island Sounds: 2007 and 2006, Long Island Quarterly, For Loving Precious Beast, The Long Islander, the East Meadow Herald, Performance Poets Association Literary Review Volumes 8 through 12, Friends of the Hempstead Plains, Long Island Expressions Autism Awareness, 2001: A Long Island Odyssey, and the Farmingdale Poetry Chapbook. She is also a contributor to Grassroot Reflections. Her poetry will appear in Primal Sanities!, The Towe Auto Museum Poetry Collection, Assbestos, Soul Fountain, and PAUMANOK: Poetry and Pictures of Long Island.

In 2008, J R was awarded the Conklin Prize for Poetry; 2nd place in The North Sea Poetry Scene's poetry contest; and 1st place in the Mid-Island Y JCC poetry contest. J R's poetry has also won awards from Princess Productions, Writer's Digest, The Towe Auto Museum, and Lake Ronkonkoma poetry contests.

She is a born and bred Long Islander who resides in East Meadow with her soul-mate husband, her dogs, and her extraordinarily extensive shoe collection. If you see the license plate MSJEVUS, follow her; chances are, she's going to a poetry event.

Anthony Policano
Anthony Policano is a Long Island poet born in Brooklyn three days before Jack Kerouac's On The Road was first published. He thinks that this may explain his fondness for jazz, long trips and run on sentences.

A former technology manager for J.P. Morgan Chase, his passion for poetry has recently reawakened. He writes, attends workshops and reads his work publicly at every opportunity.

In 2007, he was awarded 1st place in the Long Island Poetry Collective contest and received honorable mentions in several others. His poems have been published in PPA literary review, Loomings, Flutter, Poetryvlog.org and soon to be published in Primal Sanities (a Whitman anthology) and Xanadu (fall issue).


Anthony is married, has a daughter and calls Oyster Bay home.


Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson is the author of nine books of poems and prose poems, including Field Trips on the Rapid Transit (Hanging Loose Press) and Traffic (New Rivers Press), which won the Marie Alexander Award for prose poetry. He has appeared in recent anthologies of subway poems, police poems, and poems about New York City streets. A dance historian and critic, he is the author of seven books of dance history and criticism, a dance writer for the New York Times, New York correspondent for The Dancing Times of London, and dance critic for the New York Theatre Wire (nytheatre-wire.com, then click on "Dance").

Richard Vetere

Mr. Vetere is a novelist, playwright, film and TV writer and actor. He teaches a masterscreenwriting class at NYU and screenwriting at Queens College. He wrote the novel The Third Miracle published by Simon & Schuster and he co-authored the screenplay which stars Ed Harris, Anne Heche and is produced by Francis Ford Coppola. The novel has been translated into seven languages so far. He is also the author of eleven plays all published by Dramatic Publishing. His play Machiavelli, which ran Off-Broadway last season and his play Caravaggio, which had its world premiere in Chicago last season, will both be available this month. He wrote the movie How To Go Out on a Date in Queens which stars Jason Alexander and Kimberely Williams. His other movies include The Marriage Fool staring Walter Mathau and Carol Brunett and Vigilante . His new musical A 100 Yrs Into the Heart opens Off-Broadway this fall. His TV shows include Threat Matrix for ABC and The Wonder for CBS produced by George Clooney. He has two volumes of published poetry Memories of Human Hands and A Dream of Angels. He is on the board of directors for the Queens International Film Festival and a member of Writers Guild, Dramatist Guild, Authors Guild, Poets & Writers and represented by the William Morris Agency. He is a born and raised New Yorker.

Geri Lipschultz

Geri Lipschultz has published in The New York Times, Kalliope, Black Warrior Review, Dunes Review, North Atlantic Review, College English, and others. She was awarded a CAPS grant from NY State for one of her novels. Rob Bundy directed a staged reading of her full-length play, and she performed in her one-woman show, Once Upon the Present Time, produced in NYC by Woodie King, Jr. She has directed and produced children's theatre, and her production, Rising Above the Shadow -- Women's Artistic Responses to September 11th, featured the work of fifty women artists – painters, musicians, dancers, writers. Her fiction was nominated for the Foley award, and she was also a Heekin semi-finalist. She teaches writing at Suffolk Community College and has taught thousands of children as a poet in the schools. She received her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.


Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, www.schoolhousegreen.org. or our new blog site http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/


The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road.


The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside, in support of the Oceanside Education Foundation. The Gazebo Readings will be held each Monday evening in June, July and August, and will feature 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, published authors, comedians, fiction and non-fiction writers, and local community members sharing some of their favorite literature. The Summer Gazebo Readings will be held outdoors; seating is limited, so bring a lawn chair, a blanket, a picnic table. The grounds are open, and the public is encouraged to come early and have a quiet summer's picnic on the grounds. Admission is free.

Sponsors include:
Home & Hearth Realty
Tower's Funeral Home
Oceanville Mason Supply
Westron's Light Bulb Warehouse
NY Municipal Credit Union
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro, Inc. Insurance
Dr. Aaron Rappaport, DDS & Dr. David Rappaport, DMD
Marsh Hawk Press
LI Pulse Magazine
Councilman Anthony J. Santino
M. Schamroth & Sons

E. Fine
C. Scarlata & Family
Kaufman Family

Doc's Mechanical Piping & Heating Corp.
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys at Law


For more information:

Tony Iovino
68 Yorktown Street
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
H 516 763-1667
C 516 459-3262
W 516 741-8585
www.schoolhousegreen.org
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Patriotic Readings

Our Fourth of July barbecue and readings, held on the 7th, was exceptional! A large crowd enjoyed beautiful weather, and read/heard the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, Lincoln's "With Malice Towards None" Second Inaugural Address, Teddy Roosevelt on conservation, FDR's "Nothing to Fear" Inaugural, Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech, and excerpts from his farewell speech on the necessity of teaching history to our children; and, finally, MLK's "I Have a Dream".

Great night all the way around.

Monday, July 14th, we're back to our regular schedule of outstanding authors and poets. It's a special line-up-- We have two women who grew up locally and then went off to find great success-- and three of our favorites from last year, back to delight us again! Come on down--and bring a friend!

Our Readers this Monday, July 14th are:
Sandi Sonnenfeld

Sandi Sonnenfeld grew up in Rockville Centre and graduated from Oceanside Senior High. Drawn to the arts at a very early age, Sandi studied ballet for more than 15 years, ultimately attending classes at the Joffrey Ballet School in Manhattan. She attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she majored in English (and minored in dance), graduating magna cum laude. After a brief stint performing with a professional dance troupe in Boston, Sandi enrolled in the MFA program in fiction writing at the University of Washington, where she studied under National Book Award winner Charles Johnson. While at the UW, Sandi was awarded the Loren D. Milliman Writing Fellowship, the top scholarship given to only one writing student each year. Since that time, Sandi has published more than 30 short stories, essays, and journalism pieces in a variety of publications, including Sojourner, Voices West, Hayden's Ferry Review, ACM: Another Chicago Magazine, Somerset Review, The Raven Chronicles, Perigee and in the upcoming issue of New Works Review (newworksreview.org).

Her first full-length book, This Is How I Speak, a memoir in diary form that explores Sandi's struggle to come to terms with the end of her dance career even as she embarks on a new one as a writer, was published by Seattle's Impassio Press in June 2002. This is How I Speak was a BookSense 76 finalist and for which The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association named Sandi a 2002 Celebration Author, one of a select group of writers whose work merits special attention.

Writing awards include The David Dornstein Memorial Creative Writing Award for Young Writers (1998) sponsored by the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, as well as a finalist for Rosebud Magazine's X.J. Kennedy Award for Creative Nonfiction (2001), Greensboro Review Literary Awards (2001) and the Serpentine Fiction Award (2000). Sandi currently resides in Brooklyn with her filmmaker husband Warren Berry and the world's most perfect cat, Princess Stormwalker. Visit www.sandisonnenfeld.com for more.

Brenda Janowitz

A native Oceansider, Brenda Janowitz has had a flair for all things dramatic since she played the title role in her third grade production of Really Rosie. When asked by her grandmother if the experience made her want to be an actress when she grew up, Brenda responded, "An actress? No. A writer, maybe."

Brenda attended Cornell University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Human Service Studies, with a Concentration in Race and Discrimination. After graduating from Cornell, she attended Hofstra Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review and won the Law Review Writing Competition. Upon graduation from Hofstra, she went to work for the law firm Kaye Scholer, LLP, where she was an associate in the Intellectual Property group, handling cases in the areas of trademark, anti-trust, internet, and false advertising. Brenda later left Kaye Scholer to pursue a federal clerkship with the Honorable Marilyn Dolan Go, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

Since her clerkship, Brenda has worked as a career counselor at two New York City law schools, where she published a number of articles on career related issues in publications such as the National Law Journal and the New York Law Journal. She currently lives in Manhattan where she lectures on the publishing process and teaches creative writing at Mediabistro.

Denis Gray

Denis Gray is a great friend of our series. A frequent member of our audience, Denis was our final reader last year--reading his wonderful works by flashlight and headlights as the sun set on us last August. He is a novelist/playwright who lives in Woodmere, Long Island. He is the author of 28 books, three novellas, thirteen plays, and over fifty short stories. His novella Benny's Last Blast!!, was published in 2002. He expects the release of his first audio short story CD, "Black Love Notes," later this summer.

Over the years, Denis' work has been featured at many poetry venues within the tri-state area. He thanks the "Summer Gazebo Reading Series" for this opportunity for his work to be heard. This is an event, he feels, which promotes the cultural richness of the vast community of great contemporary writers.


Adriana DiGennaro

Adriana read last year to glowing praise-- a truly exceptional young poet! A member of the Academy of American Poets and the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA), Adriana DiGennaro is a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont where she studied literature and creative writing. A native New Yorker, her second book of poetry, Acts of Contrition, was published in Spring 2007 by Windstorm Creative. Peripheral Vision, her first book published in 2001 by Writers Ink Press, debuted when she was just 17. That same year she was on Red River Review's list of nominees for a Pushcart Prize.

Ms. DiGennaro's poetry has been featured in Edifice Wrecked, The Abrabesque Review, BigCityLit, Red River Review, PoetryBay, Merge, The Aurora Review, Poetz, Boston Literary Review, The Tipton Poetry Journal, Tryst, Ancient Heart (United Kingdom), Eclectica, City Writers Review (NYC), Poetry Midwest, Esopian, Adagio Verse Quarterly, Falling Star Magazine, Flutter, Wonder Writings, Long Island Quarterly, Triplopia, Ward6Review, Clean Sheets, Sidereality, Southern Ocean Review (New Zealand), Perigee, Sage of Consciousness and The Improper Hamptonian. She is the youngest poet whose work is featured in The Light of City and Sea (Street Press 2006), an anthology of Suffolk County poetry edited by Suffolk County Poet Laureate Daniel Thomas Moran.

Other anthologies with her work include Southshire Pepper-Pot: A Literary Feast With Culinary Refrains (Windstorm Creative, 2006); Susan B. & Me: An International Collection of Women's Writings & Photographs edited by Patricia Ronsvalle, LCSW (Big Kid Publishing, 2006); In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself edited by Marlow Peerse Weaver (MWE Press, 2005), Whispers of Inspiration: An Anthology of New American Poets edited by Darlene and Steven Manchester (Sunpiper Press, September 2005); Ancient Heart Magazine Poetry Anthology Vol. III edited by Richard van der Draaij (Ancient Heart Press, 2005). To watch a short video of her reading at Good Times Books, Port Jefferson, NY, go to: www.poetryvlog.com.

A born city dweller and dreamer obsessed with all forms of reggae music, she needs lots of sunlight and is happiest when in transit. She is always in search of adventure. She lives and works in New York City.

Robert Dunn

Also a fan favorite from last year-- Robert is guaranteed to bring laughter to Schoolhouse Green! Writer/artist Robert Dunn is the author of such books as Zen Yentas in Bondage, Horse Latitudes, and Baffled in Baloneyville. He is the editor of Asbestos Poetry Journal and has served as Editor of Medicinal Purposes Literary Review and The New Press Literary Quarterly. Mr. Dunn's poetry has appeared around the world, which is more than you can say for him. His comic strip, Knish & Carob, has appeared in Street News. In every generation, there are 36 individuals whose very existence persuades the Almighty not to destroy the world. Among these 36 individuals, Mr. Dunn is definitely #37.

The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, www.schoolhousegreen.org. or our new blog site http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

(By the way, check out photographs of our readers and the Green at http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/)

We are re-scheduling the Readers we lost to the weather. Subject to additions, our schedule for the balance of the summer is:

July 21 Jack Anderson Judy Turek Geri Lipshultz Anthony Policano Richard Vetere
July 28 Betsy Transom -double slot Christine Timm Lee Kostrinsky Clive Young
August 4 Teri Coyne Bruce Grossberg Paula Comacho Susan Deacon
August 11 Long Island Writer's Guild
August 18 Yolanda Coulaz- The Reverend Mofo Doris Bush Florence Gatto
August 25 Barbara Hoffman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Barbara Southard Karen Swenson


The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road.

The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside, in support of the Oceanside Education Foundation. The Gazebo Readings will be held each Monday evening in June, July and August, and will feature 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, published authors, comedians, fiction and non-fiction writers, and local community members sharing some of their favorite literature. The Summer Gazebo Readings will be held outdoors; seating is limited, so bring a lawn chair, a blanket, a picnic table. The grounds are open, and the public is encouraged to come early and have a quiet summer's picnic on the grounds. Admission is free.

Sponsors include:
Home & Hearth Realty
Tower's Funeral Home
Oceanville Mason Supply
Westron's Light Bulb Warehouse
NY Municipal Credit Union
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro, Inc. Insurance
Dr. Aaron Rappaport, DDS & Dr. David Rappaport, DMD
Marsh Hawk Press
LI Pulse Magazine
Councilman Anthony J. Santino
M. Schamroth & Sons

E. Fine
C. Scarlata & Family
Kaufman Family

Doc's Mechanical Piping & Heating Corp.
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys at Law

For more information:

Tony Iovino
68 Yorktown Street
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
H 516 763-1667
C 516 459-3262
W 516 741-8585
www.schoolhousegreen.org
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 7, 2008

And Add Another...

Add Clive Young to your list of Readers scheduled for July 28th. Clive was one of our first Readers last year--and we are looking forward to his return!

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Schedule Updates

Denis Gray has agreed to read for us on July 14th, and Richard Vetere will join us on the 21st. Both read for us last year, and both were rained out earlier this summer. They are both amazing, and are welcome additions to the schedule!

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Largest Crowd Ever!

What an incredible evening! The weather cooperated, with a breeze strong enough to keep us cool and comfortable, and no rain and no hail! Even better, our largest crowd ever was treated to four marvelous Readers: Helen Donato, who will be enjoying her 65th wedding anniversary this September, read her poetry publicly for the very first time--and was a hit!
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Nancy Solomon followed with engaging true stories about Long Island's Bay houses, and their rum-running history;

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Frank VanZandt served up a rollicking poem about 19th Century baseball and those who dared to play, and a riveting tale of pre-teen boys and an escalating neighborhood battle;
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and we finished with two passages by internationally-acclaimed novelist Tom Phelan from his WWI, Ireland-based novel The Canal Bridge.

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Next week is a fan-favorite--a free barbecue (sponsored by Home & Hearth Real Estate & Bondi & Iovino Attorneys at Law) and readings from American historical speeches and documents. Come on down Monday July 7th and enjoy a unique evening on Schoolhouse Green as we celebrate our American Heritage!!

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The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, www.schoolhousegreen.org. or our new blog site http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

(By the way, check out photographs of our readers and the Green at http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/)

We are re-scheduling the Readers we lost to the weather. Subject to additions, our schedule for the balance of the summer is:

July 7 Patriotic Readings
July 14 Brenda Janowitz Robert Dunn Sandi Sonnenfeld Adriana DiGennaro
July 21 Jack Anderson Judy Turek Geri Lipshultz Anthony Policano
July 28 Betsy Transom -double slot Christine Timm Lee Kostrinsky
August 4 Teri Coyne Bruce Grossberg Paula Comacho Susan Deacon
August 11 Long Island Writer's Guild
August 18 Yolanda Coulaz- The Reverend Mofo Doris Bush Florence Gatto
August 25 Barbara Hoffman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Barbara Southard Karen Swenson


The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road.

The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside, in support of the Oceanside Education Foundation. The Gazebo Readings will be held each Monday evening in June, July and August, and will feature 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, published authors, comedians, fiction and non-fiction writers, and local community members sharing some of their favorite literature. The Summer Gazebo Readings will be held outdoors; seating is limited, so bring a lawn chair, a blanket, a picnic table. The grounds are open, and the public is encouraged to come early and have a quiet summer's picnic on the grounds. Admission is free.

Sponsors include:
Home & Hearth Realty
Tower's Funeral Home
Oceanville Mason Supply
Westron's Light Bulb Warehouse
NY Municipal Credit Union
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro, Inc. Insurance
Dr. Aaron Rappaport, DDS & Dr. David Rappaport, DMD
Marsh Hawk Press
LI Pulse Magazine
Councilman Anthony J. Santino
M. Schamroth & Sons

E. Fine
C. Scarlata & Family
Kaufman Family

Doc's Mechanical Piping & Heating Corp.
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys at Law

For more information:

Tony Iovino
68 Yorktown Street
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
H 516 763-1667
C 516 459-3262
W 516 741-8585
www.schoolhousegreen.org
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/