Thursday, July 30, 2009

Upcoming Monday August 3, 2009

And now we come into the homestretch! Only 5 weeks to go!

Last Monday, we were treated to an eclectic sampling of readings from authors and poets of the Long Island Writers Guild. We thank them all for their generosity of time & talent!

We also collected more books for our troops--please bring down your gently used paperbacks (try to steer clear of romance, childrens, how-to manuals, etc.)--Kiwanis of Oceanside will box and ship them out, in coordination with Operation Paperback. So far we have sent boxes of books to 9 of our troops--with more shipments ready to go!

This week we feature five talented authors and poets-- a couple of our past favorites, and a couple of "newbies" whom we are sure will provide an entertaining and literary evening!

The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, directions, etc. go to http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

This Monday, August 3, 2009, we feature:

Christina Rau
Christina M. Rau is the founder of Poets In Nassau, a reading circuit in New York. Her poetry has been published in magazines like The HazMat Review and Chronogram. She writes an entertainment column about reality shows she should be ashamed of watching for RealityShack.com. Outside of writing, she teaches English at Nassau Community College. She loves moonbeams, puppies, and sarcasm.

Harriet Slaughter
Harriet Slaughter contends poetry has always informed her life in the performing and visual arts, having trained and performed in music, dance, theatre in her early career. In her second career she has served as an arts administrator, jazz producer, a publicist, then union executive for Actors’ Equity Association before taking the reigns as Director of Labor Relations for the Broadway League for more years than she cares to remember.

She has always been an advocate for giving visibility to women in the performing arts. For five years she co-produced WOMEN IN THEATRE, hosted by Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer, which currently airs on CUNY-TV Channel 75 in NYC. Her latest project for the League of Professional Theatre Women and The Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center was to serve as project coordinator for the exhibit, CURTAIN CALL: Celebrating a Century of Women of Women Designing for Live Performance which is scheduled to tour the United States and Canada in 2010. She is bi-coastal, keeping one foot in New York City and the other in Long Beach, New York, depending which way the wind blows and if the sun is shining. Now retired, she is a Saturday poet and a Sunday painter, a dabbler in watercolors, acrylics and oil and takes her poetry and paints with her to the far reaches of the globe, which she traverses whenever she can.

She has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors for the Pen and Brush in New York City, an organization dedicated to women in the visual, literary and performing arts since 1894. As a member of the Poets in Nassau, she participates as a featured reader of her poetry in venues in Long Island.


Bruce Grossberg
Bruce Grossberg is an attorney, actor and writer who lives in Forest Hills with his wife, the artist Laura Rovinsky, and their 3-year old daughter. Bruce went to his first game at Shea Stadium in August 1965, and attended his first Broadway musical in October, 1968.

Deborah Hauser

Deborah Hauser graduated from Stony Brook University with a Master of Arts in English Literature and has taught composition and literature at Stony Brook University and Suffolk County Community College. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is a poetry reviewer for Sotto Voce Magazine and a proposal reviewer for the 2009 Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference sponsored by the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Her academic writing has been published at MP: An Online Feminist Journal, and she has presented her academic work at national conferences.

Florence Gatto
Florence is a retired NYC educator. In her new book, The Scent of Jasmine ,Vignettes from a Sicilian Heritage, Florence combines her passion for Italy and writing to document an era of transition for her immigrant family. The true life accounts written with humor, wit, and pride provide a lingering image of life as it was then and how it has evolved ."Jasmine" is in it's second printing, and is available on Amazon.com.

Her short stories and essays have been published in LI Writer's Guild anthologies, Newsday and Cucina Classica Cookbook. She writes a column for the Order Sons of Italy in America newspaper "The Golden Lion". She studied in a Fulbright program in Perugia and in Siena with a NY state Teacher's grant. Florence received the Lifetime and Diamond Leadership Awards from LIWriters Guild and L'Esperienza magazine. She now teaches memoir writing to adults.

Florence calls herself an "Italophile" and requires frequent trips to Italy to feed her psyche.



The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and are held each Monday evening in June, July and August, featuring 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, and fiction and non-fiction writers. The Summer Gazebo Readings are 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 Real Estate
Herb & Marian Brown
Bonbino's Pizza
North Sea Poetry Scene
Max Wheat NC Poet Laureate Comm.
Maryanne Lehrer
Mary Jane McGrath, Attorney
Gary & Sandie Schoell
Philip Reinstein, CLU
Diversion Press
Oceanville Mason Supply
Kiwanettes of Oceanside
21st Century Appraisers
Village BookShoppe
Long Island Pulse
Westron Lite Bulb
Tower’s Funeral Home
Michael Schamroth and Family
Councilman Anthony Santino
Jay R. Myers & Co., Inc.
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro,
Municipal Credit Union
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys-at-Law

Upcoming Schedule

8/3/2009 Christina Rau Bruce Grossberg Harriet Slaughter Deborah Hauser Florence Gatto

8/10/2009 Adriana DiGennaro Teri Coyne Frank Van Zant Joan Marg Tom Schaudel

8/17/2009 Gayl Teller Max Wheat J R Turek Open Read (must sign up in person at a prior evening's readings) & Betsy Transom & troupe!

8/24/2009 Barbara Hoffman Herb Siegel Christine Timm Joan Dupre Tom Phelan

8/31/2009 Sonya Russell Yolanda Coulaz Paula Curci Theresa Rosario- Berzner Christine Kehl O'Hagan

For more information:

Tony Iovino
68 Yorktown Street
Rockville Centre, NY 11570
H 516 763-1667
C 516 459-3262
W 516 741-8585
http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Coming Up July 27, 2009

The weather was beautiful, the readings even better, as over 100 people brought their lawn chairs and enjoyed another great evening at Schoolhouse Green. Roxanne Hoffman led off with outstanding poetry (her piece on her mother dating in her 80's was priceless; Jillian Abbott's Aussie voice brought us back to a time and place far from Oceanside; Barbara Reiher-Meyers was, as always, alternately funny and wise; Geraldine Green's poetry was evocative--made all the better by her delightful British accent; and Reed Farell Coleman treated us to a gritty excerpt from his upcoming novel, based in Coney Island.

We also collected more books for our troops--please bring down your gently used paperbacks (try to steer clear of romance, childrens, how-to manuals, etc.)--Kiwanis of Oceanside will box and ship them out, in coordination with Operation Paperback.

And we have added Judy Turek and Max Wheat back to our schedule--both August 17.

This week we again turn over the Gazebo to the fine authors and poets of the Long Island Writer's Guild. If the quality and diversity of this year's readers matches last year's, we are in for a treat!

The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, directions, etc. go to http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and are held each Monday evening in June, July and August, featuring 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, and fiction and non-fiction writers. The Summer Gazebo Readings are 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 Real Estate
Herb & Marian Brown
Bonbino's Pizza
North Sea Poetry Scene
Max Wheat NC Poet Laureate Comm.
Maryanne Lehrer
Mary Jane McGrath, Attorney
Gary & Sandie Schoell
Philip Reinstein, CLU
Diversion Press
Oceanville Mason Supply
Kiwanettes of Oceanside
21st Century Appraisers
Village BookShoppe
Long Island Pulse
Westron Lite Bulb
Tower’s Funeral Home
Michael Schamroth and Family
Councilman Anthony Santino
Jay R. Myers & Co., Inc.
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro,
Municipal Credit Union
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys-at-Law

Upcoming Schedule


7/27/2009 Authors & Poets from the Long Island Writers' Guild

8/3/2009 Christina Rau Bruce Grossberg Harriet Slaughter Deborah Hauser Florence Gatto

8/10/2009 Adriana DiGennaro Teri Coyne Frank Van Zant Joan Marg Tom Schaudel

8/17/2009 Gayl Teller Max Wheat J R Turek Open Read (must sign up in person at a prior evening's readings) & Betsy Transom & troupe!

8/24/2009 Barbara Hoffman Herb Siegel Christine Timm Joan Dupre Tom Phelan

8/31/2009 Sonya Russell Yolanda Coulaz Paula Curci Theresa Rosario- Berzner Christine Kehl O'Hagan

For more information:

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

Friday, July 24, 2009

Photos From July 20, 2009



Roxanne Hoffman, Jillian Abbott, Barbara Reiher-Meyers,
Geraldine Green & Reed Farrel Coleman

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Upcoming July 20, 2009

An outstanding evening all the way around--beautiful weather, a large and appreciative crowd--and great Readers! Clive Young started it off with excerpts from his very funny new book; Joan Cergol and Ellen Schaffer introduced many of us to the wonders of the Oheka Castle, hidden away right here on Long Island; John P. Loonam came "home" to read a dead-on short story; and Jack Anderson topped it off with witty, urbane and perfect-pitch poetry.

We also collected dozens of books for our troops--please bring down your gently used paperbacks (try to steer clear of romance, childrens, how-to manuals, etc.)--Kiwanis of Oceanside will box and ship them out, in coordination with Operation Paperback.

And we have added Tom Phelan back to our schedule--August 24th.

This week we continue on a roll-- five distinguished authors and poets--sure to be a treat!

The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, directions, etc. go to http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 20th we feature:

Reed Farrel Coleman

Reed Farrel Coleman is the former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America. He has published ten novels—two under his pen name Tony Spinosa—in three series. His eleventh novel, Tower, written with noted Irish author Ken Bruen, will be released in September ’09.

Reed has been twice nominated for the mystery fiction’s most prestigious honor, the Edgar Award. He has won the Shamus(twice), Barry and Anthony Awards. He was the editor of the short story anthology Hardboiled Brooklyn. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Wall Street Noir, Damn Near Dead, Brooklyn Noir 3, The Darker Mask and several other publications.

Reed is an adjunct lecturer in creative writing at Hofstra University and his lives with his family on Long Island.

Geraldine Green

We are very happy to welcome Geraldine Green, a respected poet here on summer leave from her home in England. Geraldine’s first collection The Skin was published 2003; her second, Passio, appeared in 2006, (both by Flarestack). She performs widely in the UK & USA, also Italy and Greece, including the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, River to River Festival, Beacon NY, The Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah, Oklahoma; Wordsworth Trust Grasmere, Everyman Theatre Liverpool, Dylan Thomas Centre Swansea, Women’s International Arts Festival Cumbria and Poetry on the Lake, Orta Italy. Her poetry is widely published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, Italy and America.

Geraldine teaches Creative Writing at The University of Cumbria and for Continuing Education at Lancaster University, where she is currently undertaking a PhD in Creative Writing Poetry; runs Creative Writing workshops, has worked with musicians, visual and digital artists and photographers and is an Associate Editor of Poetry Bay.


Geraldine
lives in Cumbria, happy among sheep muck and rain.

Jillian Abbott

Jillian Abbott’s short stories have been published, and have won prizes, in the US and Australia, including a story in Queens Noir, 2008 and another chosen as a finalist in the Glimmer Train Summer 2007 Open Fiction Award.

Jillian has written for The Washington Post, The New York Daily News and the Independent (UK), among many other publications. She is a regular contributor of features on writing to The Writer magazine, and a former op-ed writer with The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age,

A past reporter at the Queens Chronicle and the Queens Courier, Abbott is now an aide to a Manhattan, New York City Council Member.

Appointed to the board of the Mystery Writers of America, New York chapter in November 2005 Abbott became Vice President of MWA/NY in 2006 serving two terms. She is currently a board member of MWA/NY. Before that she was a board member, a screening curator, and ran workshops on screenwriting for CineWomen NY, a non profit for women filmmakers.

After receiving initial training in RMIT’s writing program in Australia, she went on to earn an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program.


Barbara Reiher-Meyers


Barbara Reiher-Meyers is a Long Island, New York poet, board member of the Long Island Poetry Collective and the North Sea Poetry Scene. Barbara also curates a poetry calendar for www.poetz.com/longisland , has coordinated events for the Northport Arts Coalition and Smithtown Township Arts Council, among others. Her poetry has been published in print journals and on line.


Barbara facilitates monthly workshops in Ronkonkoma, sends weekly Emails of local poetry events, and has edited several volumes of poetry. “Sounds Familiar” is the title of her first book of poems.


Roxanne Hoffman

ROXANNE HOFFMAN worked on Wall Street, now answers a patient hotline for a major New York home healthcare provider. Her poetry has recently appeared in Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, Danse Macabre, Hospital Drive, Liquid Imagination, Lucid Rhythms, MOBIUS The Poetry Magazine, Shofar Literary Review, and Word Slaw. Her writing been anthologized in The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology By Gang Members And Their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press) and in Love After 70 (Wising Up Press) both released in 2008.

Roxanne's vampire poetry can be heard during the 2005 independent film, “Love & The Vampire,” directed by David Gold and starring Rick Poli. Her live spokenword performances have been aired on cable (Poetry Thin Air, The Art House Show), with interviews on UHF-TV (The New Yorkers) and WKCR 89.9 FM NY (Art Waves), and her poem "Dad Always Wanted A Boy" was recently podcast on the internet on IndieFeed: Performance Poetry.

Roxanne owns the small press, POETS WEAR PRADA. Visit her press site at http://poetswearpradanj.home.att.net.


The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and are held each Monday evening in June, July and August, featuring 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, and fiction and non-fiction writers. The Summer Gazebo Readings are 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 Real Estate
Herb & Marian Brown
Bonbino's Pizza
North Sea Poetry Scene
Max Wheat NC Poet Laureate Comm.
Maryanne Lehrer
Mary Jane McGrath, Attorney
Gary & Sandie Schoell
Philip Reinstein, CLU
Diversion Press
Oceanville Mason Supply
Kiwanettes of Oceanside
21st Century Appraisers
Village BookShoppe
Long Island Pulse
Westron Lite Bulb
Tower’s Funeral Home
Michael Schamroth and Family
Councilman Anthony Santino
Jay R. Myers & Co., Inc.
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro,
Municipal Credit Union
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys-at-Law

Upcoming Schedule

7/20/2009 Jillian Abbott Reed Farrel Coleman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Roxanne Hoffman Geraldine Green

7/27/2009 Authors & Poets from the Long Island Writers' Guild

8/3/2009 Christina Rau Bruce Grossberg Harriet Slaughter Deborah Hauser Florence Gatto

8/10/2009 Adriana DiGennaro Teri Coyne Frank Van Zant Joan Marg Tom Schaudel

8/17/2009 Gayl Teller Open Read (must sign up in person at a prior evening's readings) & Betsy Transom & troupe!

8/24/2009 Barbara Hoffman Herb Siegel Christine Timm Joan Dupre Tom Phelan

8/31/2009 Sonya Russell Yolanda Coulaz Paula Curci Theresa Rosario- Berzner Christine Kehl O'Hagan

For more information:

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

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Photos from July 13, 2009



Clive Young, John P. Loonam, Ellen Schaffer & Joan Cergol,
and Jack Anderson

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Upcoming July 13, 2009

Lot's of news:

First, the Patriotic Readings and BBQ went beautifully. Over 120 people ate and then enjoyed a reading of the Declaration of Independence, followed by pieces dealing with "courage" by Thomas Paine, Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln (read forcefully by Max Wheat), Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, Ronald Reagan and Martin Luther King, Jr. (read movingly by Phil Reinstein & one of this week's readers, Judy Turek).

We collected dozens of books for "Operation Paperback"--they will be sent, by Kiwanis, to our troops overseas. If you have any used paperbacks (fit for a soldier--no romance novels or kids books, please), bring them down!

All in all, a great time was had by all!

Second--we happily announce some additions to our line-up. Making up for our rainout, we have re-scheduled Judy Turek (7/13) Florence Gatto (8/3) and Gayl Teller (8/17). We're still "efforting" Tom Phelan and Max Wheat.

In addition, we are very pleased to add three "new" authors/poets. Geraldine Green, here from England for the week, will join us on July 20th; Christine Kehl O'Hagan, who was rained out last year, will be here on August 31st.

And we are very proud to welcome star chef Tom Schaudel, author of a new, hysterical, book, "Playing With Fire", on August 10th.

This week we have an outstanding lineup of authors and poets. Bring your lawn chair, and a friend, and come on down!

The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, directions, etc. go to http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 13th we feature:

Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson is the author of ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Getting Lost in a City Like This, published by Hanging Loose Press in spring 2009. Among his other books are The Invention of New Jersey (University of Pittsburgh Press), Field Trips on the Rapid Transit (Hanging Loose Press), and Traffic: New and Selected Prose Poems (New Rivers Press), which won the Marie Alexander Award for prose poetry. He has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including three dealing with aspects of city life: Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press), a police anthology; Tokens (P&Q Press), a subway anthology, and You Are Here: New York City Streets in Poetry (P&Q Press). He is also a dance historian and writes on dance for the New York Times, The Dancing Times of London, and online at www.nytheatre-wire.com


Ellen Schaffer/Joan Cergol
Authors of OHEKA CASTLE Monument to Survival

Ellen Schaffer...first became aware of OHEKA in 1979 as president of the Cold Spring Hills Civic Association. She soon after became an active and vocal advocate for the Castle's protection and preservation. Later, using the experience she had developed as a civic leader in earlier years, she was instrumental in creating a townwide lobby to help secure OHEKA's future. Since 1992 Ellen has served as an Assistant Town Attorney for the Town of Huntington. She earned her undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Adelphi University and received her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, where she studied preservation law and land use regulation. In addition to her present work as an Assitant Town Attorney, Ellen serves as president of Friends of OHEKA, and as a voluntary curator and historian at OHEKA.



Joan Cergol...studied broadcast journalism and public relations at both Loyola University of Chicago and Long Island University, where she graduated cum laude in 1984. She was invited to serve as an adjunct professor of public relations at both St. Joseph's College in Patchogue and at Long Island University, CW Post, where she designed and wrote the curricula for her courses.

Joan has spent most of her career working in the public relations field developing campaigns at both a New York City public relations firm and later as an in-house practitioner for a Nassau County school district and prominent Nassau law firm. She was working in private consult when OHEKA Castle owner Gary Melius retained her in 1996 to develop the OHEKA campaign. In 1999, Newsday named Joan one of "Five People to Watch" in the public relations business on Long Island. In early 2002, Huntington Town Supervisor Frank Petrone appointed Joan to serve as his special assistant, representing him in school, business and community affairs, as well as to promote economic development opportunities for the Town. In that regard, in 2003 the Town Board appointed Joan Vice Chair of the Town of Huntington Economic Development Corporation that is currently developing and implementing strategies to revitalize Huntington Station.


J R Turek

J R (Judy) Turek has been writing since she was 5. She is in her 11th year as Moderator of the Farmingdale Creative Writing Group, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, winner of the Conklin Prize for Poetry, and awarded 1st place in The North Sea Poetry Scene 2009 Poetry Contest. Poetry awards include: Mid-Island Y JCC (1st place 2008), The North Sea Poetry Scene (2nd place 2008), Writer’s Digest 74th Annual Competition (2), Princess Ronkonkoma Productions (2004 - 2008), Towe Auto Museum, Live Poets Society, Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society, and The Huntington Historical Society. J R is the author of They Come And They Go, who strives to write a poem a day and mostly succeeds.

She is a member of Maxwell Wheat’s Nassau County Poet Laureate Committee, serving as Chairperson for the Nassau County Poet Laureate School Poetry Project, and Editor of Young Voices An Anthology of Poetry by Nassau County Students, which evolved from the contest and includes all 195 award-winning poems. In addition, she has edited and co-edited several poetry anthologies, short stories, and novels.

J R has been published in: 2009 Haiku Calendar; The Poets Art; Grassroot Reflections, Volumes 3 through 11; Long Island Sounds: 2008, 2007, 2006; Performance Poets Association Literary Reviews #8 through 12; primal sanities!; Asbestos; Free-Wheeling: Towe Auto Museum Poetry Collections, 2007 and 2006; Soul Fountain; Friends of Hempstead Plains 2007 Poetry Anthology; The Meadowlark; Long Island Quarterly; For Loving Precious Beast; The Long Islander; the East Meadow Herald; Long Island Expressions Autism Awareness; 2001: A Long Island Odyssey; and the Farmingdale Poetry Chapbook.

Her poetry will appear in: PAUMANOK: Poetry and Pictures of Long Island; Long Island Sounds 2009; Performance Poets Association Literary Review #13; The Long Islander; and Writing Outside The Lines.

She is a lifetime 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.

John P. Loonam

John's work has previously appeared in Third Order, The Taj Mahal Review, Antithesis Common, Slow Trains, The Fifth Street Review, The Black River Review, Here’s Me Bus, Rubicon, The Mississippi Review, and The English Review. His dramatic writing is regularly featured by the Mottola Theatre Company. Raisded in Rockville Centre, he is an assistant principal in a NYC high school. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.

Clive Young

Clive Young is an author and lecturer covering the crossroads between high tech and popular culture. He is the author of Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera [Continuum, 2008], the first in-depth look at the "Fan Film" movement, where amateurs create their own unauthorized movies starring world-famous characters, from Indiana Jones to Captain Kirk to Harry Potter. The book follows their stories and more as it traces Fan Films from the 1920s--when con men made fake Little Rascals movies--to the YouTube videos of today.

While senior editor of Pro Sound News since 1994, he has also written for MTV, VH1.com, American Songwriter, Music Business International, Wine Enthusiast and other outlets, and his book, Crank It Up [Backbeat Books, 2004], profiling the world's top roadies, received strong reviews from Billboard and Hit Parader, among others. As an in-demand speaker, Young has lectured extensively on film, fan films and music at universities, libraries and conventions around the U.S. He lives in Rockville Centre, NY with his wife and daughter. Visit his website, www.cliveyoung.com.

The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and are held each Monday evening in June, July and August, featuring 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, and fiction and non-fiction writers. The Summer Gazebo Readings are 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 Real Estate
Herb & Marian Brown
Bonbino's Pizza
North Sea Poetry Scene
Max Wheat NC Poet Laureate Comm.
Maryanne Lehrer
Mary Jane McGrath, Attorney
Gary & Sandie Schoell
Philip Reinstein, CLU
Diversion Press
Oceanville Mason Supply
Kiwanettes of Oceanside
21st Century Appraisers
Village BookShoppe
Long Island Pulse
Westron Lite Bulb
Tower’s Funeral Home
Michael Schamroth and Family
Councilman Anthony Santino
Jay R. Myers & Co., Inc.
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro,
Municipal Credit Union
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys-at-Law

Upcoming Schedule

7/13/2009 Joan Cergol/Ellen Schaffer John P. Loonam Clive Young Jack Anderson J R Turek

7/20/2009 Jillian Abbott Reed Farrel Coleman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Roxanne Hoffman Geraldine Green


7/27/2009 Authors & Poets from the Long Island Writers' Guild

8/3/2009 Christina Rau Bruce Grossberg Harriet Slaughter Deborah Hauser Florence Gatto

8/10/2009 Adriana DiGennaro Teri Coyne Frank Van Zant Joan Marg Tom Schaudel

8/17/2009 Gayl Teller Open Read (must sign up in person at a prior evening's readings) & Betsy Transom & troupe!

8/24/2009 Barbara Hoffman Herb Siegel Christine Timm Joan Dupre

8/31/2009 Sonya Russell Yolanda Coulaz Paula Curci Theresa Rosario- Berzner Christine Kehl O'Hagan

For more information:

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

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Photos from June 29, 2009

Brenda Janowitz, Saralee Rosenberg, Carol Hoenig and Ellen Meister (photos by Ali Iovino)


Thursday, July 2, 2009

Coming Up July 6th

An incredible evening this past Monday--threatening clouds spit on us a bit (what else is new? Impossible to think we could get out of June without some rain on our little parade!) But then the sun came out and the women stepped up to the microphone and it was--perfect.

Brenda Janowitz, Saralee Rosenberg, Carol Hoenig and Ellen Meister were wonderful. Each read from their novels (with Saralee bravely reading from her current in-progress work) and each was funny, engaging and too-soon done. Debbi Honorof did a splendid job of guest-hosting. A very special night on Schoolhouse Green.

This Monday, July 6th, we feature our very own FREE BARBEQUE (courtesy of Home & Hearth Real Estate and Bondi & Iovino) and Patriotic readings. Over the last two years this has become a fan favorite-- come celebrate our Nation's independence with readings from Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt, JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr.--and more!

NOTE: WE ARE ACCEPTING DONATIONS OF OLD CELL PHONES AND PAPERBACK NOVELS FOR FORWARDING TO OUR TROOPS.

The cell phones are being donated through Sen. Dean Skelos' office (
www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com).

The paperback novels are being collected by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside, and will be donated directly to soldiers overseas through through Operation Paperback. Please note that these books are for soldiers--romance novels, kids books, etc. are not needed. See www.operationpaperback.org for more details.


The Readings start at 7pm at Schoolhouse Green, located on Foxhurst Road, just east of Long Beach Road, Oceanside NY. For more information, directions, etc. go to http://summergazeboreadings.blogspot.com/

The Summer Gazebo Readings are sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside and are held each Monday evening in June, July and August, featuring 4 readers each evening. Scheduled readers include some of Long Island's most prestigious poets, and fiction and non-fiction writers. The Summer Gazebo Readings are 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 Real Estate
Herb & Marian Brown
Bonbino's Pizza
North Sea Poetry Scene
Max Wheat NC Poet Laureate Comm.
Maryanne Lehrer
Mary Jane McGrath, Attorney
Gary & Sandie Schoell
Philip Reinstein, CLU
Diversion Press
Oceanville Mason Supply
Kiwanettes of Oceanside
21st Century Appraisers
Village BookShoppe
Long Island Pulse
Westron Lite Bulb
Tower’s Funeral Home
Michael Schamroth and Family
Councilman Anthony Santino
Jay R. Myers & Co., Inc.
Childs Murphy Kuehn & Cesiro,
Municipal Credit Union
Bondi & Iovino, Attorneys-at-Law

Upcoming Schedule

7/13/2009 Joan Cergol/Ellen Schaffer John P. Loonam Clive Young Jack Anderson

7/20/2009 Jillian Abbott Reed Farrel Coleman Barbara Reiher-Meyers Roxanne Hoffman


7/27/2009 Authors & Poets from the Long Island Writers' Guild

8/3/2009 Christina Rau Bruce Grossberg Harriet Slaughter Deborah Hauser

8/10/2009 Adriana DiGennaro Teri Coyne Frank Van Zant Joan Marg

8/17/2009 Open Read (must sign up in person at a prior evening's readings) & Betsy Transom & troupe!

8/24/2009 Barbara Hoffman Herb Siegel Christine Timm Joan Dupre

8/31/2009 Sonya Russell Yolanda Coulaz Paula Curci Theresa Rosario- Berzner

For more information:

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