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For Immediate Release - for further information contact Phillip X
Levine (845)901-8192(m) or email: phi...@woodstockpoetry.com
Woodstock Poetry Society (www.woodstockpoetry.com)
is sponsoring the following poetry event as part of the Woodstock
"Second Saturdays" Art Events.
Poets Cheryl Rice and Judith Kerman will
be the featured readers, along with an open mike when the Woodstock
Poetry Society meets in person and streamed via Zoom (and www.facebook.com/phillip.levine/)
on Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at 1pm(eastern).
WPS meetings are held the 2nd Saturday (1pm - new time) of every
month.
Woodstock Library
10 Dixon Ave, Woodstock, NY 12498
(845)679-2213
www.woodstock.org
To attend virtually: contact phi...@woodstockpoetry.com
to receive Zoom info
If attending virtually, please indicate if you would like to be on
the open mike. Thank you.
Beginning in Feb, 2023 we have been meeting in-person at the
Woodstock Library and virtually via Zoom (and streamed live at: https://www.facebook.com/phillip.levine/).
Note: WPS&F meetings are (usually) held the 2nd Saturday of
every month at 1pm (new time).
The readings will be hosted by Woodstock area poet Phillip X
Levine. All meetings are free, open to the public, and include
an open mike.
Features:
Cheryl Rice - "Long Islander by birth, CHERYL A.
RICE has lived in New York’s Hudson Valley for over forty years. Her
work has been appeared in Chronogram, Home Planet News, Florida
Review, Misfit Magazine, Trailer Park Quarterly, Ragged Lion
Journal, and Long Island Quarterly, among others.
RANDOM WRITING, Rice’s workshop “for new and used poets,” has been
offered for over twenty years at such venues as the Poetry Barn in
Hurley and the AIR Studio Gallery in Kingston. She earned a BS at
SUNY New Paltz, and half of an MA at the University at Albany."
For Updates on the Poetry World of Cheryl A. Rice, go to: http://flyingmonkeyprods.blogspot.com/
Running With The Bulls
This is not a new concept for any woman
used to being out among them.
Papa watched from a balcony, waving his red beret,
sipping whiskey like orange juice at brunch,
but we who have travelled the streets of commerce,
done our 9 to 5 necessities, are never surprised.
Officially, women weren’t even allowed in Pamplona
for the race until 1974, right around the time
we could have our own bank accounts, or
purchase birth control without a note from our husbands.
I have friends who carry the shame of abortion
like a midnight tattoo in a place only
lovers and morticians will see.
I have been in exam rooms with those bulls,
disguised in white jackets, gold watches,
clipboards to record our every remark.
I’ve been advised to avoid bread and pasta at the same meal,
while nicotine stains glowed in the forks of their hooves.
They run with cigarettes dangling from a ringed mouth
while my sisters and I try to keep up,
uteruses weighing us down, flapping
vaginal lips splitting the air like the fins of a ’57 Chevy,
ovaries thumping in time like maracas in the
land of our unforgiving bodies.
-Cheryl Rice
*
Judith Kerman - Judith Kerman is a poet and
multi-artist (singer, performer, and crafter). She has published
eleven books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Definitions
(Fomite Press, 2021), along with three books of translations.
Committed to publishing and literary communitybuilding, she founded
Earth’s Daughters magazine in 1971 and went on to establish Mayapple
Press in 1978, which she continues to run today. Kerman earned her
Ph.D. in English from the University of Buffalo. As a Fulbright
Scholar to the Dominican Republic in 2000, she translated the poetry
and fiction of Dominican women and designed a website for the Museo
del Hombre Dominicano, expanding access to underrepresented voices
and histories. After a career in university teaching and
administration, she retired to Woodstock, NY, where she remains an
active force in the literary world by overseeing Mayapple Press,
coordinating online poetry workshops, and leading annual writers’
retreats. Find her online at judithkerman.com.
Trying to Sleep
All night,
beeps of
call bells. Never quite dark in the halls,
doors wide open.
Everyone's asleep, I think, but me. I toss,
flail, rearrange my sheets,
grimace as the woman across the hall calls out,
“Help me get up!” again and again.
I grope for earplugs
jam them in,
know this will go on
like last night, until she
manifests in her doorway, a wobbling apparition in her
nightgown. The floor nurse takes her to bed again—through
open doors, I hear their voices. Then,
peace. She’s
quiet a while. I try to
rest, hope to sleep, but know
soon she’ll start again.
Ten minutes, fifteen. Did I sleep?
Up the hall at the nursing station,
voices, low for awhile, then louder.
When will someone bring her
Xanax? My feet itch from
yellow hospital socks. Where is
Zen mind when I need it?
-Judith Kerman
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WPS 2026 Schedule - now in-person at the Woodstock Library
and via Zoom
All WPS Events: Events
01/January 10th - Ethan
Sirotko; Janet Kaplan
02/February 14th - Tina
Barry; Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller
03/March 14th - Michael
Cohen; Rhonda Rosenheck note: new time 1pm
04/April 11th - Poetry
Month Special Event - "Poetry as Resistance"
05/May 9th - Marianna
Boncek; Richard Parisio
06/June 13th - Leslie
Gerber; William Seaton
07/July 11th - Allen
Shadow; Carol Graser
08/August 8th - Cheryl Rice; Judith Kerman
09/September 12th - Philip
Pardi; Wendy Kagan
10/October 10th - Arden
Levine; Raphael Moser
11/November 14th - Denise
La Neve; Robyn Hager
12/December 12th - Kemp
Battle; Marnie Andrews and Annual Business Meeting
Also, why not become a 2026 Member or donate to the Woodstock
Poetry Society?
Membership is $20 a year. (To join or donate, send your check to the
Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Include
your email address as well as your mailing address and phone number.
Or join online at: www.woodstockpoetry.com/become.html).
Your membership helps pay for our upgraded Zoom account,
post-office-box rental, the WPS website, and costs associated with
publicizing the monthly events. One benefit of membership is the
opportunity to have a brief biography and several of your poems
appear on this website.
Follow the Woodstock Poetry Society on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WoodstockPoetry/
Also, why not become a 2026 Member or donate to the Woodstock Poetry Society?
Membership is a tax deductible $20 a year. (To join or donate, send your check to the Woodstock Poetry Society, P.O. Box 531, Woodstock, NY 12498. Please include your email address. Or join online at: www.woodstockpoetry.com/become.html). Your membership helps pay for our upgraded Zoom account, post-office-box rental, the WPS website, and costs associated with publicizing the monthly events. Note that WPS is a registered 501c3 (and NYS Charity).
One benefit of membership is the opportunity to have a brief biography and several of your poems appear on this website. Numerous bios, poems, and pictures of past and present WPS members are available here: www.woodstockpoetry.com/members.html and here: www.woodstockpoetry.com/poems.html.
You can follow the Woodstock Poetry Society on facebook: www.facebook.com/WoodstockPoetry/
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