Colorscape Poetry Slam features SUNY Binghamton poet Joe Weil
NORWICH – The Ninth Annual Colorscape Poetry Slam will take place at the Café Connection at 28 South Broad Street, Norwich, during the Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 2 to 5 p.m. Free to the public, this year’s Slam will open with a reading from featured poet Joe Weil.
Joe Weil is a lecturer in the Graduate and under Graduate creative writing programs at SUNY Binghamton. He has been published in numerous literary journals, including Poet Lore, Onthebus, Rattle, The New Renaissance, Paddlefish, Maggie, Paterson Literary Review, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, and New York Quarterly, as well as in the New York Times, The Star Ledger, and the Princeton Packet.
At the end of 1998, he was the subject of an NJPBS television profile on his life, and, on St. Patrick’s Day of 2009, his poem, “The Dead Are In My Living Room” was featured in Best American Poetry online. Weil is the author of three chapbooks, and three full-length volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is The Plumber’s Apprentice (New York Quarterly Press).
As a reader, he has been featured with Allen Ginsberg (1995, Walt Whitman Center), Jan Beatty and Patricia Smith (2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry festival), Louise Gluck (The 2000 Delaware Valley Poetry festival), and the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Stephen Dunn (2009, Distinguished Poet’s reading in Paterson). He is currently working on a book of essays, and, as a pianist/composer, is setting poems by Thomas Hardy and George Trakl to music.
An open Poetry Slam will follow Weil’s performance, in which poets will compete for $300 in cash prizes. Poets should prepare two original poems of no more than three minutes in length. The slam is open to the first 20 poets who register. There is no entry fee.
Contestants are judged on the quality of their poetry as well as the quality of their performance. Contestants should prepare to read their original work in two rounds of three minutes or less. Poets read only one poem in each round and should not repeat poems. Neither musical accompaniment nor props are allowed. Poets will be penalized for going over three minutes. Scoring is open and immediate.
Call Emily Vogel at 373-9559 or email evogel1@binghamton.edu to register or for more information. The Poetry Slam is sponsored through the generosity of Price Chopper Supermarkets, Norwich Pharmaceuticals, and Meadwestvaco.
The Library will be hosting the Literary Arts Tent with book siginings by local authors Suzanne Bloom, Dustin Warburton, Ginnah Howard, Johanna Sofia, John Taylor Gatto,Kathy Holden Robinson, Lesley Diehl, Kathy Yasas and Art Dog’s Annual Coloring Contests.
This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Chenango County Council of the Arts. For more information about Colorscape and this year’s events, call 336-FEST, email info@colorscape.org, or visit www.colorscape.org.
Joe Weil is a lecturer in the Graduate and under Graduate creative writing programs at SUNY Binghamton. He has been published in numerous literary journals, including Poet Lore, Onthebus, Rattle, The New Renaissance, Paddlefish, Maggie, Paterson Literary Review, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, and New York Quarterly, as well as in the New York Times, The Star Ledger, and the Princeton Packet.
At the end of 1998, he was the subject of an NJPBS television profile on his life, and, on St. Patrick’s Day of 2009, his poem, “The Dead Are In My Living Room” was featured in Best American Poetry online. Weil is the author of three chapbooks, and three full-length volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is The Plumber’s Apprentice (New York Quarterly Press).
As a reader, he has been featured with Allen Ginsberg (1995, Walt Whitman Center), Jan Beatty and Patricia Smith (2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry festival), Louise Gluck (The 2000 Delaware Valley Poetry festival), and the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Stephen Dunn (2009, Distinguished Poet’s reading in Paterson). He is currently working on a book of essays, and, as a pianist/composer, is setting poems by Thomas Hardy and George Trakl to music.
An open Poetry Slam will follow Weil’s performance, in which poets will compete for $300 in cash prizes. Poets should prepare two original poems of no more than three minutes in length. The slam is open to the first 20 poets who register. There is no entry fee.
Contestants are judged on the quality of their poetry as well as the quality of their performance. Contestants should prepare to read their original work in two rounds of three minutes or less. Poets read only one poem in each round and should not repeat poems. Neither musical accompaniment nor props are allowed. Poets will be penalized for going over three minutes. Scoring is open and immediate.
Call Emily Vogel at 373-9559 or email evogel1@binghamton.edu to register or for more information. The Poetry Slam is sponsored through the generosity of Price Chopper Supermarkets, Norwich Pharmaceuticals, and Meadwestvaco.
The Library will be hosting the Literary Arts Tent with book siginings by local authors Suzanne Bloom, Dustin Warburton, Ginnah Howard, Johanna Sofia, John Taylor Gatto,Kathy Holden Robinson, Lesley Diehl, Kathy Yasas and Art Dog’s Annual Coloring Contests.
This project is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Chenango County Council of the Arts. For more information about Colorscape and this year’s events, call 336-FEST, email info@colorscape.org, or visit www.colorscape.org.
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