Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, June 27, 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts David Appelbaum, Friday, June 27, 7 PM.
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts David Appelbaum, Friday, June 27, 7 PM.
"Appelbaum, whom we must thank for his work at New Paltz's Codhill Press as well as for his poetry, acquits himself well, writing of big topics with a light hand using a spare, short line." ―Chronogram
Read more about Betty MacDonald and David Appelbaum belowthe ticket information.
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David Appelbaum
David Appelbaum, founder of Codhill Press, has served time in the university as well as in publishing. Former editor of Parabola Magazine, he is the author of Everyday Spirits [SUNY Press], notes on water [Monkfish], and more recently, Portuguese Sailor Boy and The Collector of Lapsed Times [both, Black Spring Publishing Group].
Betty MacDonald
Writer/actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting. Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! Her work is included in the anthologies 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better With Age, and Lightwood, an online magazine. Betty presented her essay “First Love,” at the Cell Theatre in New York City and at Vassar College. Videos of her essays “First Love”, "Daughter of Twins", "Not Jewish Enough”, and "I'm Not a Woman of My Age!" are available at WritersRead.org. Betty’s essay,“First Love” is included in WritersRead’s recently released anthology Well Said Well Read.
Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a livestream presentation of readings and interviews from Green Kill in Kingston, NY. Words Carry Us videos are available online at YouTube.com.
Following her early career as radio personality Tiny Lee, Betty became a travel industry correspondent. Presently, she finds travel exhausting and prefers staying home in New York’s Hudson Valley. For close to 40 years, storytelling has influenced her work as a performer with Community Playback Theatre.
All My Monsters are Dead or Why I Love Being Old, Betty’s book of poems and essays is available from Codhill Press. Also available at The Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY, Oblong Books, Rhinebeck, NY, The Blue Heron, High Falls, NY, and The Gift Shop at Mohonk Mountain House.
