Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, May 9, 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts a discussion between Steve Clorfeine and David Appelbaum on Thursday, May 9, 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions.
Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald hosts Steve Clorfeine and David Appelbaum in conversation about David's latest poetry collections. They will further discuss understanding more about the writing process. Thursday, May 9 at 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions. Read more below the ticket information.
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David Appelbaum
David Appelbaum, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is author of many books including Everyday Spirits (SUNY Press), and most recently, Portuguese Sailor Boy and Collector of Lapsed Times (both Black Spring Press). He is co-founder of Cod Hill Press
David Has worked in the university and in publishing. He lives in the Shwangung Mountains.
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, 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 hosts Words Carry Us, a livestream show 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.
Steve Clorfeine
Steve is the author of 6 collections of poetry and a non-fiction book “Journals of an American Buddhist in Nepal” (Station Hill Press).
He continues to lead physical theater and meditation workshops in the U.S. and Europe, as well as his 20 year old writing workshop, now mostly on Zoom.
He’s lived in the Hudson Valley on and off for over 50 years, and currently in NYC and northern Delaware County. He is the recipient
of 2 Cultural Envoy grants for theater work in India and Nepal; Poets and Writers grants, NY Foundation for the Arts, and Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center
and Silver Lake Writers Project.
Steve's books are available for purchase at steveclorfeine.com
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