Events and Readings
August 27th via Zoom. I’ll be part of a reading by the Conestoga Zen 2 anthology writers. 4:40 to 5:30 ET. This is part of the Soul Bone Lit Fest and requires registration (Free!). https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conestoga-zen-volume-ii-anthology-reading-registration-
8/21/2020 Friday at 7 PM Reading via Zoom. So pleased to be part of this new anthology forthcoming from Hobblebush Books :
January 2019 starts out with a rush of poetry events! I will be participating and reading at the following events:
1/25/19 The Bookery Manchester 844 Elm Street, Manchester NH at 6:30PM
I will be introducing 2 new American Women to the Manchester Community through the NH Humanities Council Connections – New Voices Program. We will be reading our poems and sharing stories from the heart.
1/26/19 Nixes Mate Marathon Reading 2 – 5 PM at Sherril Lesley University 89 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
9/14/2018 The Tiny Writes project!!!
Friday, September 14 at 5 PM – 9 PM
Millspace: Center for Art, History & Culture
55 Main St, Newmarket, New Hampshire 03857
The public is invited to attend the culmination of months of community creativity and collaboration! Tiny Writes, a celebration of writing and art, will take place at Millspace: A Center for Art, History, & Culture on Friday, September 14th, 5 – 9 PM. At 6 PM a reading will feature twenty-three writers living in NH, MA, & ME. The celebration, organized by Millspace Arts & Culture Laureate Carand Burnet, will also feature notable writers such as current Portsmouth Poet Laureate Mike Nelson and former Portsmouth Poet Laureates Kate Leigh and Mark DeCarteret.
Tiny Writes is a two-part project that promotes cross collaboration with the writing community and the general public. From May to June, visitors to Millspace wrote lines in response to poetry-themed dioramas. These lines were used by poets to create new verse. Additional readers will include Sarah Anderson, Bethanie Beausoleil, Wendy Cannella, Kathleen Clancy, Nicholas Coulombe, Todd Dowey, Amy Fukuizumi, Alison Harville, Matt Jasper, Kate Leigh, Marybeth McNamara, Phil Montenegro, Jessica Purdy, Cyndle Plaisted Rials, Jim Rioux, Holly Wren Spaulding, S Stephanie, Lauren Vermette, Jeff Volk, and Jess Waters.
9/15/2018 NH Poetry Festival!
This year the Poetry Fest is Sat. 9/15 in Henniker, NH at New England College. It is always an exciting day long Festival of panel, workshops and of course, poetry! Linda Pastan is the Headline reader this year…Going to be terrific day…
I will be doing a panel with Alice Fogel, NH Poet Laureate and 3 other poets who were part of the WCANH Text and Textile traveling exhibit. Come be inspired! For information and registration go to: http://www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/fest/schedule.html or contact the Poetry Society of NH at
https://www.poetrysocietyofnewhampshire.org/ .
9/2018 – 2/2019 Text and Textiles: I am honored to be part of this collaborative exhibit of artworks and poetry that reference textiles, created by artists from the Women’s Caucus for Art/NH Chapter and NH poets selected by Alice B. Fogel, NH State Poet Laureate. The exhibit will travel to eight NH libraries over 9 months. I collaborated with the fiber artist Linda Basha-Brookshire (You can visit her beautiful works at http://www.whitepaintstudio.com/ ). For receptions and readings of the exhibit go to: https://www.wcanh.org . Here are the dates& places the show will hang:
Medallion Opera House, Gorham September 1-October 15
Plymouth Library November 1 –Dec. 31
Nashua Public Library January 2-31
Newport Library Arts Center February 1-28
NH State Library, Concord March 1-31
Dialogue Between Spaces antique velvet, cotton flannel, cotton & silk thread, glass beads, text 47×37 inches Linda Basha Brookshire (poem by S Stephanie)
Catching UP!!!!!
I have been a sloth about keeping my up my page and blog! That is about to change. I am going to start adding some poems, events, book reviews, and comments. I have been posting (as S Stephanie Poet/Writer) on FB primarily for the last two years. I have been sharing poems and a few thoughts about poetry and poets there. But I think now I will be sharing here as well and maybe even instead of….
Meanwhile…. I am sharing this link. I am honored to be in the Spring Issue of Nixes Mate Review 2018: http://nixesmate.pub/issue-7-spring-2018 This is a magazine publishing some writers I enjoy, and again, I am honored to be among them.
AND
Sharing this link… I was also honored recently to be invited to be part of an anthology by Glass Lyre Press! It is a beautiful anthology titled Carrying the Branch: Poets in Search of Peace. My poem from that was also featured in the Iowa Source. https://www.iowasource.com/2018/02/28/s-stephanie/
Thanx for reading. Thanx for reading Poetry….
2016
Jan. 13th Water Street Books, 125 Water Street Exeter, NH with Nancy Jean Hill
Feb. 29th: I will be one of the Poetry Out Loud judges for the semi-finals. Always very exciting! This year I’ll be at the NH Institute of Art in the French Auditorium. 6:30 PM. Join us!
March 6th: 3 PM at Del Rossis’ Trattoria in Dublin NH – Route 137 N.
March 31st: April Fools Reading at the Teti Library in Manchester at NHIA. This is a student juried reading which is so much fun! Join us at 4:30 at the Teti to support the students and hear some very good poetry.
April 13TH 6 PM at Water Street Bookstore 125 Water Street Exeter, NH. I will be reading with the following poets: Join us!
- Bill Burtis
- Maren Tirabassi
- Harvey Shepard
- S Stephanie
- John Perrault
- Jim Rioux
- Mimi White
Also, I will be part of several more Hobblebush anthology readings for National Poetry Month. Stay tuned for places and dates…..
May 8th: Private Reading for RiverWoods, Exeter
May 19th: I’ll be performing with The City Hall Poets at Beat Night. The Press Room, Portsmouth NH. 7 PM
June 30th: Thursday 6:30 PM, Bald Face Books Benefit Reading! 505 Central Ave Dover. See my blog for details on readers, musicians and the raffle!
September 24th: Workshop Presenter at NH Poetry Fest Manchester, NH…Stay tuned for details.
October: Dead Poets Remembrance Celebration…. Stay tuned….Readers and Place to be announced!
2015
March 11th 6:30 PM : Water Street Books, 125 Water Street Exeter, NH with Jessica Purdy and Hugh Hennedy.
April 1st 4PM: Join the students at the New Hampshire Institute of Art celebrating National Poetry Month. Teti Library, 156 Hanover Street Manchester, NH. 3 student featured readers and an open mic!
April 11th 6:30 PM: Portsmouth Book & Bar, 40 Pleasant St. Portsmouth, NH. Double Book Launch for So This Is What It Has Come To and Jessica Purdy with her new Learning the Names. Music provided by James Rioux, Seth Gooby, Al Peterson, and Tommy and the Rats!
April 13th 7 PM: RiverWoods in Exeter. Not open to the public.
April 30th: I will be going to the Mass Poetry Festival – Merwin is reading! You Should Go Too!
August 23rd: Retro Book Launch with Nancy Jean Hill
Where: Portsmouth Book & Bar 40 Pleasant St. Portsmouth NH
When: Sunday August 23rd at 6 PM
S Stephanie and Nancy Jean Hill invite you to a Retro Re-Release Book Launch! Their chapbooks Beryllium and What The News Seemed to Say (formally published by Pudding House Press) have been released by Igneus Press! Join us for an evening of Readings, Music by Deidre Randall, Bob Halprin, and Dawn Boyer of Rock My Soul. A special presentation by The City Hall Poets of their Circle Performance, and Artworks by Dover Artist/Poet Kate Knox and Maine Artist/Poet Wayne Atherton at the amazing Portsmouth Book and Bar.
Sept. 16th (time to be announced), Finishing Line Press Reading at Gibson’s Bookstore, 45 S Main Street Concord, NH with Kathy Solomon (Transit of Venus) and Jessica Purdy (Learning The Names).
Sept.19th: NH Poetry Fest! I will be giving a workshop with Mimi White, Jessica Purdy, Wayne Atherton, and Kate Knox. This is a workshop on a collaborative Ekphrastic show six artists and poets participated in last year. Our experience working together and what we learned about ekphrasis….
Sept 26th: 100,000 Poets and Musicians for Change: Exeter, NH: venue TBA by Bob Moore… Stay tuned… I will be performing the poem “America” by Allen Ginsberg with Jenny Riddle.
Oct. 9-11: Harwich House Poetry Workshop with Jessica Purdy at the Cape! 30 Bank St. Harwich Port MA.
October 18th: Dead Poets Remembrance reading at Toadstool Books in Keene NH! James Duffy and Bill Doreski will be reading!
2014
July 8th 10:00 – 11:00 AM: The Teti Library at the NH Institute of Art Opening Reception in the Eye Gallery, 158 Hanover St. Manchester, NH. More info at eyegallery@nhia.edu or 603-836-2532. I have 3 Poetry Masks in the show which will be up from 7/8 – 8/21.
July 25th 6:30 – 8:30 PM: The Wickford Art Association, 36 Beach Street, Wickford, RI . More info at www.wickfordart.org. My poem On this side will be part of an ekphrastic show there in print and in audio from 7/25 – 8/17.
July 26th 11 AM: Poetry Society of NH reading at Manchester City Library, 405 Pine Street Manchester, NH
Sept. 12th 6 PM Artstream Studios, 10 2nd St, Dover, NH. After You, an ekphrastic Show and Reading with Mimi White and Jessica Purdy and joining the artists we collaborated with: Kate Knox, Wayne Atherton and Susan Schwake. More info at (603) 516-8500
Sept. 17th 7 PM: Gibson’s Bookstore with Mark DeCarteret. Gibson’s, 45 S Main St , Concord, NH (603) 224-0562
Oct. 11th,18th,and 25th: Poetry Workshop at River Woods Exeter (not open to the public)
Nov. 1st 2-4 PM: NH Arts Education Partnership Conference at the Barbara Harris Conference Center Greenfield, NH www.bchcenter.org. I will be doing a workshop for teachers on Ekphrastic writing as an exciting way to introduce students to complex ideas of Art and Literature while meeting the Core Curriculum Standards. For more info on the conference which runs October 31st through November 2nd contact the NH State Council on the Arts at www.nh.gov/nharts. If you have questions about my workshop, please feel free to contact me at ssteph@comcast.net.
Nov. 6th: Milford High School (not open to public)
Nov.6th Buoy Gallery with Portsmouth City Hall Poets and Bonnie Periale
Dec. 15th Live on WSCA 106.1 Writers in the Round with Jim Rioux, host