2024

January 17, York County Senior College Gary Sullivan Lecture Series #2, Zoom poetry reading with poets Susana H. Case, Lily Greenberg, and Margo Taft Stever, 4:00 p.m. Curated by R. Jeffrey Goldsmith.

July 13, New York Poetry Festival on Governors Island, CavanKerry Press, Cela Bland, Paola Corso, Alexis Nadia, and Margo Taft Stever, Brinkley Stage, 1:30-2:00 p.m.

2023

January 4, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Little Theater, In-person Poetry Reading with Susana H. Case, Billy Cancel, and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00-8:30, 230 Montrose Avenue, Rutherford, New Jersey.

January 6, Words out Loud Zoom and In-Person Reading with Susana H. Case and Margo Taft Stever, 7:30. Curated by Philip Wexler. If you’re in the Washington, DC area and want to trek out in the flesh, Words out Loud is located at Montgomery County’s Friends of the Library Bookstore, Randolph Hills Shopping Center, 4886 Boiling Brook Parkway, Rockville, MD.

January 18, Gary Sullivan Lecture Series #2 – “Modern Poetry” Zoom Reading with guest poets Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Betsy Sholl, and Margo Taft Stever.

March 13th, Performing Arts Center at Woodland Pond, 7:00 to 8:30, Poetry Reading with Susana H. Case, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, and Margo Taft Stever, 100 Woodland Pond Circle, New Palz, New York. Photography exhibition of prints from Flames Against the Dark: Saving America’s Sacred Site, by Lynn Butler.

April 2nd, 4:00, Broadstone Books Hybrid Poetry Reading with Susana H. Case, Lily Greenberg, Tony Howarth, Ann Lauinger, Lynn McGee, Margo Taft Stever, Mervyn Taylor, Meredith Trede, and Estha Weiner, at the Hudson Valley Writers Center, 200 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York.

April 24th, A Conversation with Jimmy Pappas and Friends in His Tidbids Series: Climate Change and Environmental Issues, 7:00 p.m. Poets read eco-poems or poems on the environment.

June 21st, Gibson’s Bookstore Poetry Reading, 4:30 to 6:00 pm, 45 S. Main Street, Concord New Hampshire, with Susana H. Case, John Perrault, and Margo Taft Stever.

September 24th, 2023, 1:30-3:00pm. A Persistence of Cormorants Reading, Curated by Gerald Wagoner and hosted by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Featuring Safia Jama, Zoe Ryder White, Amy Lemmon, and Margo Taft Stever.

Thursday, September 28, Word Thursday Zoom Poetry Series, with Susana H. Case and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00. Curated by Beatrice Georgalidis, Director of Bright Hills Press.

2022

February 12, 5:00 p.m., Lit Balm Levertov Presentation on Zoom – Students and friends of Levertov, including Arthur Sze, Mark Pawlak, Susan Eisenberg, David Shaddock, Dick Lourie, and Margo Taft Stever, read some of Levertov’s poems and discussed them, as well as her importance to American poetry and to them. Donna Krolik Hollenberg, one of Levertov’s biographers, was also included at the end of the event and discussed Mark Pawlak’s recent memoir, My Deniversity: Knowing Denise Levertov, which focuses on his relationship to Levertov.

February 14, 7:00 p.m., KGB Bar, In person and hybrid reading, Curated by Jason Schneiderman
I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe
85 E. Fourth St., NY, NY 212-505-3360
Margo and Susana Introduce Poets Reading: Elaine Sexton, Anna Limontas-Salisbury, Stephanie Laterza, Cindy Beer-Fouhy, Meredith Trede, Jason Schneiderman, Marion Brown, Bruce E. Whitacre, Patricia Carragon, Alexander Cavaluzzo, Karen Neuberg, Robert Gibbons, John J. Trause, Tina Kelly, Henry Crawford, Frank Baez, Joel Allegretti, Mervyn Taylor

February 24th, 7:00 p.m., Red-Headed Stepchild, Zoom Reading, Curated by Malaika King Albrecht –
I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe
Margo and Susana Introduce Poets reading: Tina Kelly, Hoyt Rogers, John J. Trause, Angela Dribben, Karen Neuberg, Barbara Goldberg, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Patricia Carragon, Joel Allegretti, Dawad Philip. George Guida, Anne Harding Woodworth, Anna Limontas-Salisbury, Imogen Arate, Heidi Seaborn, Karren Alenier, Joseph Zacardi, Myra Malkin, Suzanne Lummis, Bill Mohr

March 1, 7:00 p.m., Poetry Society of New Hampshire, Zoom, Curated by Jimmy Pappas
I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe
Susana H. Case, Margo Taft Stever, Matthew Hittinger, Heidi Seaborn, Carolyn Wright, Dawad Philip, Lyn Coffin, Leanne Grabel, Suzanne Cleary, Suzanne Sigafoos

March 19, 7:00-8:00 pm, Small Press Book Fair (SMOL) Zoom MM Reading – Hosted by Milk and Cake Press, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Margo Taft Stever,Susana H. Case, Julie Danho, Mervyn Taylor, Lynn McGee, Suzanne Cleary, Claudia Serea, Nin Andrews, Elaine Sexton, Carolyne Wright, Svetlana Turetskaya, Gerald Nicosia, John J. Trause, Dorianne Laux, Stephanie Laterza, Patricia Carragon, Leanne Grabel, Imogen Arate, Bruce Whitaker, Ray Armantrout, Suzanne Lummis

March 21 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 Small Press Book Fair (SMOL) Virtual Reading, Poets of Broadstone Books, Four poets with recent work from Broadstone Books—Ann Lauinger, Mervyn Taylor, Margo Taft Stever, and Susana H. Case—read from their recent collections, Dime Saint, Nickel Devil, New of the Living, The End of Horses, and The Damage Done, respectively. Introduced by Larry Moore, Publisher of Broadstone Books.

March 22, 6:00-7:00, Small Press Book Fair (SMOL),  Zoom, Liz Marlow, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, and Susana H. Case, Slapering Hol Press box set with their SHP chapbooks—Ubasute, The Scottish Café, and They Become Stars

March 23-27, AWP Conference in Philadelphia – Susana H. Case, Margo Taft Stever, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Katie Hoerth, and Diana Whitney presented a panel at AWP titled “Creating an Anthology for the First Time: The Poet as Editor” on Friday, March 25th, from 1:45-3:00.

Saturday, April 2, 4:00-5:30 PM, Broadstone Books Reading, Lily Greenberg, Elizabeth Beck, and Margo Taft Stever.

Sunday, April 3, 2022, 3:00 PM, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe anthology reading, Cultivating Voices reading, curated by Sandy Yannone
Poets reading: Margo Taft Stever,Susana H. Case, Sebastian Matthews, Dawad Philip, Barbara Goldberg, Tina Cane, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Hoyt Rogers, Suzanne Sigafoos, CA Conrad, Denise Duhamel, Lynn McGee, Liz Marlow, Marion Brown, Valerie Frost, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Julie Danho, Bill Mohr, Indran Amirthanayagam, Jianqing Zheng, Meredith Trede, LaWanda Walters

Thursday, April 7, 2022, 7-8:30 PM, Margo Taft Stever & Susana H. Case reading from their new books, Red-Headed Stepchild. Curated by Malaika King Albrecht.

Sunday April 10, 3-4:30 PM Slapering Hol Press Reading: Margo Taft Stever, Mervyn Taylor, & Susana H. Case, SHP co-editors, with the 2021 chapbook competition winner, Andrea Deeken, Cultivating Voices Poetry Series, curated by Sandra Yannone.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, Zoom Reading, Margo Taft Stever, Mervyn Taylor, and Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, reading from their new books, Poets Against the Pandemic, Curated by Henry Crawford.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 7:00 PM, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe anthology reading, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Hybrid Reading — both in-person and on Zoom.
Margo Taft Stever, Susana Case, Cindy Beer-Fouhy, Joel Allegretti, Elaine Sexton, Robert Anthony Gibbons, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Mervyn Taylor, John J. Trause, Ann Lauinger, George Guida, Jennifer Franklin, Lynn McGee, Julie Danho, Karren Alenier, Claudia Serea, Melinda Thomsen, Myra Malkin, Liz Marlow, Marilyn Robertson, Grace Bauer, Alexander Cavaluzzo, LaWanda Walters, Jason Schneiderman, Leo Romero

Monday, April 25th, 2022, 7-9 PM, KGBBar, 85 East 4th Street, New YorkCity, Broadstone Books poets with new books: Margo Taft Stever, Mervyn Taylor, Myra Malkin, Karren LaLonde Alenier, and Susana H. Case. Curated by Jason Schneiderman.

Thursday, April 28, 2022, 12-1 PM, Stockbridge Library, Poetry of Witness, Margo Taft Stever & Susana H. Case, curated by John Gillespie.

Saturday, May 14, 11:30 AM, River Read Series, Featuring Margo Taft Stever, reading from The End of Horses (2022) and other poems, Curated by Linda Muhlhausen.

Sunday, May 15, 7:00 PM, West-East Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond, Curated by Lynn McGee and featuring Elaine Sexton, Margo Taft Stever, Meg Kearney and Raul Sanchez.

Saturday, June 4, 2022, 5:00 p.m., LitBalm Reading on Zoom, Curated by Marc Vincenz and Cassandra Atherton, I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe anthology reading, featuring: David Lehman, Nin Andrews, Angela Dribben, Heidi Seaborn, Sebastian Matthews, Robert Anthony Gibbons, CAConrad, Dawad Philip, George Guida, Karen Neuberg, Ann Cefola, Joel Allegretti, Baron Wormser, Marilyn Robertson, Nick Makoha, Mervyn Taylor, Susan Erickson, Susana H. Case, and Margo Taft Stever.

Sunday, June 5, 2022, 1:30-3:00. A Persistence of Cormorants Reading, Curated by Gerald Wagoner and hosted by the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Featuring Broadstone Books poets Myra Malkin, Susana H. Case, Mervyn Taylor, and Margo Taft Stever.

Monday, June 6, 2022, 7:00 p.m., Oradell Public Library, 375 Kinderkamack Road, Oradell, New Jersey, 07649. I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe anthology reading. Featuring John J. Trause, Joel Allegretti, Tina Kelley, Anna Limontas-Salisbury, Cindy Fouhy, Susana H. Case, Margo Taft Stever,

Thursday, June 9, 2022, 9:00 p.m., Parkland Poets’ Society Reading on Zoom, Curated by Lisa Mulrooney. Featuring Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Susana H. Case, and Margo Taft Stever.

Saturday, June 11, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Anthology Zoom reading for I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing, edited by Keri Gunder-Seymour, Cuyahoga Public Library, Ohio.

2021

January 4-8, Case Western Reserve University, As part of a week long eight hour a day, five days long Poetry and Bioethics workshop that she taught in the Bioethics Department of the Medical School at Case Western Reserve University from January 4-8, Margo T. Stever presented a reading from Cracked Piano on January 4th and from Ghost Moose on January 8th.

February 21, Poetry Flash Reading Series on Zoom, curated by Joyce Jenkins and collaborating with Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California, Poets Stephanie Strickland, Connie Post, and Margo Taft Stever, 6:00 p.m. (EST).

March 5, Words out Loud on Zoom, Dane Cervine and Margo Taft Stever, 7:30 p.m. (ET)

April 10, Westchester Poetry Festival, with Reginald Dwane Betts, Tyree Daye Aaron Coleman, Sean Singer, Leila Chatti, and Margo Taft Stever, 1:00-4:00 p.m.

April 13, Fortnightly Club Reading on Zoom, featuring Margo Taft Stever, Aaron Caceydo-Kimura, Jennifer Franklin, and Susana H. Case, 7:30 p.m. (ET)

April 18, The Cultivating Voices LIVE Poetry Series on Zoom, a Slapering Hol Press reading featuring Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Jennifer Franklin, and Margo Taft Stever, and curated by Sandy Yanone, 3:00 p.m. (ET).

May 5, PoetryBridgeLIVE Reading, featuring Jennifer Franklin, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, and Margo Taft Stever, 10:00 p.m. (ET).

August 15, A Persistence of Cormorants Summer Reading Series, curated by Gerald Wagoner and hosted by Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, 165 2nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232. The reading featured poets Elaine Sexton, Michelle Yasmine Valladares, and Margo Taft Stever.

September 11, Poets and Writers Studio International (PWSI) Reading on Zoom, curated by Indran Amirthanayagam and Sudeep Sen, featuring the poets Amir Or (Israel), Margo Taft Stever (USA), Salagado Maranhao (Brazil), and Ravi Shankar (USA/India).

September 15, Margo Taft Stever Interview Released on Boom Project Book YouTube Channel. Margo Taft Stever was featured in an interview on the Boom Project YouTube Channel. Recorded on September 15th, the interview included a brief reading by Margo and conversation about her poetry, including upcoming work, and trade secrets. The Boom Project started when “two baby boomer writers, Kimberly Garts Crum and Bonnie Omer Johnson, were frustrated that literary journals, anthologies, and writing contests wanted writing that was edgy, fresh, experimental, and modern. As Crum writes in the introduction, ‘We are not fresh, edgy, or experimental. And we are not modern, unless you consider the term ‘mid-century modern.’” Link will follow as soon as it is available.

2020

February 9, Triangle Quarterly Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, Margo Taft Stever, Shira Dentz, and Adam Tedesco, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 308 Bowery, New York, NY.

February 19, The Poetry Institute, at The Institute Library, Margo Taft Stever, 7:00-8:00 p.m. and Open reading, 8:00-9:00 p.m., featuring violinist Bing Yang Li, Student, Yale School of Music, and painting by Karacy Levni Sinoglu, 847 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

February 26, Sarah Lawrence College Writers Night, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Adam Chandler, Margo Taft Stever, Meredith Trede, and Jonathan Vatner, at Spence School, 22 E. 91st Street, New York, reception at 6:30 p.m., reading starts at 7:00 p.m.

June 7, Slapering Hol Press Reading on Zoom with Slapering Hol Press Co-Editors, Peggy Ellsberg, Jennifer Franklin, and Margo Taft Stever, 4:00.

June 10, New Year’s Words Poetry Reading on Zoom with Bob Waugh, Guy Reed. and Margo Taft Stever, New Paltz, New York, 7:30-9:30.

September 6, Poets in Pajamas, Poetry reading held live on the Poets in Pajamas Facebook page (Facebook.com/PoetsInPajamas) for those who can access Facebook and would like to enjoy a reading on-line, 7:00 p.m., EST.

October 3 Ecopoetry Round Table Zoom Readings and Discussion with Nickole Brown, Marcella Durand, E.J. McAdams, Mary Newell, Orchid Tierney, Joseph Bruchac, and Margo Taft Stever. Desmond-Fish Public Library and the Hudson Valley Poetry Series.

October 8, CavanKerry Press Zoom Poetry Reading with Frannie Lindsay and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m.

November 9, Monday Night Zoom Poetry @ KGB Bar, Susana H. Case, Amy Lemmon, Lynn McGee, and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m., 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY.

December 19th, LitBalm Reading Series, Zoom Poetry Reading, Susana H. Case, Maurya Simon, Stephen Dunn (Poems read by Indran Amirthanayagam), and Margo Taft Stever, 5:00 p.m.

2019

April 4, CavanKerry Press Reading with Joan Cusack Handler, Tina Kelley, Danny Shot, and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Montclair Library, Montclair, NJ.

April 13, Group Poetry Reading with Ann Cefola, Suzanne Cleary, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, T.R. Hummer, Ann Lauinger, Heller Levinson, Mary Newell, Kathleen Ossip, Jo Pitkin, Sean Singer, Edwin Torres, 2:00-4:00 p.m., Desmond Fish Library, 472 NY—403, Garrison, NY.

April 20, PCA/ACA National Conference, Poetry reading with Margo Taft Stever, Susana H. Case, and Michelle Poulos, Washington Room 6, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.

April 22, Poetry at the Port, Susana H. Case and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m., 7912 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD.

April 28, Sundays with George Poetry reading with Ann Cefola, Kristin Prevallet, and Margo Taft Stever, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Shames Jewish Community Center on the Hudson, Library, 371 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY. (Click for PDF flyer.)

May 18, Sleepy Hollow Literary Festival, Margo Taft Stever reads between 3-5:30 p.m. Festival includes many well  known and emerging poets including Ilya Kaminsky, Iain Haley Pollock, Joshua Bennett, Nomi Stone, Fred Marchant, Pamela Hart, Sally Blumis-Dunn, Gregory Pardlo, and many more. Event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

May 25, Group Poetry Reading with STATOREC poets: Chris Campanioni, David Dephy, Tyler Gore, Uche Nduka, Erik Rasmussen, Andrea Scrima, Margo Taft Stever, and David Winner, 7:00 p.m., Starr Bar, 214 Starr Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

July 9, Poetry Reading, Lisa Barstow, John Perrault, and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m., The Biddeford Pool Community Center, 2 Yates St., Biddeford Pool, Maine.

September 21, Poetry Reading, Mary Newell, Jeffrey Yang, and Margo Taft Stever, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Desmond Fish Library, 472 NY-403, Garrison, New York.

October 4, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Poetry reading with Arthur Sze, Suzanne Cleary, and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m., 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, NY.

October 18, Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Suzanne Cleary, Lynn McGee, Estha Weiner, and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m., 141 Front Street, D.U.M.B.O., Brooklyn, NY.

November 1, Chop Suey Books, Poetry Reading with Susana H. Case and Margo Taft Stever, 6:30 p.m., 2913 W. Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23221.

November 4, Café Muse Poetry Series, The Writer’s Center, Poetry reading with Susana H. Case and Margo Taft Stever, 7:00 p.m., 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD.

November 8, Poetry Reading, George Kalogeris, Crystal Williams, and Margo Taft Stever, Chapter & Verse Series, 7:30 p.m., Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, on Monument Square, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

November 9, Lunar Walk Poetry Series, Andrey Gritsman and Margo Taft Stever, 3:00 p.m., The Scratcher, 209 East 5th Street, New York, New York.

December 8, Anthology reading for contributing poets for Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, edited by Meghan Sterling and Kathleen Sullivan, at the Space Gallery, Portland Maine.

2018

January 9, New York Society Library, 53 E. 79th, New York, N.Y. Margo Taft Stever and Jennifer Franklin, co-editors of Slapering Hol Press, gave a talk on how to establish and maintain a small press. They also discussed general procedures for publishing poems in literary magazines and how to put together a book of poetry.

June 15, Excerpt from Stever’s poem, “The Hudson Line,” to be interspersed on sidewalks near the river in Sleepy Hollow, New York, with other Poetry in the Pavement Contest winner’s poems and poems by master poets such as Neruda, Dickinson, Whitman, and Hughes.The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York.

2017

September 30, Lit Youngstown Literary Festival, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Poetry reading with Susana H. Case. Panel discussion with Denise Duhamel, Lin Andrews, Susana H. Case, and Robert Olmstead, on publishing poetry.

2016

October 14 & 15, Panel Presentation—After Violence: The Poetics of Trauma and Resistance—at Western Maryland Independent Literary Festival, Frostburg, Maryland. Panel Presenters: Susana H. Case, Ellen Kombiyil, Richard Newman, Margo Taft Stever. Our panel investigated the role of factual accuracy in poetry and poetics—why poets choose to invent and the difficulty in portraying traumatic memory.

April 10,Slapering Hol Press Poetry Reading from 8:30 to 10:30 with Mervyn Taylor, Jennifer Franklin, Peggy Ellsberg, and Susana H. Case at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, N.Y., N.Y. (212-614-0505).

April 28, Launch reading for Veils, Halos & Shackles from 6:00 to 7:45. Anthology, edited by Charles Fishman and Smita Sahay, addresses the abuse and oppression of women. Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, N.Y., N.Y. (212-989-9319).

June 26, Reading at 4:00 for Veils, Halos & Shackles, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. (914-332-5953). Panel Session Title: After Violence: The Poetics of Trauma and Resistance Panel Session Presenters: Laura Madeline Wiseman, Margo Taft Stever, Charles Fishman, Sarah A. Chavez, Susana H. Case. Our panel investigates the role of factual accuracy in poetry and poetic—why poets choose to invent or later facts and the difficulty in portraying traumatic memory.

2015

March 12, 6:00 p.m., At Cornelia Street Café, Slapering Hol Press was proud to present Richard Parisio reading from his chapbook, The Owl Invites Your Silence. Parisio is the 2014 recipient of the SHP Sanger-Stewart Award. He will read with SHP Co-Editors, Jennifer Franklin (Looming, 2015) and Margo Taft Stever (Lunatic Ball, 2015). And SHP poets and Advisory Committee members, Suzanne Cleary (Beauty Mark, 2013), Lynn McGee (Heirloom Bulldog 2015), and David Tucker (Late for Work, 2006) will read from their new work.

April 18, 7:00 p.m., SHP Co-Editor Reading: Peggy Ellsberg, Jennifer Franklin, & Margo Taft Stever. The Hudson Valley Writers Center , 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591 (914-332-5953). Slapering Hol Press Co-Editors will read from their new books and work.

June 14, 4:00 p.m., Lunar Walk Poetry Series, Branded Salon, 603 Vanderbilt Avenue (Corner of Bergen Street and Vanderbilt), Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Poetry reading with Margo Taft Stever and Michael T. Young.

June 24, 7:00 p.m., Reading and Book-signing for English-Language version of Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods. Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208 (513-396-8960).

June 25, 5:30 to 7:30, Book-Signing and celebration for English-language version of Looking East, William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia, The Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods, University of Cincinnati, 400 Level, Langsam Library.

June 26, 12:00 p.m., Poetry Reading with John Drury, Jennifer Franklin, and Margo Taft Stever at Mercantile Library, 414 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (513-621-0711).

July 25, New York Poetry Festival, Governor’s Island National Monument, 10 South Street, #7, New York with Kattywompus Press poets at 1:00 at The Chumley Stage; Slapering Hol Press reading at 2:30 on The White Horse Stage.

July 26, Poetry readings at New York Poetry Festival, one for Slapering Hol Press with Sean Nevin, Richard Parisio, Jennifer Franklin and one for Katywompus Press with Susana Case.

October 10, Poetry reading from 3-5 p.m. with Estha Weiner, John Perrault, Susana Case, Betsy Sholl and Margo Taft Stever, University of New England Gallery, 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine.

October 11, Poetry reading at 2:00 with Estha Weiner, John Perrault, Susana Case, and Margo Taft Stever, RiverRun Books, 142 Fleet Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire (603-431-2100).

October 17, Book-signing, Books by the Banks Book Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio from 10-4

November 20, Reading at The Hudson Valley Writers Center at 7:30 p.m. with Cornelius Eady, Rough Magic Music Band, and Kattywompus Press Poets.

November 22, Poetry reading at 1:30 with Jennifer Franklin, Susana H. Case, and Sally Bliumis-Dunn at the Jewish Community Center on Hudson, 371 South Broadway, Tarrytown, New York.

December 14, Reading at 6:00 p.m. with Kattywompus Press poets at the Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, N.Y., N.Y. (212-989-9319)

2014

November 14, 7:30 pm. 9th Annual Writers on War & Peace Reading, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591.

One of six local poets, along with poet Fred Marchant, to read for the Hudson Valley Writers Center and Slapering Hol Press 9th Annual Writers on War & Peace Reading.

The evening will feature readings from prose writers, Matt Gallagher and Andrew Slater, veterans and contributors to Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War (Da Capo Press, 2013).

October 6, 8:00 p.m., Coffee-house Poetry at Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW 59 JA. Stateside Troubadours with poets: Philip Fried, Margo Taft Stever, Tim Nolan, Susana Case, Robert Peake, Jennifer Militello, Daphne Warburg Astor & Owen Lewis with Henry Fajemirokun.

In celebration of the Troubadour’s American links over the past 60 years, we present an evening of US poets:

• Manhattan Review editor Philip Fried, is based in New York; Early/Late: New & Selected Poems from Salmon (2011) draws on his first 4 collections of poetry; his latest Salmon collection is Interrogating Water (2013)
• Margo Taft Stever founded Hudson Valley Writers’ Center & Slapering Hol Press; her award-winning first collection was Frozen Spring & her latest is The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag, 2012)
• Tim Nolan’s 2013 Troubadour Poetry Prize poem is shortlisted for the Forward Best Single Poem Prize; Tim is a lawyer, lives in Minneapolis, & has published two collections including And Then (New Rivers, 2012)
• poet & sociologist Susana Case is a professor at NY Institute of Technology: her collections range from The Scottish Café (2002) to 4 Rms w Vu (Mayapple Press, 2014)
• Robert Peake is a British-American poet living near London, he created the Transatlantic Poetry on Air reading series; 1st-collection The Knowledge due from Nine Arches Press, 2015
• Jennifer Millitello lives in Goffstown NH, & has taught at Brown Univ. & Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI; finalist in the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, her first collection is Body Thesaurus (Tupelo, 2013)
• artist & Faber-Academy poet Daphne Warburg Astor was part of the C4RD online residency & collaborated with Jason Hicklin on From Co. Donegal to the Inner Hebrides: Drawings & Etchings (2009)
• psychiatrist & professor at Columbia Univ., Owen Lewis has published extensively in professional journals; his first poetry chapbook was March in San Miguel (Finishing Line, 2012) & first collection is Sometimes Full of Daylight (Dos Madres, 2013)
• with songs from guitarist Henry Fajemirokun

Good evening, America: Stateside poets reinforce Troubadour’s transatlantic reputation

The poetry news, from Sleepy Hollow and Greenwich Village

October 4, 6:00 p.m., Literary salon at Hawkhurst Tea Room, 240 Brick Lane, London, with poets Susana H. Case and Carlos Reyes-Manzo.

April 16-19, Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Conference, Chicago Mariott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, “Poetry in Red Dresses” brings together four strong voices, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Mary Mackey, Evelyn Posamentier, and Margo Taft Stever. This program will form a working manifesto in the spirit of Muriel Rukeyser and Gertrude Stein. Time to be announced.

April 12, 12-6 p.m.,Westchester Poetry Festival, Poetry Reading, The Masters School, 49 Clinton Avenue, Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522 (914-479-6400).

April 11, 7:30 p.m., A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley Anthology Reading, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York.

April 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Nominated for “Women Making An Impact Award,” Westchester & Fairfield County Business Journals, 1122 Westchester Avenue, White Plains (in atrium).

March 28, 2-3:30 p.m., Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, Women Write Resistance: Poets on Gender Violence, Anthology reading, Charles Sumner School, Room 1, 17th and M Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C. (202-730-0478).

February 13, Lecture, William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia, University of Cincinnati, Bauer Room, Center for Performing Arts, Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, Ohio.

February 26-March 1, AWP Seattle, Panel Presenter for The Hudson Valley Writers Center. “From Silver to Gold: A Case Study in Plans for the Next 25 Years at a Regional Writers’ Center.”

February 28, 7:00 p.m., Off-site AWP anthology reading for Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, Rendezvous/Jewel Theater, 2322 2^nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121.

2013

January 15, 2013, Books and Bookshelves, 99 Sanchez Street, San Francisco, CA 94114 (415-621-3761) “Poetry in Red Dress” brings together four strong voices, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Mary Mackey, Evelyn Posamentier, and Margo Taft Stever. This program will form a working manifesto in the spirit of Muriel Rukeyser and Gertrude Stein, at 7:30 p.m.

Karren LaLonde Alenier is author of six collections of poetry, including On a Bed of Gardenias: Jane & Paul Bowles and Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, an opera with composer William Banfield. For Scene4 Magazine, she writes a monthly column on Gertrude Stein, opera, and the Arts.

Mary Mackey’s Sugar Zone, her sixth collection of poetry, is winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. Author of thirteen novels, Mackey’s works have sold over a million copies, and been translated into twelve foreign languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, and Finnish.

Evelyn Posamentier’s recent books are brainiography, Royal Blue Car, and Poland At The Door. Her poems have appeared in such magazines as The Diagram, The SoMa Literary Review, The Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Nthposition and Drunken Boat.

Margo Taft Stever is the author of three collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Hudson Line, and she co-authored, William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to China. She is founder of The Hudson Valley Writers Center (HVWC) and founding editor of HVWC’ Slapering Hol Press.

January 20, Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291 (310-822-3006). Teaching poetry workshop with Karren Alenier on book publishing at 5:00 P.M., Poetry readings with Karren Alenier, Andrea Carter Brown and David Del Bourgo at 7:30 P.M.

April 12, Phoenix Reading Series, Yippie Museum Café, 9 Bleecker Street, New York (212) 677-5918, with poets: Anne-Marie Fyfe, Philip Fried, and Margo Taft Stever.

April 17, Wadhams Free Library, 763 Route 22 in Wadhams, New York Margo Taft Stever and Marion Brown will read from their poetry. (518) 962-8717 wadhamsfreelibrary.org  at at 7:30 p.m.

May 7, KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th Street, New York (212) 505-3360, Anthology reading Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence at 7 to 9 p.m. for Women Write Resistance with poets: Susana H. Case, Marie Elizabeth Mali, Elayne Safir, Larissa Schmailo, Margo Taft Stever, Larissa Schmailo, and the band, Doll Parts:

Doll Parts is NYC’s premier Dolly Parton cover band, featuring Maggie Robinson, Kate Marvin and Julia Sirna-Frest. Learn more at dollpartsband.com.

Susana H. Case’s chapbooks include The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press), which was re-released in a full-length Polish-English annotated version, Kawiarnia Szkocka, by Opole University Press. Her books are: Salem In Séance (WordTech Editions) and Elvis Presley’s Hips & Mick Jagger’s Lips (Anaphora Literary Press). Her next book, 4 Rms w Vu is forthcoming from Mayapple Press.

Marie-Elizabeth Mali is the author of Steady, My Gaze (Tebot Bach, 2011) and co-editor with Annie Finch of the anthology, Villanelles (Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets, 2012). Her work has appeared in Calyx, Poet Lore, and RATTLE, among others. For more information please visit memali.com.

Elayne Safir (emptyminute.com), cover designer for Women Write Resistance, is an artist and a photographer, walking the fine ink line between the truly fantastical and the contemporary with a touch of magic realism. Her art has appeared on and in books, music albums, t-shirts, films, tattoos, and galleries in Canada and the United States.

Larissa Shmailo is a poet and translator whose books are In Paran, A Cure for Suicide, and Fib Sequence; her poetry CDs are The No-Net World and Exorcism. Her translation of Alexei Kruchenych’s Victory over the Sun is archived at the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum. She blogs at larissashmailo.blogspot.com.

Margo Taft Stever’s chapbook, The Hudson Line, was published by Main Street Rag (2012). Her book, Frozen Spring (2002), won the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her chapbook, Reading the Night Sky, won the 1996 Riverstone Poetry Chapbook Competition. She is the founder of The Hudson Valley Writers Center and the founding editor of Slapering Hol Press.

Alison Stone is the author of From the Fool to the World (Parallel Press) and They Sing at Midnight (Many Mountains Moving). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Paris Review, Poetry, and Ploughshares. Winner of Poetry’s Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly’s Madeline Sadin award, she is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot.

Amber West’s writing has appeared in Calyx, Puppetry International, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Poetry at NYU, and is a doctoral candidate at UConn. Her plays and “puppet poems” have been performed in SF and NYC. She’s co-founder of Alphabet Arts and director of the annual Puppets & Poets festival at The Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn (alphabetarts.org).

October 18, 6:00-8:00 p.m., Anthology reading for A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers’ of the Hudson, Mid-Hudson Heritage Center, 317 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, New York (845-214-1113).

2012

December 3, Café Muse, Word Works Press, Chevy Chase Village Center, Chevy Chase, Maryland, with readers: Margo Taft Stever and Sally Bliumis-Dunn, 7:30 p.m.

November 30, Vin Master Bar, 2000 South Blvd., Suite 610. Poetry reading hosted by Jonathan Rice and M. Scott Douglass with poets Margo Taft Stever and Anne Hicks. 7-9 p.m.

October 12, The Hudson Valley Writers Center (300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York 10591) Slapering Hol Press reading series, group reading at 7:30 p.m.

August 3, York Art Association, 394 York Street, York, Maine 03911 (717-755-0028), Group poetry reading with Margo Taft Stever, Jo Ann Clark, John Perrault, and Estha Weiner from 7-9 p.m.

August 2, New England Gallery of Art (207-221-4499), 716 Stevens Avenue, Portland, Maine 04103. Group reading with Jo Ann Clark, John Perrault, Margo Taft Stever, and Estha Weiner from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

June 15, The Village Bookstore, (Pleasantville, New York ) Peotry Reading with Meredith Trede, B.K. Fischer and Cindy Beer-Fouhy at 7:30 p.m.

May 12, Bean Runner Café, 201 S. Division Street, Peekskill, New York, Poetry reading with Mervyn Taylor, 3:00 p.m.

March 31,The Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown, New York (631-7671). Poetry reading with Sally Bluimis Dunn and Barbara Fischer, members of Slapering Hol Press Advisory Committee, reading from their own work and featuring Slapering Hol Press, 2:00 p.m.

March 24, Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, New York. Slapering Hol Press Group reading with 2011 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition winner, Mary Armstrong, Margo Taft Stever, B.K. Fischer, Meredith Trede, Susana Case, and Mervyn Taylor, 6-7:30 p.m.

March 2, Reading between the Lines, The Horseshoe, 4114 N. Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois. Marathon reading, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

February 29, Brown Rice, 4432 N. Kedzie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Group reading and music with Margo Taft Stever, Karren Alenier, and Dan Goldstein, 9:30 p.m.

2011

December 11, Jewish Community Center on the Hudson, Tarrytown, New York. Group reading with Margo Taft Stever, George Karus, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Peggy Ellsberg, and Natalie Safir, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

November 11, Participated in Group Literary Reading on War and Peace, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York, 7:30 p.m.

2010

November 12, Participated in Group Literary Reading on War and Peace, The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow, New York, 7:30 p.m.

October 9, Poetry Reading with David Keller and Teresa Carson, Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival, “the largest poetry event in North America,” New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center Street, Newark, New Jersey, 2:00 p.m.

2009

November 10, Galapagos Bookstore, Group Slapering Hol Press Poetry Reading, Hastings, New York, 7:30 p.m.

April 23-25, Slapering Hol Press at CUNY Chapbook Festival.

March 14, Presented lecture on William Howard Taft, Alice Roosevelt, and Nicholas Longworth, III, at Symposium on The Longworths: Cincinnati’s First First Family, Presented by The Ohio River Valley Chapter of the Victorian Society in America, Trinity Episcopal Church, Covington, Kentucky, 9:00-3:00 p.m.

2008

January 17, “Looking East” opening, The Nippon Club, N.Y. N.Y.

January 12, Riverine Poetry Reading for Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers, edited by Laurence Carr, Butterfield Library, Garrison, New York, 3-5 p.m.

October 24-27, Power Point Presentation with James Taft Stever on 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia and Special Exhibition, “Looking East,” Hangzhou International Symposium on Sinology and Sino-Foreign Relations and Exchanges, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

October 21, Poetry Reading, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China, 2:00 p.m.

2007

September 27-29, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York. Writing By Degrees Conference. Participating in panel discussion representing Slapering Hol Press.

June 28, Group launch reading for Big City Lit, on-line literary magazine, at Cornelia Street Cafe (Between Bleeker and West 4th) from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

June 17, Participant in panel discussion on history and aesthetics of Slapering Hol Press. Consisted of editors, poets, and representatives from four featured presses. Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York, At 3:00 p.m.

June 13, Slapering Hol Press and Manhattanville College group reading of nature poems in conjunction with works of art by Cleve Gray, Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York, at 7:00 p.m.

April 26, Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow Author Book Fair, Warner Library, Tarrytown, New York, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

2006

April 22, The Ear Inn, 326 Spring St., New York, NY (between Greenwich and Washington Sts.) Group reading with Slapering Hol Press, 3:00 p.m.

April 1, The Society of the Four Arts, 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, Florida, Conducted workshop and reading, 3:00 p.m.

February 11, Margo’s poem, “Winter Sleepers” read on Naturalist’s Datebook, Sirius Radio 112, Martha Stewart Living Radio, 7:10 p.m.

2005

September 26, Cosi’s Sandwich Bar, 2160 Broadway at 76th Street, New York, New York. Poetry reading, 7:30 pm.

July 14, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, New York, Word Thursdays reading with novelist Lauren Sanders, 7:00 p.m.

April 6, Nassau Community College, Poetry reading with Patricia Smith and Usha Akella, 12:30-1:45 p.m.

March 17, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, Poetry reading for Caravan anthology, 7:00 p.m.

February 28, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, New York. Guest lecturer in English Class.

February 26, Rattapallax Launch Reading, New York Public Library, Bloomingdale Branch, W. 10th Street.

2004

November 6, Poetry reading at The Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street (between W. 4th & Bleecker) New York, New York, with Rania Khalil and Anahid Kassabian, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

May 3, Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown, New York, as an “Ask the Author” panel member, 7:30 – 8:45 p.m.

March 10, Poetry Reading, The Society of the Four Arts, Gioconda and Joseph King Library, 3 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach, Florida, 3:30 p.m.

February 20, Poetry Reading at Mi Bohio Restaurant, 12 Main Street, Tarrytown, New York, with Kathleen Ossip and Sally Bliumis, 7:00 p.m.

2003

May 22, Poetry Reading at Andover Bookstore, 89 Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts, with Jennifer Barber, 7:30 p.m.

May 18, Poetry reading with Monica Youn at Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California, 7:30 p.m.

April 12, Poetry Reading at Barnes & Noble Bookstores, 45 Gosling Road, Newington, New Hampshire, with Jeffrey Harrison, 3:00 p.m.

April 3, Poetry reading with Stephanie Strickland, Sergio Troncoso, and Susan Case at Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Square West, New York, New York, 6:00 p.m.

March 27, Poetry reading with Stephanie Strickland, Sergio Troncoso, and Susan Case at Atticus Bookstore, 8 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, 7:30 p.m.

March 10, Henry V. Larom Creative Writing Award, Final Judge.

February 16, Poets of the Palm Beaches, American Polish Club, 4725 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, Florida, 3:00 p.m.

February 9, Poetry Reading with Judith Werner, The Phoenix Reading Series, The Liquor Store, 285 W. Broadway, New York, New York, with Judith Werner, 1:00 p.m.