Appearances
2012
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.
March 2, Reading between the Lines, The Horseshoe, 4114 N. Lincoln, Chicago, Illinois. Marathon reading, 7:00-10:00 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 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.
May 12, Bean Runner Café, 201 S. Division Street, Peekskill, New York, Poetry reading with Mervyn Taylor, 4:30 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.
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.
2011
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.
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.
2010
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.
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.
2009
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.
April 23-25, Slapering Hol Press at CUNY Chapbook Festival.
November 10, Galapagos Bookstore, Group Slapering Hol Press Poetry Reading, Hastings, New York, 7:30 p.m.
2008
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.
January 17, “Looking East” opening, The Nippon Club, N.Y. N.Y.
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
April 26, Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow Author Book Fair, Warner Library, Tarrytown, New York, 5:30 to 7:30 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.
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 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.
September 27-29, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York. Writing By Degrees Conference. Participating in panel discussion representing Slapering Hol Press.
2006
February 11, Margo’s poem, “Winter Sleepers” read on Naturalist’s Datebook, Sirius Radio 112, Martha Stewart Living Radio, 7:10 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.
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.
2005
February 26, Rattapallax Launch Reading, New York Public Library, Bloomingdale Branch, W. 10th Street.
February 28, Barnard Hall, Barnard College, New York. Guest lecturer in English Class.
March 17, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York, Poetry reading for Caravan anthology, 7:00 p.m.
April 6, Nassau Community College, Poetry reading with Patricia Smith and Usha Akella, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
July 14, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, New York, Word Thursdays reading with novelist Lauren Sanders, 7:00 p.m.
September 26, Cosi’s Sandwich Bar, 2160 Broadway at 76th Street, New York, New York. Poetry reading, 7:30 pm.
2004
February 20, Poetry Reading at Mi Bohio Restaurant, 12 Main Street, Tarrytown, New York, with Kathleen Ossip and Sally Bliumis, 7:00 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.
May 3, Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown, New York, as an “Ask the Author” panel member, 7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
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.
2003
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.
February 16, Poets of the Palm Beaches, American Polish Club, 4725 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, Florida, 3:00 p.m.
March 10, Henry V. Larom Creative Writing Award, Final Judge.
March 27, Poetry reading with Stephanie Strickland, Sergio Troncoso, and Susan Case at Atticus Bookstore, 8 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, 7:30 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.
April 12, Poetry Reading at Barnes & Noble Bookstores, 45 Gosling Road, Newington, New Hampshire, with Jeffrey Harrison, 3:00 p.m.
May 18, Poetry Reading at Cody’s Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, California, 7:30 p.m.
May 22, Poetry Reading at Andover Bookstore, 89 Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts, with Jennifer Barber, 7:30 p.m.