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Word Thursday Live! September 25, 2025 in the Bright Hill Community Library featuring Robert Bensen & George Hovis at 7 PM EST and also on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Word Thursdays featuring Robert Bensen and George Hovis will be a Live reading in the Bright Hill Community Library on Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 7 PM EST. This reading will also be broadcast on Zoom and streamed on Bright Hill’s Facebook page. To attend the event on zoom, please use this link just before 7 PM EST:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746
Or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7 PM EST to view the live stream.
Suggested donation is $5, and free to students.
FEATURED WRITERS
Robert Bensen: Robert Bensen’s seventh collection of poems is What Lightning Spoke: New & Selected Poems. His poetry and literary essays have appeared in AGNI, Antioch Review, Callaloo, The Caribbean Writer, Jamaica Journal, La presa, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Wales, and many others. He has edited anthologies of Native American and Caribbean literature. His writing has won fellowships and awards from the NEA. NEH, Harvard University, the Robert Penn Warren Award, and others. He was Professor of English and Director of Writing at Hartwick College, 1978-2017.
George Hovis: George Hovis is the author of a novel The Skin Artist and the monograph, Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his stories and essays have won prizes from Carolina Quarterly and Appalachian Heritage and have also appeared in Southern Cultures, Mississippi Quarterly, New Madrid, North Carolina Literary Review, and in other journals and anthologies. He currently lives in Cooperstown, New York, and is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Oneonta. (georgehovis.net)
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To be considered for open mic please email info@brighthillpress.org
At Live performances the sign up sheet will be at the door.
Donations made by check made payable to
Bright Hill Press, Inc.
accepted gratefully via mail to:
Bright Hill Press
94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY 13846
or via Paypal:
https://paypal.me/brighthillpress
About Bright Hill
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Bright Hill Press and Literary Center
Address
94 Church Street, Treadwell, New York
County/Region
Delaware County / Catskill Region
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