General Information
Description
Word Thursdays Live at Bright Hill and online on Zoom and Facebook Live at 7:00 PM EST
featuring Bertha Rogers and friends
Word Thursdays Online featuring Bertha Rogers and friends will broadcast live on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST. To attend the event, please use this link just before 7:00 PM EST:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746
Or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7:00 PM EST to view the live stream.
Suggested donation is $5, and free to students.
FEATURED WRITERS
BERTHA ROGERS, poet, translator, and visual artist, has published poems and translations in literary journals and anthologies, among them the just released What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, Ireland) Like Light: 25 Years of Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Poets & Writers, Seeing Things: Woodland Arts Editions; and Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry. Her poetry collections include Wild, Again (Salmon); Heart Turned Back (Salmon); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen); and several chapbook sand interdisciplinary collections. Her illustrated translation of Beowulf was published in 2000, and her translation with illuminations of the Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems from the Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, was published in 2019. She has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony, Hawthornden International Writers Retreat, and others. Her writings on inclusion and cultural diversity in arts education have been published in Open the Door, Education Week, and the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog, In 1992, she founded, with her husband, Ernest M. Fishman, Bright Hill Press & Literary Center of the Catskills. She led the development of the New York State Literary Web Site and Map in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts; and she has served as Poet Laureate of Delaware County, NY, and on the selection panel for the Empire State Writers Hall of Fame.
Please join us Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 7pm for an evening in the Bright Hill Community Library. Bertha will read from her new book of Poetry What Want Brings: New & Selected Poems. She will be joined by nine friends who will read in the open mic portion of the evening.
Light refreshments will be served.
FOR THE LOVE OF WORDS
To be considered for open mic please email info@brighthillpress.org
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
Bright Hill Press & Literary Center programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the Delaware Youth Bureau, the Dewar; Tianaderrah, A. Lindsay & Olive B. O’Connor, and the Otis A. Thompson Foundations; the Delaware National Bank of Delhi; Stewart’s Shops, Golden Artists Colors, and Bright Hill members and friends. To learn more about our activities and programs, click here: https://www.brighthillpress.org.
Hosted By
Bright Hill Press and Literary Center
Address
94 Church Street, Treadwell, New York
County/Region
Delaware County / The Catskills
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