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Word Thursdays Online! at 7 PM EST on Zoom and Facebook Live featuring Laurel Benjamin and Susan Coronel.
Word Thursdays Online featuring Laurel Benjamin and Susan Coronel will broadcast live on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 7 PM EST. To attend the event, 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.
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FEATURED WRITERS
Laurel Benjamin: Laurel Benjamin is a San Francisco Bay Area poet, where she is an active member of the Women Poets Salon. She curates an online writing group called Ekphrastic Writers and is a reader for Common Ground Review. She holds honors such as: Honorable Mention for the Ruben Rose Memorial Poetry Competition, finalist for the Cider Press Review Book Award, and prize winner from Ekphrastic Review. Publication credits include: Pirene’s Fountain, Lily Poetry Review, Taos Journal of Poetry, Mom Egg Review, Nixes Mate. Her full length book, Flowers on a Train, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.
Susan Coronel: Susan Michele Coronel lives in New York City. Her first full-length collection,”In the Needle, A Woman,” won the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize, and is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. A two-time Pushcart nominee, Susan Michele Coronel has had poems published in numerous journals including Mom Egg Review, Redivider, One Art, Anti-Heroin Chic, TAB Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, and Spillway 29. In 2023, she won the Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s First Poem Award, and in 2022 was one of eight poets to have her work featured in the Aeolian Harp Anthology. In 2023 and 2021 her poems were finalists for the Millennium Writing Awards and Sappho Prize. Versions of her book were finalists for Harbor Editions’ Laureate Prize (2021), the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2023), the C&R Press Poetry Award (2023), and the Louise Bogan Award (2024). In 2021 she received a Parent Poet Fellowship at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. Susan holds a post-master’s certificate in early childhood special education from Touro College, an M.S. Ed in Applied Linguistics from Queens College, a B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from Indiana-University Bloomington, and a post-B.A. certificate in elementary education from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Susan lives in Ridgewood, Queens, where she has owned and directed a daycare business for over fifteen years. In 2023 Susan was selected to study at the Uriel Weinreich Summer program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the oldest intensive Yiddish summer program in the world.
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To be considered for open mic please email info@brighthillpress.org
Hosted By
Bright Hill Press and Literary Center
County/Region
Delaware County / Catskill Region
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