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Poetry Reading & Workshop with Jen, Jason & Scott

Everyone is invited to join us for a reading and workshop with Jen Ashburn is the author of The Light on the Wall (Main Street Rag, 2016) and has work published in numerous venues, including the podcast The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Her poem "Our Mother Drove Barefoot" was selected for the 2018 Public Poetry Project by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and distributed on posters across the state. She holds an MFA from Chatham University, where she taught creative writing to women in the Allegheny County Jail through Chatham's Words Without Walls program. She's currently working on her second full-length poetry collection, tentatively titled Our Own Thin Ways, and a memoir.

 

Here are some links to published work:

 

https://www.thefourthriver.com/issue/2018/10/22/mountain-split-fern-hollow-creek-falls-ravine-trail

 

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=our+mother+drove+barefoot+jen+ashburn&&view=detail&mid=E5DD4ADBD98DDB1AB0E4E5DD4ADBD98DDB1AB0E4&&FORM=VRDGAR

 

https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=9586.html

 

Jason Irwin is the author of A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016), Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008), winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award, and the chapbooks Where You Are (Night Ballet Press, 2014), and Some Days It's A Love Story (Slipstream Press, 2005). He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh.

 

http://jasonirwin.blogspot.com/

 

 

BIO for Scott W. Williams

 

SUNY University at Buffalo Professor Emeritus Dr. Scott W. Williams is a poet and author of short stories. He has been featured in New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario and Virgin Islands. His poems appeared in "Sunday Review", "Coffeehouse Writings From the Web", "Juniper", "Peach Mag", "Ground & Sky", "Scryptic Magazine", "Le Mot Juste", "Punch Drunk Press", "Journal of Humanistic Mathematics."  The most recent of his six books are "Bonvibre Haiku" (CWP Press-2017) and a book of micro-fiction "Natural Shrinkage" (Destitute Press-2018). Scott edits the syfy poetry&flash-fiction anthology series, "A Flash of Dark" (Writers Den-2018) and "A Flash of Dark vol 2" (Writers Den-2018). Williams hosts workshops of the poetic forms Ghazal and Haiku and co-hosts the series Second Stage Writers (with Dr. Max Stephen in Buffalo, NY) and Poets Soup (with Victoria Hunter in Canandaigua, NY).

The Lamp is the Moon

Shawn, age 5, hates naps. During one particularly wakeful naptime Shawn finds out that her lamp wants to become the moon.  Join a trip through the imagination of a not-very-sleepy young girl.  

This matinee showing is open to the public, but will be a "sensory friendly" performance for children who need a manageable degree of sensory stimuli.  

Ticket Pricing:

$8.00 General admission

$6.00 GCC Alumni

$5.00 Seniors/GCC Faculty and Staff

$3.00 Students

Freedom

Director Tara Pocock, GCC adjunct professor, choreographs a 20-piece performance displaying people's rights and freedoms in this day and age! What are your rights and do you really have them?

Ticket Pricing:

$8.00 General Admission

$6.00 GCC Alumni

$5.00 Seniors/GCC Faculty and Staff

$3.00 GCC Students

Please contact boxoffice@genesee.edu or (585)345-6814 for ticket reservations.

The Lamp is the Moon

Shawn, age 5, hates naps. During one particularly wakeful naptime Shawn finds out that her lamp wants to become the moon.  Join a trip through the imagination of a not-very-sleepy young girl.  

Ticket Pricing:

$8.00 General admission

$6.00 GCC Alumni

$5.00 Seniors/GCC Faculty and Staff

$3.00 Students

Contact boxoffice@genesee.edu or (585)345-6814 for ticket reservations. The Box Office accepts cash or credit card payments at the window.