Poetry Near & Afar
Poetry Near & Afar is a bimonthly online reading series hosted by the Oceanside Library of New York on the first and third Mondays of each month at 6pm Central / 7pm Eastern. Each reading features a poet from the NY area and one from "afar." Plus an open mic (one poem limit).
Featuring:
Hollie Hardy
&
Emily-Sue Sloane
+
Open Mic
Hosted by:
Tony Iovino
Monday, October 21, 2024
6pm Central/ 7pm Eastern
Zoom Info
Meeting ID: 857 8444 3637
Free Event
Hollie Hardy is a writer, educator, and author of the newly released Lions Like Us (Red Light Lit Press) and How to Take a Bullet: And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press) winner of the Annual Poetry Center Book Award at San Francisco State University. She holds an MFA in Poetry from SFSU, teaches private writing workshops online, and hosts the long-running monthly reading series Saturday Night Special: A Virtual Open Mic. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Bay Area Generations, Cobalt Poets, Colossus, The Common, Dispatches from Quarantine, Eleven Eleven, Fourteen Hills, Migozine, Milvia Street Journal, Mixed Bag of Tricks, Parthenon West Review, Passionfruit Review, sPARKLE & bLINK, Transfer, and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, TX.
Emily-Sue Sloane is an award-winning Long Island poet who writes to capture moments of wonder, worry, and human connection. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection We Are Beach Glass (2022) and the chapbook Disconnects and Other Broken Threads (The Poetry Box, 2024). Her poetry has appeared in numerous print and online journals and anthologies, including Poetry X Hunger, To Be Completely Honest Anthology, Best of Long Island Poetry 2024 Anthology, Bards Annual, Wild Roof Journal, and Closed Eye Open. Her poem “Musical Musing” is featured in a choral piece of the same name by composer Joan Johnson Drewes, and her poem “Shots Fired at Heckscher Park” was part of WNYC’s Morning Edition celebration for this year’s National Poetry Month. Additionally, Sloane and her wife, singer-songwriter Linda Sussman, present an original poetry and music program called “Crossroads of Verse” at venues across Long Island. Learn more at: EmilySueSloane.com