Susan Chute (Invasion of the Body Ukraine), Sandy Yannone (The Glass Studio), and Tim Brennan (Notes From a Terrestrial) are the First, Second, and Third Place winners of CAPS 25th Anniversary Anthology Poetry Competition. Dollar prizes of $100, $50, and $25 will be awarded to Susan, Sandy, and Tim when they feature for us on First Friday, March 1st at our new home at Unison Arts Center, 9 Paradies Lane in New Paltz.
The inaugural event (it will be the first live event at the new Unison) will be an in person/Zoom hybrid experience so please join us anyway you can. Physical & Virtual doors will open at 6:30 pm and the readings will start at 7:00pm (or as close as poets standard time allows) As is twenty five years of tradition, a two poem open mic will follow our prize winning features. Refreshments as always will be available. $5.00 donation appreciated. $3.00 for students/seniors/CAPS & Unison Members.
We would be utterly remiss at this time not to recognize our finalists who span the poetic spectrum and the planet. They are, in alphabetical order:
Alan Caitlan, Half Awake and Dreaming; Ruth Danon, Grief; John Dorsey, Sleeping Tips for the Partially Blind
Gina R.Evers, Coronavirus (after reading Natalie Diaz's The Facts of Art); Meghan Grupposo, Plume
Matthew Hupert, Philaster, Keats, & the way of Bushido; Bonnie Law, On Days Like This; Heller Levinson, Friday the 13th
Mary Makofske, Drive; Tim Tomlinson,The History of Jazz; George Wallace, The Next Time I Fall In Love;
Glenn Werner, 25 Wide Pantoum
Thank you all!!!!! See you on March 1st