Poetry and Storytelling Highlight Spring 2010 ACC Writers Project (Jan. 21, 2010) -
QUEENSBURY - Poetry and storytelling will highlight the Adirondack Community College Writers Project Spring 2010 schedule of events.

The schedule includes readings by storyteller Jeannine Laverty on Mon., Feb. 15, in ACC’s Visual Arts Gallery at 12:30 p.m.; storyteller and performer Jay O’Callahan on Thurs., March 4, in the ACC Theater at 7 p.m.; poet Fred Marchant on Mon., March 29, in the Visual Arts Gallery at 12:30 p.m.; and poet and publisher Allen Hoey and ACC English professor and poet Nancy White on Mon., April 26, in the Visual Arts Gallery at 12:30 p.m..

Admission for all of these events is free and the public is invited.

Jeannine Laverty has been telling international folk tales since 1979 when her work teaching English as a second language to immigrants in New York City showed her firsthand how the U.S. is made up of cultures from countries all over the world. Her school residencies and museum performances for children have been awarded funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Institute for the Humanities. In 1999 she received the Leadership Award for the Northeast Region from the National Storytelling Network.

Jay O’Callahan has performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Lincoln Center in New York City, the National Theatre Complex in London, at the Olympics, and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has led workshops, taught, and performed at major universities across the country, and his stories have been widely published and recorded.

In addition to his March 4 performance, O’Callahan will offer a day-long workshop on Friday, March 5, titled “The Art and Uses of Storytelling.” The workshop is limited to 20 participants. For a registration form, please call the ACC Center at 743-2238 or click here.

Fred Marchant’s most recent book of poetry, The Looking House (Graywolf Press, 2009), was named by Barnes and Noble Review as one of the five best books of poetry of 2009. His poetry collection Tipping Point won the 1993 Washington Prize in Poetry. He is professor of English and the director of the Creative Writing Program, and director of The Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston.

Fred has taught workshops at sites across the country and was the 2009 co-winner of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, given to poets whose “work is an inspiration to other poets.”

Allen Hoey is an American poet, novelist, literary critic and publisher of fine poetry. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, and The Southern Review. He was the 2001 Bucks County Poet Laureate and received a 2002 Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellowship. He currently serves as director of the Bucks County Poet Laureate Program.

Nancy White’s newest collection of poetry, Detour, has been published by Tamarack Editions. Her first book, Sun, Moon, Salt (The Word Works, 1992), won The Washington Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, The New England Review, the New Orleans Review, the Seneca Review and many other literary journals. She serves as associate editor at The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and is an editor at The Word Works in Washington, D.C. Nancy teaches creative writing and literature at ACC and chairs the College’s English Division.

The Writers Project provides ACC students and residents of Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties with exposure to nationally renowned writers, provides up-and-coming writers with a venue for reading, and supports fledgling writers with workshops and writers’ retreats.

The Writers Project is made possible with assistance from Poets & Writers, Inc., the ACC Faculty Student Association, the Adirondack Community College Foundation and Adirondack Community College with initial funding and support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information on these programs, please contact J. Courtney Reid at 743.2200, extension 2213 or via email at reidjc@sunyacc.edu.

For more information on the Writers Project authors and events, visit www.sunyacc.edu/writersproject.

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