Poetry Reading VIA ZOOM with Liz Marlow, Julie Danho, and Rebecca Doverspike (SHP Annual Sanger-Stewart Reading)


Join the Slapering Hol Press co-editors, Margo Taft Stever, Peggy Ellsberg, and Jennifer Franklin as they welcome the 2019 SHP chapbook winner, Liz Marlow, the 2018 SHP chapbook winner, Rebecca Doverspike, and the 2013 SHP chapbook winner, Julie Danho, to read their latest work and talk about their experiences as Slapering Hol press poets.

This FREE READING will be held via Zoom, which is a very user-friendly platform  using audio and video through your computer or mobile device. Pre-registration is required and donations are appreciated. Poetry chapbooks will be able to be purchased at an online discount.

Liz Marlow’s poems have appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, The Rumpus, Tikkun, and elsewhere. Additionally, her work has been a finalist for Permafrost Magazine’s New Alchemy Contest and a semi-finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize. She received her MFA from Western Michigan University. She currently lives in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband and two children.

Julie Danho’s first full-length collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in PleiadesAlaska Quarterly ReviewBlackbird, The Writer’s Almanac, and New Ohio Review, among others. She has been awarded fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the MacColl Johnson Fund.

Julie has an MFA from Ohio State University and works as an editor in Providence, Rhode Island. She loves art history, serial commas, and taking more books out of the library than she can possibly read. She is married to the poet David O’Connell.

Read and listen to Julie read her poem, “I want to Eat Bugs with You Underground” and three other poems from her new book on The Writer’s Almanac. http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for-april-2-2020/

Rebecca Doverspike has a Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. She focused on Buddhism and interfaith hospital chaplaincy. Rebecca holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from West Virginia University.  Slapering Hol Press published her chapbook, Every Present Thing a Ghost. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ruminate, Leveler, Souvenir Lit Journal, 5×5 Literary Magazine, STATOREC, Valley Voices, and Periphery among others.

Event Location and Ticket Information

Date: Sunday, April 19, 2020
Times: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Ticket pricing:
Free event
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Presenter: Hudson Valley Writers Center
Presenter Phone: 914-332-5953