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Cultural EventsMarch 26, 2008 

Upcoming Appearances by Cold Spring Poet Jo Pitkin

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Cold Spring's Jo Pitkin will read with other authors from Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press) at the Newburgh Free Library, 124 Grand Street, on Thursday, April 3, 7- 8:30pm. Hosted by Barbara Adams and Larry Carr, this event is sponsored by the Hudson River Poets. The reading is free to the public. Call 845-564-3499 or go to www.newburghlibrary.org for information and directions.

Pitkin will also read with Joel Allegretti in the Slapering Hol Press Second Friday Café Series on Friday, April 11, at 7:30pm at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. The HVWC is located at 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow. Admission is $5 ($3 for HVWC members). A book signing and reception will follow the reading. For details and directions, call 914- 332-5953 or go to www.writerscenter.org.

In May, Pitkin will participate in a poetry panel on Saturday, May 17, at 2pm with fellow poets Suzanne Cleary, Roger Roloff, and Marcia Ivans at the first-ever Millbrook Book Festival. The festival will feature author panels on such topics as nature, science, spirituality, gardening, cooking, children's books, history, historical fiction, and local history. For more information, call or email Merritt Bookstore, 845-677-5857 or events@merrittbooks.com.

Pitkin is the author of The Measure (Finishing Line Press, 2007) and has mostly recently published poems in Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers edited by Laurence Carr and the award-winning Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York.

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