By R.D. Pohl

Monday, Feb. 17, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m: The Woven Event: A collaboration by the facilitators of three local poetry workshops to provide a single experience building on each of their strengths. The Woven Event is comprised of:
Tell: Samuel Floyd will facilitate Recovery Stories (45 minutes, fifteen minute break).

Write: Bart White, a member of Just Poets (Rochester Poetry Group), shares writing exercises (45 minutes, fifteen minute break).

Share: Joel Lesses, Ground and Sky Roundtable, will facilitate spontaneous discussion through the lens of poetry in the ‘no mic, no list, no podium’ format.

Location: Inspiration Point Bookstore, 483 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo. Visit the Ground and Sky page on Facebook for a Zoom link to the event.

Wednesday, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.: The Screening Room Reading Series hosted by poet Sandy Geary. David Landrey will be the featured reader. Additional reading slots available.

David Landrey is the author of Consciousness Suite, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2008), Psyche & Ares, (Fairfield Press 2016), Intermezzi To Divorce Poems and Dinner Table Scenes, (Jensen Daniels 2002), and other books.

A former student of Charles Olson at the University of Buffalo in the early 1960’s and Fulbright teaching scholar in Turkey, he taught literature and American postmodern poetry at SUNY Buffalo State University for over 35 years. His immersive style of teaching, focused primarily on Nineteenth Century and Post-Modern American Literature and letters, inspired his students to live in and through the works he introduced them to and taught; not just as works of art to be analyzed, but dimensions of consciousness required to be explored, opening minds and hearts to alternative and deeply humanist modes of understanding and navigating the myriad passages and experiences of life.

The Screening Room Cinema Café, 880 Alberta  Drive, Amherst. $3. 

Thursday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Buffalo Corner Reading Series featuring poets Ida Goeckel and Liz Mariani. This will be a hybrid event: in person, and simulcast via Zoom. Congregation Shir Shalom, 4660 Sheridan Drive in Amherst. Visit shirshalombuffalo.org for more information and the Zoom link to this free event.