A Toast to Art and Poetry, Sunday April 19th at 5pm on Zoom
Hosted by Suzanne Bennett and Robert Langdon

(Register for Zoom code by emailing us: info@shoutoutsaugerties.org)

Introducing the 2020 Susana Meyer Creative Arts Awardees, and celebrating National Poetry Month, with a reading by local poets, including:

Vernon Benjamin has recently reconnected with his creative self after a lifetime of journalism and public service. His published work includes a two-volume History of the Hudson River Valley.

Sari Grandstaff, @haikutopia, is a poet in Saugerties, NY. She is a member of the Hudson Valley Haiku-Kai and Haiku Society of America. Sari works as a high school librarian and is the founder of International Haiku Poetry Day, April 17, which is now under the auspices of The Haiku Foundation. 

Guy Reed is author of  Second Innocence, Luchador Press. He’s the author of 3 chapbooks and contributed poems to journals, anthologies and films. He lives in Saugerties, NY.

Bruce Weber is a poet and historian of American art. His most recent book of poetry is There Are Too Many Words in My House (Rogue Scholars Press, 2019).