Finger Lakes Arts Series

06/17/2024

Join us this Friday at 6 p. m., the MacFadden Coffee Co., 211 Main Street, Dansville, NY. Open Mic follows the feature. Great food and beverages available. Great company. Great atmosphere.

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05/18/2024

Thanks to William F. DeVault for his poetry, storytelling, and stimulating conversation, at this month's Finger Lakes Arts Series. We'll have a few of his books on hand for sale. Come check them out at the MacFadden Coffee Co.

05/10/2024

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04/28/2024

Sharing the review of my new novel and author interview in this month's Brooklyn Rail:

To a reader who has followed this author as long as I have, the text seems a culmination of his efforts to date, and I was glad the Rail gave me the opportunity to discuss it with him. We exchanged the following emails, lightly edited, while he was on the West Coast for research.

04/27/2024

The latest featured reading in the Finger Lakes Arts Series, by Tony Leuzzi. Followed by a few other talented poets.

04/05/2024

George reads two excerpts and responds to audience questions.

04/05/2024

My novel The Uniform is now available as an e-book, for those who do that:

The year is 1950. A brutal racist attack drives Alfie Bagliato’s family from their small town to New York City, where, at sixteen, Alfie dreams of escaping his Italian American enclave through a career in music and a romance with his distant cousin, Adeline. Soon enough, disappointment and frustr....

03/05/2024

Thanks to Jessica Cuello for an exceptional reading and interview. And to all the other poets, writers and listeners who came out.

03/02/2024

Jessica Cuello reading from her tour-de-force collection Yours, Creature, in the February (March) 2024 Finger Lakes Arts Series.

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03/02/2024

Thanks to Milo Fredrickson for his superb featured performance in the January 2024 Finger Lakes Arts Series.

01/19/2024

KirkusReview: “A powerful story of personal failure and reinvention.”

01/16/2024

Thanks, Trail Otter, for this ultra cool evening hike and potluck in Letchworth Park.

01/06/2024

Hey, Folks. My novel, The Uniform (Guernica Editions, March 1, 2024), is now available for pre-order here:

The year is 1950. A brutal racist attack drives Alfie Bagliato’s family from their small town to New York City, where, at sixteen, Alfie dreams of escaping his Italian American enclave through a career in music and a romance with his distant cousin, Adeline. Soon enough, disappointment and frustra...

12/17/2023

Comin' at ya, Bart White featuring in the Finger Lakes Arts Reading Series, December 2023.

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12/13/2023

Join me this Friday as I host the December reading and Open Mic in The Finger Lakes Arts Series. Friday, Dec.15th, 6 p.m., The MacFadden Coffee Co, 211 Main St., Dansville, NY

12/07/2023

Join us on Friday, December 15th at 6 p. m. for this month's Finger Lakes Arts Series Reading and Open Mic, featuring Rochester-based poet and editor Bart White. Bart will read from his work and talk all things literary in Western New York. An open mic follows. Welcoming atmosphere. Great food and beverages available.

Bart White is the author of two poetry collections, the Pushcart-nominated The Faces We Had As Children (FootHills Publishing, 2014) and The Art of Restoration (Jules Poetry Playhouse, Placitas, New Mexico, 2022). Active in Rochester and Western New York’s poetry community, Bart is past president of Just Poets. He has co-edited four anthologies of poetry, most recently, MOVING IMAGES: Poetry Inspired by Film (Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications, 2021, co-edited with Jennifer Maloney). Bart hosts The “Little” Poetry Series at the Little Theater Café. Bart grew up in Asheville, North Carolina in a family full of storytellers. He studied art and literature at Washington University in St. Louis, and in Spain and France. He drove a taxi in New York City and taught high school there before moving to Rochester with his family.

[This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.]

11/12/2023

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11/03/2023

Next Friday, November 10th, 6 p.m., at the MacFadden Coffee Co. in Dansville, NY, the Finger Lakes Arts Series welcome this young master and world traveler to his only Western NY book tour appearance. Anders will read his great narrative poems and sign his new book, and we’ll talk poetry, film, living off grid and more. And we’ll have an open mic for writers and artists. Western NY folks, join us.

09/20/2023

Dear Friends,

Please join us on Friday, September 22nd, at 6 p. m., at the MacFadden Coffee Company 211 Main Street, Dansville, NY. Monique Ferrell will share her poems from her forthcoming book, Bone (New York Quarterly Review, 2024), and discuss race and gender relations in America. An Open Mic for poets, writers, storytellers, and artists follows. Great beverages, food and desserts available in our gallery space.

Monique Ferrell is an award-winning writer and author of several poetry collections: attraversiamo (2016), unsteady (2011), black body parts (2002) and the forthcoming collection from NYQ Books, titled bone.

Her writing has been featured on The Slowdown podcast, hosted by United States Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith and in the award-winning documentary film short: Reading the Body: Poetry & Dance on Recovery, sponsored by The Paige Fraser Foundation (TPFF) and Bellevue Literary Review. Additionally, her work has appeared in noted creative writing journals, magazines, and anthologies, including American Poetry Review; Antioch Review; Reed Magazine; Talking River Review; Oroboro Literary Review; Winning Writers; North American Review; African Voices; Bellevue Literary Review; Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Soul; Through The Ash, New Leaves; Token Entry: New York City Subway Poems; Out of The Rough: Women’s Poems of Survival; Rabbit Ears: Poems About Television, among others.

A two-time finalist (2021, 2020) for the Joy Harjo Poetry Award (sponsored by Cutthroat: A Journal of The Arts), Ferrell’s other writing accolades/honorifics include: the Winning Writers Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Honorable Mention Poetry Prize (2019); the 2017 Honor Book Prize for Poetry, sponsored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA); and The Julie Suk Prize For Poetry (2016). Recently, poems from bone (her forthcoming collection) have been made finalist/semi-finalist in contests sponsored by New Millennium Writings, Tulip Tree Publishing, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, and Bellingham Literary Review.

Since 2021, Ferrell has been a reviewer for the distinguished Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) and is currently conducting research for her next poetry collection, bloodroot, which seeks to trace her family back to the first African woman brought to America in bo***ge.

09/14/2023

Join us for a great evening with poet and scholar Monique Ferrell. The evening also includes an Open Mic for poets, writers, and artists. As always, great beverages and food are available. And admission is free.

Monique Ferrell is an award-winning poet and a Pushcart Prize nominee. A writer of both poetry and fiction, her work has appeared in a myriad of noted creative writing magazines, journals and anthologies: American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Valley Voices, New York Quarterly Review, Token Entry, Out of The Rough, and Rabbit Ears, among others. Currently, she is hard at work on multiple projects, including a collection of satirical essays titled Things They Did to Me: My Family in Shades; her fourth poetry collection titled, Dulce Reina En Fuego (Sweet Queen On Fire); and her first novel, Tuck, which examines the myths surrounding American Black masculinity and familial and cultural responses to substance abuse and Mental Illness/Depression in the Black community. Ferrell, the author/co-author of a number of essays and books on popular culture, identity, and race, has also published three poetry collections: Black Body Parts (Cross + Roads Press), Unsteady (NYQ Books), and Attraversiamo (NYQ Books).

[This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, and grant from Poets & Writers, Inc.]

08/08/2023

Here’s an interview about our series, with Allie Oliver-Burns and Dansville Live.

07/07/2023

Join us tonight, Friday, July 7th, at 6 p. m., for great photography, conversation and coffee, at the MacFadden Coffee Co., 211 Main St., Dansville. 🎨🗣️☕️

[This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by the Genesee Valley Council on the Arts.]