Words on the Verge

Our Spring line-up is available! All Words on the Verge events are held at Different Path Art Gallery, 27 Market St. in Brockport. Call 585-395-9833 or email chrissygreenny@gmail.com for more info. January 30 Kitty Jospe & Bart White February 27  Annette Ramos March 26  Bobbie Dumas Panek April 30 Open Mic May 21  Maria Brandt Stay tuned for more info...

Welcome 2016! Happy New Year! We are proud to announce that Words on the Verge is featuring Bart White and Kitty Jospe on January 30th from 5-7pm. Jospé  holds an MA in French Lit from NYU and an MFA Poetry.  She has always had a passion for language and the  arts. She has been a docent at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY since 1998, and leads a weekly poetry appreciation class since 2008 and has combined Art and Word in various lectures.  An active poet, her publications include three books and numerous poems in poetry journals.   Bart White serves as grant writer and president of Just Poets of Greater Rochester. He is co-editor of an anthology of environmental poems, Vigil for the Marcellus Shale, 12 Poets Opposing Hydraulic Fracturing .  A native of North Carolina, Bart White grew up among storytellers and considers narrative poetry to be one of his strengths. His collection, The Faces We Had As Children , was nominated for a...

Thanks to author David Seaburn for his dynamic reading in November!  It was an honor to have him read for us from his latest novel, More, More Time . Every December Words on the Verge takes a break so that our host and organizer can spend some time with family and friends celebrating the holiday season. We'll be back on January 30th to feature poets Kitty Jospe and Bart White. As always, this event will run from 5-7pm at a Different Path Gallery in Brockport. All Words on the Verge events are free. Stayed tuned for an official event flyer in January. We hope you have a lovely Yuletide Season with you and yours! See you in 2016!

Thank You! October's Open Mic was a great success!  We had dynamic readers and an engaged audience. And, of course, there were costumes galore!  Thanks to everyone who came out.   Save the date!!! ​ Words on the Verge is excited to have David Seaburn read for us on November 21st from 5-7pm at a Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St in Brockport. He'll be reading from his latest book,  More, More Time  (Savant Books, 2015). In his latest novel, Seaburn weaves the stories of six individuals dealing with love and loss while also deeply sensing the limits of time.  Seaburn is a retired psychologist, marriage and family therapist, and ordained minister. He and his wife live in Spencerport, New York. More information can be found at  www.davidbseaburn.com . ​ Donate today! The cash donations collected during the October reading will be donated to the Red Cross. What a wonderful, generous community  we live in...

Thanks so much to Jenny Lloyd for her wonderful reading last week!  It was a splendid kick-off to what promises to be a great Words on the Verge season. Our Open Mic nights have become very popular, so we decided to add a fall open mic. It's the Halloween season, so wear a costume for a chance at a prize! Do you have a scary story to share? Bring it along and join in the fun!  A bit of news from some local literary friends.... Mary Dougherty of Bootstrap Publishing is offering a "Marketing for Lightworks" class for local writers on October 15th at 630pm. Contact her at 342-0795 for info about cost, location, and registration. Please visit the brand new Aurora Center for Creativity developed Rochester writer and Words on the Verge alumni, Nina Alvarez. Another Words on the Verge alumni, David Seaburn, is celebrating the release of his new book tonight at Writers and Books .  Seaburn will also be reading for Words on the Verge on November 21.  More ...

Welcome to the September Words on the Verge Ne wsletter The Words on the Verge staff is back and ready for the beginning of a new season of dynamic literary salons. Read on for information about our September event....    Featured Writer for September 2015  We are proud to announce that Jenny Lloyd will read at Words on the Verge on September 26th.   ​ Jenny Lloyd was born in England, and has lived there, in Italy, and in Mexico before moving to the United States in 1980.  She is a retired history professor from The College at Brockport, and the author of four scholarly articles and one academic book. She began writing memoir and creative non-fiction in the 1990s, and has just completed her memoir  In My Mind’s Eye , about her experiences as a small child in World War II, her childhood and adolescence on a remote farm in the West of England, and her time at two boarding schools (Createspace, 2015)...

Thank You Brockport Our April 25th reading was EPIC!  We had a packed house with a great audience and amazing readers. The Words on the Verge staff is so grateful for the community support we received. Check out some of the pictures from the event: It's Freebie Friday Once Again Here's how to win.... 1) Like the  Words on the Verge fan page  on Facebook.  2) Like then share the status about today's giveaway, Kitty Jospe's Golden Smoke . 3) Leave a comment under the status (this is VERY important!) telling us that you shared.  That's it!  Good luck.  Our winner will be announced on Monday. May Reading Our final reading of the season will Feature Brockport's own, Steve Appleton!  Appleton's passion is to create all inclusive, artistic events which draw together diverse groups of people in a participation-charged, energetic atmosphere. His lifework reflects his belief that "community is a ve...