Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, October 23 , 7 PM, Green Kill Sessions
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Words Carry Us with Betty MacDonald, featuring hosts David Appelbaum and Sarah Wyman
Friday, October 23, 7 PM
Livestreams are freely available on the YouTube Green Kill Sessions channel and at greenkill.substack.com. Please consider making a five-dollar donation. Full livestream videos are available to monthly or annual Green Kill Substack subscribers.
In-person tickets are $10, payable in cash at the door. Drop your payment in the ticket jar when you arrive. Green Kill events have space for up to 30 guests; once capacity is reached, the doors will close. Please arrive about 10 minutes before showtime so everyone can get settled.
David Appelbaum founded Codhill Press and is a former editor of Parabola Magazine. He is the author of Everyday Spirits (SUNY Press), notes on water (Monkfish), Portuguese Sailor Boy, and The Collector of Lapsed Times (both Black Spring Publishing Group).
Sarah Wyman lives in the Hudson Valley, where she writes and teaches literature and visual arts at SUNY New Paltz. She co-facilitates the Sustainability Learning Community and teaches poetry workshops at Shawangunk Prison. Her poetry has appeared in Ekphrastic Review, aaduna, Mudfish, San Pedro River Review, Potomac Review, Lightwood, Heron Clan XI, A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Poets of the Hudson Valley, and other venues. Her books are Sighted Stones (FLP, 2018) and Fried Goldfinch (Codhill, 2021). She is co-founder of earthrisecommons.org. Website: https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/sarahwyman/
Writer and actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting. Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! Her work is also included in 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better With Age, and Lightwood. She presented her essay “First Love” at the Cell Theatre in New York City and at Vassar College. Videos of her essays “First Love,” “Daughter of Twins,” “Not Jewish Enough,” and “I’m Not a Woman of My Age!” are available at WritersRead.org. “First Love” is included in WritersRead’s anthology Well Said Well Read.
Betty hosts Words Carry Us, a livestream presentation of readings and interviews from Green Kill in Kingston, NY. Videos are available at YouTube.com. After an early career as radio personality Tiny Lee, Betty became a travel industry correspondent. For close to 40 years, storytelling has influenced her work as a performer with Community Playback Theatre. Her books of poems and essays, All My Monsters are Dead or Why I Love Being Old and It Wasn’t Too Late, are available from Codhill Press; It Wasn’t Too Late was released October 15.