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By lissakiernan on Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2018 - 6:58 pm
“Suspended between the tangible and the ephemeral, I find myself pondering: Would anyone but a crazed bicephalous being, half engineer, half poet, willingly shackle himself to a venture of such magnitude? I am a prisoner of my dream.”
—Philippe Petit,... Read more
By woodstocklibrary on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 - 3:45 pm
Free your voice! Explore fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and free form with spoken word performer and young adult author Dakota Lane.
Dakota Lane shot Lin-Manuel’s wedding video for The New York Times. Open to all levels of experience! Dakota Lane... Read more
By woodstocklibrary on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 - 12:39 pm
By West Kortright Centre on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016 - 10:52 am
By Robert Burke Warren on Friday, May. 27, 2016 - 10:14 am
Above: A poem written on a paper airplane, a prototype for "Skywriting: Poems & Planes," a workshop to be held Saturday, May 28 at the Poetry Barn in West Hurley. Photo by Lissa Kiernan.
Poet and teacher Lissa Kiernan makes her students’ poetry fly,... Read more
By Jessica Porter on Friday, Apr. 22, 2016 - 10:31 am
Above: The 2015 Catskills Book Festival. Photo via Writers in the Mountains.
This Sunday, local writers, illustrators, editors, educators, booksellers, publishers and journalists will gather at the Union Grove Distillery in the Delaware County hamlet of... Read more
By dgalusha on Wednesday, Apr. 13, 2016 - 7:45 pm
"The fisherman . . . is a kind of vagrant. . . He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indrect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; its impulse bears him along. At the foot of the... Read more
By dgalusha on Thursday, Apr. 7, 2016 - 12:25 pm
There was a full house at the Catskill Center last weekend when author Stephen Silverman gave a talk based on his book, The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed the World. The program was the Third Annual John Burroughs Spring Lecture sponsored by... Read more
By Robert Burke Warren on Thursday, Mar. 31, 2016 - 7:53 am
Above: The seventh annual Woodstock Writers Festival puts the spotlight on addiction, an epidemic in the Catskills. Image via the Woodstock Writers Festival's Facebook page.
Editor’s note: Robert Burke Warren, the author of the new novel “Perfectly... Read more
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