Monthly Membership Meetings
Second Tuesday of the Month, September Through May
TIME: 7:30 P.M.
PLACE: Freeport Memorial Library
144 W. Merrick Rd.
(at S. Ocean Ave.)
DATE: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
TIME: 7:30 P.M.
SPEAKER: Kathaleen Donnelly & Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr
TOPIC: Paumanok — Poems and Pictures of Long Island
This month’s meeting will feature a slide presentation with music. Kathy Donnelly compiled and edited the book PAUMANOK — Poems and Pictures of Long Island, which is an anthology of “poetography” — a collection of poems and photographs, married to each other. One of the poets whose work is included in the book will be joining her — long-time SSAS member Max Wheat.
The book’s artists live on or are from Long Island. It is a walk through the seasons, each day of the year. It, and tonight’s program, are about life on this island, the life we can find if we look hard enough into the secret places all around: through the bramble and thickets of the forest, deep into the pine barrens, in the gardens and flower fields, along the cliffs and rocky shorelines of the Sound, by river edges, near ponds, around lakes, and over the sandy dunes to the ocean. It is about beauty and wonder in our natural world, with us day in and out, just waiting to be explored!
Join us!
Information about the book is available at http://poetographylongisland.com.