Please join Rosie With Words and myself as we fePleaseature on Monday, January 19th at 7pm at Oceanside’s Library Poetry: Near & Afar poetry series hosted by Tony Iovino. Poetry: Near & Afar is an online poetry series started during lockdown in 2020, bringing together poets from around the world. Each session presents two features: one from the NY area and one from "afar". Features each get 20 minutes, followed by an open mic. To join in the fun: Zoom Meeting ID: 857 8444 3

This summer marks three years that I have co-hosted Poetry at the Pagan, a poetry reading and open mic at Valley Stream’s Pagan-Fletcher Restoration. Poetry at the Pagan is sponsored by the Valley Stream Historical Society, an organization that operates the Pagan-Fletcher Restoration. Joseph Coen, a fellow poet, asked me in 2023 if