Poetry: Near & Afar Reading

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 3637

I hope to see you there!

Poets Bios:

Sandra Proto is a literary, performance, interdisciplinary, and teaching artist. She has self-published five books of poetry and her poems have been published in numerous literary journals in print and online.

Sandra has been a featured reader at several poetry events hosted by art exhibits, libraries, historical museums, and cafés. She has performed and recorded her poetry with musical bands for live performances and CDs. Also, Sandra’s poems and broadsides have been displayed in art exhibits as well as at the Lewis Latimer House Museum.

Through her company Girls Read to Write, an educational LLC established in 2015, Sandra has taught young ladies ages 8 through 13 years old creative writing.

Sandra earned her BS in Theatre at SUNY College at Brockport and lives in Long Island with her husband , two daughters, and her two fur babies: Binx and Star.

Rosie with Words

Spoken word ~ poetry film ~ immersive multi sensory poetry experiences ~ word portraits ~ timelapse photography ~ real moments captured

Rosie can be found performing every Friday evening at The Globe - a chapel space for the arts in Hay on Wye, the first book town in the UK and home of the Hay Literary Festival.

Using a collage of projected homemade visuals (film & photography), soundscapes, music and spoken word, Rosie creates a multi-sensory experience for audiences.

Rosie launched her first poetry collection ‘A Year of Lovers’ in March 2024.

Using a collage of projected homemade visuals (film & photography), soundscapes, music and spoken word, Rosie creates a multi-sensory experience for audiences. She gifts poems as ‘portraits in word’ using poetry film to document real moments which accompany her performances and has made over 180 poetry films in the last 18 months.

Rosie has been described as possessing a ‘brave and unique voice, that is startlingly original’. She has been interviewed on BBC radio and performed at ‘How the Light Gets In’ Festival and Hereford Cathedral earlier this year.

She is studying an MA in Fine Art at the University of Falmouth.