Three Mile Harbor Book Launch Fall Reading

reading hosted by Three Mile Harbor Press. For more information, visit us at https://www.3mileharborpress.com/ By attending or participating in this program, you agree to abide by our Community Agreement. Howard Levy, winner of the 9 th Annual Three Mile Harbor Press Book Award, is the author of two previous collections of poetry: A Day This Lit (CavanKerry Press, 2000) and Spooky Action at a Distance (CavanKerry Press, 2014). He was a winner of a New York State Creative Artists Program grant in poetry and tau ght for many years at The Frost Place Conference in Franconia, New Hampshire. He lives in Amagansett, New York. Pamela Hughes is the author of two collections of poetry, Femistry and Meadowland Take My Hand (Three Mile Harbor Press). Her poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner; Brooklyn Review; Human Obscura; Minnesota Review; Paterson Literary Review and elsewhere. She graduated from Brooklyn College with an MFA in Creative Writing, teaches creative writing classes at Bloomfield College at Montclair State University and is the editor of Narrative Northeast, a literary and arts magazine that supports diverse voices and visions, as well as the environment. Paul LaTorre is a poet, activist and educator who teaches at Bloomfield College at MSU in New Jersey. Blending pop culture with advocacy for various forms of trauma including abuse, disorder, and mental health issues, his aim is to create dark poems with a sense of levity. Paul’s work has been published in Zeitgeist, Drunk Monkeys, Narrative Northeast, BLINK and has been featured on the DREAM Act’s ‘ voices’ portal. Kateri Kosek is a winner of the Split Rock Poetry Chapbook Series. Her poetry and essays have appeared in such places as: Orion, Terrain, Catamaran, Rosebud, Southern Poetry Review, and Northern Woodlands Magazine and have won prizes at Creative Nonfiction and Briarcliff Review. She teaches college English and mentors in the MFA Program at Western Connecticut University, where she earned an MFA. She has worked seasonally surveying bird populations in the forests and mountains near her home. Frequently writing about landscape and place, she is resident at the Kimball Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Tallgrass Artist Residency in Kansas. She lives in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts. Toni Mergentime Levi is the author of For a Dancing Bear (Three Mile Harbor, 1995) and of two other poetry collections: White Food (Mayapple Press, 2016) and Watching Mother Disappear Other Poems (Mayapple Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Prairie Schooner, Crosscurrents, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, California Quarterly, Apalachee Quarterly, and Manhattan Poetry Review. With his stunning lyric gift, Howard Levy’s Dreams Maldreams moves us trance-like through landscapes both welcoming and ice-laden. These are poems of a lived life, a plea not to “drift away silently” but to be with the intensity of the world where “clouds join to forge a sky of withered light.” His Exile poems, meditations on Antarctica, bring us to a harsh landscape where a baby seal is alone and dying, where the exotic is “the mountains/…capes furred in a white/that is the whitest shade of white”. Levy is never simply an observer, instead he ignites us, plants us firmly in wonder. –Anne Marie Macari, author of Amerigun