2024 Afro-American Writers Read-In

Readers gathered at Canios Books this month for the annual read-in of Afro-American writers.

The annual read-in is co-sponsored by Sag Harbor's John Jermain library.

Here is an edited version.  

Here is the complete reading 

 

Poetry for Peace

East End Community members read poetry for peace 

Inspired by the current war in the middle east - east enders gathered at Canios Books in Sag Harbor to read poetry on Saturday February 3. 

The readers were Maryann Calendrille, Reverend Kimberly Quinn Johnson, Evan Harris, Kathy Engel, Sigrid Meinel, Bart Malio, Ella Engel-Snow, Monica Enders, Ian Wilder reading his work and Kimberly Wilder's and Kathryn Szoka.

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The Kafka Studies Department

 
Francis Levy and Patricia McCormick talk about            

The Kafka Studies Department, 

Levy's book of stories inspired by Kafka's work.

They spoke at Canios Books in Sag Harbor in January of 2024.

They were introduced by Canios' Maryann Calendrille

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Richard Brockman: Life After Death:

Richard Brockman reads from Life After Death, his evolution from a child overwhelmed by trauma to a man who has struggled to reclaim his past.Life After Death tells the story of a boy who died and of a man who survived when the boy and the man are one and the same. It tells a very personal--yet tragically common--story of irredeemable loss. It tells the story of story itself. How story forms. How it grows. How it changes. How it can be broken. And finally, how sometimes it can be repaired. 

Life after Death was published in 2023 by Arcade Publishing.

 
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Vera Graaf - Virgin Territories

We present Vera Graaf reading from "Virgin Territories," her book set on a Caribbean island.

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We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon

Poetry from a reading at Canios Books, Sag Harbor

first aired in January 2009

 

 

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Remembering Gaza Again with Poetry

We present poetry, thoughts and prayer inspired by the 2014 Gaza war, a military operation launched by Israel after rocket fire from Gaza struck Israel.   It was recorded in the summer of 2014 as the war continued. The recent repetition of that scenario in 2021 inspired tonight's East End Ink.     

Heard were Kathy Engel, Pamela Kallimanis, Kimberly Wilder, Sigrid Meinel, Clare Coss, Blanche Weisen Cook, and the former minister at Incarnation Lutheran Church, Reverend Katrina Foster.  

 first broadcast - June 22, 2021

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