A selection of news items about and appearances by Phyllis Beck Katz
NEWS
Finding Ithaca and Migrations, may be ordered from: the Norwich Bookstore (802-649-1114, info@norwichbookstore.com) and from Broadside Bookshop (413-586-4235).
All Roads Go Where They Will may be ordered from Phyllis: pkatzpoet@gmail.com
Phyllis's poem, "East of Thebes" is included in the 2017 Anthology of 30 Poems in November, published in 2018 by the Center for New Americans.
Phyllis's poem "Paradise Pond" appears in Compass Roads: a Dispatch from Paradise, an anthology of The Straw Dogs Writers Guild.
Phyllis's poem "Under Ledyard Bridge" appears in Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont.
Two of Phyllis's poems, "Letter to Myself," and "Curriculum Vitae at 74" are included in the anthology Roads Taken: Contemporary Vermont Poetry, released by Greenwriters Press, 2017.
Phyllis is an active member of the Poetry Discussion Group held every Monday evening at Northampton’s Forbes Library. On April 9, 2018 she presented poems from What the Living Do, and Magdalene by Marie Howe. On November 6, 2017 she presented poems from Vievee Francis’ awarding winning book, Forest Primeval published by Northwestern University Press, 2015.
EVENTS
June 3, 2018 A celebration of Phyllis’s Finding Ithaca and Diana Gordon’s new poems and selections from Nightly, at the Instituteof the Possible, at the home of Laura Katz and Dan Berger, 106 Vernon Street, Northampton, MA, 5:00-7:00 p.m
June 2, 2018 Phyllis shares her poem “Under Ledyard Bridge” as part of a reading from Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont, Volume 2, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont, 2:00 p.m.
May 23, 2018 Phyllis reads from her new book Finding Ithaca, Dos Madres Press, 2018, at the Norwich Bookstore, 7:00 pm. For reservations contact the Norwich Bookstore.
May 10, 2018 Phyllis read her poem “ Paradise Pond” at a reading of Compass Roads: Poems about the Pioneer Valley at the Montague Book Mill, 7:00 p.m..
April 14, 2018 Phyllis read her poem "Paradise Pond" as part of a group reading from Compass Roads: Poems about the Pioneer Valley, 2018 on at White Square Books, Easthampton, MA.