A SLANT OF LIGHT: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY - Readings & Discussion

Event date: 
Friday, November 1, 2013 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
6422 Montgomery St., Suite 6
12572-0482 Rhinebeck
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This event will be held at Oblong Books & Music, 6422 Montgomery St., Rhinebeck, NY. 

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Featuring editors, Laurence Carr & Jan Zlotnik Schmidt (shown at right), together with four of the contributing poets and prose writers: Bobbi Katz, Christine Boyka Kluge, Susan Fox Rogers, Irene O'Garden & Laura Shaine Cunningham

Laurence Carr teaches creative and dramatic writing at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is the author of Pancake Hollow Primer: A Hudson Valley Story and The Wytheport Tales, the coeditor (with Joann Deiudicibus, Penny Freel, and Rachel Rigolino) of WaterWrites: A Hudson River Anthology in Celebration of the Hudson 400, and the editor of Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers, all published by Codhill Press.

A SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at New Paltz, Jan Zlotnik Schmidt teaches courses in composition, autobiography, creative writing, American literature, women’s literature, and Holocaust studies. Her books include two volumes of poetry, We Speak in Tongues and She Had This Memory. She is the editor of Women/Writing/Teaching, also published by SUNY Press, and the coauthor (with Carley Rees Bogarad and Lynne Crockett) of Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction.

The anthology celebrates contemporary prose and poetry of more than a hundred women from New York's Hudson Valley. Writers from the Eastern border to the Catskills and along the length of the Hudson River evocatively address issues that touch not only women, but every reader who desires insight into the human experience.   

A Slant of Light is divided into five sections, each addressing a theme of women's lives. The book begins with Mythos, representations and revisions of myths on women. The second section, Body & Gender, explores visions of the body, gender socialization and the roles of women. The third section, Identity, examines both how women see themselves and how others see women. The fourth section presents women as parents, children, partners and lovers. The last, Woman in the World, shares works that meditate on our collective fate in a global world. What distinguishes this volume is the diversity of women’s perspectives in terms of age, ethnicity, cultural background, and subject matter. The book brings together voices both lyrical and edgy, and challenges readers to think deeply about our changing lives in the twenty-first century.

A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (Codhill Press) By Laurence Carr (Editor), Jan Zlotnik Schmidt (Editor) Cover Image
By Laurence Carr (Editor), Jan Zlotnik Schmidt (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781930337732
Published: Distribution Partners - August 1st, 2013