Westchester Poetry Festival

The Masters School and The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center will sponsor the first annual Westchester Poetry Festival on Saturday, April 23, 2011,  from 1:00-5:00 p.m.

The event, which will take place in The Masters School’s Claudia Boettcher Theatre, will feature poetry readings, spoken-word events, workshops, and more. Participating poets include Victoria Bond, Jo Ann Clark, Brenda Conner-Bey, Lynne Francis, Jacquelyn Jones, Iyadba  Mandingo, Jeffrey McDaniel, Kathy Ossip, Donna Reis, Tanya Simon, and Rachel Zucker.

High school students and adults are welcome to attend. Admission and parking are free of charge.

For more information, contact Judy Murphy at judy.murphy@mastersny.org or 914-479-6419.

The Masters School (www.mastersny.org) is a coed day and boarding school that engages fifth-twelfth grade students in a rigorous college preparatory curriculum. Located on a majestic 96-acre suburban campus, the 133-year-old school is just 35 minutes from New York City.

The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, Inc., (www.writerscenter.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing a community in which literary writers and those who love literature celebrate and further the creative process.  The Center presents public readings by established and emerging writers, offers a variety of writing workshops in many genres, organizes educational programs for school children and people with special needs, and publishes new works of literature, advancing the national and international conversation of poetry and poetics, under the imprint of Slapering Hol Press. The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center – advancing the art and craft of writing for twenty-five years.