November 13: Poetry Reading, Victoria Boynton

On Nov. 13 at 7 pm, Victoria Boynton will read poetry from Contraptions, a collaboration with Upstairs Gallery artist Marney Lieberman. This collage/poetry combo was originally published part of the High Watermark Salo[o]n Chapbook Series (volume 1, number 3).

This reading is presented as part of Victoria and Marney’s concurrent exhibit at The Upstairs Gallery. Please also join us for their opening on Friday, November 6 at 5-8 PM.

Building Codes: Three Generations of Poets

Building Codes: Three Generations of Poets
A Poetry Reading and Video Screening
AUGUST 26
7 pm

Belle Gironda (top) and Caterina Gironda (bottom) at the High Watermark Salo[on

Please join the Upstairs Gallery and Stockport Flats Press as we celebrate the release of Belle Gironda’s experimental poetry collection, Building Codes. Gironda’s father and daughter, Jim Crenner and Caterina Gironda, share the stage for a three-generation poetic tapas. Between Uncertainties, a new video Belle Gironda completed in residency at Berlin’s Takt Kunstprojektraum, will complete the evening’s event.

JIM CRENNER is a Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing and the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Drinks at the Stand-up Tragedy Club (Hobart & William Smith Colleges Press, 2008), which Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Charles Wright calls “Some magical melding of Monty Python and John Donne.” Crenner studied poetry writing with Donald Justice at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was a co-founder and co-editor of the literary magazine The Seneca Review, and has had poems appear over the years in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Parnassus, and The New Republic. A poem from his latest collection can be seen at the on-line site Poetry Daily for January 4, 2009; a newer one is on the “Poetry Prizes Page” at torhouse.org.

BELLE GIRONDA‘s poems have appeared recently in Crayon, Confrontation and CRIT Journal. She is the author of two chapbooks: Start Here from St. Andrews Press and Volume 1 Number 4 with the artist Sheila Goloborotko in the High Watermark Salo[o]n Series, from Stockport Flats Press. She worked as an art critic for several years before attending graduate school and was among the editors who transformed The Little Magazine from a print to an electronic journal, one of the first of its kind. Gironda sometimes plays with video and performance, and currently teaches writing in Cairo, Egypt. Right now, she’s enjoying a month’s residency at Takt Kunstprojektraum, in Berlin, Germany.
See www.cairocult.wordpress.com and http://webdesignfordham.com/ for samples of Belle’s work.

A New York City resident and graduate of Brooklyn College, CATERINA  GIRONDA represents the third generation of poets in the Crenner/Gironda clan. In addition to being “debilitating non-prolific,” she has never been published, and she is “generally disinclined to showcase her work in any medium, with the singular exception of the slam.” That being said, Caterina hopes that you enjoy the poetry.

July 31: Ithaca Artists’ Market

Come see us at the Ithaca Artists’ Market, a juried art show, on Friday July 31, 2 – 8 PM, at Steamboat Landing, home of the Ithaca Farmers’ Market! We will be in one of the corner booths right by the entrance. You can’t miss us!

We will have:

• Affordable art by our featured artists (from past, present, and future): Monica Franciscus, Laurel Guy, Dede Hatch, J. Robert Lennon, Nancy Maas, Ben Marlan, Tim Merrick, Alice Muhlback, Barbara Page, Jim Spitznagel, Margaret Strother, Werner Sun, Scott VanGaasbeck
• Raffle for a $35 gift certificate
• Membership information

This year’s Artists’ Market moves to a Friday evening and features many more booths than the previous Sunday markets. In addition to the 60 artists, there will also be food, desserts, wine, live music, and boat rides. Join us for a pleasant evening of art by the water!