The Triple-A Reading Series (Authors At Artisan) is a collaboration between Artisan Gallery and Midway Journal. This community event features one local author, one MFA/PhD Creative Writing student from Binghamton University, and one featured author from greater Upstate New York (or New York City). Join us on Saturday, July 26 from 2-4 PM for an hour of reading and the second hour for questions and book signing.
This free event is funded in part by Poets & Writers.
Featured Reader: Yvonne C. Murphy
BU MFA/PhD Reader: Alycia Calvert
Local Reader: Robert Gibbons
Yvonne C. Murphy is Professor of Arts and Media at SUNY Empire State University, where she teaches Creative Writing and Visual Art. She Co-Chairs and co-developed the ESU bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and often teaches workshops for The Writer’s Center at the Downtown YMCA of Syracuse. Her first book of poetry, AVIARIES, was selected by Minnie Bruce Pratt for the Carolina Wren Press Book Award. Yvonne’s poems have been published widely in U.S. and Canadian literary journals. She lives in Cazenovia, NY.
Alycia Calvert (she/her) is a neurodivergent and later-in-life lesbian. Her work was shortlisted for the Writer’s Rebel Flash Fiction Competition, and she has stories in The Hunger Journal, The Banshee, Hecate and elsewhere. She is a third year PhD student at Binghamton University, and earned her MFA in Fiction from UNLV in 2022. She recently participated in Arquetopia’s “Decolonizing Artistic Practice” Residency in Cusco, Peru. Before that was invited to participate as artist in residence at La Maison Verte de Marnay Sur Seine in France. You can connect with her on instagram @alycia.calvertwrites and alyciacalvert.wixsite.com/alyciacalvertwriter.
Robert Anthony Gibbons is a poet who has been published in over thirty literary magazines and in several notable anthologies. Recent publication credits include Magma, Obsidian Journal, Killens Review, Tribes, Involuntary Magazine, Peregrine, Expound, Promethean, Turtle Island Quarterly, Killer Whale, and Suisun Valley Review, Voices of Lefferts and the Bronx Memoir Project: Vol. 2 published by the Bronx Council of the Arts. Robert’s first collection, Close to the Tree, published by Three Rooms Press (2012). His chapbook, Flight, published by Poets Wear Prada (2019) You Almost Home, boy, published by Harlequin Creatures (2019) with Brooklyn based artist, Amy Williams, “Some Little Words” published 440 Gallery, Brooklyn (2021).
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