The Second Word Thursdays Anthology: Poetry & Prose by Bright Hill Press Writers (The Bright Hill Press Word Thursdays Anthology Series, V. 2) [Paperback]

Bertha Rogers (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999 | Series: The Bright Hill Press Word Thursdays Anthology Series, V. 2

Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. On a wintry January evening in 1992, in a hilltop house in the Catskill Mountain region of New York, a reading series began. That series, Word Thursdays, and its subsequent affiliates--the annual Speaking the Words Poets and Writers Tour and Festival, the Share the Words Catskill High-School Poets and Writers Forum, Workshop, and Competition, and Radio by Writers, have hosted more than six hundred established and emerging poets and writers from New York and other states and, through Bright Hill Press, published their poetry and prose. This collection celebrates those vibrant voices.

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About the Author

Bertha Rogers is the founding director and editor in chief of Bright Hill Press; she is an editor, poet, visual artist, and translator. Among her own collections are "Sleeper, You Wake"; "Beowulf"; "A House of Corners"; "The Fourth Beast"; "For the Girl Buried in the Peat Bog"; and "The Reason of Trees."

Product Details

• Paperback: 540 pages
• Publisher: Bright Hill Press; 1st edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964684497
• ISBN-13: 978-0964684492
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,669,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

More than 250 of Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies, and the collections Heart Turned Back (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2010), Even the Hemlock: Poems, Illuminations, Reliquaries (Six Swans Artists Editions, NY, 2005); The Fourth Beast (chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004); A House of Corners (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, 2000); Sleeper, You Wake (Mellen, NY 1991). Her translation of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, was published in 2000 (Birch Brook Press, NY), and her translation of the riddle-poems from the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book, Uncommon Creatures, Singing Things, will be published in 2010 (Birch Brook Press, NY).
In 2002 she received a Ludwig Vogelstein Grant for poetry and visual art; and in 2006 she was the recipient of an AE Ventures Grant for excellence in both poetry and visual art and for contributions to the field through the not-for-profit literary press and center she founded in 1992, http://www.brighthillpress.org at Bright Hill Literary Center in Treadwell, NY. The organization is distinguished for its reading series, Word Thursdays; its poetry publishing program, Bright Hill Press; its children and high-school literary programs, and its word-and-image exhibits, as well as its 10,000-volume humanities library. The organization also developed and administers, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Literary website and print map, http://www.nyslittree.org. She has served as a judge for local, regional, and NY state NEA Poetry Outloud Contests, and she was a member of the selection committee for the first New York Writers Hall of Fame.
Her word and image works have been shown in hundreds of juried and solo exhibits throughout the US and Europe and are collected in the Harry Ransom Archive at the University of Texas and other private and public collections. In 2009 she was awarded a DEC grant for her interdisciplinary exhibit "Riddle Me This: The Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Poems Translated & Illuminated"; the show was at DCHA Museum, Hanford Mills Museum, and the WH Adams Bookstore; it is on tour and being shown through April at the Downtown Writer's Center GallerY, Syracuse.
In 2007 Rogers received the 2007 Teaching Artist Distinguished Service to the Arts in Education Field Award from Partners for Arts Education and the Association of Teaching Artists in New York. She serves as program director for the New York State Literary Web Site, nyslittree.org, publisher of the first Literary Map of New York State (2005), in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts, and she is a member of the New York State Writers in the Schools Panel. Her web site is http://bertharogers.com.