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SUMMARY:Youth Sport in America: An Evening with William Hoynes 
DESCRIPTION:Manhattanville University’s Sport Knowledge Institute (SKI) is proud to present Youth Sport in America: An Evening with William Hoynes on Thursday\, April 9\, 2026\, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Manhattanville’s historic Reid Castle. The event will feature Dr. William Hoynes\, Professor of Sociology at Vassar College and co-author of More Than Just a Game: How the Youth Sports Industry is Changing the Way We Parent and What to Do About It. \nFollowing Dr. Hoynes’ book talk\, he will be joined in conversation by Dr. Samantha White\, Assistant Professor of Sport Studies at Manhattanville University\, and Manhattanville alumna Lara Keenan ’22\, ’24 MAT\, Athletic Director at Mizzentop Day School\, who holds a BA in Sport Studies and an MAT in Sport Pedagogy and Physical Education. Together\, they will continue the conversation regarding how best to support young athletes and their families. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing following the program.
URL:https://riverjournalonline.com/event/youth-sport-in-america-an-evening-with-william-hoynes/
LOCATION:Manhattanville University (East Library)\, 2900 Purchase Street\, Purchase\, NY\, 10577\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books and Authors,Discussion,Educational,Sports
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SUMMARY:16th Annual Westchester Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, April 10\, in-person\, at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry for the 16th Annual Westchester Poetry Festival featuring Kimiko Hahn\, Lauren Camp\, Samyak Shertok\, and Phylisha Villanueva. Books will be available for purchase onsite. \nPlease note the event will be located at the new Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center right next door to Estherwood\, at 49 Clinton Avenue. The event is free to attend\, but we are always grateful for an optional donation to support the readers’ honoraria. We appreciate your continued support.  \nKimiko Hahn is the author of eleven books of poems\, including: The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton\, 2024); Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton\, 2020); Brain Fever (WWN\, 2014)\, and Toxic Flora (WWN\, 2010)\, all collections prompted by science; The Narrow Road to the Interior (WWN\, 2006)\, a collection that takes its title from Basho’s famous poetic journal; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya\, 1996)\, which received an American Book Award; Earshot (Hanging Loose Press\, 1992)\, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award. Hahn’s major contribution to American literary scene may be the introduction of a genre that is neither poetry nor prose: the Japanese zuihitsu. In the Asian American Writer’s Workshop journal\, The Margins\, Dana Isokawa wrote: “Hahn laid the groundwork for the zuihitsu in American poetry\, in particular with her collection The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton\, 2006). Shortly after the book came out\, Hahn shared in a BOMB interview that she initially studied zuihitsu in an academic setting but started writing them in the nineties after being invited to do so for a reading at the Poetry Project celebrating Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book. While the zuihitsu is frequently compared to an essay\, Hahn showed its possibilities as a poetic text.” The writer Rajiv Mohabir has said of her: “[The zuihitsu] was brought into the world of American poetry through the work of Kimiko Hahn and it resists simple genre definition\, relying on temperature and voice\, arrangement and precision.” She wrote a 2021 article for the American Poetry Review\, “The Zuihitsu and the Toadstool” and\, at present\, she and Dana Isokawa are co-editing an anthology of zuihitsu\, from the Japanese classics on to contemporary American versions (forthcoming W.W. Norton\, 2026). As part of Hahn’s service to the CUNY community\, she initiated a Chapbook Festival that became an annual event co-sponsored by major literary organizations. Since then\, she has added chapbooks to her list of publications: (Write it!): a collection of odes\, Brittle Process\, Brood\, Ragged Evidence\, A Field Guide to the Intractable\, Boxes with Respect\, The Cryptic Chamber\, and Resplendent Slug. In 2017\, she and Tamiko Beyer collaborated on the chapbook Dovetail. She takes pleasure in the challenges of collaboration: writing text for film including: Coal Fields\, the 1985 experimental documentary by Bill Brand; Ain’t Nuthin’ but a She Thing a 1995 HBO special; and Everywhere at Once\, a 2008 film based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau). Hahn’s honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, PEN/Voelcker Award\, Shelley Memorial Prize\, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the N.Y. Foundation for the Arts. She has taught in graduate programs at the University of Houston and New York University. Hahn has also taught for literary organizations such as the Fine Arts Work Center\, Cave Canem\, and Kundiman. From 2016-2019\, Hahn was President of the Board of Governors\, Poetry Society of America. In 2023\, she was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. She will serve as New York State Poet from 2025-2027. She lives in New York where she is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College\, The City University of New York. \nLauren Camp is the author of nine books\, most recently Is Is Enough (Texas Review Press\, 2026) and In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy\, 2024)\, which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Other honors include fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute\, a Dorset Prize\, the New Mexico Book Award\, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have appeared in The Nation\, Kenyon Review\, and Poem-a-Day and have been translated into Mandarin\, Turkish\, Spanish\, French\, and Arabic. She served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate (2022-25). www.laurencamp.com \nSamyak Shertok’s debut collection\, No Rhododendron (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2025)\, was selected by Kimiko Hahn for the 2024 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2026 PEN Open Book Award. His poems appear in The Cincinnati Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Iowa Review\, The Kenyon Review\, POETRY\, Shenandoah\, Waxwing\, Best New Poets\, and elsewhere. His work has been awarded the Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Poetry\, the Gulf Coast Prize in Poetry\, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal\, he is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University. \nPhylisha Villanueva is a Belizean-American poet\, author\, and educator whose work explores identity\, resilience\, and mysticism. Born in the Bronx and raised in Yonkers\, her storytelling is deeply informed by her Belizean heritage and shaped by her experiences navigating womanhood\, motherhood\, and survival. She co-founded The Yonkers Writing Group and launched the Blue Door Art Center Open Mic Night in 2009. Villanueva is also a proud member of the Jazz and Poetry Choir Collective and the international women’s poetry collective Tesoro. In January 2024\, she was appointed Westchester County’s second Poet Laureate\, becoming the first woman of color to hold the title. In this role\, she has continued her work as a teaching artist with ArtsWestchester\, hosted open mics at Bethany Arts Community\, led poetry workshops at the Westchester County Correctional Facility\, and co-curated an exhibition with the Hudson River Museum\, where she collaborated with fellow writers to bring fresh perspectives to the museum’s archives and collection. At the historic swearing-in of Deputy County Executive Ken Jenkins—the first African American to serve in that position—Villanueva read her poem “Hope for Us is a Deep Current.” She has also shared her work at the Nuyorican Poets Café\, New York University\, John Jay College\, Pace University\, St Francis College\, the Hudson Valley Writers Center\, Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Center\, and the Bahá’í Center.
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LOCATION:The Master’s School\, 49 Clinton Ave\, Dobbs Ferry\, 10522
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SUMMARY:Local Author Event
DESCRIPTION:Discover Local Authors from our own community!\nMeet local writers and hear about their books–and support local creativity! Each author will present their work and sign copies of their books from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Hudson Valley Books for Humanity will provide a variety of local authors’ books for sale. \nLight Refreshments will be served. Participating Authors are:  \nCaroline Curvan\nMark Edelson\nRichard Greene\nOphelia Hill\nDonald R. Kirsch\nRebecca McAteer\nRobert L. O’Brian
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SUMMARY:Local Author Event
DESCRIPTION:Discover Local Authors from our own community!\nMeet local writers and hear about their books–and support local creativity! Each author will present their work and sign copies of their books from 11:00am to 1:00pm. Hudson Valley Books for Humanity will provide a variety of local authors’ books for sale. \nLight Refreshments will be served. Participating Authors are:  \nCaroline Curvan\nMark Edelson\nRichard Greene\nOphelia Hill\nDonald R. Kirsch\nRebecca McAteer\nRobert L. O’Brian
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SUMMARY:A Prose Reading with Stephanie Stein Crease and Linda Dahl
DESCRIPTION:Join jazz biographer Stephanie Stein Crease and novelist Linda Dahl as they trade fours on America’s great art form\, read excerpts from their work\, and invite listeners to riff about jazz and its influence on American writing. \nStephanie Stein Crease is a jazz historian\, author\, and editor. Her most recent book is Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, which received the 2024 Associated Recorded Sound Collection Award (ARSC) for Excellence. Her previous books are Gil Evans: Out of the Cool\, 2002 ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award; Duke Ellington for Kids and Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play A Musical Instrument. She was a contributor to The Jazz Omnibus: 21st- Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association (Cymbal Press 2025); the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz and the Oxford Companion Guide to Jazz. She was a 2020 Scholar-in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, NYPL\, and 2018 Berger-Benny Carter-Berger Research Fellow at the Institute of Jazz Studies\, Rutgers University. Her articles have appeared in Downbeat\, Jazziz\, Chamber Music America and other publications\, and she is the author of many CD liner notes and concert program notes. She has been a guest speaker at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem\, Institute of Jazz Studies\, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts\, and interviewed on WKCR\, WBGO\, BBC2 and other radio stations.  \nLinda Dahl began writing as a freelancer about two passions\, jazz and Latin America\, before turning to fiction. She has written ten published books\, including the novels Tiny Vices\, An Upside-Down Sky\, Gringa in a Strange Land\, and The Bad Dream Notebook\, and the nonfiction works Stormy Weather and Morning Glory. Her books have consistently garnered awards and praise\, including a Notable Book of the Year nod from The New York Times Book Review for Morning Glory in 2000 and an IBPA Ben Franklin Awards Finalist in Popular Fiction for The Bad Dream Notebook in 2017. Linda loves reading\, swimming\, music\, and doing volunteer work in her community. She lives in Riverdale\, New York. Find her online at lindadahlbooks.com.
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LOCATION:Hudson Valley Writers Center\, 300 Riverside Drive\, Sleepy Hollow\, NY\, 10591\, United States
CATEGORIES:Books and Authors
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SUMMARY:Collapse & Renewal: A Conversation with Luke Kemp and Douglas Ruskhoff
DESCRIPTION:Luke Kemp and Douglas Ruskhoff will discuss Luke’s new book Goliath’s Curse\, bringing historical perspective and cultural insight to the intertwined crises of our time. Their conversation will explore what the rise and fall of past societies can teach us about the pressures facing our own moment\, while also pointing to pathways forward and the reasons for guarded hope. Friday\, April 17th\, Irvington Presbyterian Church\, 7–9pm.
URL:https://riverjournalonline.com/event/collapse-renewal-a-conversation-with-luke-kemp-and-douglas-ruskhoff/
LOCATION:Irvington Presbyterian Church\, 25 North Broadway\, Irvington\, 10533
CATEGORIES:Books and Authors
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