The Writers Forum

We had many weather changes today.  This morning it was a little over 40 degrees and we managed to get up to 52 with rain off and on.  But how about that sunrise!  That was before 6:30am.

After chores I washed all the windows for the barn, and Gary put them up for me when he got back from coffee.  The boys got rained on several times today.

I made a big batch of leek and potato soup this afternoon and had 2 big jars of left to put in the frig after we had dinner.

At 3:30 I went down to the guitar store to try out the jam again.  It was better than the last time.

Nancy and Tom were there, along with Doug (who used to play the bass in our band).  I just needed a music fix.

The rain had stopped and the sky was gorgeous again just before chores.

The boys were wet and it was cold outside.  So glad Gary put in the window this morning.

The look of the sky seems so impacted by the cooler temperatures.

At 7 we left for Brockport to attend the Writers Forum.

It was held in the newest building on campus....so beautiful.

The President of the College was the presenter tonight....Heidi Macpherson.

OCT. 9, 2024, 7:30 P.M. | FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING 

Brockport Writers Forum: Heidi Macpherson

Heidi Macpherson reads from her debut collection of poems, Mo(u)rning Rituals.

Originally from Minnesota, Dr. Macpherson emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1990 and lived there for 22 years. She taught literature and creative writing at the University of Central Lancashire before serving as dean and provost at universities in the UK and US. She became the 7th President of SUNY Brockport in 2015. Her previous books include Women’s Movement(2000), Courting Failure(2007), Transatlantic Women’s Literature(2008), and The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood(2010) in addition to two co-edited collections of essays and a three-volume encyclopedia set. Her poetry has been published in a variety of online literary journals. She writes creatively under her birthname, Heidi Slettedahl, and is currently working on a novel.

  MO(U)RING RITUALS was all about the 8 times she was pregnant and lost each baby through miscarriages.  So moving.

I'm so glad we went to this presentation.  Next Wednesday our house guest, Scott Chasky, will be presenting and we look forward to it.

OCT. 16, 2024, 7:30 P.M. | FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING 

Brockport Writers Forum: Scott Chaskey

A poet and leader of the community farming movement reads from his book Soil and Spirit.

A pioneer of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, for thirty years Scott Chaskey cultivated more than sixty crops for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, one of the original CSAs in the country. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals since the early seventies, and his nonfiction books include Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds and This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm, both published by Penguin Books. Of his latest book Jane Brox wrote, “Soil and Spirit  stands as a beautiful meditation on the endless richness of Earth’s rocks, fungi, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and trees, and our place among them as expressed in word and deed.”

Please also join us for a community event at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, October 15 at the Morgan-Manning House, 151 Main Street in Brockport, where Scott Chaskey will speak and answer questions about native plants, pollinators, and organic gardening. Presented with the support of Gary Skoog and BISCO.

Night all.