Bright Hill Press

Thank you to all our readers last night at our first Word Thursdays of the 29th season celebrating Black History Month. If you missed it, you can still watch right here on our Facebook page. We appreciate everyone’s continued support throughout the pandemic. We’ve been working hard on planning this year’s upcoming virtual events. View our full 2021 season schedule on our website: https://brighthillpress.org/calendar/ Or on our Facebook page:... https://www.facebook.com/brighthp/events Thank you for helping us keep art and literature alive in the Catskills and beyond. Consider a donation to Bright Hill Press, no amount is too small or too big: https://paypal.me/brighthillpress Pictured ... featured reader and author of Africaville, Jeffrey Colvin (Purchase copies of Africaville on www.jeffreycolvin.com) with open mic participants, Emmitt Thrower, Bertha Rogers, co-founders of People's Perception Project, Sierra Sangetti-Daniels and Eric Kossoff. (Find out more about P3’s mission at www.peoplesperceptionproject.com) and host of last night’s Word Thursdays and executive director of Bright Hill Press, Beatrice Georgalidis

Word Thursdays Celebrating Black History Month with Jeffrey Colvin,Emmitt Thrower, Sierra Sangetti-Daniels, @ErikKossoff, and our founding director, Bertha Rogers. An amazing evening lifting up black voices with very special guests.

So excited for this tonight at 7pm! Join us here on Facebook Live or at this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84488608758 #blackhistorymonth #liftblackvoices #wordthursdays #brighthillpress

Tomorrow at 7pm!!!!

Thank you, Lawrence. RIP.

Bright Hill was featured on television, today on WBNG Channel 12! We are so honored to be recipients of the Southern Tier Tuesdays grant, and to be able to have this opportunity to share information about the enriching arts and arts education programs we offer to our community! Thanks to all of our poets, artists, students, and audience who helped us to win this wonderful award. Stay tuned for our 2021 season schedule! #southerntier #tiertuesdays #brighthillpress #literary #poetry #art #catskills #treadwell #oneonta #keepingliteraturealive #wbng #wordthursdays #virtual #iloveny #ispyny #treadwell #catskills #literature

Four award-winning poets read from their own work and share brief reflections on a Black History Month. Happening now at www.wab.org

Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman is 22!!!

Thank you, Around the Tiers, for this tremendous honor! We owe it all to our poets, artists, writers, students, and audience!!!

with thanks to Read It Forward

We are all poets really With thanks to illustrator @_bozh_ (on Instagram)

with thanks to Jane Carr, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Audubon.org

Throwback to this fantastic dinner with the New York State poet laureate Alicia Ostriker and dear friends, poets, and artists of Bright Hill, before her featured reading in the library in 2018, a magical evening we will always remember. You can rewatch her Word Thursdays Online feature from April 2020 right here on our website: https://brighthillpress.org/word-thursdays/ With Katharine Morgan, Lexington Swartwood, Bertha Rogers, Cicada Musselman, Maria Alverez, Beatrice Georgalidis, Lisa Wujnovich, Lynne Kemen, Gayane Torossian, Lorinda MacRae Morgan, Bob Sloss