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NEW EVENTS

Readings by Virginia Walker and Michael Walsh from Neuron Mirror
	March 20, 2015   7:30 PM, Friday
"Friday Night Dialogues,"
Shelter Island Public Library, 37 North Ferry Road (Route 114), Shelter Island, N.Y. 11964 631 749-0042 March 28, 2015 2:00 PM, Saturday
"Afternoon with Poets,"
East Hampton Public Library, 159 East Main Street East Hampton, N.Y. 11937 631 324-0222 May 3, 2015 2:00 PM , Sunday
"A Reading by Virginia Walker and Michael Walsh,"
Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Cooper's Farm Road, Southampton, N.Y. 11968 631 283-0774

Previous Events:

Poetry Performances, Short Story Readings, Dramatic Readings:
 
				My own Poetry:
Poetry Events:
		-Featured Poet, East End Poets Annual Festival,
                 	2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 Bridgehampton/Southampton.
                	(I am a member of the East End Poetry Workshop.)A
                Dowling College Poetry Night, March 18, 2000.
                Shelter Island Arts Festival, March 19-20, 1999.
 
 
Readings:
		-Featured Poet, recent and regular
                 Verses in the Garden, Bridgehampton Library, 2010
                 Cool Beanz Café, St. James, N.Y., 2009;
                 Marine Museum, East Hampton, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007,
                 2009, 2011, 2013;              
                 Jefferson Market Library, New York, 2007
                 Stony Brook University, Anthology Party, 2006.
                 Montauk Public Library, Whitman Festival, 2005
                 Southampton Library, 1998, 1997,1995, 2001, 2002, 2003,2005;
                 Easthampton and Bridgehampton Public Libraries, 2004, 2005;
                 Blue Poodle Gallery of Southampton, 2002;
                 Shelter Island Public Library, 2001, 2006.
                 Barnes & Noble 86th St. and Lex., NYC, 1997;
                 Paumanock Vineyard, 1996;
                 Marine Museum, East Hampton, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009;
                 Bohemia--Live Poets, 1995, 1996;
                 Mid-Manhattan Public Library, 1996, 1993;
                 Hampton Bays Library, 1995;
                 Clayton-Liberatore Gallery, 1994-1995;
                 Pindar Vineyard, 1994;
                 Borders Books--Westbury, 1994;
                 Harvest Festival--Suffolk County, 1994;
                 Westhampton Beach Library, 1993;
                 Paris Cafe, Huntington, 1994;
                 Riverhead Library, 1994;
                 Shelter Island Gallery, 1994. 
	Also: 
                 -Reader--Featured Regular at Canio's Bookstore in Sag Harbor, 1982-2004.
                 -Reader in Shelter Island Poetry Project, 1990, 1991, 1993.
                 -Guest Reader of the Minetta Review, New York, 1989
                 -Featured Poet, Westhampton Poetry Festival, 1986.
              
Radio Readings: 
                 WUSB, Stony Brook University;
                 Southampton College Radio; WLNG; Southampton 
                 Public Radio; Adelphi University Radio, WPBX                                 
                 (PBS) Southampton, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2002.

Television Performances
		Guest on Ideas and Images, Channel 27, Peconic Bay Television
			Program: Jeanne Voege Memorial Award Winners, 1992; 
			Program: Voege Book Reading, 1993;
			Program: Interview, 1994.
             	-Video of Canio's Reading, East Hampton T.V., 1990
             	-Television Performance, Channel 6, 1983.     


My Own Stories: -Reader at Canio's Bookstore in Sag Harbor, 1992.
The Poetry of Other Poets: -Reader in Poets of the Past Project, (read Allen Tate, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore), Westhampton Beach (Hampton Square Gallery), 1990. (John Donne and Elizabeth Barrett Browning for 1992).
Dramatic Performances: - Dona Ana in "Don Juan in Hell" Westhampton Beach Library and the Sag Harbor Whalers Church, 1990-1991 - Madrigal in "The Chalk Garden" Southampton Cultural Center, 1991



Σ Τ Δ (Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society),
μτ (Mu Tau Chapter) of Dowling College presents a Poetry Reading:

Neuron Mirror

Poems by Virginia Walker and Michael Walsh

Tuesday, October 21, 2014,
11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
Hunt Room, Fortunoff Hall,

Open to all members of the Dowling Community.
For more information: walkerv@dowling.edu
This new book has already received raves from poets and critics:
  • "a liberal education in things that matter," Philip Appleman
  • "knowledgeable and compassionate force to Virginia Walker's poems," Ann Hammond

The event will include a reading, a question and answer session with the poets, a workshop (time permitting), and refreshments. Books will be available for purchase at twenty dollars, and the poets will sign the books.

    NOTE:   All proceeds from Neuron Mirror will go to research on preventing and treating pancreatic cancer.
This book is dedicated to the memory of
  • Helen Shields
  • Diana Chang
  • Siv Cedering
  • Robert Long
  • Antje Katcher

great humans,
wonderful poets,
and inspiring artists.

All were victims of pancreatic cancer.





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Virginia S. Walker, PhD
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