MacFadden Coffee Company Open Mic
Please join MacFadden Coffee Company for this month’s featured reading and open mic, on Friday, November 15th, at 6 p. m. at 211 Main Street, Dansville, New York. See the full Winter 2024-25 FLAS Schedule below.
This month’s Finger Lakes Art Series feature is Western Maryland poet and literary activist Jennifer Browne reading from her Appalachia-focused new collection American Crow (Beltway Editions, 2024).
Jennifer Browne falls in love easily with other people’s dogs. She is the author of American Crow (Beltway Editions, 2024) and the poetry chapbooks whisper song (tiny wren publishing, 2023) and The Salt of the Geologic World (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Her work has recently appeared in Poets for Science, Humana Obscura, Trailer Park Quarterly, and One Sentence Poems. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland, where she serves as director of the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts.
The Finger Lakes Arts Series at The MacFadden Coffee Company (211 Main Street, Dansville, NY)
The Series
The Finger Lakes Arts Series features some of the finest writers and visual artists in Western New York and beyond. Each month the series, sponsored by the MacFadden Coffee Company, Poets & Writers, Inc., and the Genesee Valley Arts Council, hosts a single-artist or group exhibit and a themed reading and discussion. Readings are generally scheduled for the third or fourth weekend of the month. We invite writers and artists interested in applying for a featured reading or exhibit to contact us at FingerLakesSeries@gmail.com.
Upcoming Events
All events are FREE, and include an Open Mic for poets, writers, musicians and other artists.Free and open to the public. Hosted by George Guida.
Friday, November 15th, 2024, 6 p. m.–Writing Appalachia
Western Maryland poet and writer Jennifer Browne reads from her new collection American Crow and discusses her experience directing a literary arts center in Apalachia.
Friday, December 13th, 2024, 6 p. m.–Caught in Between: Ethnic Identity Today
Award-winning poet Albert Abonado reads from his new collection Field Guide for Accidents, an irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with questions of family, mortality, cultural history, and identity from the Filipinx-American experience.
Friday, January 24th, 2025, 6 p. m.–Sound, Song and Movement
Western New York poet Rhonda Morton shares her poems and thoughts on the impact of sound and performance on poetry.
Friday, February 28thth, 2025, 6 p. m.–American Guns
Binghamton-based poet and scholar Jessica Femiani reads from her collection The American Gun, about the phenomenon of mass shootings in the United States.
