“Poets Uncover Worlds” Fall Poetry Reading at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library

Join us for an afternoon poetry reading with Susana H. Case, Marilyn A. Johnson, and Harriet Shenkman, who will read from their published poems or collections on Saturday, October 19 at 2:30 p.m at the Dobbs Ferry Public Library. 

If you are coming by car, we are conveniently located one mile from the Saw Mill’s Exit 17, and also a short walk up the hill from Metro North’s Dobbs Ferry station on the Hudson Line. This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Public Library.

Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn’t Love, Broadstone Books, and co-editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Milk & Cake Press. The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café, Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in an English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press and in 2024 as an English-Ukrainian edition,Шотландська Кав’ярня by Slapering Hol Press. Case has been widely published in journals, including Calyx, The Cortland Review, Fourteen Hills, Portland Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, & RHINO, among others. https://www.susanahcase.com

Marilyn A. Johnson is the author of three non-fiction books—The Dead Beat, a NY Times bestseller and finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize; This Book Is Overdue! which received Westchester Library System’s National Library Week Recognition Award; and Lives in Ruins, a NYTimes bestseller and one of Publisher Weekly’s Best Books of 2014. She’s been publishing poems in literary magazines since she was 14. Her recent poetry can be read online in Pedestal, Plume, The Provincetown Independent, and Inkwell, and several of her poems are planted in the gardens at Stonecrop in Cold Spring until the end of October. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

Harriet Shenkman is the current Poet-in-Residence at the JCC of Mid Westchester. She earned a Ph.D. from Fordham University, an M.Ed. from Duke University, and is a professor emerita at City University of New York. Her poetry awards include the Women’s National Book Association Annual Contest and the Women Who Write International Poetry Contest. Her work has appeared in Westchester Review, The Alexandria Quarterly, Comstock Review and The Berru Poetry Series of the Jewish Book Council, and elsewhere. Two poetry chapbooks were published by Finishing Line Press. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York and is a first generation American. She has read her poetry at libraries, synagogues, the JCC, and other venues.