Reading to Launch Anthology, Share How Poets 'See Things'
By TERESA WINCHESTERONEONTA
The Oneonta Literary Festival 2024-25 will present The Bright Hill poets on Tuesday, November 12 at 7 p.m. in the Morris Conference Center’s Craven Lounge on the SUNY Oneonta campus. Twelve poets from the “Seeing Things” poetry workshop will showcase their work in celebration of their new anthology, “Seeing Things 2.” The reading is free and open to the public.
Reading at the event will be workshop members Diane Bliss (Middletown), Allison Collins (Unadilla), Jesse Hilson and Mary Ladany (Bovina), Bertha Rogers and Lynne Kemen (Franklin), Julene Waffle (Laurens), Vicki Whicker (Burlington Flats), and Elizabeth Huntington, Bhala Jones, Pam Strother, and Julie Suarez (Oneonta). The anthology was edited by workshop director Robert Bensen, former Hartwick College professor and director of writing (1978-2017).
The reading is sponsored by the Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in Treadwell, as well as by OLF partners Hartwick College, SUNY Oneonta, the Community Arts Network of Oneonta and Huntington Memorial Library.
Elizabeth Huntington is a learning specialist at SUNY Oneonta. Her poetry has been published in several literary journals, and won the Lane Literary Guild’s (Eugene, Oregon) Writers at the Hult award.
Huntington has been writing poetry since age 6 but describes herself as a “closet poet.” In 2020, having recently lost her husband while also trying to carry on during the pandemic, Huntington, at the urging of Bensen, joined the Seeing Things workshop.
