GRAY HAIR READING SERIES

Kastle Brill has two chapbooks: One Night Stands & Other Pieces of Time and The Head. Her work has been anthologized in various publications including White Pine Journal, Black Mountain II Review, Serendityarts, Poetry on the Bus, and Earth's Daughters. Her association with Earth's Daughters began with a drawing that became the cover design of its second issue. She has been an editor, member of the collective, and occasional cover designer since Earth's Daughters #8.

Kastle has shared the stage in paired readings with Joanne Kyger, Bobby Louise Hawkins, and Sharon Dubiago, as well as sharing a NYSCA panel and reading with Allen Ginsberg, Jim Carroll, and Kathleen Betsko. She has done numerous readings in WNY for Just Buffalo Literary Center, NYSCA, Artists Gallery, Buffalo State College, Niagara Erie Writers, and Ujima Theatre Company. Her monologue …And the Beast was performed at TheaterLoft, and she performed "First Love" with Hag Theatre at Hallwalls.

Joyce Kessel has been a member of Earth's Daughters since 1989. Her work has appeared on WNY Metro buses through Swift Kick, and in Black Mountain II Review, Pure Light, Earth's Daughters, A Room of Our Own, Reader's Quarterly, and many other publications. She has read at Hilbert College, ECC City Campus, Hallwalls, PeopleArt, Olean Public Library, and other venues, and on AudibleInk Radio. She is most proud of her inclusion in the WNY Peace Center's anthology Poets Waging Words for Peace. Now on the far side of 25 years of teaching literature, writing, fine arts, and interdisciplinary courses at Villa Maria College, she regularly reviews audio books for Library Journal. She also serves as co-advisor to the college's student publications: Skald, Villa's nationally acclaimed creative arts magazine, and The Viking, the student news bulletin.

Poet ryki zuckerman is author of the book body of the work (Textile Bridge Press, 2nd edition 2006). Her poems have appeared in such small press magazines as Black Mountain College II Review, Slipstream, Swift Kick, Monthly Planet, Lipstick, Escarpments, Paunch, and Pure Light, as well as the Buffalo News and Artvoice. She herself is an editor of Earth's Daughters magazine, a feminist literary periodical now in its 36th year of publication, and was program coordinator for many years for Niagara-Erie Writers (NEW).

Robert Creeley said of her work: "ryki zuckerman practices the lively art of upfront truth-telling with a valid poetic license. Viz., she enjoys her work and, if you can open your ears and hear it, so will you."

She has read at Nietzsche's, Insite Gallery, Impact Gallery, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Peopleart, the Kenmore Library, and other venues in Buffalo and outlying counties, as well as on spoken arts programs on WNED-TV, WBFO-FM, and WHLD-AM. She has also read at Passaic Community College in New Jersey and a bookstore in Manhattan.

She has taught writing workshops for adults and for children, including for NEW and Summerarts in the Park. She is a part-time Assistant Professor in the Art Department of Erie Community College, City Campus, where she will be teaching this summer. She taught art in the public schools for over 30 years. Photo Credit: Dale Anderson.

Earth's Daughters magazine, the oldest continuously published feminist literary arts periodical in the U.S., is currently celebrating its 36th year. Publication of Earth's Daughters magazine is made possible by a NYSCA Decentralization grant from the Arts Council in Buffalo & Erie County.

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