YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Charles Martin is a poet, translator of poetry, and essayist. The Khayyam Suite is his eighth book of poetry. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Literary Matters, The Hopkins Review and, in numerous anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, and War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Ingram Merrill Grant, a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, and a Pushcart Prize. A former Poet-in-Residence at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses received the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets, and he has also translated The Poems of Catullus and the Medea of Euripides.

This event will be held in person and online.

YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Pip Dolyn (they/them) is queer and trans. They're also a creative person whose current endeavor is writing love stories about other queer and trans people. Pip is inspired to tell stories of imperfect people loving imperfectly and still finding their happy ending. They live in the Northeastern area of the US with their spouse and two cats, Queso and Taako. The Dandelion & The Thistle is their first novel.

This event will be held in person and online.

YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Join us at our Winter open mic night, and strut your stuff... or just listen in! To be added to the list of readers, email Tim Carter. Please plan to read 1-2 pages of poetry, or a bit of prose that you can read in approximately two minutes.