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ABOUT THE CENTER
The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository, Inc. is a 501(c) (3). We are committed to enriching lives through the spirit and power of poetry and literature. We provide innovative literary programs to instill wellbeing, encourage creativity, and increase awareness of poetry and literature.
The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository, Inc has many archival materials. The collection accumulated is approximately: 1,000+ books; audio and video tapes; photographs; and other materials related to Long Island poetry and literature, some dating back to the 1800s.
We offer scholars & laypersons the opportunity to research and/or browse the extensive collection.
A link to a video of our location, and what we are about can be viewing by looking in our "Portfolio" or following this link:
The Center
The Long Island community can enjoy this Long Island treasure for many years to come. Our organization is one in which people can utilize for attending or conducting readings, lectures, symposiums (for a nominal fee), browse the collection and so much more. It is the headquarters from which we can reach under served segments of the community, such as senior citizens, at-risk youth, as well as the above-mentioned groups.
The only days and times we have slated are the 3rd. Thursdays of each month. All other days and times are open for use. Please call or email for more information.
The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository, Inc. is a 501(c) (3). We are committed to enriching lives through the spirit and power of poetry and literature. We provide innovative literary programs to instill wellbeing, encourage creativity, and increase awareness of poetry and literature.
The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository, Inc has many archival materials. The collection accumulated is approximately: 1,000+ books; audio and video tapes; photographs; and other materials related to Long Island poetry and literature, some dating back to the 1800s.
We offer scholars & laypersons the opportunity to research and/or browse the extensive collection.
A link to a video of our location, and what we are about can be viewing by looking in our "Portfolio" or following this link:
The Center
The Long Island community can enjoy this Long Island treasure for many years to come. Our organization is one in which people can utilize for attending or conducting readings, lectures, symposiums (for a nominal fee), browse the collection and so much more. It is the headquarters from which we can reach under served segments of the community, such as senior citizens, at-risk youth, as well as the above-mentioned groups.
The only days and times we have slated are the 3rd. Thursdays of each month. All other days and times are open for use. Please call or email for more information.
Message From the Founder & President
Team
Dr. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Suffolk County Poet Laurate 2009 - 2011
Executive Board, President
Joeseph Morgan
Executive Board, Vice President
Vincent Carbone
Executive Board, Secretary
Eliza Jo Morgan
Executive Board, Treasurer
Mindy H. Kronenberg
LITERATURE AMBASSADOR OF LONG ISLAND 2024-2026
Ms. Barbara Southard, Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2019-2021
Board Member
Dr. David B. Axelrod, Volusia County, Florida Poet Laureate (2015-2023); Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2007-2009
Board Member
Mr. Robert Savino, Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2015-2017
Board Member
Mindy H. Kronenberg
Editorial Board
Dr. John Lutz, Chair of Department of English, Philosophy, and Foreign Languages; LIU
Board Member
Deborah Hauser, Poet, Feminist, Activist, Certified Ennui Therapist Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2023-2025
Board Member
Pramila Venkateswaran, Suffolk County Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15)
Board Member
Kathaleen Donnelly
Board Member
Editor of the Paumanok Trilogy
Dr. Dave Waxman
Board Member & Editorial Board
Richard F. King
Board Member
Author, The Color Of Drowning
Mr. Peter V. Dugan, Nassau County Poet Laureate, 2017 - 2019
Board Member
Anthony Policano, Poet, Photographer, Long Island Poetry Collective Board Member, Editor & Workshop Leader
Board Member
Ms. Judy Turek, Walt Whitman Birthplace 2019 Long Island Poet of the Year
Board Member Poet-in-Residence 2024 - 2029
Members
Gayl Teller
Member
Nassau County Poet Laureate for 2009-11 and the Walt Whitman Birthplace 2016 Poet of the Year, Gayl Teller is author of 7 poetry collections, most recently, Flashlight: New and Selected Poems (WordTech/ Cherry Grove Collections, 2019) and the editor of two poetry anthologies— Toward Forgiveness (Writers Ink, 2011): awarded a NY State Decentralization Grant for the Arts, and Corona: An Anthology of Poems (Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 2020). Director of the Poetry Series at the Mid-Island Y, in Plainview, for 25 years and a Hofstra University professor, she was selected as the Seventh Quarry Press Poet of the Month for February, 2022, in Swansea, Wales, and she has been the recipient of the Westmoreland Arts & Heritage Poetry Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Prize, a National League of American PEN Women Prize, the Peninsula Library Poetry Prize, a National Federation of State Poetry Societies Prize, the Artists Embassy International Poetry Award, and others. Her website: www.gaylteller.com
Thaddeus Rutkowski
Member
Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of eight books of prose and poetry, most recently Safe Colors, a novel in short fictions. His novel Haywire won the members’ choice award from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. He teaches at Medgar Evers College, Columbia University, and a YMCA and received a fiction writing fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. www.thaddeusrutkowski.com
Nina (Nanette) Yavel
Member
Nina (Nanette) Yavel’s poetry has appeared in several collected works and international publications--Beyond Words, Bitterroot, An anthology of International Poetry; Nassau County Poet Laureate Review, Paumanok Transition. She was awarded first prize for poetry competitions sponsored by Barnes and Noble, The Owl in Garden City, The Park Slope Press and The Mac Street Journal. She helped found the Poets of Well Being. Her short story “Pinocle Game” and poem “Eve” were included in Risk Courage and Woman, a prize-winning anthology which featured Maya Angelou and other woman writers.
v.j.(Vinnie) Calone
Member
v.j.(Vinnie) Calone, formalist poet. Vincent's a poet/dramatist. BA SUNY Oswego '95. He studied under Lewis Turco author, of The New Book of Forms. Vince’s poems have appeared in The Long Island Sounds Anthology, The Suffolk County Poetry Review, The Chiron Review, Atom Mind, Long Island Quarterly, Poetry X Hunger, and PoARTry among others. v.j.’s also the submission editor at THE SCENE poetry/art zine, a monthly magazine which covers poetry and the poetry scene from the bridges to the forks on Long Island. Lastly, he’s host of the GREEN SPACE poetry open mic every first Tuesday in Rocky Point, NY where he lives.
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Presented by the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository Hosted by the 2024 LIP&LR’s Literature Ambassador to Long Island Professor Mindy Kronenberg, Poet & Editor 1st Lecture: November 13, 2024 @ 7pm Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) Languages and Consciousness: Tools for Enhancing Your Writing and Lifestyle 1650 Sycamore Avenue, Suite 46 Bohemia, NY 11716 Long Island Poetry and Literature Repository (Please RSVP, Seating is Limited) The languages we grow up with reflect the culture we come from and the consciousness with which we experience the world around us; the way we speak and write reflects all of that. Mankh will share examples from different cultures past and present, including Indigenous languages which often have no word for time, thus, the past and future are present. Other examples include Chinese is a picture-language and the A-to-Z hierarchical alphabet derives from pictures, yet with modern English we have lost touch with what is actually being said, for example, Alphabet means " Ox House." Along with the bigger picture, Mankh will share tips for enhancing writing techniques with emotion, rhythm, and word/phrase choices. Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) – author-editor of 17 books ranging from poetry to essays to poetic nonfiction – is also a small press publisher and has helped produce more than 100 books. He has written more than 135 essays and doesn't keep track of poems. Mankh travels a holistic mystic Kabbalah-rooted pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island and the cycles of seasons. He enjoys music, meditation, munchies, and more. He teaches haiku, brush calligraphy, and the creative writing process. Mankh’s overall writings are typically a blend of reverence for/with Nature and various spiritual traditions; a disdain for the machinations of greedy belligerent geo-political egotisms manifesting en masse as empires. He aims to calm, shock, enlighten, and entertain the reader/listener into a deeper place of consciousness, a greater sense of life-purpose, and a caring for all beings and the evolutionary journey..... His Substack page is "Musings from Between the Lines" and his website:www.allbook-books.com
Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository is Proud to Announce Two Anthologies in One Book Launch! To Be Completely Honest: A Poetry Collection of Self-Examination & Some of the Best of Long Island Poetry 2024: Presented by LIP&LR (Poetry Contest Entrants, Contest Judges, and Gala Award Winners) When: Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Time: 6:30pm Where: Long Island University – Post Campus in the Auditorium of the Humanities Building 720 Northern Blvd, Brookville, NY 11548 (Take the 2nd entrance (not the big entrance) go to the stop sign, make a left, go about 50 feet and turn right, you will now be in the parking lot (you will see the humanities building on your left. Go up the walkway, go down the hall to the center, the auditorium is on your right.) Please RSVP attendance and # of copies you wish to purchase at the reading. Pre-Book Launch Contributor's price of $10.00 each. Thank you. If you are featured in both anthologies, you are welcome to read from both.
Menu: Buffet Sit-Down Dinner Salad: Fresh Mozzarella, Tomato and Basil sliced beefsteak tomatoes topped with fresh mozzarella and basil, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and balsamic glaze. Chef's Carving Table: Angus Sirloin roasted and served with a choice of two sauces: au jus and horseradish. Gourmet Pasta Selection: Stuffed Shells classic pasta shells stuffed with mascarpone, ricotta and spinach with a pomodoro sauce made from tomatoes, garlic, olive oil and fresh basil. Buffet Selections: ~Roast Salmon lightly seared salmon prepared with herbs and a hint of lemon. ~Basmati and Orzo Pilaf asparagus, basmati rice, cranberry beans and orzo (vegetarian). ~Sirloin Tips Marchand du Vin beef slowly braised in red wine, shallots, and mushrooms. ~Chicken Francese buttery lemon-wine sauce envelops lightly battered chicken. Accompaniment: Garlic Mashed Potatoes mashed Idaho potatoes with roasted garlic and butter Dessert: Sheet Cake Drinks: Coffee, tea, brewed decaf, soft drinks, juice and water Cash Bar: Beer & Wine Only
Wyld Syde Press 1650 Sycamore Avenue Suite 46 Bohemia, New York 11716 Press Release Chasing Clouds A Collection of Poetry by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, PhD Link to Chasing Clouds on Amazon: https://a.co/d/hD18sOr The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, PhD Link to The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir: https://a.co/d/j8xENYt Blurb for Chasing Cloud: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan is a serious and devoted poet, her love of language is compelling and distinctive. There is range and generous spirit on many essential levels. ~Philip Schultz, Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Failure Blurb for The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir: If you happen to need a book that will move you to tears, Dr. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan has written it—an absorbing and heartrending story of the multiple traumas of her early life and the long journey to face and surmount them. Lacking any permanent stability in her family life, victim of both physical abuse and incest, hobbled with fear and internalized self-hate, she survived for years by way of self-medicating, dissociation, and desperate attempts to flee. Already at age 30 she had lived through more than a score of broken relationships and losses, with more tragedies to come later in life even as she gathered strength through poetry, psychotherapy, and sheer force of will. We are fortunate to have her testimony, often in painful detail, which gathers coherence out of an almost unfathomable emotional chaos and follows the dizzying path of suffering all the way to compassion, love, and self-acceptance. From her inspiring account, the many who know these troubles in their own lives will recognize the patterns, the ways to survive against the odds, and how to recover lost hopes. ~ George Northrup, Ph.D. Psychologist & Poet Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan’s newest collections are: Chasing Clouds (Wyld Syde Press, 2024) The Long Way to Home: A Short Memoir (Wyld Syde Press, 2024). Her other publications include a children's book, Would You Hug a Porcupine (The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2022); Howling the Moon (7th Quarry Press, 2018); Life’s a Beach (Writers Ink, 2011); For Michael (North Sea Poetry Scene, 2008); Let Me Tell You Something (Street, 2006); One Woman's Voice (Street, 2005); The Bitter, The Sweet (North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2004). Nuzzo-Morgan's dissertation for her Ph.D. was on The Healing Power of Poetry. She teaches at Long Island University in the departments of: English, Humanities, and Sociology. Some of her accomplishments: 2017 WWB Long Island Poet of the Year; Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2009-2011; Long Island Sounds Editor; Founder & President of LIP&LR The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository - (longpoetryandliteraturerepository.com) 631-413-7702 cell Tammynuzzomorgan@gmail.com
Announcing the 1ST ANNUAL LONG ISLAND POETRY & LITERATURE REPOSITORY – (LIP&LR) POETRY CONTEST Open to all Long Island residents -- Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk To enter, please send two copies of each poem, typed on 8-1/2 x 11 paper, one poem per page, with name, address, phone, email at the bottom of one copy only. No previously published poems please Line limit: 35 lines per poem All poems considered for possible inclusion in a forthcoming anthology Entry fee: $5 per poem or 3 poems for $10 No limit on the number of poems you can submit Postmark Deadline: March 15, 2024 Make check payable to LIP&LR and mail to: 1650 Sycamore Ave, Suite 46, Bohemia, NY 11716 Blind judging by a panel of award-winning poets Poems will not be returned No theme, open to all formats but please, no pornographic or racist poems Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and two honorable mentions Winners will be awarded at the May 30, 2024 Banquet at Atlantis in the Sea Star South Banquet Hall 431 E Main St, Riverhead, NY 11901 Tickets available, $75 per person or $120 per couple For more info on the Banquet and/or contest, please contact Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan liplr2021@gmail.com
Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository (LIP&LR) is excited to announce the inception of the position, “Literature Ambassador of Long Island.” The ideal candidate will be entrusted to promote literature throughout Long Island. This will be a one-year post. The appointee is encouraged to conduct workshops, lectures, symposiums, readings, etc. at our center, as well as promote literature throughout the Long Island community as a LIP&LR representative and in conjunction with other organizations. LIP&LR will host a banquet in May 2024; the person appointed will be announced at that banquet. The honoree will receive a proclamation and crystal award in celebration of their appointment. Details concerning the banquet will be forthcoming in the following months. At the end of their term, the Literature Ambassador to Long Island will present a report to include how they promoted literature, enhanced communal harmony between organizations, and offer their recommendations for furthering literature on Long Island. All are welcome to be nominated, or to apply, as long as they reside on Long Island including Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk Counties. The person selected must be willing and able to serve all of Long Island. If you are interested in nominating someone, or applying for the post yourself, please email to: LIPLR2021@gmail.com the following information: Name Address Email address of the person Writing CV (including books, awards, positions held) Photograph Summary as to why this candidate would be a preeminent Ambassador for Literature on Long Island Sign it Please feel free to forward this email to all eligible persons. Thank you for your attention. The LIP&LR Board Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Ph.D. 2017 WWB Long Island Poet of the Year Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2009-2011 Founder/President of TNSPS Long Island Sounds Editor President of LIP&LR The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository - (longpoetryandliteraturerepository.com) 631-413-7702 cell Tammynuzzomorgan@gmail.com
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We would appreciate whatever you can to support our efforts to keep the door open and the lights on. We are seeking funds to preserve the archival collection, which includes books, photos, audio & video recordings, along with other materials. Some of the books date back to the early 1800s. We all can have our home for many years to come if we all think it is ours and worthy of support. We Thank you for giving.
Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository
1650 Sycamore Avenue
Suite 46
Bohemia, NY 11716
Bank A/C# 4393826107
Routing # 026013673
Have you ever heard of the story of stone soup?
We would appreciate whatever you can to support our efforts to keep the door open and the lights on. We are seeking funds to preserve the archival collection, which includes books, photos, audio & video recordings, along with other materials. Some of the books date back to the early 1800s. We all can have our home for many years to come if we all think it is ours and worthy of support. We Thank you for giving.
Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository
1650 Sycamore Avenue
Suite 46
Bohemia, NY 11716
Bank A/C# 4393826107
Routing # 026013673
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