Mindy Kronenberg is the 2024 Literature Ambassador for the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository. She is an internationally published poet and writer, and professor at SUNY Empire State University. Her work has been featured in art galleries and museum installations and she curates poetry selections for the Sculpture on the Trail arts event sponsored by the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery (CEED) and Inspiration Plus, Inc. She is the editor of Oberon poetry magazine. Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry. Named as “The world-renowned Himalayan poet,” (The Guardian) “One-Man Academy” (The Kathmandu Post) and “Himalayan Neruda” (Michael Graves, Brand Called You), Punjab-born, Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage. He is also recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. Author of eleven poetry collections, most recently, Lost Horoscope, he has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation worldwide. Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts creative writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home. In 2024, he curated Himalayan Literature Festival in collaboration with New York Writers Workshop in Kathmandu and currently, edits Pratik: A Quarterly Magazine of Contemporary Writing. More: www.yuyutsusharma.com

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