Word Thursdays will close its 17th season with readings by Oneonta writers Annie Sauter and Thomas Travisano, who will read from their work after the open mike, which begins at 7 p.m.
The readings will take place in Bright Hill's Word & Image Gallery, now featuring an exhibit of Bright Hill Press books published during the past several years.
There will be an intermission with refreshments.
Bright Hill Literary Center is at 94 Church St. in Treadwell, one block north of Barlow's General Store on county Highway 14. There is an admission fee of $3, but the evening is free to those 18 and younger.
Annie Sauter has written numerous stories and poems about the '60s and '70s. Bright Hill Press will publish her chapbook, "A Plastic Bag of Red Cells," in 2010. Sauter, who lives in Oneonta, is married to Paul Sauter, a ceramics artist.
Thomas Travisano is a professor of American literature at Hartwick College and chairman of the department of English and theatre arts. He is a two-time holder of Hartwick's Cora A. Babcock Chair in English and is the author or editor of six books. The most recent of these is "Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell," which was featured on NPR and made the "Best of the Year" lists of the Washington Post, the London Times and the Guardian.
Travisano is also the author of "Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development and Midcentury Quartet: Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, Berryman" and the co-editor of the award-winning three volume "New Anthology of American Poetry," whose final volume is forthcoming in 2010. Travisano has published many articles on modern and contemporary American poetry, organizers said. He is also the president of the Elizabeth Bishop Society and the senior adviser to the Robert Lowell Society.
He lives in Oneonta, and is married to Elsa Travisano, president of MUG ONE, the Macintosh User Group of Oneonta.
For more information, contact the center at 829-5055 or wordthur@stny.rr.com.
