http://www.donnareis.com Donna Reis - Poet and Author Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:26:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_51" align="alignnone" width="715" caption="Tuxedo Park School Newsletter (Spring 2010) - Exerpt"][/caption] http://www.donnareis.com/?p=49 I will be taking part in an assembly on Friday, April 16th at 2:20 pm at Tuxedo Park School Mountain Farm Road Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 For info contact fduffy@tuxedoparkschool.org Benefit for Pet Med Fund Sunday, May 16th from 3:00 ~ 5:00 pm Poets, Dancers, Puppets, Silent Auction, 50/50 Raffle and Refreshments at Black Dirt Dance Center 198 Glenwood Road Pine Island, ... http://www.donnareis.com/?p=44 Tuxedo Park School Mountain Farm Road Tuxedo Park, NY 10987 Dear Ms. Reis, I have just finished reading "Blairhame," from your chapbook, Incantations and am moved to write and ask for your permission to print, frame and hang this beautiful poem in our school. Every year the English Department has a week-long poetry ... http://www.donnareis.com/?p=39 Warwick Valley Poets' presents Donna Reis When: Sat. November 21st 4 - 6 pm Where: Baby Grand Books 7 West Street, Warwick, NY 10990 (845) 986 - 6165 www.babygrandbooks.com http://www.donnareis.com/?p=37 Thursday, October 29th, 2009 @ 7:00 A Haunting Reading of Ghost Stories from "Seeking Ghosts in the Warwick Valley" GVG Creations 3 Winkler Place Chester, NY 10918 (845) 469 - 6683 http://www.donnareis.com/?p=31 Tom’s Bands The Man-Childs, The Wormwood Scrubs, The Counts, Pure Space, The Happy Fish and Chicken Band, The Man-Childs II, Blue Goose, Quarry Road, Larry and the Shoes, The Rockabilly Shufflers, Cabin Fever, The Secrets, Katie and The Meadow ... http://www.donnareis.com/?p=34 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. ... for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. ~Daphne DuMaurier Your dead aunt’s chimney stands like a blacksmith’s forge as you crest the drive, your home surrounded by a cemetery of stone foundations, tumbling tenant houses and trees as old as fairy ... http://www.donnareis.com/?p=26 You’re a night-owl. I tire and rise with sparrows; you’re athletic, I crave nothing more than to stay in bed with my books and cats. When you ask me to go canoeing I worry how long I’ll have to be there. When you suggest golf, I wonder why ruin a field. Yet, we listen each evening to each other’s work, offer suggestions and raise our glasses saying, you did it, you did it ... http://www.donnareis.com/?p=16 My earliest childhood memory is going to my grandparents’ house in New Canaan, Connecticut for Christmas. I was three and it was the first time I met my mother’s parents. Until then, they had refused to see us. My grandparents, staunch Irish-Catholics, nearly disowned my mother when she ... http://www.donnareis.com/?p=3