Oswego YMCA presents
the 10th Annual Harborfest Kids Fun Run
sponsored by the river's end bookstore
Registration forms will be available at the bookstore and Oswego YMCA. You must pre-register ($5 fee). The first 150 entrants will receive a T-shirt!
GET FIT AND LITERATE!
Michael Perry, author of Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg (Harper)
Reservations needed in advance for this special event
Contact the river's end for details.
In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Truck: A Love Story gives us a humorous, heartfelt memoir of a new life in the country. Coop is filled with the humor his readers have come to expect. But Perry also writes from the quieter corners of his heart, chronicling experiences as joyful as the birth of his child and as devastating as the death of a dear friend.
Michael Perry is a contributing editor to Men's Health, and his work has appeared in numerous publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Salon, and the Utne Reader. He lives in northern Wisconsin with his family. Visit Perry's web site at www.sneezingcow.com
the river’s end bookstore’s 12th Anniversary!
Stop in to help us celebrate our 12th anniversary. Enjoy refreshments and special offers throughout the day. And be sure to enter the drawing for a $100 gift card (one entry per customer). Thank you for supporting independent businesses in Oswego!
Barry Lyga, author of Goth Girl Rising (Houghton)
Discussion & booksigning
In Goth Girl Rising, Kyra is back! After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she's about to find out that while she was away, she lost track of more than time. Kyra is back in black, feeling good, and ready to make up with the only person who's ever appreciated her for who she really is. But then she sees him. Fanboy. Transcended from everything he was into someone she barely recognizes. And the anger and memories come rushing back.
Making a return visit to Oswego, Barry Lyga is a recovering comic book geek and the author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, Boy Toy, and Hero-Type, all set at South Brook High School. Visit Lyga online at www.barrylyga.com, friend him on Facebook, and follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/barrylyga.
Gerald Smith, author of Birding the Great Lakes Seaway Trail
Discussion & booksigning
Come meet ornithologist Gerald Smith, whose field guide shows the resting and nesting locations of birds along the freshwater shoreline of New York and Pennsylvania. Listed migration patterns show the best times of the year to spot certain notable species. Book designed and illustrated by artist Robert McNamara.
A river’s end reading featuring contributors to the Uphook Press poetry anthology, you say. say.– Thomas Fucaloro, Christian Georgescu, Mary McLaughlin Slechta
you say. say. is the first of an annual anthology taken from open submission involving twenty-nine poets—from all across the United States—who write the gamut from Starbucks to whale walkers, chalk outlines to honeymooning, cranky operettas to the ping of a microwave signaling the end.
Thomas Fucaloro’s first poetry collection, Inheriting Craziness, is published by Three Rooms Press in spring 2010. He lives in New York City.
Christian Georgescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, grew up in New York City, and is a writer, performer and visual artist. Developing an alternative style of poetry for performance, Christian has featured at venues in New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles.
Mary McLaughlin Slechta is the author of the poetry collection, Wreckage on a Watery Moon (Foothills), and two chapbooks. She has published poetry and stories in many journals and anthologies and was included in Rattle's recent Tribute to African American Poets. An associate editor with The Comstock Review, Mary lives in Syracuse.
Thomas, Christian, and Mary will be joined by Uphook Press editors Ice and Jane Ormerod. Uphook Press is a New York City-based publisher specializing in work by poets and spoken word artists who love both the ink and the mike. For additional information, visit www.uphookpress.com
Patricia Polacco, author of January's Sparrow
Reading & booksigning
In the middle of the night, The Crosswhites, including young Sadie, must flee the Kentucky plantation they work on. Dear January has been beaten and killed by the plantation master, and they fear who may be next. But Sadie must leave behind her most valuable possession, the wooden sparrow carved for her by January.
Patricia Polacco doesn’t create a book unless she loves the story. Her own passion for a story drives the narrative of her books, and this is clear in her dramatic and touching art. Polacco is a Philomel treasure, having created over forty outstanding books for the imprint alone. She is known throughout the country for her school visits that ask children to think of themselves as heroes, and to be courageous in life. Some of her titles include: Pink and Say, Mr. Lincoln’s Way, The Butterfly, Thank You, Mr. Falker, Chicken Sunday and In Our Mother’s House. For more information on the author, visit: www.patriciapolacco.com
A river’s end reading with special guests Nate Pritts, Jennifer Pashley and Emma Kinna
Nate Pritts is the author of three full-length collections of poetry - Sensational Spectacular (BlazeVOX, 2007), Honorary Astronaut (Ghost Road Press, 2008) & The Wonderfull Yeare (Cooper Dillon Books, 2010). His poetry, reviews & criticism have appeared in a wide variety of publications, both in print & online, including Gulf Coast, Southern Review, DIAGRAM, Rain Taxi Review of Books & Greensboro Review. The founder & principal editor of H_NGM_N, Nate teaches poetry for the Downtown Writer's Center/YMCA in Syracuse, NY. Find him online at www.natepritts.com
Jennifer Pashley is the author of States, which has been called both “seriously out-of-whack” and “an inviting and well-carved debut.” Her stories have appeared in Swink, Salt Hill, Stone Canoe, and Mississippi Review, where she was the winner of the 2009 Prize for Fiction. She's a very friendly girl. This sometimes interferes with her progress.
Emma Kinna, author of A House Afire, lives in New York State and is currently studying for undergraduate degrees in film and anthropology at SUNY Oswego. She loves the beach, yoga and Batman. This is her first novel.
11:00am:
John Laundré & Lucina Hernandez, local contributing authors to Cougar: Ecology & Conservation (ed. by Maurice Hornocker & Sharon Negri/U of Chicago Press)
Discussion & booksigning
Written by a variety of cougar researchers, this book is the definitive compilation of our current knowledge regarding this majestic species. Laundré and Hernandez will introduce their chapter on Latin American Pumas and will talk about their studies of predator-prey relationships. Both authors are professors at SUNY Oswego’s Dept. of Biological Sciences. Hernandez is also director of Rice Creek Field Station and Laundré is Vice President of the Eastern Cougar Foundation.
2:00 pm:
Dr. Bob Rock, author of 11,762 Words for Fly Fishers and Fly Tyers (SRISFM)
Discussion & booksigning
Rock’s book is full of practical advice for the seasoned and novice fly fisher. He has instructed fly tying and fly fishing classes for several regional organizations, including the Wounded Warriors program at Fort Drum, and has authored articles for numerous angling and skiing publications. He is the founding president of the Salmon River Chapter of Trout Unlimited, a life member of the National Ski Patrol System, a 50-year member of the Adirondack Mountain Club, and is retired Vice President for Student Affairs and physical education at SUNY Oswego.
An Afternoon for (Book) Lovers
Poignant, ironic, silly, and sometimes hilarious!
Bibliophiles - people who love books - will have cause to celebrate this Valentine’s Day as they listen to their friends and neighbors read stories and poems about love.
This event is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served.
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