West End Reading Series

The West End Reading Series is held on the fourth Saturday of every month at 7:00 o'clock at the Lost Dog Lounge (upstairs from the Lost Dog Cafe, 106 Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY). The series is free and open to everyone. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact curator@slyfox.org.

The series is a forum for writing which otherwise is not being produced in Ithaca or any other part of Central New York between Buffalo and New York. As a venue for the performance of work by poets and writers working in a multiplicity of forms, the West End series is committed to supporting the work of writers seriously interested in challenging the status quo through their work. Whether this challenge occurs through the content of their work, the formal choices they employ, or the way in which the work is presented, writers in the West End series regularly disrupt the iffy boundaries between social inquiry, art and form.

Writers who read from their work in 2003 include Kazim Ali, Nada Gordon, Gary Sullivan, Bernadette Mayer, Rachel Levitsky, Marcella Durand, Anselm Berrigan, Eddie Berrigan, Karen Weiser, Lisa Jarnot, Allison Cobb, Jennifer Coleman, Mairead Byrne, Brenda Coultas, Jonathan Skinner, India Radfar, Barbara Cole, Joshua Corey, Fred Muratori, Amy Whitney and others.

Brenda Coultas gave a workshop on "Investigative Narratives" during her visit to Ithaca. As an event for members of the public in Tompkins County, the workshop was attended by children's book authors, journalists, poets, students and artists. Many of these events would not have been possible without funds from Poets and Writers, Inc., New York, NY.

Writers scheduled for the series in 2004 are listed on our Events Calendar.

The West End Reading Series is made possible in part with public funds from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County and New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization program. This support would not be possible without the generous support of the Constance Saltonstall Foundation and the contributions of audience members.