The Babylon Village Arts Council will host “Poetry in the Village” on Thursday, November 7, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Jack Jack’s Coffee House, located at 223 Deer Park Avenue in Babylon. Featured poets Paula Curci and Peter Dugan will perform, followed by an open mic session. Admission is free, and open mic sign-ups will begin at 6:45 p.m. The event is curated and hosted by Deborah Hauser, the Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, with funding from Poets & Writers, Inc.
Paula Curci, serving as the Nassau County Poet Laureate for 2022-2024, is also the Poet in Residence for Radio Hofstra University. She produces programs such as “Calliope’s Corner” and “What’s The Buzz.” Curci is a certified “Journal to the Self™” instructor and leads the “Poetry: It’s a Shore Thing!” micromemoir project at the Long Beach Library, where she co-hosts the Poet Laureate’s Invitational open mic.
As a co-founder of the Acoustic Poets Network™, Curci is known for her unique poetic style called Posics™. She has been published in various anthologies, with her work available in streaming audio and on Kindle. Curci has released three albums—Emissary, Bittersweet, and Done That: The Audio Version—and authored three chapbooks: One Woman’s Cathartic Release in Poetry, Done That, and The Gift of Thanksgiving. She has received multiple awards for her contributions to the arts and broadcasting.
Peter V. Dugan, who served as the Nassau County Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019, co-developed the Poet Mentor-Youth Mentee Program in collaboration with the Suffolk County Poet Laureate. He is on the board of the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository and co-coordinates Words With Wings Press.
Dugan publishes Poetry: It’s a ‘Shore’ Thing! In an Unsure World and has written several books, including Medusa’s Overbite, The Prowess of Immodest Emptiness, and A Cul-de-Sac Off Main Street. He is also a member of the Poetry: It’s a ‘Shore’ Thing! festival committee at the Long Beach Public Library and served as co-assistant director of THE WORD—A Festival of the Spoken and Written Word: Celebrating All Voices.
For more information about “Poetry in the Village” and other events by the Babylon Village Arts Council, please visit their website.
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