PROGRAM CLOUDBURST 2018
Fri. May 18, 2018
noon-2:00
Early Bird Registration (enjoy the site)
2:00-2:10 Opening Ceremony (meet at entrance to
lodge): John Berry
2:15-3:00 Nature
Walk: haiku moments: Michael
Czarnecki
(an outdoor ramble
of roadside, fields and woods at Gell Center)
3:00-6:00
Registration ongoing in Main Lodge
3:30-4:30 Beginning Poetry Circle (one poem from each
poet)
4:30-4:40
Poetry reading: Alan Casline
4:40-4:50
Poetry reading: Stephen Lewandowski
4:50-5:00 Poetry Reading: John Roche
5:00-6:30
Light Dinner Served
6:30-6:40
Poetry reading: Therese Broderick
6:40-6:50
Poetry reading: Charlie Rossiter
6:50-7:00
Poetry
reading: Martha Treicher
7:00-7:10 Poetry reading: ryki zuckerman
7:10-7:20 Poetry reading: Nick Eckerson
7:20-8:20
Panel:
Retracing Our Steps (John Roche, Scott Williams, Celeste Lawson)
8:20-8:35
Cloudburst thoughts and evening
wrap-up: Martha Deed and ryki zuckerman
8:35-8:45 Friday Night Closing Ceremony: Marge
Merrill
8:45 Party
Sat. May 19, 2018
8:30 Breakfast
Served
Breakfast will be continuously served.
9:20-9:30 Saturday Opening Ceremony: Alan
Casline
9:30-10:30 Remembering
Friends, Heroes, Legends (Poetry Round-Robin)
Sharing poems written
by departed friends, admired and historic poets.
Bring some poems of
beforementioned to share.
10:30-10:40 Poetry Reading: Bob McDonough
10:40-10:50 Poetry Reading: Michael Czarnecki
10:50-11:00 Poetry Reading: Jane Sadowsky
11:00-11:10 Poetry Reading: Gwen Zimmerman
11:10-11:20 Poetry Reading: Martha Deed
11:20-11:30 Poetry Reading: John Berry
11:30-11:40 Break
11:40-11:50 Break
11:50-12:50 Panel: Migration, Immigration and Language
(Tamar Samuel-Siegel, Therese Broderick,
Judith Kerman, Steve Tills)
12:50 -1:00 Poetry Reading: Mark O’Brien
1:00-1:10 Poetry Reading: Judith Kerman
1:15 Lunch Served
Open Time 1:15 – 4:00
Tour in Finger Lakes
Watershed with Steve
Lewandowski (optional)
Steven Lewandowski will
lead an expedition to Site of Seneca
Emergence or a place closer depending on weather
Workshop: For those not on exploration in the same time
slot workshop in the main lodge (optional)
A Simple Handmade Poetry Mini-Booklet led by ryki zimmerman
(sign-up with ryki)
Keeping Still: Find a spot and stop. Sit still for at least 15
min. but do not check the time (optional)
4:00-4:40 Panel:
Ecstatic Poets with Martin Willitts, Jr. and Linda Griggs
4:40-4:50 Poetry Reading: Tom Nicotera
4:50-5:00 Poetry Reading: Leah Zazulyer
5:00-5:10 Poetry Reading: Celeste Lawson
5:10-5:20 Poetry Reading: Marge Merrill
5:20-5:30 Poetry Reading: David Landrey
5:30-5:40: Poetry Reading: Helen Ruggieri
5:40-5:50: Poetry Reading: Patrica Tansey
5:50-6:00 Poetry
Reading: Dwain Wilder
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:00-7:10 Poetry Reading: Scott Williams
7:10-7:20 Poetry Reading: Steve Tills
7:20-7:30 Poetry Reading: Michele Brown
7:30-7:40 Poetry Reading: David Michael Nixon
7:40-7:50 Poetry Reading: Leslie Gerber
7:50-8:00 Poetry Reading: Maril Nowak
8:00-8:10 Poetry Reading Tamar Samuel-Siegel
8:30-10:00 Open Mic hosted by John Roche (by sign-up)
10-10:10 Wrap-up John Roche
10:15 Saturday Closing Ceremony: Charlie Rossiter
and Tom Nicotera
10:20- 12:00 Party
12:00-? Midnight open mic until we run out of poems
Sunday May 20, 2018
9:30-11:00 Brunch (like Saturday Breakfast )
10:20-10:30 Sunday
Opening Ceremony: Therese Broderick
9:30-ongoing Trade
Fair
10:30-10:40 Poetry Reading: Stephen Baraban
10:40-10:50 Poetry Reading: Martin Willitts, Jr.
10:50-11:00 Poetry Reading: Linda Griggs
11:00-11:10 Break
11:10-12:10 Looking Outward (Michael
Czarnecki, David Landrey, Gwen Zimmerman, Helen Ruggieri)
12:10–1:00 Further: Round-Robin of Poetry. (Might
be time for second poem)
1:00-10:10 Closing Ceremony: Jane Sadowsky