Events

Suzanne Uttaro Samuels is an award-winning legal scholar turned novelist whose writing explores resilience, hidden histories, and women’s voices across time. Seeds of the Pomegranate (Sibylline Press, 2025) is her debut novel. Her fiction and essays appear in Petigru Review, Snapdragon, and the anthologies Main, Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women, and Desert of Dreams.

Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent and coeditor of The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, recipient of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. She is Professor of English at New Jersey City University.

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Join us for a deeply restorative sound meditation designed to bring balance, clarity, and renewal to your mind and body. Through the gentle resonance of instruments such as crystal singing bowls, gongs, and chimes, you will be guided into a state of deep relaxation where stress begins to melt away and inner calm naturally arises.

Benefits from a sound bath meditation include:

• Reduced stress and anxiety

• Improved focus and mental clarity

• Release of tension in the body

• Improved sleep quality

This session offers an important pause from the busyness of life, a chance to reconnect with yourself, relax deeply, and allow sound to guide a deep meditation.

Registration Required: https://www.secondsignsoundhealing.com/events-1

Exchange: $30

LOCATION: Palisades Community Center, 675 Oak Tree Road, Palisades, NY  

Please note, this location does not have props, bring your own yoga mats and blanket.

Arrival Time is 9:45 am for a prompt 10:00 am session start.

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Join All Ways Writing for a free, open-to-the-public poetry reading at Big Red Books (120 Main Street, Nyack, NY). Hosted by Lily Greenberg, the evening will feature 5 community readers, followed by guest authors, a Q&A, and book signings. Books will be for sale by Big Red Books.

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) as well as four chapbooks. Her second full-length collection, Wildness Before Something Sublime, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in Fall 2025. She lives in Cincinnati.

Isabella DeSendi is a Latina poet and educator whose debut poetry collection, Someone Else’s Hunger, will be published by Four Way Books in 2025. Her chapbook Through the New Body won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

This project is made possible with funds from Columbus State University’s Carson McCullers Center for Writers & Musicians and Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governor, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Join All Ways Writing for a free, open-to-the-public poetry reading at Big Red Books (120 Main Street, Nyack, NY). The evening will feature 5 community readers, followed by guest authors, a Q&A, and book signings. Books will be for sale by Big Red Books.

Leila Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet and author of Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) as well as four chapbooks. Her second full-length collection, Wildness Before Something Sublime, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in Fall 2025. She lives in Cincinnati.

Isabella DeSendi is a Latina poet and educator whose debut poetry collection, Someone Else’s Hunger, will be published by Four Way Books in 2025. Her chapbook Through the New Body won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020. She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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Do you find yourself wanting to improve your quality of life? Do diet plans and workout regimens overwhelm and intimidate you? Do you wish there were simple ways to tweak your everyday life to create lasting satisfaction? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, “5 Ways to Feel 10 Times Better” is the right workshop for you. Filled with knowledge and interactive exercises, Maya Carl Holistic Health Coach, will guide you through an hour of simple ways to elevate your life. You will walk away with mental and physical tools that can be implemented daily. Join us for this fun, eye-opening workshop that will have a positive, lasting impact! I hope to see you there!

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Experience the vibrational tones of tuning forks, Native American drum and flute, and singing bowls, led by Lisa Detres.

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