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Monday, June 16, 2014 Wykagyl Country Club, New Rochelle, NY


Golf Chair*


Frank Schettino, Anchin, Block & Anchin


Co-Chairs* Steven Abbattista, OLA Consulting Engineers Andrew Benerofe, Benerofe Properties Joseph Oates, Con Edison Robert Roth, John Meyer Consulting


Kenneth Theobalds, Entergy


Committee* Bruce Berg, Cappelli Enterprises Clark Briffel, Reckson, a division of SL Green Realty Brian Carcaterra, CBRE Barry Shenkman, Jacob Burns Foundation


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“In real estate, it is location, loca- tion, location and this course is a beautiful piece of real estate,” says Clark Briffel (left), pictured with John Barnes (center) both of Reckson, a division of SL Green Realty and Brian Carcaterra (right) of CBRE.


In the words of David Price (left), Managing Director of Clarfeld Financial Advisors, “playing golf to support the arts is a sound financial decision that benefits our communi- ties,” pictured along with restaurateur Philip McGrath (center) and fellow Managing Director at Clarfeld, Jose Reynoso (right).


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Joseph Morgan, retired educator, who played in the 1st low net four- some, received a trophy from Golf Chair Frank Schettino, Managing Partner at Anchin, Block, and Anchin. Morgan says “Today was a good day of golf for a good cause.”


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Slapering Hol Press Publishes Innovative African Poetry Collection


Slapering Hol Press (SHP), the small press imprint of Hudson Valley Writers Center (HVWC), has upped the ante by diverting from its one-chapbook-a-year sched- ule to publish Seven New Generation African Poets, a powerful seven-chapbook box set with a focus on African poetry.


Kwame Dawes, African Poetry Book Fund editor, rec- ognized a deficit of contemporary African poetry in the literary landscape. Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry Foundation’s Poets in the World editor recognized a lack of discus- sion about international poetry in the United States. Together, they approached HVWC with the concept of publishing the box set. HVWC’s Executive Director Jo Ann Clark found that Dawes and Kaminsky’s goals for the project fit perfectly with SHP’s aim to publish and support work of emerging poets.


“The chapbooks chosen by [Nigerian writer Chris] Abani and Dawes are as varied and complex as con- temporary African poetry, with poems that stem from the continent’s culture and history,” said HVWC editor Margo Taft Stever, adding, “African voices are critical to the literary terrain of our time.” The seven poets are from different parts of Africa and live in different parts of the world, from London to Nairobi and Chicago to Botswana.


SHP has a track record of producing chapbook publi- cations by promising, never-before-published writers who have gone on to publish full manuscripts and win Pulitzer Prizes. The official release of the box set will be April 15. For more information and to order the box set, visit: www.writerscenter.org/SHP_bookstore.htm.


( photo credit: Mary Alice Franklin)


( photo credit: Leslye Smith)


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