Poetry “en plein air”
Luminous Poems inspired by Luminaries Judith and Gerson Leiber
Wednesday, August 13,
5:00 to 6:30 pm
with Museum tours and refreshments at 4 pm
East Hampton, NY: The sun will set, the trees rustle, your imagination will ignite on Wednesday, August 13, at our poetry reading in the gardens of Leiber Collection Museum in East Hampton. Free tours of the museum and refreshments begin at 4 pm. Stroll the property’s gardens to view the extraordinary outdoor art. Inside the museum, the Judith Leiber handbags, belts, Chinese porcelain, and Gerson Leiber’s art guarantee to dazzle.
If you haven’t yet stargazed this summer, join us at The Leiber Collection Museum and Sculpture Garden on Wednesday, August 13, at 5 pm, for the second of two scintillating evenings of luminous poetry by poets Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, 2009-2011 Suffolk county Poet Laureate, LB Johnson, Michelle Murphy and Sarah Goodman, Teen Poet Laureate 2024-2026, Suffolk County.
Sarah says, ”Poetry is a lifestyle in which we slowly peel back the layers of ourselves and
everything around us. Poetry allows us to look with an unbiased eye and write unfiltered
expressions.”
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Donations to the Judith and Gerson Leiber Foundation are welcome but not required.
The Leiber Collection is located at 446 Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs.
For more information, please visit www.leibercollection.org, email info@leibercollection.org, or call 631-329-3288.
POETS:
Sarah Goodman
Sarah Goodman is the 2024-2026 Suffolk County Teen Poet Laureate and is going into her junior year at Commack High School. Her poems have been published in various publications, and beginning in June, she will have a poem included in Northport's Poetry Path. Sarah also
organized and judged the Suffolk Youth Poetry Competition and has compiled an anthology featuring the teen poets who participated.
Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan
Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, PhD, is the first woman to be appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate (2009-2011). She was named Long Island Poet of the Year in 2018. She is the founder and president of the Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository and the editor/publisher of Wyld Syde Press. She has written six chapbooks, a memoir, a children’s book, two full-length poetry collections, collected scholarly essays, and a
book titled The Healing Power of Poetry: Living with the Death of a Child. She teaches at Long Island University.
LB Thompson
LB Thompson's poetry and creative nonfiction have received national awards from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and other literary journals. Her collaborative projects
with artist Ellen Wiener have been exhibited in New York and at Vanderbilt University and are part of collections in museums and libraries around the world. LB teaches creative writing at the Lichtenstein Center at SUNY Stony Brook and resides in Greenport, Long Island.
Michelle Murphy
Ms. Murphy holds a BA in psychology and has been writing since her early twenties. For many years, she studied with Pearl London at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village. London was the daughter of Max Schuster, of Simon & Schuster Publishing. She thus was able to provide a unique and privileged experience for students, bringing to the table an astounding variety of well-established and accomplished voices, ready to share their stories and secrets. It was this introduction to the craft of writing fearlessly and from the heart, on all manner of subjects, that greatly influenced Ms. Murphy in her approach to the arts in general. Murphy was a long-time member of the Bay Street Playwriting Workshop led by Bill Burford. She has studied memoir, essay, poetry, and short story writing with Jules Feiffer, Frank McCourt & Roger Rosenblatt.
She is a member of: THE DRAMATIST GUILD, SAG, AFTRA, ASCAP, THE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY ~ Elected Lifetime Signature Member, PECONIC HISTORIC PRESERVATION 501(c)3 ~ President &Co-founder. She & her husband, Robert Strada, have resided in Amagansett since 1980, where they raised their two children, Alex & Justin.
Poets will read from their collections along with an original poem inspired by the Leibers.
Below is a poem written by Sarah Goodman.
“Hungary for Beauty”
Your Budapest-born brilliance
is Hungary for beauty
I see in your eyes
as you work, a sparkle
Just like that of the leather you stitch
Meticulously crafting
An oasis
A kindness
You designed freedom
in a time when you were
Shackled to misery
And through the gloom
You somehow saw beauty
You planted the roots
of something that would bloom
to brighten up
what appeared to be
A vast, everlasting night
Even starving,
My darling Judith,
You were hungry for beauty
