Fresh from
teaching a June course on speaking at the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center,
following an appearance the same month at the famous Cornelia Street Café in
Manhattan, poet, radio host/voice artist,
blogger and videographer Bill Buschel returns this evening to Barnes and Noble’s Open Mic after
a two-year absence as featured reader.
Bill is
unmistakable for the humanity and atmospheric depth he brings to bear in his
writing, as well as in the weight and timing of his spoken delivery. As the
former chair of the PoemAlley Advisory Committee, he has been instrumental in varying
capacities over the years organizing numerous PA events, from last month’s al
fresco Café Night to the popular April 2010 Green Fuse event (recorded here by Bill), both held at the Unitarian Universalist Society
in Stamford.
It is his series
of commentaries and interviews broadcast on Graffiti,
the arts program he hosts on Hellenic Public Radio (Cosmos FM 91.5), however, that
constitutes the main platform for his interest in Greek history, culture and
the ancient world. Graffiti guests
have included novelist Jeff Siger, author of the Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis
mystery series, and Professor William A.P. Childs, co-curator of the Princeton
University archaeological exhibit “City
of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus” from 2012.
Edited with a supportive, if looser, focus, Bill’s blogs, Just My Eyes: The World As I See It and Things We Need (To Make it Thru the Day), offer more eclectic and
multi-media observations, from pieces on fine cooking and baseball to audio of
classic folk performers, like the late Stan Rogers, and video clips of stand-out performances from cable TV.
Speaking of video,
Life in a Day is one of numerous
engagingly provocative pieces shot and edited by Bill in his ongoing assay of the
creative and human scene in the Connecticut/New York area:
Hosted by Frank Chambers and
PoemAlley's Nick Miele, the Barnes & Noble Open Mic Poetry program
meets the second Monday of each month in the cookbook section on the main floor
of the bookstore (located in the Stamford Down Center), beginning at 7:15 p.m.
For more information, contact:
Barnes & Noble
100 Greyrock Place Suite H009
Stamford, CT 06901
203-323-1248
