ABOUT THE CENTER

The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository, Inc. is a 501(c) (3). We are committed to enriching lives through the spirit and power of poetry and literature. We provide innovative literary programs to instill well being, encourage creativity, and increase awareness of poetry and literature.

The Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository, Inc has many archival materials. The collection accumulated is approximately: 1,000+ books; audio and video tapes; photographs; and other materials related to Long Island poetry and literature, some dating back to the 1800s.

A link to a video of our location, and what we are about can be viewing by looking in our "Portfolio" or following this link:
The Center

The Long Island community can enjoy this Long Island treasure for many years to come. Our organization is one in which people can utilize for attending or conducting readings, lectures, symposiums (for a nominal fee), browse the collection and so much more. It is the headquarters from which we can reach under served segments of the community, such as senior citizens, at-risk youth, as well as the above-mentioned groups.

The only days and times we have slated are the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month. All other days and times are open for use. Please call or email for more information.


Dr. David B. Axelrod, Volusia County, Florida Poet Laureate (2015-2023); Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2007-2009

Board Member

Mr. Robert Savino, Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2015-2017

Board Member

Ms. Barbara Southard, Suffolk County Poet Laureate 2019-2021

Board Member

Dr. John Lutz, Chair of Department of English, Philosophy, and Foreign Languages; LIU

Board Member

Mr. Peter V. Dugan, Nassau County Poet Laureate, 2017 - 2019

Board Member

Ms. Judy Turek, Walt Whitman Birthplace 2019 Long Island Poet of the Year

Board Member

Anthony Policano, Poet, Photographer, Long Island Poetry Collective Board Member, Editor & Workshop Leader

Board Member

Deborah Hauser, Poet, Feminist, Activist, Certified Ennui Therapist Current Suffolk County Poet Laureate

Board Member

Philip Postiglione, Poet & Fisherman

FB Administrator & Website Blogger

Dr. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Suffolk County Poet Laurate 2009 - 2011

President

  •  6/15/2023 07:00 PM - 6/15/2023 09:00 PM
  •   1650 Sycamore Avenue, Bohemia, NY, USA

Kathaleen Donnelly is a 1976 graduate of St. Vincent’s Hospital, School of Nursing, which WAS in Greenwich Village, NYC, currently working as a Nurse Practitioner in Cardiology at Stony Brook Medical Center. She was a member of the Sweetbriar Nature Camera Club, a part of the PFLI (Photographic Federation of Long Island) for many years, learned what makes a good photograph. In 2009, with a little help from her friends, she put together an anthology of Long Island poets and photographers, Paumanok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island, in 2013, Paumanok, Interwoven, and 2022, Paumanok, Transition. She began writing poetry in her 50s, has been published in the Long Island Quarterly and Long Islander’s Walt’s Corner, Songs of Seasoned Women, Oberon, Whispers and Shouts, the Performance Poets Association Literary Review, A Taste of Poetry published by the Walt Whitman Birthplace, Bards Annual, Suffolk County Poetry Review, Towards Forgiveness, The Seventh Quarry-Wales, Childhood-India, Poems of Illness and Healing, Long Island Sounds ~ An Anthology of Poetry From Maspeth to Montauk and Beyond, Writing Outside the Lines and What Have you Lost and Found? A transcript of her own work sits on her desk waiting for its day, See if I Feel the Same. She loves the written word. Web site: www.poetographyLongIsland.com Jay Jii Purveyor of Poetic Cabaret. Curator of the Avant Garden Poetry Amphitheater. Writer. Composer. Adventurer. Romantic. Musician. Thespian. Artist. Film-maker. English Bulldog enthusiast. Stuff like that…

  •  8/16/2022 08:00 PM
  •   New York, NY, USA

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  •  5/25/2023 07:00 PM - 5/25/2023 09:00 PM
  •   1650 Sycamore Avenue, Bohemia, NY, USA

Paula Curci is the 2022-2024 Nassau County, NY, Poet Laureate. She is the Poet In Residence for Radio Hofstra University where she produces Calliope’s Corner - The Place Where Poets and Songwriters Meet and What’s the Buzz ® on WRHU.ORG and 88.7FM. Paula is a Journal to the Self™ Certified Journal instructor and co-hosts an open mic at the Long Beach, NY, Library where she spearheads the “It’s a Shore Thing” micro-memoir project. Paula is a co-founding member of the poetry and music band, the Acoustic Poets Network ™ and is known for her esthetic style of poetry she calls Posics™. Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan is the first woman to be appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate (2009-2011). She was awarded by the Walt Whitman Birthplace the title of 2017 Long Island Poet of the Year. She is the founder and president of Long Island Poetry & Literature Repository. She has penned six chapbooks and a children’s book, Would You Hug a Porcupine. Tammy has earned her Ph.D. in Humanities & Culture in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at Union Institute & University. Her dissertation was on: The Healing Power of Poetry. She teaches at Long Island University at the C W Post campus.

  •  5/11/2023 07:00 PM - 5/11/2023 09:00 PM
  •   1650 Sycamore Avenue, Bohemia, NY, USA

Kelly J. Powell is a poet native to Long Island and a graduate of SUNY Binghamton’s Creative Writing Program in 1988. She runs a reading series at bj spoke gallery in Huntington and has performed widely on Long Island and NYC. She also has a long-standing commitment as a single mother to an amazing transgender college senior. She is at work now on a new book of poems called Posthumously Yours. May 25 th , 2023 Russ Green is a Graduate of Hofstra University. Over the years he has been co-editor at Great Weather for Media and has put on poetry and arts events around Long Island and NYC in addition to hosting and curating poetry stages at various festivals. Russ has read his work in cities across America and he runs a reading series and poetry workshop. His book, Gimme Back My Radio, is out with Night Ballet Press. He can usually be found communing with the mountains in Vermont with interesting artist friends or roaming the docks of Port Jeff Harbor at night looking for signs of life in the starry night sky. Russ Green is a Graduate of Hofstra University. Over the years he has been co-editor at Great Weather for Media and has put on poetry and arts events around Long Island and NYC in addition to hosting and curating poetry stages at various festivals. Russ has read his work in cities across America and he runs a reading series and poetry workshop. His book, Gimme Back My Radio, is out with Night Ballet Press. He can usually be found communing with the mountains in Vermont with interesting artist friends or roaming the docks of Port Jeff Harbor at night looking for signs of life in the starry night sky. See less Bohemia, New York

  •  3/23/2023 07:00 PM
  •   1650 Sycamore Avenue suite 46, Bohemia, NY, USA

Barbara Southard, Suffolk County Laureate 2019-2021, is a visual artist and writer living in Miller Place, New York. The titles of her poetry books are: Remember, published in 2008, Time & Space, published in 2020, and Long Island Poems, published 2022. She’s an active member of the Long Island Poetry Collective, which has been in existence since 1973. When serving as Suffolk County Poet Laureate, she and the members of the Long Island Poetry Collective held Zoom poetry workshops through the COVID epidemic to enable writers to come together during that time of isolation. The Collective has since continued online workshops, enabling those who live as far away as Australia, to stay connected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George Guida is author ten books, including Zen of Pop (Long Sky Media, 2020) and Pugilistic (WordTech Editions, 2015). He teaches writing, literature and cultural studies at New York City College of Technology and curates the Finger Lakes Arts Series at the MacFadden Coffee Company, his family’s cafe in Dansville, New York. Professor, English Department, New York City College of Technology The Uniform: A Novel (2024); Posts from Suburbia: A Novel (2022); Zen of Pop: Poems (2020); New York and Other Lovers: Poems (2020); Pugilistic: Poems (2015); The Sleeping Gulf: Poems (2015); Spectacles of Themselves: Essays in Italian American Popular Culture and Literature (2015); The Pope Stories (2012) The Pope Play (2009); Low Italian (2007); The Peasant and the Pen: Men, Enterprise and the Recovery of Culture in Italian American Narrative (2003) Georgeguida.wordpress.com

  •  3/9/2023 07:00 PM

J R (Judy) Turek, Superintendent of Poetry for the LI Fair, 2020 Hometown Hero by the East Meadow Herald, 2019 WWBA LI Poet of the Year, NYS 2017 Woman of Distinction, Bards Laureate 2013-2015, 26 years as Moderator of the Farmingdale Creative Writing Group; two Pushcart nominations, recipient of the Conklin Prize for Poetry; editor, mentor, workshop leader, and author of 24 in 24, Midnight on the Eve of Never, B is for Betwixt and Between, A is for Almost Anything, Imagistics, and They Come And They Go. Her new book, DogSpeak supports shelter rescues for North Shore Animal League. She is the 1st Associate Editor for The North Sea Poetry Scene and editor/book chair for Performance Poets Association. ‘The Purple Poet’ has written a poem a day for over 19 years; she lives on Long Island with her soul-mate husband, Paul, her dogs, and her extraordinarily extensive shoe collection. msjevus@optonline.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Douglas G. Swezey received his B.A. in English and Art History from Stony Brook University in 2004, has written as a journalist for many weekly newspapers, was Managing Editor of Government Food Services Magazine and author of Stony Brook University: Off The Record (College Prowler, 2005). He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Bards Initiative, Long Island Poetry Collective at large, and formerly collaborated with the North Sea Poetry Scene. He is the host of the First Fridays Reading Series at the Dog-Eared Bard's Book Shop and co-creator of Super Poem Sunday.

  •  8/16/2022 08:00 PM
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An Evening of Poetry with Dan Giancola

Dan Giancola lives in Mastic, New York. He is the author of several poetry collections, including, most recently, a chapbook, Near Ghazals (Street Press, 2020).


  • Date: 4/13/2023 07:00 PM - 4/13/2023 09:00 PM
  • Location: 1650 Sycamore Avenue, Bohemia, NY, USA (Map)
  • More Info: Suite 46

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An Evening of Poetry with Adam D. Fisher and Margarette Wahl

Adam D. Fisher is a prize-winning author of poetry, stories and liturgy. After graduating from Colgate University with high honors in philosophy and religion, he was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion in 1967 where he later earned his Doctor of Hebrew Letters in 1971. After two years as a Chaplain in the US Navy he served Agudath Shalom Congregation in Lynchburg, Va from1969 71. In 1971 he was named rabbi of Temple Isaiah, Stony Book, NY from which he retired in 2002. He was one of the founders of the Shalom Interfaith Partnership, a social service program designed to assist rabbis, ministers and priests. He has written two books of liturgy: Seder Tu Bishevat(CCAR Press), and An Everlasting Name , a service and readings for remembering the Shoah (Berman House). He has also written To Deal Thy Bread to the Hungry (UAHC), a social action handbook. His book of stories, God’s Garden, was written for children. He also wrote four books in Berman House’s Home Start Series of Jewish holidays for pre-school children. He is the author of My Jewish Year (Berman House), a religious school textbook on Jewish holidays. Fisher has published four books of poetry: Rooms, Airy Rooms ( Writers Ink, Cross Cultural Communications and Behrman House), Dancing Alone (BirnhamWood/ LI Quarterly), Enough to Stop the Heart (Writers Ink) and Hanging Out With God (Writers Ink.) In addition, he has published short fiction and many articles. He is winner of a First Prize for Poetry at the Westhampton Writers Festival, two first prizes in Performance Poets Association contests, and an Anna D. Rosenberg Poetry Award sponsored by the Magnus Museum in Berkeley, California. He was Poetry Editor (2006-2014) of the CCAR Journal, the Journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Adam is a skilled woodworker who creates furniture as art, and more recently, a potter. He is a native Long Islander where he continues to live with his wife, Eileen. They have two married daughters and five grandchildren. Margarette Wahl is a Special Ed Teacher Aide and School Bus Matron for over twenty years. She’s a member of Bards Initiative ,PPA, and an advisor on the Nassau County Poet Laureate’s Society. She has four chapbooks with Local Gems Press: Educating By Heart, From Rags to Whiskers, Across My Paper Trails, and Broken Wings. She’s completed the 24 Hour Poetry Marathon three years in a row. She’s featured in Walt’s Corner and became a member of the Silver Tongued Devil reading series in New York City in 2013. Her muses are her special needs students, animals especially her cats, late friends and family members, her penpals from around the world, and most recently her late crush from Junior High who she kept inside her heart most of her life.


  • Date: 4/27/2023 07:00 PM - 4/27/2023 09:00 PM
  • Location: 1650 Sycamore Avenue, Bohemia, NY, USA (Map)
  • More Info: Suite 46

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