Community Calendar

SUNY Oswego students Marie Sova and Lily Tringali host a virtual literary salon and awards ceremony, which is free and open to the public. All-star authors will read their work, and judges will announce and discuss the winners of the 2025 Subnivean Awards, an international competition run by the university's student-run literary magazine, Subnivean.

The 2025 Subnivean Awards finalists are authors Madeline Rosales, Michael Loyd Gray, B. Fulton Jennes, Sara Burnett and Jaime Gill, submitting writing that gives voice to a broad range of experiences and themes. The five authors hail from in far-flung locations—from Washington state, South Carolina, Maryland and Connecticut in the United States to East Sussex, “across the pond.”

In celebration of Subnivean’s fifth anniversary, this year’s judges are from the Central New York region: judging in poetry is Albert Abonado, author of the 2024 National Poetry Series book "A Field Guide for Accidents." Judging in fiction is Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, with a new novel forthcoming from Macmillan on the heels of her debut, "Off the Books," which earned positive reviews from The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and others, and was included in Bustle's "Most Anticipated" roundup.

Zoom Link: https://oswego-edu.zoom.us/j/98111037268

Poetry and Music: The Power of Words and Workers

We ask ourselves, “Where would we be without words and workers?”  Come celebrate them with us as The Verb Takes another Walk, for free.

This Savage Club series walks again on Sunday, May 4 from 3 to 5 pm., as is its custom on the first Sunday of every month, with a few exceptions. Join us for readings of original and found poetry and music, lauding the ingenuity, grit and power of workers everywhere.
Refreshments on the house, as always.

Prior events have featured poets Janie Bibbie, Peaches Gillette, Brooke Lange, Daphne Sola, Adin Ljuca, Mike Finn, Gregory Busby, Natalie Lister, Wendy Babiak, Barbara Regenspan, Fran Markover, Kevin Basl, Eric Evans, Sam Foley, Rusty Boseman and Mark Zuss, painter Tommy Beers, and musicians Hugh McElyea, Brian Wansink, Tony Lister, Ira Kamp, Jeremy Beutel, Tony Pesco, Christopher Loy and DuWayne Perry.

Collaborative work among poets, musicians, dancers and other artists is encouraged. Send poems and inquiries to poet Mark Zuss, mlzuss@outlook.com, or composer Hugh McElyea, hugomac@gmail.com.

The May event will be even better with you there!

We are happy to have the support of the Community Arts Partnership.