Gray Hair Reading Series, Season 6 Premiere

Elizabeth Glenny is the author of A Periodic Sentence (Canadian League of Poets, 2007) and a second collection entitled Legs. Her poetry has appeared in several Canadian literary anthologies and been collected with five other Canadian women poets in The Price of Eggs. Her poems can be found in numerous small press magazines, including The Windsor Review. On line, some of her poems are on the Niagara Poetry website (www.niagarapoetry.ca). She is also co-publisher of Sigillate Press. Glenny has read at Niagara Gallery as well as at a variety of Canadian venues, and, recently, in Lewiston at the Buffalo Society of Artists' First International Poetry Festival at Artpark. She has received an Award of Excellence for her support of Adult Poetry in the Fort Erie Public Library; coordinated poetry contests and edited six publications of The Saving Bannister poetry anthologies for the Canadian Authors Association; organized weekly programs of music and poetry at the McFarland House Museum; co-scripted three Robbie Burns dinner programs sponsored by the Niagara Parks Commission; and curated poetry readings by Canadian and American poets for Women After Five. She credits Buffalo poet Ann Goldsmith as an influence and inspiration. Glenny lives on the shores of the Niagara River with an orange cat she suspects is the incarnation of her late husband.

Emeritus Professor of English at Niagara County Community College, E. R. Baxter III has been a recipient of a Just Buffalo Award and a New York State Creative Service Award for his fiction. Previous publications include Looking for Niagara (Slipstream Press), and the chapbooks And Other Poems; A Good War; Hunger; and What I Want. Additional work has appeared in New Madrid, Stone Canoe, Underbeat Journal, and Garden Rant. He has work online at the Niagara Falls Poetry Project (www.niagarapoetry.ca). Niagara Digressions, a "naturalist/historical memoir" will be forthcoming in 2012 from Stacherone Press. He has read for Raiders of Niagara, Slipstream, Artpark: Poets at an Exhibition, and elsewhere. Baxter is a founding member of Niagara Heritage Partnership (www.niagaraheritage.org). In May 2000, the Buffalo Audubon Society presented him with the Harry Jay Kord Recognition Award for outstanding contributions to the causes of education and conservation in Western New York.