On hand were Michael Czarnecki, the publisher of FootsHills Publishing; Rochester Poets president Frank Judge; poets Dane Godon, Debby Rosenfeld, Laura Klinkon, and several others from among the 99 living in the upstate region. For more details, visit the Facebook invite for the event at http://j.mp/LVReading

Joseph Reich: is a social worker and displaced New Yorker who really misses dis-place and lives and works out in the state of Massachusetts; He has a handsome little 6 year old with a nice mop of dirty-blonde hair, and a wife eleven years his former, who must have the patience of saint as is raising two boys; Being displaced and from New York, he misses most of all Shanghai Joe’s in Chinatown, all those wonderful Polish diners of the Lower East Side he used to spend days hanging out in, and Dominick’s in Little Italy, the Little Italy uptown on Arthur Avenue in The Bronx: He hopes one day to return to play and pray and
contemplate with his wife and child in all the wonderful parks most of all along the river on The Westside Highway

Joseph has been published in a wide variety of eclectic literary journals both here and abroad, been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and his most recent books include, “A Different Sort Of Distance” (Skive Magazine Press) “If I Told You To Jump Off The Brooklyn Bridge” (Flutter Press) “Pain Diary: Working Methadone & The Life & Times Of The Man Sawed In Half” (Brick Road Poetry Press) “Escaping Shangrila” (Punkin House Press) “Drugstore Sushi” (Thunderclap Press) “Four Books Of Philosophy” (Rolling Thunder Press) “The Derivation Of Cowboys & Indians” (Fomite Press) “All My Born Days” (Corrupt Press)