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    Remembering Eve Ott and memorial information

    There is no summing up someone like Eve Ott. You wouldn’t catch her summing herself up, either. She faced every experience as its own thing and kept her assumptions to a minimum. Eve seemed always ready to see freshly, to let the moment or the person in the moment be just what they were, then and there. She was certainly compassionate and patient with even difficult people, but underlying that basic humanity was a curiosity that informed all her relationships. Eve was always ready to discover you anew, and maybe a lot of people are, but it shone out of her. Eve’s writing expressed this again and again. Her poetry…

  • Riverfront Special: Feeling the Gap

    Feeling the Gap Through poetry, fiction, and music, artists Gena Bardwell, Angela Hagenbach, and Phyllis Becker feel their ancestral history and fill in the gaps between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Gena Bardwell is a Kansas City native, New York actor, writer, professor, and chair of the Department of Speech and Communication at Touro University, NY. Her latest play, Just Before Sunrise, was written and produced for NYC New Perspectives Theater 2022 Short Lab Series. She wrote Irene Stories, a collection of early 20th century remembrances from her centenarian Aunt. She has written and performed numerous monologues for theater companies in New York and historical dramatizations for the Juneteenth Jubilee Heritage…

  • Riverfront Readings features Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Carlos Ramos

    Please join us for our September 10th Zoom reading featuring Lindsey Martin-Bowen, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, and Carlos Ramos. To attend, please register for the reading at https://squoom.com/z/rf230910, and you will be provided with the information needed to join the reading.