There is a video recording of the reading here.
Richard McKeown
Richard McKeown is a visual artist and musician as well as a writer. He is recently retired from a long career working with people with substance use disorders. As he began to explore in writing his mixed feelings about retirement, the narrative quickly changed course when he received a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. He plans to read a short piece about a bad childhood experience at Mama Leone’s famous Italian Restaurant in New York City during a trip to the 1964 World’s Fair with his family, and from his memoir of Parkinson’s, tentatively called “Shoulder Season.” During this COVID season he hunkers down at home in Southampton with his wife Carolyn, dog Jonas, cat Max, and turtle Zeke. Words to live by for Rich are, “You can never have too many guitars”. He has eleven.
Kathie Fiveash
Kathie Fiveash is a naturalist and writer who divides her year equally between Isle au Haut, a remote island in Penobscot Bay, Maine, and Northampton Massachusetts. Her book Island Naturalist, a collection of essays about natural history on the coast of Maine, won the Maine Writers and Publishers John N. Cole award for Maine-based nonfiction. Her new book of poems, Human/Nature, published by Penobscot Books, is available now from the publisher.