Get inspired! The Second Annual Beacon LitFest (BLF) is a three day celebration of the literary arts, including readings, performances, workshops, parties, and much more! Join us on one, two or all three days!

Hear from Pulitzer Prize- winner Jennifer Egan; Jode Millman, Esq., local author of the acclaimed “Queen City Crime Series;” Amitava Kumar, PhD, award-winning essayist and novelist; bestselling memoirist Abigail Thomas; and poets Edwin Torres, winner of American Book Award; Timothy Liu (Lui Ti Mo), editor of An Anthology of Gay American Poetry and winner of PEN Open Book Margins Award; Tina Cane, past Poet Laureate of Rhode Island. BLF also welcomes David Herskovits, multiple OBIE award-winner and founding Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater in NYC. All followed by a free cocktail meet and greet.

This program is made possible in part by the generous support of Arts Mid-Hudson, Poets and Writers, NYSCA and other sponsors.

For more information, visit http://www.howlandculturalcenter.org/blf-main-program---june-8.html