Two well-known local playwrights/poets  read from their work. Also spots for open readers.

Randall Rumley teaches English at Niagara County Community College and directs theater for groups such as the Towne Players of Kernmore-Tonawanda.  "Writer, teacher, choreographer, short order cook, waiter, pizza maker, dance teacher, construction worker, poet, murder mystery writer, actor, choir singer, carpenter, traveller -- Randall Rumley has walked down many roads and opened many doors."

Kathleen Betsko Yale, who was born in England,  is an award winning playwright, actress, and screenwriter, as well as a poet, fiction writer and editor.  She has acted On- and Off-Broadway, in regional theater, and in national road tours.  In Buffalo, she has worked frequently with the Irish Classical Theater (including: Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, Wit, The Importance of Being Earnest).  Her work at Kavinoky Theater includes roles in Present Laughter, My Fair Lady (for which she won an Artie award for Outstanding Supporting Actress), and Arsenic and Old Lace.  She was featured in the film Manna from Heaven with Cloris Leachman and Shirley Jones.  She adapted her play Johnny Bull into an ABC-TV Movie of the Week (starring Kathy Bates, Colleen Dewhurst, and Jason Robards).  She has taught Playwriting and Screenwriting at the State University at Buffalo, Erie Community College, Empire State College, and elsewhere.  She is co-editor of Interviews With Contemporary Women Playwrights.