Literary Café at CFI with Joseph Chamberlain and Livio Farallo

Poetry readings by Joseph Chamberlain and Livio Farallo at 7:30 at the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Rd., (off Maple Rd.), Amherst NY.

Joseph Chamberlain has had poems published in the Purchase Poetry Review and in Earth’s Daughters, as well as in The Buffalo News, in the 1980s, and in Outriders Anthology in 2013, . He studied poetry with John Logan at University of Buffalo. He co-founded and co-hosted Mostly Poetry and the Writers Place on WBFO in 1977-78 with Jeannie Hill, Penelope Prentice, and Jonathan Welch. He had two poems long-listed for the Fish Publishing International Poetry Prize, Cork, Ireland, (Billy Collins, judge) in 2021 and one poem shortlisted for the same prize in 2023. He is retired after a 40 year career as a Child and Family Services clinician. He has been a feature with others at two different 100,000 Poets for Change, for Outrider Anthology, and has read widely on the local open reader circuit.

Livio Farallo is co-editor of Slipstream and Professor Emeritus of Biology at Niagara County Community College. His work has appeared in Ink Pantry, Triggerfish Review, Gastropod, Sandy River Review, Hotpot Magazine, Muse-Pie, Shotglass Journal, Helix, Rabid Oak, Landfill, Beatnik Cowboy, Rise Up, Old Pal, Ginosko, and elswhere. His collection, “Dead Calls and Walk-Ins,” chronicles his job as a taxi driver years ago.

Hosted by Ryki Zuckerman. Free and Open to the Public. Handicap Accessible.