CALLICOON – Open Mic First Fridays is back at the Western Sullivan Public Library! Join us Friday, May 2, from 6:00-8:00pm at the Delaware Free Branch on 45 Lower Main Street in Callicoon to see an accomplished featured poet and participate in open mic. All performers and poets are welcome! Share a poem, song, story, or other inspiration. Register on the library’s calendar at www.WSPLonline.org.  For additional information, email wsplprograms@rcls.org.  

The evening starts at 5:45pm with open mic sign-up. At 7:00pm we will welcome to the stage Bizzy Coy, Sullivan County resident and author of “PERSONAL SPACE,” a collection of 20 funny stories. Her humor writing appears in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Vulture, The Belladonna, Points in Case and The Establishment. Her short fiction appears in Grand Journal, Litt Magazine and The Catskiller. Her cartoons, made in collaboration with artist Lia Strasser, are published by The New Yorker, Weekly Humorist and The River Reporter. She has been honored with fellowships from Fulbright, MacDowell, NYSCA/NYFA and DVAA. You may have heard Bizzy read her work aloud on WJFF or at Yarnslingers storytelling events. Info: bizzycoy.com. Instagram: @bizzycoy.