St. Rocco’s Readings for the Dispossessed presents an evening with Marianne Shaneen, Bethany Ides, and Ellen Rook. Marianne Shaneen writes fiction, poetry, and essays, and also works in documentary video. She lives in Brooklyn and Ulster County. Bethany Ides is a writer, artist, teacher, theater-maker, organizer, and co-director of Doors Unlimited in Kingston. Ellen White Rook is from Albany and is a poet who leads the Sit, Walk, Write meditation retreats at the Shambhala Mediation Center of Albany.