December 9, 2–4pm
Timothy Donnelly & Adam Fitzgerald
Timothy Donnelly is the author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador, 2011), winner of the 2012 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His poems have been widely anthologized and translated and they have appeared in such periodicals as A Public Space, Fence, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, Jubilat, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He has served as poetry editor of Boston Review since 1996. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the New York State Writers Institute and was recently the Theodore H. Holmes ‘51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing. He is on the permanent faculty of the Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.
Adam Fitzgerald is the editor of Maggy, poetry magazine (www.maggymag.com). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, Boston Review, Post Road, The Agricultural Reader and Vanitas. He teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and The New School, and lives in the East Village.
January 20 • James Arthur & Jean Hollander
James Arthur’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and a residency at the Amy Clampitt House. He is currently a Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts in Princeton. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, is available through Copper Canyon Press.
Jean Hollander’s first book of poems, Crushed into Honey (Saturday Press, 1986) won the Eileen W. Barnes Award. She is also the author of Moondog, a winner in the Quarterly Review of Literature Poetry Book Series, Organs and Blood and Counterpoint, a winner in the Bright Hill Press Contest. Another collection, Torn Love, will be published next year. Her poems have appeared in Sewanee Review, The Literary Review, American Poetry, The American Scholar, and many others, as well as in Best Poems Anthologies and other collections. She has also received numerous grants and awards, three from the New Jersey Arts Council. With Robert Hollander, she is the author of the very highly regarded verse translations of Dante’s Inferno (Doubleday, 2000), Purgatorio (2003) and Paradiso (2007). She has taught literature and writing at Princeton University, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, and the College of New Jersey.
Followed by open readings by audience members
South Brunswick Library
110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission • Food Pantry Donation Appreciated
For information, call 732.329.4000 x7635, arts@sbtnj.net