Jan 2013 • Poetry Series

January 20  • James Arthur & Jean Hollander
February 17 • Daniel Harris & Maxine Susman
March 17 • Richard O’Brien & Mark Hillringhouse
April 21 • Kathe Palka & Linda Artzenius
May 5 • TBA

Followed by open readings by audience members

JANUARY  20

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.

FEBRUARY 17

Daniel Harris‘s first collection of poems, Loose Parlance, appeared in 2008.  He’s just finished the MS for Random Unisons, forthcoming. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart award. He has published some of his poetry in The California Review,  Midstream, US One Worksheets, Kerem, Blue Unicorn, Living Text, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Tulane Review, Threepenny Review,The Evansville Review, Regarding Arts and Letters, The Higginsville Reader, Prelaton, Love’s Chance, Blueline, The Silt Reader, Tiger’s Eye, and Poetica. He has written books on William Butler Yeats (1974), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1982), and Alfred Tennyson (1984). He is the founder of JEWISH VOICES: 200 YEARS OF POETRY IN ENGLISH, his education program of presentations and short courses for Jewish organizations (1998-2003). He works with regional conservation organizations, helped to preserve Princeton Ridge from inappropriate development, and is now working to keep a national developer from building a monolith rental complex in downtown Princeton.

Maxine Susman writes about personal history, the natural world, and shifting states of body and mind. Her work is widely published (Paterson Literary Review, US 1 Worksheets, Ekphrasis, Comstock Review, Poet Lore, Fourth River) with awards from the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Contest and others. She has published four collections: Gogama, about her father, a young Jewish doctor in remote Northern Ontario during the Great Depression; Wartime Address; Close to the Heart (with her sister Rita Wolpert) about breast cancer; Familiar and Creamery Road, poems from rural places of the Catskills and Maine. After a career devoted to college teaching, she gives poetry workshops and readings, and continues to teach poetry, creative writing, literature, and reading skills in adult education settings. Born in Manhattan and raised in Mt. Vernon, NY, she is a longtime resident of central New Jersey and performs with the Cool Women Poets.