SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2–4pm note, back to original date
South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Jct
Daniel Harris and Maxine Susman
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
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.