in Cooperation with the South Brunswick Library
Sundays, 2–4pm
April 21, 2PM, Kathe Palka and Linda Arntzenius
Kathe L. Palka’s poetry been published in Alehouse, Bogg Magazine, The Bucks County Writer, Cezanne’s Carrot, Ekphrasis, Exit 13, Frogpond, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Modern Haiku, paper wasp, The Penwood Review,
Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, Poet Lore, Potomac Review, red lights, the Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, U.S. 1 Worksheets and Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature.
She has had work included in a number of anthologies including To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage (Grayson Books, 2002), seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku ( Bottle Rockets Press, 2010), evolution: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2010 (Red Moon Press 2011), Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Vol. 3, 2010, MET Press 2011, Dreams
Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness, MET Press
2011, and carving darkness: The Red Moon Anthology of English-
Language Haiku 2011, Red Moon Press, 2012. Two chapbook collections, The Grace of Light (2004) and Faith to See and Other Poems (2007) have been published by Finishing Line Press. Palka won a 2011 eChapbook Award from Snapshot Press of Great Britain for her short tanka collection As the Years Pass, Her latest collection, Miracle of the Wine: New and Selected Poems (Grayson
Books) was published in 2012.
Linda Arntzenius has been a professional freelance writer for almost two decades with stints along the way as an adjunct college professor, marketing communications specialist, editor, newspaper reporter, and now oral history
interviewer. A native of Scotland, she came to Princeton by way of London, Pittsburgh, Boston and Los Angeles. She holds master’s degrees in philosophy from the London School of Economics and in professional writing from the
University of Southern California. She is a member of both U.S.1 Poets’
Cooperative and the Princeton Research Forum. Her most recent
book publication is a pictorial history Images of America: Institute for Advanced Study (Arcadia, February, 2011).
May 5, 2PM, Kathleen Graber and Susan Wheeler
Kathleen Graber grew up in Wildwood, New Jersey, earned a BA in philosophy at New York University, and in 1994, after years of teaching high school English, was inspired while leading a class field trip to the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival to begin writing poems. She subsequently earned an MFA at New York University.
Graber is the author of The Eternal City (2010), chosen for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets and a finalist for the National Book Award, and Correspondence (2006), winner of the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
Graber’s honors include a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, an Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Hodder Fellowship in Creative Writing at Princeton University, and an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.
She has taught at New York University and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Susan Wheeler is the author of a novel, Record Palace, and six books of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds, Smokes, Source Codes, Ledger, Assorted Poems and Meme, which is shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award in poetry. Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in ten editions of Best American Poetry, as well as in The Paris Review, New American Writing, Talisman, The New Yorker and many other journals. She teaches at Princeton University, where she directs the creative writing program.
Susan Wheeler grew up in Minnesota and New England, and has lived in the New York area for twenty-five years.
Programs followed by open readings by audience members
September 15: Evie Shockley and TBA
October 20: David Messineo and Davidson Garrett
November 17: Vasiliki Katsarou and Lynn Levin, Ragged Sky Reading
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