Sundays, 2 – 4 pm in Cooperation with
the South Brunswick Library
South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission, Food Pantry Donation Appreciated
November 17 • Vasiliki Katsarou and Lynn Levin
Vasiliki Katsarou
Vasiliki Katsarou is a 2010 Pushcart Prize-nominated poet who studied comparative literature at Harvard and philosophy and film at the Sorbonne. In 2010, she collaborated with Japanese painter Minako Ota on the poetry and painting exhibition “Fragments of the Muse” at Swan Creek Gallery in Lambertville, NJ. Her poems have been published in U.S.1 Worksheets and wicked alice. She co-edited and wrote the Introduction to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems. She also holds an MFA in filmmaking from Boston University. She wrote and directed the prize-winning 35mm short film Fruitlands 1843. She currently lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
Lynn Levin
Poet, writer, and translator Lynn Levin is the author of four collections of poems: Miss Plastique (Ragged Sky Press, 2013); Fair Creatures of an Hour (Loonfeather Press, 2009), a Next Generation Indie Book Awards finalist in poetry; Imaginarium (Loonfeather Press, 2005), a finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award; and A Few Questions about Paradise (Loonfeather Press, 2000). She is also the author, with Valerie Fox, of Poems for the Writing: Prompts for Poets (Texture Press, 2013). Lynn Levin’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Boulevard, Washington Square Review, Cimarron Review, 5 A.M., Kerem, Verse Daily, and on Garrison Keillor’s radio show The Writer’s Almanac. She has published essays in Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, Alimentum, and other places. A literary translator, Lynn Levin is currently involved in translating the work of Odi Gonzales, a Peruvian Andean poet.
December 15 • Charles Johnson and Laine Sutton
Charles Johnson and Laine Sutton Johnson
A graduate of Rutgers University, Charles H. Johnson is a 2013 second place winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards for his poem “Sunday Comics.” The 2011 New Jersey Poetry Prize winner for his poem “Leaving,” his third poetry collection, “Smoke Signals,” was awarded a 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize. A first-place winner of the 1998 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, he has been the poetry editor of the online literary magazine Identity Theory. He is the poetry instructor for the Middlesex and Monmouth counties (N.J.) arts high schools and the Middlesex County (N.J.) Youth Shelter, and a visiting poet for the Paterson (N.J.) school system. A Vietnam War veteran and retired newspaper editor, he also is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poet in the Schools. He lives in Hillsborough, N.J., with his wife Lainey.
Laine Sutton Johnson is a retired high school drama director and English teacher. She received her B.A. from Wagner College and her M.A. in speech and theater from Montclair State University. In 1998, Laine was awarded the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Speech and Theater Teacher of the Year. She is a long-time member of Actor’s Equity and has performed in numerous shows, including “Hello Dolly” (in the role of Dolly), Belle of Amherst (as Emily), and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe” (as Martha). Her one-act play “In Another Place” was selected for Villagers Theatre Playwrights’ series for performance in spring 2013.
January 19 • Wendy Rosenberg and Charles Bonhus
February 16 • R.G. Evans and Kevin Carey
March 16 • : Sharon Olson and Martha Silano
April 20 • Therese Halschild and Barbara Daniels
May 4 or May 18 •: Lisa Russ Spaar and Cate Marvin (tentative)
Programs followed by open readings