Basil Rouskas • Hank Kalet
Sunday, September 16, 2–4pm
Basil Rouskas has been writing poetry for over 30 years. His first poetry lines in the Greek language were protests against the military Junta who took over Greece and ruled it until the mid 70’s. He currently writes mainly in English. His first chapbook, Redrawing Borders, was published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press and drew favorable reviews in the Journal of Hellenic Diaspora in 2012. Basil’s poetry has been featured in many poetry venues, including the New York Times, Princeton Public Library Podcast, Helix Magazine, Shot Glass Journal, and TIFERET, A Journal of Spiritual Literature. www.nov-aspire.com
Hank Kalet is a freelance writer and political columnist whose poetry and prose has appeared in The Aquarian Weekly, The Progressive Populist, City Belt, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Big Scream, Big Smile, The Writer’s Gallery and numerous other journals. His chapbook, Certainties and Uncertainties, was published in 2010 by Finishing Line Press. He teaches writing at Middlesex County College.
Elizabeth Ann Socolow • Wanda Praisner
Sunday, October 21, 2–4pm
Elizabeth Anne Socolow was a founding member of the US 1 Poets’ Cooperative in 1972, and has published two volumes of poetry. She won the Barnard Poetry Prize in 1987 for Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton which was published by Beacon Press in 1988. In 2006, Ragged Sky Press published Between Silence and Praise. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New York Review, Ms. Magazine, Isotope Magazine and others. In 2006, she won the Isotope Poetry Prize for Asymptotes. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts twice awarded her a Poetry Fellowship.
Wanda S. Praisner, a recipient of fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, is author of A Fine and Bitter Snow (Palanquin P, USCA, 2003), On the Bittersweet Avenues of Pomona (winner of the Spire Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2005), and Where the Dead Are, forthcoming from CavanKerry Press. Her poems appear in Atlanta Review, Lullwater Review, and Prairie Schooner. She is a resident poet for the State Council on the Arts.
Followed by open readings by audience members
South Brunswick Library,
110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission • Food Pantry Donation Appreciated
For information, call 732.329.400 x7635, arts@sbtnj.net
November 18 • Bob Rosenbloom & Barbara Crooker