South Brunswick Arts Commission
Poetry Series
in Cooperation with South Brunswick Library
Sunday October 21, 2–4pm
Wanda S. Praisner
Wanda S. Praisner is 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 Press, 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 NJ State Council on the Arts.
Elizabeth Anne Socolow
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. She taught poetry and literature at the college level, to high school students and as a Poet in the Schools both in Detroit and for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, which twice awarded her a Poetry Fellowship. A recent scholarly study of the Renaissance poet, Sir Philip Sidney appeared in a book published in England: The Horse as Cultural Icon, edited by Peter Edwards, Karl A. E. Enenkel, and Elspeth Graham. The mother of two sons, and grandmother of three children, she is an avid patio gardener and lives in Lawrenceville.
November 18 • Bob Rosenbloom & Barbara Crooker
December 9 • Timothy Donnelly & Adam Fitzgerald
Followed by open readings by audience members
South Brunswick Library
110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction
Free Admission • Food Pantry Donation Appreciated
For information, call 732.329.4000 x7635, arts@sbtnj.net