Category Archives: Poetry Series

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

May 4  • Charles Johnson and Laine Sutton
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.” Continue reading →

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

April 20 •  Therese Halscheid and Barbara Daniels

Therese Halscheid

Therése Halscheid was awarded a 2003 Fellowship for Poetry from New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is author of four poetry collections, Powertalk (1995) and Without Home (Kells, 2001), and Uncommon Geography (Carpenter Gothic, 2006). Continue reading →

March 16 • Sharon Olson and Martha Silano

Sharon Olson

Sharon Olson has recently moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey (after living several years in Guilford, Connecticut). She retired in 2007 from the Palo Alto (California) City Library where she had been a reference librarian and cataloger since 1978. She earned a B.A. in Art History from Stanford and attended its campus in Florence, Italy, in 1967. Continue reading →

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

February 16 • R.G. Evans and Kevin Carey Continue reading →

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

January 19 • Wendy Rosenberg and Charles Bondhus

Wendy Rosenberg is a poet, teacher, Reiki master and certified Creativity Coach. She is an Expressive Arts Educational Facilitator and a Certified Applied Poetry Facilitator. She is a founding member of the Westfield Poetry Group and the recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation teacher scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Westfield.

Charlie Bondhus is the author of What We Have Learned to Love, which won Brickhouse Books’ 2008-09 Stonewall Competition, How the Boy Might See It (Pecan Grove Press), and All the Heat We Could Carry,  the winner of the 2013 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and a finalist for the Gival Press Poetry Book Award.His work has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Wisconsin Review, The Hawai’i Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, the Alabama Literary Review, and Cold Mountain Review among others. He grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Saint Anselm College. He received his MFA from Goddard College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently teaches English and creative writing at Raritan Valley Community College.

February 16 • R.G. Evans and Kevin Carey

R. G. Evans’s poems, fiction and reviews have appeared in publications such as Rattle, The Literary Review, Paterson Literary Review, and Weird Tales. His original music, including the song “The Crows of Paterson,” was featured in the 2012 documentary film All That Lies Between Us, about the life and work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Evans teaches high school and university English and Creative Writing in southern New Jersey.

Kevin Carey teaches in the English Department at Salem State University. He writes poetry, fiction, drama, and the occasional personal essay. His work can be found in several literary journals:  The Apple Valley Review, The Literary Review, The Comstock Review, and The Paterson Literary Review.  His book of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station, is available from CavanKerry Press, NJ. and Amazon.com. Kevin is also a seventh grade basketball coach in Beverly, Ma. and a part time filmmaker.  His latest documentary project is a film about New Jersey poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan called All That Lies Between Us. A new chapbook of fiction – The Beach People – from Red Bird Chapbooks is forthcoming.

October 20 • David Messineo and Davidson Garrett

David Messineo, poet, publisher, poetry editor and historian, is among the 20 longest-serving independent literary magazine publishers and poetry editors in Continue reading →

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

September 15 • Evie Shockley and Cathy Park Hong

Evie Shockley

Born and raised in Nashville, Continue reading →

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
May 5, 2pm, Kathleen Graber & Susan Wheeler

Programs followed by open readings

May 5: 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. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →