The Carriage House Poetry Series invites you to attend a free poetry reading on Tuesday, May 19, at 8:00 p.m. in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall. The reading will be a publication celebration for Tiferet Journal’s recently published issue number 9. The featured readers will be distinguished poets Catherine Doty, Diane Lockward, Priscilla Orr, and Penny Harter.
Catherine Doty has received the 2003 Academy of American Poets Marjorie J. Wilson Award and fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has worked as a visiting artist for the Frost Place, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York Public Library, and other organizations.
Cat Doty was a finalist in the 2005 Paterson Poetry Prize competition for her book, Momentum (CavanKerry Press).
Penny Harter’s recent books are The Night Marsh, Along River Road, Lizard Light: Poems from the Earth, and Buried in the Sky. Widely published in journals and anthologies, she won three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Mary Carolyn Davies Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the William O. Douglas Nature Writing Award. She is a teaching poet for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Diane Lockward’s book, What Feeds Us (Wind Publications, 2006) was awarded the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Diane is also the author of Eve’s Red Dress (Wind Publications, 2003). Her poems are anthologized in Poetry Daily: 366 Poems, Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times and In a Fine Frenzy, and appeared in Harvard Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac.
Priscilla Orr, author of Jugglers and Tides (Hannacroix Creek Books), is a recipient of fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council and Yaddo. Her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Nimrod, Worcester Review, and other journals. She is a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation poet, is on the faculty of the Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway in Cape May, and she is also an Associate Professor at Sussex County Community College.
The Carriage House Poetry Series is in its 11th season at the Kuran Arts Center, an historic Gothic Revival structure that was once a 19th century carriage house, hence the name of the series. The May 19th reading is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured performance, so bring a poem of your own and join in the reading.
For more information call 908-889-7223 or 908-889-5298. For online directions and information, visit http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com/