Every second Friday of the month at 8 p.m.
Featured reading followed by Open Mic
Event organized by Burt Kimmelman

Nov. 11 - Timothy Liu

 

Liu is the author of six books of poems, most recently For Dust Thou Art, just out from Southern Illinois University Press. An Associate Professor at William Paterson University and a member of the Core Faculty at Bennington College's Writing Seminars, Liu lives in Hoboken, NJ.

Dec. 9 - Marilyn Mohr

Marilyn Mohr is the author of two volumes of poetry, Satchel (Cross Cultural Communications Press, Merrick, NY, 1992), and Running the Track (Aesopus Press, Woodstock, NY 1981). She has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and has performed her work on radio and television. In 1989, her poem, Tzena, was choreographed by the Avodah Dance Ensemble. Recent work has appeared in the Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, and forthcoming work will appear in Home Planet News.

A native New Yorker, she lived in Woodstock, NY, where she was co-editor of The Woodstock Poetry Review and The Catskill Poets’ Series. She currently is the coordinator of a monthly reading series, The Poets’ Forum, at the JCC of Metropolitan New Jersey.

Jan. 13 - Murat Nemet-Nejat

Born in Istanbul, Turkey, married to Karen Nemet-Nejat with two children, Danny and Rafi, Murat Nemet-Nejat has lived in Hoboken the last six years, on Bloomfield between 11th and 12th. He is a poet, a translator from Turkish poetry and an essayist on poetry, photography and politics.

His recent works include, Eleven Septembers Later: Readings of Benjamin Hollander’s Vigilance (Beyond Baroque Press, Los Angeles, 2005), Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman House, Jersey City, 2004),  A Thirteenth Century Dream, (http://www.cipherjournal.com),  Diaspora: Homelands In Exile – Voices (HarperCollins, New York, 2003) The Peripheral Space of Photography (Green Integer,  Los Angeles, 2003), Steps (Mirage, San Francisco, 2003).

Feb. 10. - Holly Scalera

 

 

Holly Scalerais is the author of three volumes of poetry—Crazy Love Rides, Painting the House Pink, and, most recently, Jello Dogs—and she is the recipient of a 2003 Writer’s Digest award. She can be seen driving around South Orange, New Jersey with the kids and dogs in a red Jeep with zebra striped seat covers and a devil antenna. The family home (Casa Bouffant) can be seen from other orbits when it’s not too cloudy.

Mar. 10 - Joel Lewis

JOEL LEWIS has been continuing the hard work of William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson by documenting the urban sublime of his  native Northern New jersey. His favorite hot dog stand remains a tie between Boulevard Drinks, Journal Square and Hiram's Fort Lee. He has lived his life above or in the shadow of the Hudson Palisades which has become the center of his mental geography. His local allegiances were proved last year when he read an all-Hoboken reading set, which either proved the intensity of his artistic focus or narrowness of his vision. He has books.

 

Apr. 14 - Madeline Tiger

 

Ms. Tiger teaches in the Writers-in-the-Schools Program of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Programs. Born in NYC, she has lived in NJ for most of her life. She was a resident of Montclair, NJ from 1963 until moving to Bloomfield in 2000. She has five children and six grandchildren.

 

Madeline Tiger has eight published collections of poetry, most recently:

• Birds of Sorrow and Joy: New and Selected Poems, 1970 - 2000, Marsh Hawk Press, 2003.
• White Owl, 2000 (chapbook)
• Water Has No Color, New Spirit Press, 1992 (chapbook)
• Mary of Migdal, Still Waters Press, 1991 (chapbook)
• My Father's Harmonica, Nightshade Press, 1991

Prizes & fellowships:

• Fellowships from the NJ State Council on the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
• Blue Mountain Center, and Columbia University School of the Arts
• Artist/Teacher award from Playwrights Theater of NJ, 1993.

1993 May 12 - Edward Foster

Edward Foster is a widely recognized poet, essayist, and critic, whose work has been translated into, and published in, many languages. Formerly the poetry editor of MultiCultural Review, he is the founding editor of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Talisman House, Publishers, and Jensen/Daniels, Publishers.

Foster is the Director of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Imperatore School of Sciences and Arts at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he is a professor of American Studies. He is also a visiting professor at Drew University Graduate Faculty and was a visiting professor at Beykent University (Istanbul) and a Fulbright lecturer at Haceteppe University in Ankara, Turkey, and at the University of Istanbul.

The co-director of the Russian/American Cultural Exchange Program, he has been the recipient of various grants and awards from Columbia University, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USIA arts program, the New Jersey Historical Commission, Choice, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Fulbright Commision, the Greve Foundation, and the Fund for Poetry. 

 

For further information, see The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry, the Directory of American Scholars, Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series, The Writers Directory, The International Writers and Authors Who's Who, and Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series. Click here for more info.

 

Jun. 9 - Burt Kimmelman

Burt Kimmelman has published four collections of poetry—Musaics (1992), First Life (2000), The Pond at Cape May Point (2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, and Somehow (2005). He is also the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (1998), and, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996, paperback 1999).

For over a decade, he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation, and he has edited and written the introduction to The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (2005). He is an associate professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

For more info visit: http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma