Please join us for featured readings by Hank Kalet, Ray Brown, and Paul Sohar followed by an open mic.

Hank Kalet is a newspaper editor, political columnist and poet whose work has appeared in dozens of small-press publications. His first chapbook, Suburban Pastoral, was published by Voices of Reason and his second, Certainties and Uncertainties, will be published by Finishing Line Press. He coordinates the Sunday reading series at the South Brunswick Library and is an adjunct professor of English at Middlesex County College.

Ray Brown lives in Frenchtown, NJ. His first collection of poems, I Have His Letters Still, will be published in June. Brown's poetry has appeared in the 13th Annual Poetry Ink Chapbook, Moonstone Publishing, Philadelphia; The Star-Ledger of Newark; NJ Lawyer Magazine; received a NJ Poetry Society 2009 Recognition Award, and will be published in upcoming volumes of the Edison Literary Review, the Big Hammer, FreeXpresSion, and the River Poets Journal. Two of his poems have been published on-line as Poem of the Day, by “The New Verse News”. Ray Brown's poetry can be found at: http://raybrown.wordpress.com

Paul Sohar poems have appeared in Agni, Chiron, Grain, International Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Main Street Rag, Poem, Poesy, Rattle, Wordwrights, etc, and seven books of translations from the Hungarian, but now a volume of his own poetry (Homing Poems) is available from Iniquity Press. His latest work is True Tales of a Fictitious Spy (Synergebooks), a creative nonfiction book about the Stalinist gulag in Hungary. He regularly lectures at the conferences of Modern Language Association and the American-Hungarian Educators Association.