I sit by the window and watch a great mythological bird go down in flames. In fact, it’s a kite the neighborhood troublemaker has set on fire. Twenty-one and still living at home, deciding when to cut through a screen and chop us into little pieces. “He wouldn’t hurt a fly,” his mother would say, as they packed our
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Apr 27 2019
Sick of the winter season? Join us this spring in the heart of the New Jersey Pinelands to leave behind the distractions of your busy lives and make creative breakthroughs alongside an engaging community. Enjoy immersive workshops for writers of all levels and genres, craft discussion, writing prompts, writing time, sharing and inspiration. Learn more: www.stockton.edu/murphywriting 9:00am
101 Vera King Farris Drive
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Galloway, New Jersey
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Mar 25 2019
Join poet Anne Waldman for a reading and pre-reading discussion at Princeton University on March 25, 2019, 9 p.m., at Hinds Library, McCosh Hall (Lower Level), Princeton University. A Rare Books & Special Collections pre-reading discussion will also take place on March 25 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at RBSC, Firestone Library, Princeton. Anne Waldman has been a prolific and active poet and performer for many years, creating radical new hybrid forms for the long poem, both serial and narrative, as with Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity, and Gossamurmur, all published by Penguin Poets. She is also the author of the magnum opus The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press). She was also one of the founders of the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, and its Director a number of years and then went on to found The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg in 1974. She is a recipient of The Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Chancellor emeritus of the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent poetry collections are Voice’s Daughter of a Heart Yet To Be Born (Coffee House Press, 2016) and Trickster Feminism (Penguin 2018). 5:00pm
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Princeton, New Jersey
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| Festival | Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival | New Jersey |
| Reading Series | The College of New Jersey Visiting Writer’s Series | New Jersey |
| Reading Series | Princeton Reading Series | New Jersey |
| Writing Program | Rutgers University-Newark | New Jersey |
| Writing Program | Princeton University | New Jersey |
| Writing Program | Fairleigh Dickinson University | New Jersey |
| Writing Program | Rowan University | New Jersey |
| Writing Program | Rutgers University-Camden | New Jersey |
| Landmark | The Walt Whitman House | New Jersey |
| Landmark | William Carlos Williams’s Hometown of Rutherford, NJ | New Jersey |
poems
poem
2016
Upon their arrival in America, more than twelve million immigrants were processed through the Ellis Island Immigration Center. Those who had traveled in second or third class were immediately given a thirty-second health inspection to determine if they were fit to enter their new country. A chalk
poem
2012
It's the fern beyond the wind, the classic Eruptions. Night is a funnel that is overcome. Violence of signs beyond the pale. Stasis Has its own way, the hard work, the violence. Convalesce, convalesce in the green green World, in which you could hardly walk, But that was before, before life set its rhythms In
