All in Poetry & Literature
Taking place at SOPAC on Saturday, May 9, "Listen to Your Mother" features live readings by local writers on the beauty, the beast and the barely-rested of motherhood. Each production is directed, produced and performed by local communities, for local communities.
Gary J. Whitehead--Tenafly High School teacher, published poet and crossword puzzle-maker-- is readying for third biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, which opens with the state finals of Poetry Out Loud on Friday, March 15.
Poet Robert Pinsky showcases the music of words and the language of jazz improvisation in "PoemJazz" at the Pollack Theatre of Monmouth University.
Interviews and stunning performance videos from this year's winner and runner-up.
Great Poems, Eight Brilliant Young People, One State Champion.
Christopher Benincasa talks with Dr. Rafey Habib, Professor of English at Rutgers University, author of many books on literary criticism – and a poet.
New Jersey is holding its fifth annual Poetry Out Loud! recitation contest at Drumthwacket, the governor's mansion in Princeton, on Thursday, March 18.
Christopher Benincasa talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and poet/author Susan Wheeler about the inaugural Princeton Poetry Festival, which was presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts in April of 2009 at Princeton University.
Christopher Benincasa follows poet Joe Weil around his home town of Elizabeth, New Jersey, stopping along the way to read work from his two recent collections – What Remains and Painting the Christmas Trees.
NJN producer Christopher Benincasa meets up with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa at a Trenton bookstore.
