Psychologist, publisher, poet Joan Cusack Handler embodies a commitment to disseminating the arts. She is co- sponsor with her husband, Alan and their son, David of the annual Gift of Music Scholarship Concert and the Handler Violin Chair/Master Class Program at the JCC Thurnauer Music School, a Bergen County, New Jersey based community music school. But Handler’s deepest passion is bringing literature, specifically poetry to people and people to poetry. Co-Founder and Director of Presenting Poetry & Prose, a literary reading series formerly hosted by the John Harms Center for the Arts in Englewood, New Jersey and recently revived by CavanKerry Press, she has extensive experience reading and teaching creative writing workshops. A member of the resident faculty of The Robert Frost Place Poetry Festival in Franconia, New Hampshire, widely regarded as the most humane and artful resource for poets in America, she is also co-chair of the Frost Place Advisory Board and former member of the Board of Governors of the Poetry Society of America. Most importantly, she is founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of CavanKerry Press, a not for profit literary press that serves both art and community.
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