POETSWEDNESDAY & More

Michael Cupo at the Clark Library, Clark NJ, Thursday, 2/21/13, 7PM

Michael Cupo at the Clark Library

Thursday, February 21, 2013 7PM

303 Westfield Ave.,

Clark, NJ 07066
(732) 388-5999

clarklibrary.org

www.mondayinyourmind.com

http://clark.patch.com/articles/clark-resident-michael-cupo-writes-memoir-and-self-help-book

PoetsWednesday

http://em.gmnews.com/news/2013-02-06/Front_Page/Poetry_has_longevity_in_Woodbridge.html

Great article in the Sentinel by Jessica D'Amico

Marilyn Mohr

Marilyn Mohr is the author of two volumes of poetry, Satchel (CrossCultural 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. Her recent work can be seen in the Paterson Literary Review and Lips Magazine. A
native New Yorker, she lived in Woodstock, where she was co-editor of The Woodstock Poetry Review and The Catskill Poets’ Series.  She was the coordinator of The Poets’ Forum at the JCC of Metropolitan New Jersey. She lives in West Orange , New Jersey with her dog, Mazel.

Adele Kenny

 

AdeleKenny is the author of twenty-three books (poetry & nonfiction) with poems
published in journals worldwide, as well as in books and anthologies from Crown,
Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. A former creative writing professor in the
College of New Rochelle’s Graduate School, she is founding director of the
Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor of Tiferet Journal. Among
other awards, she has received two poetry fellowships from the NJ State Arts
Council and the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry. She has read in the
US, England, Ireland, and France, and has twice been a featured reader at the
Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. www.adelekenny.com

The Trains by Adele Kenny

The
Trains

We felt them first. Fingers pressed to the rails,
      a dull rumble filled our hands and hummed into
our arms before the cone of light, the great clatter

of metal against metal. Trestled high, above the
     bridge on Grand Avenue, we knew those tracks
went on forever, between trees that lined the ties

like stations of the cross. The hill was forbidden but
     holy, thick with clover, ripe with berries in spring.
The year I was nine, an April blizzard swept the

sky and we went to the trains in the dark. The wires 
     strummed into sparks, the rails were a dazzle of
shadows. Our faces – ghosts of our selves – reflected

in every train car window, lines of breath etched in
     passing glass. Above us, chimney smoke hung like
smears of candle grease among the clouds.

We were grubby and poor, but we believed. We said
     our prayers, ate fish on Fridays, and never rode
those trains. We could only kneel in something like

wonder, something like praise, and wait for the
     tracks’ reverent shudder. The memory is a gauze
engine that time blows through and keeps me small.


from What Matters (Welcome Rain Publishers,
2011)

Legends by Marilyn Mohr

Legends     

 

I know the legend of the Golem,

that dark figure of mud that breathes

the fire of righteous indignation and

avenges the blood of the innocent.

 

But I embrace the legend of the hummingbird,

that smallest and most delicate of beings,

who swoops into the hearts of flowers,

  much the way love enters us.

 As it ascends into sunlight, the flutter

of its wings reminds us to drink deeply.

Adele Kenny & Marilyn Mohr at Barron Arts Center, Wednesday, 2/13/13

PoetsWednesday

582 Rahway Ave., Woodbridge, NJ

732-634-0413

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 8PM

Featuring

Adele Kenny

&

Marilyn Mohr

 

Open Mic to Follow

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Workshop at 7PM

with

Adele Kenny & Marilyn Mohr

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Free

Refreshments
Supplied by Wegmans

Donations Are
Greatly Appreciated

Thanks to Cynthia
Knight, BAC Director, Brandon Powell, staff, and

The Woodbridge
Cultural Arts Commission with the

support of Mayor
John McCormac

 

PoetsWednesday
Site: http://wednesdaypoet.typepad.com/

 

Directions: http://www.twp.woodbridge.nj.us/Departments/BarronArtsCenter/BarronArtsCenterDirections/tabid/754/Default.aspx

Contact: Deborah
LaVeglia, Poetry Director, at [email protected]

Featuring on March 13, 2013: Alissa Pecora &
Nicole Greenwood