POETSWEDNESDAY & More

Irwin Dunsky

Irwin Dunsky started writing about 20 years ago. He's been published in an anthology and had a book of poems published.  He attends worshops, reads at open mics, and writes almost every day. His real joy is sharing what he writes.

Sam Friedman

Sam Friedman's most recently published chapbook is A Turnpike Utopia;  before that, he published Seeking to Make the World Anew.

 

 

 

Joanne King

Joanne is a nurse and a long-time workshop member.

Ryan Nowlin

Ryan is a poet and educator living in NJ. He completed Temple University’s Creative
Writing Program during 2001-2003. Recently, four poems of his were published in
SAL MIMEO.

Bob Rosenbloom

Bob Rosenbloom is a lawyer. He lives in Bound
Brook and runs a monthly poetry reading at the Bridgewater Public Library for
the Somerset Poetry Group. He's been published in the Edison Literary Review, US
1 Worksheets, Exit 13 and the Paterson Literary Review, among others.

Somewhere

 

 

 

 

…and the dreams,

that you dare to
dream really

do come true.

--From “Over
the Rainbow”

By Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg

 

Somewhere

 

 

 In 1939,

the year my mother was born,

Judy Garland sang “Over the Rainbow”  as she filmed the Wizard of Oz.

That song almost didn’t make the cut…almost.

My mother sang it to me

but, never spoke of dreams.

 

Somewhere they are burning leaves

in that place of mine where the lonely, restless, outcasts
of life

gather: an empty spot where we are everything and nothing,

 

like the pipedreams of my father:

Real…not real,

a perpetual step away from tangibility:

just reach out…

 

My dreams appear as lingering smoke from pipedreams

that mix with my hopes in a place outside of myself.

Will my dreams and hopes exist in my absence,

like the comforting aroma of burning leaves in late Fall?

 

That scent whispers to the part of me that is 15, still,

in a time when hope was my essence,

with a pressure that there must be more,

almost violent in its intensity

in the gut of that fifteen year old girl.

 

 

 

                                                                                         by Deborah LaVeglia

Workshop

Since this is National Poetry Month,

Most of the regular workshop participants will be featured readers this month.

There will be no workshop on  April 10, 2013.

 However, our workshop will resume on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. 

Hope to see you there!!!

Happy National Poetry Month!

Come to the the Reading on April 10th & bring a poem to read in the open!!!

 

PoetsWednesday Workshop Readers at Barron Arts Center, Wed., 4/10, 8PM

PoetsWednesday

582 Rahway Ave., Woodbridge,
NJ

732-634-0413

 

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2013,
8PM

In Honor of National Poetry
Month

Featuring

The PoetsWednesday Workshop
Readers:

Bob Rosenbloom

Irwin Dunsky

Sam Friedman

Joanne King

Ryan Nowlin

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Open Mic to
Follow

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No Workshop This Month

(It will resume in May at 7:00PM)

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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
Wednesday, May 8, 2013: Deborah LaVeglia & Susanna Rich