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The Althea Ward Clark Reading Series presents poet Rae Armantrout and novelist John Irving on Nov. 30 at 4:30 pm in McCosh 50 on the Princeton University campus. Rae Armantrout, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner for Versed and John Irving, National Book Award winner for The World According to Garp will read selections from their work. For more information, please call (609) 258-1500 or visit princeton.edu/arts.

Coleman Barks, renowned poet and leading translator of the works of Sufi mystic poet Rumi, will walk the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail at Greenway Meadows Park on Friday, October 28, beginning at 4pm. Joining Barks will be Lisa Starr, twice named Poet Laureate of Rhode Island.

The walk will be followed by a reading from the new The Big Red Book at 5p.m.; at 6 p.m., there will be a celebratory reception and book signing.

The author reads from her first collection of poetry, an assortment of abstract and lyrical poems that draw from a wide variety of cultural influences including her Greek heritage, background in European filmmaking and childhood among the ghosts of New England Transcendentalism.
Fireplace Area, second floor Sponsored by the library and Ragged Sky Press.

Dialectics is from the Greek word dialektikos, meaning of conversation, an intellectual exchange of ideas; the relationship between two interacting forces or elements.
            Life is a constant exchange of give and take, ebb and flow, ups and downs. Balance is found in the epicenter of this cyclic and rhythmic movement. It is in this space that painter Susan Rizzo and poet Allison Gratton strive to communicate the human experience through the inherent relationship between image and word.

Princeton's Graduate Colloquium on Contemporary Poetry and Labyrinth Books invite you to come hear Jean Valentine read. The reading will be followed by a discussion and reception.
 

This New York poet’s writing has been in journals and anthologies. He is the founding editor of The Manhattan Review. He collaborated with his wife, fine art photographer Lynn Saville, on the book “Acquainted with the Night.” Community Room

Two years ago, shortly after the Dodge Poetry Foundation announced the cancelation, for financial reasons, of its popular Dodge Poetry Festival, Paul Muldoon launched the first Princeton Poetry Festival.  Poets and poetry lovers across the state sounded a collective cheer! 

In the newly-published book, Spark: How Creativity Works by Julie Burstein, Joyce Carol Oates, the prolific Princeton author, reveals aspects of the impulse that keeps her writing, often for 12 hours a day when working on a first draft, as well as the thinking and dreaming in which she immerses herself when preparing a novel.  “It’s an intense and ineffable experience which is difficult to talk about,” says Oates, who doesn’t begin to write until she has “the whole thing in my head like a movie.”

“When Scott and Hella told me they had selected one of my poems, I felt honored,” said poet and children’s author Penny Harter as we set out to join a gathering of poets, nature lovers, and land conservationists to walk the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail at the D&R Greenway last Friday (April 15).

April is National Poetry Month and in Princeton this means a new issue of U.S.1 Worksheets, the (now) annual poetry journal of U.S.1 Poets’ Cooperative.  Last Sunday, April 3, the community room of the Princeton Public Library was packed to capacity, as poets gathered to celebrate the arrival of Volume 56 of U.S.1 Worksheets, featuring the work of 98 local and regional poets.

U.S. 1 Poets Invite: Bernadette McBride and Eric Heller
Fireplace Second Floor
Wednesday, Dec 1, 7:30 p.m.

"There Goes the Judge," called "a precious little allegory" by the LA Weekly, is the story of a Candy Mogul, whose “Chocolate Covered Presidential Heads” have made her gloriously rich. In the play, she describes her past as a humble poet returning to her apartment to find a Circuit Judge hiding in her closet and the others who hunt for him. Starring in the play is Anne Connors working with her husband Leland Schwantes. Tickets available at the door.

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