Terrific event last Wednesday at the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Readings, featuring our founder, mentor, and teacher, poet Jim Klein. A wonderful tribute, full of heart. If you missed it, you can watch it at this link.
And here is a great article by Mark Fogarty about the reading last Wednesday, Jim Klein, and The Red Wheelbarrow Poets. Thanks so much, Mark!
Many thanks to Frank Rubino for the video and to all who attended, shared memories and read poems. Jim, you rock.
Join us on Wednesday, February 7, 2024, at 7 p.m. at The Felician University Little Theater, 230 Montross Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070, for a fantastic poetry reading featuring our founder, JIM KLEIN, plus the best open mic in New York and New Jersey.
This will be a special evening highlighting Jim’s career as a poet, mentor, and teacher. Poets can use their time on the open mic to read one of Jim’s poems, talk about Jim’s work and their relationship to Jim if they wish so, or read their own poem as usual.
JIM KLEIN’s books include Beautiful Latinas; Love Handles; The Dumb Have the Advantage; The Preembroidered Moment; Blue Chevies; To Eat Is Human, Digest Divine; and Trinis Talk Like the Birds, a chapbook. He has published more than 100 poems in literary magazines, including Mudfish, Beloit Poetry Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Field, Gandhabba, Onthebus, Poetry Now, Pulpsmith, Unmuzzled Ox, and a Special Section of the Wormwood Review. For twelve years, he led the Red Wheelbarrow Workshop, a weekly poetry workshop in Rutherford, NJ, and was the editor-in-chief of The Red Wheelbarrow.
The Red Wheelbarrow #16 is now available! If you didn’t get your copy yet, you can buy one here.
See you all in person on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 PM!
We are proud to announce our nominations for the Pushcart Prize of 2024 from The Red Wheelbarrow #16 (listed alphabetically by author):
“Double-Clutch” by Tom Benediktsson
“Detail” by Theresa Burns
“once you’ve sliced off the skin” by Brigidh Duffey
“Just Paint the Damn Thing Black” by Jim Klein
“Food Shopping with my Mother” by Francis Lombardi
“Horse and Rider, Falling” by Margo Taft Stever
Congratulations to these poets and their terrific poems! All of them are available in The Red Wheelbarrow #16, a great gift for the poetry lovers on your list. Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are some of the photos from our launch of The Red Wheelbarow #16 on October 4 at The Felician University Little Theater in Rutherford! Thank you so much, Bill Shaw, for capturing these great moments, and many thanks again to all who attended, read, and contributed poems to this terrific issue. Order a copy of this year’s book here.
The Red Wheelbarrow #16 is now available online! The launch last night at the Felician University Little Theater in Rutherford was a huge success, with a full house audience. We are still basking in the afterglow. Many thanks to all who attended and read their contribution to this year’s excellent edition.
This year’s book is an incredible collection of poetry and prose. Our featured poet is Frances Lombardi! Plus, our special sections are back: one of them is guest-edited by poet Theresa Burns, and the other is a section dedicated to Nutley High School poets. Don’t miss the insightful prose pieces, covering topics that range from Williams’ life and poems to memoir and book review. All this exciting work is wrapped in a beautiful cover, featuring the gorgeous pointillist painting The Red Wheelbarrow I (Homage to William Carlos Williams) by artist Ro Lohin.
Get your own copy here!
If you missed last night’s launch, you can still watch it on our Facebook page.
We’ll post photos from the event soon. And stay tuned for news about our future readings.
You’re invited to The Red Wheelbarrow #16 launch!! Join us on October 4, 2023 at 7 PM at The Felician University Little Theater at 230 Montross Avenue in Rutherford, NJ, for a fantastic poetry reading, featuring the writers published in RWB #16.
If you have work in this issue, congratulations! We would love you to attend the October 4 launch to read your work from the book. Please put it on your calendar if you’re available.
This year’s edition is an incredible collection of poetry and prose. Our featured poet is Frances Lombardi! Plus, our special sections are back: one of them is guest-edited by poet Theresa Burns, and the other is a section dedicated to Nutley High School poets. Don’t miss the insightful prose pieces, covering topics that range from Williams’ life and poems to memoir and book review. All this exciting work is wrapped in a beautiful cover, featuring the gorgeous pointillist painting The Red Wheelbarrow I (Homage to William Carlos Williams) by artist Ro Lohin.
At the launch, we’ll have books for sale for the promotional price of $15, two whole dollars less than our listed price online. Come and get your copy! Bulk discounts available as well.
Hope to see you all on October 4 at the launch in Rutherford!
Best regards,
The Red Wheelbarrow Poets Gang of Six:
Moira OBrien
Frank Rubino
Arthur Russell
Claudia Serea
Anton Yakovlev
Don Zirilli
Terrific reading last Wednesday, featuring the powerhouse poetic couple Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, at the Felician University Little Theater!! Many thanks to our features for sharing their moving poems, to all who read in the open mic and to our wonderful audience. Poetry lives in Rutherford, NJ! The good doctor would be so proud.
Click here to see the YouTube video.
Our next reading is on May 3, featuring David Messineo. Hope to see you there.
And remember to send in your writing for RWB 16!
Submission deadline for essays: May 1, 2023. Click this Submittable link to submit. Submission deadline for poems: July 4, 2023. Click this Submittable link to submit.
Join us on April 5, 2023, at 7 p.m. at The Felician University Little Theater, 230 Montross Avenue, Rutherford, NJ 07070, for a fantastic poetry reading featuring Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris, plus the best open mic in New York and New Jersey!
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odesa, Ukraine. He is the author of Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press), which was The New York Times’ Notable Book for 2019 and was a National Book Award finalist, and Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press), and is the co-editor and co-translator of many other books, including Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Harper Collins). His work received The Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Katie Farris’s most recent book, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), was listed as Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023. She’s also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), and the co-translator of many works, including A Country in Which Everyone’s Name is Fear, which was one of World Literature Today’s Notable Books of 2022. She’s a Pushcart Prize winner.
At the event, the featured poets will bring their books to sell. We’ll also have copies of our Red Wheelbarrow #15 for sale. Or, if you prefer to order online, you can do so here.
The RWB Poets welcome you! Drop by to listen to our features, read in the open mic, and qualify to submit to our annual journal. See you all in person on April 5 at 7 p.m!
The Red Wheelbarrow (Volume 16) is open for submissions of poetry and essays from poets who have read their poetry as a featured poet or at the open mic at the monthly Red Wheelbarrow Poets reading series from July 7, 2022, through July 6, 2023. You are also invited to submit if you participated in any of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Workshops during the same period.
Please indicate in your cover letter when you’ve read with us or that you’ve attended the workshop to qualify. Simultaneous submissions are OK, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
When you submit, please complete the online form for one paragraph of relevant biographical information.
We plan to publish and release Volume 16 in the fall of 2023.
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS A SEPARATE DEADLINE FOR POETRY AND ESSAYS. ESSAYS ARE DUE MAY 1st. POETRY IS DUE JULY 4th.
Submission Guidelines for Essays
Please submit 1 (one) essay in a single Word document. The only acceptable file formats are .doc or .docx. No pdf or other file types will be accepted.
Format for the Submission Document
Submission deadline for essays: May 1, 2023. Click this Submittable link to submit.
Submission Guidelines for Poems
Please submit 5 (five) poems in a single Word document. The only acceptable file formats are .doc or .docx. No pdf or other file types will be accepted.
Format for the Submission Document
Submission deadline for poems: July 4, 2023. Click this Submittable link to submit.
This year marks another premiere for The Red Wheelbarrow! We are excited to announce our 2023 nominees for The Pushcart Prize:
Jim Klein for “Nail Clipping”
Janet Kolstein for “Google Earth: Alexandria”
Michael Mandzik for “Regent’s Park”
Zorida Mohammed for “Fearful of Blood He Selects Me”
Barbara O’Dair for “Am I Right, Or Am I Just Gorgeous”
Bridget Sprouls for “How We Think Is a Body”
Congratulations to these poets and their terrific poems! All of them are available in The Red Wheelbarrow #15, a great gift for the poetry lovers on your list.
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