Meadowlands Museum – The Red Wheelbarrow Poets

Meadowlands Museum Launch of Red Wheelbarrow Poets #10

WHAT?

Join the William Carlos Williams Poetry Symposium and the Meadowlands Museum in celebrating a launch of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets #10 anthology. The afternoon will feature readings from many of the 52 area poets included in the anthology, as well as an open mic.

WHO?

The Red Wheelbarrow Poets began as the WCW Poetry Cooperative of Southern Bergen County which was cofounded by poet John J. Trause Janet Kolstein, whose poetry has been Instigatorzine, Lips, The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry, and the Newstead Abbey Byron Society Review. She is a member of both the American and International Byron Society. An artist as well, she is a member of the hob’art cooperative gallery in Hoboken, NJ, and exhibits throughout the tristate area. Her collage work is featured on the cover and throughout the #10 anthology.

WHEN?

November 4, 2017, 1 – 4 PM. An open mic and a reception with refreshments follow the featured reading, and books will be available for purchase.

WHERE?

The Meadowlands Museum, 91 Crane Avenue in Rutherford.

The Meadowlands Museum is home to the William Carlos Williams Room, the first permanent exhibit dedicated to the poetdoctor’s legacy. The exhibit contains objects never before displayed, including his highchair and cradle, plus medical equipment.

For more information, call the Museum at 2019351175.

CELEBRATE APRIL, NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, AT THE MEADOWLANDS MUSEUM!

Jim Klein, David Crews, and Chelsea Jackson read poetry
The Spondees play music
An open mic follows

The Meadowlands Museum and the Red Wheelbarrow Poets are celebrating National Poetry Month with an afternoon of poetry, music, and open mic.

April 22, 2017, 2 to 4PM. A reception with refreshments will follow and copies of the poets’ books will be available for purchase.

The Meadowlands Museum
91 Crane Avenue in Rutherford
201-935-1175

The Meadowlands Museum is home to the William Carlos Williams Room, the first permanent exhibit dedicated to the poet-doctor’s legacy.

Jim Klein’s books include Blue Chevies (White Chickens Press 2008), To Eat Is Human Digest Divine (White Chickens Press, 2010), a chapbook, Trinis Talk Like the Birds, (Errant Pigeon Press, 2011), and two forthcoming volumes this year. More than 100 of his poems have appeared in literary magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Poetry Now, Unmuzzled Ox, and Wormwood Review, among others. He was a finalist in both the Anthony Hecht Prize (WayWiser Press, London) and the Sawtooth Poetry Prize (Ahsahta Press). For more than 10 years, he has led weekly poetry workshops in Rutherford, NJ, and edited nine issues of The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, the journal of the Red Wheelbarrow Poets who have held monthly readings since 2005.

Also reading are David Crews, author of High Peaks (RA Press, 2015) and Circadian Rhythm (Paulinskill Poetry Project, 2014), and Chelsea Jackson, graduate student in Drew University’s MFA Poetry Program.

“The Spondees” will play music and an open mic will follow.