Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, will host a Second Sunday Poetry Reading on October 8 at 4 p.m.
The program features two active state writers who reside in northern New Jersey.
Catherine Doty is a poet, educator, and cartoonist. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her two poetry collections are “Momentum” (2004) and “Wonderama” (2021). She was a featured reader at the Dodge Poetry Festival, and her work has appeared on National Public Radio’s “The Writer’s Almanac,” as well as in many journals and anthologies.
Her is a sample of Doty’s work:
James Keane is the author of two poetry chapbooks: “What Comes Next” (2013) and “Small Wonders” (2022). His poems have appeared in a number of print and online journals, including Tipton Poetry Journal, Indiana Voice Journal, WINK: Writers in the Know, East Coast Literary Review, Out of Our, and Verse-Virtual, and in several anthologies, including “Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems” (Ragged Sky Press).
Here is a sample of Keane’s work:
The readings are free and take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street. It is an accessible space.
For more information on Princeton Makes, visit www.princetonmakes.com.
