Princeton Makes, a Princeton-based artist cooperative, and Ragged Sky Press, a local publisher focused on poetry, host their monthly Second Sunday Poetry Reading on March 10 at 4 p.m. featuring two New Jersey-based poets. The readings take place at the Princeton Makes store in the Princeton Shopping Center followed by a limited open mic for the first 10 to sign up.
Joy Kreves is a well-known area visual artist who holds a master’s in painting and a bachelor’s in art education from Illinois State University. She currently has an exhibition of her large-scale photographs and sculptures at GNI Galleries in Pennington. Kreves has often incorporated poems into or exhibited them alongside her artworks. Since 2021 she has been a member of DVP/US1 Poets, and is the current managing editor of the Worksheets Anthology. Her poems have appeared in several of her exhibition catalogs as well as in the 2022 and 2023 Worksheets. Kreves has hosted several “Artist Melts,” events that incorporate art and poetry, at Suburban Frontier, her Ewing art space. A sample of her work is below.
Coleen Marks was born in Brooklyn and moved to a mining camp in New Jersey when she was four. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and an award-winning photographer, having studied at the International Center of Photography in New York. She has published two books of poetry, “Writing Naked” and “Twin Passions,” which includes her photographs. With this third book of poetry, she explores the yin and yang of a career spent in the business world as an HR executive while keeping one hand firmly in the arts. Embracing her Irish storytelling heritage she has woven the chance encounters of a life into her latest book of poems, “How Do You Think of It.”
A sample of her work is below:
Second Sunday Poetry, Princeton Makes (next to Metropolis), Princeton Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton. Sunday, March 10, 4 p.m. Free. For more information, contact Princeton Makes coordinator Jim Levine at princetonmakes@gmail.com.
