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 February 11 at 4 p.m. featuring two Pennsylvania-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.
Luray Gross grew up on a Pennsylvania dairy farm in a household full of music and books. Her new poetry collection is “With This Body,” and she has four previous collections. She was the 2002 Poet Laureate of Bucks County and resident faculty at the 2006 Frost Place Festival in New Hampshire. She received a fellowship in poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was named one of the Council’s Distinguished Teaching Artists. A storyteller as well as poet, she has worked with thousands of students and teachers over the last 20-some years. She is based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Steve Nolan did his undergraduate work at the University of Miami in English and psychology and his master’s at Barry University in clinical social work. He spent 25 years as a therapist and 30 years in the military, ending his career as the chief of combat stress for Paktika Province in Afghanistan. He ran a PTSD clinic for the VA for five years before moving to Newtown, Pennsylvania. He is the author of new book of poetry, “A Palace of Ruins” and has a previous poetry collection, “Base Camp,” as well as a collection of essays, “American Carnage: An Officer’s Duty to Warn.”
Second Sunday Poetry, Princeton Makes (next to Metropolis), Princeton Shopping Center, 301 North Harrison Street, Princeton. Sunday, January 14, 4 p.m. Free. For more information, contact Princeton Makes coordinator Jim Levine at princetonmakes@gmail.com.
