The Princeton Makes Artist Cooperative’s Second Sunday Poetry Reading set for November 13 features guest regional poets Bruce Lowry and Luray Gross.
Lowry is a Louisiana native, poet, essayist, and journalist. His poetry chapbook, “Boyhood, Louisiana,” was published in 2019 by Platform Review, and his new fulllength collection, “Salvage,” is now available from the Princeton-based Ragged Sky Press.
A resident of Union County, he received an MFA in poetry from Drew University and works as a senior communication associate in the State Legislature in Trenton.
The following is a sample of his work:
Gross, who grew up on a Pennsylvania dairy farm, is the author of four collections of poetry including the most recent, “Lift,” also published by Ragged Sky Press.
A former New Jersey artist, she is the recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and was named a Distinguished Teaching Artist, providing writing and storytelling residencies throughout the state. Currently living in Bucks County, she was named the county’s Poet Laureate in 2002 and is the author of the following work:
The monthly poetry reading is cosponsored by the Princeton Makes artists collaborative and the Princeton-based Ragged Sky Press.
The free event will be held at 4 p.m. at Princeton Makes, located in the Princeton Shopping Center, next to Metropolis Hair Salon. The event includes an open mic limited to the first 10 readers to sign up, and COVID protocols are in effect.
For more details, contact Jim Levine at princetonmakes@gmail.com.
