U.S. 1 continues to accept works of short fiction, poetry, and short plays by writers and poets who live or work in the greater Princeton area. Email submissions, along with a brief biography, to fiction@princetoninfo.com.
— Christine Piatek
Piatek has lived in Mercer County since 1985. She currently lives in Ewing and is a retired lawyer who practiced environmental law for the State of New Jersey for 30 years. She enjoys writing of many types, including poetry.
— Kathryn Weidener
Kathryn Weidener enjoys playing with words and wondered if a whole poem could be made from cliches. She is grateful for the writing and poetry groups at the Library, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton Adult School and Rutgers Osher Lifelong Learning. Oh, and all the Zoom connections, too!
Popcorn
A Things that bug me: there are so many, I cannot begin to list them, so I’ll switch to the things that don’t; a much shorter list. Popcorn, for example.
B Popcorn?
A It’s crunchy, but not too loud.
B What else?
A Well, I like cats – as long as they’re not too affectionate.
B Popcorn. Cats. Anything else?
A People who don’t dominate a conversation.
B That’s three.
A I did say it was a short list.
B Surely there’s more than that.
A New Yorker cartoons – except the ones I don’t get.
B And?
A Trees.
B I knew it!
A You knew I like trees?
B I knew if I pumped you, there’d be more on your list.
A One more on the list of what bugs me.
B Now what?
A People who say, ‘I told you so.’
— Judith McNally
Judith McNally lives in Roosevelt and is retired from teaching creative writing at City University of New York, Princeton Adult School and Mercer County Community College. She dubs this style of dialogue-poem a ‘micro-logue’ due to its length.
