The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to attend a free poetry event on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 8:00pm in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall (GPS use 75 N. Martine Avenue).
The featured readers will be the distinguished poets Diane Lockward and Edwin Romond. Diane Lockward was appointed Poet Laureate of West Caldwell in 2009. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently “Temptation by Water” (Wind Publications). An earlier book, “What Feeds Us,” received the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems have been published in several anthologies, including “The Poet’s Cookbook” and Garrison Keillor’s “Good Poems for Hard Times.” Diane has been a featured poet at a number of festivals, including the Warren County Poetry Festival, the Long Branch Poetry Festival, the Walt Whitman Poetry Festival, the 2006 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and the 2005 Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching.
A native of Woodbridge, Edwin Romond lives in Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. His poems have been featured on National Public Radio, in anthologies, college texts, and in journals such as The Sun, Exit 13 Magazine, Tiferet, Barrow Street, the Edison Literary Review, and Poet Lore. Before retiring in 2003, he was a public school English teacher for 32 years in Wisconsin and New Jersey. Edwin Romond has been awarded poetry fellowships from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania State Arts Councils and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to his poetry, he has also written the book, music and lyrics for two musical plays, “A Family Life” and “Robin Hood,” both produced at New Jersey community theaters.
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The Carriage House Poetry Series is in its thirteenth year at the Kuran Arts Center, an historic Gothic Revival structure that was once a 19th century carriage house, hence the name of the series. This reading is free and open to the public. An open mic will follow the featured performance. For more information call 908-889-7223 or 908-889-5298. For online directions and information, visit http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com.
