Poet Michael T. Young - Carriage House Poetry Series

The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to attend a free event on Tuesday, February 21, 2011 at 8:00 pm in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall. (GPS use 75 N. Martine Avenue.)  This reading will mark the beginning of the 2012 season of the Carriage House Poetry Series and will feature a book launch celebration for “Living in the Counterpoint” by Michael T. Young, who will read selections from his new book.  Michael T. Young was born in Reading, PA and moved to New York City in 1990.  He has two previous collections of poetry: “Transcriptions of Daylight” (Rattapallax Press) and “Because the Wind Has Questions” (Somers Rocks Press).  His new chapbook, “Living in the Counterpoint,” was published last month, and his next full-length collection, “The Beautiful Moment of Being Lost,” will be published in 2013 by Black Coffee Press.  He currently lives with his wife and children in Jersey City. 

Michael is the recipient of a fellowship in poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a William Stafford Award, and the Chaffin Poetry Award.  He was a semi-finalist for the Discovery/The Nation contest and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, Barrow Street, The Fine Line, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Literary Bohemian, and Upstreet.  His work also appears in the anthologies “Phoenix Rising” and “Chance of a Ghost.”   The Carriage House Poetry Series is in its fourteenth 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. The February 21st 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/ .