Fanwood Carriage House Poetry Series Features Adam Fitzgerald, June 18

The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to attend a free event on Tuesday, June 18 at 8:00 p.m. in the Kuran Arts Center on Watson Road, off North Martine Avenue, adjacent to Fanwood Borough Hall (GPS use 75 N. Martine Avenue). The reading will be a book launch for poet Adam Fitzgerald’s new book, “The Late Parade,” published this month by W.W. Norton's historic Liveright imprint. Along with Mr. Fitzgerald’s reading, there will be a special guest appearance by Boston Review poetry editor Timothy Donnelly.

Adam Fitzgerald is a New York City-based poet, editor and teacher. He is currently an adjunct professor teaching literature and creative writing at Rutgers University and The New School. In 2007, Adam completed a Master’s degree while editing two unpublished essays by John Ashbery on W.H. Auden and Henry Green at Boston University’s Editorial Institute. In 2010, he received his MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts in Poetry. He is founding editor of the poetry journal Maggy, and Monk Books, a small artisan press that has published Mark Strand’s poems and artworks, and Bernadette Mayer’s translations of Catullus introduced by Dorothea Lasky. Adam’s recent poems have appeared in A Public Space, Boston Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere.

“In The Late Parade, Adam Fitzgerald is a master of defeating expectations so as to fulfill them farther along,” said luminary poet John Ashbery. “One has the feeling of climbing higher along a path that is giving way under one’s feet, in pursuit always of ‘a waltz on our breath.’ Yet the rhythmic and consonant commotion of these poems ends in joy. This is a dazzling debut.”

The Carriage House Poetry Series is in its 15th 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 June 18th reading is free and open to the public. Following this reading, the Carriage House series will take a summer hiatus in July and August, returning on September 17th with a reading by distinguished poet and playwright Martin Farawell.

For more information call 908-889-7223 or 908-889-5298. For online directions and information, visit http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com/.