Join us for a virtual reading with Roberta Clipper, Christine E. Salvatore and Gretna Wilkinson, live streamed using Zoom. You don’t need to create a Zoom account in order to “attend,” but you do need access to a computer, smart phone or other telephone.
You can tune in from your computer or smart phone by clicking this link: https://stockton.zoom.us/s/92083120400. You can view in your browser on your computer or will need to download an app to your phone.
You can also call in to listen from a landline or cell phone. Dial 929-436-2866 and enter meeting ID: 920 8312 0400
If you can’t join us live, we’ll post a recording of the reading to our YouTube within the next week.
This is a free event, but RSVP on Facebook is encouraged.
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Roberta Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador) and Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press), as well as short stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her fiction has won a National Endowment for the Arts award and two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Robbie teaches fiction, poetry, expository writing and literature at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. On a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, she spent a “monsoon semester” (August-December 2009) teaching creative writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India and in the summer of 2019 taught English in Prague, Czech Republic. She is proud to have had a story accepted in More Challenges for the Delusional. To read some of her work, visit robbieclippersethi.com.
Christine E. Salvatore received an MFA from The University of New Orleans where she taught in its undergraduate college as well as at Tulane University. She is a thesis advisor in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden, and teaches literature and writing in the MFA Program at Rosemont College, Stockton University and at a public high school in South Jersey. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including [Pank], The Cortland Review, Diode, The Literary Review, Mead Journal, The Southeast Review and elsewhere. Her work is also included in the craft book More Challenges for the Delusional and is featured in the art book Mother Monument by Holly Trostle Brigham and Maryanne Miller. You can read an interview with her on the Dodge Poet Spotlight Blog and learn more at www.christinesalvatore.com.
Gretna Wilkinson, Ph.D., began her career as a missionary teacher in the jungles of her native Guyana. She has performed her poems on radio and television and is published in Saranac Review, The Literary Review and Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary, among others. She has also been featured in The New York Times, NJ Star Ledger, Courier News and others. She is a Senior Fellow of The Southern Regional Educational Board. A former college professor, she joined the Visual and Performing Arts Academy of Red Bank Regional High School where she runs the Creative Writing program. She has donated countless hours to editing the poetry of New Jersey prisoners. She is a Dodge Foundation poet. Her online literary magazine, theravensperch.com was nominated Top 100 Literary Blogs On The Web (Feedspot). She was recently named Monmouth County Art Educator of the Year as well as Teacher of the Year. Visit her literary magazine website or read a few of her poems.
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