Join us for a virtual reading with Joe Costal, Catherine Doty and Tom McAllister, 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/j/581270255. 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: 581 270 255
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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Joe Costal’s poems, short stories and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines, journals and websites—most recently in Painted Bride Quarterly, Watershed Review, Barrelhouse and Philadelphia Stories. Joe has presented workshops at The Muse & Marketplace, North America’s largest writing conference. His writing has won distinction from GrubStreet, Rowan University (where he graduated with an MA in Strategic Communications and a BA in English), Rider University Hispanic Writers’ Conference and Wesleyan University. Joe supervises the Humanities at a public high school and teaches writing at Stockton University. Visit his website and listen to him read his short story published in Glassworks.
Catherine Doty is the author of Momentum, a volume of poems, and Just Kidding, a collection of cartoons. Her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Garrison Keillor’s More Good Poems for Hard Times and Billy Collins’s 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has worked as a visiting artist for the Frost Place, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New York Public Library, and many other organizations. Read an interview with one of her poems on the Dodge Poet Spotlight blog, or visit her website at catherinedoty.com.
Tom McAllister’s novel How to Be Safe was named one of the best books of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews and The Washington Post. He is also the author of the novel The Young Widower’s Handbook and the memoir Bury Me in My Jersey. His short fiction and essays have been published widely, and have most recently appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, Cincinnati Review, Third Point, Hobart, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed, The Millions, and Bridge Eight. He is the co-host of the weekly podcast, Book Fight!, and nonfiction editor at the independent literary magazine and small press Barrelhouse. He teaches at Temple University and lives in New Jersey. More info is available on his website.
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