Join us for a virtual reading with Lois Marie Harrod, Mimi Schwartz and Paul-Victor Winters, 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/92768961806. 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: 927 6896 1806
If you can’t join us live, we’ll post a recording of the reading to our YouTube channel within the next week.
This is a free event, but RSVP on Facebook is encouraged.
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Lois Marie Harrod’s 17th collection of poetry Woman is forthcoming from Blue Lyra in December 2019. Her Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart (Casa de Cinco Hermanas) appeared in 2016, and Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. A Dodge poet, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3. She teaches at the Evergreen Forum in Princeton and at The College of New Jersey. You can find links to her online work at www.loismarieharrod.org.
Mimi Schwartz is the author of seven books, her latest being When History Is Personal (2018). Other recent books include Good Neighbors, Bad Times – Echoes of My Father’s German Village (winner of a Foreword Magazine Award for Memoir and the New Hampshire Outstanding Literary Nonfiction Award); Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed (a JCC book club pick for ten best nonfiction) and Writing True, the Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction, in its second edition and used by undergraduate and MFA programs nationwide (written with Sondra Perl). Mimi’s essays have appeared in The Missouri Review, Agni, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Calyx, The New York Times, Tikkun, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Brevity, The Writer’s Chronicle and The Writer. Seven have been Notables in Best American Essays. She’s been a MacDowell Fellow, a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellow and is Professor Emerita at Stockton University. Read her essay, “Who Will Tell My Story?” and visit her website at www.mimischwartz.net.
Paul-Victor Winters is a public school teacher, occasional adjunct professor and writer living in southern New Jersey. A long-time teacher for Murphy Writing of Stockton University, he also works for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s Poetry Program. His books include Muscle & Bone, and his poetry has also appeared in anthologies from Jane Street Press, Serving House Books and others, as well as numerous journals including KYSO Flash and Eyedrum Periodically. You can read some of his poems here.
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