Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 4 p.m. at the Hoboken Historical Museum (1301 Hudson Street Hoboken, NJ 07030)
This live public event will feature four notable poets celebrating the work and legacy of William Carlos Williams. The event will be hosted by Hoboken Historical Museum’s Poet in Residence Danny Shot, and will feature the New Jersey poets Joel Lewis, Catherine Doty, Frank Rubino, and Claudia Serea.
The free event will also livestreamed on the Hoboken Historical Museum’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Directions and a schedule of events are available at www.hobokenmuseum.org.
Born and raised in Paterson, Catherine Doty is the author of Wonderama, which won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Momentum, which did not, both from CavanKerry Press. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and many other nice prizes, and has taught poetry all over the place for a very long time.
Frank Rubino (@frankrubinopoet) co-hosts a weekly poetry workshop, helps organize monthly readings at The Red Wheelbarrow Poets in Rutherford, New Jersey, and, as one of the Gang Of Six, co-edits the Red Wheelbarrow’s annual poetry journal. Rubino’s poems have been published in Thimble, Chaleur, The Aesthetic Apostle, and DMQ Review, He was The Red Wheelbarrow’s featured poet in 2021. His book, Frank’s Lunch Service is forthcoming in 2025. He lives in Montclair, NJ with his wife and works by day as a technology consultant.
Claudia Serea is a Romanian American poet, translator, and editor with work published in Consequence Forum, The Southern Review, Field, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Oxford Poetry, among others, as well as featured on The Writer’s Almanac. She is the author of seven poetry collections and four chapbooks, most recently In Those Years, No One Slept (Broadstone Books, 2023). Serea won a Pushcart Prize, the Joanne Scott Kennedy Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of Virginia, and the New Letters Readers Award for her poems. She is a founding editor of National Translation Month, serves on the board of The Red Wheelbarrow Poets, and co-hosts their monthly readings.
Joel Lewis is a writer based in Hoboken, NJ. He is the author of a bunch of poetry books, the most recent being Well You Needn’t (Hanging Loose) which will be out in a matter of weeks. His prose writings have appeared in a lot of places including Poets & Writers, WIRE (UK), Mojo, Utne Reader, Talisman and No Placebos (Australia). Kim Lyons has noted “There is no one writing quite like him. As if Charles Olson and Susie Timmons had a baby.”
