The Carriage House Poetry Series invites the public to enjoy a special evening of poetry readings on Tuesday, November 15. The free performance will begin at 8 p.m. in the Patricia Kuran Arts Center. The featured readers will be New Jersey poets Svea Barrett and Paul-Victor Winters.
Svea Barrett is a 31-year veteran New Jersey public school writing teacher. Her chapbook, “Why I Collect Moose,” won the 2005 Poets Corner Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, and her book, “I Tell Random People About You,” won the Spire Press 2010 Poetry Book Award. Barrett’s work has appeared in numerous journals.
Paul-Victor Winters has taught at several colleges. He currently teaches at Egg Harbor Township High School and several poetry programs. His poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The New York Quarterly, Shot Glass Journal, TLR: The Literary Review, and other journals.
This performance is free and open to the public. An open mic reading will follow the featured performance. This reading will be the final reading for 2016. The Carriage House Poetry Series will resume for a nineteenth year on Feb. 21, 2017 with “Sweetheart Night” featuring real-life sweethearts Amanda Berry and Tony Gruenewald.
For more information call (908) 889-7223. For online directions and information, visit http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com/.
