Happy 350th Anniversary to New Jersey!

CavanKerry Press is pleased to celebrate the 350^th anniversary of its home state. For a small state, New Jersey has produced, or been home to, a disproportionate number of poets who shaped, and reshaped, nineteenth and twentieth century American poetry through their innovative work. Furthermore, in the twenty-first century, the Garden State continues to be fertile creative ground for a diversity of poets.

During the upcoming year we’ll highlight some iconic and some contemporary NJ poets. Also we hope you’ll join us on Sunday April 6 at the Hoboken Historical Museum for “Something Old, Something New (Jersey),” a three-hour public event that will bring together the past and the present of New Jersey poetry. CavanKerry Press, and its collaborators (poet Danny Shot and the Hoboken Historical Museum), received a very competitive grant from the NJ Historical Commission to fund this event. We’ll give you more details about it in the next few weeks but for now we’ll leave you with this partial list to whet your appetite: Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, Jack Wiler, Alicia Ostriker, Cat Doty, Joel Lewis…

-Teresa Carson, Associate Publisher