SUNDAY You are the start of the week or the end of it, and according to The Beatles you creep in like a nun. You’re the second full day the... Read More
July 26, 2020 marked 30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities navigating all spaces of life including jobs, transportation,... Read More
New Jersey Poetry Out Loud is the New Jersey chapter of a national poetry recitation program public, charter, parochial, and home school students from grades 9-12 across America. Every year,... Read More
Care to cool off by the pool, in front of the fan, or in an air conditioned library? Consider seeing everything the authors of CavanKerry Press have been doing despite... Read More
My Water BottleCroix de Bouquet, Haiti The real thing he pulled was greater than the water bottleturned toy—bottle cap wheels attached to a string—as it followed behind him across the... Read More
THE CATHEDRAL —After Rodin’s The Cathedral I watch my daughter imitate the pose of Rodin’s Cathedral. Her arms curved in slow gyration. It is her way of understating the dark bronze,... Read More
JACKIE ROBINSON the uniform and ball are white but Jackie is New Jersey Harlem  separate drinking fountains empty seats at the back of a southern bus my world is on... Read More
For five days in late June, I trekked to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to attend The Frost Place’s Seminar on Teaching and Poetry, thanks to the generous scholarship... Read More