At the New Jersey Poetry Out Loud state finals, which took place on March 15 in the Victoria Theater at NJ Performing Arts Center, I was sitting in front of a... Read More
Having a conversation with my friend Joel Lewis about poetry is like having a conversation with an encyclopedia. He may start off with William Carlos Williams, as he does in... Read More
I very, very much enjoyed the New Jersey Poetry Out Loud finals, which were held last Friday at the NJ Performing Arts Center in Newark. The ten finalists generated a good portion... Read More
Something Old, Something New (Jersey) An Afternoon of Poetry to Celebrate the State’s 350th Birthday Hosted byCavanKerry Press and Hoboken Historical Museum April 6, 2014, 3 p.m., at the Hoboken... Read More
Danny Shot, who has been working with me to put together the Something Old, Something New (Jersey) reading at the Hoboken Historical Museum on April 6, is a poet, high school teacher, former publisher... Read More
Last year CavanKerry Press donated, as part of its GiftBooks program, copies of Divina Is Divina by Jack Wiler, to Meg Gadapee, an RA at a under-served college in Vermont, who wanted... Read More
CavanKerry Press is pleased to celebrate the 350th 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... Read More
Same Old Storyby Dawn Potter Release date: March 2014 Even as she reminds us that writing “doesn’t solve anything,” Potter is driven to chronicle “the years murmur[ing] their old tune”... Read More
The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching, directed by CKP authors Dawn Potter and Teresa Carson, has announced its 2014 faculty. Held each year in June, the conference is... Read More