The best from “Something New (Jersey)”
From our event in April, co-presented with the Hoboken Historical Museum. Read More
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NJ Workshop with Baron Wormser
Being with Poets Series: Stanley Kunitz September 24-25, 2016 Location: 74 Lake Avenue, Ocean Grove, New Jersey Cost: $370 (includes lunch each day) Size: Six participants Contact:Â baronwormser@gmail.com This workshop will... Read More
Shira Dentz's "Flounders" from Essay Press
"In this work, I engage with notions of form and beauty that I, as an artist and a social being, have inherited and tacitly acknowledge or actively work against." Read... Read More
“door of thin skins” reviewed in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
This is not one of those books you read in order to find out what happened; knowing the end doesn’t spoil one single thing that comes before, because suspense about... Read More
“What’s Gone” by Joan Cusack Handler
Is guilt: Not placing him firstNot visiting more oftenNot making soupNot stopping by on my way to East HamptonNot joining him for a walkNot being good enoughNot going to massNot... Read More
Book Press Release: Tornadoesque
Tornadoesque poems by Donald Platt Donald Platt’s fifth volume of poetry, Tornadoesque (CavanKerry Press; May 2016; $18.00), takes a candid look at the aftermath left by the inevitable storms—real and emotional—that life places in... Read More
Alabama Literary Review reviews “Places I Was Dreaming”
Since the publication of Mose in 1994, Loren Graham has been one of my favorite poets.  His poems have a way of drawing one in completely-I read Mose twice in one sitting-because Graham’s mastery... Read More
Holly Smith named teacher of the year
Holly Smith named teacher of the year May 9, 2016 By CavanKerry Press Leave a Comment (Edit) Holly Smith, who is the recipient of the 2016 CKP scholarship to the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and... Read More
“A Christmas Story “by Robert Cording
This poem is part of CavanKerry’s series for National Poetry Month.  Every day in April, we post a poem from our community of writers. A Christmas Storyby Robert Cording Sure, I’d had... Read More