High Mountain Meadow Poetry Series In-Person
The group features two poets and includes an Open Mic. Hosted by Paul Nash & Denise LaNeve, representing the North Jersey Literary Community and the Poets of the Palisades. This event is free and all are welcome!
Raymond Turco is a poet and playwright born in Hackensack, NJ, USA. He writes poems in English and Italian and has a special affinity for European history, travel, surrealism, magical realism, and absurdism. The author of nine stageplays, he has published his poetry in the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and with Bordighera Press, among others. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Cliffside Park Arts Association and is the organization’s Director of Literature. His first chapbook, Rays of Light and Darkness, was published with Finishing Line Press in 2024. Instagram: @raymondturco.author
Anton Yakovlev’s full-length poetry collection One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean came out in June 2024 from ELJ Editions. His most recent poetry chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Daily, The Hopkins Review, Crab Orchard Review, Plume, and elsewhere. The Last Poet of the Village: Selected Poems by Sergei Yesenin Translated by Anton Yakovlev was published by Sensitive Skin Books in 2019. Anton co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in Manhattan, the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford, New Jersey, and the Out of the Box reading series at Bowery Poetry Club. He is a former education director at Bowery Poetry Club.
- Date:
- Sunday, March 9, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Room A/B
- Audience:
- Adults Senior Adults Teens
- Categories:
- Cultural Program
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