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!
George C. Harvilla is an organizational anthropologist and executive leader in the global health sciences.
A 2024/2025 finalist for the Muriel Craft Bailey, Press 53, New Millennium, and Dogwood Poetry Awards, his other honors include two Masters Poetry Prizes (1999, 2023), three International Merit Awards for Poetry from Atlanta Review, and a 2025 Individual Artist Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Author of two poetry chapbooks (Big Bang Gumbo and what the world gives you instead of time), his poems have most recently appeared in Atlanta Review, Awakenings Review, Blue Collar Review, California Quarterly, The Comstock Review, Corvus, Dogwood, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Poets for Science, Quail Bell, and Willow Springs, among others.
Rick Mullin is a painter and writer living in northern New Jersey. His poetry has appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The New Criterion, The Dark Horse, and Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. His books include Huncke (second edition, Exot Press, 2021), Soutine (Dos Madres, 2012), and Sonnets from the Voyage of the Beagle (Dos Madres, s2014) His latest collection, Grotesque Singers, was published this year by Dos Madres Press. His poem "Night", included in Grotesque Singers, recently won the Annual Kim Bridgford Sonnet Crown contest sponsored by the Poetry by the Sea conference.
- Date:
- Sunday, October 5, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Room A/B
- Audience:
- Adults Senior Adults Teens
- Categories:
- Cultural Program
- Attachments:
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