High Meadow Mountain 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!
Featured Poets:
Joel Allegretti is the author of, most recently, Let’s All Be Happy Today (The Opiate Books, 2025), a collection of short stories. In addition, he has published six books and chapbooks of poetry and Our Dolphin (Thrice Publishing, 2016), a novella. His second collection of poems, Father Silicon (The Poet’s Press, 2006), was selected by The Kansas City Star as one of 100 Noteworthy Books of 2006. He is also the editor of Rabbit Ears: TV Poems (NYQ Books, 2015), which The Boston Globe called “cleverly edited” and “a smart exploration of the many, many meanings of TV.” Allegretti supplied the texts for three song cycles by the late Frank Ezra Levy, and his poems have been published in numerous journals.
Karen Lee Ramos is the creator and host of Poetry at the Barn, a virtual and in-person reading series & writing program. She authored a chapbook, Snow on Bare Dirt, published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. Her poems have appeared in various publications, including Paterson Literary Review, Exit 13 Magazine, Tiferet Journal, and The Stillwater Review, plus in anthologies such as the Paulinskill Poetry Project’s Voices from Here 2 and New Jersey Bards against Hunger. Karen lives in northern New Jersey with her two children.
- Date:
- Sunday, December 7, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Marion Grober StoryTime Room
- Audience:
- Adults Senior Adults Teens
- Categories:
- Entertainment Cultural Program
- Attachments:
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